Games like Level Zero: Extraction
If Level Zero: Extraction is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Cycle: Frontier, The Midnight Walkers and P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its alien isolation inspired atmosphere, light sources damage aliens and atmospheric. 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 →Level Zero: Extraction is an asymmetric multiplayer extraction shooter developed by Doghowl Games and published by tinyBuild. Players choose between human mercenaries competing for loot or alien monsters hunting from the shadows, with asymmetric multiplayer mechanics driving the core conflict. The gameplay incorporates extraction objectives, team-based coordination, and light-and-dark dynamics where light sources can damage alien players. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, dark, and tense, with mechanics including night vision and pulse detection enhancing the immersive quality. Teamwork is emphasized as essential for survival in this dark setting. Released in 2025 at $4.99 USD, the game has received a 52% positive rating from 1,552 Steam reviews and is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Level Zero: Extraction: Tactical extraction shooter meets immersive survival horror. Play as rival mercenaries fighting for loot, or as alien monsters hunting humans from the shadows. Solo or with friends, experience this unique dark take on asymmetrical PvPvE multiplayer.
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The Cycle: Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Top pick for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Level Zero: Extraction.
The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters and other ambitious Prospectors.
The Midnight Walkers
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Second-strongest match for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
Fight, scavenge, and extract in The Midnight Walkers, a hardcore FPS game with deadly zombies, dangerous players, and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables; trade items; and maintain your hideout. Escape Liberty Grand Center mega complex, and thrive...or die and lose everything.
P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers is a multiplayer survival game set in the distant future, 100 years after the catastrophe of a colony ship. Humanity has become trapped within an unknown star system. Players must work together and fight for survival during desperate evacuation attempts.
ActionSteam ↗Hunt: Showdown 1896
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Ranked #4 for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Escape from Tarkov
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Ranked #5 for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Level Zero: Extraction.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Gray Zone Warfare
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Ranked #6 for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Level Zero: Extraction.
Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.
Marauders
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Contagion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Ranked #8 for Level Zero: Extraction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Level Zero: Extraction
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Marathon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
Scavenge the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV as a bio-cybernetic Runner in a PvPvE survival extraction FPS from the creators of Halo and Destiny.
Ghostrunner
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.
Dark and Darker
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Shares a tense mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.
ARC Raiders
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Shares a tense mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Luxor Evolved
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
In an all-new, completely revamped LUXOR Evolved, the chains are faster, the power-ups more awesome, the shooters more stealthy. In this retro-styled arcade shooter, you’ll experience a faster, more intense LUXOR, unlike any you’ve seen before.
Super Meat Boy
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Shares a dark mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Dustforce DX
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Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
Take control of a nimble janitor to rid the world of dust and debris.
Mark of the Ninja
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Level Zero: Extraction.
Reviewers of Level Zero: Extraction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Level Zero: Extraction at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Level Zero: Extraction.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Level Zero: Extraction.
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
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Priced ~80% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Level Zero: Extraction.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Level Zero: Extraction.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Level Zero: Extraction.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Level Zero: Extraction on Steam right now. Shares Action with Level Zero: Extraction.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Free alternatives
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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 Level Zero: Extraction.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Level Zero: Extraction.
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 Level Zero: Extraction.
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 Level Zero: Extraction.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Level Zero: Extraction.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Level Zero: Extraction.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
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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!
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Frequently asked about Level Zero: Extraction
- Does Level Zero: Extraction work on Steam Deck?
- Level Zero: Extraction is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Level Zero: Extraction cost?
- Level Zero: Extraction is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Level Zero: Extraction have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Level Zero: Extraction supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Level Zero: Extraction?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Level Zero: Extraction are The Cycle: Frontier, The Midnight Walkers, P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers.
- Who developed Level Zero: Extraction?
- Level Zero: Extraction was developed by Doghowl Games and published by tinyBuild.
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