Games like Paper Needs Inspiration!
Games like Paper Needs Inspiration! include The Forest, The Long Dark, Terraria, Rust, and ARK: Survival Evolved. We matched them by the tags players give Paper Needs Inspiration! on Steam (Open World, Simulation, Open World Survival Craft, Survival, and Adventure): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

The Forest
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Survival

The Long Dark
Shared: Open World · Open World Survival Craft · Survival

Terraria
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Sandbox

Rust
Shared: Open World · Survival · Open World Survival Craft

ARK: Survival Evolved
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Survival

No Man's Sky
Shared: Open World · Open World Survival Craft · Survival

Don't Starve Together
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World

Conan Exiles Enhanced
Shared: Open World · Survival · Open World Survival Craft

Valheim
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Survival

Raft
Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World

Once Human
Shared: Open World · Survival · Open World Survival Craft

Subnautica
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World

Stranded Deep
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Survival

Don't Starve
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Adventure

Green Hell
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World

Core Keeper
Shared: Open World · Survival · Crafting

Project Zomboid
Shared: Open World · Survival · Open World Survival Craft

Starbound
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Sandbox

Satisfactory
Shared: Open World · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft

ASTRONEER
Shared: Open World · Open World Survival Craft · Survival

Palworld
Shared: Open World · Survival · Open World Survival Craft

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Shared: Open World · Open World Survival Craft · Survival

Dune: Awakening
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Adventure

Far Cry® Primal
Shared: Open World · Survival · Adventure