Games like Standby
If Standby is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dustward, Tomo: Endless Blue and Frontier Legends — 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.
Players who liked Standby also play
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.
Dustward
WHY THIS
Top pick 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.
Tomo: Endless Blue
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match 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.
Frontier Legends
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Standby.
“Live your Wild West fantasy in Frontier Legends, an open-world frontier adventure where survival, crafting and exploration shape your story. Stake your claim, build your place in the West and uncover what lies beyond the rails.”
RUNNING WITH RIFLES
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Standby.
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.
Sombie
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 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.
The Swordsmen X: Survival
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Ranked #6 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Standby.
A martial art open world adventure game that combines survival and crafting. Developed with UE4, it creates a vivid world of 256 square kilometers. Cultivate yourself by collecting, crafting, exploring and other methods. Confront complex natural environment and challenges from other warriors.
Cultivation Tales
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Ranked #7 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Standby.
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Shards of Azuria
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Ranked #8 for Standby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Standby.
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
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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 Dustward, Tomo: Endless Blue, Frontier Legends.
- 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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