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Games like Savage Lands

If Savage Lands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark and Light, The Forest and Green Hell — 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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Savage Lands is an early access survival crafting game set on the frozen islands of Tarvhas, developed and published by Last Bastion Studios LLC and released in 2021. Players navigate a hostile open world where harsh cold and dangerous creatures create survival challenges, working to uncover the land's dark history. The game supports online cooperative multiplayer, allowing explorers to band together while gathering resources, crafting equipment, and confronting various bosses. Fantasy elements feature prominently, with dragons among the formidable foes players face. Priced at $3.99 USD, the title offers a medium-length experience with challenging difficulty suitable for sit-down sessions. According to reviewers, the sense of progression comes from piecing together the world's mysterious past. The game runs in a playable state on Steam Deck and holds a 56% positive rating from 2785 Steam reviews.

About Savage Lands: Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

2021ActionIndieAdventureSimulationRPG3.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Last Bastion Studios LLC
Savage Lands — Steam game cover

Players who liked Savage Lands also play

Steam players who put hours into Savage Lands 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. Dark and Light

    WHY THIS

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

    Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

    2017ActionAdventureSimulation17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Forest

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Green Hell

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Rust

    WHY THIS

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

    The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Voidtrain

    WHY THIS

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

    Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Reign Of Kings

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Savage Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Savage Lands.

    Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Savage Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Savage Lands.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Salt

    WHY THIS

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

    Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Savage Lands at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Savage Lands.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Savage Lands.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Savage Lands.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Savage Lands.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Savage Lands.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Savage Lands.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Savage Lands.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Final Revelation

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Savage Lands on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Savage Lands.

    The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?

    2020SimulationRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Savage Lands.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Savage Lands.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Savage Lands.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Savage Lands.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Savage Lands.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Savage Lands.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Savage Lands

Does Savage Lands run on Steam Deck?
Savage Lands is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Savage Lands cost?
Savage Lands is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Savage Lands have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Savage Lands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Savage Lands?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Savage Lands are Dark and Light, The Forest, Green Hell.
Who developed Savage Lands?
Savage Lands was developed by Last Bastion Studios LLC.

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 Savage Lands.

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