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Games like Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid

Looking for games like both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid 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.

Left 4 Dead 2 — Steam game coverProject Zomboid — Steam game cover

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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    Left 4 Dead — Steam game cover

    Left 4 Dead

    Top pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    Dying Light — Steam game cover

    Dying Light

    Second pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    Contagion — Steam game cover

    Contagion

    Third pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    7 Days to Die — Steam game cover

    7 Days to Die

    Ranked #4 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    Killing Floor 2 — Steam game cover

    Killing Floor 2

    Ranked #5 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action with both games.

    In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

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    State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition — Steam game cover

    State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition

    Ranked #6 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.

    The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

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    How to Survive 2 — Steam game cover

    How to Survive 2

    Ranked #7 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

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    The Forest — Steam game cover

    The Forest

    Ranked #8 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    Zombie Army Trilogy — Steam game cover

    Zombie Army Trilogy

    Ranked #9 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action with both games.

    The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.

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    Back 4 Blood — Steam game cover

    Back 4 Blood

    Ranked #10 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action with both games.

    Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.

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    GTFO — Steam game cover

    GTFO

    Ranked #11 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action with both games.

    GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

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    PolyZ — Steam game cover

    PolyZ

    Ranked #12 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.

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    DayZ — Steam game cover

    DayZ

    Ranked #13 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    Zombie Survival Game Online — Steam game cover

    Zombie Survival Game Online

    Ranked #14 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    World War Z — Steam game cover

    World War Z

    Ranked #15 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action with both games.

    World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.

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    HumanitZ — Steam game cover

    HumanitZ

    Ranked #16 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat — Steam game cover

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

    Ranked #17 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    Resident Evil Requiem — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil Requiem

    Ranked #18 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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    VEIN — Steam game cover

    VEIN

    Ranked #19 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.

    VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

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    Unturned — Steam game cover

    Unturned

    Ranked #20 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

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    Night of the Dead — Steam game cover

    Night of the Dead

    Ranked #21 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

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    After the Fall® — Steam game cover

    After the Fall®

    Ranked #22 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.

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    No One Survived — Steam game cover

    No One Survived

    Ranked #23 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.

    This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.

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    DeadPoly — Steam game cover

    DeadPoly

    Ranked #24 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

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