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Games like The Drylands

If The Drylands is your kind of game, the closest matches are METAL MAX Xeno Reborn, The Underground King and Wizard 64 — 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 The Drylands: The Drylands is a Car party-based RPG. Fight for loot and explore an ever-changing procedurally generated world as the shifting sands reveal lost secrets

ActionIndieAdventureRPGWindows · macOS · Linuxby Flying Penguin Productions
The Drylands — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Drylands also play

Steam players who put hours into The Drylands 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. METAL MAX Xeno Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Drylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Drylands.

    Metal Max Xeno Reborn is an action JRPG with real-time battle and vehicle combat elements. Join Talis, a lone hunter, and search for allies in a vengeance-charged war against monsters & robotic enemies. Learn new skills and collect and customize tanks as you journey through a devastated world.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Underground King

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Drylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Drylands.

    The Underground King is a RACING ROGUE-LITE set on a mysterious island where racing is the bread-and-butter of life. Lead your carefully handcrafted teams in chaotic racing events for glory and fortune. Drive, Defeat, Loot, Repeat!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie17.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Wizard 64

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Drylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Drylands.

    Destroy incoming enemies as a flying wizard. Collect points to grow stronger. Unlock new weapons and abilities, and use different builds to defeat endless monster hordes.

    2026ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Nocturnal Throne

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Drylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Drylands.

    Time is difficulty. The longer you play, the harder it gets. Collect 100s of items to secure your build and obliterate anything that crosses your path in Nocturnal Throne. There are no limits in this rogue-lite.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Krater

    WHY THIS

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

    The game brings you far into the future of a post-apocalyptic Sweden.

    2012ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Mad Max

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Drylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Drylands.

    Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Endgame: Road To Salvation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Drylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Drylands.

    A high-octane road trip through a besieged world during a demon-infested zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, form a caravan, call in various support drops or air strikes, loot random structures for supplies or craft them yourself, modify common vehicles into post-apocalyptic machines of war.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. FUMES

    WHY THIS

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

    Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player car combat game. Collect upgrades for your car to melt enemies and giant bosses in this bizarre world. Retro vibe. Retro cars. Retro gameplay!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

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

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lily's Well

    WHY THIS

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

    It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

    2022IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

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

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Trick & Treat

    WHY THIS

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

    Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.

    2016IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo

    WHY THIS

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

    A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Drylands

What games are most similar to The Drylands?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Drylands are METAL MAX Xeno Reborn, The Underground King, Wizard 64.
Who developed The Drylands?
The Drylands was developed by Flying Penguin 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 The Drylands.

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