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Games like Breaking earth

If Breaking earth is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Thing That Happened, DEADPOINT and Apocalypse Survivor — 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 Breaking earth: This is a fantastic 3rd person stealth shooter. You have to collect parts for a spaceship to fly away from a dying earth in a post-apocalyptic world. Fighting enemies and mutated spiders will not make you bored in the game.

2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDWindowsby Aliens games
Breaking earth — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Breaking earth 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. The Thing That Happened

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breaking earth.

    Thing That Happened is an Openworld Third Person - Action Adventure Survial game. You can use multiple weapons, attachments, close combat skills tree's and crafting to break through your enemies.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. DEADPOINT

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breaking earth.

    "Deadpoint" is an engaging third-person survival game set in an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. Players take on the role of a resourceful scavenger, tasked with navigating the dangerous landscape and ensuring their survival amid the hordes of undead.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Apocalypse Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breaking earth.

    Days of Ruin is a third-person post-apocalyptic zombie shooter featuring procedurally generated equipment stats and infinitely replayable maps. Players can repeatedly farm maps to acquire better gear and prepare for greater challenges!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Ghost Of Solaris

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking earth.

    When a legendary enforcer returns to a city transformed into a corporate prison, he must coordinate a high-stakes revolution to save his family and settle a debt written in blood. Experience a gritty story of betrayal and vengeance across the neon-drenched slums and silver towers of Solaris Bay.

    2026ActionAdventure49.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Dead No-Head

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breaking earth.

    Dead No-Head is a third person action adventure story rich game in which Norix is brought back from the dead, with... No head! This headless hero will have quite the unexpected journey ahead of him.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Dustward

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breaking earth.

    Dustward - Survive the post-apocalyptic ruins! Explore the devastated world, fight mutants, build fortifications, and develop your character in the dynamic survival-action Dustward. Play solo or team up with friends (up to 4 players) in co-op mode to face the dangers of the dead world.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Office Mayhem

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking earth.

    A third person action game where you are sick and tired of working your BS job for your BS boss. You have officially lost your mind and are ready to cause absolute mayhem and chaos in your workplace. Turn ordinary office supplies into weapons of mass destruction and destroy your colleagues!

    2023ActionAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Breakers World

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Breaking earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breaking earth.

    Upgrade your power armor, recruit a loyal crew, and build a spaceship to escape the oppressive management of a dystopian barren planet. Breakers world features open-ended sci-fi RPG character development in a unique world full of rust, danger, and opportunity.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Breaking earth.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breaking earth.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breaking earth.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Breaking earth.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Breaking earth.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Breaking earth.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Breaking earth.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Breaking earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breaking earth.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 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 and Adventure with Breaking earth.

    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. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  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 Breaking earth.

    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. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

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

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Breaking earth

How much does Breaking earth cost?
Breaking earth is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Breaking earth?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Breaking earth are The Thing That Happened, DEADPOINT, Apocalypse Survivor.
Who developed Breaking earth?
Breaking earth was developed by Aliens 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 Breaking earth.

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