Games like Badlands
If Badlands is your kind of game, the closest matches are nanos world™, Plains of Pain and 7 Days to Die — 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 Badlands: Badlands is a PVE-focused multiplayer open world sandbox set in a destroyed world. Be a post-apocalyptic scavenger in single player or team up with friends in multiplayer. Fun base building, crafting, and combat.
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nanos world™
WHY THIS
Top pick for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
The next-generation open-world multiplayer sandbox. Play community-made game modes, create addons with Lua scripting, import custom assets from Unreal Engine 5, and host your own dedicated servers for hundreds of players!
Plains of Pain
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
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!
s&box
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
Our spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, this is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun with powerful modern tools.
Dead Matter
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Survive the Nights
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
V Rising
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Badlands.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Interstellar Rift
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Badlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Badlands at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Badlands.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Badlands.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Badlands.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Badlands.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Badlands.
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?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Badlands.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Badlands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Badlands.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Badlands.
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 with Badlands.
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 Action and Indie with Badlands.
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 Badlands.
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. Shares Action with Badlands.
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 Badlands.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Badlands
- How much does Badlands cost?
- Badlands is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Badlands have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Badlands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Badlands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Badlands are nanos world™, Plains of Pain, 7 Days to Die.
- Who developed Badlands?
- Badlands was developed by Tony and published by Georges Games LLC.
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 Badlands.
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