Games like Dead Rising® 2
If Dead Rising® 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition and DEAD RISING® — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative weapon combinations, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Dead Rising 2 is a 2010 action-adventure set in the neon-drenched casino city of Fortune City. Players control motorcycle stuntman Chuck Greene, fighting to survive a zombie outbreak while racing against the clock to gather evidence for a life-saving cure. The game features a deep combo-weapon system allowing players to merge everyday objects into absurdly powerful tools, alongside escort missions and memorable psychopath boss encounters. A distinctive restroom-save mechanic lets players preserve progress without losing momentum. Players describe the overall tone as funny, with reviewers highlighting the challenging gameplay loop and dark comedy that permeates the experience. Creative-weapon-combinations and tactical-positioning-matters are commonly cited as the core hooks. The game holds a 78% positive rating from over 3,400 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Dead Rising® 2: The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.
Players who liked Dead Rising® 2 also play
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Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Top pick for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Second-strongest match for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.
DEAD RISING®
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Third-strongest match for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!
Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜
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Ranked #4 for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.
Dead Rising 4
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Ranked #5 for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...
How to Survive 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Ranked #6 for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
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Shares a funny mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Ranked #7 for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
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Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Ranked #8 for Dead Rising® 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
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Saints Row
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Shares a funny mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Reviewers of Dead Rising® 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the American Southwest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Reviewers of Dead Rising® 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
ZOMBI
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Reviewers of Dead Rising® 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.
Just Cause 2
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Reviewers of Dead Rising® 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
The Last of Us™ Part I
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Reviewers of Dead Rising® 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
Mortal Kombat 1
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Reviewers of Dead Rising® 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
Resident Evil 4
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Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Reviewers of Dead Rising® 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Rising® 2 at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Priced ~50% under Dead Rising® 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Dead Rising® 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Dead Rising® 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Rising® 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Dead Rising® 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Dead Rising® 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
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 ~65% under Dead Rising® 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
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.
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.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
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 Rising® 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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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?
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 Rising® 2.
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 Rising® 2.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
DEAD RISING®
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dead Rising® 2.
You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!
Dead Rising 4
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Dead Rising® 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dead Rising® 2.
Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...
Frequently asked about Dead Rising® 2
- Does Dead Rising® 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Dead Rising® 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Dead Rising® 2 cost?
- Dead Rising® 2 is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dead Rising® 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dead Rising® 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dead Rising® 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Rising® 2 are Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition, DEAD RISING®.
- Who developed Dead Rising® 2?
- Dead Rising® 2 was developed by Capcom Vancouver and published by Capcom.
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