Games like Iron Wasteland
If Iron Wasteland is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape from Ashville, SLUGMOUTH and Unturned — 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 Iron Wasteland: After the bombs fell, civilization collapsed into chaos. Scavenge the ruins of a shattered world, gather vital resources, and fight off hostile enemies determined to claim what little remains.
Players who liked Iron Wasteland also play
Steam players who put hours into Iron Wasteland 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.
Escape from Ashville
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Top pick for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
Loot, fight and extract — or lose everything. A high-risk extraction shooter focused on survival, tactical combat, and meaningful decisions.
SLUGMOUTH
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Second-strongest match for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
SLUGMOUTH is a survival fps rpg set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of dangerous clans fighting a perpetual war. Bullets hit hard and survival demands careful resource management and tactical shooting.
Unturned
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Third-strongest match for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Survival Classic
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Ranked #4 for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
Try to survive the harsh realities of the cold Siberian countryside. Live long and always remember, man is man's enemy. You can trust no one but it is almost impossible to survive on your own. Choose your path and go to finish. Firefights, transport, crafting and survival.
Fargone
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Ranked #5 for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Iron Wasteland.
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Road to Vostok
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Ranked #6 for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Iron Wasteland.
Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.
Dead Matter
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Ranked #7 for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Afterinfection
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Ranked #8 for Iron Wasteland fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Iron Wasteland at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~60% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iron Wasteland.
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
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Priced ~60% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~44% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Action with Iron Wasteland.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~64% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Action with Iron Wasteland.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~50% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iron Wasteland.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
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Priced ~61% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~60% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iron Wasteland.
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
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Priced ~60% under Iron Wasteland on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iron Wasteland.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Iron Wasteland.
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 Iron Wasteland.
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 and Indie with Iron Wasteland.
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 Indie and Adventure with Iron Wasteland.
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 Indie with Iron Wasteland.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Iron Wasteland.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Iron Wasteland.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Iron Wasteland.
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.
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More from PhantomCore Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by PhantomCore Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
FUN Platformer
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Another title from PhantomCore Studio, the studio behind Iron Wasteland. Shares Action with Iron Wasteland.
fun Platformer you have to survive bees and rock enemies and slime enemies you have to make it to the trophy without dying. if you want open the pause menu you pressed P
Island Assault
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Another title from PhantomCore Studio, the studio behind Iron Wasteland. Shares Action with Iron Wasteland.
You Assault A Island What Is Under Russian Control and you need to destroy enemy vehicles and supplies and there will be mission to do or free roam around the map or you could build build a base with the money you will have to get the player is a a robot show is being controlled by human
Survive The Forest
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Another title from PhantomCore Studio, the studio behind Iron Wasteland. Shares Action and Adventure with Iron Wasteland.
You need to Survive the forest from infected. You need to get resources and survive from infected
Wildlands Resurgence
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Another title from PhantomCore Studio, the studio behind Iron Wasteland. Shares Action and Adventure with Iron Wasteland.
section for a game where players need to survive from wildlife, mine resources, craft items and structures, and even form tribes:
Frequently asked about Iron Wasteland
- How much does Iron Wasteland cost?
- Iron Wasteland is listed on Steam at 12.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Iron Wasteland?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Iron Wasteland are Escape from Ashville, SLUGMOUTH, Unturned.
- Who developed Iron Wasteland?
- Iron Wasteland was developed by PhantomCore Studio and published by PhantomCore Publisher.
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