Games like The Refuge
If The Refuge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polygone, Polygeddon 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 The Refuge: Build and upgrade your refuge, gear up, and take on dangerous missions alone or with up to 3 players. Recover valuable resources, expand your camp, and choose your contracts wisely the greater the reward, the greater the risk.
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Steam players who put hours into The Refuge 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.
Polygone
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Top pick for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
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.
Polygeddon
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Second-strongest match for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Unturned
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Third-strongest match for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
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.
Survive the Nights
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Ranked #4 for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Zombie Survival Game Online
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Ranked #5 for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Dead Matter
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Ranked #6 for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
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.
Contagion
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Ranked #7 for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Fargone
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Ranked #8 for The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with The Refuge.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 The Refuge.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 The Refuge.
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.
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 The Refuge.
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.).
The Lab
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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!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Refuge.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Refuge.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Refuge.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Early Access with The Refuge.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Frequently asked about The Refuge
- Does The Refuge have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Refuge supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Refuge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Refuge are Polygone, Polygeddon, Unturned.
- Who developed The Refuge?
- The Refuge was developed by TheLittleGames.
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 The Refuge.
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