Games like The Glacial Strain
If The Glacial Strain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Past 8, Aftermath Z: Red Pine Lake and Horde Together — 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Glacial Strain: An ancient viral strain has re-entered the world. People are coming back from the dead and no one knows why. Play as a group of survivors with your friends in this 4-player co-op action survival horror and uncover the mysterious events that have unfolded.
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Dead Past 8
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Top pick for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Glacial Strain.
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"?
Aftermath Z: Red Pine Lake
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Second-strongest match for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Glacial Strain.
Dive into Aftermath Z: Red Pine Lake, a survival horror game with a chilling 80s slasher vibe. Experience a gripping single-player story and thrilling multiplayer modes. Unravel the virus mystery, battle zombies in Horde Mode, or outwit the infected slasher in the unique asymmetrical Infected Mode.
Horde Together
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Third-strongest match for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Glacial Strain.
Fight off endless waves of zombies and monsters in Horde Together, a co-op survival game built for action and chaos. Team up, scavenge for gear, and see how long you can survive the apocalypse.
Morte Accendere
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Ranked #4 for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Glacial Strain.
A sci-fi zombie infected third or first person action with elements of parkour, combat with weapons or hand to hand, many modes of transportation. Ability to craft items and build your safe zone.
Flameborn Heroine
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Ranked #5 for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Glacial Strain.
Destroy meteor fragments, defeat hordes of zombies in this third-person adventure game featuring magic, combat, and character selection. Face waves of zombies and mutant bosses in intense, strategic battles.
The Killing Antidote
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Ranked #6 for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Glacial Strain.
This is a TPS game. Shooting, fighting, dress-up, puzzle solving, and more. In the future, a special germ causes humans to be constantly infected and mutated. The protagonist, Jodi, is a brave journalist who goes on her way to find the legendary antidote and is in danger.
Resident Evil 4
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Ranked #7 for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Glacial Strain.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Strange Brigade
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Ranked #8 for The Glacial Strain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Glacial Strain.
Embark on an exotic journey into danger in this rip-roaring 1930s third person adventure for 1-4 players! Encounter pulse-pounding action, treacherous traps and tales of derring-do!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Glacial Strain.
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 The Glacial Strain.
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 The Glacial Strain.
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 The Glacial Strain.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Glacial Strain.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Glacial Strain.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Glacial Strain.
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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Glacial Strain.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Glacial Strain
- Does The Glacial Strain have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Glacial Strain supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Glacial Strain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Glacial Strain are Dead Past 8, Aftermath Z: Red Pine Lake, Horde Together.
- Who developed The Glacial Strain?
- The Glacial Strain was developed by Gnaw Paw Studios.
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 The Glacial Strain.
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