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Games like Break The Ice

If Break The Ice is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loded Depths, Wild Frontier and Near Death — 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.

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About Break The Ice: Mine, survive, sell, upgrade, repeat. Descend into a treacherous ice cave filled with relentless monsters and rare loot. Escape with the Miner's Stone to proceed to your next expedition. But watch the frost, if your cabin's temperature drops, your journey ends permanently.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby BeyondRealm
Break The Ice — Steam game cover

Players who liked Break The Ice also play

Steam players who put hours into Break The Ice 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.

  1. Loded Depths

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    Mine, fight, and survive in hostile underground biomes as you uncover the secrets of a lost civilization in this exploration survival RPG.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Wild Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Break The Ice.

    Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature.

    2023ActionAdventure13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Near Death

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Break The Ice.

    Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.

    2025IndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Abyss: New Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    A cute world with a dark secret - The creatures you hunt are the very things sealing the Darkness. Which path will you choose?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dig to China Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    Dig to China Simulator, is a game about digging a hole in your back yard, until you get to China. Find ores in the holes you dig, sell them, upgrade your equipment to dig faster.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Project Winter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Core Keeper

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Break The Ice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Break The Ice.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Break The Ice.

    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 ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Break The Ice.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Break The Ice.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Break The Ice.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Break The Ice.

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Break The Ice.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Near Death

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Break The Ice.

    Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.

    2025IndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Project Winter

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Core Keeper

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Break The Ice.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Break The Ice

What games are most similar to Break The Ice?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Break The Ice are Loded Depths, Wild Frontier, Near Death.
Who developed Break The Ice?
Break The Ice was developed by BeyondRealm.

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 Break The Ice.

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