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Games like Ghosts in the City

Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Ghosts in the City for fans of action, adventure, rpg, 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 Ghosts in the City 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 Ghosts in the City: A co-op open-world survival hunt set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo. Explore the city solo or with up to 4 players, track wild animals, fight military forces, survive against deadly creatures, and uncover the truth behind Tokyo’s collapse.

ActionAdventureRPGWindowsby Acid Pixel Studios
Ghosts in the City — Steam game cover

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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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    Exit Ways — Steam game cover

    Exit Ways

    Top pick for Ghosts in the City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghosts in the City.

    🛠️🔫🚁Test your luck in the extraction shooter with survival elements. Build your camp, exterminate the contaminated and evacuate the civilians.

    2026ActionAdventureSteam ↗
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    Hunt: Showdown 1896 — Steam game cover

    Hunt: Showdown 1896

    Second-strongest match for Ghosts in the City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ghosts in the City.

    Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.

    2019Action15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Wildgate — Steam game cover

    Wildgate

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

    Wildgate is a PvPvE multiplayer shooter that blends tactical ship-to-ship combat with fast-paced first-person action. Evade deadly environmental hazards, search for powerful weapons and ship upgrades, and be the first crew to escape with the Artifact... or the last crew left flying.

    2025ActionStrategyAdventure7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    The Midnight Walkers — Steam game cover

    The Midnight Walkers

    Ranked #4 for Ghosts in the City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ghosts in the City.

    Fight, scavenge, and extract in The Midnight Walkers, a hardcore FPS game with deadly zombies, dangerous players, and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables; trade items; and maintain your hideout. Escape Liberty Grand Center mega complex, and thrive...or die and lose everything.

    2026ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Level Zero: Extraction — Steam game cover

    Level Zero: Extraction

    Ranked #5 for Ghosts in the City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghosts in the City.

    Tactical extraction shooter meets immersive survival horror. Play as rival mercenaries fighting for loot, or as alien monsters hunting humans from the shadows. Solo or with friends, experience this unique dark take on asymmetrical PvPvE multiplayer.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Vaultbreakers — Steam game cover

    Vaultbreakers

    Ranked #6 for Ghosts in the City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghosts in the City.

    Vaultbreakers is a top-down Extraction RPG where you go on PvE or PvPvE adventures. Build your haven, loot ancient artifacts that shape your playstyle, and explore a vast, corrupted world, alone or with friends. Use preparation, knowledge, and skills to clear your path to the Dragonvault.

    ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗
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    Escape from Tarkov — Steam game cover

    Escape from Tarkov

    Ranked #7 for Ghosts in the City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ghosts in the City.

    Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

    2025ActionSimulationMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Deceive Inc. — Steam game cover

    Deceive Inc.

    Ranked #8 for Ghosts in the City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ghosts in the City.

    Go undercover as the world’s greatest spies in this tense multiplayer game of subterfuge. Disguise as anyone, deploy an arsenal of high-tech gadgets or neutralize the competition. As long as you extract with the objective, no trick is too dirty when you work for DECEIVE INC.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

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    Life is Strange - Episode 1 — Steam game cover

    Life is Strange - Episode 1

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghosts in the City.

    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 ↗
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    Helltaker — Steam game cover

    Helltaker

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ghosts in the City.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Ultimate Custom Night — Steam game cover

    Ultimate Custom Night

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ghosts in the City.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
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    ENA: Dream BBQ — Steam game cover

    ENA: Dream BBQ

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ghosts in the City.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    STRAFTAT — Steam game cover

    STRAFTAT

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ghosts in the City.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive — Steam game cover

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ghosts in the City.

    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 ↗
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    NGU IDLE — Steam game cover

    NGU IDLE

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ghosts in the City.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Awaria — Steam game cover

    Awaria

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ghosts in the City.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ghosts in the City

Does Ghosts in the City have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Ghosts in the City supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Ghosts in the City?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghosts in the City are Exit Ways, Hunt: Showdown 1896, Wildgate.
Who developed Ghosts in the City?
Ghosts in the City was developed by Acid Pixel Studios.

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 Ghosts in the City.

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