Games like Garbage Day
If Garbage Day is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ravenfield, Dude Simulator and Ace of Spades: Battle Builder — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its destructible environments feel satisfying, funny and melancholic. 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 Garbage Day: Garbage Day is an open world sandbox game, in which you are stuck in a time loop (meaning you live the same day over and over). In this game you have to explore and interact to find out how to get out of the time loop. You are open to do anything you want, kill innocent people, go to work, watch tv, go to the park, etc.
Players who liked Garbage Day also play
Steam players who put hours into Garbage Day 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.
Ravenfield
WHY THIS
Top pick for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garbage Day.
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
Dude Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Garbage Day.
Second-strongest match for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garbage Day.
Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.
Ace of Spades: Battle Builder
WHY THIS
Shares destructible environments with Garbage Day.
Third-strongest match for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garbage Day.
Say hello to the creative shooter. Ace of Spades: Battle Builder is the first-person shooter that lets you create your battleground, destroy it, then create it again. Up to 32 players choose from seven unique classes and jump into team-based, multiplayer mayhem across an endlessly evolving battlefield, to construct, destruct and take out...
RAGE 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Day.
RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Garbage Day.
Ranked #5 for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garbage Day.
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?
Arma 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Day.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Borderlands 3
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Garbage Day.
Ranked #7 for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Day.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
Blockland
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Garbage Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garbage Day.
Blockland is a non-linear sandbox game with no set goals, giving players the freedom to design and construct elaborate structures. Styled as a tiny minifigure, players build inside of the virtual world using bricks reminiscent of toy blocks.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Garbage Day at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garbage Day.
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 ~67% under Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Garbage Day.
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 Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Garbage Day.
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 Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Garbage Day.
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 Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Day.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garbage Day.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garbage Day.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Garbage Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garbage Day.
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.
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 Garbage Day.
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 with Garbage Day.
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 Garbage Day.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garbage Day.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garbage Day.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garbage Day.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Garbage Day.
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.
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Frequently asked about Garbage Day
- How much does Garbage Day cost?
- Garbage Day is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Garbage Day?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Garbage Day are Ravenfield, Dude Simulator, Ace of Spades: Battle Builder.
- Who developed Garbage Day?
- Garbage Day was developed by Svajūnas Žemaitis.
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