Co-op games like WASTED Will Be Brutal
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to WASTED Will Be Brutal, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Phantom Line
Online Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
Join the paranormal SWAT. PHANTOM LINE is a co-op (1-4) shooter set in the post-nuclear European continent. Your mission is to search and contain paranormal events and activities (anomalies) hidden from the public eye, in an open world map full of dynamic events.
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Lost Zone: Survival
LAN Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
Lost Zone: Survival ,Survive in a vast open world by battling harsh conditions, hunger, and unknown threats. Explore with friends, gather resources, fish, farm, and craft tools to stay alive. Beware of other players who can steal your hard-earned loot. Only the strongest will survive!
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Soviet Survival
Online Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
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STATE Z
Online Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
Build your own base, hunt , cook ,upgrade your equipment and your character , gather resources, farm, maintain vehicles, trade with communities, complete tasks in exchange for rewards. The choice is yours: join your friends, trust strangers, or be alone wolf. It's all in your hands.
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Lesion
Online Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
Explore, scavenge, build, drive, and survive together in a high-fidelity open-world zombie sandbox. Hunt down biological Lesions and reclaim the world from the infected.
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Elysium
Online Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
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MISERY
Online Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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Avalon Lost
Online Co-op alternative to WASTED Will Be Brutal — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with WASTED Will Be Brutal.
With the defeat of King Arthur and his knights, Mordred ascended to the throne atop the ruins of Camelot. The tyrant subjected Albion to chaos and savagery under his bloody conquest. But a glimmer of hope remains within a fragment of the legendary blade that has the power to change destiny.