Games like Lost Scavenger
If Lost Scavenger is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ruinlander, Dictapoint — Underground Pharma Simulator and BURNED HORIZONS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its unique post apocalyptic atmosphere, atmospheric and bleak. 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 →About Lost Scavenger: How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Players who liked Lost Scavenger also play
Steam players who put hours into Lost Scavenger 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.
Ruinlander
WHY THIS
Top pick for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
Instead of saving the world, worry about what to eat and how not to get a dose of radiation or not to freeze in changing conditions. Travel, search abandoned cities for supplies, make contacts with different factions or try to join one of them. Decide for yourself how exactly to survive.
Dictapoint — Underground Pharma Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
They were waiting for a fix — they got you instead. Craft the cure, scale up production, run sales and wage war on the gangs choking this rotting town. Choose: stay honest and die broke, or brew a cure so good they'll crawl to you on their knees.
BURNED HORIZONS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
A gritty, turn-based tactical sandbox set in 2002. No XP grind. No class rails. No buy-your-way skill trees. // 'They said it wasn't our war. So we made it ours.'
NEO Scavenger
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Lost Scavenger.
Ranked #4 for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Pawsecuted
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Lost Scavenger.
Ranked #5 for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Lost Scavenger.
A brutal, slightly absurd tactical survival RPG. Play a rabbit escaping a koala-run convict camp in a procedurally generated, post-human apocalyptic world. Battle emus and hire kangaroo mercenaries. Scavenge supplies, gather and trade materials, recruit followers and rebuild society.
Dust to the End
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Lost Scavenger.
Ranked #6 for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
Project Of Cooling The Earth
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Lost Scavenger.
Ranked #7 for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
Plague Lords: Witch Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat, crafting and a stressful mood with Lost Scavenger.
Ranked #8 for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
What seemed like an easy coin leads a small detachment of mercenaries and their employer to a barony lost in the woods, afflicted by a strange disease. The prologue to Plague Lords will introduce you to the basics of the game and take control of a small squad of trained soldiers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lost Scavenger at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lost Scavenger.
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 ~67% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Lost Scavenger.
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 ~53% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Lost Scavenger.
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 ~47% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Scavenger.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lost Scavenger.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
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 ~47% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
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 ~67% under Lost Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
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.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Liquidators
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Scavenger.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Scavenger.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Lost Scavenger.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost Scavenger.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Lost Scavenger.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
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Frequently asked about Lost Scavenger
- Does Lost Scavenger run on Steam Deck?
- Lost Scavenger is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Lost Scavenger cost?
- Lost Scavenger is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lost Scavenger?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lost Scavenger are Ruinlander, Dictapoint — Underground Pharma Simulator, BURNED HORIZONS.
- Who developed Lost Scavenger?
- Lost Scavenger was developed by Rockbee.
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 Lost Scavenger.
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