Games like Alien Dawn
If Alien Dawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are CROWZ, Empower and M.A.R.S. — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Alien Dawn 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.
CROWZ
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alien Dawn.
Top pick for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Dawn.
CROWZ is a free-to-play, team-based, massive multiplayer shooter where mercenaries engage in all-out warfare to secure sought-after meteorite resources for powerful nations. Conquer the battlefield by air, land, and sea in this realistic and strategic twist on the squad shooter genre
Empower
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
Enter a physics based multiplayer PC VR Sci Fi arena sandbox that supports ranged and close combat. Switch dynamically between PC and VR mode and compete against other players and complex AI with fully physics-based weapons in different gamemodes.
M.A.R.S.
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Alien Dawn.
Third-strongest match for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Dawn.
MARS is a Free-To-Play Third Person Shooter set in an evolving sci-fi world. From the hilarious Headhunter mode, to Huge Mecha vs Mecha battles, to fully customizable loadouts; whether Co-op or PvP, M.A.R.S. has something for everyone. Kill, Die, Repeat.
Endgame: Road To Salvation
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Alien Dawn.
Ranked #4 for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
A high-octane road trip through a besieged world during a demon-infested zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, form a caravan, call in various support drops or air strikes, loot random structures for supplies or craft them yourself, modify common vehicles into post-apocalyptic machines of war.
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with Alien Dawn.
Ranked #5 for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Into the Radius VR
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Alien Dawn.
Ranked #6 for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.
CONVRGENCE
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Alien Dawn.
Ranked #7 for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Alien Dawn.
CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.
Vox Machinae
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alien Dawn.
Ranked #8 for Alien Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alien Dawn at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alien Dawn.
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 ~64% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
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 ~50% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Alien Dawn.
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 ~43% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
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 ~68% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Dawn.
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 ~55% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alien Dawn.
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 ~43% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alien Dawn.
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 ~64% under Alien Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alien Dawn.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
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 Alien Dawn.
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 Alien Dawn.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien Dawn.
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 Alien Dawn.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Dawn.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien Dawn.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about Alien Dawn
- How much does Alien Dawn cost?
- Alien Dawn is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Alien Dawn have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Alien Dawn supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Alien Dawn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alien Dawn are CROWZ, Empower, M.A.R.S..
- Who developed Alien Dawn?
- Alien Dawn was developed by VoyagerVR.
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 Alien Dawn.
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