Games like Echelon
If Echelon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Just Madness: Earth Apocalypse 1979, Infection Crisis : Fight For Life and Death Paradise — 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 Echelon: Echelon is an open world RPG set in post nuclear California. Travel on foot or horseback, survive radiation and hostile wilderness, make camp, improve your skills through use, and shape the future of settlements through quests and dialogue choices.
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Just Madness: Earth Apocalypse 1979
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Top pick for Echelon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Echelon.
The world ended. The madness began. As Max, survive a brutal, radioactive wasteland to save your kidnapped daughter from a ruthless gang. Fight radiation, explore a dangerous open world in 1st/3rd person, and make choices that shape your destiny in this dark RPG survival.
Infection Crisis : Fight For Life
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Second-strongest match for Echelon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Echelon.
After a catastrophic event in your country, survival becomes paramount. With dwindling food and water supplies, you must navigate a world filled with danger and uncertainty. Adapt to the ever-changing landscape and strive to survive in the face of overwhelming odds. Welcome to Infection Crisis.
Death Paradise
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Third-strongest match for Echelon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Echelon.
Survive the first 24 hours of a zombie outbreak on Miami Beach. Rescue and customize your teammates, restore the island’s power, activate an SOS signal, and fight through evolving infected before paradise falls.
Avium
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Ranked #4 for Echelon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Echelon.
Avium is a sci-fi action-adventure RPG in a city ruled by those of great cybernetic wealth and influence, such as the Big Four. A Plutocracy, a "banana republic" that keeps its peace with the employment of Vigilantes like you, Diezel, a War-Suit donning, crime-fighting hero with a dark past.
Lost Hope
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Ranked #5 for Echelon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Echelon.
Lost Hope is a survival game where you shape the world, battle zombies, and explore diverse territories, uncovering secrets while facing extreme challenges.
Internal Conflict
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Ranked #6 for Echelon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Echelon.
A 200-player war for one American valley. The Cold War ended the other way, and in 1999 the former USA is at war with itself. One persistent front across a 20 x 24 km Appalachian river valley: dig trenches, haul supplies, hold the line. Free to play. Never pay to win.
Wych Ring
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Ranked #7 for Echelon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Echelon.
Wych Ring is a 1st and 3rd Person Action Combat game with a mix of Sci-Fi military and medieval weaponry, told through an open world story in a variety of different worlds. Choose a favorite weapon style, manage inventory and decide to Level Up the player character or not for greater difficulty.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Echelon.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Echelon.
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.
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 Echelon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echelon.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Echelon.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Echelon.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Echelon.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Echelon
- What games are most similar to Echelon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Echelon are Just Madness: Earth Apocalypse 1979, Infection Crisis : Fight For Life, Death Paradise.
- Who developed Echelon?
- Echelon was developed by TamalpaisGames.
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 Echelon.
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