Games like Don't Starve

3.9average player rating•5 games

Don't Starve is survival as a puzzle you fail at until you don't: learn the season, learn the monster, die, come back knowing. These punish the same way, and teach the same way.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic80

Avg. player rating3.9/5

Avg. playtime7h

Main genreIndie

Released2013–2022

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Indie5 of 5
Adventure4 of 5
Action2 of 5
Simulation2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Subnautica
AdventureIndie
Same crafting-under-pressure loop, underwater, where the dark below you is the real hunger meter.
4.2/5Player ratingMC83View game
2
The Long Dark
ActionAdventureSimulation
No monsters at all — just cold, calories and distance. The purest survival game on the list, and the loneliest.
3.9/5Player ratingMC76View game
3
Project Zomboid
RPGIndie
This is how you died. A survival sim that assumes your defeat and makes the run there fascinating.
3.9/5Player ratingView game
4
Grounded
AdventureIndie
Shrunk to insect size in a back garden. Cheerful on the surface, and then a spider comes over the grass.
3.8/5Player ratingMC82View game
5
Green Hell
ActionAdventureSimulation
The Amazon, with wounds you have to treat and a mind that comes apart. Survival that reads as genuinely dangerous.
3.8/5Player ratingMC78View game