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Games like Roaches

If Roaches is your kind of game, the closest matches are ENDGAME: Survival, Stockroom Syndrome and Winter Warfare: 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 Roaches: An open ended survival sandbox in a concrete world. Grow your strength, build a party, carve out territory, and survive a living world where factions roam, clash, and redraw the map with or without you.

ActionSimulationRPGWindowsby Fat Hound Games
Roaches — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Roaches 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. ENDGAME: Survival

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Roaches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Roaches.

    Big group of people will be dropped into a deserted island where they will have to survive.

    2023ActionAdventureSimulation13.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Stockroom Syndrome

    WHY THIS

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

    Build flatpack furniture and decorate showroom displays during the night shift in a giant Scandinavian furniture store, while demonic creatures hunt you through its ever-changing halls. HØLM. Build the room. Survive the store.

    2026ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Winter Warfare: Survival

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Roaches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Roaches.

    Hardcore survival game set in a frozen harsh ambient

    2021ActionAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. System Shock: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Roaches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Roaches.

    Re-discover what made System Shock the first of it's kind, a ground breaking immersive sim that would inspire a generation of games to come....

    2015ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Deadly Flare

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Roaches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Roaches.

    A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.

    2023ActionAdventureSimulation13.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Fight School Simulator

    WHY THIS

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

    Are you ready to become a legendary martial arts master? Build your own school, train your students, and battle rival schools to become the strongest. Join tournaments, raise your grasshoppers, and most importantly, collect tuition from your students!

    2025ActionSimulationRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Outbreak Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Roaches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Roaches.

    Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. System Shock® 2 (1999)

    WHY THIS

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

    "Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.

    2013ActionRPGDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 with Roaches.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck 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 Roaches.

    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. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. 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 ↗

Frequently asked about Roaches

What games are most similar to Roaches?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Roaches are ENDGAME: Survival, Stockroom Syndrome, Winter Warfare: Survival.
Who developed Roaches?
Roaches was developed by Fat Hound 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 Roaches.

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