Games like THE WASTE
If THE WASTE is your kind of game, the closest matches are We The People, Escape from Tarkov and Cartel State — 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 THE WASTE: THE WASTE – a brutal and stylish action game about bloody street shootouts and survival in a city after a global collapse, where authority has fallen, and crime thrives. Two factions fight for control over the city, its resources, and survivors.
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Steam players who put hours into THE WASTE 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.
We The People
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Top pick for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with THE WASTE.
The Year is 2028. You are a Survivor, one of the few left amongst the living dead. You must Fight to Survive in this Hardcore Shooter based in Post-Apocalyptic America. Will you help to rebuild humanity, or take what they've gathered for yourself? We The People refuse to go quietly into the night!
Escape from Tarkov
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Second-strongest match for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with THE WASTE.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Cartel State
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Third-strongest match for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with THE WASTE.
Cartel State is a competitive, team-based tactical FPS featuring economy-driven loadouts, operator and weapon customization, and high-skill gunplay. Breach cartel hideouts and fight for control through precision, coordination, and nerve.
ActionSteam ↗LIGHTNING
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Ranked #4 for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with THE WASTE.
Fast-paced competitive FPS with character abilities. Combining realistic settings with superpowers. Geared toward ESPORT with In-game Map Editor. Organize tournaments, customize weapons and characters, replay matches, manage your team, variety of modes and exclusive attention to gunplay.
POLYGON
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Ranked #5 for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with THE WASTE.
POLYGON is a tactical multiplayer team 1st person shooter. Using various weapons, you will battle with up to 32 players on large-scale maps. Properly managing your arsenal and skills, you will lead your team to victory!
Contain
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Ranked #6 for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with THE WASTE.
Contain is a Tactical Co-Op FPS game. Form your squad of four players to fight against the anomalies. Try to "Contain" them where the line between ordinary and extraordinary is blurred.
World War 3
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Ranked #7 for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with THE WASTE.
World War 3 is a free-to-play tactical online multiplayer FPS where the world is your battleground. Outgun the enemy in thrilling, team-based skirmishes with a huge arsenal of weapons, vehicles, gadgets, and drones at your disposal.
Forefront
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Ranked #8 for THE WASTE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with THE WASTE.
Forefront is an intense VR shooter featuring 32-player large-scale battles, land, sea, and air vehicles, and immersive, tactical combat. You are the tip of the spear in the war between a global energy giant and resistance forces. Which side will you take?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with THE WASTE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with THE WASTE.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with THE WASTE.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with THE WASTE.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
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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!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with THE WASTE.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Saihate Station
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with THE WASTE.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
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Frequently asked about THE WASTE
- Does THE WASTE have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — THE WASTE supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to THE WASTE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside THE WASTE are We The People, Escape from Tarkov, Cartel State.
- Who developed THE WASTE?
- THE WASTE was developed by The Hustle Standard.
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 WASTE.
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