Games like The Escapists: The Walking Dead
If The Escapists: The Walking Dead is your kind of game, the closest matches are 孤胆惊魂3:起源 Fear3:Origins, How To Survive: Third Person Standalone and Resident Evil 4 (2005) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and stressful. 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 Escapists: The Walking Dead: Merging the smash hit indie game The Escapists with the world wide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, Team17 have taken the very best of both worlds and are now providing players with the opportunity to play Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of zombies let loose upon the world.
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孤胆惊魂3:起源 Fear3:Origins
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
This is a pixel style puzzle, survival, adventure, survival, horror shooting game, the game perspective using a top view angle, you will control Ling Feng (the protagonist) in the monster attack to survive, and to find the truth.
How To Survive: Third Person Standalone
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Second-strongest match for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Third-strongest match for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
How to Survive 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Ranked #4 for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Ranked #5 for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Arizona Sunshine®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Ranked #6 for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Zombie Army Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Ranked #7 for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Escapists: The Walking Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Escapists: The Walking Dead
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The Escapists 2
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Reviewers of The Escapists: The Walking Dead cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
The Escapists
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Reviewers of The Escapists: The Walking Dead cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Reviewers of The Escapists: The Walking Dead cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Escapists: The Walking Dead at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Escapists: The Walking Dead on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under The Escapists: The Walking Dead on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Escapists: The Walking Dead on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Escapists: The Walking Dead on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under The Escapists: The Walking Dead on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under The Escapists: The Walking Dead on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Escapists: The Walking Dead on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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 Escapists: The Walking Dead.
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.
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 Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
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Worms Armageddon
WHY THIS
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Strategy with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Those intrepid invertebrates return with a vengeance in the much-loved Worms™ Armageddon. It’s a whole new can of worms! It’s hilarious fun that you can enjoy on your own or with all your friends.
Worms Revolution
WHY THIS
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Strategy with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Worms™ Revolution is the latest game in the classic turn-based strategy series to come to the PC.
Worms Ultimate Mayhem
WHY THIS
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Strategy with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Load your weapons and experience a whole new dimension in destructive turn-based cartoon action!
Worms Reloaded
WHY THIS
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Strategy with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Ten years on from Worms™ Armageddon and the turn-based comic mayhem continues in Worms™ Reloaded, an all-new edition available for PC through Steam.
Worms Clan Wars
WHY THIS
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Strategy with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Worms™ Clan Wars is the biggest and best Worms™ game to date - more worms, larger landscapes, more dynamic water, more weapons and more customisation items than ever before.
Worms World Party Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Imagine taking the perfect online gaming experience and one of the most popular Worms games ever made, adding a touch of Steam achievements, leaderboards, cloud saves, full controller support; a little sprinkle of 1080 / 60FPS, and you have Worms World Party Remastered!
Beyond Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Indie with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Beyond Eyes is a modern fairy tale about finding courage and friendship. Step by step, uncover an incredible world, carefully guiding Rae, a young blind girl, on a life changing journey.
Worms
WHY THIS
Another title from Team17 Digital Ltd, the studio behind The Escapists: The Walking Dead. Shares Strategy with The Escapists: The Walking Dead.
Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.
Frequently asked about The Escapists: The Walking Dead
- Is The Escapists: The Walking Dead verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Escapists: The Walking Dead is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Escapists: The Walking Dead cost?
- The Escapists: The Walking Dead is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Escapists: The Walking Dead?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Escapists: The Walking Dead are 孤胆惊魂3:起源 Fear3:Origins, How To Survive: Third Person Standalone, Resident Evil 4 (2005).
- Who developed The Escapists: The Walking Dead?
- The Escapists: The Walking Dead was developed by Team17 Digital Ltd.
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