Games like Project Zarya
If Project Zarya is your kind of game, the closest matches are Court Wizard, Wonderland Gacha House: Muster and PentaPip — 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 Project Zarya: Project Zarya is an open-world adventure set in post-apocalyptic Russia, where every day is a fight for survival. Explore, gather resources, build shelters, craft equipment, and battle the infected alone or with friends.
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Steam players who put hours into Project Zarya 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.
Court Wizard
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Top pick for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zarya.
Cast spells, brew potions, and command defenders in this real-time strategy game. Choose from wildly different wizard archetypes, master spells with talent trees, and survive endless waves of attackers. Every wizard changes how you play. Can you defeat all of the bosses?
Wonderland Gacha House: Muster
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Second-strongest match for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with Project Zarya.
A casual bullet-hell roguelite with character collection and a progression system. Collect adorable Figurines, gear up through equipment Gacha, and use everyday items to battle powerful Bosses. No in-app purchases, duplicates, or fragment systems.
PentaPip
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Third-strongest match for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Project Zarya.
Roll, hold, score and break the rules. Build powerful synergies across five scorecards, outplay bosses that change the game, and take on seeded challenges solo, in Daily Runs, or in competitive multiplayer.
Backseat Champions
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Ranked #4 for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Project Zarya.
Manage your driver in short, tactical races. Rapidly choose from dozens of upgrades each race. Use tire compounds to shape your strategy. Machine-learned drivers make every race unpredictable. Can you become the Champion?
Fortress Merge
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Ranked #5 for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Project Zarya.
Merge buildings, upgrade your defenses, and protect your fortress from endless waves of zombies. Plan each move carefully, adapt your strategy, and survive as long as you can.
Warriors of the End
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Ranked #6 for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zarya.
Warriors of the End is a fast-paced tower-defense horde-battler roguelike. Defend the Princess against enemy hordes by strategically positioning and upgrading your towers, customize unique characters with deadly weapons and spells, discover mindblowing synergies and create game-breaking builds!
PixelJunk Monsters 3
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Ranked #7 for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zarya.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the PixelJunk Monsters series, the legendary series returns to its hand-drawn roots in glorious 4K! Run, dance, and build towers to defend against Monsters, with new roguelike elements adding strategic depth. Play solo or with up to two players online or locally.
Endless Tactics
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Ranked #8 for Project Zarya fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Project Zarya.
A turn-based tactics roguelite about defending a planetary mining expedition, upgrading your starship, and extracting before alien hordes overrun you.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Zarya.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Zarya.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Zarya.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Project Zarya.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Zarya.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Zarya.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Zarya.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Zarya.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Project Zarya
- Does Project Zarya have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Project Zarya supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Project Zarya?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Zarya are Court Wizard, Wonderland Gacha House: Muster, PentaPip.
- Who developed Project Zarya?
- Project Zarya was developed by Benzeji Games.
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 Project Zarya.
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