Games like Deadly Flare
If Deadly Flare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rust, Crushed and Andarilho — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its developer actively patches bugs, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Deadly Flare: A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.

Players who liked Deadly Flare also play
Steam players who put hours into Deadly Flare 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.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Deadly Flare.
Top pick for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Crushed
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building and an atmospheric mood with Deadly Flare.
Second-strongest match for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Deadly Flare.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Andarilho
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and a whimsical mood with Deadly Flare.
Third-strongest match for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
You are a guy with a backpack, just try to stay alive!
Hurtworld
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Deadly Flare.
Ranked #4 for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadly Flare.
Ranked #5 for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Deadly Flare.
Ranked #6 for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadly Flare.
Ranked #7 for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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!
CastleMiner Z
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Deadly Flare.
Ranked #8 for Deadly Flare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Deadly Flare
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadly Flare.
Reviewers of Deadly Flare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Deadly Flare.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
The Infected
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Deadly Flare.
Reviewers of Deadly Flare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Deadly Flare.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Deadly Flare.
Reviewers of Deadly Flare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadly Flare.
Reviewers of Deadly Flare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadly Flare at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Deadly Flare.
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 Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Deadly Flare.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadly Flare.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadly Flare.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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 Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Deadly Flare.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Deadly Flare on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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 Action with Deadly Flare.
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 Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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 Adventure with Deadly Flare.
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 Deadly Flare.
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.
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 Deadly Flare.
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.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Deadly Flare.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Flare.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Deadly Flare
- How much does Deadly Flare cost?
- Deadly Flare is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deadly Flare?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadly Flare are Rust, Crushed, Andarilho.
- Who developed Deadly Flare?
- Deadly Flare was developed by Green Grass 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 Deadly Flare.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.

























