Games like Dead Ground
Below are 13 hand-picked alternatives to Dead Ground for fans of action, strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Dead Ground also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from Shotx. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Dead Ground: Tower defense reimagined! Dead Ground is a procedurally generated tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Each playthrough will offer randomly generated guns, skills and augments. You'll have to travel, collect scrap, water, manage your inventory and upgrade your base to survive!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Eyeb
Top pick for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Eyeb is an action packed tower defense-like that pits a young space cadet's bionic eyeball against a harrowing nano-bot invasion. Push out, explore, power up and drop a trillion towers for the glory of facing off with the diabolical Nano-Lord. You can also go fishing in space.
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Ziggurat
Second-strongest match for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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Heart Keeper
Third-strongest match for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Heart Keeper is a survival tower defense game with action roguelike elements. Protect the Sacred Heart by building and upgrading an arsenal of turrets and various structures. Combine strategy and quick reflexes to survive massive waves of enemies!
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Loot River
Ranked #4 for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Explore procedurally generated labyrinths in this challenging, narrative-rich roguelike. Master deep combat. Slide blocks of ancient ruins. Defeat bestial abominations. Loot, level up, strategize, fight, die and wake up anew. Unlock the secrets of the Loot River. Immortality is a bittersweet gift.
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Chaos Caster
Ranked #5 for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Cast spells, dash around hordes of enemies, and assemble powerful combos as you explore procedurally generated dungeons. Chaos Caster is an action roguelike focused on strategy, playstyle variety, and replayability.
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Immortal Redneck
Ranked #6 for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
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Tower of Guns
Ranked #7 for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
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Winged Sakura: Endless Dream
Ranked #8 for Dead Ground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Discover. Build. Defend. Survive. Escort. Open endless doors, discover endless new rooms, and defeat endless robots. Build towers, form contracts, gain new allies, and survive the Endless Dream.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Shotx, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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Kontrakt
Another title from Shotx, the studio behind Dead Ground. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Kontrakt is a hyper-violent action-adventure game about schizophrenia with a dark and twisted story. You will assume the role of a hitman involved in mysterious contract killing, while uncovering the dirty truth and secrets behind the City of Light.
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Danger Gazers
Another title from Shotx, the studio behind Dead Ground. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Danger Gazers is a post-apocalyptic roguelite top-down shooter where you pave your own path. The choices you make will decide your fate, it will either turn you into the new ruler or... the ashes to be windswept away.
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Dungeons of Clay
Another title from Shotx, the studio behind Dead Ground. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Explore the ever-changing dungeons in the surreal world made of clay. Unlock the hidden secrets, overcome the dangers, defeat dreadful creatures and reap the treasures to acquire almighty power.
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The Dead Await: Prologue
Another title from Shotx, the studio behind Dead Ground. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Ground.
Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.
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The Dead Await
Another title from Shotx, the studio behind Dead Ground. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Ground.
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.
Frequently asked about Dead Ground
- How much does Dead Ground cost?
- Dead Ground is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Ground?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Ground are Eyeb, Ziggurat, Heart Keeper.
- Who developed Dead Ground?
- Dead Ground was developed by Shotx.
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 Dead Ground.
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