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Games like Carth

If Carth is your kind of game, the closest matches are RivenWorld: The First Era, Dig or Die and Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and challenging. 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.

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About Carth: Carth is a survival rpg set in a ravaged open world. You will need to explore, build, and fight to thrive. Gain extraordinary skills as you take on an incredible evil. Join together or go at it alone as you attempt to survive Carth.

2024ActionStrategyIndieAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPG12.99 USDWindowsby Deidre Reay Studios LLC
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Character customization and multi classing offer deep build varietyCrafting feels extensive and rewardingDevs actively engage with players and address issuesAtmosphericBleakChallenging

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Steam players who put hours into Carth 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.

  1. RivenWorld: The First Era

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration, base building and an atmospheric mood with Carth.

    Top pick for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Carth.

    Do you have what it takes to endure the ruthless medieval realm? Introducing RivenWorld, a vast and immersive open-world sandbox survival multiplayer game set in the merciless medieval era.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Dig or Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and a challenging mood with Carth.

    Second-strongest match for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Carth.

    Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and a contemplative mood with Carth.

    Third-strongest match for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Carth.

    Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management

    2021ActionStrategyIndie15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Soulmask

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Carth.

    Ranked #4 for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carth.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dysterra

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and a challenging mood with Carth.

    Ranked #5 for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Carth.

    On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!

    2025ActionAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. CryoFall

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and a challenging mood with Carth.

    Ranked #6 for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Carth.

    CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Valheim

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Carth.

    Ranked #7 for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Carth.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. FortressCraft Evolved!

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Carth.

    Ranked #8 for Carth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Carth.

    FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Carth

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Carth.

    Reviewers of Carth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Carth.

    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

    2009RPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration with Carth.

    Reviewers of Carth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Carth.

    EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

    2011RPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Carth.

    Reviewers of Carth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Carth.

    Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.

    2016RPG39.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dragon's Dogma 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Carth.

    Reviewers of Carth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Carth.

    Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.

    2024ActionRPG69.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Carth at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Carth.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Carth.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Carth.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Carth.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Carth.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Carth.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Carth.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Carth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Carth.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Carth.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  2. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Carth.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carth.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Carth.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Carth.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  6. Unturned

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Carth.

    You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Path of Exile

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Carth.

    You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.

    2013ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Sims™ 4

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Carth.

    Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Carth

How much does Carth cost?
Carth is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Carth have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Carth supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Carth?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Carth are RivenWorld: The First Era, Dig or Die, Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper.
Who developed Carth?
Carth was developed by Deidre Reay Studios LLC.

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 Carth.

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