Popular survival and shop games
Survival building runs through many of these popular picks, with Valheim, Enshrouded and Palworld letting you gather supplies, raise shelter and push into rough country together. Around that same idea of shaping your own routine you also get shopkeeping, crafting and stranger sports and fishing detours when you want something quieter or sillier.
Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim
Run a shop on a dystopian space station where the best margins live in legal gray zones. Craft, trade and smuggle, judge every customer, and pick which kind of trouble you monetize. Rent rises every week. How far you go to pay it is up to you.
97% of 10,881 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 175,874$17.99Phantom Blade Zero
Phantom Blade Zero is a fast, cinematic kungfu action RPG. You play Soul, a warrior framed for his master's murder, with sixty-six days left to live. Hunt assassins through a dark wuxia world, master dozens of weapons, and unravel a conspiracy before your time runs out.
93% of 83,938 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 523,418$59.99FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE
A classic-style FINAL FANTASY in HD-2D pixel art: airships, crystals, espers and moogles, turn-based battles built around staggering enemies, and Visions of past heroes fighting beside you. Built for anyone missing old-school party adventures.
96% of 5,253 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13,007$49.99Horses of Hoofprint Bay
A hand-drawn barn sim where a run-down shack becomes the stud farm of your dreams. Groom, train and compete your horses, breed foals that inherit their parents' colors and quirks, ride forest and beach trails, and hire staff as your herd grows.
99% of 897 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,142$22.94Dressmaker
Dressmaker is a cozy crafting simulation about becoming a dressmaker, from first sketch to final seam. You choose fabrics, cut pattern pieces, sew them together and decorate each dress, then hand finished work over to earn reputation and coin.
98% of 19,229 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12,697$14.99Queen's Domain
A retro-fantasy action RPG in first person. Washed up on the mysterious Isle of Neasied, you search for your missing father with the Holy Sword Endu, a blade that lets you fly across gaps. Explore a labyrinthine island packed with secrets, fight with stamina and timing, and uncover what the sleeping Queen has begun to stir.
95% of 3,067 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8,378$19.99Valheim
Valheim puts you in the Tenth World, a Norse mythology afterlife corrupted by hostile forces, to survive solo or together with friends. You sail to unknown shores, raise and defend longhouses, and take down the Forsaken bosses. Beautiful and atmospheric, it rewards building, exploring, and sailing.
93% of 476,812 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48,888$29.99Can 'Em All
A truck drops off a batch of adorable creatures. They are also your income. Shoot them, vacuum up the bodies, crush them into cans and sell the lot, then reinvest in bigger guns, faster conveyors and more automation. A short, funny, physics-driven incremental game about running the least ethical factory in sci-fi.
97% of 1,819 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,906$6.99Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered
The 2002 kaiju arena brawler, remastered. Pick from 12 monsters, punch, blast and throw skyscrapers through 8 destructible cities, then settle it with friends in local co-op or new online multiplayer. Big monsters, bigger property damage.
96% of 883 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,793$29.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
Open a tiny card shop, stock the shelves with booster packs, then give in and rip them open yourself.
96% of 48,537 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,907$16.99How to Fish
How to Fish starts with a drunken boat crash and leaves you on a small island with no gear or weapons. You catch fish, sell them, buy better rods and guns, then shoot back at fish that fight you. Played with up to three friends, the physics create chaotic, comical moments in a game that stays silly and funny.
95% of 77,241 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15,840$7.99Enshrouded
Embervale is falling to a corrupting fog, and its last chance is you, alone or in co-op. Enshrouded is a survival action RPG about pushing back that fog, shaping a fighter in your own style, and raising whatever you can imagine on land you can reshape.
86% of 99,710 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48,748$39.99
