Games like The Forest and Dead by Daylight
Looking for games like both The Forest and Dead by Daylight? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Dead by Daylight share Action 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 The Forest and Dead by Daylight 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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Don't Starve Together
Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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Sons Of The Forest
Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Dying Light
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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Friday the 13th: The Game
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action with both games.
Jason is back! Jason Voorhees is unleashed and stalking the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake! Take on the role as Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake counselors. This is the game you’ve been waiting for; the chance to kill or be killed on Friday the 13th!
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Darkwood
Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Outlast
Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Subnautica
Ranked #7 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Last Year: The Nightmare
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action with both games.
Serial killers are chasing you as you try to escape from your high school. You play as one of The Teenagers on the run, or play as one of The Killers doing the hunting. Last Year: The Nightmare feels like surviving through a haunted house with your friends.
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Green Hell
Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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Grounded
Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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The Persistence
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.
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Rust
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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Hide Or Die
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Casual with both games.
Hide or Die is a fast paced asymmetrical multiplayer horror game with a focus on mobility, verticality, and hiding. Stay hidden or face certain death.
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GTFO
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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Project Zomboid
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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White Noise 2
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!
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Alien: Isolation
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action with both games.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Left 4 Dead
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. 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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Home Sweet Home : Survive
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Home Sweet Home is back with its soul-stirring sequel that will haunt you to the ground ! Immerse yourself in a world of Thai myths, let's fight together to get out of this horrifying world. The 4vs1 game that will give you the experience of hunting and being hunted in one game.
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Monstrum 2
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Monstrum 2 is a survival horror game for 2-5 players, set inside the procedurally-generated sea labyrinth - Sparrowlock. Join a team of prisoners evading the terrors within whilst figuring out how to escape, or become one of the deadly monstrosities whose only goal is to hunt them down.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.