Games like The Forest
Looking for games like The Forest? indielist surfaces 12 similar indie games by shared genre and Steam tags, ranked by review count. The Forest is a action game from 2018; the closest matches share its tags and audience. The top match by reviews is Mist Survival with 13,525 Steam reviews. Each game links to a white-box sales estimate you can audit. Matches are computed from tracked Steam data, not editorial opinion.
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Mist Survival
2018 · Action
13,525 reviews · 76% positive
SurvivalZombiesOpen World Survival Craft
Same: shares Survival and Zombies. Different: leans more into base-building.
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Voidtrain
2025 · Action
8,517 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalCrafting
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into co-op.
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Stranded Deep
2022 · Adventure
43,449 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen World
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into multiplayer.
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Breathedge
2021 · Action
14,366 reviews · 82% positive
Open World Survival CraftSingleplayerSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Singleplayer. Different: leans more into space.
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The Long Dark
2017 · Adventure
110,972 reviews · 89% positive
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftOpen World
Same: shares Survival and Open World Survival Craft. Different: leans more into post-apocalyptic.
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No Man's Sky
2016 · Action
310,268 reviews · 85% positive
Open WorldOpen World Survival CraftExploration
Same: shares Open World and Open World Survival Craft. Different: leans more into space.
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We Happy Few
2018 · Action
11,176 reviews · 77% positive
AdventureOpen WorldAction
Same: shares Adventure and Open World. Different: leans more into dystopian .
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The Beast Inside
2019 · Action
10,448 reviews
HorrorAdventureFirst-Person
Same: shares Horror and Adventure. Different: leans more into multiplayer.
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Project Zomboid
2013 · Indie
350,081 reviews · 94% positive
SurvivalZombiesOpen World
Same: shares Survival and Zombies. Different: leans more into multiplayer.
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Subnautica
2018 · Adventure
338,617 reviews · 97% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalHorror
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into underwater.
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Subnautica: Below Zero
2021 · Adventure
98,838 reviews · 90% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalSingleplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into underwater.
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Rust
2018 · Action
1,383,303 reviews · 87% positive
SurvivalCraftingOpen World
Same: shares Survival and Crafting. Different: leans more into multiplayer.
Frequently asked questions
- What games are like The Forest?
- indielist matches 12 indie games to The Forest by shared genre and Steam tags, led by Mist Survival (13,525 reviews). The list is ranked by review count.
- How are "games like The Forest" chosen?
- By overlap of Steam tags and primary genre with The Forest, weighted by review count as a popularity signal. It is computed from tracked data, not hand-picked, and updates as the catalog grows.