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Games like Surviving Deponia

If Surviving Deponia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dawnlands, Machine Mind and Outbreak Island — 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 Surviving Deponia: Explore, craft, build and fight your way through the harsh landscape of Deponia. Meet allies and make enemies while surviving the perils of the junk planet. It might be garbage - but it’s your garbage!

2026ActionIndieAdventureSimulationRPGWindowsby Daedalic Entertainment, AtomicTorch Studio
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Steam players who put hours into Surviving Deponia 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. Dawnlands

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Surviving Deponia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.

    Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  2. Machine Mind

    WHY THIS

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

    Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Outbreak Island

    WHY THIS

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

    Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Planet Explorers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Surviving Deponia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.

    Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Tales of Old: Dominus

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Surviving Deponia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    The Battle of the Brides is lost, but your tale of rebellion and vengeance begins. From the ashes, forge your dominion. Claim settlements, command men, and rise in a kingdom torn by corruption and civil war.

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Portal Knights

    WHY THIS

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

    The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

    2017ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Tinkerlands

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Surviving Deponia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.

    Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Beyond the Map

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Surviving Deponia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.

    Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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. Shares Indie with Surviving Deponia.

    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 Surviving Deponia.

    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 Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    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 and Indie with Surviving Deponia.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Deponia.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Deponia.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Surviving Deponia.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Surviving Deponia

What games are most similar to Surviving Deponia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Surviving Deponia are Dawnlands, Machine Mind, Outbreak Island.
Who developed Surviving Deponia?
Surviving Deponia was developed by Daedalic Entertainment, AtomicTorch Studio and published by Daedalic Entertainment.

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 Surviving Deponia.

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