Co-op games like Crafting Dead
Below are 5 cooperative Steam games similar to Crafting Dead, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Zector 7
Online Co-op alternative to Crafting Dead — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
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.
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Soviet Survival
Online Co-op alternative to Crafting Dead — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Crafting Dead.
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
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HumanitZ
Online Co-op alternative to Crafting Dead — playable with friends. Shares Action and Adventure with Crafting Dead.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
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PolyZ
Online Co-op alternative to Crafting Dead — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
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VEIN
Online Co-op alternative to Crafting Dead — playable with friends. Shares Action and Early Access with Crafting Dead.
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.