Games like Standby
If Standby is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shiny Gen: AI Game Maker, Suburbia and Gang Takeover — 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 Standby: Free top-down multiplayer survival sandbox game, where you can join the factions of resistance, wipe out z-cyborgs, and build new cities from the ashes. Attack and defend, build and destroy, mine and dig, survive and create.
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Steam players who put hours into Standby 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.
Shiny Gen: AI Game Maker
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Top pick for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Standby.
Describe a game and the AI builds it: the code, the art, the music, a world you can play in minutes. Change it with another sentence, or open the code and edit it yourself. Over thirty original games ship with it, every one remixable, every one shareable with a link.
Suburbia
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Second-strongest match for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Standby.
A strategy game with camera elements inlcuding Top down and 3rd person gameplay. Role Playing, Real time, Open world, ability trees, charcater customizations, sandbox, class system, voxel inspired
Gang Takeover
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Third-strongest match for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Standby.
Build a loyal and elite gang, fight rival crews, claim city blocks, and rise from a corner hustler to crime kingpin in a gritty solo, co-op or online multiplayer street war.
Dustward
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Ranked #4 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Standby.
Dustward - Survive the post-apocalyptic ruins! Explore the devastated world, fight mutants, build fortifications, and develop your character in the dynamic survival-action Dustward. Play solo or team up with friends (up to 4 players) in co-op mode to face the dangers of the dead world.
Brawl Squad X: Battle Arena
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Ranked #5 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Standby.
Fast-paced top-down multiplayer shooter with offline bot battles and online PvP. Play team deathmatch solo or with friends, unlock weapons, customize loadouts, and enjoy chaotic arcade-style combat with full progression online or offline.
Sombie
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Ranked #6 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Standby.
Sombie offers action packed PvP, and PvE in an always online MMO. loot, kill, die, repeat. Explore an endless randomly generated world with your friends. Offering a unique spin on the Zombie survival genre, built from the ground up.
Age of Sail
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Ranked #7 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Standby.
Fight pirates, hunt rival players, steal their loot, and fight your way home in a fast-paced top-down naval combat game. No safe seas. No guaranteed victories.
Tomo: Endless Blue
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Ranked #8 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Standby.
Tomo: Endless Blue, a Monster-Taming ARPG set in a Voxel Open World. Set sail through the Endless Blue, an ocean realm home to mysterious creatures called Tomo. Team up to fight, build homes with friends, or craft wild vehicles to explore procedurally generated islands, villages and tales.
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Frequently asked about Standby
- Is Standby free to play?
- Yes — Standby is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Standby have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Standby supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Standby?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Standby are Shiny Gen: AI Game Maker, Suburbia, Gang Takeover.
- Who developed Standby?
- Standby was developed by ZXC Games.
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 Standby.
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