Games like SynthwaveZ
If SynthwaveZ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Malignant, Sker Ritual and Day of the dead — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its air strikes on zombies, atmospheric and challenging. 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 SynthwaveZ: A fast-paced, wave-based zombie shooter set in an alternate 1980s dystopia. Call in airstrikes, deploy support bots, upgrade wild weapons, and survive the horde—solo or with friends. No grinding. No paid DLC. Just pure, chaotic fun.
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Steam players who put hours into SynthwaveZ 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.
Malignant
WHY THIS
Top pick for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Sometimes to beat them... you have to join them. Mutate mid-combat, weaponize your own body, and fight through a grotesque, lore-rich nightmare in this 80s themed horde-shooter.
ActionSteam ↗Sker Ritual
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SynthwaveZ.
Second-strongest match for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
An intense round-based zombie survival FPS, play solo or co-op. Shoot your way through relentless waves of vicious horrors with high-octane objectives, upgrading steampunk weapons, collecting Celtic God powers, and surviving the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.
Day of the dead
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
A multiplayer low-poly styled zombieshooter game
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization and a challenging mood with SynthwaveZ.
Ranked #4 for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Pick a character and team up with three friends ‘cause it’s time to save the world. Experience intense FPS action as you obliterate hordes of terrifying monsters! You may not be on the best team of mercenaries, but you are… a Toxic Commando!
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with SynthwaveZ.
Ranked #5 for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Hellbreach: Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SynthwaveZ.
Ranked #6 for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Hellbreach: Vegas is a Wave-based First-Person Shooter for 1-4 players, made with passion by a one man dev team! Set your loadout, kill, and earn cash. Take a spin on the various slot machines and level up to improve your survival chances. Are you ready to try your luck?
After the Fall®
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization and a tense mood with SynthwaveZ.
Ranked #7 for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
Contagion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SynthwaveZ.
Ranked #8 for SynthwaveZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Sker Ritual
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SynthwaveZ.
Reviewers of SynthwaveZ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
An intense round-based zombie survival FPS, play solo or co-op. Shoot your way through relentless waves of vicious horrors with high-octane objectives, upgrading steampunk weapons, collecting Celtic God powers, and surviving the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.
Temporal Purge: Z
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SynthwaveZ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Become an interdimensional zombie slayer in Temporal Purge: Z, an action-packed zombie-survival FPS. Face the zombie onslaught as you eradicate countless undead monsters on your quest to save the future.
Nasty Zombies
WHY THIS
Shares wave based combat, real time combat, zombie apocalypse and a retro mood with SynthwaveZ.
Reviewers of SynthwaveZ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Team up with up to 4 players and take on endless waves of Nasty Zombies in a high-intensity, movement-focused boomer shooter. Use agility and smart positioning to survive semi-procedural maps and unlock permanent upgrades like Blessings, Miracles, and cosmetics.
Russian Prisoner VS Nazi Zombies
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SynthwaveZ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
You are prisoner Artyomich, and you need to kill all the devils of the SS from Hell in order to save Russia from the apocalypse.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SynthwaveZ at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
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 ~70% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SynthwaveZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
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 SynthwaveZ.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SynthwaveZ.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about SynthwaveZ
- How much does SynthwaveZ cost?
- SynthwaveZ is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does SynthwaveZ have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — SynthwaveZ supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to SynthwaveZ?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SynthwaveZ are Malignant, Sker Ritual, Day of the dead.
- Who developed SynthwaveZ?
- SynthwaveZ was developed by Shadow Games.
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