Games like Palworld
If Palworld is your kind of game, the closest matches are Satisfactory, ARK: Survival Evolved and Valheim — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional 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 →Palworld is an open-world survival crafting game developed by Pocketpair that released in 2024 at $29.99 USD. Players build bases, craft equipment, and capture creature-like companions called Pals to assist with survival tasks across a massive world. The core mechanics include base-building, crafting systems, monster-capturing, survival elements, and online co-op multiplayer cooperation. Reviewers highlight that tactical positioning matters significantly in combat encounters. Players describe the experience as immersive and challenging, with free updates and content additions providing ongoing additions to the experience. The game holds a 95% positive rating from over 150,000 Steam reviews and is verified to run on Steam Deck.
About Palworld: Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Players who liked Palworld also play
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Top pick for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Second-strongest match for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Third-strongest match for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
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!
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Ranked #4 for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
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.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Palworld.
Ranked #5 for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Ranked #6 for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Eden Crafters
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Ranked #7 for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Palworld.
Ranked #8 for Palworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Palworld
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ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
ELDEN RING
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Palworld.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Palworld.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Palworld.
The third entry in the Monster Hunter Stories RPG series is here! Twin Rathalos, born in a twist of fate. Monster Hunter Stories is an RPG series set in the Monster Hunter world, where you can become a Rider, raising and bonding with your favorite monsters.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Palworld.
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Palworld.
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.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Palworld.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Reviewers of Palworld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Palworld at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Priced ~67% under Palworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Palworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Palworld.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Palworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Palworld.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Palworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Palworld on Steam right now. Shares Action with Palworld.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Palworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Palworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Palworld.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
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!
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More from Pocketpair
Other recommendable Steam games by Pocketpair, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Craftopia
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Palworld.
Another title from Pocketpair, the studio behind Palworld. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Overdungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Palworld.
Another title from Pocketpair, the studio behind Palworld. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
A completely new style real-time card battle "Overdungeon" Overdungeon combines rogue-like, tower defense and card games. More than 100 cards are Attack, Animal, Building, Spell, Trap, etc..Build your creative and crazy deck!
AI: Art Impostor
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Palworld.
Another title from Pocketpair, the studio behind Palworld. Shares Early Access with Palworld.
AI: Art Impostor is an AI drawing party game for 3-8 players. You are a progressive artist who commands AI to generate images, and you don't need aesthetic talent to draw good artwork. It only takes 5 mins to play, and multiplayer between Steam, Android, and iOS is supported!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Palworld.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Palworld.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
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!
Frequently asked about Palworld
- Is Palworld verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Palworld is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Palworld cost?
- Palworld is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Palworld have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Palworld supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Palworld?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Palworld are Satisfactory, ARK: Survival Evolved, Valheim.
- Who developed Palworld?
- Palworld was developed by Pocketpair.
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