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Games like Serum: Toxic Survival

If Serum: Toxic Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mistral, Captain Meow and Unreal Wukong — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its stressful, tense and unsettling. 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 Serum: Toxic Survival: Dive into a thrilling survival adventure where an unknown liquid takes control of your life. Extract Serum to stay alive, battle dangerous creatures, solve puzzles, and uncover clues about past events.

2024ActionIndieAdventureRPGEarly Access24.99 USDWindowsby Game Island
Serum: Toxic Survival — Steam game cover
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Blight infection visibly corrupts the worldEarly access content feels half finishedSerum abilities grant unique movement or utilityStressfulTenseUnsettling

Players who liked Serum: Toxic Survival also play

Steam players who put hours into Serum: Toxic Survival 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. Mistral

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Mistral is a 3D action roguelike game where you journey through a fantasy world. Collect relics to boost your powers, and use your weapons & spells to defeat the force of evil.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Captain Meow

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    FPS RPG Action Adventure

    2023ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Unreal Wukong

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    "Unreal WuKong" is an open-world action RPG based on the classic Chinese mythological novel, "Journey to the West." You will play as the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, embarking on a perilous and wondrous adventure to save the world by vanquishing demons that have traveled from the future.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dash x Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Defeat endless hordes of demonic robots in this hack n slash action roguelike. Use 100+ unique upgrades to create your own game-breaking build and claim victory.

    2024ActionIndieEarly Access5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Zomdied

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    A hardcore top-down zombie survival sandbox RPG. Scavenge for supplies, craft essential gear, and fight to survive against an ever-evolving horde that grows stronger and more dangerous the longer you last. Finding it too easy to survive the turning? Make it a challenge worthy of your skill.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Realm of Reincarnation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    This game centers on monster hunting, equipment collection, random talents, gear enhancement, and top-tier loot drops.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Invasion's Edge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Serum: Toxic Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Fight through alien strongholds, reclaim a barbarian world, and confront the invasion's heart in this action packed rogue-like adventure.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Serum: Toxic Survival at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Serum: Toxic Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Serum: Toxic Survival.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 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 Serum: Toxic Survival.

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serum: Toxic Survival.

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

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Serum: Toxic Survival.

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

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 Serum: Toxic Survival.

    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 ↗
  8. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Serum: Toxic Survival.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Serum: Toxic Survival

Does Serum: Toxic Survival work on Steam Deck?
Serum: Toxic Survival is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Serum: Toxic Survival cost?
Serum: Toxic Survival is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Serum: Toxic Survival?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Serum: Toxic Survival are Mistral, Captain Meow, Unreal Wukong.
Who developed Serum: Toxic Survival?
Serum: Toxic Survival was developed by Game Island and published by Toplitz Productions.

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 Serum: Toxic Survival.

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