Games like Alien Apocalypse
If Alien Apocalypse is your kind of game, the closest matches are 7 Days to Die, Project Zomboid and The Forest — 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 Alien Apocalypse: Alien Apocalypse is an open-world sandbox survival game set after a devastating alien invasion. Scavenge for resources, craft, build defenses, and harness alien technology to fight back. Play solo or in co-op and reclaim what’s left of the planet.
Players who liked Alien Apocalypse also play
Steam players who put hours into Alien Apocalypse 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.
7 Days to Die
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Top pick for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Apocalypse.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
The Forest
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Third-strongest match for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Green Hell
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Ranked #4 for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Don't Starve Together
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Ranked #5 for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
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Ranked #6 for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Alien Apocalypse.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Terraria
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Ranked #7 for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Voidtrain
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Ranked #8 for Alien Apocalypse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Apocalypse.
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 Alien Apocalypse.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Apocalypse.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alien Apocalypse.
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 Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
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 Alien Apocalypse.
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 Alien Apocalypse.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Apocalypse.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Apocalypse.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Apocalypse.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Frequently asked about Alien Apocalypse
- Does Alien Apocalypse have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Alien Apocalypse supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Alien Apocalypse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alien Apocalypse are 7 Days to Die, Project Zomboid, The Forest.
- Who developed Alien Apocalypse?
- Alien Apocalypse was developed by Umbu 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 Alien Apocalypse.
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