Games like Project Zomboid
If Project Zomboid is your kind of game, the closest matches are 7 Days to Die, PolyZ and Don't Starve Together — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, immersive and stressful. 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 Project Zomboid: 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..
Players who liked Project Zomboid also play
Steam players who put hours into Project Zomboid 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.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares skill based progression and a stressful mood with Project Zomboid.
Top pick for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
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!
PolyZ
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Project Zomboid.
Second-strongest match for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
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.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and a stressful mood with Project Zomboid.
Third-strongest match for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Project Zomboid.
Ranked #4 for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zomboid.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
VEIN
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Project Zomboid.
Ranked #5 for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Project Zomboid.
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.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Project Zomboid.
Ranked #6 for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Project Zomboid.
Ranked #7 for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
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.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Project Zomboid.
Ranked #8 for Project Zomboid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Project Zomboid
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Project Zomboid.
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Project Zomboid.
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.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Project Zomboid.
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Cyberpunk 2077
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Project Zomboid.
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Project Zomboid.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Project Zomboid.
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
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.
VEIN
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Project Zomboid.
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Project Zomboid.
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.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, crafting and a stressful mood with Project Zomboid.
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Project Zomboid.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares crafting, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Project Zomboid.
Reviewers of Project Zomboid cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zomboid.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Project Zomboid at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Project Zomboid.
Priced ~50% under Project Zomboid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zomboid.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Project Zomboid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project Zomboid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Project Zomboid.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project Zomboid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project Zomboid on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Project Zomboid.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Project Zomboid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zomboid.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Project Zomboid on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Project Zomboid.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
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 and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
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?
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 Project Zomboid.
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 with Project Zomboid.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zomboid.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zomboid.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares skill based progression and a stressful mood with Project Zomboid.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
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!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and a stressful mood with Project Zomboid.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Project Zomboid.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Project Zomboid.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zomboid.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Frequently asked about Project Zomboid
- Is Project Zomboid verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Project Zomboid is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Project Zomboid cost?
- Project Zomboid is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Project Zomboid have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Project Zomboid supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Project Zomboid?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Zomboid are 7 Days to Die, PolyZ, Don't Starve Together.
- Who developed Project Zomboid?
- Project Zomboid was developed by The Indie Stone.
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 Project Zomboid.
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