Primal: The Awakening(2024)
Games like Primal: The Awakening
Looking for games like Primal: The Awakening? It puts everyone on the same side, sweating one shared problem that fights back — built on asymmetric powers that make your side play unlike any other and pulling together against a game that fights back. This page rounds up 12 of the closest alternatives, scored on mechanical overlap with the original (45%), complexity match (35%), and player-count fit (20%), then weighted by BoardGameGeek community ratings so every pick is one players genuinely rate. The strongest matches come first; the further down you go, the more a game trades exact overlap for a fresh take on the same core appeal.
12 recommendations · scored by ISO
Rove(2025)
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Dungeon Degenerates: Hand of Doom(2017)
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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Revised Core Set(2022)
Shares Cooperative Game + 4 more
Stonesaga(2026)
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Middara: Unintentional Malum – Act 1(2019)
Shares Cooperative Game + 4 more
Mistfall: Heart of the Mists(2016)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising(2023)
Shares Cooperative Game + 3 more
Five Leagues From The Borderlands: 3rd Edition(2022)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
Mistfall(2015)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
Sword & Sorcery: Ancient Chronicles(2021)
Shares Cooperative Game + 3 more
Earth Under Siege: Flashpoint(2024)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
Myth(2014)
Shares Cooperative Game + 2 more
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