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Games like Nocturnal Survivors

If Nocturnal Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Boom Die Repeat, Don't Drive Dead and Hope: a potato story — 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.

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About Nocturnal Survivors: Fight monsters in each night, survive as long as you can! Nocturnal Survivors is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter game in which you simply keep combining your weapons to more powerful versions to kill thousands of monsters at nights.

2025ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDWindowsby azuresu
Nocturnal Survivors — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Nocturnal Survivors 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. Boom Die Repeat

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Blast zombies & mutants in this fast-paced post-apocalyptic top-down roguelite! Battle through randomized biomes, swap out unique weapons, equip insane loadouts, and mutate yourself stronger with collected DNA. Die, unlock permanent perks, and dive back into another brutal run!

    2026ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Don't Drive Dead

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Drive, shoot, and survive huge zombie swarms in a top-down roguelite where you build a squad, upgrade your car, and create wild hero synergies. Procedurally generated characters, weapons and levels.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  3. Hope: a potato story

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Cute and simple top down action shooter. Save the kingdom from the all consuming curse, you are not the first to try and will not be the last.

    2025ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Apocalypse Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    As the savior of the apocalypse, take up your weapons and unleash your powers. Rescue survivors, confront waves of zombies, and through relentless searching, become an immortal warrior. Write your own glorious legend in this plague-ridden hell.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Disaster Plan Z

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Disaster Plan Z is a hardcore single-player shooting survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Players need to utilize various weapons along with their unique skills, construct different buildings, and continuously upgrade to resist the invasion of countless zombies and mutant creatures.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Rotten Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Fight massive hordes of bizarre zombies! Start with an axe and upgrade to a bazooka, equip a rifle and a katana, or a machine gun and a grenade launcher. Create your own play style and become an unstoppable force! But the question is... Are YOU stuck with THEM, or are THEY stuck with YOU?

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  7. FatalZone: Outbreak

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Outbreak is the demo version of FatalZone, a bullet heaven zombie apocalypse shooter where you'll have to upgrade your base, hone your mercs' skills, and put them to the test to survive.

    2023ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Protocol : Kill Switch

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Nocturnal Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Survive the mainframe in this Digital-Noir roguelite. Outrun the Magenta Corruption, overclock your code at risky Shrines, and fight alongside your upgraded DAEMON. Master high-voltage weaponry to clear swarms of predatory logic. In this arena, you aren't a bug—you’re the virus.

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Nocturnal Survivors.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Nocturnal Survivors.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nocturnal Survivors.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Nocturnal Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Nocturnal Survivors.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nocturnal Survivors.

    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 ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nocturnal Survivors.

    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 ↗
  3. 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 Nocturnal Survivors.

    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 ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nocturnal Survivors.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Nocturnal Survivors

How much does Nocturnal Survivors cost?
Nocturnal Survivors is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Nocturnal Survivors?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nocturnal Survivors are Boom Die Repeat, Don't Drive Dead, Hope: a potato story.
Who developed Nocturnal Survivors?
Nocturnal Survivors was developed by azuresu.

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