Games like Survive the Blackout
If Survive the Blackout is your kind of game, the closest matches are Apocalypse Love Shelter, Underchoice and The Pale Beyond — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its moral choices feel consequential, atmospheric and bleak. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Survive the Blackout: Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
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Steam players who put hours into Survive the Blackout also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Apocalypse Love Shelter
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Top pick for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Zombie apocalypse world! You built a shelter in advance, and countless girls wanted to enter your shelter for self-protection. Female neighbor, flight attendant, female boss, celebrity... All beings are equal before the end of time.
Underchoice
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Second-strongest match for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
The Pale Beyond
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survive the Blackout.
Third-strongest match for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
The Great Plague Exodus
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Ranked #4 for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Survive the Blackout.
The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.
Astronaut: The Best
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Ranked #5 for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
This War of Mine
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Shares a bleak mood with Survive the Blackout.
Ranked #6 for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Dead in Antares
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Survive the Blackout.
Ranked #7 for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Chernobyl 1986
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Ranked #8 for Survive the Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Chernobyl 1986 is a decision-based game about one of the largest nuclear power plant disasters in history. Play as the manager of a nuclear power plant in a time of a serious crisis that can cost millions of lives.
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This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Shares a bleak mood with Survive the Blackout.
Reviewers of Survive the Blackout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Sheltered
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Survive the Blackout.
Reviewers of Survive the Blackout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Reviewers of Survive the Blackout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survive the Blackout.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Survive the Blackout at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~88% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survive the Blackout.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~53% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~75% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~63% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~50% under Survive the Blackout on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survive the Blackout.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survive the Blackout.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survive the Blackout.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive the Blackout.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survive the Blackout.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Survive the Blackout
- How much does Survive the Blackout cost?
- Survive the Blackout is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Survive the Blackout?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survive the Blackout are Apocalypse Love Shelter, Underchoice, The Pale Beyond.
- Who developed Survive the Blackout?
- Survive the Blackout was developed by Baby Bison Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Survive the Blackout.
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