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Games like New Dawn

If New Dawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are ROKH, Stone Rage and Outlaws of the Old West — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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.

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About New Dawn: New Dawn is a survival sandbox open-world multiplayer game set on an island during the golden age of piracy

2018StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationMassively MultiplayerRPGWindowsby e-visualsoft
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Blueprints must be stolen from pirate campsCraft gear from scavenged materialsDynamic progression by learning stolen knowledgeAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into New Dawn 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.

  1. ROKH

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with New Dawn.

    Top pick for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Dawn.

    Have you got what it takes to survive on Mars? ROKH is a multiplayer survival game featuring scientific realism and extremely deep crafting and building. Make the red planet your sandbox and create a thriving colony.

    2017ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Stone Rage

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with New Dawn.

    Second-strongest match for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with New Dawn.

    Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Outlaws of the Old West

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with New Dawn.

    Third-strongest match for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Dawn.

    Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Tree of Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with New Dawn.

    Begin a journey in the beautiful world! Build your own town anywhere and explore the myterious lands anytime. Nothing is impossible in the open world: Be a legendary warrior and 5-star chef at the same time!

    2017IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGSteam ↗
  5. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building with New Dawn.

    Ranked #5 for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Dawn.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Journey Of Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with New Dawn.

    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.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. ATLAS

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building with New Dawn.

    Ranked #7 for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with New Dawn.

    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!

    2018ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Out of Reach

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and a challenging mood with New Dawn.

    Ranked #8 for New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with New Dawn.

    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!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with New Dawn.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with New Dawn.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with New Dawn.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with New Dawn.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Dawn.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with New Dawn.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with New Dawn.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about New Dawn

Does New Dawn have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — New Dawn supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to New Dawn?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside New Dawn are ROKH, Stone Rage, Outlaws of the Old West.
Who developed New Dawn?
New Dawn was developed by e-visualsoft.

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 New Dawn.

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