Games like Rise of The Newborns
If Rise of The Newborns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Smalland 2: Lost Realms, Grounded 2 and Dune: Awakening — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Rise of The Newborns: In a dystopian world consumed by the VAS, become one of the Newborn: A new generation of humans immune to the plague, surviving the ravages of disease, mutants, and sinister AXIOM. Fight for hope, rise against the odds, and pave the way for society to be reborn in a unique online sandbox RPG.
Players who liked Rise of The Newborns also play
Steam players who put hours into Rise of The Newborns 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.
Smalland 2: Lost Realms
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
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.
Grounded 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
VEIN
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Ranked #4 for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Rise of The Newborns.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Plains of Pain
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Ranked #5 for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Enshrouded
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Ranked #7 for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Salt 2: Shores of Gold
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Ranked #8 for Rise of The Newborns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rise of The Newborns at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~69% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Rise of The Newborns.
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.
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Priced ~56% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Rise of The Newborns.
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 ~50% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
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
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Priced ~72% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of The Newborns.
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.
Inscryption
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Priced ~50% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
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...
Noita
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Priced ~50% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~94% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Rise of The Newborns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of The Newborns.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rise of The Newborns.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Rise of The Newborns.
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 Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rise of The Newborns.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Grounded 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Salt 2: Shores of Gold
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Rise of The Newborns.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Frequently asked about Rise of The Newborns
- How much does Rise of The Newborns cost?
- Rise of The Newborns is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rise of The Newborns have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rise of The Newborns supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rise of The Newborns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of The Newborns are Smalland 2: Lost Realms, Grounded 2, Dune: Awakening.
- Who developed Rise of The Newborns?
- Rise of The Newborns was developed by Dodigamestudios, Dogan Oral and published by Dodi Game Studios.
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 Rise of The Newborns.
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