Drake Hollow similar games & best alternatives

Drake Hollow

PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2020

Should you play it?

Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

What works

  • Charming art style and music
  • Engaging base building and exploration
  • Adorable drake companions
  • Cooperative multiplayer experience
  • Relaxing yet rewarding gameplay loop

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited enemy variety and combat depth
  • Repetitive gameplay over time
  • Some ui and control limitations
  • Short story with abrupt ending
  • Lack of ongoing updates or expansions

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Grounded

  • Smalland: Survive the Wilds

  • Grounded 2

  • Enshrouded

  • Windrose

  • Valheim

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Drake Hollow but with less leadership over others

  • Astral Ascent

  • Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure

  • Nikoderiko: The Magical World — Director’s Cut

  • Cat Quest II

  • Absolum

  • Lost Castle 2

More competitive

Games that feels like Drake Hollow but with more competition against others

  • Vellum

  • Onirism

  • Final Exam

  • Orcs Must Die! 2

  • Unruly Heroes

  • Zombie Vikings

Less intimate

Games that feels like Drake Hollow but with less focus on close relationships

  • Beyond Contact

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • First Dwarf

  • DYSPLACED

  • 5089: The Action RPG

  • Indivisible

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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Drake Hollow: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Competition.

Last update: 03/08/2026