Games like El Virus
If El Virus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ringwyrm, Whalefall and The Isle of No Return — 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 El Virus: El Virus is a first-person Survival Horror video game where the protagonist (Yara) wakes up alone surrounded by dangerous monsters created by a new strain of COVID-19. In addition to surviving, she must find her beloved pet, Nala, and her partner, Denki.
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Steam players who put hours into El Virus 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.
Ringwyrm
WHY THIS
Top pick for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with El Virus.
Ringwyrm is an immersive action horror game with survival elements. Explore a nonlinear interconnected world, meet a large cast of memorable characters, slay a huge cast of sickly monstrosities and avoid myriad diseases and ailments.
Whalefall
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
A PSX-style survival horror game where you run, hide, and fight through a deep-sea prison overrun by cloning monsters that regenerate from severed limbs, forcing you to carefully choose when violence is worth the risk.
The Isle of No Return
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with El Virus.
The Isle of No Return takes you to a forgotten prison island, where a dark experiment has unleashed unimaginable horrors. Explore, survive and uncover hidden secrets as you face bloodthirsty creatures in an environment where every step may be your last.
Blooming Parasite
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
A first-person sci-fi survival horror game set in a research facility hiding a classified underground complex overrun by an evolving parasitic organism. Explore abandoned laboratories, uncover buried secrets, and fight to survive a nightmare that's spreading from the inside out.
ASPIS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
ASPIS is an atmospheric mystical thriller set in an alternative USSR of the late 80s. You play as a scientist who has lost his family and is involved in a dangerous experiment to create a reality simulation. Explore the cybernetics institute, travel between worlds and encounter a distorted reality
JunkRats
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
After a deadly virus forced humanity underground, four survivors break free from the system that treated them as expendable. Now known as the JunkRats, they fight through Forsaken infested ruins.
Legacy of Mind
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
Legacy of Mind is the first gothic soulslike FPS where nightmares and reality have merged. Face colossal Monarchs that rule over the broken world twisted by living nightmares and unlock otherworldy powers hidden within your mind, but with every power unlocked, something in the dark wakes with you...
PermaNight
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Ranked #8 for El Virus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
Survive in a world full of darkness. Gain resources. Kill entities. Repeat. But beware, there might be entities lurking around...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below El Virus at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under El Virus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under El Virus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with El Virus.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under El Virus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with El Virus.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under El Virus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under El Virus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under El Virus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with El Virus.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under El Virus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
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 El Virus.
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 El Virus.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with El Virus.
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 El Virus.
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 El Virus.
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 El Virus.
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 El Virus.
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.
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Frequently asked about El Virus
- How much does El Virus cost?
- El Virus is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to El Virus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside El Virus are Ringwyrm, Whalefall, The Isle of No Return.
- Who developed El Virus?
- El Virus was developed by Byakko Studios.
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 El Virus.
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