Games like Deadstone
If Deadstone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wild Ice, TANK ZERO and Frontline Zed — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Deadstone: Based on the inhospitable frontier world of Mars, against the backdrop of a bacterial outbreak, Deadstone offers a compelling blend of frantic combat and tower defense, backed by a highly nuanced character development system and strategic elements of resource management.
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Steam players who put hours into Deadstone 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.
Wild Ice
WHY THIS
Top pick for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.
Grab your stick, build traps, defend the furnaces, and dangle your way to victory against waves of frost zombies in this hockey-themed tower defense game.
TANK ZERO
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
TANK ZERO is an action-packed game with tanks where players build their own unique tank from various parts, such as the hull, chassis, cannon, engine, and armor. Each time, players can create different combinations of characteristics and appearances for their tank.
Frontline Zed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadstone.
Third-strongest match for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.
Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.
Land of Glarefall
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Ranked #4 for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.
An action-adventure survival game where every night could be your last. Explore a vast, dangerous world where survival depends on smart resource management, tactical combat, and what you choose to do before night falls.
Living Dead
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Ranked #5 for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
Living Dead is a fun coop wave based 3D shooter from a top view perspective. The Game takes place in a simulation of a zombie shooter and the goal is to survive as much waves as possible or beat them all. Each wave becomes more difficult than the previous one.
VERSUS SQUAD
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting, tower defense and a tense mood with Deadstone.
Ranked #6 for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!
Lumencraft
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Shares tower defense, wave based combat and an atmospheric mood with Deadstone.
Ranked #7 for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
The Ascent
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Shares twin stick shooting and an atmospheric mood with Deadstone.
Ranked #8 for Deadstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadstone at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadstone.
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.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~88% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~53% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadstone.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~75% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Deadstone.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadstone.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadstone.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~63% under Deadstone on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Deadstone.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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Frequently asked about Deadstone
- How much does Deadstone cost?
- Deadstone is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Deadstone have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Deadstone supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Deadstone?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadstone are Wild Ice, TANK ZERO, Frontline Zed.
- Who developed Deadstone?
- Deadstone was developed by Timeslip Softworks.
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