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Games like Primal Planet
Seethingswarm · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 87 % positive of 666 reviews, as of Oct 28
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
24 games that play like Primal Planet and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Revenge of the Savage Planet, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Don't Starve Together.
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Plays and looks like Primal Planet
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Primal Planet
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
85 % positive of 2,885
Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Action-Adventure
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
88 % positive of 585
Shared: Metroidvania · Local Co-Op · Exploration
Don't Starve Together
93 % positive of 377,897
Shared: Crafting · Co-op · Action
ARK: Survival Evolved
83 % positive of 588,743
Shared: Dinosaurs · Crafting · Co-op
Subnautica 2
90 % positive of 118,541
Rain World
94 % positive of 47,736
Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Pixel Graphics
The Isle
79 % positive of 113,719
Shared: Dinosaurs · Co-op · Action
The Planet Crafter
96 % positive of 69,754
Shared: Exploration · Crafting · Co-op
Outland
80 % positive of 3,957
Shared: Metroidvania · Platformer · Co-op
Dinotica
85 % positive of 747
Shared: Dinosaurs · Crafting · 2D Platformer
Journey To The Savage Planet
86 % positive of 5,681
Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Action-Adventure
Xanthiom Zero
94 % positive of 154
Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Pixel Graphics
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- Waking Mars88 % positive of 651Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Platformer
- Wuppo: Definitive Edition94 % positive of 4,972Shared: Metroidvania · Local Co-Op · Exploration
- My Little Universe89 % positive of 1,529Shared: Exploration · Crafting · Action
- Monster Sanctuary90 % positive of 10,454Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Pixel Graphics
- Spelunky 293 % positive of 19,832Shared: Local Co-Op · 2D Platformer · Platformer
- Cosmobreeder Yiffai83 % positive of 167Shared: Metroidvania · Pixel Graphics · 2D Platformer
- The Survivalists76 % positive of 8,135Shared: Exploration · Pixel Graphics · Crafting
- Islets95 % positive of 1,909Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · 2D Platformer
- Planet of Lana92 % positive of 9,825Shared: Emotional · 2D Platformer · Platformer
- Sundered®: Eldritch Edition80 % positive of 4,104Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Platformer
- Grounded 282 % positive of 22,240
- The Eternal Cylinder88 % positive of 1,187Shared: Exploration · Action-Adventure · Platformer
By look
Looks like Primal Planet
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Monster Sanctuary
90 % positive of 10,454
Celeste
96 % positive of 133,884
Slash/Jump
98 % positive of 678
Dunjungle
95 % positive of 695
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition
86 % positive of 12,258
Risk of Rain Returns
89 % positive of 24,859
Noita
95 % positive of 81,843
Crawl
95 % positive of 5,630
Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
83 % positive of 2,889
Deepest Sword
86 % positive of 10,951
ANIMAL WELL
94 % positive of 23,014
Dungreed
92 % positive of 9,012
More matches
- Reventure95 % positive of 8,469
- Risk of Rain (2013)93 % positive of 20,787
- Arco95 % positive of 2,220
- Dwarf Journey92 % positive of 325
- Caveblazers85 % positive of 3,436
- Phoenotopia: Awakening83 % positive of 2,771
- Magicite84 % positive of 5,806
- Chained Echoes87 % positive of 7,840
- Dwerve: Prologue90 % positive of 631
- Windswept92 % positive of 479
- There Was A Caveman72 % positive of 108
- Kingdom: New Lands85 % positive of 10,219
At a glance
What games like Primal Planet have in common
- The tags they share most often with Primal Planet: Exploration (14 of 24), Metroidvania (12) and Crafting (6).
- They came out between 2012 and 2026, 2 of them after Primal Planet (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: The Planet Crafter (96 % positive of 69,754).
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.