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.
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
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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Don't Starve Together
Second pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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Dying Light
Third 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
Ranked #4 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
Ranked #5 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
Ranked #6 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
Ranked #7 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
Ranked #8 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
Ranked #9 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
Ranked #10 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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How to Survive
Ranked #11 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
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Back 4 Blood
Ranked #12 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
Ranked #13 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
Ranked #14 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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Killing Floor
Ranked #15 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. Shares Action with both games.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
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Rust
Ranked #16 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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State of Decay
Ranked #17 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Project Zomboid. 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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DayZ
Ranked #18 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
Ranked #19 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
Ranked #20 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
Ranked #21 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
Ranked #22 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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VEIN
Ranked #23 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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