Games like Heat

If Heat scratched a competitive and replayable itch for you, keep reading. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar. You can bring friends along for most of these.

Cheaper than Heat

Cowboy Life Simulator

Cowboy Life Simulator

Turn a burnt-down homestead into a working farm, wander a warm open world and follow a story with secrets worth digging up.

88% of 1,155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$12.34
Journey Of Life

Journey Of Life

You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew.

55% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Surviving West

Surviving West

Surviving West takes you to a beautiful world with many things to do and locations to discover.

59% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Faraway Land

The Faraway Land

The Faraway Land is an open world survival simulator. Plunge into the relaxing atmosphere of a magical world filled with cute and dangerous creatures.

81% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Backwoods Town

Backwoods Town

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding…

93% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
My Island

My Island

Wash up in a colorful tropical open world, then hunt, farm, build and sail your way to a warm homeland.

65% of 1,659 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Hauntsville

Hauntsville

You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip.

67% of 190 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Subsistence

Subsistence

Gather, craft and farm your way from nothing to a fortified homestead, then hold it against hunters who build and raid just like you do.

72% of 12,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 454$13.99
Force of Nature

Force of Nature

Wash up on a colorful island, build a homestead, tame strange beasts and chase the pieces of a mythical gem, alone or with friends.

74% of 3,913 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$7.99
Cattle Country

Cattle Country

Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life.

86% of 343 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$18.99
Hold Your Own

Hold Your Own

A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive.

65% of 531 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Romestead

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, build, and fight to turn a rough camp into a working settlement, wake the…

77% of 4,959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99

Hidden gems like Heat

Cowboy Life Simulator

Cowboy Life Simulator

Turn a burnt-down homestead into a working farm, wander a warm open world and follow a story with secrets worth digging up.

88% of 1,155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$12.34
Cattle Country

Cattle Country

Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life.

86% of 343 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$18.99
Backwoods Town

Backwoods Town

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding…

93% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Wild West Pioneers

Wild West Pioneers

Raise a frontier settlement from a handful of timber shacks to a gold-booming town, at whatever pace suits you.

75% of 601 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$19.99
Nested Lands

Nested Lands

A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.

73% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Romestead

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, build, and fight to turn a rough camp into a working settlement, wake the…

77% of 4,959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Plains of Pain

Plains of Pain

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

84% of 1,037 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
INCUR Survival

INCUR Survival

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…

80% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Above Snakes

Above Snakes

Craft the land tile by tile, shape your own biomes, and settle a colorful frontier with farming, hunting and a base to call home.

73% of 1,582 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$24.99
Wild Indigo Ranch

Wild Indigo Ranch

Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players.

68% of 424 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Hauntsville

Hauntsville

You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip.

67% of 190 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Re.poly

Re.poly

Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure.

91% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Newest games like Heat

Wild West Pioneers

Wild West Pioneers

Raise a frontier settlement from a handful of timber shacks to a gold-booming town, at whatever pace suits you.

75% of 601 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$19.99
Delverium

Delverium

Build a settlement, grow your crops and dig into the Faults corrupting the land, alone or with up to seven friends.

86% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$9.99
Doloc Town

Doloc Town

A side-scrolling pixel-art farm sim in the wasteland. Build your farm upwards on platforms, turn acid rain and lightning into tools, automate…

94% of 3,538 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 213$15.99
Romestead

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, build, and fight to turn a rough camp into a working settlement, wake the…

77% of 4,959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Nested Lands

Nested Lands

A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.

73% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
HumanitZ

HumanitZ

Scavenge ruined cities, build a shelter worth defending, and see how long you last in a grim open world.

74% of 11,621 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,332$19.99
Native Hunter

Native Hunter

Inspired by an existing indigenous tribe, where they live on an island called "North Sentinel Island".

72% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Cowboy Life Simulator

Cowboy Life Simulator

Turn a burnt-down homestead into a working farm, wander a warm open world and follow a story with secrets worth digging up.

88% of 1,155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$12.34
Farthest Frontier

Farthest Frontier

Grow a handful of settlers into a walled medieval town at the edge of the map.

86% of 24,693 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,164$34.99
Island Paradise

Island Paradise

Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to…

76% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cattle Country

Cattle Country

Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life.

86% of 343 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$18.99
Dinkum

Dinkum

Build a town from a campfire up on a sunbaked island, farming, fishing and exploring as you go.

92% of 24,746 Steam reviews are positive$19.99