Games like Ice Station Z
If Ice Station Z is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Left Behind, Dead Past 8 and Welcome To Graystone — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and nostalgic. 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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Steam players who put hours into Ice Station Z 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.
The Left Behind
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
The Left Behind is a solo and co-op post-apocalyptic survival game. Explore a typical Dutch open-world landscape at daytime and beware of hordes of enemies coming in at night. Loot and hunt to survive. Each night, the game becomes increasingly challenging. How long will you survive?
Dead Past 8
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Dead Past 8 - Survive zombies and unravel island mysteries in this 2023 open-world horror. By day, explore, craft and harvest. After the sun dips below the horizon face stronger, cunning undead. Team up, adapt, and confront the nightmarish challenge. Can you survive "Dead Past 8"?
Welcome To Graystone
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Welcome to Graystone! Once believed to be the human race's next home, you are left alone after an asteroid hits the planet. Survive in an open-world environment, unfit for humans. Few resources remain, and must be rationed to survive. Will you band together, or fight to the survive?
Temple Hunters
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Temple Hunters is an online action-adventure treasure hunting game where you will work together with other players to claim the most treasure! Together you'll raid tombs, encounter traps, and fight other players on your quest of finding lost treasure and artifacts.
Pax Dei
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition
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Ranked #7 for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ice Station Z.
Ready the Peashooters and prepare for the craziest, funniest shooter in the universe: Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ice Station Z.
Ranked #8 for Ice Station Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ice Station Z at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
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 ~60% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
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
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Priced ~70% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
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 ~80% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ice Station Z.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ice Station Z.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ice Station Z.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Ice Station Z on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
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?
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 and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
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 and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
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 Ice Station Z.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ice Station Z.
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 Ice Station Z.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
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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The Casebook of Arkady Smith
WHY THIS
Another title from Wobbly Tooth, the studio behind Ice Station Z. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
An open world investigation game set in a futuristic city. Take on the role of Arkady Smith, the famous investigator in this third person adventure game.
Vampire Slayer: The Resurrection
WHY THIS
Another title from Wobbly Tooth, the studio behind Ice Station Z. Shares Action and Adventure with Ice Station Z.
Vampire Slayer is a fast paced multiplayer fps featuring two completely different teams, Vampires and Slayers.
Rain Station Z
WHY THIS
Another title from Wobbly Tooth, the studio behind Ice Station Z. Shares Action and Indie with Ice Station Z.
Multiplayer Open World Zombie Survival
Frequently asked about Ice Station Z
- How much does Ice Station Z cost?
- Ice Station Z is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Ice Station Z have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ice Station Z supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Ice Station Z?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ice Station Z are The Left Behind, Dead Past 8, Welcome To Graystone.
- Who developed Ice Station Z?
- Ice Station Z was developed by Wobbly Tooth.
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 Ice Station Z.
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