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Games like Surviving Deponia

If Surviving Deponia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Golemcrafter, Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles and Machine Mind — 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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Players who liked Surviving Deponia also play

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. Golemcrafter

    WHY THIS

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

    Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles

    WHY THIS

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

    Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Machine Mind

    WHY THIS

    Third-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 ↗
  4. Outbreak Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 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 ↗
  5. Planet Explorers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 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 ↗
  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. Voidtrain

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

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 ↗

More from Daedalic Entertainment

Other recommendable Steam games by Daedalic Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Deponia

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.

    2012IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Deponia: The Complete Journey

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.

    2014Adventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blackguards

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.

    What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Deponia Doomsday

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.

    2016IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Night of the Rabbit

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.

    2013IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.

    2012IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Chaos on Deponia

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Daedalic Entertainment, the studio behind Surviving Deponia. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.

    With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.

    2012IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck 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 Golemcrafter, Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles, Machine Mind.
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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