Games like POLYARIS
If POLYARIS is your kind of game, the closest matches are COLDNIGHTS, Mythvale and Saleblazers — 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 POLYARIS: Survive the Arctic in this first-person single-player game. Move by skis and boat, stay warm, dry, and hydrated, loot what's left behind, fight enemies, and escape the lonely north by any means. For fans of The Long Dark and other similar survival games.
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COLDNIGHTS
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Top pick for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLYARIS.
Learn how to survive, craft and build the essentials, find source of food and construct necessary shelter before the snow starts falling. And may be someday, after building a bridge, you will find your way back home. Keep building bridges.
Mythvale
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with POLYARIS.
Tame, fight, explore and build! Survive a mysterious fantasy world filled with mythical creatures, dangerous foes and endless adventures!
Saleblazers
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Third-strongest match for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with POLYARIS.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Nederfall
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with POLYARIS.
The Netherlands has fallen. Lead your survivors on scavenging trips through the ruins, find resources, recruit more survivors, and come home to a camp to take care for. Survivors cook, craft, and train on their own. Every item you bring back makes your camp grow stronger.
Voxel Wild
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Ranked #5 for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with POLYARIS.
Explore a procedurally generated voxel wilderness in this third-person open-world survival crafting action RPG. Gather resources, build a home, customize gear voxel by voxel, hunt, cook, and battle powerful enemies alone or with friends in online co-op.
KeepUp Survival
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Ranked #6 for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with POLYARIS.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Frost Survival VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLYARIS.
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Badiya: Desert Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for POLYARIS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with POLYARIS.
Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.
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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 POLYARIS.
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 and Indie with POLYARIS.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLYARIS.
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 POLYARIS.
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 POLYARIS.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLYARIS.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLYARIS.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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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Frequently asked about POLYARIS
- What games are most similar to POLYARIS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside POLYARIS are COLDNIGHTS, Mythvale, Saleblazers.
- Who developed POLYARIS?
- POLYARIS was developed by Magic Pie.
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 POLYARIS.
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