Games like Barbarian
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Barbarian for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Barbarian also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Barbarian: Soulslike-inspired open-world survival RPG for 1-10 players. Master fluid combat with precise parries and dodges, defeat epic bosses, craft & upgrade gear, build your base, and share items with friends. Your progression persists across every world — play solo or with friends.
Players who liked Barbarian also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Last Hope on Earth
Top pick for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
An single/multiplayer game of survival in a desolated post-war future world. A group of clone challenges the dangers of a forbidden Earth trying to survive against monsters made of pure radiation.
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Platformer
Second-strongest match for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Explore a new world, traverse randomly generated seamlessly wrapping landscapes, fight or trap monsters, dig for materials, craft equipment, find treasure and trinkets to increase your strength, build a house to protect yourself at night, dig deep to find greater challenges, unique weapons and more!
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Valheim
Third-strongest match for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #4 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Whisper of the Swallows
Ranked #5 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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Nightingale
Ranked #6 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarian.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
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Solace Crafting
Ranked #7 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarian.
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
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Zombie Survival Game Online
Ranked #8 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Barbarian at current Steam store prices.
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Garry's Mod
Priced ~61% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
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.
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Vampire Survivors
Priced ~61% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
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!
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R.E.P.O.
Priced ~45% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Barbarian.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Titanfall® 2
Priced ~65% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action with Barbarian.
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.
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Slay the Spire
Priced ~51% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Cookie Clicker
Priced ~61% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
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.
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WEBFISHING
Priced ~61% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~92% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarian.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarian.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Frequently asked about Barbarian
- Does Barbarian run on Steam Deck?
- Barbarian is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Barbarian cost?
- Barbarian is listed on Steam at 12.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Barbarian have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Barbarian supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Barbarian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Barbarian are Last Hope on Earth, Platformer, Valheim.
- Who developed Barbarian?
- Barbarian was developed by CraftingBenchGames.
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 Barbarian.
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