Games like Rust
Looking for games like Rust? indielist surfaces 12 similar indie games by shared genre and Steam tags, ranked by review count. Rust is a action game from 2018; the closest matches share its tags and audience. The top match by reviews is Voidtrain with 8,517 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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Voidtrain
2025 · Action
8,517 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftCo-opSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Co-op. Different: leans more into base-building.
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CastleMiner Z
2014 · Action
7,934 reviews · 81% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into zombies.
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Scrap Mechanic
2016 · Action
105,678 reviews · 92% positive
BuildingSandboxMultiplayer
Same: shares Building and Sandbox. Different: leans more into physics.
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Raft
2022 · Adventure
321,118 reviews · 93% positive
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival Craft
Same: shares Survival and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into base-building.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
2017 · Action
583,081 reviews · 83% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into dinosaurs.
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Valheim
2021 · Action
455,972 reviews · 94% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-Op
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into base-building.
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Necesse
2025 · Action
23,379 reviews · 93% positive
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen World
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into pixel graphics.
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TerraTech
2018 · Action
20,414 reviews · 91% positive
BuildingSandboxOpen World
Same: shares Building and Sandbox. Different: leans more into robots.
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Craftopia
2020 · Action
18,310 reviews · 76% positive
Open WorldCraftingSurvival
Same: shares Open World and Crafting. Different: leans more into rpg.
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Mist Survival
2018 · Action
13,525 reviews · 76% positive
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftOpen World
Same: shares Survival and Open World Survival Craft. Different: leans more into zombies.
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Unturned
2017 · Action
7,505 reviews · 91% positive
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World
Same: shares Survival and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into free to play.
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Stranded Deep
2022 · Adventure
43,449 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into exploration.
Frequently asked questions
- What games are like Rust?
- indielist matches 12 indie games to Rust by shared genre and Steam tags, led by Voidtrain (8,517 reviews). The list is ranked by review count.
- How are "games like Rust" chosen?
- By overlap of Steam tags and primary genre with Rust, weighted by review count as a popularity signal. It is computed from tracked data, not hand-picked, and updates as the catalog grows.