Games like Urge
If Urge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zector 7, Odd Woods and Heat Death: Survival Train — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its uniquely permissive survival sandbox, contemplative and mysterious. 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 Urge: Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
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Zector 7
WHY THIS
Top pick for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
Odd Woods
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Heat Death: Survival Train
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Urge.
Third-strongest match for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Urge.
Ranked #4 for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Urge.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Urge.
Ranked #5 for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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.
The Infected
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Crushed
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Urge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Subsistence
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Urge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Early Access with Urge.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Urge.
Reviewers of Urge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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.
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Urge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Sunkenland
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Urge.
Reviewers of Urge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Mist Survival
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Urge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Urge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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!
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Urge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Urge.
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..
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Urge at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Urge.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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 ~54% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Urge.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Action with Urge.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Urge.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Urge.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Urge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Urge.
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.
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 and Casual with Urge.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Urge.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urge.
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 Urge.
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.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Urge.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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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Frequently asked about Urge
- Does Urge run on Steam Deck?
- Urge is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Urge cost?
- Urge is listed on Steam at 15.29 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Urge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Urge are Zector 7, Odd Woods, Heat Death: Survival Train.
- Who developed Urge?
- Urge was developed by EnDrew.
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