Games like DeadOS
If DeadOS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zombie Simulator, Rising Dead and Parametric Creature: Lab — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and hypnotic. 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 DeadOS: DeadOS is an early access zombie outbreak simulator by Benn Powell that focuses on city-wide scenarios where you have access to fully customize your apocalypse experience from beginning to end. Simulation. Sandbox. Survival!
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Steam players who put hours into DeadOS 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.
Zombie Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!
Rising Dead
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
Survive a zombie-infested mall for 3 days. Fight, scavenge, rescue, and customize your character in this dynamic game.
Parametric Creature: Lab
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with DeadOS.
Third-strongest match for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with DeadOS.
Explore and create parametric creatures
Defi's Devotion
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
Become the plague in an asymmetrical player verses simulation battle for immortality. Infect populations, collapse economies, and harvest the dead to fuel your path to lichhood; only if you can conquer an adaptive world fighting to survive.
30 days to survive
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.
Infectonator: Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.
Infection Free Zone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DeadOS.
Ranked #7 for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Jaws Of Extinction™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DeadOS.
Ranked #8 for DeadOS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
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Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with DeadOS.
Reviewers of DeadOS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
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..
Zombie Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DeadOS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with DeadOS.
Reviewers of DeadOS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Left 4 Dead
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DeadOS cross-mention this title as a similar play.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DeadOS.
Reviewers of DeadOS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
WorldBox - God Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with DeadOS.
Reviewers of DeadOS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with DeadOS.
Reviewers of DeadOS cross-mention this title as a similar play.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DeadOS at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
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 ~58% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
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 ~42% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with DeadOS.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under DeadOS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DeadOS.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with DeadOS.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
![We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1103210/header.jpg?t=1563495717)
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Frequently asked about DeadOS
- How much does DeadOS cost?
- DeadOS is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DeadOS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DeadOS are Zombie Simulator, Rising Dead, Parametric Creature: Lab.
- Who developed DeadOS?
- DeadOS was developed by Benn Powell.
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 DeadOS.
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