Games like Nighthold
If Nighthold is your kind of game, the closest matches are Valheim, Terraria and Voidtrain — 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 Nighthold: Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Players who liked Nighthold also play
Steam players who put hours into Nighthold 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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Top pick for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Terraria
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
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.
Tinkerlands
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nighthold.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nighthold.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Nighthold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Nighthold.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nighthold.
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?
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 Nighthold.
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 Nighthold.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nighthold.
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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Tinkerlands
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Nighthold.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Frequently asked about Nighthold
- Does Nighthold have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Nighthold supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Nighthold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nighthold are Valheim, Terraria, Voidtrain.
- Who developed Nighthold?
- Nighthold was developed by 2 Zombie Games and published by HypeTrain Digital.
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 Nighthold.
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