Games like Day Zero
If Day Zero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Moonlit Nights, Final Shelter and Alcyone: The Last City — 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.
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Players who liked Day Zero also play
Steam players who put hours into Day Zero 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.
Moonlit Nights
WHY THIS
Top pick for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Day Zero.
Moonlit Nights is a base management game set in a zombie apocalypse world. Form raiding parties and send them out to gather supplies, deal with mysterious visitors, and make difficult choices. How many days can you survive, or can you be freed and return to your normal life? Make your choice wisely.
Final Shelter
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Day Zero.
A multiplayer social survival game inspired by the “Bunker” board game, where players must convince others that they deserve a place in the shelter. Debate, argue, reveal your character traits, and vote - only a few will survive.
Alcyone: The Last City
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Day Zero.
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Zombie Survivor: Undead City Attack
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Day Zero.
Immerse yourself in Zombie Survivor: Undead City Attack, a retro first-person rail shooter. Roam through famous cities - New York, London, Rio - against crazy zombies. Use pistols and rifles, develop a strategy to earn points and medals.
Quarantineer
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Ranked #5 for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Day Zero.
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
Infect: The Last Stand
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Day Zero.
Experience brutal Hardcore PvPvE survival powered by Unreal Engine 5. Every decision matters, every step could be your last, and every sound you hear might be your final one. Do you have what it takes to survive the hunt?
Infection Free Zone
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Day Zero.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
EVOTINCTION
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Day Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Day Zero.
In 'Evotinction', a third-person hacking and stealth game, you are Dr. Liu, the only one who can stop rogue AIs in a futuristic research facility. Use a variety of hacking skills to overcome robotic threats and uncover the secrets that hold the key to humanity's survival or its potential extinction.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Day Zero at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Day Zero.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Day Zero.
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 ~70% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Day Zero.
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 ~80% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Day Zero.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Day Zero.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Day Zero.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Day Zero.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Day Zero on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Day Zero.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Day Zero.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Day Zero.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Day Zero.
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 Day Zero.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Day Zero.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Day Zero.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Day Zero.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Day Zero.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Day Zero
- How much does Day Zero cost?
- Day Zero is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Day Zero?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Day Zero are Moonlit Nights, Final Shelter, Alcyone: The Last City.
- Who developed Day Zero?
- Day Zero was developed by Imdie 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 Day Zero.
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