Games like Smalland: Survive the Wilds
If Smalland: Survive the Wilds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Enshrouded, Grounded and The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and cozy. 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 →Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a 2024 open-world survival game where players take on the role of tiny adventurers navigating a vast, hazardous ecosystem populated by oversized insects and wildlife. The game blends action, adventure, and RPG elements, featuring attribute allocation that shapes both crafting and combat approaches. Players can build and relocate base camps between great trees, incubate creature eggs to hatch tamable companions, and glide across the expansive environment. Reviewers describe the exploration as feeling like a genuine tiny adventurer experience, with the world supporting online co-op where friends can share mobile bases. Currently holding an 82% positive rating from over 4200 Steam reviews, the game is marked as Playable on Steam Deck and offers a long, challenging session experience for those who enjoy survival crafting with a whimsical twist.
About Smalland: Survive the Wilds: Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
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Enshrouded
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Top pick for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Grounded
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Second-strongest match for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Third-strongest match for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Voidtrain
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Ranked #4 for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Soulmask
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Ranked #5 for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
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Shares base building and a whimsical mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Ranked #6 for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Valheim
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Ranked #7 for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Nightingale
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Ranked #8 for Smalland: Survive the Wilds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Shares a whimsical mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
The Forest
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
SOULS
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One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?
Valheim
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Reviewers of Smalland: Survive the Wilds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Grounded
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Reviewers of Smalland: Survive the Wilds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Wish
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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Soma, driven by destiny, begins his quest to save his home, Israfil Continent, which trembles in fear of an evil empress… Elf Pontifex, princess knight, the first vampire, etc , with the many beautiful women waiting for their stories to unravel, what will happen in the end of this adventure...?
Sons Of The Forest
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Smalland: Survive the Wilds at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~71% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~86% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~57% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~43% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~71% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~71% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Action with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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.
Schedule I
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Priced ~43% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~57% under Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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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 Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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 Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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 Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Smalland: Survive the Wilds
- Does Smalland: Survive the Wilds run on Steam Deck?
- Smalland: Survive the Wilds 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 Smalland: Survive the Wilds cost?
- Smalland: Survive the Wilds is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Smalland: Survive the Wilds have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Smalland: Survive the Wilds supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Smalland: Survive the Wilds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Smalland: Survive the Wilds are Enshrouded, Grounded, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™.
- Who developed Smalland: Survive the Wilds?
- Smalland: Survive the Wilds was developed by Merge Games and published by Maximum Entertainment.
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