Games like Muck
If Muck is your kind of game, the closest matches are Last Harbor, Landiscape and Isle of Survival: The New Dawn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its brutal but fair difficulty, chaotic emergent multiplayer 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 →Muck is a free-to-play survival roguelike developed and published by Dani, released in 2021. The game features procedural generation, resource management, crafting, and boss battles across a challenging difficulty curve. Players can team up in online multiplayer lobbies or brave the hostile world alone. Reviewers and players highlight the chaotic emergent moments that arise when friends play together, and describe the difficulty as brutal but fair, with progression feeling rewarding. The game supports up to nine players online with cross-platform functionality, runs smoothly on Steam Deck, and holds a 94 percent positive rating from over one hundred thousand Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as intense and punishing while maintaining a whimsical tone throughout.
About Muck: Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Players who liked Muck also play
Steam players who put hours into Muck 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.
Last Harbor
WHY THIS
Top pick for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Muck.
Zombie Apocalypse On A Boat. You’re stranded on a boat during a zombie outbreak in the beautiful San Juan islands of Washington State. How will you survive an open-world archipelago, where the living are just as much of a threat as the dead?
Landiscape
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Muck.
Landiscape is a relaxed 1–4 player open-world survival sandbox set on a zombie-infested island. Build bases, scavenge resources, explore dangerous landmarks, grow crops, and survive together — or turn on your friends.
Isle of Survival: The New Dawn
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Muck.
“Survive and rebuild on a mysterious island. Explore diverse biomes, battle zombies, craft, farm, trade, and harness electricity in this open-world sandbox adventure — alone or with friends.”
Dark Age Empires
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Muck.
Dark Age Empires is an open world survival game that can be played in single player mode or as an online multiplayer game on a dedicated server.Do you have what it takes to not only survive in this dark age, but to rise up, fight back and create your own Dark Age Empire?
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Muck.
Ranked #5 for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Muck.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Rust
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Muck.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Muck.
Ranked #7 for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Muck.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Another Try
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a whimsical mood with Muck.
Ranked #8 for Muck fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Muck.
The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors! You will have to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world populated by the living dead.
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Frequently asked about Muck
- Does Muck run on Steam Deck?
- Muck is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Muck free to play?
- Yes — Muck is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Muck have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Muck supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Muck?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Muck are Last Harbor, Landiscape, Isle of Survival: The New Dawn.
- Who developed Muck?
- Muck was developed by Dani.
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 Muck.
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