Games like Samson
If Samson is your kind of game, the closest matches are ALATURKA, Concrete Carnage: Scrapheap and chasing the wildrness — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 →Samson is a 2026 action-adventure crime game with racing elements, developed and published by Liquid Swords and priced at $24.99. Set in the city of Tyndalston, the game features character-driven storytelling with dialogue choices, character progression, and difficulty-scaling across its medium-length solo campaign. Players engage with achievement-hunting, checkpoint-based progression, and driving missions as core mechanics. Reviewers highlight the 90s-noir crime atmosphere and great music, while players describe impressive graphics and world design alongside heavy, responsive driving and satisfying combat. The challenging experience draws comparisons to classic open-world crime games. It is not supported on Steam Deck and holds a 57% positive rating based on 1429 Steam reviews.
About Samson: Samson returns to Tyndalston, a city that shaped him hard, where every fight is close and every escape is earned. He owes dangerous people more than he can pay, and they’re using his sister to force his hand. The clock is ticking. The only way out is through anyone who stands in his way.
Players who liked Samson also play
Steam players who put hours into Samson 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.
ALATURKA
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Top pick for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
A low-poly open-world action game set in the 1970s Bosforus. Master heavy vehicle physics, work dirty jobs for below minimum wage, and fight to survive. ALATURKA captures the chaotic, unforgiving spirit of the classic retro era.
Concrete Carnage: Scrapheap
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Samson.
Drive trucks through a post-apocalyptic giscardpunk world. Crush pedestrians, destroy your rivals, haul cargo. No weapons — just tons of steel. The brutality of 90s games, no compromise.
chasing the wildrness
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Racing with Samson.
Drive into the wild, follow the road signs, overcome the terrain, help stranded travelers, and discover quiet moments of camping, fishing, and exploration along the way.
Pinetrail
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Ranked #4 for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
Deliver packages across Pinetrail in an overloaded rusty rickshaw truck! Meet the locals, uncover mysteries, and explore beautiful hidden spots. Use your vehicle's unique abilities to cross rivers, glide over trees, and battle cargo-stealing boars!
Crazy Taxi: World Tour
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Ranked #5 for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
Play as Axel in an all-new, high-octane adventure as he sets out to recover his stolen taxi and chase down a mysterious organization causing chaos around the world. Race through iconic locations and tackle extreme missions in the long-awaited return of the classic series.
MiLE HiGH TAXi
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Ranked #6 for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Samson.
Crazy Taxi meets The Fifth Element! Deliver passengers, dodge mile-high skyscrapers & pedestrians. Beat the clock. FREE Race Mode DLC Coming August 18th 2023!
Road Rage
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Ranked #7 for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Samson.
Road Rage is an over-the-top, knock-down-drag-out motorcycle combat game that tests your skill on a range of badass bikes. Race, fight, and hustle your way through the ranks of an insane outlaw motorcycle gang.
Carmageddon: Rogue Shift
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Samson.
Ranked #8 for Samson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Samson.
Carmageddon smashes back with brutal roguelite vehicular‑combat mayhem. Adapt, upgrade, and unleash destruction on post‑apocalyptic zombie hordes. The legacy lives on, reinvented and unforgiving.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Samson
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Sleeping Dogs
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Shares melee combat, side quests and a dark mood with Samson.
Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
As Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads, you'll have to fight your way up the organization without blowing your cover.
Mafia II (Classic)
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Shares open world exploration, checkpoint based progression and an atmospheric mood with Samson.
Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Samson.
Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Samson.
Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
Grand Theft Auto V for PC offers players the option to explore the award-winning world of Los Santos and Blaine County in resolutions of up to 4k and beyond, as well as the chance to experience the game running at 60 frames per second.
Bus Driver
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Samson.
Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play.
In Bus Driver, your job is to transport passengers around an attractive and realistic city. You must drive to a timetable on a planned route, whilst obeying traffic rules, and taking care not to upset or injure your passengers.
Mafia II: Definitive Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Samson.
Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Mortal Kombat 1
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Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Samson.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Samson.
Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Samson.
Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you.
Watch Dogs®: Legion
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Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Samson.
Reviewers of Samson cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
Build a resistance as you fight to take back a near-future London facing its downfall. Welcome to the Resistance.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Samson at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Samson on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Samson.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~60% under Samson on Steam right now. Shares Action with Samson.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Samson on Steam right now. Shares Action with Samson.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~60% under Samson on Steam right now. Shares Action with Samson.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Samson on Steam right now. Shares Action with Samson.
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.
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Priced ~72% under Samson on Steam right now. Shares Action with Samson.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Samson.
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 with Samson.
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 Adventure with Samson.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Samson.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Samson.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Samson
- Does Samson work on Steam Deck?
- Samson is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Samson cost?
- Samson is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Samson?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Samson are ALATURKA, Concrete Carnage: Scrapheap, chasing the wildrness.
- Who developed Samson?
- Samson was developed by Liquid Swords.
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