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Games like Badiya: Desert Survival

If Badiya: Desert Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age Of Omens, Zector 7 and Night of the Dead — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Badiya: Desert Survival: Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.

2016ActionStrategyIndieAdventureSimulationRPG19.99 USDWindowsby Semaphore
Badiya: Desert Survival — Steam game cover
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Steam players who put hours into Badiya: Desert Survival 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. Age Of Omens

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Badiya: Desert Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Survive in a medieval world filled with tower-defense, magic, exploration, and building. Use a unique directional combat system. Explore a rich world with dynamic weather that impacts gameplay. Uncover the secrets of the land and emerge victorious in this ultimate survival game.

    2019ActionAdventureRPG15.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Zector 7

    WHY THIS

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

    Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Night of the Dead

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Third-strongest match for Badiya: Desert Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Winter Survival

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Ranked #4 for Badiya: Desert Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure18.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Soulmask

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering and an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Ranked #5 for Badiya: Desert Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Eden Island

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Ranked #6 for Badiya: Desert Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. DeadPoly

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Ranked #7 for Badiya: Desert Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hold Your Own

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Ranked #8 for Badiya: Desert Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Badiya: Desert Survival

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival crafting and an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Reviewers of Badiya: Desert Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Stranded Deep

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Reviewers of Badiya: Desert Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

    2022IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Rust

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Reviewers of Badiya: Desert Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Mount & Blade

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Reviewers of Badiya: Desert Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

    2008IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Red Dead Redemption 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Reviewers of Badiya: Desert Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

    2019ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Badiya: Desert Survival at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Badiya: Desert Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck 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 and Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Badiya: Desert Survival.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 ↗
  4. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. SCP – Containment Breach

    WHY THIS

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

    A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?

    2026ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Warframe

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Badiya: Desert Survival.

    Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

    2013ActionRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Badiya: Desert Survival

How much does Badiya: Desert Survival cost?
Badiya: Desert Survival is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Badiya: Desert Survival?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Badiya: Desert Survival are Age Of Omens, Zector 7, Night of the Dead.
Who developed Badiya: Desert Survival?
Badiya: Desert Survival was developed by Semaphore.

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