Games like Lysward
If Lysward is your kind of game, the closest matches are My First Craft Survival, Starsand and INTERASTRA: Planet Survival — 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 Lysward: Lysward is a single-player survival adventure set in a vast and unforgiving desert in the fantastical world of Umbra. Explore, craft, team up with your companion, and leverage the Amri magic to endure the heat.
Players who liked Lysward also play
Steam players who put hours into Lysward 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.
My First Craft Survival
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Top pick for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
When I woke up, I found myself on an uninhabited island. And I had nothing with me! Anyway, the first priority is to find food to avoid starvation. At night, mysterious creatures attack, so I need to craft equipment and build a base to defend myself! In the end, there's a boss waiting for me!
Starsand
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Second-strongest match for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
INTERASTRA: Planet Survival
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Third-strongest match for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
INTERASTRA is a fully immersive first-person sci-fi survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, resources, and various mysteries. Craft necessary equipment, launch, and control space rockets, explore the universe, and survive among the stars.
KeepUp Survival
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Ranked #4 for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
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.
Satisfactory
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Ranked #5 for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
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!
Lighthouse Keeper
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Ranked #6 for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
You are tasked with taking care of the old Lighthouse in a small island. Repair its broken parts, hunt for food to get by, gather materials to craft stuff to help you along your journey through 11 islands.
Oppidum
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Ranked #7 for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
Enjoy Oppidum, a story-driven survival experience for 1-4 players full of adventure, action, crafting, exploration… Everything a squad of scouts would love for a good story to tell. Do you accept the challenge?
Survive on Raft
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Ranked #8 for Lysward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
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
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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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Starsand
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
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!
Oppidum
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Lysward.
Enjoy Oppidum, a story-driven survival experience for 1-4 players full of adventure, action, crafting, exploration… Everything a squad of scouts would love for a good story to tell. Do you accept the challenge?
Frequently asked about Lysward
- What games are most similar to Lysward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lysward are My First Craft Survival, Starsand, INTERASTRA: Planet Survival.
- Who developed Lysward?
- Lysward was developed by Snowcastle Games.
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 Lysward.
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