Games like ORION: Prelude
If ORION: Prelude is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Life Online, Primal Carnage and WTF - Waifu Tactical Force — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic co op action, nostalgic and competitive modes. 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 →ORION: Prelude is an indie action-adventure-RPG released in 2013 as a co-op wave shooter where players fight dinosaurs with futuristic weapons. It features exaggerated gunplay, wave-based survival, light progression systems, and blends PvE with PvP across competitive modes. Reviewers highlight the chaotic co-op action and note that persistent updates have kept the game alive since launch. Players describe it as nostalgic and appreciate its absurdly low barrier to entry, with the game having remained playable for under a dollar. The title holds a 78% positive rating from over 11,000 Steam reviews and is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About ORION: Prelude: Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.
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Battle Life Online
WHY THIS
Top pick for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Are you good or evil? Choose your role. Shape this world.
Primal Carnage
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with ORION: Prelude.
Second-strongest match for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!
WTF - Waifu Tactical Force
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Multiplayer Anime Movement FPS. Wall-run, slide, pilot your mech, and run the map in PvP and PvE. Win matches, earn loot, build your Mother Base. Customize your guns and squad of anime operators. No sweats, just vibes.
Primal Carnage: Extinction
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Hunt humans, slay dinosaurs. It's chaotic prehistoric PvP, pick a side. Think fast, or you're extinct!
Guardians of Orion (Phase 2)
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with ORION: Prelude.
Ranked #5 for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Guardians of Orion is a Sci-Fi Action RPG Looter Shooter with Dinosaurs and Robots. Complete Mission Objectives all over the Galaxy with your friends to earn new Gear & Rewards!
Zero Hour
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ORION: Prelude.
Zero Hour is a tactical FPS with online team-based game play that takes place in a variety of fictional locations interpreted in Bangladesh with Real-life scale & resource management. It brings a grounded, close quarter combat experience to the game.
Exoprimal
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ORION: Prelude.
Exoprimal is an online, team-based action game that pits humanity's cutting-edge exosuit technology against history's most ferocious beasts – dinosaurs.
Apex Legends™
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ORION: Prelude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ORION: Prelude.
Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ORION: Prelude at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under ORION: Prelude on Steam right now. Shares Action with ORION: Prelude.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under ORION: Prelude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under ORION: Prelude on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under ORION: Prelude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under ORION: Prelude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 ORION: Prelude.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ORION: Prelude.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ORION: Prelude.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ORION: Prelude.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ORION: Prelude.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ORION: Prelude.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ORION: Prelude.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about ORION: Prelude
- Does ORION: Prelude work on Steam Deck?
- ORION: Prelude is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does ORION: Prelude cost?
- ORION: Prelude is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ORION: Prelude have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ORION: Prelude supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ORION: Prelude?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ORION: Prelude are Battle Life Online, Primal Carnage, WTF - Waifu Tactical Force.
- Who developed ORION: Prelude?
- ORION: Prelude was developed by DANKIE.
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