Games like Deep Rise
If Deep Rise is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ironwake, Project Thea and Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville — 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 Deep Rise: Colony management exploration survival game, climb up out of the deep. The surface world ended a thousand years ago, and we hid underground until it forgot us. Now the road up is finally open. Build a colony, send your six survivors into the dark, and reach for the first dawn in a thousand years.
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Steam players who put hours into Deep Rise 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.
Ironwake
WHY THIS
Top pick for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
“A gothic turn-based roguelite where the town remembers you. Forge real bonds with the keepers of Ironwake — or betray them and live with it. Raise a creature from egg to Awakening. Descend ever-shifting dungeons for element-forged loot, and come back changed.
Project Thea
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Second-strongest match for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Deep Rise.
Wake to a brutal world bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
METRO QUESTER | OSAKA
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Ranked #4 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
METRO QUESTER | OSAKA is a dungeon exploration RPG based in a post-apocalyptic futuristic world created by the manga artist Kazushi Hagiwara, with a deep game system designed by Hironori Kato that offers the excitement and surprises reminiscent of 1980s computer games through hack and slash.
Anoxia Station
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Deep Rise.
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.
Sheltered 2
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Ranked #6 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Shelter Manager
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Ranked #7 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Valor of Man
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
Forge your party. Master your fate. In this turn-based roguelite RPG, lead four heroes through a fractured realm of danger and destiny. Build synergies, unlock powerful abilities, and face ever-shifting challenges in an epic battle for survival. No journey is ever the same.
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 and Casual with Deep Rise.
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 Adventure with Deep Rise.
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 Deep Rise.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Rise.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Rise.
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 Deep Rise.
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 Indie and Adventure with Deep Rise.
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.
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Frequently asked about Deep Rise
- What games are most similar to Deep Rise?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Rise are Ironwake, Project Thea, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville.
- Who developed Deep Rise?
- Deep Rise was developed by Max Karnaukh.
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 Deep Rise.
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