Games like How to Survive
If How to Survive is your kind of game, the closest matches are How to Survive 2, Herd is Coming and Zector 7 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and tense. 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 →How to Survive is a 2014 action-adventure survival RPG developed by Eko Software in which players must endure being stranded on an isolated island. The game features challenging survival gameplay with a medium-length campaign designed for sit-down sessions. Core mechanics include crafting weapons and items from scavenged scrap, managing resources carefully, a day-night cycle that forces strategic preparation, and skill tree progression alongside weapon disassembly and reassembly for customization. Local co-op allows players to share resources and coordinate teamwork, while reviewers note that weapon customization feels personal and that Kovač's survival guides add darkly comedic touches. Players describe the atmosphere as immersive and tense, with 77% of Steam reviews being positive across more than 4,600 reviews. The game is verified to run on Steam Deck and is currently priced at $14.99.
About How to Survive: “A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Players who liked How to Survive also play
Steam players who put hours into How to Survive 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.
How to Survive 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive.
Top pick for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Herd is Coming
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with How to Survive.
Second-strongest match for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. It's the story of Mike who's survived for 10 years since the outbreak.
Zector 7
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with How to Survive.
Ranked #4 for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with How to Survive.
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..
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone
WHY THIS
Shares day night cycle, resource management and an atmospheric mood with How to Survive.
Ranked #5 for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
Welcome to ParadiZe
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with How to Survive.
Ranked #6 for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
Look Alive
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with How to Survive.
It’s time to look alive and get to safety. Drive, scavenge, eat, and crush ragdoll zombies as you try to survive this vast world. Meet survivors and accept quests or make enemies and loot them all.
PolyZ
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with How to Survive.
Ranked #8 for How to Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Reviewers mention these as similar to How to Survive
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Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with How to Survive.
Reviewers of How to Survive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with How to Survive.
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..
Torchlight II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive.
Reviewers of How to Survive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with How to Survive.
Reviewers of How to Survive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Victor Vran ARPG
WHY THIS
Reviewers of How to Survive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below How to Survive at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with How to Survive.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Action with How to Survive.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Action with How to Survive.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with How to Survive.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under How to Survive on Steam right now. Shares Action with How to Survive.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
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 How to Survive.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with How to Survive.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
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 How to Survive.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with How to Survive.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Eko Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Eko Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
How to Survive 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Warhammer: Chaosbane
WHY THIS
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
In a world ravaged by war and dominated by magic, you must rise up to face the Chaos hordes. Playing solo or with up to four players in local or online co-op, choose a hero from four character classes and prepare for epic battles wielding some of the most powerful artefacts of the Old World.
Dragonkin: The Banished
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with How to Survive.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive. Shares Action with How to Survive.
The draconic threat is once again upon us. Legendary heroes rise up to face the legions from the depths. Tame your wyrmlings, create unique power builds with the Ancestral Grid, expand your city and destroy the Dragons!
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone
WHY THIS
Shares day night cycle, resource management and an atmospheric mood with How to Survive.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
Welcome to ParadiZe
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with How to Survive.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive.
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
Rugby 22
WHY THIS
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive.
Crouch, bind, set! Discover the true rugby experience. Play with best clubs and top nations, enjoy dynamic gameplay that stays faithful to the sport, and experience the intensity of big matches.
RUGBY 20
WHY THIS
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive.
Rugby 20 gives you the complete rugby experience! With overhauled tactics management, optimised graphics and more realistic player behaviour, the game is a true reflection of modern rugby.
Handball 17
WHY THIS
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive.
Find the 82 official teams from the most prestigious European leagues in the best handball simulation. Experience all the sensations of handball thanks to the easy-to-use controls, dynamic Career mode and fast-flowing matches, in both single player and multiplayer modes.
Frequently asked about How to Survive
- Is How to Survive verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — How to Survive is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does How to Survive cost?
- How to Survive is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does How to Survive have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — How to Survive supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to How to Survive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside How to Survive are How to Survive 2, Herd is Coming, Zector 7.
- Who developed How to Survive?
- How to Survive was developed by Eko Software and published by 505 Games.
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