Games like The Pale Deep
If The Pale Deep is your kind of game, the closest matches are Prey, Dead Space and Alien: Isolation — 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 The Pale Deep: Discover how to defend against Neptune’s hostile ecosystem. The inhabitants’ weaknesses are unique for every player and no amount of former knowledge will help you. See how far you can make it into the depths, before your equipment, or your knowledge fails you.
Players who liked The Pale Deep also play
Steam players who put hours into The Pale Deep 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.
Prey
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Dead Space
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Alien: Isolation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Aliens: Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
Halo: Campaign Evolved
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign, rebuilt from the ground up.
Unsafe Express
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pale Deep.
Unsafe Express is a cooperative first-person survival horror game for 1-4 players. Navigate through space stations, collect materials and outlast your enemies! Choose your objective based on complexity levels, then cast your vote. Gather items, exterminate hostiles, fulfill missions and repeat!
Dead Space™ 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Pale Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Pale Deep at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
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 ~44% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pale Deep.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pale Deep.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pale Deep.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Pale Deep on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pale Deep.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 The Pale Deep.
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 The Pale Deep.
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 The Pale Deep.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Pale Deep.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Pale Deep.
‘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.
Prey
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Alien: Isolation
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Pale Deep.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Frequently asked about The Pale Deep
- How much does The Pale Deep cost?
- The Pale Deep is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Pale Deep?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Pale Deep are Prey, Dead Space, Alien: Isolation.
- Who developed The Pale Deep?
- The Pale Deep was developed by Caseyfromspace.
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 The Pale Deep.
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