Games like Surviving West
If Surviving West is your kind of game, the closest matches are CryoFall, DeadPoly and Everdream Valley — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Surviving West: Surviving West takes you to a beautiful world with many things to do and locations to discover. A peaceful and calm start with focus on building and surviving. When you are ready you can explore the world and find its treasures. In Surviving West you decide.. but be prepared for everything.
Players who liked Surviving West also play
Steam players who put hours into Surviving West 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.
CryoFall
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and a challenging mood with Surviving West.
Top pick for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
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!
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and crafting with Surviving West.
Second-strongest match for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Everdream Valley
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and an atmospheric mood with Surviving West.
Third-strongest match for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, resource gathering and an atmospheric mood with Surviving West.
Ranked #4 for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Pax Dei
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
CardLife: Creative Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving West.
Ranked #6 for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Surviving West.
Ranked #7 for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
V Rising
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving West.
Ranked #8 for Surviving West fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Surviving West.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Surviving West at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving West.
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 Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving West.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving West.
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 Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving West.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
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 Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving West.
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 Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving West.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving West on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving West.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
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 Surviving West.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving West.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Surviving West
- Does Surviving West work on Steam Deck?
- Surviving West is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Surviving West cost?
- Surviving West is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Surviving West have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Surviving West supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Surviving West?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Surviving West are CryoFall, DeadPoly, Everdream Valley.
- Who developed Surviving West?
- Surviving West was developed by Nemo Studios.
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 Surviving West.
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