6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Muck. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Muck.
Release Date: 20/03/2018, updated in 2023
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Sea of Thieves is an online game where you are a pirate searching for treasure and adventure. Cast into a large open sea you work with other online players to crew your ship and find treasure. The game has a main story but really focuses on creating...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
The Bloodline is an action adventure game where you play a descendant of the Harbinger Bloodline with foresight of an impending invasion. You must unite the land and regain respect to reform bonds between kingdoms, recruit an army, rebuild a stronghold...
Release Date: 08/07/2014, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Unturned is a strategy survival game where you are in a Minecraft and Roblox-style world filled with zombies. You have to carefully explore the world, gather resources and craft weapons. You might go in guns blazing, sneak around making use of...
Release Date: 03/09/2019, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Children of Morta is an adventure game about a family of heroes, each with different abilities and enhancements. You battle enemies and bosses while exploring dungeons within the cavern of Mount Morta and must avoid the corruption as it spreads.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Anger Foot is a fast shooting and kicking game set in a fantasy world. You shoot and blow up enemies, kick down doors and generally cause mayhem in pursuit of a menacing merciless gangsters. It's an over the top violent rush of a cartoon battle that...
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World
Although Minecraft – where players place blocks to build structures, sculpt the landscape and create adventures – is the best-selling game of all time, some of the best aspects of it are little known. Along with the exploration, building and...
25 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Muck. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Muck.
Release Date: 11/04/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica is an open-world adventure where you explore the ocean on an alien planet after crashlanding. You collect resources and fight creatures to survive. This enables you to establish an underwater base, gain new craft and equipment and explore...
Release Date: 25/11/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather
Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser, version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block building game. To the world-crafting and survival it adds hundreds of items to collect, characters to defeat and...
Release Date: 29/09/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spelunky 2 is, like the classic Spelunky, a running and jumping game where you exploring mysterious caves on the moon looking for your missing parents. On your journey, you will find unique environments, treasure, and people to join you as you delve...
Release Date: 23/05/2018
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea. You start the game on a small raft with only a hook made of old plastic, which you use to pull in floating barrels and planks of wood.
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
This game offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose your own way to survive. With crafting and...
Release Date: 06/12/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Hades is a fighting game where you battle your way through dungeons to escape hell and the clutches of Hades. You play as Zagreus, the son of Hades and through the game you'll meet many recognisable greek gods like Zeus, Athena and Posiedon who will try...
Release Date: 26/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Lego Worlds takes virtual building back to the classic bricks with familiar figures, buildings and challenges from other Lego video games in an open world where your imagination can go wild in a bottomless bucket of bricks.
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved. With a simpler interface and Minecraft=style block building, it's a survival game that never gets too scary while also inviting ambitious play and...
Release Date: 10/08/2016, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
No Man's Sky is a space simulation about exploring endless planets and galaxies. It invites you to take your spaceship to explore and colonise a universe rich with diverse planets, creatures and fauna. Facing so vast a space is daunting at first, but a...
Release Date: 06/01/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Dysmantle is a survival strategy game where you play a character emerging after the apocalypse. The world is now inhabited with dangerous creatures and you only have your bare hands to survive. It's novel because most items in the world can be destroyed...
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
Staxel is a strategy farming game. It looks like Minecraft and has block building tools that are similar. However, this is a farming game more like Stardew Valley rather than open-world adventure. There are no monsters or dangers you find in other...
Release Date: 05/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On, Open World and Pixels
Noita is platform adventure game in a world where each and every pixel is physically simulated. This means that the tiny elements that make up the landscape and characters have their own properties that: melt, burn, evaporate, explode, flow, float,...
Release Date: 28/09/2011, updated in 2021
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
The Binding of Isaac is a series of adventure games where you progress through randomly generated rooms, collecting items and fighting off monsters. It's a twist on the simple Zelda dungeon, with hundreds of enemies, room variations and upgrades. The...
Release Date: 09/06/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Black Skylands is an adventure game where you pilot an airship through a sprawling open world of floating islands. You play Eva, who's ship has been destroyed and father killed. Your task is to rebuild your home from the deck up, arm and prepare for...
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 30/08/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Risk of Rain 2 is a multiplayer adventure game where you have to fight to survive and escape a planet you've crash-landed on. It's formatted like a 'Roguelike' game: an iterative game that requires multiple goes to complete a level and where your...
Release Date: 30/01/2017
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Conan Exiles is an online survival game, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Similar to games like Ark or Green Hell, you start with nothing and must use resources you find in the open-world sandbox. On your own or with friends, you build a base...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Wildmender is a world building game where you unearth the past in the desert. Play involves exploring to discover what has gone before, so you can restore the environment for your future. You work to revive withering plant life, cultivate a garden and...
Release Date: 26/04/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and PS4
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Days Gone is a survival adventure game set in a post-pandemic Oregon. You roam an open world pulsing with life (and zombies). It's unusual for its scale and sheer number of enemies. Add to that the changing light and weather and Days Gone creates a...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Lucen is an action adventure game where you play young Lucen, after his village is mysteriously shrouded in darkness and fellow villagers won't wake up. Armed with your sword, bow, and legends passed down by generations, you set out on a quest for help.
Release Date: 26/01/2023
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Shoulders of Giants is a shooting game where you control a sword-wielding robot and the gunslinging space frog that is piloting it. Although it mixes things up letting you switch between two characters, it keeps play approachable in its straightforward...
Release Date: 23/02/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Sons of the Forest is an open-world survival game where you build a base, gather resources to survive, and fight off cannibals and Lovecraftian monsters. It follows up The Forest and you similarly explore, hunt wildlife for...
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
The Day Before is a survival game set in a post-pandemic America where infected humans prowl the streets. With hundreds of other online players, you form teams and vie for equipment as you fight off the infected and eke out a living in the harsh,...
Release Date: 22/02/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Vagante is an adventure game where you hunt for riches in a dark fantasy world filled with monsters, demons, and crooks. Like Spelunky, enemies are not pre-programmed but respond to the player and the environment. This creates all sorts of ways to...
Release Date: 12/10/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Heliopedia is a world-building game where you create and manage tiny planets. You play by exploring a solar system, collecting elements and combining them together to create new discoveries. It is an exploration game where the joy in in experimenting...