Games like Survive the Horde
If Survive the Horde is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terrible Life Expectancy, Sombie and Cepheus Protocol: Project Fenrir — 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 Survive the Horde: Face overwhelming hordes of the undead in a hyper-realistic post-apocalyptic world. Build defenses, wield devastating weapons, and unleash powerful abilities as you tear through swarms of zombies in this adrenaline-fueled first-person survival shooter.
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Steam players who put hours into Survive the Horde 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.
Terrible Life Expectancy
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Top pick for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.
Terrible Life Expectancy is a roguelite top-down shooter with Survivors elements. Fight absurd hordes of mutants for the amusement of an unseen bloodthirsty audience and only inherit all your upgrades as long as someone in your family is still breathing... or at least twitching.
Sombie
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Second-strongest match for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Survive the Horde.
Sombie offers action packed PvP, and PvE in an always online MMO. loot, kill, die, repeat. Explore an endless randomly generated world with your friends. Offering a unique spin on the Zombie survival genre, built from the ground up.
Cepheus Protocol: Project Fenrir
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Third-strongest match for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.
In Cepheus Protocol Project Fenrir, players battle relentless zombie waves as elite Fenrir operatives, mastering Arcade Time Attacks and intense Horde Defense Missions with strategic weaponry and tactics. Dive into exhilarating chaos.
Mr. Nomad
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Ranked #4 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.
Mr. Nomad is a survival base-building, tower defense game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Set a fortified base around your camper, craft, endure brutal zombie raids, hide what is precious to you in underground bunker and embark on dangerous missions in search of resources.
NightRunner
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Ranked #5 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.
Night Runner mixes coop horde survival with extraction mechanics, dungeon exploration, and tower defense systems. Inspired by Killing Floor and CoD Zombies (Tranzit), it delivers intense combat, strategic survival, and high-risk, high-reward gameplay.
Space Snatcher
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Ranked #6 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.
6-player co-op horror chaos where you're trapped aboard increasingly dangerous space stations. Scan every monster the Company demands, scavenge for powerful items to help you survive, and keep the ship's systems repaired. But the biggest threat might just be your friends.
Australia Did It: End-of-the-World Railway Defense Business
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Ranked #7 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Survive the Horde.
Deploy and merge units into 1,500+ variations to defend your train in tight Turn-Based Strategy battles, then see if your build survives Autobattler journeys between stations against massive monster hordes. Build you crew. Defend the train. Deliver the cargo.
Hold It In
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Ranked #8 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Survive the Horde.
This game is a brutally hardcore sci-fi tower defense, featuring BBS-era and ASCII graphics. You are a commander who must use everything at your disposal to stop the AI horde from opening the rift, and unleashing a cosmic horror upon the earth.
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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 Survive the Horde.
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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 Survive the Horde.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survive the Horde.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survive the Horde.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Survive the Horde.
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 Survive the Horde
- What games are most similar to Survive the Horde?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survive the Horde are Terrible Life Expectancy, Sombie, Cepheus Protocol: Project Fenrir.
- Who developed Survive the Horde?
- Survive the Horde was developed by Wanyi Games and published by Abyssal Ocean, Wanyi Graphics.
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 Survive the Horde.
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