Games like Volcanoids
If Volcanoids is your kind of game, the closest matches are Voidtrain, Satisfactory and Grounded — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its base defense against collapse, factory production loop and steampunk aesthetic. 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 →Volcanoids is a steampunk survival shooter set on a volcanic island where players operate a drill-machine as their mobile base. The game combines base-defense with factory-production systems, survival-crafting mechanics, and tank-combat against steampunk robots. Players can explore the open world alone or through online co-op. Reviewers highlight the factory-production loop and tank-combat mechanics as engaging features, and players describe the experience as atmospheric, grim, immersive, and tense. The game launched in Early Access in 2019 at $19.99 and currently holds an 85% positive rating from 4,861 Steam reviews. It is playable on Steam Deck.
About Volcanoids: A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
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Voidtrain
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Top pick for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Volcanoids.
Second-strongest match for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Volcanoids.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Third-strongest match for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Volcanoids.
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?
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Volcanoids.
Ranked #4 for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Nightingale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Ranked #5 for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Volcanoids.
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.
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Ranked #6 for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Volcanoids.
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).
ICARUS
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Volcanoids.
Ranked #7 for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Volcanoids.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Sunkenland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Ranked #8 for Volcanoids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Volcanoids.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Volcanoids.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
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!
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Volcanoids.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Ostranauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Volcanoids.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Black Skylands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Star Trucker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Volcanoids.
Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
From the Depths
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Reviewers of Volcanoids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Volcanoids at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Volcanoids on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Volcanoids.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Volcanoids on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Volcanoids on Steam right now. Shares Action with Volcanoids.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Volcanoids on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Volcanoids on Steam right now. Shares Action with Volcanoids.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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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 Volcanoids.
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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 Volcanoids.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Volcanoids.
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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 Volcanoids.
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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 Volcanoids.
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STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Volcanoids.
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The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Volcanoids.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Volcanoids.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Volcanoids.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Volcanoids.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Volcanoids.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Volcanoids.
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?
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Volcanoids.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Volcanoids.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Frequently asked about Volcanoids
- Does Volcanoids run on Steam Deck?
- Volcanoids 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 Volcanoids cost?
- Volcanoids is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Volcanoids have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Volcanoids supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Volcanoids?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Volcanoids are Voidtrain, Satisfactory, Grounded.
- Who developed Volcanoids?
- Volcanoids was developed by Volcanoid.
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