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210 games like Don't Starve

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01 Return From Core Cover

2025 · PC

Return From Core

71%

Explore the Inner Earth world and its mysteries in this survival sandbox adventure game! Dig for materials to craft new gear and defend your camp against the creatures and perils of the Core. If you recover the technology lost after the catastrophe, maybe one...

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Don't Starve

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

02 Len's Island Cover

2025 · Mac, PC

Len's Island

65%

Len’s Island is a blend of peaceful building, farming, and crafting, mixed with intense skill-based combat with roguelike dungeon crawling and open-world exploration. Venture through the world that combines procedural generation with hand-made levels that make...

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Don't Starve

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

03 Below Cover

2018 · PC, PS4, XONE

Below

64%

Test your adventurer mettle against The Isle’s procedural subterranean labyrinths. Explore a large, interconnected underworld crawling with cunning wildlife, deadly traps and stalked by a shadowy presence. Survive the perils of The Depths and unearth what lies...

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Don't Starve

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

04 Necesse Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, PC

Necesse

63%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colo...

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Don't Starve

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

05 The Long Dark Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

The Long Dark

60%

Welcome to The Long Dark, the innovative exploration-survival experience Wired magazine calls "the pinnacle of an entire genre". The game is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an e...

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Don't Starve

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

06 Routine Cover

2025 · PC, XONE, Series X|S

Routine

56%

Routine is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror title set on an abandoned Lunar base designed around an 80’s vision of the future. Curious exploration turns into a need for survival when a lunar base goes completely quiet. Searching for answers puts you face to face w...

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Don't Starve

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 This War of Mine Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, Mac

This War of Mine

55%

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war se...

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Don't Starve

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Voidtrain Cover

2025 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Voidtrain

55%

Become a crew member of an interdimensional express! Discover a new mysterious world inhabited by amazing creatures, dangers and surprises. Upgrade your train, gather new materials and build better weapons! Available in single player, or in online multiplayer...

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Don't Starve

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 Minecraft: Java Edition Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, PC

Minecraft: Java Edition

50%

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining...

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Don't Starve

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

10 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

47%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! 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 overgrow...

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Don't Starve

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Crafting Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

11 Rise of the Tomb Raider Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Rise of the Tomb Raider

42%

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game in which players control Lara Croft as she searches for the legendary city of Kitezh and a promise of immortality. Combat involves firearms, stealth, and melee weapons, while semi-open hub areas o...

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Don't Starve

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Crafting Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Firewatch Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Firewatch

41%

Firewatch is a single-player first-person video game where you, as a man named Henry, explore the Wyoming wilderness after taking a summer job as a fire lookout. What is supposed to be a peaceful respite from your complicated life takes a turn when you start t...

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Don't Starve

41% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

13 Nuclear Throne Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Nuclear Throne

41%

Nuclear Throne is an action roguelike-like by Vlambeer about mutants fighting their way through a post-apocalyptic world. The radioactive waste in the world allows mutants to get ahead by mutating new limbs on the fly, the abundant availability of powerful wea...

Your match for

Don't Starve

41% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Far Cry 3 Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, X360

Far Cry 3

40%

Explore an island playground as stunningly beautiful as it is diverse – from mountain ranges to swampy grasslands and white sandy beaches. Fight your way through the island’s towns, temples, river ports and more. Encounter a diverse and realistic cast of char...

Your match for

Don't Starve

40% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

15 BioShock Cover

2007 · Mac, PC, PS3

BioShock

39%

BioShock is a horror-themed first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. The player is urged to turn everything into a weapon: biologically modifying their own body with Plasmids, hacking devices and systems, upgrading their weapons, crafting n...

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Don't Starve

39% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Crafting Game feel ✓ Horror Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

16 Grand Theft Auto III Cover

2001 · Android, Mac, PC

Grand Theft Auto III

39%

Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart o...

Your match for

Don't Starve

39% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

17 The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Cover

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is the first Zelda game made exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS. It is an indirect sequel to A Link to the Past with the same version of Hyrule but with new characters and gameplay elements. Unlike the series' tradition...

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Don't Starve

38% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

18 The Legend of Zelda Cover

1986 · famicom, fds, 3DS

The Legend of Zelda

37%

The Legend of Zelda is the first title in the Zelda series, it has marked the history of video games particularly for it's game mechanics and universe. The player controls Link and must make his way through the forests, graveyards, plains and deserts of the Ot...

Your match for

Don't Starve

37% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 The Binding of Isaac Cover

2011 · Mac, PC

The Binding of Isaac

37%

The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac's form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of...

Your match for

Don't Starve

37% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Horror Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Horror Game feel ✓ Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Spore Cover

2008 · Mac, PC

Spore

37%

From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations. Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage has its own unique style, challenges, and goals.

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Don't Starve

37% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

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