Games like The Surge
If The Surge is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Surge 2, Mortal Shell II and WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and immersive. 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 →The Surge is a 2017 action RPG from Deck13 set in a sci-fi corporate megastructure. The game implements a limb-targeting combat system where severing specific enemy limbs unlocks gear blueprints and upgrades. Players progress through a scrap-based XP system, customize their character with implant upgrades, and develop weapon proficiency across multiple weapon types. The level design incorporates interconnected shortcuts that players can unlock for faster traversal. Reviewers note the game builds variety through its implant and weapon systems while the sci-fi setting incorporates environmental storytelling elements. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, dark, and tense, with combat that feels visceral and rewarding. It holds a 77% positive rating from over 4,300 Steam reviews and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck.
About The Surge: Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.
Players who liked The Surge also play
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The Surge 2
WHY THIS
Shares implant customization, limb targeting combat and an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Top pick for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.
Mortal Shell II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Surge.
Their Flesh Is Your Weapon. Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel action-RPG with adrenaline-charged, high-stakes combat. Possess warrior Shells, dethrone false gods, redeem a ravaged world.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
WHY THIS
Shares shortcut unlocking and an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Third-strongest match for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
SD GUNDAM BATTLE ALLIANCE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
SD Gundam Battle Alliance is a multiplayer Gundam action RPG where you can smash foes solo or with friends in thrilling mechanized combat. Acquire new mobile suits, power them up, and take them into battle in various missions!
Mortal Shell
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Ranked #5 for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
Their Flesh is Your Armor. Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Survival demands superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Possess lost warriors, track down hidden sanctums of the devout, and face formidable foes.
Blade of Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Surge.
Ranked #6 for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
Nioh 3
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Surge.
Ranked #7 for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
In the third game in the dark samurai action RPG series Nioh, you will need to use both Samurai and Ninja combat styles in your battles against formidable yokai as you explore a thrilling open field.
ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Surge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Surge.
A new action game based on the concept of the ARMORED CORE series that uses the knowledge gained from FromSoftware's recent action game development.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Surge
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Reviewers of The Surge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Surge.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
The Surge 2
WHY THIS
Shares implant customization, limb targeting combat and an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Reviewers of The Surge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Surge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Surge.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Surge at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Surge.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Surge.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Surge.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Surge.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Surge.
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 ~80% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Surge.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Surge on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
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.
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 Surge.
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 with The Surge.
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.
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 with The Surge.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Deck13
Other recommendable Steam games by Deck13, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Surge 2
WHY THIS
Shares implant customization, limb targeting combat and an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Another title from Deck13, the studio behind The Surge. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.
Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Another title from Deck13, the studio behind The Surge. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
In solo or co-op, experience Reign of Sand, the ultimate version of Atlas Fallen. Ride the sands of a timeless land and defeat legendary monsters in spectacular Action-RPG combat using devastating powers.
Venetica - Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Another title from Deck13, the studio behind The Surge. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
In a fantastical Venice, The Corpus are deceived by a cunning necromancer. Transformed into an undead fiend, the conniving imposter is hell-bent on destroying the reinstated Death and the council of Corpus. Only Scarlett, the daughter of Death, can stand in his way.
Black Sails - The Ghost Ship
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Another title from Deck13, the studio behind The Surge.
Best played with the lights turned off and the volume turned up, Black Sails is a creepy and mysterious point-and-click adventure game.Two survivors of a shipwreck try to survive in the raging sea. Until another ship appears. Hoping for rescue, they are calling, but nobody answers. They manage to go on board. Will this be their rescue?
Ankh - Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Deck13, the studio behind The Surge.
Sneak into the pharaoh's pyramid and meet up with Assil and his crew of crazy friends. Just as the party starts to get hot, a silly accident turns life upside down! Help Assil reverse the curse!
Jack Keane
WHY THIS
Another title from Deck13, the studio behind The Surge.
Colonial England. Under a certain amount of duress... Jack takes on a job, which will not only cause him a great deal of trouble, but also bring to light the answer to a mystery out of his distant past. A lack of money leads Jack to accept a charter to take a British secret agent to mysterious 'Tooth Island'.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Surge 2
WHY THIS
Shares implant customization, limb targeting combat and an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.
Mortal Shell
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Surge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
Their Flesh is Your Armor. Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Survival demands superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Possess lost warriors, track down hidden sanctums of the devout, and face formidable foes.
Blade of Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Surge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with The Surge.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
Frequently asked about The Surge
- Does The Surge run on Steam Deck?
- The Surge is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Surge cost?
- The Surge is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Surge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Surge are The Surge 2, Mortal Shell II, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers.
- Who developed The Surge?
- The Surge was developed by Deck13 and published by Focus Entertainment.
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