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Games like Hearts Gone Black

If Hearts Gone Black is your kind of game, the closest matches are Interzone, Vorax and Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival — 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 Hearts Gone Black: Hearts Gone Black is a top-down survival horror game set in a post-apocalyptic open world. Manage your base and survivors, scavenge, gather resources, craft equipment, and defend against infected while endure a broken world where weather, hunger, sanity, and moral choices slowly wear you down.

2027ActionAdventureWindowsby Life Is Hard Games
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Steam players who put hours into Hearts Gone Black 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. Interzone

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    Branded a deserter, you are thrown into the Interzone, where survival is the only law. Technology dies here, orders fall from the sky in artillery-fired capsules, the last voice from outside. Face anomalies, radiation, contamination, the infected, rebels, and ruthless military forces.

    ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Vorax

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Frozen State

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hearts Gone Black.

    Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

    2016ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. FALL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    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 ↗
  6. Immune - True Survival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    Experience true survival with a wink in the world of Immune - the new open-world survival online game. Survive the wastelands with the help of your friends and your hand crafted weapons. Build your own fort to defend yourself and your hard earned loot from evil mutants, bandits or reckless players.

    2016ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Days Gone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hearts Gone Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

    2021ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hearts Gone Black.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    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 ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hearts Gone Black.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hearts Gone Black.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hearts Gone Black.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hearts Gone Black

What games are most similar to Hearts Gone Black?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hearts Gone Black are Interzone, Vorax, Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival.
Who developed Hearts Gone Black?
Hearts Gone Black was developed by Life Is Hard Games.

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 Hearts Gone Black.

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