Games like INMATE: Survival
If INMATE: Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eden Island, Animallica and Soulmask — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its developer responsiveness to feedback, bleak and stressful. 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 INMATE: Survival: INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
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Steam players who put hours into INMATE: Survival 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.
Eden Island
WHY THIS
Shares day night cycle and crafting with INMATE: Survival.
Top pick for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Animallica
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares base building and crafting with INMATE: Survival.
Third-strongest match for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with INMATE: Survival.
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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an unsettling mood with INMATE: Survival.
Ranked #4 for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
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.
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a tense mood with INMATE: Survival.
Ranked #6 for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
'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!
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Far Cry® Primal
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an unsettling mood with INMATE: Survival.
Ranked #8 for INMATE: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with INMATE: Survival.
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below INMATE: Survival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with INMATE: Survival.
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 ~50% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with INMATE: Survival.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with INMATE: Survival.
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 ~50% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with INMATE: Survival.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
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 ~70% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under INMATE: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 INMATE: Survival.
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 INMATE: Survival.
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 Indie and Adventure with INMATE: Survival.
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 Indie with INMATE: Survival.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with INMATE: Survival.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with INMATE: Survival.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with INMATE: Survival.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with INMATE: Survival.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about INMATE: Survival
- Does INMATE: Survival run on Steam Deck?
- INMATE: Survival 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 INMATE: Survival cost?
- INMATE: Survival is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to INMATE: Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside INMATE: Survival are Eden Island, Animallica, Soulmask.
- Who developed INMATE: Survival?
- INMATE: Survival was developed by SV Games.
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 INMATE: Survival.
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