Games like Beneath the Permafrost
If Beneath the Permafrost is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Isle of No Return, Left 4 Dead 2 and Clown Camp — 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 Beneath the Permafrost: The world has ended, but the storm remains. Experience survival-horror within the ruins of a fractured city. Stay warm. Fight the dead. Find the Fountain. Will you be buried beneath the eternal blizzard? Or will you cheat death itself? Every bullet, every match, and every decision counts.
Players who liked Beneath the Permafrost also play
Steam players who put hours into Beneath the Permafrost 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 Isle of No Return
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Top pick for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Beneath the Permafrost.
The Isle of No Return takes you to a forgotten prison island, where a dark experiment has unleashed unimaginable horrors. Explore, survive and uncover hidden secrets as you face bloodthirsty creatures in an environment where every step may be your last.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Second-strongest match for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Beneath the Permafrost.
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.
Clown Camp
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Third-strongest match for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
First-Person Survival Horror, 90’s style. Hostile clowns lurk the woods. Fight-or-flight to uncover their gruesome secrets throughout a chilling Single-Player Story. Clever inventory management and resourcefulness are your only hopes to escape the Summer of 1999 alive.
Skyborne Terrors
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Ranked #4 for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
"Skyborne Terrors" is a unique horror game where you navigate dangerous, dense skies using a mechanical aircraft. But the skies are far from empty! Demonic balloons haunt the skies, hunting for fresh victims!
PermaNight
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Ranked #5 for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
Survive in a world full of darkness. Gain resources. Kill entities. Repeat. But beware, there might be entities lurking around...
Housekeeper: Anomaly
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Ranked #6 for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
Scavenge abandoned apartments, cut on broken glass, fight anomalies, trade with the merchants, deceive them into buying bad products and most importantly - try to stay alive and care about yourself!
Contagion
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Ranked #7 for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
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.
My Friendly Neighborhood
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Ranked #8 for Beneath the Permafrost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.
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 Beneath the Permafrost.
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.
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 Beneath the Permafrost.
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 Beneath the Permafrost.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Beneath the Permafrost.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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 Beneath the Permafrost.
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.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
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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Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Beneath the Permafrost.
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.
Contagion
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
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.
My Friendly Neighborhood
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beneath the Permafrost.
Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.
Frequently asked about Beneath the Permafrost
- What games are most similar to Beneath the Permafrost?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beneath the Permafrost are The Isle of No Return, Left 4 Dead 2, Clown Camp.
- Who developed Beneath the Permafrost?
- Beneath the Permafrost was developed by Permafrost Team and published by MAGIC Spell Studios.
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 Beneath the Permafrost.
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