Games like Nighthold: Number 1
If Nighthold: Number 1 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nighthold, Planet Explorers and Ars Notoria — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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: Number 1: Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.

Players who liked Nighthold: Number 1 also play
Steam players who put hours into Nighthold: Number 1 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.
Nighthold
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Top pick for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nighthold: Number 1.
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.
Planet Explorers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nighthold: Number 1.
Second-strongest match for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold: Number 1.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Ars Notoria
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Nighthold: Number 1.
Third-strongest match for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nighthold: Number 1.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nighthold: Number 1.
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.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Nighthold: Number 1.
Ranked #5 for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold: Number 1.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Nighthold: Number 1.
Ranked #6 for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold: Number 1.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Force of Nature
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Nighthold: Number 1.
Ranked #7 for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold: Number 1.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, base building and atmospheric with Nighthold: Number 1.
Ranked #8 for Nighthold: Number 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nighthold: Number 1.
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Nighthold: Number 1.
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.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Nighthold: Number 1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold: Number 1.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Nighthold: Number 1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nighthold: Number 1.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Frequently asked about Nighthold: Number 1
- Does Nighthold: Number 1 work on Steam Deck?
- Nighthold: Number 1 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Is Nighthold: Number 1 free to play?
- Yes — Nighthold: Number 1 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.
- What games are most similar to Nighthold: Number 1?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nighthold: Number 1 are Nighthold, Planet Explorers, Ars Notoria.
- Who developed Nighthold: Number 1?
- Nighthold: Number 1 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: Number 1.
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