Games like Aground Zero
If Aground Zero is your kind of game, the closest matches are 7 Days to Die, Cutthroat Cove and Aground — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its factory automation feels satisfying, freedom to terraform planets and atmospheric. 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 Aground Zero: The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Players who liked Aground Zero also play
Steam players who put hours into Aground Zero 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.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Top pick for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
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!
Cutthroat Cove
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Aground Zero.
Welcome to Cutthroat Cove. Get ready to pillage and plunder, or be prepared to walk the plank. In this open world pirate thriller you can craft, engage in combat with the nasty locals, and follow clues to unlock the secrets of the Old World.
Aground
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and a chill mood with Aground Zero.
Third-strongest match for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Ranked #4 for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
AI Olympius
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Ranked #5 for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Join the rebels in a third-person shooter with RPG elements and base-building mode. Fight against various combat drone models under the control of the supreme AI.
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares automation, base building and an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Ranked #6 for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Ranked #7 for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
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!
Drake Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a chill mood with Aground Zero.
Ranked #8 for Aground Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aground Zero at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Aground Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aground Zero.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Aground Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Aground Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aground Zero.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Aground Zero on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Aground Zero.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Aground Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Aground Zero.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aground Zero.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
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.
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Fancy Fish Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Fancy Fish Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Aground
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and a chill mood with Aground Zero.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground Zero. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Deity Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Aground Zero.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground Zero. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Deity Quest is a light-hearted RPG where your goal is to convert followers and gain power to become the Overgod of Aberos. Use your divine magic to support your followers in fast-paced, strategic 6 vs. 6 battles, and compete with other deities in your quest to reach the top!
I Can't Escape: Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground Zero. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
I Can't Escape: Darkness is a quicksand trap for the senses - the more you listen and look for clues, the deeper you fall into a damp, living dungeon. Plunge into the depths and scrape together whatever tools you can find, then try to escape one of the most diabolical puzzles of all time!
ADventure Lib
WHY THIS
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground Zero. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
The shuffle button has been hit. All the objects and characters have been mixed up! Randomness threatens to overrun the kingdom, and nothing is what it appears to be! It is up to you to defeat the fire-breathing [kitten], save your beloved [toilet], and find the [potato] of legend!
＜/reality＞
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground Zero. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
When a withdrawn virtual reality nerd has the opportunity to beta test a neural device that feels more “real” than reality itself, everything she assumed about the nature of existence is thrown into question.
Stardander School for Witches
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground Zero. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Welcome to Stardander School for Witches! Embrace your magical side by learning spells, solving mysteries, making friends and battling (or befriending) Fae creatures in a turn-based battle system. Do you have what it takes to pass your classes in a world besieged by a malicious enemy?
Witherspring Wilds
WHY THIS
Another title from Fancy Fish Games, the studio behind Aground Zero. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
Reincarnate into a new open world full of danger and opportunity. Start from nothing and build a village as you advance science and magic. Farm, fight, craft, explore, tame creatures - how will you shape the Wilds?
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
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!
Aground
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and a chill mood with Aground Zero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Aground Zero.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aground Zero.
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!
Frequently asked about Aground Zero
- Is Aground Zero verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Aground Zero is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Aground Zero cost?
- Aground Zero is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Aground Zero have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Aground Zero supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Aground Zero?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aground Zero are 7 Days to Die, Cutthroat Cove, Aground.
- Who developed Aground Zero?
- Aground Zero was developed by Fancy Fish Games.
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