Survival simulator in the afterlife. Specifically such games are not many, but in general, survival games like Valheim, quite a lot. And among them there are many quality and worthy of your attention. I found them all and I'm in a hurry to share them.

19 Games Like Valheim For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

19. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey от Panache Digital Games — симулятор выживания с видом от третьего лица. Исследуйте открытый мир, расширяйте свои владения и развивайте клан, чтобы перейти на следующую ступень эволюции.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey screenshot

18. The Wild Eight

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 63
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Wild Eight is a gritty adventure in a randomly generated world full of danger and challenges. Mine resources for survival and explore locations in search of salvation alongside other players. Or will you try to get out of here alone?

The Wild Eight screenshot

17. DYSMANTLE

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Leave the shelter behind. Destroy everything. Leave the cursed island. There's exploration ahead. Battles. Development. Survival. Mining. Building. Hunting. Farming. Solving riddles. Cooking. Living. All the sweetness and bitterness of the post-apocalypse!

DYSMANTLE screenshot

16. Outward

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 60 hours
  • Genre: Role Playing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

No great journey has ever been accomplished without great labor. In Outward, the cold of night or a festering wound can be as dangerous as the predators lurking in the darkness. Explore the vast world of Auraia alone or in co-op play mode. Definitive Edition includes both add-ons and common enhancements.

Outward screenshot

15. Scrapnaut

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Construction
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Scrapnaut is a team-administration base-building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, monitor oxygen levels, manage farms, generate electricity, build your own house and more!

Scrapnaut screenshot

14. Dawnlands

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.

Dawnlands screenshot

13. ICARUS

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

ICARUS is a session-based PvE survival game for up to eight players. Explore the harsh expanse of an alien planet where a failed terraforming attempt was once made. Your task is to mine exotics and return to orbit to develop more advanced equipment.

ICARUS screenshot

12. Necesse

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Base Construction
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Build, complete quests, and conquer a vast procedurally generated world alone or with friends. Develop a settlement, explore dungeons, fight monsters, mine ore, create equipment, hire craftsmen - and that's not all!

Necesse screenshot

11. 7 Days to Die

similar games to 7 Days to Die
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

7 Days to Die is a one-of-a-kind open-world game that combines elements of a first-person shooter, survival horror, castle defense, and role-playing game. Get the genre-changing zombie survival RPG sandbox that set the tone for other similar games. Nevezgan is waiting for you!

7 Days to Die screenshot

10. Raft

similar games to Raft
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Raft screenshot

9. Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

A big adventure on a tiny scale! Finding yourself at the bottom of the food chain, you need to prepare for everything. Build weapons and armor, saddle unseen beasts, build bases, and explore bizarre lands.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds screenshot

8. Subsistence

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Subsistence is a first-person PvE survival game with single-player and co-op modes. Survive in an open world with changing seasons, build a base, craft items and gear. Defend yourself against wildlife and hunters who also build their bases.

Subsistence screenshot

7. Tribes of Midgard

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A bright and dynamic role-playing game with survival elements for 1-10 players! Create legendary items, develop your base and embark on an epic journey through procedurally generated worlds teeming with creatures ready to do anything to start Ragnarok. Valhalla can wait, einherius!

Tribes of Midgard screenshot

6. Green Hell

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

5. Grounded

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

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?

Grounded screenshot

4. Rust

similar games to Rust
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 69
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 80 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: no
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Rust screenshot

3. Sons Of The Forest

similar games to Sons Of The Forest
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

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.

Sons Of The Forest screenshot

2. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

1. Conan Exiles

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Network multiplayer game in the universe of “Conan the Barbarian” with warriors and dark sorcery. Survive in a huge open world sandbox by building a house and then a kingdom. Crush your enemies in single or multiplayer modes.

Conan Exiles screenshot

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8. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival Simulator
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey от Panache Digital Games — симулятор выживания с видом от третьего лица. Исследуйте открытый мир, расширяйте свои владения и развивайте клан, чтобы перейти на следующую ступень эволюции.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey screenshot

7. The Wild Eight

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 63
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Wild Eight is a gritty adventure in a randomly generated world full of danger and challenges. Mine resources for survival and explore locations in search of salvation alongside other players. Or will you try to get out of here alone?

The Wild Eight screenshot

6. DYSMANTLE

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Leave the shelter behind. Destroy everything. Leave the cursed island. There's exploration ahead. Battles. Development. Survival. Mining. Building. Hunting. Farming. Solving riddles. Cooking. Living. All the sweetness and bitterness of the post-apocalypse!

DYSMANTLE screenshot

5. 7 Days to Die

similar games to 7 Days to Die
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

7 Days to Die is a one-of-a-kind open-world game that combines elements of a first-person shooter, survival horror, castle defense, and role-playing game. Get the genre-changing zombie survival RPG sandbox that set the tone for other similar games. Nevezgan is waiting for you!

7 Days to Die screenshot

4. Tribes of Midgard

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A bright and dynamic role-playing game with survival elements for 1-10 players! Create legendary items, develop your base and embark on an epic journey through procedurally generated worlds teeming with creatures ready to do anything to start Ragnarok. Valhalla can wait, einherius!

Tribes of Midgard screenshot

3. Green Hell

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

2. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

1. Conan Exiles

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 100 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Network multiplayer game in the universe of “Conan the Barbarian” with warriors and dark sorcery. Survive in a huge open world sandbox by building a house and then a kingdom. Crush your enemies in single or multiplayer modes.

Conan Exiles screenshot

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2. Tribes of Midgard

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A bright and dynamic role-playing game with survival elements for 1-10 players! Create legendary items, develop your base and embark on an epic journey through procedurally generated worlds teeming with creatures ready to do anything to start Ragnarok. Valhalla can wait, einherius!

Tribes of Midgard screenshot

1. Grounded

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

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?

Grounded screenshot

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5. DYSMANTLE

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Leave the shelter behind. Destroy everything. Leave the cursed island. There's exploration ahead. Battles. Development. Survival. Mining. Building. Hunting. Farming. Solving riddles. Cooking. Living. All the sweetness and bitterness of the post-apocalypse!

DYSMANTLE screenshot

4. Scrapnaut

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Construction
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Scrapnaut is a team-administration base-building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, monitor oxygen levels, manage farms, generate electricity, build your own house and more!

Scrapnaut screenshot

3. Tribes of Midgard

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A bright and dynamic role-playing game with survival elements for 1-10 players! Create legendary items, develop your base and embark on an epic journey through procedurally generated worlds teeming with creatures ready to do anything to start Ragnarok. Valhalla can wait, einherius!

Tribes of Midgard screenshot

2. Green Hell

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

1. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

2 Games Like Valheim For Mobile (Android, iOS)

2. DYSMANTLE

  • Buy: App Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Leave the shelter behind. Destroy everything. Leave the cursed island. There's exploration ahead. Battles. Development. Survival. Mining. Building. Hunting. Farming. Solving riddles. Cooking. Living. All the sweetness and bitterness of the post-apocalypse!

DYSMANTLE screenshot

1. Dawnlands


Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.

Dawnlands screenshot