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Smalland: Survive the Wilds

Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

What works

  • Beautiful graphics and immersive world
  • Engaging survival and combat mechanics
  • Robust building and customization system
  • Cooperative multiplayer with base sharing
  • Active developer support and updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and technical issues in early access
  • Combat can feel floaty or clunky at times
  • Lack of swimming and some traversal frustrations
  • Story is minimal and quests can be vague
  • Limited pet taming and mount features currently

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Grounded

  • Valheim

  • Windrose

  • Enshrouded

  • Grounded 2

  • Drake Hollow

Less intimate

Games that feels like Smalland: Survive the Wilds but with less focus on close relationships

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Risen 3 - Titan Lords

  • Rum & Gun

  • First Dwarf

  • DYSPLACED

Less social

Games that feels like Smalland: Survive the Wilds but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Kristala

  • Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition

  • YAR: Forgotten Throne

  • Visions of Mana

  • Eternal Strands

  • Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA

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  • 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).
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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).

Smalland: Survive the Wilds: 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 Exploration, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Status.

Last update: 04/08/2026