Games like The Highrise
If The Highrise is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Forest, KeepUp Survival and Grounded — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its claustrophobic tension is intense, atmospheric and immersive. 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 The Highrise: THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
Players who liked The Highrise also play
Steam players who put hours into The Highrise 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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Top pick for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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.
KeepUp Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Second-strongest match for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Third-strongest match for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Highrise.
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?
MISERY
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Ranked #4 for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Highrise.
Ranked #5 for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Highrise.
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.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Highrise.
Ranked #6 for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Highrise.
Ranked #7 for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Ranked #8 for The Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Reviewers of The Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Reviewers of The Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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!
Monstrum
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Highrise.
Reviewers of The Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Highrise.
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Highrise at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Highrise.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Highrise.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Highrise.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Highrise.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Highrise.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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!
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 Action and Indie with The Highrise.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Highrise.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Highrise.
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 The Highrise.
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 The Highrise.
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 The Highrise.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Highrise.
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?
MISERY
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Highrise.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Highrise.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Highrise.
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.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Highrise.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Highrise.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Frequently asked about The Highrise
- How much does The Highrise cost?
- The Highrise is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Highrise have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Highrise supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Highrise?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Highrise are The Forest, KeepUp Survival, Grounded.
- Who developed The Highrise?
- The Highrise was developed by Studio Hatch Co., Ltd..
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 The Highrise.
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