The closest games to Enshrouded are Valheim, Palworld and Nightingale. Below, 10 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Enshrouded, and what does not.
Enshrouded is a survival crafting game with a real action-RPG spine: the combat has stamina, blocks and a skill tree, and the world has a fog you can only stay inside for so long. The building is voxel-based, so you carve into terrain rather than snapping to a grid. It is the one in this wave that plays as well solo as it does with a group.
Enshrouded released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform. The list below is not restricted to that console — a recommendation is only useful if you can actually play it, so it spans generations and platforms.
The benchmark for this wave — better progression, harsher survival, the same co-op shape.
Survival building where creatures do the labour, and a much lighter tone.
Survival crafting with a Victorian-fae setting and realm cards instead of one map.
Survival building as a vampire, with combat that is genuinely an action game.
The older survival builder with the best pure construction tools of the lot.
Smaller, funnier, and the best co-op pacing in the genre.
The 2D ancestor of carve-the-world-and-build-in-it, and still enormous.
Survival crafting with a story and a place that is genuinely frightening.
If the survival rather than the building was the appeal. No crafting fantasy at all.
Survival building where the point is what comes to knock it down.
Several of these have their own page here: games like Palworld, games like Conan Exiles, games like Grounded.
The 3 of these picks that have a page here, and the console each is catalogued under. Most are on more platforms than one — remasters and back catalogues move constantly — so treat this as where to start looking rather than a complete availability list.
| Game | Catalogued under |
|---|---|
| Palworld | Xbox Series X |
| Conan Exiles | PC |
| Grounded | Xbox Series X |
Valheim. The benchmark for this wave — better progression, harsher survival, the same co-op shape.
Valheim, Palworld and Nightingale are the closest. The full list of Enshrouded similar games is on this page — 10 of them, each with the reason it is here rather than a genre tag that happens to match.
Yes — Conan Exiles is catalogued on the PC here. The PC list further down has more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Enshrouded is not a property of the hardware. Restricting the list to one console would drop most of the good answers, so the picks above span platforms and eras. If you specifically want more from that library, the PC list further down is the place to start.
By hand, one game at a time, on what the source game actually does — its pacing, its movement, its difficulty, its tone. Genre tags alone put Enshrouded next to games that feel nothing like it, so they are not the basis for this list. Each pick carries the reason it is here so you can judge it yourself.
No. The whole list is on this page, free, with no sign-in and no email. We earn a small affiliate commission if you buy through a retailer link, which is what pays for the site.
If you already know what kind of answer you want, these are the same list cut by genre — and each one says what it leaves out as well as what it includes:
More from the PC & Modern Multi-Platform library, each with its own recommendations page: