Games like Dead Metal
If Dead Metal is your kind of game, the closest matches are WazHack, Inkbound and Megaloot — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and grim. 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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WazHack
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Time moves forward only when you do in the dungeons of WazHack. Think your way out of problems instead of just spamming 'attack' and 'drink healing potion'.
Inkbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Second-strongest match for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
Megaloot
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dead Metal.
Third-strongest match for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Megaloot is an addictive Inventory Management Roguelike RPG, where meticulous loot management lets you create diverse and powerful builds for each run. With every new attempt, start from scratch and loot strategically to craft dominating setups and become the ultimate power hunter.
Crowntakers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Ranked #4 for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
Demeo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Ranked #5 for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Ranked #6 for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Crown Trick
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Ranked #7 for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dead Metal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dead Metal
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Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Reviewers of Dead Metal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Reviewers of Dead Metal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dead Metal.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Space Hulk (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Dead Metal.
Reviewers of Dead Metal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.
Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Reviewers of Dead Metal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dead Metal.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
Diablo® IV
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Reviewers of Dead Metal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Dead Metal.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Metal at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Metal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Metal.
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 ~67% under Dead Metal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Metal.
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 Metal on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Dead Metal.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dead Metal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Metal.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Metal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dead Metal.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Dead Metal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dead Metal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Metal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Metal.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
THE FINALS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Dead Metal.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Demeo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Metal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Metal.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Frequently asked about Dead Metal
- How much does Dead Metal cost?
- Dead Metal is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dead Metal have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dead Metal supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dead Metal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Metal are WazHack, Inkbound, Megaloot.
- Who developed Dead Metal?
- Dead Metal was developed by Monotone.
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