Games like Garry's Mod and Unturned
Looking for games like both Garry's Mod and Unturned? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Garry's Mod and Unturned share Indie, Casual 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 Unturned 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 Unturned. 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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Arma 3
Second pick for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Left 4 Dead 2
Third pick for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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7 Days to Die
Ranked #4 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #5 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Survive the Nights
Ranked #6 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
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Project Zomboid
Ranked #7 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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s&box
Ranked #8 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Left 4 Dead
Ranked #9 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action with both games.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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Satisfactory
Ranked #10 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Zombie Survival Game Online
Ranked #11 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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BROKE PROTOCOL
Ranked #12 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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The Forest
Ranked #14 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Insurgency: Sandstorm
Ranked #15 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action with both games.
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.
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Factorio
Ranked #16 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Contagion
Ranked #17 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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DayZ
Ranked #18 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
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Nomad
Ranked #19 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
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Dying Light
Ranked #20 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Ranked #21 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. 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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Starbound
Ranked #22 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #23 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Z1 Battle Royale
Ranked #24 for fans of both Garry's Mod and Unturned. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Z1 Battle Royale is a Free to Play, fast-paced, action arcade, competitive Battle Royale. Staying true to its "King of the Kill" roots, the game has been revamped and restored to the classic feel, look, and gameplay everyone fell in love with. Play solo, duos, or fives and be the last ones standing.