Games like Dead Wave
If Dead Wave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zombie Survivor: Undead City Attack, Zombie Hell: Infected City and Humanity Lost — 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 Dead Wave: Dead Wave is a first-person zombie survival horror game where a mysterious radio signal is the only thing standing between you and the end of the world — or the thing that caused it.
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Steam players who put hours into Dead Wave 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.
Zombie Survivor: Undead City Attack
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Top pick for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Wave.
Immerse yourself in Zombie Survivor: Undead City Attack, a retro first-person rail shooter. Roam through famous cities - New York, London, Rio - against crazy zombies. Use pistols and rifles, develop a strategy to earn points and medals.
Zombie Hell: Infected City
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
Zombie Hell is an FPS where you take on the role of the head of a family – a father fighting for his family's survival, lest they all meet a grim end at the rotting hands of a zombie horde in an apocalyptic city.
Humanity Lost
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Third-strongest match for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
Will you save humanity? You are on a mission to find a new planet for humans to inhabit. In this story driven FPS space opera you will explore open world planets, find weapons, upgrade your character, and befriend alien species.
DayZ
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Ranked #4 for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
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.
Zompiercer
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Ranked #5 for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Afterinfection
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Ranked #6 for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Just Survive
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Ranked #7 for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
Just Survive is a post-apocalyptic survival game that immerses you in a world where humanity is fighting to take back control from the zombie hordes.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
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Ranked #8 for Dead Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Wave.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – standalone prequel for the acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which tells you story about the Clear Sky group, that want to research the Zone and understand it better.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
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 Wave.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dead Wave.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Wave.
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
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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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dead Wave.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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More from Ghost Machine
Other recommendable Steam games by Ghost Machine, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Neon Curves Racing
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Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave.
Burn rubber through glowing city circuits where speed, style, and attitude collide. Neon Curves Racing is a fast-paced top-down arcade racer wrapped in a vibrant kawaii neon aesthetic, blending tight racing mechanics with flashy customization and playful personality.
MotorSport Revolution
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Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave. Shares Simulation with Dead Wave.
Motorsport Revolution is a single-player, physics-based racing game inspired by classic arcade racing games, as well as the popular Le Mans Series, which is considered the most challenging sport racing class in the world.
SuperBike TT
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Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave.
SuperBike TT is a single-player, physics-based racing game within a multi-team and multi-bike livery for built-in replayability.
Final Strike
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Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave. Shares Action and Simulation with Dead Wave.
What if fighter-pilot movies had a love child with alien invasion blockbusters from the ’90s? You’d no doubt get Final Strike, an edge-of-your-seat F-16 jet fighter simulator that puts you against an airborne invasion of alien invaders.
Orc Assault
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Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave.
Once upon a time all was peaceful and serene in the far off land of Camalon, but the silence has been broken as the Orc hordes have returned to the peaceful kingdom to claim the land that they once held most sacred.
Golf Masters
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Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave. Shares Simulation with Dead Wave.
Experience some of the worlds most beautiful real and fantasy golf courses in relaxing 360 degree outdoor VR 3D rendered environments.
Gumball Drift
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Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave. Shares Action with Dead Wave.
Based on the classic arcade racing style and console kart racers, this Fast Paced racer bring you into the track in virtual reality. With both utility and sport vehicles, Gumball Drift takes you on a tour of the world.
Deadrock Salvation
WHY THIS
Another title from Ghost Machine, the studio behind Dead Wave. Shares Action with Dead Wave.
The frontier of Deadrock Salvation is an immersive Open World RPG on the edge of a gun barrel and temptation hides behind every saloon door. In DS, you step into the boots of Colt Dawson, a weary gunslinger searching for a second chance in a land that’s forgotten the meaning of mercy.
Frequently asked about Dead Wave
- What games are most similar to Dead Wave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Wave are Zombie Survivor: Undead City Attack, Zombie Hell: Infected City, Humanity Lost.
- Who developed Dead Wave?
- Dead Wave was developed by Ghost Machine and published by Entropy Digital Entertainment.
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 Dead Wave.
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