Games like DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy
Looking for games like both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy share Action, Adventure roots, making the overlapping player base a strong signal for what to play next. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy also tend to own these — with content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, plus review-mined vibe embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when genre labels differ. No Steam login required.


Best matches for fans of both games
Ranked by collaborative filtering, genre overlap, and review-mined vibes — the same signals that power imho.run.
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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
Top pick for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Second pick for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Third pick for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Rust
Ranked #4 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Ranked #5 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
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Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Ranked #6 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
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Dying Light
Ranked #7 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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The Forest
Ranked #8 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Arma 3
Ranked #9 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
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Far Cry 3
Ranked #10 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Discover the dark secrets of a lawless island ruled by violence and take the fight to the enemy as you try to escape. You’ll need more than luck to escape alive!
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Ranked #11 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
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Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
Ranked #12 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #13 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action with both games.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #14 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Ranked #16 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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State of Decay
Ranked #17 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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Gears 5
Ranked #18 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
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Fallout 4
Ranked #19 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares RPG with both games.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Far Cry® 2
Ranked #20 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action with both games.
You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home. You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion,...
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Green Hell
Ranked #21 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Ranked #22 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares RPG with both games.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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Saints Row 2
Ranked #24 for fans of both DayZ and Grand Theft Auto V Legacy. Shares Action with both games.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.