Games like Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe
If Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Idol VS Furries, Combatant and BLACKWOOD — 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 Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe: A third-person action video game set in a post-apocalyptic world of zombies in an anime style. Emilia, along with other students, will try to survive in a hostile environment full of difficulties and enemies they will have to face. Will anyone survive?
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Idol VS Furries
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Top pick for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
Survive to Furries, and Farm Skins, in stylized gunfights
Combatant
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Second-strongest match for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
In Combatant you will live the story of Alfie, a sharpshooter hired by a rich businessman. Alfie is tasked with recovering some data stolen by a competitor of a technology company, and for that there will be many challenges.
BLACKWOOD
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Third-strongest match for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
By day, you run a DVD store in 2012 New York. By night, you’re a ruthless assassin. BLACKWOOD is a cinematic third-person shooter with grounded melee combat, brutal takedowns, responsive gunplay, and a double life to manage.
Disaster Island
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Ranked #4 for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
Disaster Island is a unique survival based game, where you have to accomplish missions on abandoned island. But It's not gonna be easy, its not ordinary island. You will be confronted by natural disasters and numerous hidden dangers.
Holospace
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Ranked #5 for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
Take flight from planet surfaces to deep space with no loading screens. Explore a vast procedurally generated voxel universe, mine resources, build massive bases, battle alien creatures, and uncover virtually endless worlds. Play in first or third person.
Office Mayhem
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Ranked #6 for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
A third person action game where you are sick and tired of working your BS job for your BS boss. You have officially lost your mind and are ready to cause absolute mayhem and chaos in your workplace. Turn ordinary office supplies into weapons of mass destruction and destroy your colleagues!
Hidden Series 2
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Ranked #7 for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
Experience the engaging and addictive Hidden Series 2 game to find the hidden objects across 30+ challenging levels. We have carefully crafted the puzzles which will give the ultimate challenges unlimited fun and allow you to relax.
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
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Ranked #8 for Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
The fear is back.Return to 2048 Hong Kong in the groundbreaking survival-horror that defined style and mature storytelling for a generation.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
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.).
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
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The Lab
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe.
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.
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Frequently asked about Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe
- What games are most similar to Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe are Idol VS Furries, Combatant, BLACKWOOD.
- Who developed Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe?
- Academia Z: The beginning of the catastrophe was developed by SWJC Studios.
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