Games like Underlings
If Underlings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wonderia, Survive on Raft and Soulmask — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, challenging and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Underlings: Become one of the "evil" creatures and try to survive a world where everything wants you dead, gather resources, craft them into powerful items, build a base to protect yourself from everlasting raids or challenge your bosses to be more than an underling.
Players who liked Underlings also play
Steam players who put hours into Underlings also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Wonderia
WHY THIS
Top pick for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Underlings.
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Survive on Raft
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Underlings.
Second-strongest match for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Underlings.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Underlings.
Third-strongest match for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Underlings.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares farming, base building and a whimsical mood with Underlings.
Ranked #4 for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Underlings.
Ranked #5 for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
KeepUp Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Underlings.
Ranked #6 for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Underlings.
Ranked #7 for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Pathless Woods
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a whimsical mood with Underlings.
Ranked #8 for Underlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Underlings.
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Underlings
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Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Underlings.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Keplerth
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Underlings.
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Forager
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Cannibal Crossing
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares farming, base building and a whimsical mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Underlings.
Reviewers of Underlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Underlings.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Underlings at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Underlings.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Action with Underlings.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Underlings.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Underlings.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Underlings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Underlings.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Underlings.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Underlings.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Underlings.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Underlings.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Underlings.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about Underlings
- How much does Underlings cost?
- Underlings is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Underlings have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Underlings supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Underlings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Underlings are Wonderia, Survive on Raft, Soulmask.
- Who developed Underlings?
- Underlings was developed by One Man Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Underlings.
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