Games like Portal Knights
If Portal Knights is your kind of game, the closest matches are PixARK, Creativerse and Trove — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, cozy and relaxing. 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 →Portal Knights is a 2017 cooperative sandbox action RPG. Players develop characters through class specialization while dungeon-crawling, crafting, and managing inventory across multiple lands connected by portal travel. The mechanics include a creative mode where players can build and share worlds without enemies. Players describe the experience as challenging yet cozy and relaxing, with whimsical elements. Reviewers highlight the multiplayer co-op for shared adventures, structured progression through dungeons, and rebuilding a fractured world through crafting. The game is playable on Steam Deck and costs $19.99. It holds an 84% positive rating from 4796 Steam reviews.
About Portal Knights: The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
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Steam players who put hours into Portal Knights 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.
PixARK
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Top pick for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Creativerse
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Portal Knights.
Second-strongest match for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal Knights.
Third-strongest match for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Portal Knights.
Ranked #4 for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Portal Knights.
Ranked #5 for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Boundless
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal Knights.
Ranked #6 for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Rising World
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Portal Knights.
Ranked #7 for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal Knights.
Ranked #8 for Portal Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Portal Knights
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Portal Knights.
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal Knights.
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Portal Knights.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal Knights.
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal Knights.
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Portal Knights.
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
PixARK
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Minecraft Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Portal Knights.
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Portal Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Portal Knights at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Portal Knights.
Priced ~50% under Portal Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal Knights.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portal Knights.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Portal Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Portal Knights.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Portal Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Portal Knights.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Portal Knights.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Portal Knights.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Portal Knights
- Does Portal Knights run on Steam Deck?
- Portal Knights 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 Portal Knights cost?
- Portal Knights is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Portal Knights have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Portal Knights supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Portal Knights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Portal Knights are PixARK, Creativerse, Trove.
- Who developed Portal Knights?
- Portal Knights was developed by Keen Games GmbH and published by 505 Games.
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