Games like Dread Hunger
If Dread Hunger is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bitten! Someone has to be a villain, MISTERY and Project Winter — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and melancholic. 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 →Dread Hunger is a 2022 multiplayer survival game developed by the Dread Hunger Team and published by Digital Confectioners. Set in the Arctic, eight players navigate a frozen wilderness as explorers, with two secretly playing as traitors attempting to sabotage the group. The game combines crafting and resource management with social deception mechanics, where role assignment and team coordination become critical to survival. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric tension created by the hostile Arctic environment, with players describing the experience as both immersive and unsettling. The psychological dynamics of fragile community bonds being tested under pressure drive the gameplay, as tactical deception unfolds in a shared storytelling experience. The game holds a 72% positive rating from 2,285 Steam reviews and is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Dread Hunger: A game of survival and betrayal. Eight Explorers path their ship through the unforgiving Arctic. Among the crew, two traitors call on dark powers to undermine them. Note: Official server support ends 2024-01-01
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Bitten! Someone has to be a villain
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Top pick for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dread Hunger.
Multiplayer game (4-10 ppl) where traitors betray and kill other players while avoiding being noticed! Innocent players fight with zombies to pick up weapons and power-ups (like scanners to expose traitors). Players use voice or text chat to convince others they are innocent!
MISTERY
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Shares team coordination, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Dread Hunger.
Second-strongest match for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dread Hunger.
A multiplayer game of survival and social deduction. You work with others to collect materials, survive the dangers, and complete tasks. Beware of monsters, but more of the alternates disguising as your teammates. They can change into supernatural monsters and attack you at any time.
Project Winter
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Shares social deception and team coordination with Dread Hunger.
Third-strongest match for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dread Hunger.
Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Guillotine
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Ranked #4 for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Hunger.
Guillotine is a multiplayer game of social deduction, with a pinch of survival. You're in a tavern in the woods, but someone is a necromorph hungry for human meat. Guillotine the necromorph, or get eaten alive.
Bunny Game
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Ranked #5 for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dread Hunger.
A multiplayer social deduction game for up to 12 players. Bunnies stock up for winter, while traitors plan mischief. Better watch your back!
First Class Trouble
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Shares role assignment and an atmospheric mood with Dread Hunger.
Ranked #6 for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dread Hunger.
First Class Trouble is a party game where players must work together and against each other to survive a disaster. The goal is to shut down a deadly A.I. Some players are impostors, secretly playing as human-looking killer robots intent on betraying the other players.
Enemy On Board
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Shares social deception with Dread Hunger.
Ranked #7 for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dread Hunger.
Online (6v2) social deduction game that will ruin your friendships. 6 crew members, 2 murderous shape-shifting aliens. Trust No One.
DUBIUM
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dread Hunger.
Ranked #8 for Dread Hunger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dread Hunger.
DUBIUM is a survival deception game set in a near future sci-fi environment. Five Frontiers must work together to complete different missions to escape before it’s too late. But beware, one of the Frontiers is a Traitor whose goal is to escape and leave the others to fall into the abyss.
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Thief of Thieves
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dread Hunger.
Reviewers of Dread Hunger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dread Hunger.
In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.
Project Winter
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Shares social deception and team coordination with Dread Hunger.
Reviewers of Dread Hunger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dread Hunger.
Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dread Hunger.
Reviewers of Dread Hunger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dread Hunger.
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dread Hunger.
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 and Adventure with Dread Hunger.
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 Dread Hunger.
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 Dread Hunger.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dread Hunger.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Dread Hunger.
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 Dread Hunger.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dread Hunger
- Does Dread Hunger work on Steam Deck?
- Dread Hunger is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Does Dread Hunger have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dread Hunger supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dread Hunger?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dread Hunger are Bitten! Someone has to be a villain, MISTERY, Project Winter.
- Who developed Dread Hunger?
- Dread Hunger was developed by Dread Hunger Team and published by Digital Confectioners.
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