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Games like Wilderness Survey

If Wilderness Survey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mars Attracts, Corsair Cove and Fata Deum - The God Sim — 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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About Wilderness Survey: 《荒野调查队》是一款俯视角殖民地生存与远征游戏。管理各具需求的调查员,建设营地、生产物资、抵御荒野威胁,并组建小队深入洞穴与废墟执行任务,在不断变化的天气和事件中寻找让聚落延续下去的方法。

StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationEarly AccessWindowsby 无限工作室
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Players who liked Wilderness Survey also play

Steam players who put hours into Wilderness Survey 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. Mars Attracts

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Wilderness Survey.

    Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

    2025ActionStrategyAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Corsair Cove

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wilderness Survey.

    Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

    2026StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Fata Deum - The God Sim

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wilderness Survey.

    Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

    2025StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Sapiens

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wilderness Survey.

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Ascent of Ashes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wilderness Survey.

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Love Tavern

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wilderness Survey.

    After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Gold Gold Adventure Gold

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wilderness Survey.

    In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TasteMaker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Wilderness Survey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wilderness Survey.

    TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

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

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wilderness Survey.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Wilderness Survey

What games are most similar to Wilderness Survey?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wilderness Survey are Mars Attracts, Corsair Cove, Fata Deum - The God Sim.
Who developed Wilderness Survey?
Wilderness Survey was developed by 无限工作室.

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 Wilderness Survey.

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