Games like From Scratch
If From Scratch is your kind of game, the closest matches are CHEMISTS: Area of infection, Territory and Dead Past 8 — picked from the ranked list below. 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 From Scratch: From Scratch is survival game set in a huge open world of over 50 square kilometers. Fight, craft and acquire resources to survive in a world overrun by zombies and wild animals.
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CHEMISTS: Area of infection
WHY THIS
Top pick for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
A year after the global catastrophe, you woke up in a hospital and don't remember anything. You have to not only find out what happened, but also try to survive in this harsh dangerous world.
Territory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with From Scratch.
Territory is an immersive, atmospheric, crafting and survival game. Developed with Unreal Engine 5.
Dead Past 8
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
Dead Past 8 - Survive zombies and unravel island mysteries in this 2023 open-world horror. By day, explore, craft and harvest. After the sun dips below the horizon face stronger, cunning undead. Team up, adapt, and confront the nightmarish challenge. Can you survive "Dead Past 8"?
Polyturned
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
Your goal is to survive in a city overrun by zombies, team up with friends to mine resources, build forts and explore the abandoned city.
Apocalypse Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
Days of Ruin is a third-person post-apocalyptic zombie shooter featuring procedurally generated equipment stats and infinitely replayable maps. Players can repeatedly farm maps to acquire better gear and prepare for greater challenges!
Shatterland
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
Shatterland is a co-op zombie/Alien survival game with base-building and exploration. Loot resources, craft weapons, build with friends, and fight through a devastated world filled with the undead, hostile survivors, and military secrets.
Colonies of The Remnant
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
In a post-apocalyptic world build and lead your own colony under the constant threat of the undead. Recruit survivors, assign roles and decide how your group survives. Fight enemy colonies or form alliances in FPS or TPS combat.
LIFE EFFECT Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for From Scratch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below From Scratch at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with From Scratch.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
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 ~50% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Action with From Scratch.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with From Scratch.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Indie with From Scratch.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
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 ~67% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under From Scratch on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with From Scratch.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with From Scratch.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with From Scratch.
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 and Indie with From Scratch.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with From Scratch.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with From Scratch.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about From Scratch
- How much does From Scratch cost?
- From Scratch is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to From Scratch?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside From Scratch are CHEMISTS: Area of infection, Territory, Dead Past 8.
- Who developed From Scratch?
- From Scratch was developed by BB STUDIO.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on From Scratch.
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