Games like The Wastes
Below are 12 hand-picked alternatives to The Wastes for fans of action, 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 The Wastes 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. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About The Wastes: Enter The Wasteland. Return to fight for survival in this fast-paced, throwback first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world full of action, violence and cars. Play/create single-player or cooperative scenarios, or play a classic array of multiplayer modes.
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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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Blood: Refreshed Supply™
Top pick for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Wastes.
Things are about to get… bloody! Soak up 42 pulse-pounding levels dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere as you battle your way through armies of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hell hounds, and other insatiable horrors, in your quest to defeat the loathsome Tchernobog.
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BROKE PROTOCOL
Second-strongest match for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wastes.
A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.
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7 Days to Die
Third-strongest match for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wastes.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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DOOM + DOOM II
Ranked #4 for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Wastes.
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Ranked #5 for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wastes.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!
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After the Fall®
Ranked #6 for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Wastes.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
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Insurgency: Sandstorm
Ranked #7 for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Wastes.
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.
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Borderlands 3
Ranked #8 for The Wastes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Wastes.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Wastes
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Half-Life
Reviewers of The Wastes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Wastes.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Reviewers of The Wastes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Wastes.
With its extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's award-winning multiplayer game play, plus over 12 bonus single player missions, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a tremendous offering of single and multiplayer content.
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Quake II
Reviewers of The Wastes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Wastes.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
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Fistful of Frags
Reviewers of The Wastes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Wastes.
Multiplayer based, first person enabled, action packed and skill demanding shooter set in the Wild West times. A unique combination of non stop action and slow but powerful weaponry.
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Frequently asked about The Wastes
- How much does The Wastes cost?
- The Wastes is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Wastes have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Wastes supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to The Wastes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Wastes are Blood: Refreshed Supply™, BROKE PROTOCOL, 7 Days to Die.
- Who developed The Wastes?
- The Wastes was developed by Vera Visions.
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 The Wastes.
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