Games like DEAD RISING®
If DEAD RISING® is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Rising® 2, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record and Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative weapon usage, exploration freedom and open world sandbox gameplay. 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 →Originally released by Capcom in 2006 and brought to Steam in 2016, Dead Rising drops players into the role of photojournalist Frank West, who must uncover the mystery behind a zombie outbreak at a sprawling shopping mall. The game combines action and adventure gameplay with survival mechanics, tasking players with rescuing survivors while racing against a strict 72-hour time limit. Players describe the experience as brutal and challenging, with reviewers highlighting creative weapon-crafting systems and the freedom to explore the open-world sandbox environment. The game has earned a 91% positive rating from over 4,000 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck.
About DEAD RISING®: You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!
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Steam players who put hours into DEAD RISING® 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.
Dead Rising® 2
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Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Top pick for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with DEAD RISING®.
Second-strongest match for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
WHY THIS
Shares weapon crafting and a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Third-strongest match for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
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Ranked #4 for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
Dead Rising 4
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Ranked #5 for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
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Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Ranked #6 for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
Dead Rising returns with modern graphics in this Deluxe Remaster!
State of Decay
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Ranked #7 for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Zombie Army Trilogy
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for DEAD RISING® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW RePOP
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Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The chainsaw-wielding cheerleader Juliet Starling returns in Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP!
Project Zomboid
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Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares weapon crafting and a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
No More Heroes
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Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Fight your way to the top in this HD remaster of everyone's favorite assassin action game! As all-American otaku Travis Touchdown, use your trusty beam katana to hack-and-slash though the competition and claim the title of world's #1 assassin!
Vanquish
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Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
PlatinumGames’ revolutionary sci-fi action shooter slide-boosts onto PC. Battle legions of future-tech enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons, including all DLC. Fully unlocked framerate and gorgeous HD resolutions up to 4K. The definitive way to play: war has accelerated.
Devil May Cry HD Collection
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Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The popular stylish action games Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 2, and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition return in one collection!
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DEAD RISING® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DEAD RISING® at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under DEAD RISING® on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 DEAD RISING®.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
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 DEAD RISING®.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 DEAD RISING®.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Capcom, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
WHY THIS
Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
Resident Evil 6
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with DEAD RISING®.
Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
Resident Evil 5
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.
Resident Evil Revelations
WHY THIS
Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
Resident Evil® Revelations returns redefined for PC complete with high quality HD visuals, enhanced lighting effects and an immersive sound experience.
Ultra Street Fighter® IV
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Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The world’s greatest fighting game evolves to a whole new level with Ultra Street Fighter IV.
Mega Man Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DEAD RISING®.
Another title from Capcom, the studio behind DEAD RISING®. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The epic clash between two storied universes returns with Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Ultron Sigma has begun the eradication of all biological life. Against all odds, heroes stand together against the ultimate threat, their only hope laying with the all-powerful Infinity Stones.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with DEAD RISING®.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with DEAD RISING®.
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
Dead Rising 4
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Zombie Army Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with DEAD RISING®.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
Frequently asked about DEAD RISING®
- Is DEAD RISING® verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — DEAD RISING® is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does DEAD RISING® cost?
- DEAD RISING® is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DEAD RISING®?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DEAD RISING® are Dead Rising® 2, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition.
- Who developed DEAD RISING®?
- DEAD RISING® was developed by Capcom.
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