Games like Highrisers
If Highrisers is your kind of game, the closest matches are DISTANT VISITANT, Maze Breaker and HORDE Survival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting depth is satisfying, looping progression feels rewarding 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 →About Highrisers: An Urban Survival RPG! Crafting, Exploring and Defending in a desolate metropolis haunted by the mysterious dreamers. Lead a team of 4 survivors through this urban desert of skyscrapers and high-rises, where the streets are crowded with the mutated victims of a strange disease.
Players who liked Highrisers also play
Steam players who put hours into Highrisers 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.
DISTANT VISITANT
WHY THIS
Top pick for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
Survive the alien arrival in DISTANT VISITANT, a top-down open-world sandbox. Master talents from marksmanship to cooking while managing hygiene and hydration. Adapt to seasons where winter freezes crops and lakes. Craft, build, hunt, and find survivors. Prepare for them, this is just the start.
Maze Breaker
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
An action roguelite where you find your way through an ever-changing maze, choose combat abilities, and grow stronger with each run. Break through a maze that shifts between day and night, and reach the Demon King after repeated challenges.
HORDE Survival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Highrisers.
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
STATION 07
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
Supplies are gone. Station 07 is cut off. As the last survivor, you must maintain the outpost and manage critical heat, power, and food systems. Battle hostile factions and mutated terrors in a frozen world. Will you sacrifice your humanity to survive the deep freeze?
Sheltered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highrisers.
Ranked #5 for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Highrisers.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Highrisers.
Ranked #6 for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Into the Fire
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Ranked #7 for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
Race an exploding volcano in this high-risk extraction survival. Rescue survivors, manage scarce resources, survive fire anomalies, and carve escape routes through ash and lava. Bring them back alive, before the island buries you.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highrisers.
Ranked #8 for Highrisers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Highrisers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Highrisers.
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 ~64% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Highrisers.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Highrisers.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Highrisers.
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 ~64% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Highrisers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Highrisers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Highrisers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Highrisers.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Highrisers.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Highrisers.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Highrisers.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Highrisers.
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Frequently asked about Highrisers
- How much does Highrisers cost?
- Highrisers is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Highrisers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Highrisers are DISTANT VISITANT, Maze Breaker, HORDE Survival.
- Who developed Highrisers?
- Highrisers was developed by Solar Powered Games and published by Assemble Entertainment.
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