Games like The Withering
If The Withering is your kind of game, the closest matches are Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存, Survivalist and Jaws Of Extinction™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Withering: Have you ever thought or imagined how our world would look like after an apocalyptic event? What would we do if some of us were to survive? What world would we live in and what challenges would we face? What would you do?
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Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Top pick for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Withering.
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Survivalist
WHY THIS
Shares scavenging and an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Second-strongest match for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Withering.
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Jaws Of Extinction™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Third-strongest match for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Withering.
The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
Nether: Resurrected
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Ranked #4 for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Withering.
Nether is a unique, first-person, multiplayer urban survival experience. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Nether forces players to make life-saving decisions in a fast-paced struggle against players and the environment. Join tribes, hold territory, scavenge, craft, trade and loot your way to stay alive.
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with The Withering.
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.
Contagion VR: Outbreak
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Ranked #6 for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Withering.
Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!
Miscreated
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Ranked #7 for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Withering.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an immersive mood with The Withering.
Ranked #8 for The Withering fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with The Withering.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
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State of Decay
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with The Withering.
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.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an immersive mood with The Withering.
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Withering.
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..
DayZ
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Withering.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Infestation: The New Beginning
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Withering.
Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares base management, resource allocation and an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Withering.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Withering.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Miscreated
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with The Withering.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Tom Clancy’s The Division™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Withering.
Reviewers of The Withering cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Withering.
A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Withering at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Withering.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Withering.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Withering.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Withering.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Withering.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Withering.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Withering.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Withering on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Withering.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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. Shares Indie with The Withering.
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 Withering.
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 and Indie with The Withering.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Withering.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Withering.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Withering.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Withering.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about The Withering
- How much does The Withering cost?
- The Withering is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Withering?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Withering are Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存, Survivalist, Jaws Of Extinction™.
- Who developed The Withering?
- The Withering was developed by CM Softworks.
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