Games like Eden Rising
If Eden Rising is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rust, Dig or Die and Castle Story — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Eden Rising: Brace yourself for a brand new action-packed Open World. Explore a huge world to gather materials for gear and defenses. Use everything at your disposal to defend your bases and defeat hordes of hostile monsters. Play solo or up to 8-player online!
Players who liked Eden Rising also play
Steam players who put hours into Eden Rising 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.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eden Rising.
Top pick for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eden Rising.
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.
Dig or Die
WHY THIS
Shares crafting system and an immersive mood with Eden Rising.
Second-strongest match for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Eden Rising.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Castle Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Eden Rising.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eden Rising.
Ranked #4 for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eden Rising.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eden Rising.
Ranked #5 for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Eden Rising.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
TerraTech
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Eden Rising.
Ranked #6 for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eden Rising.
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Eden Rising.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eden Rising.
Ranked #8 for Eden Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eden Rising.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Reviewers mention these as similar to Eden Rising
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Orcs Must Die!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eden Rising.
Reviewers of Eden Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Eden Rising.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
Sanctum
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Eden Rising.
Reviewers of Eden Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Eden Rising.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
Sanctum 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eden Rising.
Reviewers of Eden Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Eden Rising.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eden Rising.
Reviewers of Eden Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eden Rising.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
MONSTER HUNTER RISE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Eden Rising.
Reviewers of Eden Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Eden Rising.
Rise to the challenge and join the hunt! In Monster Hunter Rise, the latest installment in the award-winning and top-selling Monster Hunter series, you’ll become a hunter, explore brand new maps and use a variety of weapons to take down fearsome monsters as part of an all-new storyline.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
WHY THIS
Shares crafting system, resource gathering and an atmospheric mood with Eden Rising.
Reviewers of Eden Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Eden Rising.
The third entry in the Monster Hunter Stories RPG series is here! Twin Rathalos, born in a twist of fate. Monster Hunter Stories is an RPG series set in the Monster Hunter world, where you can become a Rider, raising and bonding with your favorite monsters.
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Eden Rising
- Does Eden Rising run on Steam Deck?
- Eden Rising is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Eden Rising free to play?
- Yes — Eden Rising is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Eden Rising have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Eden Rising supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Eden Rising?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eden Rising are Rust, Dig or Die, Castle Story.
- Who developed Eden Rising?
- Eden Rising was developed by The Wall Productions Inc., Meridian4 and published by The Wall Productions Inc..
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 Eden Rising.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.