Games like Heat
If Heat is your kind of game, the closest matches are Reign Of Kings, Night of the Dead and Soulmask — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its immersive survival experience, unique post apocalyptic setting and anxious. 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 →Heat is an open-world survival game from Code}{atch, released in 2020, set in the 1870s American frontier. Players survive the wilderness through farming, resource gathering, crafting, and base-building, with roles spanning President, Sheriff, Chief, and Governor as territory expands. The historical setting and survival systems define the loop. Reviewers note the immersive survival experience and the unusual frontier setting as the original draw. The game costs 19.99 USD and rates unsupported on Steam Deck, holding 48% positive across 1,638 Steam reviews, a mixed reception. Its sprawling 19th-century sandbox targets players drawn to solo survival and homesteading in an uncommon historical period.
About Heat: Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
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Steam players who put hours into Heat 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.
Reign Of Kings
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Heat.
Top pick for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Heat.
Second-strongest match for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
'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!
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares base building and crafting with Heat.
Third-strongest match for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heat.
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.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Outlaws of the Old West
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Heat.
Ranked #6 for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
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.
Castle Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heat.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Creativerse
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Heat
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Star Traders: Frontiers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Heat.
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
Reign Of Kings
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Heat.
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Heat.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Starvector
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Heat.
Space adventure, open world RPG, strategy, arcade, quest and more!
Starpoint Gemini 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Heat.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
PULSAR: Lost Colony
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heat cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heat at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Heat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heat.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heat on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heat.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heat.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heat on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Heat.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
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 Heat.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Heat.
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 Heat.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heat.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Heat.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heat.
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 Heat
- Does Heat work on Steam Deck?
- Heat is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Heat cost?
- Heat is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Heat have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Heat supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Heat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heat are Reign Of Kings, Night of the Dead, Soulmask.
- Who developed Heat?
- Heat was developed by Code}{atch.
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 Heat.
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