Games like Decaying Salvage
If Decaying Salvage is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Space (2008), The Callisto Protocol™ and Don't Feed The Aisles — 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 Decaying Salvage: Inspired by 90s and 2000s survival horror, Decaying Salvage is a sci-fi, fixed camera horror game. Explore derelict spaceships, scavenge parts by solving puzzles, encounter a variety of unique enemies, and find a way to return home to Earth.
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Dead Space (2008)
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Top pick for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
The Callisto Protocol™
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
Don't Feed The Aisles
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Decaying Salvage.
A PS1-inspired survival horror game where you explore an abandoned grocery store, solve puzzles, manage scarce resources, and survive relentless prehistoric creatures.
Eschalism
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Ranked #4 for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Decaying Salvage.
Survival horror game set in a dystopian Indonesia, where the V.O.K. regime has maintained a stranglehold on the nation. As Sane, a Paramita's officer, investigates a cosmic worshipping cult, navigates a non-euclidian world, and fights against monstrous creatures.
Joyville 2
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Ranked #5 for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Decaying Salvage.
Joyville 2 is a first-person horror puzzle-adventure game set in an abandoned children's camp. Explore two parallel worlds where the joy of the past meets present horrors. Uncover the camp's dark secrets, face magical yet dangerous creatures, and discover the truth behind events from decades ago.
The Sinking City 2
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Ranked #6 for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.
Prey
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Ranked #7 for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
The Black Ice
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Ranked #8 for Decaying Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you.
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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. Shares Indie with Decaying Salvage.
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.
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 Decaying Salvage.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Decaying Salvage.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
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 Decaying Salvage.
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 Decaying Salvage.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Decaying Salvage.
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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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
The Callisto Protocol™
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
Prey
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
The Black Ice
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Decaying Salvage.
A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you.
Frequently asked about Decaying Salvage
- What games are most similar to Decaying Salvage?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Decaying Salvage are Dead Space (2008), The Callisto Protocol™, Don't Feed The Aisles.
- Who developed Decaying Salvage?
- Decaying Salvage was developed by Stasis Booth Games.
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