Games like Putrefaction
If Putrefaction is your kind of game, the closest matches are BLOODKILL: Goreblast Overkill, BLOODKILL and CARNAGE OFFERING — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and grim. 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 Putrefaction: Putrefaction is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, lots of enemies and weapons, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.
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BLOODKILL: Goreblast Overkill
WHY THIS
Top pick for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
BRUTAL shooter focused on action, gore, and old school death metal music. Unleash your overpowered arsenal to goreblast hordes of ferocious beasts on your way through ancient dark forest.
BLOODKILL
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
BRUTAL First Person Shooter focused on action, gore, and exploration. Fueled by adrenaline-pumping trap-metal soundtrack.
CARNAGE OFFERING
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Putrefaction.
Third-strongest match for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
Ultra fast-paced sci-fi FPS where you battle waves of robots and genetically engineered creatures. Upgrade your arsenal, unleash explosive physics, and survive relentless combat.
DooM in the Dark 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
The space station suffered an unknown infection from space, the previously unknown X virus mutates, almost the entire crew of the station is infected, you need to stop the army of mutants until they break through to Earth and the judgment day begins!
Quake 4
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Putrefaction.
Ranked #5 for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
As part of the elite Rhino Squad, you must spearhead Earth’s military invasion of a hostile alien homeworld. But, in this desperate war for humanity’s survival against an unrelenting enemy, you may discover that the only way to defeat them...is to become one of them.
Shotgun n Zombies
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
A strange fog rise up. You grabbed your shotgun when you heard a voice outside. Wtf Zombies. Try to stay alive for 5 minutes and kill them all to win and unlock next difficulty level.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker
WHY THIS
Shares survival mode and an atmospheric mood with Putrefaction.
Ranked #8 for Putrefaction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Putrefaction
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Quake
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Putrefaction.
Reviewers of Putrefaction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Painkiller
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Putrefaction.
Reviewers of Putrefaction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
DOOM 3
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Putrefaction.
Reviewers of Putrefaction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Putrefaction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker
WHY THIS
Shares survival mode and an atmospheric mood with Putrefaction.
Reviewers of Putrefaction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.
Serious Sam 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Putrefaction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
Serious Sam 3: BFE
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Putrefaction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Putrefaction at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Putrefaction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Putrefaction on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Putrefaction.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Putrefaction on Steam right now. Shares Action with Putrefaction.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Putrefaction on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Putrefaction.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Putrefaction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Putrefaction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Putrefaction on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Putrefaction.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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 Putrefaction.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Putrefaction.
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 Putrefaction.
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 Putrefaction.
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.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Putrefaction.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Kazakov Oleg
Other recommendable Steam games by Kazakov Oleg, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Gedonia 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Putrefaction.
Another title from Kazakov Oleg, the studio behind Putrefaction.
Gedonia 2 is an online coop RPG, which allows up to 4 players to freely explore living open world and build absolutely unique characters. An expanded and improved sequel for RPG Gedonia.
Galaxy Squad
WHY THIS
Another title from Kazakov Oleg, the studio behind Putrefaction.
Galaxy squad is a hardcore turn-based tactical roguelike, inspired by FTL and XCOM.
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker
WHY THIS
Shares survival mode and an atmospheric mood with Putrefaction.
Another title from Kazakov Oleg, the studio behind Putrefaction. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.
Envy the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Putrefaction.
Another title from Kazakov Oleg, the studio behind Putrefaction.
Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.
Putrefaction 2: Rumble in the hometown
WHY THIS
Another title from Kazakov Oleg, the studio behind Putrefaction. Shares Action and Indie with Putrefaction.
Putrefaction 2: Rumble in the hometown is a stand-alone campaign for Putrefaction 2: Void Walker, with new levels and enemies to fight. You can play this game without purchasing original Putrefaction 2.
Frequently asked about Putrefaction
- How much does Putrefaction cost?
- Putrefaction is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Putrefaction?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Putrefaction are BLOODKILL: Goreblast Overkill, BLOODKILL, CARNAGE OFFERING.
- Who developed Putrefaction?
- Putrefaction was developed by Kazakov Oleg.
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