Games like PixARK
If PixARK is your kind of game, the closest matches are ARK: Survival Evolved, ARK: Survival Ascended and Conan Exiles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic, retro and automated farming. 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 →PixARK is an open-world survival action-strategy game developed and published by Snail Games USA, released in 2019 at a price of $19.99 USD. The game features voxel-based terrain building alongside automated farming, magical taming of creatures, and procedurally generated biomes. Set in a world populated by dinosaurs and mythical beasts, it supports online cooperative multiplayer where players can work together in tribes to gather materials, craft items, and construct bases. Reviewers highlight that building is more intuitive and enjoyable compared to similar titles, and players appreciate the unique magical creatures available to tame. The game runs at a playable level on Steam Deck according to Valve's compatibility ratings, with an overall review score of 69% positive out of 3190 Steam reviews.
About PixARK: Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Players who liked PixARK also play
Steam players who put hours into PixARK 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.
ARK: Survival Evolved
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Top pick for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
ARK: Survival Ascended
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Second-strongest match for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Conan Exiles
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Third-strongest match for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with PixARK.
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.
Trove
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Shares a nostalgic mood with PixARK.
Ranked #4 for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
FortressCraft Evolved!
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Ranked #5 for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with PixARK.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
ATLAS
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Ranked #6 for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Boundless
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Ranked #7 for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
CardLife: Creative Survival
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Ranked #8 for PixARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
Reviewers mention these as similar to PixARK
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ARK: Survival Evolved
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Reviewers of PixARK cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Portal Knights
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Reviewers of PixARK cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Shares a nostalgic mood with PixARK.
Reviewers of PixARK cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with PixARK.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Pixelmon Arena
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Reviewers of PixARK cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with PixARK.
Pixelmon Arena is a roguelike action-adventure where you play as Pixelmons! Explore and battle your way through the different biomes and discover exciting encounters to see if you have what it takes to emerge victorious.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PixARK at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under PixARK on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PixARK.
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 PixARK on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under PixARK on Steam right now. Shares Action with PixARK.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under PixARK on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with PixARK.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under PixARK on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with PixARK.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Massively Multiplayer with PixARK.
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 Action and Adventure with PixARK.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with PixARK.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
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 with PixARK.
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 RPG with PixARK.
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 RPG with PixARK.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from Snail Games USA
Other recommendable Steam games by Snail Games USA, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dark and Light
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Another title from Snail Games USA, the studio behind PixARK. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜
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Another title from Snail Games USA, the studio behind PixARK. Shares Action and Adventure with PixARK.
In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.
Conquest of Empires
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Another title from Snail Games USA, the studio behind PixARK. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with PixARK.
【Establish Great Civilizations】 In the land of the seven continents, set up your military base and develop the internal and diplomatic affairs. Call up your heroes and troops, and learn how to take advantage of different kinds and formations of units to defeat the strong with the weak.
Frequently asked about PixARK
- Does PixARK run on Steam Deck?
- PixARK is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does PixARK cost?
- PixARK is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does PixARK have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — PixARK supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to PixARK?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PixARK are ARK: Survival Evolved, ARK: Survival Ascended, Conan Exiles.
- Who developed PixARK?
- PixARK was developed by Snail Games USA.
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