Games like Hold Your Own
If Hold Your Own is your kind of game, the closest matches are Journey Of Life, Subsistence and The Infected — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its grind resources for upgrades, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Hold Your Own: A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Players who liked Hold Your Own also play
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Journey Of Life
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hold Your Own.
Second-strongest match for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Hold Your Own.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
The Infected
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Hold Your Own.
Third-strongest match for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Mist Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Hold Your Own.
Ranked #4 for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Badiya: Desert Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hold Your Own.
Ranked #5 for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.
Bermuda - Lost Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hold Your Own.
Ranked #6 for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Survivors, Adventurers, Explorers! Prepare for the journey of your life and experience one of the world’s most mysterious regions! The Bermuda Triangle is notorious for the vanishing of countless ships and airplanes. Will you survive long enough to reveal its secret?
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Hold Your Own.
Ranked #7 for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Survival: Fountain of Youth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hold Your Own.
Ranked #8 for Hold Your Own fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hold Your Own at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold Your Own.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
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 ~53% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Hold Your Own.
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 ~47% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hold Your Own.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hold Your Own.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hold Your Own.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hold Your Own on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold Your Own.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hold Your Own.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hold Your Own.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hold Your Own.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
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 Hold Your Own.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold Your Own.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hold Your Own.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Hold Your Own
- Does Hold Your Own work on Steam Deck?
- Hold Your Own is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Hold Your Own cost?
- Hold Your Own is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hold Your Own?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold Your Own are Journey Of Life, Subsistence, The Infected.
- Who developed Hold Your Own?
- Hold Your Own was developed by DistrictWare inc..
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 Hold Your Own.
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