Games like Scraplers
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Scraplers for fans of indie, simulation, rpg, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Scraplers also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Scraplers: A 2D procedurally generated top-down view sandbox set in a post-apocalyptic world in which you have to survive as the captain of a desert combat vehicle.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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LifeZ - Survival
Top pick for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
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7 Days to Die
Second-strongest match for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
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!
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Project Zomboid
Third-strongest match for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Waste Walkers
Ranked #4 for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
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Badiya: Desert Survival
Ranked #5 for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.
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Xsyon - Prelude
Ranked #6 for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Scraplers.
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
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Northern Lights
Ranked #7 for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
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Blockscape
Ranked #8 for Scraplers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
The ultimate block building game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scraplers at current Steam store prices.
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~75% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
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?
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The Test
Priced ~50% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
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?
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Priced ~63% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
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.
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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
Priced ~50% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Scraplers.
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.
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shapez
Priced ~75% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
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!
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The Test: Hypothesis Rising
Priced ~50% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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The Test: Final Revelation
Priced ~50% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Scraplers.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
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The NOexistenceN of you AND me
Priced ~50% under Scraplers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Scraplers.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scraplers.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
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.
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The Looker
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scraplers.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Scraplers
- How much does Scraplers cost?
- Scraplers is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Scraplers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scraplers are LifeZ - Survival, 7 Days to Die, Project Zomboid.
- Who developed Scraplers?
- Scraplers was developed by Cryoshark.
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