Games like Blood Waves
If Blood Waves is your kind of game, the closest matches are Happy Z-Day, They Are Billions and Zombie Army Trilogy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, dark and intense. 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 Blood Waves: Hardcore and bloody shooter where you will have to repel the attacks of the living dead using the destroying traps, defensive barricades and also weapon of close and long-range combat.
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Happy Z-Day
WHY THIS
Top pick for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Blood Waves.
Today is supposed to be your daughter's birthday, But something happened in this town. Almost everyone has turn into a Monster. You need to protect your daughter and her birthday party!
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Blood Waves.
Second-strongest match for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Waves.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Zombie Army Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Blood Waves.
Third-strongest match for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
The Last of Us™ Part I
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, skill tree progression and a tense mood with Blood Waves.
Ranked #5 for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Blood Waves.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
She Will Shoot
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
She Will Shoot - is a cool zombie killer from the third person in a variety of scenery. Choose an arena and use different types of weapons to clear it of zombies.
VERSUS SQUAD
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Blood Waves.
Ranked #7 for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Blood Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Blood Waves
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Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Blood Waves.
Reviewers of Blood Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
PAYDAY 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Waves.
Reviewers of Blood Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
Borderlands 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Waves.
Reviewers of Blood Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Killing Floor
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival and an intense mood with Blood Waves.
Reviewers of Blood Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Waves.
Reviewers of Blood Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Dungeon Defenders
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Blood Waves.
Reviewers of Blood Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Blood Waves.
Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!
Tomb Raider: Legend
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Blood Waves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blood Waves at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blood Waves.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blood Waves.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blood Waves.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blood Waves.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Blood Waves on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
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.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blood Waves.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blood Waves.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Zombie Army Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Blood Waves.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
The Last of Us™ Part I
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, skill tree progression and a tense mood with Blood Waves.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Blood Waves.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
VERSUS SQUAD
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Blood Waves.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blood Waves.
Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blood Waves.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Frequently asked about Blood Waves
- How much does Blood Waves cost?
- Blood Waves is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blood Waves?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blood Waves are Happy Z-Day, They Are Billions, Zombie Army Trilogy.
- Who developed Blood Waves?
- Blood Waves was developed by Light Road Games.
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