Games like MISERY
If MISERY is your kind of game, the closest matches are Elysium, Don't Starve Together and The Forest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive 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.
Get personalized picks →MISERY is a challenging survival co-op game set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear disaster zone, supporting one to five players online. Players scavenge through procedurally generated ruins to gather resources, craft weapons, and construct their own bunkers for defense against anomalies, monsters, and hostile bandits. The game features emissions-driven progression that forces strategic base defense decisions, alongside custom difficulty sliders that allow players to adjust loot scarcity and other parameters to their preference. Players describe the bunker-building system as adding meaningful progression depth, and reviewers highlight the atmospheric design of the irradiated world. The tactical scarcity of resources creates tense moments throughout sessions, while the multiplayer co-op aspect significantly enhances replayability. The game is verified on Steam Deck and currently holds an 82% positive rating from over 6,100 Steam reviews.
About MISERY: MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Players who liked MISERY also play
Steam players who put hours into MISERY 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.
Elysium
WHY THIS
Top pick for MISERY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with MISERY.
Second-strongest match for MISERY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MISERY.
Third-strongest match for MISERY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Stormforge
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Ranked #4 for MISERY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
THE LAST BREATH
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Ranked #6 for MISERY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
Frostrail
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Ranked #8 for MISERY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Through the frost, death follows the tracks. Dive into a ruthless survival FPS, solo or co-op. Explore, scavenge, craft and fight to endure a frozen, corrupted world. Operate and upgrade your steam-powered train through an unforgiving wasteland, where every choice is a matter of survival.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
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Shares an atmospheric mood with MISERY.
Reviewers of MISERY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with MISERY.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
Mini Metro
WHY THIS
Reviewers of MISERY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with MISERY.
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Metro Exodus
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Shares an atmospheric mood with MISERY.
Reviewers of MISERY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with MISERY.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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Reviewers of MISERY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Forget about the rules, there are none here. Just you, your weapon and the endless, ominous wastelands waiting for you to plunge into them. So, are you ready to become a predator among predators? Then welcome to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.. It will hurt, but damn it will be fun!
Escape from Tarkov
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MISERY.
Reviewers of MISERY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with MISERY.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MISERY at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~62% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MISERY.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~62% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Action with MISERY.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Action with MISERY.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~52% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MISERY.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~62% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MISERY.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~62% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with MISERY.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under MISERY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 MISERY.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MISERY.
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 MISERY.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with MISERY.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with MISERY.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with MISERY.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about MISERY
- Is MISERY verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — MISERY 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 MISERY cost?
- MISERY is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does MISERY have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — MISERY supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to MISERY?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MISERY are Elysium, Don't Starve Together, The Forest.
- Who developed MISERY?
- MISERY was developed by Platypus Entertainment and published by Ytopia.
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