Games like DeadPoly
If DeadPoly is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zector 7, Deadside and Project Zomboid — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, lighthearted and relaxing. 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 →DeadPoly is an open-world zombie survival game released in 2022 by TFL Games and available for $9.99. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it combines action, crafting, and base-building mechanics with a day-night cycle, resource-gathering, and inventory management that players describe as surprisingly deep. Reviewers highlight the game's item-placement system as a core creative outlet, allowing for flexible base construction in both solo and online co-op modes. The low-poly art style gives the experience a lighthearted tone, with players noting the survival sandbox feels approachable and easy to pick up. DeadPoly runs as playable on Steam Deck and supports both singleplayer and multiplayer sessions. The game holds a 79% positive rating from 3,869 Steam reviews, with players citing affordable pricing and high replay value alongside the developers' ongoing engagement with the community.
About DeadPoly: DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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Zector 7
WHY THIS
Top pick for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
Deadside
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with DeadPoly.
Third-strongest match for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with DeadPoly.
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..
XERA: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building with DeadPoly.
Ranked #4 for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
The Day Before
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DeadPoly.
The Day Before offers players a uniquely reimagined journey into post-apocalyptic open-world MMO survival set in the present day on the US East Coast following a deadly pandemic.
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Shares base building and crafting with DeadPoly.
Ranked #7 for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
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.
HumanitZ
WHY THIS
Shares base building and crafting with DeadPoly.
Ranked #8 for DeadPoly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DeadPoly.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Reviewers mention these as similar to DeadPoly
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SurrounDead
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with DeadPoly.
Reviewers of DeadPoly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with DeadPoly.
Reviewers of DeadPoly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with DeadPoly.
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..
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DeadPoly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with DeadPoly.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
DayZ
WHY THIS
Shares base building with DeadPoly.
Reviewers of DeadPoly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with DeadPoly.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building with DeadPoly.
Reviewers of DeadPoly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Escape from Tarkov
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and inventory management with DeadPoly.
Reviewers of DeadPoly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with DeadPoly.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DeadPoly at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DeadPoly.
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 DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Action with DeadPoly.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with DeadPoly.
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 DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with DeadPoly.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
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 DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
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 DeadPoly on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Free To Play with DeadPoly.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with DeadPoly.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DeadPoly.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with DeadPoly.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with DeadPoly.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about DeadPoly
- Does DeadPoly run on Steam Deck?
- DeadPoly 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 DeadPoly cost?
- DeadPoly is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does DeadPoly have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — DeadPoly supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to DeadPoly?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DeadPoly are Zector 7, Deadside, Project Zomboid.
- Who developed DeadPoly?
- DeadPoly was developed by TFL Games.
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