Games like Human Host
If Human Host is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zelter, 7 Days to Die and Wounded — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and tense. 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 Human Host: Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!
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Zelter
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Human Host.
Top pick for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Human Host.
Second-strongest match for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
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!
Wounded
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Human Host.
This is a zombie survival open world game with voxel mechanics, crafting and building components.
The Spotter: Dig or Die
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building, survival and an atmospheric mood with Human Host.
Ranked #4 for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.
Crafting Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Human Host.
Ranked #5 for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a tense mood with Human Host.
Ranked #6 for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Host.
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..
Endgame: Road To Salvation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
A high-octane road trip through a besieged world during a demon-infested zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, form a caravan, call in various support drops or air strikes, loot random structures for supplies or craft them yourself, modify common vehicles into post-apocalyptic machines of war.
Dieselpunk Wars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Human Host.
Ranked #8 for Human Host fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Human Host at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Host.
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 ~50% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
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 ~55% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Action with Human Host.
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 ~50% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Host.
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 ~50% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Human Host.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
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 ~70% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Human Host on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
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 Human Host.
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 Human Host.
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 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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Human Host.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Human Host.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Human Host
- Does Human Host work on Steam Deck?
- Human Host is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Human Host cost?
- Human Host is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Human Host?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Human Host are Zelter, 7 Days to Die, Wounded.
- Who developed Human Host?
- Human Host was developed by Virtual Matrix Studio.
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