Games like March of the Living
If March of the Living is your kind of game, the closest matches are Survival Odyssey, ZOMBETES and TOXICANT — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, challenging and dark. 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 March of the Living: Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
Players who liked March of the Living also play
Steam players who put hours into March of the Living 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.
Survival Odyssey
WHY THIS
Top pick for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with March of the Living.
Immerse yourself in this epic survival game teeming with strategy and thrills! Confront relentless attacks, fighting tooth and nail to survive in a world overrun by chaos. Select from a diverse pool of 100 heroes, each boasting unique skills, allowing you to craft endless strategic combinations.
ZOMBETES
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with March of the Living.
Face the undead apocalypse while managing your diabetes. ZOMBETES is a gripping text-based game where every choice is crucial to your survival. Navigate procedural levels, scavenge for insulin, food, and supplies, and fight to stay alive in this unique blend of survival and strategy.
TOXICANT
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with March of the Living.
TOXICANT offers a sinister twist on the survival horror genre, featuring randomized levels and roguelike elements.
Lethal Running
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Ranked #4 for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with March of the Living.
RPG about a deadly game show in a futuristic dystopian society. Fight off never-ending attacks from merciless bounty hunters in the ruins of the city and survive the harsh conditions of the devastated wasteland.
Stories from the Outbreak
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Shares resource management and a tense mood with March of the Living.
Ranked #5 for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with March of the Living.
Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors from the doomed city of Riga towards a ferry sailing across the North Sea. Scavenge for supplies, battle the undead, decide the fate of your team. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to survive?
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with March of the Living.
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
Crying Suns
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Ranked #7 for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with March of the Living.
Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
Infectonator: Survivors
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Shares resource management and a tense mood with March of the Living.
Ranked #8 for March of the Living fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with March of the Living.
"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to March of the Living
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The Walking Dead
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Reviewers of March of the Living cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with March of the Living.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Death Road to Canada
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Shares a dark mood with March of the Living.
Reviewers of March of the Living cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with March of the Living.
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
They Are Billions
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Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with March of the Living.
Reviewers of March of the Living cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with March of the Living.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Rogue
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Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with March of the Living.
Reviewers of March of the Living cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with March of the Living.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below March of the Living at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Indie with March of the Living.
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 ~67% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Indie with March of the Living.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with March of the Living.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with March of the Living.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with March of the Living.
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!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with March of the Living.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with March of the Living.
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 ~67% under March of the Living on Steam right now. Shares Indie with March of the Living.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with March of the Living.
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 Indie with March of the Living.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with March of the Living.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with March of the Living.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with March of the Living.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with March of the Living.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with March of the Living.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with March of the Living.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about March of the Living
- Does March of the Living run on Steam Deck?
- March of the Living 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 March of the Living cost?
- March of the Living is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to March of the Living?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside March of the Living are Survival Odyssey, ZOMBETES, TOXICANT.
- Who developed March of the Living?
- March of the Living was developed by Machine 22 and published by Creaky Corpse Ltd.
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 March of the Living.
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