Games like Black Skies
If Black Skies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside, ZIC: Survival and Deadly Infestation — 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 Black Skies: Black Skies is a grounded survival simulation where an EMP disables modern infrastructure, forcing you to navigate a cold mountain terrain, manage realistic survival systems, scavenge supplies, build fires, trap wildlife, craft and cook what you need, and make hard decisions to stay alive.
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Steam players who put hours into Black Skies 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.
Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
WHY THIS
Top pick for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Black Skies.
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
ZIC: Survival
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Black Skies.
ZIC: Survival is a survival shooter where you feel The Zombie Apocalypse & become The Undead Hunter!
Deadly Infestation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Black Skies.
Collect resources, hunt, mine, build your base, weapons and objects to help you survive. Are you able to discover the real reason for your journey?
30 days to survive
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Black Skies.
"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.
The Rule of Land: Pioneers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Black Skies.
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.
Frost Survival VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Black Skies.
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
KeepUp Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Skies.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Northern Lights
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Black Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Black Skies.
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Black Skies at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Black Skies.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Black Skies.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Black Skies.
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 ~71% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Black Skies.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Black Skies.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Black Skies.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Black Skies.
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 ~64% under Black Skies on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Black Skies.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Black Skies.
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.
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 Black Skies.
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 Adventure with Black Skies.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Black Skies.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Black Skies.
‘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 Adventure and Simulation with Black Skies.
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!
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Frequently asked about Black Skies
- How much does Black Skies cost?
- Black Skies is listed on Steam at 10.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Black Skies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Skies are Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside, ZIC: Survival, Deadly Infestation.
- Who developed Black Skies?
- Black Skies was developed by Metacortex 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 Black Skies.
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