Games like dead run
If dead run is your kind of game, the closest matches are Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside, The Last Market and Another Try 2 — 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 run: Travel around a fully-explorable, post-apocalyptic version of Earth and find the source of a mysterious radio signal. Collect supplies along the way to stay alive. Is there anyone out there?
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Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
WHY THIS
Top pick for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with dead run.
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
The Last Market
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
The Last Market is an open-world game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you run your own market in a safe zone for survivors. Fight zombies, collect sellable items, and grow your market by selling them.
Another Try 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
The virus has devastated cities and lands. Most of the population died, the rest turned into the walking dead. You're one of the last survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another day.
KeepUp Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
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.
Another Try
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors! You will have to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world populated by the living dead.
Days Gone
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with dead run.
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
Vorax
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
Skopje '83
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for dead run fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
Explore a city thrust into disarray by an unknown event and survive the hordes of mutated abominations that lurk at every corner. You’ll have to fight through enemies & bosses, scavenge loot and survive the hostile city.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below dead run at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under dead run on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under dead run on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with dead run.
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 ~67% under dead run on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with dead run.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under dead run on Steam right now. Shares Indie with dead run.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under dead run on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under dead run on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under dead run on Steam right now. Shares Indie with dead run.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with dead run.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with dead run.
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 dead run.
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 dead run.
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 dead run.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with dead run.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with dead run.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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More from Sokpop Collective
Other recommendable Steam games by Sokpop Collective, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Stacklands
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind dead run. Shares Indie with dead run.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Simmiland
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind dead run. Shares Indie with dead run.
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Grunn
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind dead run. Shares Indie and Adventure with dead run.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
clickyland
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind dead run.
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
White Lavender
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind dead run. Shares Indie and Adventure with dead run.
A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
Frequently asked about dead run
- How much does dead run cost?
- dead run is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to dead run?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside dead run are Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside, The Last Market, Another Try 2.
- Who developed dead run?
- dead run was developed by Sokpop Collective.
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