Games like Ylands
If Ylands is your kind of game, the closest matches are How to Survive 2, Osiris: New Dawn and Far Lands — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its explore infinite polygon islands, challenging and cozy. 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 →Ylands is a free-to-play adventure game developed by Bohemia Interactive and released in 2019. Set across procedurally generated polygon islands, the game combines exploration, resource management, and crafting mechanics with an emphasis on vehicle-crafting and terrain manipulation. Players discover points of interest while gathering materials and building structures, with blueprint-sharing enabling community creations. The game supports online cooperative multiplayer, and elemental damage-resistance mechanics add strategic depth to survival gameplay. Reviewers describe the experience as cozy, relaxing, and whimsical, highlighting player freedoms to build from any item, customize biomes and creatures, and sail ships that double as mobile bases. Ylands runs as a playable title on Steam Deck, offering a massive session shape suited to players seeking a chill experience. The game holds a 60% positive rating from over 4,400 Steam reviews.
About Ylands: Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
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How to Survive 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ylands.
Top pick for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Osiris: New Dawn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
Far Lands
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ylands.
Third-strongest match for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ylands.
Ranked #4 for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Eco
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ylands.
Ranked #5 for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares blueprint sharing and a challenging mood with Ylands.
Ranked #6 for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
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!
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ylands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Ylands.
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
The Forest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
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.
Tree of Life
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Begin a journey in the beautiful world! Build your own town anywhere and explore the myterious lands anytime. Nothing is impossible in the open world: Be a legendary warrior and 5-star chef at the same time!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ylands.
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
ARK Park
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ylands.
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
In ARK Park, engage in close encounters with primal species through a series of theme park attractions. Enter by yourself or with a group of adventurous friends, and witness dinosaurs roaming in the wild with your own eyes!
Thief of Thieves
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ylands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
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More from Bohemia Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Bohemia Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DayZ
WHY THIS
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Arma 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ylands.
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Arma Reforger
WHY THIS
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands.
Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
WHY THIS
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands.
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
ARMA: Cold War Assault
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ylands.
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands.
Bohemia Interactive's debut game published by Codemasters as Operation Flashpoint in 2001, became genre-defining combat military simulation and the No. 1 bestselling PC game around the world and has won many international awards, including “Game of The Year” and “Best Action Game”. Over 2 million copies have been sold since its release.
Arma 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands.
Building on 10 years of constant engine development, ARMA II boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects.
Take On Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ylands.
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands.
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Vigor
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ylands.
Another title from Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind Ylands. Shares Adventure and Free To Play with Ylands.
Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.
Frequently asked about Ylands
- Does Ylands run on Steam Deck?
- Ylands is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Ylands free to play?
- Yes — Ylands is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Ylands have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ylands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Ylands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ylands are How to Survive 2, Osiris: New Dawn, Far Lands.
- Who developed Ylands?
- Ylands was developed by Bohemia Interactive.
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