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Games like Atomic Exile

If Atomic Exile is your kind of game, the closest matches are ZERO Sievert, Blood Running and Escape From Duckov — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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.

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About Atomic Exile: Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.

2025ActionIndieAdventureRPGEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Inferno Muse Interactive
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Deep gun modding with scopes mags grips and barrelsGun customization feels deep and rewardingLimb injuries raise exfil riskAtmosphericChallengingDark

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Steam players who put hours into Atomic Exile 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.

  1. ZERO Sievert

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Top pick for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood Running

    WHY THIS

    Shares loot collection, weapon customization, pixel art and an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Second-strongest match for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Atomic Exile.

    Blood Running is a stylish extraction shooter where you'll enter the cyber-wasteland, fight off creatures and bandits, loot valuable gear, and venture into the remnants of a world in ruins. Are you willing to bleed to survive, Blood Runner?

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Escape From Duckov

    WHY THIS

    Shares extraction shooter, crafting, survival and a retro mood with Atomic Exile.

    Third-strongest match for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure15.29 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Last Group Out

    WHY THIS

    Shares weapon customization, character progression and an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Ranked #4 for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Atomic Exile.

    Team up, gear up, and make it out alive in this 2D co-op extraction shooter.

    2022ActionStrategyRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Deadline Escape

    WHY THIS

    Shares loot collection, weapon customization, survival and an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Ranked #5 for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. CONVRGENCE

    WHY THIS

    Shares extraction shooter, loot collection, survival and an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Ranked #6 for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Atomic Exile.

    CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.

    2024ActionAdventureEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Into the Radius VR

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Atomic Exile.

    Ranked #7 for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

    2020ActionIndie29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Atomic Exile.

    Ranked #8 for Atomic Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Atomic Exile.

    Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.

    2023ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Atomic Exile

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. ZERO Sievert

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Reviewers of Atomic Exile cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Night Raider

    WHY THIS

    Shares extraction shooter, loot collection, survival and a stressful mood with Atomic Exile.

    Reviewers of Atomic Exile cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Atomic Exile.

    Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...

    2024IndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Fallout 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Reviewers of Atomic Exile cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Atomic Exile.

    From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

    2015RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Escape from Tarkov

    WHY THIS

    Shares weapon customization, survival management, survival and an atmospheric mood with Atomic Exile.

    Reviewers of Atomic Exile cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Atomic Exile.

    Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

    2025ActionSimulationMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Atomic Exile at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Atomic Exile.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Atomic Exile.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Action with Atomic Exile.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Atomic Exile.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Atomic Exile.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Atomic Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Atomic Exile.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Atomic Exile.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Atomic Exile.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Atomic Exile.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Atomic Exile.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Atomic Exile.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Atomic Exile.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Atomic Exile.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Atomic Exile.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Atomic Exile

Does Atomic Exile run on Steam Deck?
Atomic Exile is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Atomic Exile cost?
Atomic Exile is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Atomic Exile?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Atomic Exile are ZERO Sievert, Blood Running, Escape From Duckov.
Who developed Atomic Exile?
Atomic Exile was developed by Inferno Muse Interactive.

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 Atomic Exile.

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