Games like Chernobyl 1986
If Chernobyl 1986 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drownlight, Frostpunk and Bronze Age - HD Edition — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Chernobyl 1986: 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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Steam players who put hours into Chernobyl 1986 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.
Drownlight
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Top pick for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chernobyl 1986.
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Frostpunk
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Second-strongest match for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chernobyl 1986.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Bronze Age - HD Edition
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Third-strongest match for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
Dark Moon
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Ranked #4 for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Endzone - A World Apart
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Ranked #5 for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Railway Empire 2
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Ranked #6 for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chernobyl 1986.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Ostriv
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Ranked #7 for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Dawn of Man
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Ranked #8 for Chernobyl 1986 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Chernobyl 1986.
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 Action and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chernobyl 1986.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chernobyl 1986.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl 1986.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl 1986.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl 1986.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Detalion Games S.A., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III
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Another title from Detalion Games S.A., the studio behind Chernobyl 1986. Shares Action and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
Welcome to Regilus, a paradise planet turned into a popular tourist destination! But your holiday adventure soon turned into a nightmare. Stranded on an alien planet you need to find your way out. Remember though, not everything here is as it seems.
Plastic Rebellion
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Another title from Detalion Games S.A., the studio behind Chernobyl 1986. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
Change your playground into a battlefield. Square off against an out-of-control 3D Printer with an army of your old-school toys, and stop the Plastic Rebellion!
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III Prologue
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Another title from Detalion Games S.A., the studio behind Chernobyl 1986. Shares Action and Indie with Chernobyl 1986.
In Nemesis: Mysterious Journey III Prologue you will take part in an adventure that will introduce you to the story of Nemesis: Mysterious Journey III. Take on the role of Amia and begin your holiday adventure on the planet Regilus!
Frequently asked about Chernobyl 1986
- What games are most similar to Chernobyl 1986?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chernobyl 1986 are Drownlight, Frostpunk, Bronze Age - HD Edition.
- Who developed Chernobyl 1986?
- Chernobyl 1986 was developed by Detalion Games S.A. and published by Detalion Games S.A., PlayWay S.A..
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