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Games like Souls of the Dead

If Souls of the Dead is your kind of game, the closest matches are Arizona Sunshine®, DARKEST DAYS and METAL GEAR SURVIVE — 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.

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About Souls of the Dead: A bio-catastrophe has engulfed the world, transforming people into bloodthirsty creatures. The only way to stop this plague is to damage the infected's brain. Try to survive this hell – alone or with a partner – while trying to maintain the line between a human and what you're forced to destroy.

2026ActionIndieAdventureMassively MultiplayerWindowsby Dramatic Medium
Souls of the Dead — Steam game cover

Players who liked Souls of the Dead also play

Steam players who put hours into Souls of the Dead 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.

  1. Arizona Sunshine®

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Souls of the Dead.

    Sharpen your machete and grab your friends. Arizona Sunshine® brings its award-winning zombie apocalypse to explosive third-person action, featuring online and split-screen co-op, brutal combat, dark humor, and Buddy, your loyal zombie-chomping canine companion.

    2026ActionSteam ↗
  2. DARKEST DAYS

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souls of the Dead.

    DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

    2025ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  3. METAL GEAR SURVIVE

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souls of the Dead.

    METAL GEAR SURVIVE builds upon MGSV’s stealth action gameplay with elements of exploration and survival creating a bold new experience. *An internet connection is required to play the game.

    2018ActionStrategyAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. DeadPoly

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Souls of the Dead.

    DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. PolyZ

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Souls of the Dead.

    Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Into The Haze

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Souls of the Dead.

    Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. HumanitZ

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souls of the Dead.

    HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

    2026ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. DESOLATE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Souls of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Souls of the Dead.

    DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

    2019ActionAdventureRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Souls of the Dead.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Souls of the Dead.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Souls of the 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Souls of the Dead.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Souls of the Dead.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Souls of the Dead.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Souls of the Dead.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Souls of the Dead.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Souls of the Dead

Does Souls of the Dead have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Souls of the Dead supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Souls of the Dead?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Souls of the Dead are Arizona Sunshine®, DARKEST DAYS, METAL GEAR SURVIVE.
Who developed Souls of the Dead?
Souls of the Dead was developed by Dramatic Medium.

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 Souls of the Dead.

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