Games like Dead State: Reanimated
If Dead State: Reanimated is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, Graywalkers: Purgatory and Fallen: A2P Protocol — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and immersive. 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 →Dead State: Reanimated is a challenging turn-based tactical RPG developed by DoubleBear Productions, set in a gritty zombie apocalypse at the dawn of the undead outbreak. Released in 2014, this solo strategy experience tasks players with managing a shelter through a day-night cycle, a morale system, resource gathering, and procedurally generated exploration, with relationship mechanics influencing shelter stability. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, dark, immersive, and tense, highlighting the diverse allies with unique stories, the brutal non-pulp zombie setting, and the particularly difficult human opponents. Players note that the difficult decisions with no clear right answers drive significant replayability. The game runs playable on Steam Deck and holds a 71% positive rating from over 1500 Steam reviews.
About Dead State: Reanimated: Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
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Shares turn based combat and a dark mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Top pick for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Graywalkers: Purgatory
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Second-strongest match for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Graywalkers Purgatory is a turn-based strategy RPG set in a supernatural post-apocalyptic world where Heaven and Hell merged with Earth. You play the prophesied hero who is destined to gather all of the Graywalkers, and together lead the war to retake earth from its supernatural conquerors.
Fallen: A2P Protocol
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Third-strongest match for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
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Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Ranked #4 for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.
Urban Strife
WHY THIS
Shares morale system and an atmospheric mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Ranked #5 for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Ranked #6 for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Dead State: Reanimated.
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Dead Age
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat, resource management and an immersive mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Ranked #7 for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Ranked #8 for Dead State: Reanimated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of Dead State: Reanimated cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Shares an immersive mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Reviewers of Dead State: Reanimated cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Dead State: Reanimated.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Reviewers of Dead State: Reanimated cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.
Fallout 4
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead State: Reanimated.
Reviewers of Dead State: Reanimated cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Dead State: Reanimated.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Uncharted Ocean
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Shares resource management with Dead State: Reanimated.
Reviewers of Dead State: Reanimated cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
This is a world of oceans, islands and ships. Players will start their own journey from Faro, facing an impermanent ocean and awkward opponents, and gradually build a strong fleet with wisdom and luck. The chaotic seas and tempting treasures, under the guidance of the banner, work hard for survival！
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead State: Reanimated at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Dead State: Reanimated on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Dead State: Reanimated on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Dead State: Reanimated on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Dead State: Reanimated on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dead State: Reanimated.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Dead State: Reanimated on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead State: Reanimated.
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
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Priced ~60% under Dead State: Reanimated on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
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?
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead State: Reanimated.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead State: Reanimated.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead State: Reanimated.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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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!
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Frequently asked about Dead State: Reanimated
- Does Dead State: Reanimated run on Steam Deck?
- Dead State: Reanimated 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 Dead State: Reanimated cost?
- Dead State: Reanimated is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead State: Reanimated?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead State: Reanimated are Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, Graywalkers: Purgatory, Fallen: A2P Protocol.
- Who developed Dead State: Reanimated?
- Dead State: Reanimated was developed by DoubleBear Productions.
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