Games like Airlock
If Airlock is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last of Us™ Part I, Nightwater and AETHUS — 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 Airlock: Plan in the ant farm. Live in the 3D city. AIRLOCK is a post-apocalyptic survival base-builder where you rescue Settlers from ruined Ashgate, build a sanctuary deep beneath the toxic surface, and outlast The Altered. The Last of Us meets The Alters.
Players who liked Airlock also play
Steam players who put hours into Airlock 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.
The Last of Us™ Part I
WHY THIS
Top pick for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Airlock.
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™.
Nightwater
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Airlock.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
AETHUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Airlock.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airlock.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
The Alters
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Airlock.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Days Gone
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Airlock.
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
VEIN
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Airlock.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
The Last Caretaker
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Airlock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Airlock.
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Airlock.
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 Airlock.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Airlock.
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 Airlock.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airlock.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Airlock.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Airlock.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airlock.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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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.
The Last of Us™ Part I
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Airlock.
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™.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airlock.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
The Alters
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Airlock.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Days Gone
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Airlock.
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
Frequently asked about Airlock
- What games are most similar to Airlock?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Airlock are The Last of Us™ Part I, Nightwater, AETHUS.
- Who developed Airlock?
- Airlock was developed by Ironbridge 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 Airlock.
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