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Games like Canyons

If Canyons is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ecliptica, Toypunk and Autonomica — picked from the ranked list below. 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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About Canyons: Canyons is a third-person action shooter set in a procedurally generated world. Fight mysterious Awakened alone or in co-op for up to 4 players, command giant Crawlers, build your haven, and survive a brutal living world.

ActionIndieAdventureRPGWindowsby RedRuins Softworks
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Steam players who put hours into Canyons 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.

  1. Ecliptica

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.

    Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Toypunk

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Canyons.

    A roguelite third-person puppet-shooter where you wield an entire toybox of absurd weaponry. Fight hordes of cotton-stuffed baddies across fantastical biomes in single-player or co-op. Experience crazy synergies and unlock more toys between runs!

    ActionSteam ↗
  3. Autonomica

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canyons.

    Autonomica is an open-world survival automation game driven by time travel. Explore a fractured island, build automated farms and machinery, and travel into the future to extract rare technology and resources. Work with surviving engineers to unravel temporal anomalies and capture dangerous Phantoms

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Smalland 2: Lost Realms

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Canyons.

    The Smallfolk are back with a massively expanded universe in this open-world survival adventure set on a tiny scale! Enjoy up to 10 player co-op where you craft weapons and armor, form companionships with creatures, build encampments, and discover strange new lands.

    2026ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  5. Nested Lands

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.

    Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Belts of Iron

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.

    Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

    2026ActionStrategyIndie13.49 USDSteam ↗
  7. Lugal: Bronze Age Survival Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Canyons.

    A survival craft game with RTS elements. Build a base, become the leader of a tribe → village → city → state. Conquer neighboring settlements and become king.

    2026ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Try to survive Today

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Canyons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.

    Try to survive today - This is a fast-paced hybrid three-dimensional first- and third-person action game with the ability to switch to an isometric camera. Control your MECH or attack enemies as Zlata!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure10.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Canyons.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Canyons.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Canyons.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Canyons.

    『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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Canyons

Does Canyons have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Canyons supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Canyons?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Canyons are Ecliptica, Toypunk, Autonomica.
Who developed Canyons?
Canyons was developed by RedRuins Softworks and published by HypeTrain Digital.

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 Canyons.

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