Games like Dead Second
If Dead Second is your kind of game, the closest matches are Darkness Rollercoaster - Ultimate Shooter Edition, Pistol Whip and Dark Invasion VR — 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 Dead Second: Dead Second is the award-winning rail-shooter inspired by arcade classics like Time Crisis. Easy to learn but hard to master, use the 'Dead Second' bullet time system to take down enemies with high fidelity impact physics reactions. Experience intense shootouts and gunplay unlike any game before it!
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Darkness Rollercoaster - Ultimate Shooter Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
The ultimate rail shooter in this corner of the Galaxy !
Pistol Whip
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!
Dark Invasion VR
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
In 1985, a peaceful life of a quiet industrial town have turned into a pure nightmare. Police started to receive phone calls about aggressive creatures attacking citizens.
Tower of Doom
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Second.
Tower of Doom is a VR arcade shooter in which the player has to survive multiple waves of enemies in different levels. Each round the player gets to choose one out of four auto-generated guns in order to move up the highscoreboard and make it to the next stage.
Starship 43 - The Last Astronaut VR
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Ranked #5 for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Second.
Immerse yourself in this intense virtual reality indie sci-fi FPS action game. Explore Starship 43, fight hostile enemies, solve puzzles, and overcome obstacles to restore communication with Earth. Experience the isolation and danger of space as you uncover the station's secrets.
Peace Maker VR
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Ranked #6 for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
Peace Maker VR is a game in a fantasy world where you defend a village with guns and magic.
Sheriff Exam
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Ranked #7 for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
Pass the Sheriff Exam and enjoy a fantastic Wild West fps game in VR. Shoot your way through the selection process and become the next Sheriff! This is a challenging arcade game for testing shooting skills and your brain with different puzzles and memory games. Be precise and play smart!
Gunslinger
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Ranked #8 for Dead Second fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead Second.
"Gunslinger" is a VR shooting game. You will return to the era of fire and blood, and write your own western legend with your gun. It is not easy to become a legend, As long as sticking to our faith, we will become a legend in the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Second at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Second.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
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 ~53% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Second.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Second.
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 ~58% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Second.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Second.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Second on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Second.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Second.
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.
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 Dead Second.
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 Dead Second.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Second.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Second.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Second.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Dead Second
- How much does Dead Second cost?
- Dead Second is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Second?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Second are Darkness Rollercoaster - Ultimate Shooter Edition, Pistol Whip, Dark Invasion VR.
- Who developed Dead Second?
- Dead Second was developed by Spunge Games Pty Ltd.
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 Dead Second.
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