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Games like Lost Scavenger

If Lost Scavenger is your kind of game, the closest matches are NEO Scavenger, Pawsecuted and Dust to the End — 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.

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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.

2022StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationRPGEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Rockbee
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Blends survival with deep narrative choicesNeo scavenger fans will find familiar depthUnique post apocalyptic atmosphereAtmosphericBleakStressful

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.

  1. NEO Scavenger

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Lost Scavenger.

    Top pick 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.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Pawsecuted

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Lost Scavenger.

    Second-strongest match 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.

    2023StrategyRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Dust to the End

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Lost Scavenger.

    Third-strongest match 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.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Lost King of Avallon

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Lost Scavenger.

    Ranked #4 for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Scavenger.

    The Lost King of Avallon is a challenging turn-based rogue-lite RPG set in a medieval world. The open world will allow you to do what you want and be whoever you want: warrior, magician, elemental, demon, angel... Gather a team of heroes and find a clue to the strange story of the king of Avallon

    2021IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Project Of Cooling The Earth

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Lost Scavenger.

    Ranked #5 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.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Plague Lords: Witch Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat, crafting and a stressful 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.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  7. Caravaneer 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat 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.

    A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Stellar Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Lost Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.

    A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Muck

    WHY THIS

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

    Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2017SimulationRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. No More Room in Hell

    WHY THIS

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

    The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

    2013ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Palia

    WHY THIS

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

    Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 NEO Scavenger, Pawsecuted, Dust to the End.
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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