Games like STATE Z
If STATE Z is your kind of game, the closest matches are Soviet Survival, Polygeddon and Ashes of Paradise: Aetherion — 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 STATE Z: Build your own base, hunt , cook ,upgrade your equipment and your character , gather resources, farm, maintain vehicles, trade with communities, complete tasks in exchange for rewards. The choice is yours: join your friends, trust strangers, or be alone wolf. It's all in your hands.
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Steam players who put hours into STATE Z 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.
Soviet Survival
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Top pick for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with STATE Z.
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Polygeddon
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Second-strongest match for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
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!
Ashes of Paradise: Aetherion
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Third-strongest match for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
Ashes of Paradise is an open-world exploration game blending Medieval, Oriental, and Nordic themes. Defeat powerful bosses and embark on a unique journey in this cooperative action-survival RPG.
Rain Station Z
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Ranked #4 for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
Multiplayer Open World Zombie Survival. The acid rain never stops, neither do the dead. Survive the apocalypse alone or with friends.
Junk Survivor
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Ranked #5 for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Plains of Pain
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Ranked #6 for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Dead Matter
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Ranked #7 for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
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.
7 Days to Die
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Ranked #8 for STATE Z fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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 STATE Z.
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 STATE Z.
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 STATE Z.
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.).
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with STATE Z.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with STATE Z.
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.
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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with STATE Z.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about STATE Z
- Does STATE Z have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — STATE Z supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Online PvP, Online Co-op, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to STATE Z?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside STATE Z are Soviet Survival, Polygeddon, Ashes of Paradise: Aetherion.
- Who developed STATE Z?
- STATE Z was developed by TEDLANDGAMES STUDIO.
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 STATE Z.
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