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Games like Diseased

If Diseased is your kind of game, the closest matches are MAPS (My Apocalyptic Plan for Survival), Phantom of the Grove and Project Tomorrow — 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 Diseased: Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.

ActionStrategyIndieAdventureSimulationWindowsby Yavuz Kala
Diseased — Steam game cover

Players who liked Diseased also play

Steam players who put hours into Diseased 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. MAPS (My Apocalyptic Plan for Survival)

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Diseased fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Diseased.

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    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Phantom of the Grove

    WHY THIS

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

    A fungal fairycore colony sim where you are the vengeful spirit of an ancient forest. Possess and gaslight invaders into fighting each other, reclaim their bodies as fuel for the Grove, and guide your Seely mushroom children to build and expand. The Grove is done being nice.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Project Tomorrow

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Diseased fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Diseased.

    A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  4. Ascent of Ashes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Diseased fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Diseased.

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Steel Artery: Train City Builder

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Diseased fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Diseased.

    Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Until We Die

    WHY THIS

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

    Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

    2021ActionStrategyAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Eastern Era

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Diseased fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Diseased.

    To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Monsters are Coming!

    WHY THIS

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

    Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

    2025ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 Diseased.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

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

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Diseased

What games are most similar to Diseased?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Diseased are MAPS (My Apocalyptic Plan for Survival), Phantom of the Grove, Project Tomorrow.
Who developed Diseased?
Diseased was developed by Yavuz Kala.

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 Diseased.

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