Games like The Junkyard
If The Junkyard is your kind of game, the closest matches are MEAT TRAIN, Legacy of Mind and Dark Horizon — 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 The Junkyard also play
Steam players who put hours into The Junkyard 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.
MEAT TRAIN
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Meat Train is a FPS game where you operate a train thats uses MEAT for FUEL. Explore a wasteland where everything wants you dead, scavenge for weapons and loot. Upgrade the train and attempt to destroy an evil AI megafactory.
Legacy of Mind
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Legacy of Mind is the first gothic soulslike FPS where nightmares and reality have merged. Face colossal Monarchs that rule over the broken world twisted by living nightmares and unlock otherworldy powers hidden within your mind, but with every power unlocked, something in the dark wakes with you...
Dark Horizon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Dark Horizon is a single-player survival FPS game that takes place in Russia. After a near-fatal accident, your squad-mates have been killed, and you are deserted in the middle of a deadly conflict fueled by the city's government. Will you escape, or choose to thrive in the city until it falls?
Zero World
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Gather resources, craft items, kill others, raid houses, but don't get raided yourself
Sentinel Agency
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Sentinel Agency is a co-op survival RPG with dinosaurs! As a Special Investigator of the Sentinel Agency, you go on a murderous adventure on a dinosaur theme park island! Solve important puzzles, save others, shoot, sneak, uncover secrets and survive!
Witch The Bloodlines
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Witch The Bloodlines is an FPS horror - adventure game that focused on reversing a curse of the 18th century village which you are living in. Discover the living forest and experience the horror that you are in.
Descension
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Junkyard.
Descension is an OpenWorld Survival Horror Game That features constant new expansions and events. Survive For Six hours in uncharted universes, and get your exploration rewarded with a stronger arsenal!
Lost Life : Origins
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Junkyard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
"Lost Life : Origins" is a first-person survival horror experience that blends psychological tension, environmental storytelling, and strategic combat. Your journey is not about brute force, but perception, adaptation, and uncovering the truth buried beneath layers of reality.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Junkyard at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Junkyard.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Junkyard.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Junkyard.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Junkyard.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Junkyard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Junkyard.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Junkyard.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Junkyard.
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 and Adventure with The Junkyard.
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 The Junkyard.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Junkyard.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Junkyard.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Junkyard.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about The Junkyard
- How much does The Junkyard cost?
- The Junkyard is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Junkyard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Junkyard are MEAT TRAIN, Legacy of Mind, Dark Horizon.
- Who developed The Junkyard?
- The Junkyard was developed by Portland 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 The Junkyard.
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