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Games like SurvAIval

If SurvAIval is your kind of game, the closest matches are Faun Town, Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival and Forager — 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 SurvAIval: SurvAIval is a 2D survival automation game where you gather resources, build a base, create AI assistants, and explore new areas to expand your domain while defending against threats and leveling up your skills.

2025ActionIndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDWindowsby Calm Hyena Interactive
SurvAIval — Steam game cover

Players who liked SurvAIval also play

Steam players who put hours into SurvAIval 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. Faun Town

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for SurvAIval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure7.14 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival

    WHY THIS

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

    TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Forager

    WHY THIS

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

    The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Forgotten Seas

    WHY THIS

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

    You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Crashlands

    WHY THIS

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

    Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Force of Nature

    WHY THIS

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

    Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

    2016ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Nova Lands

    WHY THIS

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

    Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Deep Despair

    WHY THIS

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

    Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

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

    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 SurvAIval on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    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 SurvAIval on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    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 SurvAIval on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    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 SurvAIval on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with SurvAIval.

    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 SurvAIval on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SurvAIval.

    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 SurvAIval on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    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 SurvAIval on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with SurvAIval.

    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. 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 SurvAIval.

    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 ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck 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 SurvAIval.

    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 SurvAIval.

    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. 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 SurvAIval.

    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 ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Calm Hyena Interactive

Other recommendable Steam games by Calm Hyena Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Where Is Mommy

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Calm Hyena Interactive, the studio behind SurvAIval. Shares Indie and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    Trapped in a bazaar that twists with every turn, you are a lost child searching for your mother. Watch for subtle anomalies in the shifting environment to survive the loop. In this retro-inspired world, nothing is as it seems. Can you find her before the cycle swallows you whole?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation4.19 USDSteam ↗
  2. FORJ

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Calm Hyena Interactive, the studio behind SurvAIval. Shares Action and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    Fight through cursed arenas, extract with the loot, and reforge it into power. A co-op action roguelite where hand-built golems mine, craft and run your shop while you battle, and every weapon can be enhanced, imbued, socketed and rerolled at your forge.

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  3. ECHIDNA

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Calm Hyena Interactive, the studio behind SurvAIval. Shares Indie and Simulation with SurvAIval.

    A dead god drifts in the dark. Build a salvage fleet that carves it apart cell by cell, and watch a colossal carcass melt into a storm of flying debris and climbing numbers. Strip it to the bone then evolve and start again on something bigger.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Forager

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SurvAIval.

    The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Crashlands

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SurvAIval.

    Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Nova Lands

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SurvAIval.

    Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about SurvAIval

How much does SurvAIval cost?
SurvAIval is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to SurvAIval?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SurvAIval are Faun Town, Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival, Forager.
Who developed SurvAIval?
SurvAIval was developed by Calm Hyena Interactive.

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 SurvAIval.

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