Steam Deck games like Abiotic Factor
Below are 16 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Abiotic Factor (12 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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Subnautica
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Valheim
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Satisfactory
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Abiotic Factor.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Project Zomboid
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Abiotic Factor.
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..
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Core Keeper
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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7 Days to Die
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Don't Starve Together
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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The Planet Crafter
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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Gloomwood
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Abiotic Factor.
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
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Arx Fatalis
Deck Playable alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Abiotic Factor.
This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.
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Prey
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
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Grounded
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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Half-Life
Deck Verified alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Abiotic Factor.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Deck Playable alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Abiotic Factor.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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The Forest
Deck Playable alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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SCP
Deck Playable alternative to Abiotic Factor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Abiotic Factor.
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.