Games like Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear
Looking for games like both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear share Indie 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 Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear 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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Rust
Top pick for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. 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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Left 4 Dead 2
Second pick for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. 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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Arma 3
Third pick for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. 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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Contagion
Ranked #4 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #5 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. 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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Half-Life 2
Ranked #6 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action with both games.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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The Forest
Ranked #7 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. 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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Ranked #8 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #9 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Ranked #10 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.
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s&box
Ranked #11 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Sports with both games.
Our spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, this is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun with powerful modern tools.
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Black Mesa
Ranked #12 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Relive Half-Life.
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Dying Light
Ranked #13 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. 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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Teardown
Ranked #14 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
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GoreBox
Ranked #15 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, battle with friends, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules—and chaos is your playground!
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Ranked #16 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!
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7 Days to Die
Ranked #17 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Project Zomboid
Ranked #18 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Indie and Simulation with both games.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Resident Evil Requiem
Ranked #19 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
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Survival: Lost Way
Ranked #20 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
Ranked #21 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
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BROKE PROTOCOL
Ranked #22 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.
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Factorio
Ranked #23 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
Ranked #24 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Cry of Fear. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month February 2002!