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Games like Wild Ice

If Wild Ice is your kind of game, the closest matches are PuckOFF, HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed and Frontline Zed — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Wild Ice: Grab your stick, build traps, defend the furnaces, and dangle your way to victory against waves of frost zombies in this hockey-themed tower defense game.

ActionStrategyIndieWindowsby Journey Bound Games
Wild Ice — Steam game cover

Players who liked Wild Ice also play

Steam players who put hours into Wild Ice 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. PuckOFF

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Wild Ice.

    PuckOFF is an unforgiving story-driven hockey simulator only missing rules. Do whatever it takes to win a game with different ways to do so; either outscore or outlast your opponents. Expect lots of cheap shots and opponents who won't hesitate to put you down.

    2022ActionSportsStrategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Wild Ice.

    Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Frontline Zed

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Wild Ice.

    Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Days Gone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Wild Ice.

    Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

    2021ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Aegis Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Wild Ice.

    Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Atom Zombie Smasher

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wild Ice.

    The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

    2011StrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Rock of Ages

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Wild Ice.

    A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. How to Survive

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Wild Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Wild Ice.

    “A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

    2014ActionAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Wild Ice.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wild Ice.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wild Ice.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wild Ice.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Wild Ice.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Wild Ice.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Wild Ice.

    Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Days Gone

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Wild Ice.

    Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

    2021ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. How to Survive

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Wild Ice.

    “A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

    2014ActionAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Wild Ice

Does Wild Ice have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Wild Ice supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Wild Ice?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wild Ice are PuckOFF, HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed, Frontline Zed.
Who developed Wild Ice?
Wild Ice was developed by Journey Bound Games.

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 Wild Ice.

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