Games Like Slime Rancher 2 (2026)

Shared: Base Building, Resource Management

Permadeath, zero hand-holding, and a Tim Burton fever dream aesthetic: Don't Starve earns every hour it steals from you, but only if trial-and-error is your idea of a good time.

Shared: Base Building

Crash a plane, lose your son, then spend 30+ hours building spike traps and slowly losing your mind to cannibals. Solo or with up to 8 friends online, this one earns its Metacritic 83.

Shared: Base Building

Surviving alone was already brutal - surviving with friends who make catastrophic decisions is another beast entirely. A deep, unforgiving co-op survival game that rewards patience, preparation, and someone on the team who knows what a Science Machine actually does.

Shared: Base Building

Roguelite dungeon runs meet colony micromanagement in a package that keeps pulling you back for 'just one more crusade' - and now with local co-op too.

Shared: Base Building

Ninety-four percent of half a million Steam reviews don't lie: this Norse purgatory will eat your evenings, your weekends, and your sense of time, one biome at a time.