Games like The Dead
If The Dead is your kind of game, the closest matches are 弃层凶谈, Turn Back Now and 门 The Door — 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 The Dead: Control the Horde. Hunt the last humans. Track their scavengers across the remains of the old world. Grow your numbers. Swarm their outposts. Tear down their fragile camps and erase the final traces of civilisation - one survivor at a time.
Players who liked The Dead also play
Steam players who put hours into 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.
弃层凶谈
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
Curse Of The Abandoned Floor is a first-person Chinese horror game. It starts with a paranormal video about an urban legend: "Beware the non-existent elevator mezzanine. If you enter it, you will be trapped forever."
Turn Back Now
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Dead.
Survival horror RPG where you investigate, explore, and endure dynamic psychological threats as a rookie officer. Manage resources, make critical choices, and survive horrific encounters in a tense, atmospheric third-person experience.
门 The Door
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
你想要明白生命的真正意义吗，想在无尽的世界里游戏吗，想真正的活着吗？ 那么主神空间欢迎您！
Airtight City 密闭之城1.0
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
This is a TPS, horror-type action shooting game. The game will draw players into a terrifying dark world with detailed atmosphere rendering and weird story. Here, you are not defenseless, but even with a gun, you can't suppress the trembling from the heart. Game revenue is used for 2.0 development.
The Sinking City 2
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Ranked #5 for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
Set in the Roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Defy an eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
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Ranked #6 for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
An Oni Gauntlet-wielding samurai makes a stand in Kyoto against the encroaching Genma menace. Through gritty, blood-soaked brawls, he searches for his reason to fight. What fate awaits at the end of his path?
Maneater
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Ranked #7 for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dead.
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
Vampyr
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Dead.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
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.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with 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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Dead.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Dead.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with 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.).
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Frequently asked about The Dead
- What games are most similar to The Dead?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dead are 弃层凶谈, Turn Back Now, 门 The Door.
- Who developed The Dead?
- The Dead was developed by Rotting Edge 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 The Dead.
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