Games like Barbarian
If Barbarian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ardent Wilds, Don't Starve Together and Valheim — picked from the ranked list below. 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 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
Steam players who put hours into Barbarian 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.
Ardent Wilds
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Top pick for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Dive into a fast-paced open-world survival crafting game built around flashy, arcade-style combat. Discover powerful spells and power-ups, experiment with character builds, and push your limits through increasingly dangerous environments and intense boss fights.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match 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.
Valheim
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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!
Whisper of the Swallows
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Ranked #4 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.
Nightingale
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Ranked #5 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.
Windrose
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Ranked #6 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarian.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Solace Crafting
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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.
MISERY
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Barbarian at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
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!
R.E.P.O.
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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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
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.
Slay the Spire
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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!
Cookie Clicker
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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.
WEBFISHING
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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!)
POSTAL 2
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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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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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!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barbarian.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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!
MISERY
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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 Ardent Wilds, Don't Starve Together, 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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