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Games like Survive the Horde

If Survive the Horde is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sombie, Defense: Abominations and Space Snatcher — 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.

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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.

2026ActionStrategyIndieEarly AccessWindowsby WANYI GAMES
Survive the Horde — Steam game cover

Players who liked Survive the Horde also play

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.

  1. Sombie

    WHY THIS

    Top pick 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.

    2026ActionMassively MultiplayerRPGSteam ↗
  2. Defense: Abominations

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Survive the Horde.

    Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Space Snatcher

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.

    Six players. One infested ship. Ten alien monsters. Board increasingly dangerous deep space research vessels to scan alien species while repairing the ship and running from monsters. But the biggest threat might just be your friends.

    2026ActionIndieEarly AccessSteam ↗
  4. Australia Did It

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 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.

    ActionStrategySteam ↗
  5. Hold It In

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 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.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Survive the Horde.

    Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

    2025ActionStrategySimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. They Are Coming

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.

    They Are Coming is a hybrid game that combines roguelike, tower defense, and base building in a side-scrolling shooter format. It offers a straightforward gaming experience for pure enjoyment.

    2023ActionIndieEarly Access2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. FALL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Survive the Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Survive the Horde.

    In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survive the Horde.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Horde.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Sombie, Defense: Abominations, Space Snatcher.
Who developed Survive the Horde?
Survive the Horde was developed by WANYI GAMES and published by Abyssal Ocean Limited, 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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