Games like Survive the Nights
Below are 11 hand-picked alternatives to Survive the Nights for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Survive the Nights also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Survive the Nights: Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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7 Days to Die
Top pick for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Plains of Pain
Second-strongest match for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
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SCUM
Third-strongest match for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #4 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Rust
Ranked #5 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
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.
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DayZ
Ranked #6 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Survive the Nights.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
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VEIN
Ranked #7 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Survive the Nights.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
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Contagion
Ranked #8 for Survive the Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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7 Days to Die
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Don't Starve Together
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Contagion
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Frequently asked about Survive the Nights
- Does Survive the Nights run on Steam Deck?
- Survive the Nights is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Survive the Nights cost?
- Survive the Nights is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Survive the Nights have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Survive the Nights supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Survive the Nights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survive the Nights are 7 Days to Die, Plains of Pain, SCUM.
- Who developed Survive the Nights?
- Survive the Nights was developed by a2z Interactive.
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 Survive the Nights.
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