Games like NEO Scavenger
If NEO Scavenger is your kind of game, the closest matches are UnReal World, Infinite Survival and Sword of the Stars: The Pit — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its combat requires tactical positioning, writing quality is exceptional and dark. 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 →NEO Scavenger is a post-apocalyptic survival roguelike developed by Blue Bottle Games, released in 2014 at a price of $14.99 USD. The game features procedural generation, roguelike elements, and permadeath, challenging players with brutal survival mechanics and complex inventory management. Players engage in text-based combat that requires tactical positioning, and reviewers highlight the item-juggling system as particularly deep. The game offers a massive amount of content designed for extended sit-down sessions, with players describing the experience as dark, stressful, and tense. The game received a Metacritic score of 77 and maintains an 89% positive rating from 3,651 Steam reviews. It is solo-only and marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About NEO Scavenger: NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Players who liked NEO Scavenger also play
Steam players who put hours into NEO Scavenger 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.
UnReal World
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Top pick for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
Infinite Survival
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Infinite Survival is a roguelike survival game with turn-based gameplay. The game features a completely procedurally generated open world. Craft new items and weapons, lay traps and defences, use stealth to evade enemies, and explore in any fashion you want.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with NEO Scavenger.
Third-strongest match for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Lost Scavenger
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with NEO Scavenger.
Ranked #4 for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Zafehouse: Diaries
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with NEO Scavenger.
Ranked #5 for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
Don't Starve
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Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with NEO Scavenger.
Ranked #6 for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with NEO Scavenger.
Ranked #7 for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Tales of Maj'Eyal
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Shares procedural generation with NEO Scavenger.
Ranked #8 for NEO Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Reviewers mention these as similar to NEO Scavenger
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Ostranauts
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Shares a stressful mood with NEO Scavenger.
Reviewers of NEO Scavenger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Project Zomboid
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Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with NEO Scavenger.
Reviewers of NEO Scavenger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, procedural generation and a stressful mood with NEO Scavenger.
Reviewers of NEO Scavenger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with NEO Scavenger.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
Wayward
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Reviewers of NEO Scavenger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
UnReal World
WHY THIS
Reviewers of NEO Scavenger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
ZED ZONE
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a dark mood with NEO Scavenger.
Reviewers of NEO Scavenger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
UnderRail
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with NEO Scavenger.
Reviewers of NEO Scavenger cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NEO Scavenger at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
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 ~47% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with NEO Scavenger.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~67% under NEO Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
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NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
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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 NEO Scavenger.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
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Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Frequently asked about NEO Scavenger
- Does NEO Scavenger run on Steam Deck?
- NEO Scavenger 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 NEO Scavenger cost?
- NEO Scavenger is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NEO Scavenger?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NEO Scavenger are UnReal World, Infinite Survival, Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
- Who developed NEO Scavenger?
- NEO Scavenger was developed by Blue Bottle Games.
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