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Games like The Left Behind

If The Left Behind is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape Z, PURGE - Three vs Blood and Badlands — 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.

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About The Left Behind: The Left Behind is a solo and co-op post-apocalyptic survival game. Explore a typical Dutch open-world landscape at daytime and beware of hordes of enemies coming in at night. Loot and hunt to survive. Each night, the game becomes increasingly challenging. How long will you survive?

2026ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Extrude
The Left Behind — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Left Behind also play

Steam players who put hours into The Left Behind 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.

  1. Escape Z

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    Survive the apocalypse with friends in Escape Z. Fight and plan tactics to face hordes of zombies. Choose your character, map and prepare. Survival is your only option.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. PURGE - Three vs Blood

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    PURGE - THREE VS BLOOD presents an exciting arena-style zombie apocalypse. Battle ravenous zombie waves with up to 3 players, unlock ranks, maps, unique characters, and a variety of weapons and traps.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Badlands

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    Badlands is a PVE-focused multiplayer open world sandbox set in a destroyed world. Be a post-apocalyptic scavenger in single player or team up with friends in multiplayer. Fun base building, crafting, and combat.

    2023ActionIndie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Never Be Alone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    Never Be Alone is an open-world zombie survival game designed for solo play and seamless co-op. Face the apocalypse alone or survive together in a world reclaimed by nature 10 years after the outbreak.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Ice Station Z

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    Thirdperson Open World Zombie Survival.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Contagion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dying Light

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Left Behind.

    First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

    2015ActionRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. DeadPoly

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Left Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 The Left Behind.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Left Behind.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 The Left Behind.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Left Behind.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Left Behind.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Left Behind.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Left Behind.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Left Behind

Does The Left Behind have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — The Left Behind supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
What games are most similar to The Left Behind?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Left Behind are Escape Z, PURGE - Three vs Blood, Badlands.
Who developed The Left Behind?
The Left Behind was developed by Extrude.

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 The Left Behind.

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