Games like Zafehouse: Diaries
If Zafehouse: Diaries is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Age, Zafehouse Diaries 2 and NEO Scavenger — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and stressful. 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 →About Zafehouse: Diaries: 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...
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Dead Age
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Top pick for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
Zafehouse Diaries 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Second-strongest match for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
NEO Scavenger
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Third-strongest match for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
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.
Dead State: Reanimated
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Ranked #4 for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Ranked #5 for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
FALL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Ranked #6 for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!
Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Ranked #7 for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.
Dead Matter
WHY THIS
Shares base fortification and an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Ranked #8 for Zafehouse: Diaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
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The Evil Within
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Reviewers of Zafehouse: Diaries cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Reviewers of Zafehouse: Diaries cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Fallout 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Reviewers of Zafehouse: Diaries cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Zafehouse: Diaries.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Zafehouse: Diaries at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zafehouse: Diaries on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
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?
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zafehouse: Diaries on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zafehouse: Diaries on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zafehouse: Diaries on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Zafehouse: Diaries.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zafehouse: Diaries on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zafehouse: Diaries on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zafehouse: Diaries on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Zafehouse: Diaries.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Zafehouse: Diaries.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Screwfly Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Zafehouse Diaries 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Zafehouse: Diaries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
Deadnaut
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Zafehouse: Diaries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
Fear Equation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Zafehouse: Diaries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Fear Equation is a turn-based horror strategy game where you play the engineer of a modified freight train, built to protect its occupants from a deadly fog that brings their nightmares to life. Survival depends on analysing passengers' dreams, crafting defenses, upgrading, scavenging and resource management.
Deadnaut: Signal Lost
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Zafehouse: Diaries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zafehouse: Diaries.
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Frequently asked about Zafehouse: Diaries
- Does Zafehouse: Diaries work on Steam Deck?
- Zafehouse: Diaries is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Zafehouse: Diaries cost?
- Zafehouse: Diaries is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Zafehouse: Diaries?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zafehouse: Diaries are Dead Age, Zafehouse Diaries 2, NEO Scavenger.
- Who developed Zafehouse: Diaries?
- Zafehouse: Diaries was developed by Screwfly Studios.
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