Games like The Ancients

Darkout is a single-player Horror Platformer game with good graphics, music, and a dense atmosphere. Players must survive on the alien world of Illuna by building shelters, crafting weapons, and researching new technologies during twilight periods, as they fight against light-sensitive creatures. The game features expansive randomly generated worlds, strategic research and crafting, mining, gathering, and looting with tons of resources and materials. However, it is full of bugs that can affect gameplay.

"Novus Inceptio" is a sandbox survival game set in a procedurally generated world. Players must gather resources, craft tools, and build shelters to survive against harsh environments and hostile creatures. With a focus on player freedom, the game offers various activities such as farming, hunting, and building, providing an immersive experience in a persistent world.

"Ancient Cities" is a survival and strategy city builder game set in ancient times, starting in the Mesolithic era. Players must guide their people through generations, discovering new technologies, managing resources and population, and facing other tribes and Mother Nature. The game aims to simulate a fully believable world and ecosystem, with new eras introducing new game mechanics and features.

"Journey of Life" is a narrative-driven adventure game that explores the meaning of existence through the eyes of various creatures. Players traverse diverse ecosystems, solving puzzles and making choices that impact the world around them. Through a stunning visual and musical journey, the game encourages self-reflection and understanding of the interconnectivity of all life.

"Winter Survival" is a first-person survival game set in the snowy Mount Washington State Park. After being separated from your group during a hike, you must fight against harsh winter conditions, hunger, thirst, wildlife, and your own mind to reach an abandoned ranger station for help. The game offers dynamic combat, stealth, base building, and a unique sanity system, with multiple game modes and difficulties for varied experiences. Explore snow-covered forests, mountains, and frozen lakes while grappling with treacherous terrain and dangerous wildlife.

Planet Explorers is an open-world sandbox adventure game set on a distant planet. Players can build and customize their own tools, vehicles, and structures, while also gathering resources, completing missions, and fighting alien creatures. The game features a dynamic story generation system, allowing for a unique experience with each playthrough.

"Blockscape" is an unfinished role-playing game that offers single-player and multi-player modes with fully procedurally generated worlds. You must gather materials, craft, and build to create a new civilization, with NPCs moving in and working for you if you provide them with beds and food. Despite good graphics and music, expect missing features and bugs as the game is still in early access development.

"Vantage: Primitive Survival Game" is a pre-historic caveman simulation where your ultimate goal is to survive. Explore a vast open world, forage for food, hunt animals, and use a complex crafting system to build items. Work together with other players to form a community, cooperate, and grow as a group. Craft tools, find wild plants, and create clothes to aid in your survival. The game is developed by an indie developer who aimed to create the game they always wanted to play.

Fera: The Sundered Tribes is a dynamic aerial action RPG where you wield a mystical tetherhook and glider wings to battle colossal beasts threatening your homeland. Lead your tribe by rescuing survivors, expanding your village, and uniting tribespeople into a growing, responsive community. Master aerial combat and strategy to help rebuild civilization amidst chaos.

"New Cycle" is a city-building survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After solar flares devastate human society, players must establish and develop a settlement, starting from humble beginnings and advancing to an industrial metropolis. Challenges include natural disasters, resource shortages, and societal issues such as refugee crises and disease outbreaks. Free-form or grid-based design allows for creativity in building and expanding the settlement.