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Games like Anarchy Online

If Anarchy Online is your kind of game, the closest matches are EVE Online, Black Desert and The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and nostalgic. 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 Anarchy Online: Anarchy Online – the first ever science fiction MMO – is now on Steam! Compete and cooperate with thousands of players simultaneously on a vast, alien world. Join humanity nearly 30,000 years in the future in a world of perpetual conflict and scientific marvel.

2017ActionStrategyAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGFree To PlayFree to playMetacritic 72Windowsby Funcom
Anarchy Online — Steam game cover
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Community is exceptionally helpful and socialDeep min maxing and statistics behind combatGuilds organizations are essential for progressionChallengingImmersiveNostalgic

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Steam players who put hours into Anarchy Online 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. EVE Online

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anarchy Online.

    Top pick for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anarchy Online.

    Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

    2010ActionStrategyMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Black Desert

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Anarchy Online.

    Second-strongest match for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anarchy Online.

    Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!

    2017ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.

    2023ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗
  4. STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anarchy Online.

    Ranked #4 for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Anarchy Online.

    STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.

    2020Massively MultiplayerRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Secret World Legends

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anarchy Online.

    Ranked #5 for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.

    2017ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  6. Vindictus

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Anarchy Online.

    Ranked #6 for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    Vindictus is an Action RPG that delivers the highest level of combat mechanics and high-quality visuals. Featuring a fully interactive environment, dungeon objects and monsters become part of your arsenal. Experience unique, creative action gameplay that sets a new standard for online RPGs.

    2012ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  7. WildStar

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Anarchy Online.

    Critically acclaimed and now Free to Play, WildStar is a fantastical sci-fi MMO where you can join your friends or undertake your own epic adventures on the fabled planet Nexus!

    2016Massively MultiplayerRPGFree To PlaySteam ↗
  8. The Elder Scrolls® Online

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anarchy Online.

    Ranked #8 for Anarchy Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

    2017ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Funcom

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

  1. Conan Exiles

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Action and Strategy with Anarchy Online.

    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.

    2018ActionStrategyAdventure39.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Dune: Awakening

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    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.

    2025ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Secret World Legends

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anarchy Online.

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.

    2017ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  4. The Park®

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.

    2015Adventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Longest Journey

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anarchy Online.

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.

    2007ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Anarchy Online.

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Adventure and RPG with Anarchy Online.

    Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.

    2007AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hide and Shriek

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Action and Free To Play with Anarchy Online.

    Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!

    2017ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Age of Conan: Unchained

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anarchy Online.

    Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Anarchy Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Anarchy Online.

    Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.

    2013ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Anarchy Online

Is Anarchy Online free to play?
Yes — Anarchy Online 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 Anarchy Online have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Anarchy Online supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
What games are most similar to Anarchy Online?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anarchy Online are EVE Online, Black Desert, The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom.
Who developed Anarchy Online?
Anarchy Online was developed by Funcom.

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 Anarchy Online.

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