Games like Dead Space
If Dead Space is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Space™ 2, Resident Evil 4 and DEAD RIG — 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 →Dead Space (2023) is a survival horror action-adventure developed by Motive and published by Electronic Arts. Set in deep space, the game blends third-person shooter combat with psychological horror, placing players in a tense sci-fi environment where they must survive against terrifying threats. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric tension and immersive design that define the experience. Available at $14.99, it holds a Metacritic score of 87 and maintains a 90% positive rating from more than 29,000 Steam reviews. The game runs on Steam Deck in playable mode, allowing players to experience the rebuilt survival horror title on a handheld device. The sci-fi setting and horror elements combine to create an intense single-player journey through hostile space.
About Dead Space: The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Players who liked Dead Space also play
Steam players who put hours into Dead Space 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.
Dead Space™ 2
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Top pick for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
DEAD RIG
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Dismember relentless biological horrors, scavenge for resources, and fight your way through intense, short campaigns with randomized elements in this brutal sci-fi survival horror where your only goal is to survive... and escape the station RESURRECTION_426.
ActionSteam ↗The Callisto Protocol™
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Ranked #4 for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
Dead Space (2008)
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Ranked #5 for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Alien: Isolation
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Ranked #6 for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
Dead Space™ 3
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Ranked #8 for Dead Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Journey across space to the icy planet of Tau Volantis with Isaac Clarke and Sgt. John Carver to discover and destroy the source of the Necromorph outbreak.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dead Space
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The Callisto Protocol™
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Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
Prey
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Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
SOMA
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Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Cronos: The New Dawn
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Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dead Space.
A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
SILENT HILL 2
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Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Resident Evil 2
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Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dead Space.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
System Shock
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Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dead Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Space at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Space.
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 ~53% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Space.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Space.
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.
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dead Space.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
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
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Priced ~80% under Dead Space on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Space.
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.
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.
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 Dead Space.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Space.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Space.
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.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
The Callisto Protocol™
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Space.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Alien: Isolation
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dead Space.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
Frequently asked about Dead Space
- Does Dead Space run on Steam Deck?
- Dead Space 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 Dead Space cost?
- Dead Space is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Space?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Space are Dead Space™ 2, Resident Evil 4, DEAD RIG.
- Who developed Dead Space?
- Dead Space was developed by Motive and published by Electronic Arts.
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 Dead Space.
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