Games like ProtoZED
If ProtoZED is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zombie Survival Game Online, Project Zomboid and Crashlands — 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 ProtoZED: Shoot, loot, and craft to survive in this top-down extraction shooter. Explore procedurally generated neighborhoods. Scavenge for guns, food, and supplies. Build and upgrade your base to sustain you and your fellow survivors.
Players who liked ProtoZED also play
Steam players who put hours into ProtoZED 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.
Zombie Survival Game Online
WHY THIS
Top pick for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ProtoZED.
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
Third-strongest match for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Welcome to ParadiZe
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
How to Survive
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Necesse
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ProtoZED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ProtoZED.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ProtoZED.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ProtoZED.
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 Adventure with ProtoZED.
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!
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More from Scott H.F. Dunbar
Other recommendable Steam games by Scott H.F. Dunbar, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Imposters: Countdown
WHY THIS
Another title from Scott H.F. Dunbar, the studio behind ProtoZED.
Complete tasks & mini-games. Report bodies. Call voting sessions. Hack the station. Overload the reactor. Betray your friends. An online party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-12 players...in third person! Escape the ship before the countdown runs out! Don't get fooled by the rogue AI.
Corduroy Hollow
WHY THIS
Another title from Scott H.F. Dunbar, the studio behind ProtoZED. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
Corduroy Hollow® is a first-person survival horror game set in a decrepit house in the middle of the woods tainted by evil and the occult. Discover the truth. Escape the mansion. Above all, fear the Corduroy Demon…and survive.
Abaddon's Veil
WHY THIS
Another title from Scott H.F. Dunbar, the studio behind ProtoZED. Shares Adventure with ProtoZED.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny spaceship through turbulent "waters" surrounding a supermassive blackhole. Retrieve and scan sites of interest while managing your noise footprint.
Improbability Control Bureau
WHY THIS
Another title from Scott H.F. Dunbar, the studio behind ProtoZED.
Monitor live surveillance cameras. Spot anomalies. From eerie furniture shifts to unexpected intrusions, report anomalies to correct them and survive.
DeResolution
WHY THIS
Another title from Scott H.F. Dunbar, the studio behind ProtoZED. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
BANG...You awake to find yourself in a foreign place called the BIT-GRID. Explore, fight, and throw your vorpal frisbee to escape this digital landscape.
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 RPG with ProtoZED.
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 Adventure with ProtoZED.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
How to Survive
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Necesse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with ProtoZED.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Frequently asked about ProtoZED
- Does ProtoZED have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ProtoZED supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ProtoZED?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ProtoZED are Zombie Survival Game Online, Project Zomboid, Crashlands.
- Who developed ProtoZED?
- ProtoZED was developed by Scott H.F. Dunbar.
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 ProtoZED.
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