Games like Dead Containment
If Dead Containment is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pixel Troopers, The Typing of The Dead: Overkill and ZIC – Zombies in City — 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 Dead Containment: Dead Containment is an on-rails shooter inspired by classic arcade games. Players fend off the undead as they race through a city under siege, blasting away the horrors that roam the streets using a variety of weapons. Playable solo or online co-op.
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Pixel Troopers
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Top pick for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
In Pixel Troopers you will fight against all kinds of insects, gather your friends and prepare to survive as long as possible, or face each other in a Deathmatch in this Cooperative Multiplayer game.
The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
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Second-strongest match for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Containment.
Typing of the dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience! This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county.
ZIC – Zombies in City
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Third-strongest match for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.
HordeZ
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Ranked #4 for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
If you are looking for a on-rails arcade experience that blends between classics like Doom, Left 4 dead and House of the Dead then we got you covered! Fast and simple gameplay that will bring you into a creepy world of zombies and demons. Show your skills to the world through our global leadboard system!
Trigonarium
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Ranked #5 for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
Trigonarium is a hardcore twin-stick shooter for fans of challenging arcade gaming. Fight your way through multitudes of enemy formations in constantly shifting battle arenas to face the colossal level bosses.
Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific
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Ranked #6 for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
Defend the fortified beaches of Pacific against invading forces in this WW2 FPS game as the enemy attacks you with troops, tanks, planes and more! Play on your on own or COOP while using iconic Japanese and American WWII weapons and prepare your defenses with mines, explosives, and more!
Crisis Brigade 2 reloaded
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Ranked #7 for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
Crisis Brigade 2 reloaded is about covering, pointing and shooting, fast-paced pure action. Intense shootouts, powerful weapons, challenging levels, fierce enemies... Like the 90's classic arcade machines, but with the immersion that Virtual Reality is capable of.
Galactic Rangers VR
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Ranked #8 for Dead Containment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
Galactic Rangers VR is a first-person space action VR game, deeply immersive, just as arcade shooter should be. Grab your pair of blasters and fight through endless waves of enemies for as long as you can!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Containment at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Containment.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Containment.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Containment.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Containment.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
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 ~70% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Dead Containment on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Containment.
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 Action with Dead Containment.
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 Dead Containment.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Containment.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Containment.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Containment.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Containment.
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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Containment.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Dead Containment
- How much does Dead Containment cost?
- Dead Containment is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dead Containment have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dead Containment supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dead Containment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Containment are Pixel Troopers, The Typing of The Dead: Overkill, ZIC – Zombies in City.
- Who developed Dead Containment?
- Dead Containment was developed by Grump Dog Games.
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