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Games like Hard Life

If Hard Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Untitled Survival Game, The Lost Hunter and Nature Hunter — 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.

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About Hard Life: This game is a survival game. Even though there are zombies in the game, the biggest challenge is the cold-temperature balance. The SandBox mod of the game is under construction. Apart from that, there are 3 different sections. The goal is to reach the farthest corner of the map.

2022IndieAdventureCasualEarly Access0.99 USDWindowsby Omer Salih Aktar
Hard Life — Steam game cover

Players who liked Hard Life also play

Steam players who put hours into Hard Life 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. Untitled Survival Game

    WHY THIS

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

    A calm and basic survival game. Smooth out a place for your home, Explore unseen caves and Stay alive!

    2022IndieAdventureEarly Access0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Lost Hunter

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Hard Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hard Life.

    The Lost Hunter is a realistic hunting and survival simulation. Hunt in dynamic weather conditions, collect resources and upgrade your equipment. Your eagle will guide you on the trail. Dangers increase at night; are you ready to survive with your strategy and skills?

    ActionSportsStrategySteam ↗
  3. Nature Hunter

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hard Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard Life.

    Realism, craftsmanship, self-regulating vegetation, plants, insects, mushrooms, ruins, in a semi-open world.

    2023IndieAdventureEarly Access9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Hermit Chronicles

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hard Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard Life.

    The Hermit Chronicles is a 1st-person survival horror game set in a deep forest. Assuming the role of a hermit, you will have to get food, scout your neighborhood, and search for resources to make gear. But after the sun goes down, you'll have to survive for real...

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Realife Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hard Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hard Life.

    Realife Simulator is an online life simulation where players can work, socialize, and grow by assuming different roles in a realistic city. Whether alone or with friends, freely choose a career, earn money, upgrade your vehicle, and shape city life.

    2024ActionIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Isolated

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hard Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Hard Life.

    You are an ordinary man who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Your plane crashes off the coast of a sinister island, hidden from civilization by a shroud of fog and rumor.

    2024ActionAdventureSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Forest Spring

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hard Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard Life.

    With the arrival of spring, it is necessary to clear the forests, but you will get blood, not dust, on your hands. Do you have the courage for this ?

    2022ActionIndieAdventure5.00 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wildstrive

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hard Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard Life.

    Wildstrive - is an open-world first-person survival game. Craft tools, build a camp, harvest crops, explore the land, tame and fight wild animals. Challenge nature and solve the mystery of the lost island!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard Life.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Hard Life.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard Life.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hard Life.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hard Life.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard Life.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard Life.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Hard Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard Life.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hard Life.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hard Life.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hard Life

How much does Hard Life cost?
Hard Life is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Hard Life?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hard Life are Untitled Survival Game, The Lost Hunter, Nature Hunter.
Who developed Hard Life?
Hard Life was developed by Omer Salih Aktar.

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 Hard Life.

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