Games like The First Library
If The First Library is your kind of game, the closest matches are Planetation, Lost Legions and Highreach — 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.
Get personalized picks →About The First Library: Restore a fallen medieval world in this co-op survival builder. Knowledge is your most important resource: Travel through portals, defeat mighty bosses, and reclaim lost books. Build your library stone by stone, unlock new worlds, and defend your knowledge against the shadows.
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Steam players who put hours into The First Library 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.
Planetation
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Top pick for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
On the harmstead you sow crops by day, plough hordes of alien pests by night, and spelunk the “Very Dark” depths whenever you damn well please. This bloodthirsty alien planet doesn’t want you here, but you’re a farmer in a tractormech so what do you care?
Lost Legions
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Second-strongest match for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
Survive the aftermath of the historic Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in this story-driven open-world Roman survival game, with mythological elements. Build camps, free lost legionaries to fight by your side, defend against tribal raids, and explore an ancient Germanic world alone or with friends.
Highreach
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Third-strongest match for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
When calamity struck, the world of Highreach was shattered. In this open-world survival game, build encampments, rescue survivors, and soar across the skies on your airship to explore a lost world and uncover the truth.
Grounded 2
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Ranked #4 for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Library.
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Ars Notoria
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Ranked #5 for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Library.
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
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Ranked #6 for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Library.
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.
Whisper of the Swallows
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Ranked #7 for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Windrose
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Ranked #8 for The First Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The First Library.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
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The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The First Library.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The First Library.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
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DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The First Library.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The First Library.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The First Library.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Frequently asked about The First Library
- Does The First Library have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The First Library supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The First Library?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The First Library are Planetation, Lost Legions, Highreach.
- Who developed The First Library?
- The First Library was developed by Escliene Games.
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 The First Library.
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