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Games like Palworld
20 games, the closest and most played first.
What to consider
Summarized by AIPalworld fans want a survival world to build in with friends, with creatures adding extra variety. None of these picks has Pals, but they keep the crafting, base-building and open world. Valheim and Don't Starve Together lean on co-op, Green Hell goes realistic, ICARUS drops you on a planet, and Raft puts you at sea.
A collaborative survival game for 1-10 players that gives you a procedurally generated Norse world to craft in. You make weapons, build halls and slay foes across biomes that each have their own resources and dangers. Palworld's creature work is missing, so the pull here is the building and group exploration.
Standout features
- Procedural Norse world
- Hall construction
- 1-10 player co-op
This one trades Pals for realism. You are in the Amazon jungle, learning real-life survival techniques to craft tools, hunt for food and fight off dangers. You tend your wounds and maintain your mental health, and you can build anything from a simple shelter to a fortress, with online co-op as in Palworld.
Standout features
- Real-life survival techniques
- Inspection mode for wounds
- Shelter to fortress building
3. Don't Starve Together
Best for friends who want a stranger, spookier survival world to cooperate in.
184 votes
The shared idea is a harsh world where you gather resources, craft and build, then survive with friends. Here the standalone multiplayer expansion adds a strange land of odd creatures and ancient secrets, and the story of The Constant to unravel. The humor is drier than Palworld's, and you play your own way.
Standout features
- Strange creature-filled world
- Craft and build together
- Mystery of The Constant
A PvE survival game with a mission-based mode and a persistent open world, for up to eight co-op players. You drop from an orbital station onto a terraformed planet to explore, harvest, craft and hunt, and you confront the wilderness together. It has the base-building and online co-op Palworld fans like, on an alien planet.
Standout features
- Up to eight co-op players
- Mission and open-world modes
- Orbital-drop prospecting
You start alone on a small raft with a plastic hook and gather debris to grow it as you sail between dangerous islands. It is playable solo or with friends. The setting is much smaller than Palworld's open world, but building up a home base and scavenging for survival will feel similar.
Standout features
- Debris gathering
- Raft expansion
- Island sailing
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