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Games like Notrium

2015PC, Steam Deck playable98 % positive2.99 €

A punishing top-down survival game in which you crash-land on an alien planet and must scrape together food, warmth and weapons while hostile creatures hunt you. Scarce resources and constant pressure make every decision count.

  • Resources and survival
  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty

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In short: Games like Notrium

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Notrium special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Radiation Island

89 %Match

2015PC, Nintendo Switch80 % positive8.19 €

Brings what grabs you about Notrium: scarce resources and survival, an open world as well as lots to discover.

A survival game set on a mysterious island in a parallel reality after the Philadelphia Experiment: you gather resources, craft gear, fend off threats and look for a way back to the real world.

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Green Hell

Challenging difficulty

A punishing jungle survival sim set in the Amazon that tracks nutrition, infections, parasites and wounds alongside your character's fraying sanity. A dark story campaign and a co-op mode round it out.

FarSky

Lots to discover

As Nathan, stranded after a submarine crash, you survive in the ocean depths by gathering resources, building a base to refill oxygen, crafting gear, and feeding yourself through farming and fishing.

Hellion

Sci-fi setting

A first-person space survival game where you scavenge oxygen, fuel and supplies to stay alive in the hostile void. Other players can become allies or deadly threats.

Surviving Titan

Sci-fi setting

You crash-land on Saturn's moon Titan with amnesia and must craft and build to stay alive. Along the way you explore the alien world and uncover its secrets.

Don't Starve

Challenging difficulty

A merciless survival game with a gothic, Tim Burton-esque hand-drawn style, where you scavenge, craft and fend off hunger, insanity and monsters in a procedurally generated wilderness. Death is permanent, but every run teaches you something new.

Trespasser

Challenging difficulty

As Anne you survive a plane crash on a dinosaur island and look for a way out with no HUD. Famous for its experimental physics-based controls, which bring unusual immersion and plenty of frustration.

Ark: Survival Evolved

Challenging difficulty

Stranded on an island full of dinosaurs, you gather resources, build bases and tame prehistoric beasts to ride and fight alongside you. On multiplayer servers it becomes a harsh, time-hungry struggle of tribes, raids and alliances.

The Forest

Lots to discover

After a plane crash you build shelters and traps in a dense forest while tribes of cannibals stalk and attack you. Creepy mutant-filled caves and the mystery of your missing son drive the exploration, and it's best played with friends in co-op.

Beyond Contact

Sci-fi setting

You are stranded on the procedurally generated alien planet Ketern, surviving through exploration, research, crafting and base building. A pulp sci-fi comic look gives the hostile world its own flavor.

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