Games like PIONER
If PIONER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Will To Live Online, Afterinfection and Survarium — 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.
Get personalized picks →PIONER is an early access post-apocalyptic MMO shooter set in a vast, gritty world. Players engage in boss-fights, character-progression, crafting, faction-politics, inventory-management, and loadout-customization while exploring atmospheric zones filled with mystery. The game blends survival and shooter elements, offering both PvE missions and PvP zones within its medium-length campaign designed for short-burst sessions. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, challenging, dark, immersive, and intense, with combat that feels smooth and maps that reward exploration. The atmospheric setting merges post-apocalyptic environments with action-adventure mechanics, drawing comparisons to other survival shooters in its approach to faction dynamics. Currently priced at $22.49 USD, the title holds 71% positive feedback from over 1,100 Steam reviewers.
About PIONER: PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
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Will To Live Online
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a dark mood with PIONER.
Top pick for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with PIONER.
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Shares scavenging, crafting and an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Second-strongest match for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with PIONER.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Survarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Third-strongest match for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with PIONER.
Survarium is a post-apocalyptic online FPS game. If you are looking for a shooter where skills matter, look no further! The opposing players and deadly anomalies will never stop you on the way to victory, right? Then start playing now for free!
STALCRAFT: X
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with PIONER.
Ranked #4 for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with PIONER.
STALCRAFT: X is the largest open-world online game in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore the world full of mutants and anomalies alone or with friends — unforgettable emotions guaranteed.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with PIONER.
Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.
Age of Water
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, boss fights, open world and an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Ranked #6 for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with PIONER.
Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.
Destiny 2
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a challenging mood with PIONER.
Ranked #7 for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with PIONER.
Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.
Fallen Earth Classic
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Ranked #8 for PIONER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with PIONER.
Fallen Earth Classic is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Reloaded Productions and operated by Little Orbit. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon.
Reviewers mention these as similar to PIONER
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Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of PIONER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with PIONER.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Reviewers of PIONER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with PIONER.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Reviewers of PIONER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with PIONER.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Destiny 2
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a challenging mood with PIONER.
Reviewers of PIONER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with PIONER.
Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.
Fallout 76
WHY THIS
Reviewers of PIONER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with PIONER.
Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.
Metro Exodus
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Reviewers of PIONER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with PIONER.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PIONER at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under PIONER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with PIONER.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under PIONER on Steam right now. Shares Action with PIONER.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under PIONER on Steam right now. Shares Action with PIONER.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with PIONER.
Priced ~56% under PIONER on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with PIONER.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under PIONER on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with PIONER.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with PIONER.
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 PIONER.
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.
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 PIONER.
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 PIONER.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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.
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 PIONER
- How much does PIONER cost?
- PIONER is listed on Steam at 22.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does PIONER have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — PIONER supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to PIONER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PIONER are Will To Live Online, Afterinfection, Survarium.
- Who developed PIONER?
- PIONER was developed by GFAGAMES.
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 PIONER.
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