Games like Variant 22
If Variant 22 is your kind of game, the closest matches are THE WASTE, Never Be Alone and Polygone — 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 Variant 22: Variant 22 is a survival game set in a procedural roguelike post American wasteland. Singleplayer or Multiplayer Coop, Scavenge loot from contaminated areas then base build back in the "safe zone" against endless hordes of the infected.
Players who liked Variant 22 also play
Steam players who put hours into Variant 22 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.
THE WASTE
WHY THIS
Top pick for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Variant 22.
THE WASTE – a brutal and stylish action game about bloody street shootouts and survival in a city after a global collapse, where authority has fallen, and crime thrives. Two factions fight for control over the city, its resources, and survivors.
Never Be Alone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Variant 22.
Never Be Alone is an open-world zombie survival game designed for solo play and seamless co-op. Face the apocalypse alone or survive together in a world reclaimed by nature 10 years after the outbreak.
Polygone
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Variant 22.
Polygone is a low-poly, yet highly visual take on the classic "Zombie Modes" in modern first person shooters. Play with up to four friends to fight off endless hordes of over 50 different zombies and bosses on a massive map that you'll need to unlock areas to explore.
The Abyss Break
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Variant 22.
Hardcore first-person co-op horror game. Explore the worlds beyond the Abyss alone or with a team, gather what you need to survive, and discover how far consciousness can change before it is no longer your own.
World War Z
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Variant 22.
World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.
The Forever Winter
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Variant 22.
The Forever Winter is a tactical shooter where you and your squad must loot the dead to survive under the shadow of terrifying and gargantuan war machines locked in a never-ending conflict. Millions of deaths later the war continues with our latest update!
Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Variant 22.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Variant 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Variant 22.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Variant 22 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Variant 22.
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 ~64% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Variant 22.
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 ~50% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Variant 22.
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 ~43% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Variant 22.
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 ~68% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Variant 22.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Variant 22.
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 ~43% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Variant 22.
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 ~64% under Variant 22 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Variant 22.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Variant 22.
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 Variant 22.
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 Variant 22.
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 Variant 22.
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 Variant 22.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Variant 22.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Variant 22.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Frequently asked about Variant 22
- How much does Variant 22 cost?
- Variant 22 is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Variant 22 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Variant 22 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Variant 22?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Variant 22 are THE WASTE, Never Be Alone, Polygone.
- Who developed Variant 22?
- Variant 22 was developed by ST 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 Variant 22.
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