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Games like Above Snakes: Prologue
Square Glade Games · 2023 · Windows
Steam: 89 % positive of 1,877 reviews, as of Oct 28
In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
24 games that play like Above Snakes: Prologue and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Above Snakes, DYSMANTLE and Project Zomboid.
Player tags
Steam reviews
What players say
Most players who tried the free prologue like its relaxed pace and tile-based world building, though many find controls, slow movement and the price off-putting.
Many players enjoy the cozy pace and the way they build the map themselves, placing biome tiles as they travel, which makes exploration feel controlled and rewarding. Players also like the Wild West setting, the art style and the short story hooks that make them want the full game. Criticism centres on controls: several dislike holding buttons to search or gather, and some find the camera limited to fixed 90-degree angles. Some players call survival too easy, with resources plentiful, while others find gathering repetitive and grindy. Several reviewers say the NPCs feel shallow and that the price of the full game is too high for what the prologue shows. Recent reviews are more mixed than Steam's overall rating, which is very positive, and several negative reviews mention bugs or performance problems, with a few saying the full game should be bought only after a large discount.
Praised
- Tile-based world building
Players like placing biome tiles as they travel, which makes the map feel self-made and exploration rewarding.
Many players - Relaxing, cozy pace
Reviewers describe the game as chill, mellow and easy to play at one's own speed.
Many players - Wild West and zombie setting
Players enjoy the mix of frontier themes with zombies or aliens and find the story intriguing.
Some players - Art style and charm
Colourful, cute visuals and the portraits of characters are praised as pleasant and distinctive.
Some players
Criticised
- Clunky controls
Holding buttons to search or gather and a fixed camera angle make many players feel the controls are awkward.
Many players - Slow movement and pacing
Players find the character moves slowly and some parts of the early game drag.
Some players - Repetitive gathering
Players say resource gathering and crafting become tedious and grindy.
Some players - Price and content for full game
Players find the full price high for what the prologue shows, and a few doubt the full game has enough variety.
Some players
- Who it suits
- Players who want a relaxed, cozy builder with exploration and light survival, and who don't mind clunky controls, will probably enjoy it.
- Who should skip it
- Players who want demanding survival, fast combat or deep, fluent controls should skip it.
Short vs. long playtime: Players with a few hours tend to praise the relaxed feel and tile building, while the longer sessions in the reviews mention repetitive gathering and controls more often.
Summarised by AI from 69 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.
Best matches
Plays and looks like Above Snakes: Prologue
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Above Snakes: Prologue
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Above Snakes
73 % positive of 1,582
Shared: Relaxing · Open World Survival Craft · Exploration
DYSMANTLE
90 % positive of 11,073
Shared: Exploration · Crafting · RPG
Project Zomboid
94 % positive of 371,769
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · RPG
Enshrouded
84 % positive of 98,184
Shared: Exploration · Crafting · RPG
Don't Starve
95 % positive of 97,247
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
Forager
88 % positive of 35,609
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
Necesse
91 % positive of 24,699
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
Beyond the Map
77 % positive of 784
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
81 % positive of 8,159
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
Aground
92 % positive of 1,837
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · RPG
Len's Island
82 % positive of 5,997
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
The Survivalists
76 % positive of 8,135
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
More matches
- The Infected83 % positive of 6,604Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
- Subsistence72 % positive of 12,636Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · Base-Building
- Survival: Fountain of Youth84 % positive of 4,131Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
- Wild West Legacy39 % positive of 1,712Shared: Crafting · RPG · Base-Building
- This Land Is My Land67 % positive of 4,255Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · RPG
- Survivalist: Invisible Strain87 % positive of 4,073Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
- Rising World84 % positive of 5,344Shared: Relaxing · Open World Survival Craft · Exploration
- Adventure Craft81 % positive of 233Shared: Open World Survival Craft · RPG · Base-Building
- Westland Survival56 % positive of 627Shared: Exploration · Crafting · RPG
- Backwoods Town92 % positive of 196Shared: Exploration · Survival · Sandbox
- Tinkerlands85 % positive of 3,656Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting
- HumanitZ73 % positive of 11,473Shared: Crafting · RPG · Isometric
By look
Looks like Above Snakes: Prologue
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Above Snakes
73 % positive of 1,582
Len's Island
82 % positive of 5,997
DYSMANTLE
90 % positive of 11,073
Luma Island
84 % positive of 11,321
Raft
92 % positive of 324,997
Foundation
86 % positive of 23,388
Tribes of Midgard
76 % positive of 17,513
Pioneers of Pagonia
80 % positive of 4,842
Fabledom
85 % positive of 6,840
Polylithic
70 % positive of 317
Tavern Keeper 🍻
94 % positive of 4,801
Northgard: Definitive Edition
85 % positive of 54,588
More matches
- Project Winter84 % positive of 13,650
- Longvinter68 % positive of 6,964
- Settlement Survival84 % positive of 7,751
- Coral Island89 % positive of 22,030
- Brighter Shores67 % positive of 9,422
- Gaucho and the Grassland95 % positive of 418
- Moose Lost in the Woods94 % positive of 335
- Outlanders90 % positive of 463
- Dino Path Trail75 % positive of 198
- over the hill92 % positive of 4,206
- For The King II71 % positive of 12,849
- Lodventure70 % positive of 137
At a glance
What games like Above Snakes: Prologue have in common
- The tags they share most often with Above Snakes: Prologue: Crafting (19 of 24), Open World Survival Craft (18) and Exploration (18).
- They came out between 2013 and 2026, 11 of them after Above Snakes: Prologue (2023).
- Best rated by Steam players: Don't Starve (95 % positive of 97,247).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.