Games like Aground
If Aground is your kind of game, the closest matches are 7 Days to Die, Rising World and CryoFall — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and relaxing. 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 →Aground is a 2D indie adventure and RPG released in 2020 by Fancy Fish Games and SnöBox Studio, available for $14.99. The game features base-building, crafting, exploration, grinding, a magic system, and mod support as core mechanics, with support for online cooperative play. Players describe the experience as chill, contemplative, relaxing, and whimsical, with reviewers highlighting the ability to build anything from huts to spaceships, the endless replayability enabled by mod support, magic that allows players to transform creatures and objects, survival in a procedurally generated world, and the discovery of multiple endings and routes. The game is verified to run on Steam Deck and has received a 94% positive rating from approximately 1,150 Steam reviews.
About Aground: As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Players who liked Aground also play
Steam players who put hours into Aground 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.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Top pick for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Rising World
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Aground.
Second-strongest match for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
CryoFall
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Aground.
Third-strongest match for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Eden Island
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a relaxing mood with Aground.
Ranked #4 for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
BLASTRONAUT
WHY THIS
Shares base building and crafting with Aground.
Ranked #5 for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, base building and a whimsical mood with Aground.
Ranked #6 for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and a chill mood with Aground.
Ranked #7 for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
XERA: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Aground.
Ranked #8 for Aground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aground at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aground.
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 Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Aground.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aground.
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 Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
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 Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aground.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aground.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Aground on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Aground.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aground.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Aground.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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More from Fancy Fish Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Fancy Fish Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Aground Zero
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and a chill mood with Aground.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Deity Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Aground.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Deity Quest is a light-hearted RPG where your goal is to convert followers and gain power to become the Overgod of Aberos. Use your divine magic to support your followers in fast-paced, strategic 6 vs. 6 battles, and compete with other deities in your quest to reach the top!
I Can't Escape: Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Aground.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
I Can't Escape: Darkness is a quicksand trap for the senses - the more you listen and look for clues, the deeper you fall into a damp, living dungeon. Plunge into the depths and scrape together whatever tools you can find, then try to escape one of the most diabolical puzzles of all time!
ADventure Lib
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Aground.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
The shuffle button has been hit. All the objects and characters have been mixed up! Randomness threatens to overrun the kingdom, and nothing is what it appears to be! It is up to you to defeat the fire-breathing [kitten], save your beloved [toilet], and find the [potato] of legend!
＜/reality＞
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Aground.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
When a withdrawn virtual reality nerd has the opportunity to beta test a neural device that feels more “real” than reality itself, everything she assumed about the nature of existence is thrown into question.
Stardander School for Witches
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Aground.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Welcome to Stardander School for Witches! Embrace your magical side by learning spells, solving mysteries, making friends and battling (or befriending) Fae creatures in a turn-based battle system. Do you have what it takes to pass your classes in a world besieged by a malicious enemy?
Witherspring Wilds
WHY THIS
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground.
Reincarnate into a new open world full of danger and opportunity. Start from nothing and build a village as you advance science and magic. Farm, fight, craft, explore, tame creatures - how will you shape the Wilds?
Frequently asked about Aground
- Is Aground verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Aground is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Aground cost?
- Aground is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Aground have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Aground supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Aground?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aground are 7 Days to Die, Rising World, CryoFall.
- Who developed Aground?
- Aground was developed by Fancy Fish Games, SnöBox Studio and published by Fancy Fish Games, Whitethorn Games.
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