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Games like Outposters

If Outposters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Variant 22, Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2 and Keep Her Safe — 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 Outposters: OUTPOSTERS is a 1-4 player co-op zombie shooter with a rogue-lite core. Hold the line against escalating waves, then push into the dead city to scavenge weapons and upgrades before the next assault lands.

ActionWindows · Linuxby Capuchin Games
Outposters — Steam game cover

Players who liked Outposters also play

Steam players who put hours into Outposters 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. Variant 22

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    Variant 22 is a survival game set in a procedural roguelike post American wasteland. Singleplayer or Multiplayer Coop, Scavenge loot from contaminated areas then base build back in the "safe zone" against endless hordes of the infected.

    2023ActionIndie13.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.

    2023ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Keep Her Safe

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    Keep Her Safe is a survival shooting game. Gather resources, fortify your base, and withstand zombie hordes to keep the rocket project alive and bring an end to the acid rain apocalypse. Besides the hard life in wasteland, you can also chill up with friends in different multiplayer gameplays.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure8.49 USDSteam ↗
  4. GRIDLANDS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    GRIDLANDS is a PvE extraction shooter set in a fallen world where sentient machines hunt what remains of humanity. Scavenge, survive, and extract through hostile industrial dead zones where every run could be your last.

    2027ActionIndieEarly AccessSteam ↗
  5. State Breakers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    State Breakers is a chaotic top-down PvPvE extraction shooter. INTERSTATE A.I. has turned against humanity! They must be infiltrated and destroyed! Resist solo or in a team - kill zombies, hack the map, outwit rival humans, loot, level up - and overthrow the clanker scum!

    2027ActionSteam ↗
  6. Polygone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    Polygone is a low-poly, yet highly visual take on the classic "Zombie Modes" in modern first person shooters. Play with up to four friends to fight off endless hordes of over 50 different zombies and bosses on a massive map that you'll need to unlock areas to explore.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Toypunk

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    A roguelite third-person puppet-shooter where you wield an entire toybox of absurd weaponry. Fight hordes of cotton-stuffed baddies across fantastical biomes in single-player or co-op. Experience crazy synergies and unlock more toys between runs!

    ActionSteam ↗
  8. Exterminauts

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Outposters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outposters.

    Exterminauts is a co-op third-person PvE shooter using weaponized power tools and mad-science gadgets to exterminate alien pests. Take on MegaCorp contracts amid energy supremacy clashes, while aliens' thirst for Polymorphic Plasma disrupts plans. Punch In. Clean Up. Get Paid.

    ActionAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. 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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Outposters

Does Outposters have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Outposters supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Outposters?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Outposters are Variant 22, Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2, Keep Her Safe.
Who developed Outposters?
Outposters was developed by Capuchin Games.

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 Outposters.

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