Games like southbound
If southbound is your kind of game, the closest matches are SCAV, Fury Drive and Till the End — 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 southbound: A thousand years after collapse, the southern wilderness is the last frontier — and something is fracturing at its edge. Push deeper into a procedurally generated world of ruins, monsters, and growing strangeness. A survival roguelite where every run takes you further south, and further from normal.
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SCAV
WHY THIS
Top pick for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
A high-speed vehicular action-roguelite where you must drift, boost and blast through swarms of monsters whilst stacking outrageous item synergies to escape an abandoned planet.
Fury Drive
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with southbound.
A lone traveler fights to survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland crawling with undead, mutants, and cultists. Drift, loot, and slaughter your way across the desert while building out your vehicle's arsenal.
Till the End
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
Earth has fallen. Recruit survivors in the ruins, activate their unique Power Suits, and fight back against endless alien hordes in this solo-developed sci-fi roguelite wave shooter. Master Bushido blades, Centurion tanks, or Magi blasts — become unstoppable.
Super Robot Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
A Roguelite Bullet-Heaven where you rescue astronauts, repair reactors, and hack terminals while blasting hordes of robots in high-stakes, 10-minute showdowns. From the Creative Director of Destroy All Humans! 2 and co-creator of TY the Tasmanian Tiger.
Blood & Bytes: Kagura
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
Co-op action roguelike where you and your squad fight cyber-yokai hordes, build crazy synergies and survive wave after wave in a ruined Japan.
Supercat Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
Meow! This is a cat-themed Survivor-like game where you control an adorable Supercat! Battle monsters to level up, collect items, upgrade weapons, and experiment with strategic builds to fight off invading creatures threatening Meow Star.
I'm No Demonlord
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
"I'm No Demonlord" is a Roguelike shooter bullet hell game. High freedom in mechanics leads to unique playthroughs. As a demon-possessed hero, battle enemies, grow, and unveil dark schemes. Can he accept his new role? Save "kinds" or destroy "outsiders"? Good or evil? The choice is yours.
Night Swarm
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for southbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with southbound.
Claim your throne as Vampire Lord in this survivors-like. Each run is another step on your journey with new followers, quests and skills to unlock. The night is yours to conquer.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 southbound.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with southbound.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with southbound.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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 southbound.
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!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with southbound.
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!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about southbound
- What games are most similar to southbound?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside southbound are SCAV, Fury Drive, Till the End.
- Who developed southbound?
- southbound was developed by taguagames.
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 southbound.
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