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Games like Desolated District

If Desolated District is your kind of game, the closest matches are KeepUp Survival, Voidtrain and Crushed — 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 Desolated District: Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.

2025ActionAdventure6.74 USDWindowsby Real Heroes Studio, S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Desolated District — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Desolated District 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. KeepUp Survival

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Voidtrain

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Crushed

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Desolated District.

    Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. RuneScape: Dragonwilds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Desolated District.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. ARK: Survival Evolved

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Heat Death: Survival Train

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Urge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Desolated District fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure15.29 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desolated District at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~85% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Action with Desolated District.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~45% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Desolated District.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Desolated District.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~78% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Desolated District.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~85% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolated District.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Action with Desolated District.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Desolated District on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Desolated District.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Desolated District.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Desolated District.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Desolated District.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Desolated District.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Desolated District.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Desolated District.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Desolated District

How much does Desolated District cost?
Desolated District is listed on Steam at 6.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Desolated District?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desolated District are KeepUp Survival, Voidtrain, Crushed.
Who developed Desolated District?
Desolated District was developed by Real Heroes Studio, S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L. and published by Real Heroes Studio.

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 Desolated District.

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