Games like VAR: Exterminate
If VAR: Exterminate is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Terrible Place, Survival Denied and Dark Invasion VR: Doomsday — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and intense. 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 VAR: Exterminate: The fight is here, humanity’s fate is in your hands! Match up different offensive and defensive upgrades between waves and fend off the onslaught of zombies. Level up and strengthen core abilities and progress to new areas where strains of the virus have evolved.
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Steam players who put hours into VAR: Exterminate 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.
A Terrible Place
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Top pick for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
What seems like a simple mission turns into a fight for survival as the island wakes up to greet its new arrivals.
Survival Denied
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Second-strongest match for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Survival Denied is a casual zombie shooter, made primarily with VR in mind. Wide choice of weapons, perks and power-ups make the game interesting. Dive in and try to survive as long as you can!
Dark Invasion VR: Doomsday
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
A terrifying, brutal horror VR shooter adventure with quests, zombies, mutants, and guns! At the onset of the apocalypse, you find yourself inside an old bunker. You must fight your way with full force through the ranks of the undead army of the Dark Invasion to find a way out of that forsaken place
POSTZ: ZOMBIES VR
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Ranked #4 for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Get straight to the action with quick access, easy to pick up and hard to master gameplay. Consecutive headshots give an increasingly large bonus point reward. Zombies are moving in from every angle so scan your surroundings to find your next target before it finds you!
Ashes of the Ark
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Ranked #5 for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Built exclusively for VR, Ashes of the Ark puts you into a survival situation where zombies have taken over the failing space station. Handle the most realistic weapons with real-life movements, freely explore the Ark, and solve puzzles in VR. Can you stop the Flood before they reach the cryo-sector?
Monster Showdown
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Ranked #6 for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Monster Showdown is an action packed VR shooter. Increase your chances of survival against an ever growing horde of monster by exploring your environment and strengthening yourself by picking up Perks, Ranged Weapons and Melee Weapons.
Arizona Sunshine®
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Shares an atmospheric mood with VAR: Exterminate.
Ranked #7 for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Sweet Surrender VR
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Shares an atmospheric mood with VAR: Exterminate.
Ranked #8 for VAR: Exterminate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
Sweet Surrender is a fast-paced roguelike VR shooter. Fight your way up a dystopian megatower, filled to the brim with tyrant machines hell-bent on destroying the last of humanity. Build your arsenal of weapons, upgrades, and explosives to take down the machine overlords.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below VAR: Exterminate at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with VAR: Exterminate.
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
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Priced ~67% under VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
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.
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Priced ~53% under VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with VAR: Exterminate.
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 VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
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?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Action with VAR: Exterminate.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with VAR: Exterminate.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
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 VAR: Exterminate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with VAR: Exterminate.
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...
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with VAR: Exterminate.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with VAR: Exterminate.
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.
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 VAR: Exterminate.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 VAR: Exterminate.
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 VAR: Exterminate.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with VAR: Exterminate.
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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with VAR: Exterminate.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about VAR: Exterminate
- Does VAR: Exterminate work on Steam Deck?
- VAR: Exterminate is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does VAR: Exterminate cost?
- VAR: Exterminate is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to VAR: Exterminate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside VAR: Exterminate are A Terrible Place, Survival Denied, Dark Invasion VR: Doomsday.
- Who developed VAR: Exterminate?
- VAR: Exterminate was developed by VAR LIVE International Ltd.
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