Games like The Woods
If The Woods is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wild Realms, War of the Worlds and Bum: Revenge — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, relaxing and stressful. 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 The Woods: Survive, build and explore a mysterious island alone or team up with friends. Gather resources, construct massive bases, craft powerful gear and uncover the secrets hidden throughout The Woods.
Players who liked The Woods also play
Steam players who put hours into The Woods 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.
Wild Realms
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Woods.
Welcome traveler... Survive within various unique locations throughout history and beyond. Choose your species, Invite your friends, and Endure the Wild Realms.
War of the Worlds
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
Hardcore horror open world survival game which throws the player into the middle of the extermination of mankind with the sole purpose of surviving long enough to find a way to bring down the alien machines. Loot buildings, fight off hostile survivors, stay hidden from the machines, and stay alive.
Bum: Revenge
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and exploration with The Woods.
Third-strongest match for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
First-person homeless crime sandbox. Steal, drink, hallucinate and crush rival bums in chaotic online co-op.
The Gold River Project
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and an atmospheric mood with The Woods.
Ranked #4 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Woods.
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Dead Matter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Woods.
Ranked #5 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Rem Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with The Woods.
Ranked #6 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Hide & Hold Out - H2o
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity, crafting and an atmospheric mood with The Woods.
Ranked #7 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Woods.
Ranked #8 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Woods at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Woods.
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 The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Woods.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Woods.
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 The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Woods.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
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 The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
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 The Woods on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
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.
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. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
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 Indie and Simulation with The Woods.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Woods.
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 Action and Indie with The Woods.
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 The Woods.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Woods.
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 The Woods.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Woods.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about The Woods
- How much does The Woods cost?
- The Woods is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Woods have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Woods supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Woods?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Woods are Wild Realms, War of the Worlds, Bum: Revenge.
- Who developed The Woods?
- The Woods was developed by Starlit Forge Games.
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 The Woods.
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