Games like RivenWorld: The First Era
If RivenWorld: The First Era is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, Soulmask and Out of Reach — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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.
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Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Top pick for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RivenWorld: The First Era.
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares base building, skill tree progression and an atmospheric mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Second-strongest match for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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.
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Third-strongest match for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
CryoFall
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Ranked #4 for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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!
Reign Of Kings
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Ranked #5 for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Dig or Die
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Ranked #6 for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Ranked #7 for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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.
Saleblazers
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration, crafting and a challenging mood with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Ranked #8 for RivenWorld: The First Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below RivenWorld: The First Era at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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 RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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 RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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 RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with RivenWorld: The First Era.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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 RivenWorld: The First Era on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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.
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with RivenWorld: The First Era.
『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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with RivenWorld: The First Era.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with RivenWorld: The First Era.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with RivenWorld: The First Era.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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Frequently asked about RivenWorld: The First Era
- How much does RivenWorld: The First Era cost?
- RivenWorld: The First Era is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does RivenWorld: The First Era have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — RivenWorld: The First Era supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to RivenWorld: The First Era?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RivenWorld: The First Era are Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, Soulmask, Out of Reach.
- Who developed RivenWorld: The First Era?
- RivenWorld: The First Era was developed by GameFocal.
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