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Games like Grim

If Grim is your kind of game, the closest matches are Out of Reach, Survival Nation and DeadPoly — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and stressful. 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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About Grim: GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.

2025ActionIndieAdventureSimulationMassively Multiplayer19.99 USDWindowsby Spoonfed Interactive, Combat Waffle Studios
Grim — Steam game cover
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Base building is tactile and rewardingOffers rust like survival in vrRegular updates keep content freshAtmosphericImmersiveStressful

Players who liked Grim also play

Steam players who put hours into Grim 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.

  1. Out of Reach

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an immersive mood with Grim.

    Top pick for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Survival Nation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Grim.

    Second-strongest match for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    An open-world online RPG, survival game designed for VR. In this game, you will kill hundreds of zombies, acquire weapons, learn new skills, craft, explore the world, complete quests, and fight for survival. Choose from three modes: Solo, PVE, and PVP. Will you join a Survival Nation?

    2023ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. DeadPoly

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering and base building with Grim.

    Third-strongest match for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    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.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Strayed

    WHY THIS

    Shares pvp combat, resource gathering and a stressful mood with Grim.

    Ranked #4 for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. XERA: Survival

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Grim.

    Ranked #5 for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

    2021ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 7 Days to Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Grim.

    Ranked #6 for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    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!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Niffelheim

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering, base building and an atmospheric mood with Grim.

    Ranked #7 for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DUCKSIDE

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering, base building and an atmospheric mood with Grim.

    Ranked #8 for Grim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.

    2024ActionIndieSimulation7.49 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grim at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grim.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grim.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Grim.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grim.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Grim on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 Grim.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grim.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Grim.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grim.

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Grim

Does Grim work on Steam Deck?
Grim is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Grim cost?
Grim is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Grim have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Grim supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Grim?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grim are Out of Reach, Survival Nation, DeadPoly.
Who developed Grim?
Grim was developed by Spoonfed Interactive, Combat Waffle Studios and published by Beyond Frames.

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 Grim.

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