Games like ASKA
If ASKA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Enshrouded, Valheim and Soulmask — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dynamic npc interactions, realistic survival challenges and tactical village management. 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 →ASKA is a first-person Viking survival simulation developed by Sand Sailor Studio and published by Thunderful Publishing, released in 2024 at $24.99 in Early Access. Players manage resource-gathering, survival mechanics, village-management, and worker-ai across a mythic open-world setting where ancient terrors and harsh seasons test their limits. The game supports online co-op alongside single-player modes and runs in playable condition on Steam Deck. Reviewers highlight dynamic NPC interactions and realistic survival challenges as standout elements, with tactical village management forming a core hook. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive, reflected in an 80% positive rating from over 5,300 Steam reviews.
About ASKA: A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
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Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Top pick for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Second-strongest match for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
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!
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and an immersive mood with ASKA.
Third-strongest match for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ASKA.
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.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ASKA.
Ranked #4 for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Ranked #5 for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with ASKA.
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!
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with ASKA.
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
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Ranked #7 for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Early Access with ASKA.
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ASKA.
Ranked #8 for ASKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ASKA.
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.
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Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and an immersive mood with ASKA.
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ASKA.
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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
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!
Medieval Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares village management and an immersive mood with ASKA.
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ASKA.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ASKA.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with ASKA.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Bellwright
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ASKA.
Reviewers of ASKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ASKA.
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ASKA at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under ASKA on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ASKA.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ASKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Early Access with ASKA.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ASKA on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ASKA.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ASKA on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ASKA.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under ASKA on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with ASKA.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under ASKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ASKA.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ASKA.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ASKA.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ASKA.
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 ASKA
- Does ASKA run on Steam Deck?
- ASKA 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 ASKA cost?
- ASKA is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ASKA have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ASKA supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ASKA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ASKA are Enshrouded, Valheim, Soulmask.
- Who developed ASKA?
- ASKA was developed by Sand Sailor Studio and published by Thunderful Publishing.
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