Games like Barbarian
If Barbarian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ardent Wilds, Valheim and Don't Starve Together — 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.
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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.
Valheim
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Second-strongest match for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Third-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.
How to Survive 2
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Ranked #4 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarian.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Solace Crafting
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Ranked #5 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.
Necesse
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Ranked #6 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
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!
MISERY
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 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.
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
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Ranked #8 for Barbarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarian.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Barbarian at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% 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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~54% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~42% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarian.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~69% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarian.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~77% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarian.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~85% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarian.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~54% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~54% under Barbarian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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
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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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarian.
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!
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 6.49 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, Valheim, Don't Starve Together.
- Who developed Barbarian?
- Barbarian was developed by CraftingBenchGames.
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