Games like ZAR
If ZAR is your kind of game, the closest matches are Infect: The Last Stand, Afterinfection and Polygeddon — 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.
Get personalized picks →About ZAR: ZAR (zombie apocalypse in Russia) is an indie first person shooter made in 3D graphics.
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Steam players who put hours into ZAR 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.
Infect: The Last Stand
WHY THIS
Top pick for ZAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Experience brutal Hardcore PvPvE survival powered by Unreal Engine 5. Every decision matters, every step could be your last, and every sound you hear might be your final one. Do you have what it takes to survive the hunt?
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ZAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Polygeddon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ZAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Game of Gods
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ZAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZAR.
Create your own religion and battle for domination of Earth's souls. Collect souls to upgrade your religion and battle other religions to control more territory and expand. Evolve your religion to higher states and dominate earth's souls to create your own utopia here on planet earth!
STATION 07
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ZAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Supplies are gone. Station 07 is cut off. As the last survivor, you must maintain the outpost and manage critical heat, power, and food systems. Battle hostile factions and mutated terrors in a frozen world. Will you sacrifice your humanity to survive the deep freeze?
PermaNight
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ZAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Survive in a world full of darkness. Gain resources. Kill entities. Repeat. But beware, there might be entities lurking around...
LIFE EFFECT Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ZAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ZAR at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZAR.
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 ~50% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZAR.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZAR.
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 ~50% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZAR.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
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 ~70% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZAR.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZAR.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ZAR on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZAR.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZAR.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZAR.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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 ZAR.
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.
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More from PancakeGames
Other recommendable Steam games by PancakeGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fallen from the sky
WHY THIS
Another title from PancakeGames, the studio behind ZAR. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Fallen from the sky - a casual game with adventure elements, executed in 2.5 D graphics, where you have to descend from heaven to earth. The game is attractive not for its visual component and gameplay variety, but for the philosophical thought underlying it.
Escape from Nowhere
WHY THIS
Another title from PancakeGames, the studio behind ZAR. Shares Indie and Adventure with ZAR.
Escape from Nowhere is an indie runner game where you run and have to dodge obstacles, collecting various bonuses.
Us Against Aliens
WHY THIS
Another title from PancakeGames, the studio behind ZAR. Shares Indie with ZAR.
Us Against Aliens is a survival shooter game on a spaceship that flies towards Earth. On the ship, something is constantly happening and you need to solve these problems along the way by shooting back from aliens who are constantly hunting you
The Legend of the War Axe
WHY THIS
Another title from PancakeGames, the studio behind ZAR. Shares Indie with ZAR.
The Legend of the War Ax is a real-time, third-person PvP combat. Choose a hero and fight other players in various arenas. Dynamic sword fighting, archery, magic and bombs. Now there are 10 heroes for which you can play.
Frequently asked about ZAR
- Does ZAR run on Steam Deck?
- ZAR 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 ZAR cost?
- ZAR is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ZAR?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ZAR are Infect: The Last Stand, Afterinfection, Polygeddon.
- Who developed ZAR?
- ZAR was developed by PancakeGames and published by Piece Of Voxel.
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 ZAR.
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