Games like Start Over
If Start Over is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Forest, Out of Ore and Night of the Dead — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its base building feels rewarding, crafting progression through blueprints and atmospheric. 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 Start Over: Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Players who liked Start Over also play
Steam players who put hours into Start Over 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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Start Over.
Top pick for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
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.
Out of Ore
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Start Over.
Second-strongest match for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Start Over.
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Start Over.
Third-strongest match for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Start Over.
Ranked #4 for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start Over.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares base building and procedural generation with Start Over.
Ranked #5 for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Start Over.
Ranked #6 for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start Over.
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!
Rising World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Start Over.
Ranked #7 for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Start Over.
Ranked #8 for Start Over fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
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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The Infected
WHY THIS
Shares base building and exploration with Start Over.
Reviewers of Start Over cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Start Over.
Reviewers of Start Over cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
The Front
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building, survival and an atmospheric mood with Start Over.
Reviewers of Start Over cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Start Over at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Start Over.
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 ~67% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Action with Start Over.
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 ~47% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Action with Start Over.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Start Over.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start Over.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Start Over on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Start Over.
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.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over.
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 Start Over
- Does Start Over run on Steam Deck?
- Start Over 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 Start Over cost?
- Start Over is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Start Over have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Start Over supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Start Over?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Start Over are The Forest, Out of Ore, Night of the Dead.
- Who developed Start Over?
- Start Over was developed by EY-Studio.
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 Start Over.
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