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Games like Junk Survivor

If Junk Survivor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Broken World, Zombie Survival Game Online and Plains of Pain — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, challenging and stressful. 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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About Junk Survivor: Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

2023ActionIndieAdventureSimulationEarly Access16.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Junk Survivor — Steam game cover
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Base building feels incomplete due to missing partsCombat stuns you when overwhelmedDeath means losing all gear to respawning enemiesBleakChallengingStressful

Players who liked Junk Survivor also play

Steam players who put hours into Junk Survivor 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.

  1. Broken World

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Junk Survivor.

    "Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Zombie Survival Game Online

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Second-strongest match for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Plains of Pain

    WHY THIS

    Shares a bleak mood with Junk Survivor.

    Third-strongest match for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 7 Days to Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Ranked #4 for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    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!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. ARK: Survival Ascended

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Ranked #5 for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Colony Survival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie24.95 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Night of the Dead

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Junk Survivor.

    Ranked #7 for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Ranked #8 for Junk Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Junk Survivor

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Valheim

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Junk Survivor.

    Reviewers of Junk Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. SurrounDead

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Junk Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 7 Days to Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Reviewers of Junk Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    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!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Enshrouded

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Junk Survivor.

    Reviewers of Junk Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure23.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Junk Survivor at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Junk Survivor.

    Priced ~41% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk Survivor.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Junk Survivor.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Junk Survivor.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Junk Survivor.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Junk Survivor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Junk Survivor.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Junk Survivor.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Junk Survivor.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Junk Survivor.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Junk Survivor.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. 7 Days to Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    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!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. ARK: Survival Ascended

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Colony Survival

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie24.95 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Junk Survivor.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Survivor.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Junk Survivor

Does Junk Survivor run on Steam Deck?
Junk Survivor 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 Junk Survivor cost?
Junk Survivor is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Junk Survivor have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Junk Survivor supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Junk Survivor?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Junk Survivor are Broken World, Zombie Survival Game Online, Plains of Pain.
Who developed Junk Survivor?
Junk Survivor was developed by Neojac Entertainment Inc..

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