Games like DESOLATE
If DESOLATE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dying Light, GTFO and How to Survive 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 →DESOLATE is a 2019 first-person survival horror game set on a mysterious paranormal island. Players form research teams of up to 4 people in online co-op mode to explore an open world filled with mysteries. The game features procedural generation, survival mechanics, and teleportation artefacts. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric and dark tone, with players describing the experience as challenging. The game includes a day-night cycle with weather effects and emphasizes tactical positioning. DESOLATE is priced at $14.99 USD and holds a 67% positive rating from 2,248 Steam reviews. It is not supported on Steam Deck. The gameplay is designed as a sit-down experience, with a long campaign length and challenging difficulty.
About DESOLATE: DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
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Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with DESOLATE.
Top pick for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with DESOLATE.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
GTFO
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with DESOLATE.
Second-strongest match for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
How to Survive 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with DESOLATE.
Third-strongest match for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with DESOLATE.
Ranked #4 for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
ZOMBI
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Ranked #5 for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
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.
Killing Floor 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with DESOLATE.
Ranked #7 for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Ranked #8 for DESOLATE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
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.
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Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with DESOLATE.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Breath of the Gods
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with DESOLATE.
Knowing the true potential of humanity, the True Gods are fighting to preserve humankind. The War will be settled by two Chosen Ones, both sons of Gods, brothers in blood, enemies in the battlefield.
Metro Exodus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with DESOLATE.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with DESOLATE.
Become a mighty demigod and battle through a decimated Tokyo in a war between angels and demons. Make new allies along your journey, engage in intense, turn-based combat, recruit hundreds of demons and forge your own path to dictate the fate of all existence.
DayZ
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
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.
Fallout 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with DESOLATE.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
ELDEN RING
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DESOLATE.
Reviewers of DESOLATE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with DESOLATE.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DESOLATE at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with DESOLATE.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with DESOLATE.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under DESOLATE on Steam right now. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 DESOLATE.
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 with DESOLATE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DESOLATE.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with DESOLATE.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with DESOLATE.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with DESOLATE.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with DESOLATE.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with DESOLATE.
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.
Frequently asked about DESOLATE
- Does DESOLATE work on Steam Deck?
- DESOLATE is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does DESOLATE cost?
- DESOLATE is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does DESOLATE have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — DESOLATE supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to DESOLATE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DESOLATE are Dying Light, GTFO, How to Survive 2.
- Who developed DESOLATE?
- DESOLATE was developed by Nearga and published by HypeTrain Digital.
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 DESOLATE.
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