Games like Waves Survive
If Waves Survive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unbound Pioneer, GunGlyph and Isle of the Night: Pirate Survivors — 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 Waves Survive: You find yourself alone in a wild and unknown land. Gather resources, build a shelter, and fight to survive as dangerous waves of enemies threaten to destroy everything you've built. Can you turn this dangerous place into a home and survive each new wave?
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Steam players who put hours into Waves Survive 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.
Unbound Pioneer
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Top pick for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
A 2D top-down survival game set in a rich and challenging world. Explore mines, gather resources, craft equipment, and build magical structures. Defeat powerful enemies, discover ancient ruins, automate resource production, unlock abilities with altars, and travel through mysterious dimensions.
GunGlyph
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Second-strongest match for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
A first-person voxel roguelite shooter. Descend, craft and temper your own guns, exploit ammo chemistry, fight unique enemies and face the bosses guarding every way down. Online co-op and local splitscreen.
Isle of the Night: Pirate Survivors
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Third-strongest match for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
Survive the pirate island! Craft by day, battle waves of enemies by night in this roguelike survival game. Gather resources, unlock powerful abilities, and upgrade your gear to stand against increasing threats. How long can you last in this relentless fight for survival?
Dark Age Empires
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Ranked #4 for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Waves Survive.
Dark Age Empires is an open world survival game that can be played in single player mode or as an online multiplayer game on a dedicated server.Do you have what it takes to not only survive in this dark age, but to rise up, fight back and create your own Dark Age Empire?
Rust
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Ranked #5 for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Valheim
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Ranked #6 for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
VALHALL: Harbinger
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Ranked #7 for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
VALHALL is a blend of multiple genres, combining first & third person directional physical combat slasher with a survival experience set in a brutal world of Vikings. Survive, feel Thor's power, become an einherjar, and enter the ultimate battlefield!
ARK: Survival Ascended
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Ranked #8 for Waves Survive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waves Survive.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Waves Survive.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves Survive.
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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waves Survive.
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.
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Frequently asked about Waves Survive
- Does Waves Survive have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Waves Survive supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Waves Survive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waves Survive are Unbound Pioneer, GunGlyph, Isle of the Night: Pirate Survivors.
- Who developed Waves Survive?
- Waves Survive was developed by Emiliano Pacheco and published by Miau Miau Studio.
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 Waves Survive.
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