Games like Online: 404
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Online: 404 for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Online: 404 also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Online: 404: An open-world survival simulator where even seasoned veterans of the genre will have to rethink their typical survival approach and how they interact with the world around them. Play solo or with friends, follow the story or simply explore — just don’t forget your most important gadget.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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VEIN
Top pick for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Online: 404.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
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Cut The Grass: Farm Defense Survival
Second-strongest match for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Online: 404.
Cutting grass is just the beginning. Explore, gather loot, upgrade your farm and survive night attacks. Fight monsters, defend your base, and last as long as you can in this day-night survival loop!
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DREADZONE
Third-strongest match for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Online: 404.
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
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MISERY
Ranked #4 for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Online: 404.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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Ars Notoria
Ranked #5 for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Online: 404.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
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Lost Rift
Ranked #6 for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Online: 404.
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
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SCUM
Ranked #7 for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Online: 404.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
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DeadPoly
Ranked #8 for Online: 404 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Online: 404.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Online: 404.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Online: 404.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Online: 404.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Online: 404.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Online: 404.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Online: 404.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Frequently asked about Online: 404
- Does Online: 404 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Online: 404 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Online: 404?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Online: 404 are VEIN, Cut The Grass: Farm Defense Survival, DREADZONE.
- Who developed Online: 404?
- Online: 404 was developed by Cornfield 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 Online: 404.
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