Games like The Old Forge
If The Old Forge is your kind of game, the closest matches are 404 Survivor, VEIN and Outbreak Island — 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 Old Forge: Explore a open world inspired by 1990s Poland. Scavenge, build, craft and dig your way through forests, villages and industrial ruins surviving the zombies, harsh weather and the constant fight for food, warmth and safety.
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Steam players who put hours into The Old Forge 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.
404 Survivor
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Top pick for The Old Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Old Forge.
The horde is coming. 404 Survivor is a top-down post-apocalyptic survival game focused on scavenging, crafting, and base building. Gather resources and fortify your base by day, then defend against growing zombie hordes by night. Every night could be your last.
VEIN
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Old Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with The Old Forge.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Outbreak Island
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Old Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Old Forge.
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Crushed
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Ranked #4 for The Old Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Old Forge.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Just Survive
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Ranked #5 for The Old Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Old Forge.
Just Survive is a post-apocalyptic survival game that immerses you in a world where humanity is fighting to take back control from the zombie hordes.
Project Zomboid
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Ranked #7 for The Old Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Old Forge.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Ars Notoria
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Ranked #8 for The Old Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Old Forge.
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.
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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 The Old Forge.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Old Forge.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Old Forge.
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 The Old Forge.
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. Shares Indie with The Old Forge.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Old Forge.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 Old Forge.
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 Old Forge.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Old Forge
- What games are most similar to The Old Forge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Old Forge are 404 Survivor, VEIN, Outbreak Island.
- Who developed The Old Forge?
- The Old Forge was developed by ToF Studio.
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 Old Forge.
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