Games like Deadside
If Deadside is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rust, XERA: Survival and DeadPoly — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, dark and immersive. 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 →Deadside is an open-world multiplayer survival shooter set in a post-apocalyptic setting. Players explore a procedurally generated world while gathering resources, crafting equipment through a blueprint system, and engaging in both PvP and PvE combat. The game features base-building mechanics and emphasizes survival elements as players compete for loot in safe zones or construct their own fortifications. Developed by Bad Pixel and published by Bad Pixel alongside tinyBuild, Deadside launched in 2024 with a $9.99 price point. Reviewers note its demanding difficulty and massive scope, with players describing the experience as challenging, dark, and immersive. The title holds a 76% positive rating from over 15,900 Steam reviews and does not currently support the Steam Deck. Developers maintain consistent content updates with gameplay direction shaped by community feedback, offering potential for long-term engagement through new systems.
About Deadside: An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Players who liked Deadside also play
Steam players who put hours into Deadside 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 a dark mood with Deadside.
Top pick for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
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.
XERA: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Deadside.
Second-strongest match for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
DUCKSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a challenging mood with Deadside.
Ranked #4 for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Deadside.
Ranked #5 for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Miscreated
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Deadside.
Ranked #6 for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
The Front
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a dark mood with Deadside.
Ranked #7 for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Will To Live Online
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a dark mood with Deadside.
Ranked #8 for Deadside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Deadside
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Rust
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Deadside.
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
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.
HELLDIVERS™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Deadside.
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Deadside.
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
REMNANT II®
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Deadside.
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadside.
REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.
Sunkenland
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Deadside.
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadside.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.
Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadside.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Deadside.
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Deadside.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deadside cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Forget about the rules, there are none here. Just you, your weapon and the endless, ominous wastelands waiting for you to plunge into them. So, are you ready to become a predator among predators? Then welcome to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.. It will hurt, but damn it will be fun!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadside at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadside.
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 Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
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 Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadside.
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 Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadside.
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 Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Deadside.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
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 Deadside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Deadside.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadside.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Deadside.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadside.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Deadside
- Does Deadside work on Steam Deck?
- Deadside is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Deadside cost?
- Deadside is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Deadside have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Deadside supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Deadside?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadside are Rust, XERA: Survival, DeadPoly.
- Who developed Deadside?
- Deadside was developed by Bad Pixel and published by Bad Pixel, tinyBuild.
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 Deadside.
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