Games like Saurian
If Saurian is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Isle, Beasts of Bermuda and Isles of Yore — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful prehistoric landscapes, hyper realistic creature behaviors and no online toxicity. 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 →Saurian is an indie survival simulation released in 2017 by Urvogel Games. Players begin as a dinosaur egg and must survive to adulthood within a scientifically reconstructed Hell Creek ecosystem from 66 million years ago. The game features dietary needs, ecosystem simulation, growth progression, realistic animal behavior systems, a survival loop, and territory exploration mechanics. Reviewers and players highlight beautiful prehistoric landscapes and hyper-realistic creature behaviors, describing the experience as atmospheric, contemplative, and immersive. Currently priced at $19.99 USD with a 60% positive rating from 1071 Steam reviews.
About Saurian: Saurian is a survival-simulation experience about living the life of a dinosaur. Starting from the egg, you must survive to adulthood amidst the perilous Hell Creek ecosystem of 66 million years ago, meticulously reconstructed with the help of professional paleontologists.
Players who liked Saurian also play
Steam players who put hours into Saurian 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.
The Isle
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Top pick for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Beasts of Bermuda
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saurian.
Second-strongest match for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?
Isles of Yore
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saurian.
Third-strongest match for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Immerse yourself in a prehistoric ecosystem brought back from extinction. Survive and carve out your niche on islands teeming with danger and opportunity!
66: Dinosaur Survival
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Ranked #4 for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
66 is a brutal multiplayer dinosaur survival game where you hunt, grow, hide, migrate, and fight your way through a prehistoric ecosystem where every mistake can be fatal.
Sanctuary Island
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Ranked #5 for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Turn into a Dinosaur of your choice in this survial sandbox game and find out the truth hidden in Sanctuary Island. Or role play with your friends and other players in a vivid landscape full of flora and fauna.
Prehistoric Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saurian.
Ranked #6 for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Dive into intense dinosaur hunting adventures with your friends. Complete hunting contracts for Preton Corporation. Gather rewards, improve your equipment and become a master hunter. Are you the hunter or the hunted?
The Archotek Project
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Ranked #7 for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
The Archotek Project focuses on a multiplayer experience, giving you the chance to play with your friends or with new people on dedicated servers. Play as the dinosaur as you explore vibrant and exotic locations within the game, taking control of unique species from the fossil record.
The Beasts Of 9500
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saurian.
Ranked #8 for Saurian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Come to the world of beasts 95 million years ago, you can experience prey, grow, die, and survive as best you can.As you grow, you will hone your speed, stamina, and aggression to become the king of the century.
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The Isle
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Saurian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Titans of the Past
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saurian.
Reviewers of Saurian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Saurian.
A deep party-based RPG. Crawl dungeons. Battle monsters with your weapons, spells, abilities. Utilize the 'time flows as you move' system to make decisions. Loot, level up, craft, develop your town. Unlock new classes and races, spells, items - to make a party able survive the hardest challenges.
WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Saurian.
Reviewers of Saurian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Saurian.
Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Saurian.
Reviewers of Saurian cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Saurian at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Saurian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Saurian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Saurian.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Saurian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Saurian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Saurian.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Saurian on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Saurian.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Saurian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Saurian.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Indie with Saurian.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Saurian.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Saurian.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Saurian.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Saurian.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Saurian
- How much does Saurian cost?
- Saurian is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Saurian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Saurian are The Isle, Beasts of Bermuda, Isles of Yore.
- Who developed Saurian?
- Saurian was developed by Urvogel Games, LLC.
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