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Games like Dead Age

If Dead Age is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG, Dead Age: Survivors and FALL — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, well designed crafting system and writing quality is exceptional. 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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Dead Age is a turn-based survival RPG set in a zombie apocalypse. Players manage a camp of survivors, crafting materials and making difficult decisions while defending against waves of undead. The game combines character development with resource management and strategic base defense, all wrapped in turn-based combat inspired by classic RPG systems. Reviewers describe it as immersive and challenging, with tactical positioning mattering significantly in combat encounters. The crafting system receives particular praise for its design quality according to players. Released in 2016 by Silent Dreams and published by Headup, the game supports solo play only and carries an 81% positive rating from over 1950 Steam reviews. At 14.99 USD, it offers a medium-length experience for those seeking challenging survival strategy gameplay.

About Dead Age: Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

2016ActionStrategyIndieAdventureSimulationRPG14.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Silent Dreams
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Tactical positioning mattersWell designed crafting systemWriting quality is exceptionalChallengingImmersiveBase defense

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Steam players who put hours into Dead Age 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.

  1. Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat and a challenging mood with Dead Age.

    Top pick for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Age.

    The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dead Age: Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Age.

    Surrounded, kidnapped, blackmailed! Indie RPG (inspired by Fallout 2, romances like in Baldur`s Gate) with complex quests, improved turn-based combat. Survival, roguelike, strategy elements: loot, build camps, cook, use animal farm. Conquer territories against 7 greedy factions & zombies!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. FALL

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Dead Age.

    Third-strongest match for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Age.

    In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. For The King

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat, resource management and a challenging mood with Dead Age.

    Ranked #4 for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dead State: Reanimated

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat, resource management and an immersive mood with Dead Age.

    Ranked #5 for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Stories from the Outbreak

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat, resource management and a challenging mood with Dead Age.

    Ranked #6 for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Age.

    Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors from the doomed city of Riga towards a ferry sailing across the North Sea. Scavenge for supplies, battle the undead, decide the fate of your team. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to survive?

    2024StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Urban Strife

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Dead Age.

    Ranked #7 for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.

    2024StrategyIndieRPG27.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dead Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dead Age.

    A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

    2018StrategyRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Age at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Age.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Age.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Age.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Age.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Age.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dead Age.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Dead Age on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dead Age.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Dead Age.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Age.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Age.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Age.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Dead Age.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Age.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Age.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Silent Dreams

Other recommendable Steam games by Silent Dreams, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat and a challenging mood with Dead Age.

    Another title from Silent Dreams, the studio behind Dead Age. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Age.

    The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Dead Age.

    Another title from Silent Dreams, the studio behind Dead Age. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    Grotesque Tactics is a highly addictive tactical RPG combining elements of popular Western and Asian console RPGs.

    2010StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Grotesque Tactics 2 – Dungeons and Donuts

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Dead Age.

    Another title from Silent Dreams, the studio behind Dead Age. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    In this successor to the celebrated RPG-parody Grotesque Tactics, you will experience an ironic story-driven RPG with humorous dialogue-puzzles in the style of Monkey Island.

    2011StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based combat with Dead Age.

    Another title from Silent Dreams, the studio behind Dead Age. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Age.

    Following the success of the RPG-Parody Grotesque Tactics franchise, comes a spin-off nestled in the heart of a tropical zombie bevvy of beauties against the greatest hero of them all, conveniently titled: Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead As the story goes... ...

    2014StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Skilltree Saga

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Silent Dreams, the studio behind Dead Age. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Age.

    Skilltree Saga is the first Rogue-like RPG set in Aventuria - the world of The Dark Eye. Choose to play as human, elf or dwarf and battle randomly generated opponents in over 100 stages, developing a set of magical, enhanceable skills.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dead Age: Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Silent Dreams, the studio behind Dead Age. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Age.

    Surrounded, kidnapped, blackmailed! Indie RPG (inspired by Fallout 2, romances like in Baldur`s Gate) with complex quests, improved turn-based combat. Survival, roguelike, strategy elements: loot, build camps, cook, use animal farm. Conquer territories against 7 greedy factions & zombies!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dead Age

How much does Dead Age cost?
Dead Age is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dead Age?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Age are Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG, Dead Age: Survivors, FALL.
Who developed Dead Age?
Dead Age was developed by Silent Dreams and published by Headup.

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 Dead Age.

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