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Games like Deadly Days

If Deadly Days is your kind of game, the closest matches are Organ Trail: Director's Cut, Caveblazers and Doomsday Hunters — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its apocalypse feels oddly chill, chill and funny. 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.

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About Deadly Days: Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

2019ActionStrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Pixelsplit
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Apocalypse feels oddly chillCartoon art style softens dangerMeaningful progression from failed runsChillFunnyLighthearted

Players who liked Deadly Days also play

Steam players who put hours into Deadly Days 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.

  1. Organ Trail: Director's Cut

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

    2013StrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Caveblazers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Doomsday Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

    2023ActionIndie15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. RAD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deadly Days.

    RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

    2019Action4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. March of the Living

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Teleglitch: Die More Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

    2013ActionIndie3.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Skelly Selest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.

    2018ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Deadly Days.

    Ranked #8 for Deadly Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Days.

    The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadly Days at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadly Days.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadly Days.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadly Days.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadly Days.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Deadly Days on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Deadly Days.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadly Days.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Deadly Days.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Deadly Days.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Pixelsplit

Other recommendable Steam games by Pixelsplit, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Deadly Days: Roadtrip

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pixelsplit, the studio behind Deadly Days. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Loot, shoot, and mow down zombie hordes in this bullet heaven fever dream. Embark on a deadly roadtrip, fuel your bus, decide when to extract – and get that sweet inventory management kick when that new slot in your backpack fits just right.

    2025ActionIndieEarly Access9.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. REVEIL

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pixelsplit, the studio behind Deadly Days. Shares Indie with Deadly Days.

    REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indoorlands

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pixelsplit, the studio behind Deadly Days. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadly Days.

    The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation18.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Shift 87

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pixelsplit, the studio behind Deadly Days. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    Your task today: Memorize your environment and report any anomalies. Good luck with your shift! "Shift 87" is an observation horror game with subtle anomalies and unsettling occurrences.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Tales of the Tiny Planet

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pixelsplit, the studio behind Deadly Days. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Days.

    Tales of the Tiny Planet tells the story of a separated group of planet friends who want to reunite. You have to assist them against the dangers of time and space.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Caveblazers

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Doomsday Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Days.

    Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

    2023ActionIndie15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. RAD

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Deadly Days.

    RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

    2019Action4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Deadly Days.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadly Days.

    The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Deadly Days

Does Deadly Days run on Steam Deck?
Deadly Days is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Deadly Days cost?
Deadly Days is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Deadly Days?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadly Days are Organ Trail: Director's Cut, Caveblazers, Doomsday Hunters.
Who developed Deadly Days?
Deadly Days was developed by Pixelsplit.

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 Deadly Days.

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