Games like Z Dawn
If Z Dawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Himeko Sutori, Dead State: Reanimated and Curious Expedition 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its randomly generated maps, 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 Z Dawn: Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
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Himeko Sutori
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Top pick for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Himeko Sutori is a tactical, turn-based RPG that combines intimate character development with epic battles featuring hundreds of unique characters. With the included campaign editor, you can make new worlds and new adventures, making Himeko Sutori your story.
Dead State: Reanimated
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Second-strongest match for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Curious Expedition 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Third-strongest match for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.
Sandwalkers
WHY THIS
Shares resource scavenging and an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Ranked #4 for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Z Dawn.
Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Mother Tree Umama.
Crowntakers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Ranked #5 for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Z Dawn.
Ranked #6 for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Z Dawn.
King’s Bounty: Crossworlds is a standalone expansion that includes Armored Princess, two additional campaigns, and a world editor, expanding the classic King’s Bounty formula with new challenges and content.
Craft Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Z Dawn.
Ranked #7 for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Z Dawn.
Ranked #8 for Z Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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NEO Scavenger
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Z Dawn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Risk
WHY THIS
Shares turn based strategy with Z Dawn.
Reviewers of Z Dawn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Z Dawn.
Draft! Attack! Fortify! Play the original game of strategy and world domination — now for your PC. Enjoy the classic look and fun of RISK in an exciting new interactive experience. Play two ways as you strategize over the map and set out to conquer the world.
Battle Brothers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Z Dawn.
Reviewers of Z Dawn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Z Dawn.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Z Dawn at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Z Dawn.
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 Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Z Dawn.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
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 Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Z Dawn.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Z Dawn.
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 Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Z Dawn.
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 Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Z Dawn.
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 Z Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Z Dawn.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Z Dawn.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Z Dawn.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Z Dawn.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Z Dawn.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Z Dawn.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Z Dawn.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Z Dawn.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Z Dawn.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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More from GoldenGod Games
Other recommendable Steam games by GoldenGod Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Expect The Unexpected
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Expect The Unexpected is a roguelike, fast-paced, turn-based game with RPG elements. Interact with random generated maps in which you have to deal with hundreds of different events and situations. What will you be? What will you become?
Dungeons of Hell
WHY THIS
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Enter the dungeons of hell, face many different demons in a tactical challenge. You play as a lone hero against hordes of demons, clear the dungeons to get more equipment and experience to unlock new and powerful abilities.
Paths & Danger
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Embark on an enchanting journey to Paths & Danger, a masterfully crafted procedural turn-based RPG that seamlessly blends simplicity with tactical brilliance. Get ready to be captivated as you assemble a formidable fellowship, where the art of teamwork takes center stage.
Mutant Meltdown
WHY THIS
Shares resource scavenging and an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Mutant Meltdown is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of mutants, build and upgrade your camp, face hordes of mutants and much more!
Jurassic Clans
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Z Dawn.
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Z Dawn.
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Ensure your people thrive in this dangerous world by surviving and evolving your tribe. Search for resources to expand your village, research technologies, defend your people from predators and prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.
Commander: Modern War
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Z Dawn.
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Experience the thrill of a modern conflict between two factions, as you outsmart your opponents in an epic game of strategy and cunning. Take command of your ground, air, and naval units and lead them to victory in the most immersive turn-based battle simulation. The battlefield awaits.
Interstellar Conquest
WHY THIS
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Take planets and assemble your fleet. The conquest of space is now, navigate through asteroid fields and hide in nebulas to outsmart your opponents. Experience the challenge of ion storms disrupting your ship's sensors and become the ultimate space fleet commander.
Commander: World War II
WHY THIS
Another title from GoldenGod Games, the studio behind Z Dawn. Shares Strategy and Indie with Z Dawn.
Commander: World War II is a turn-based tactical game where you lead either the Allies or the Axis to victory. Deploy infantry, tanks, planes, and naval units, capture locations, use the terrain, and counter specialized units in intense battles. Design your own maps and dominate the battlefield.
Frequently asked about Z Dawn
- How much does Z Dawn cost?
- Z Dawn is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Z Dawn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Z Dawn are Himeko Sutori, Dead State: Reanimated, Curious Expedition 2.
- Who developed Z Dawn?
- Z Dawn was developed by GoldenGod Games.
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