Games like Refuge
If Refuge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown, Llanthmar and After the Fall® — 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 Refuge: This is an apocalyptic sandbox zombie shooting game, which can make weapons, upgrade bases, domesticate zombies, cultivate holy dragons, resist the tide of corpses, unite or attack other sanctuaries, enter alliances, and rebuild the world order
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Steam players who put hours into Refuge 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.
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
WHY THIS
Top pick for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refuge.
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Llanthmar
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Refuge.
Llanthmar is a turn-based, strategy game that tasks you with ensuring the survival of your lost colony on an unknown planet. Gather resources, manufacture supplies, and fight back against anything that threatens to take them away.
After the Fall®
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Refuge.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refuge.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refuge.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refuge.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Offworld Trading Company
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refuge.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Refuge at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Refuge.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Refuge.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refuge.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Refuge.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
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 Refuge.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Refuge.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Refuge.
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 Refuge.
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.
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.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Refuge.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Refuge
- How much does Refuge cost?
- Refuge is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Refuge have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Refuge supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Refuge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Refuge are Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown, Llanthmar, After the Fall®.
- Who developed Refuge?
- Refuge was developed by CAAMS.
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 Refuge.
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