Games like How to Survive 2
If How to Survive 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are How to Survive, How To Survive: Third Person Standalone and Re.poly — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 →How to Survive 2 is a challenging action-adventure RPG developed by Eko Software and published by 505 Games, released in 2016 at $14.99. Set in a post-apocalyptic zombie survival scenario, the game offers online co-op multiplayer alongside a solo campaign. Players engage in base-building, resource management, and a crafting system that reviewers describe as deep and complex, requiring thoughtful procurement of materials to construct tools and weapons. Procedural generation adds variety to each playthrough, while tactical positioning matters in combat encounters. The title is marked as playable on Steam Deck, fitting its medium-length session structure. Based on 1936 Steam reviews, the game holds a 66% positive reception, with players describing it as both challenging and immersive.
About How to Survive 2: Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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How to Survive
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Top pick for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
Re.poly
WHY THIS
Shares base building with How to Survive 2.
Third-strongest match for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
METAL GEAR SURVIVE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
METAL GEAR SURVIVE builds upon MGSV’s stealth action gameplay with elements of exploration and survival creating a bold new experience. *An internet connection is required to play the game.
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Ranked #5 for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Shares base building with How to Survive 2.
Ranked #6 for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Ranked #7 for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with How to Survive 2.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Ranked #8 for How to Survive 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
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Dungeon Siege III
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Reviewers of How to Survive 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with How to Survive 2.
Fight hordes of dangerous creatures in a mystical fantasy world.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Reviewers of How to Survive 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with How to Survive 2.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
How to Survive
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Reviewers of How to Survive 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Reviewers of How to Survive 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with How to Survive 2.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with How to Survive 2.
Reviewers of How to Survive 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with How to Survive 2.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Titan Quest II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Reviewers of How to Survive 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with How to Survive 2.
Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and punishing all those who oppose her. Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in Titan Quest II, an action RPG inspired by Greek mythology.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below How to Survive 2 at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with How to Survive 2.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with How to Survive 2.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with How to Survive 2.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with How to Survive 2.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
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 ~80% under How to Survive 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with How to Survive 2.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
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 How to Survive 2.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with How to Survive 2.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with How to Survive 2.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
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More from Eko Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Eko Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
How to Survive
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Warhammer: Chaosbane
WHY THIS
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
In a world ravaged by war and dominated by magic, you must rise up to face the Chaos hordes. Playing solo or with up to four players in local or online co-op, choose a hero from four character classes and prepare for epic battles wielding some of the most powerful artefacts of the Old World.
Dragonkin: The Banished
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with How to Survive 2.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2. Shares Action with How to Survive 2.
The draconic threat is once again upon us. Legendary heroes rise up to face the legions from the depths. Tame your wyrmlings, create unique power builds with the Ancestral Grid, expand your city and destroy the Dragons!
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone
WHY THIS
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
Welcome to ParadiZe
WHY THIS
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2. Shares Action and Adventure with How to Survive 2.
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
Rugby 22
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with How to Survive 2.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2.
Crouch, bind, set! Discover the true rugby experience. Play with best clubs and top nations, enjoy dynamic gameplay that stays faithful to the sport, and experience the intensity of big matches.
RUGBY 20
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with How to Survive 2.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2.
Rugby 20 gives you the complete rugby experience! With overhauled tactics management, optimised graphics and more realistic player behaviour, the game is a true reflection of modern rugby.
Handball 17
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with How to Survive 2.
Another title from Eko Software, the studio behind How to Survive 2.
Find the 82 official teams from the most prestigious European leagues in the best handball simulation. Experience all the sensations of handball thanks to the easy-to-use controls, dynamic Career mode and fast-flowing matches, in both single player and multiplayer modes.
Frequently asked about How to Survive 2
- Does How to Survive 2 run on Steam Deck?
- How to Survive 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does How to Survive 2 cost?
- How to Survive 2 is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does How to Survive 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — How to Survive 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to How to Survive 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside How to Survive 2 are How to Survive, How To Survive: Third Person Standalone, Re.poly.
- Who developed How to Survive 2?
- How to Survive 2 was developed by Eko Software and published by 505 Games.
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