Games like Survive or Die
If Survive or Die is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Zomboid, PolyZ and The Forest — 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 Survive or Die: Survive Or Die is a first-person survival game. It takes place in an open world that is full of traps and mysteries. You are an outlaw who has escaped from death in prison. Can you escape all the manhunts? Can you survive the pitfalls the mysterious valley holds at night?
Players who liked Survive or Die also play
Steam players who put hours into Survive or Die 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.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Top pick for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Survive or Die.
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..
PolyZ
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
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.
Project Castaway
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Survive or Die.
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Deadly Flare
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Survive or Die.
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
Frozen State
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Survive or Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Survive or Die at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Survive or Die.
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 ~44% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Action with Survive or Die.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Survive or Die.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Survive or Die.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Survive or Die on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Survive or Die.
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 Survive or Die.
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 Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
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 Survive or Die.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive or Die.
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 Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
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]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survive or Die.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Survive or Die.
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..
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survive or Die.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Frequently asked about Survive or Die
- How much does Survive or Die cost?
- Survive or Die is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Survive or Die?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survive or Die are Project Zomboid, PolyZ, The Forest.
- Who developed Survive or Die?
- Survive or Die was developed by Imperian Online - Pardubice.
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 Survive or Die.
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