Games like The Walking Trade
If The Walking Trade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Billion Egg Farm, My Drug Cartel and Recycling Center Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive gameplay loop, challenging and chill. 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 The Walking Trade: Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.
Players who liked The Walking Trade also play
Steam players who put hours into The Walking Trade 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.
Billion Egg Farm
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Top pick for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.
SimulationSteam ↗My Drug Cartel
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, base building, business management and a stressful mood with The Walking Trade.
Second-strongest match for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Walking Trade.
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Recycling Center Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting, simulation and a chill mood with The Walking Trade.
Third-strongest match for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
On the Rocks
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Run a bar in a toxic wasteland - scavenge the wasteland, brew what you find, serve who you must. In a world gone to ruin, the last bar standing is yours to run.
Waterpark Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares shop management, base building, simulation and a stressful mood with The Walking Trade.
Ranked #5 for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Build and run your own waterpark. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Biofactory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Ice Cream Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Walking Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Walking Trade at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.
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 The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
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 The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.
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!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Walking Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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 Indie with The Walking Trade.
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 with The Walking Trade.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Walking Trade.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about The Walking Trade
- Does The Walking Trade run on Steam Deck?
- The Walking Trade 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 The Walking Trade cost?
- The Walking Trade is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Walking Trade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Walking Trade are Billion Egg Farm, My Drug Cartel, Recycling Center Simulator.
- Who developed The Walking Trade?
- The Walking Trade was developed by Microwave Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
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 The Walking Trade.
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