Games like Permafrost
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Permafrost for fans of action, adventure, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Permafrost also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Permafrost: Survive the frozen apocalypse. Explore a vast open world buried in ice — hunt, craft, and build to withstand the deadly cold. Play solo or team up with up to 4 friends to reclaim what’s left of humanity in this brutal white hell.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Tinkerlands
Top pick for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
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RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Second-strongest match for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
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.
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Nightingale
Third-strongest match for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
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Project Zomboid
Ranked #4 for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Permafrost.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
Ranked #5 for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
👑 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! 🌟
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Voidtrain
Ranked #6 for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
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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Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
Ranked #7 for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
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The Forest
Ranked #8 for Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Permafrost.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Permafrost.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Permafrost.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Permafrost.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Permafrost.
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.
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Frequently asked about Permafrost
- Does Permafrost have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Permafrost supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Permafrost?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Permafrost are Tinkerlands, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, Nightingale.
- Who developed Permafrost?
- Permafrost was developed by SpaceRocket Games and published by Toplitz Productions.
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 Permafrost.
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