Games like Adapt or Perish
If Adapt or Perish is your kind of game, the closest matches are Siege of Centauri, Empyrean Frontier and Hyper Dash — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and hypnotic. 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 Adapt or Perish: This is more than just an odd looking strategy game, it is a strategy platform. Genetically engineer amorphic creatures & buildings, in real time, in an endlessly open world that adapts to your playstyle. Share, and even battle your designs. How much will they be worth?
Players who liked Adapt or Perish also play
Steam players who put hours into Adapt or Perish 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.
Siege of Centauri
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Adapt or Perish.
Top pick for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.
Empyrean Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Adapt or Perish.
Second-strongest match for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Empyrean Frontier is an epic real time strategy game that mixes classic RTS gameplay with a multi-stage campaign in which the player commands a fleet of ships through a galactic map. Boss battles, base building, planet destroying superweapons, and tactical skirmishes create a unique blend of genres.
Hyper Dash
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Adapt or Perish.
Hyper Dash is a free VR multiplayer team based shooter. Make smart use of Dashing, Sprinting, Walking and Rail Grinding to get around the arenas and win in a variety of gamemodes like; Payload, Domination, Control Point, (Team) Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, Elimination & Ball.
Age of Empires II (Retired)
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Adapt or Perish.
Ranked #4 for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
VAIL
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Adapt or Perish.
Ranked #5 for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Download VAIL and experience the #1, highest-rated VR shooter, with precision-crafted gunplay, stunning visuals, unparalleled combat, and a constantly expanding world of modes, maps, and community
Grey Goo
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Adapt or Perish.
Ranked #6 for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Adapt or Perish.
Ranked #7 for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Freaking Meatbags
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Adapt or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
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Total Annihilation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Adapt or Perish.
Reviewers of Adapt or Perish cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination.
WARZONE
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Adapt or Perish cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
WARZONE is a tactical turn-based war game which requires a chess level of logical thinking and which provides an entertainment comparable to that of a tank shooter.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Adapt or Perish.
Reviewers of Adapt or Perish cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Adapt or Perish at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Adapt or Perish.
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 Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
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 Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Action with Adapt or Perish.
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 Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
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 Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Adapt or Perish.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Adapt or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Adapt or Perish.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Adapt or Perish.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Adapt or Perish.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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More from Phr00t's Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Phr00t's Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Spermination
WHY THIS
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Fight the battle you already won, but never remember. It is you up against 1000 other sperm fighters. Can you beat off your competition and come first? Finally, collect your very own baby gnomes as trophies for your minivan!
3089 -- Futuristic Action RPG
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Adapt or Perish.
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
3089 is a futuristic, procedurally generated, open-world action role-playing game. All terrain, enemies, weapons, items, quests & more are uniquely generated. Will you obey your creator, the Overlord, or find your own path?
3079 -- Block Action RPG
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Adapt or Perish.
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
3079 is a futuristic, open-world action first-person role playing game. All areas, buildings, items, quests and characters are randomly generated. You will find unique lands & challenges. I hope you enjoy it!
5089: The Action RPG
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Adapt or Perish.
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
5089 is a deep & complex action RPG featuring strong sandbox roots. VR is supported, but not required. Watch the tutorial & VR videos next to the trailer! Everything is procedurally generated, like terrain, enemies, weapons, items & quests. Planet Xax's war rages on... how is that possible?
4089: Ghost Within
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Adapt or Perish.
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Sneak & battle your way through a procedurally generated mothership in this stealth action RPG! Supports user content & the Oculus Rift!
Frantic Freighter
WHY THIS
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Indie with Adapt or Perish.
THIS GAME IS OPTIMIZED FOR VR*, BUT DOES NOT REQUIRE IT. Frantically attempt a delivery across space in a freighter. Unfortunately, your ship is constantly falling apart. Trade spare parts, find stashes & evade pirates along the way. Succeed to unlock challenges!
StratoBash
WHY THIS
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Be a contestant on StratoBash! Race up the floating islands along the stratosphere, bashing off Eyeoids, solving puzzles & more to score. Use VR controllers to throw Bashers, or play with a mouse & keyboard.
ROMBIE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Adapt or Perish.
Another title from Phr00t's Software, the studio behind Adapt or Perish. Shares Action and Indie with Adapt or Perish.
Modular robotics & a Central Command was suppose to usher in prosperity, yet something went terribly wrong... ROMBIEs now scour the artificial wasteland for credits, modules & purpose. You, the Elite Recovery, spawned after a routine check on society started to fail...
Frequently asked about Adapt or Perish
- How much does Adapt or Perish cost?
- Adapt or Perish is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Adapt or Perish?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Adapt or Perish are Siege of Centauri, Empyrean Frontier, Hyper Dash.
- Who developed Adapt or Perish?
- Adapt or Perish was developed by Phr00t's Software.
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