Games like Deadhold
If Deadhold is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zombie Tower Survivor, Frostliner and basecamp — 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 Deadhold: Deadhold is a roguelite zombie survival/strategy game where your choices impact who lives and who dies. Rescue survivors, scavenge resources, fortify your base, and protect your community against stress, infection, and zombies! Can you find a sense of normalcy in this cruel new world?
Players who liked Deadhold also play
Steam players who put hours into Deadhold 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.
Zombie Tower Survivor
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Top pick for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Deadhold.
Survive the zombie apocalypse in this top-down, tower-defense game with survivor-like elements. Customize your magic tower with talents and upgrades to defend it against zombie waves. Can you keep your tower alive?
Frostliner
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadhold.
The moon shattered. The world froze. Take command of a nomadic train city hurtling through a war-ravaged frozen wasteland. In this survival city builder on rails, gather survivors, scavenge resources, and do whatever it takes to keep the engine running and stay ahead of the frost.
basecamp
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deadhold.
Fight waves of mutated creatures in this roguelite tower defense game. Turrets can be used to defend or to harvest — you decide! How much can you secure before being overrun?
City Defense Z
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Ranked #4 for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadhold.
City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.
Brickwork - Tower Defense
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Ranked #5 for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Deadhold.
Build your battlefield, brick by brick. Snap together towers, shape the path, and hold the line against waves of rogue toys. Every run reshuffles the board with procedurally generated layouts and new choices at every turn. Your world, your rules, your build.
StrategySteam ↗ShredDead
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Ranked #6 for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadhold.
ShredDead is a quirky relaxing incremental zombie-shredding game focused on progression with no fail states. Defeat endless waves, collect loot, grow your skill tree and evolve the zombies.
Ghosts Keep Out
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Ranked #7 for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadhold.
Defend your base in this Roguelite survival shooter TD! Mix random skills + evolve gems to craft your Build. 5-min fast rounds, intense zombie & ghost hordes. Triple progression: Spirits, guns, heroes. Easy to learn, hard to put down. Low barrier, high ceiling. Every run is fresh!
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
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Ranked #8 for Deadhold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadhold.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental style tower-defense game where you face an overwhelming amount of orcs. Place and upgrade turrets and let bombs rain on the horde.
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 Deadhold.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadhold.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Deadhold.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadhold.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadhold.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deadhold.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadhold.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about Deadhold
- What games are most similar to Deadhold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadhold are Zombie Tower Survivor, Frostliner, basecamp.
- Who developed Deadhold?
- Deadhold was developed by Midnight Snack 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 Deadhold.
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