Games like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
If Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cataclysm: Bright Future Ahead, Parasite and Apsis Online — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead: The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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Cataclysm: Bright Future Ahead
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Top pick for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Cataclysm: Bright Future Ahead is a thrilling turn-based survival RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools and build vehicles to overcome challenges. Explore procedurally generated environments where every choice shapes your story and survival.
Parasite
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Second-strongest match for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
This is a roguelike open-world sandbox survival horror set in a modern city. Play as an --redacted-- parasite, possess human hosts, exploit and evolve them to help you survive in a hostile world, all to find out your one true purpose.
Apsis Online
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Apsis Online is a minimalist multi-user roguelike (MUR) in which you play a Voyager. A human, mentally and physically augmented for a new life in deep space.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Hyper Dungeon Crawler
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Hyper Dungeon Crawler is a turn-based roguelike RPG with crafting. Collect materials and craft your unique tools, weapons, magic spells and other supplements and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated scenes.
Caves of Qud
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Shares crafting, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Ranked #6 for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
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Shares resource scarcity, procedural generation and a stressful mood with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Ranked #7 for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Wayward
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Ranked #8 for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, crafting and a stressful mood with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Reviewers of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Reviewers of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Reviewers of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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...
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.
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.
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 Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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 Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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 Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
- Does Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead run on Steam Deck?
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead cost?
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead are Cataclysm: Bright Future Ahead, Parasite, Apsis Online.
- Who developed Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead?
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead was developed by CleverRaven and published by KorGgenT.
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