Games like Mist Survival
If Mist Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Infected, Subsistence and Green Hell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and dark. 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 →Mist Survival is a survival game set during a zombie apocalypse triggered by a virus pandemic. Players scavenge for supplies, construct base fortifications, and navigate threats from infected, wildlife, and hostile humans across an open world. The game blends survival mechanics with survival-horror elements, with players describing the experience as dark and stressful, and highlighting that tactical positioning matters when evading danger. Released in Early Access in 2018 by Dimension 32 Entertainment, it is priced at $10.99. Reviewers note the resource management and environmental challenges. The title holds 76% positive reviews from over 7,200 Steam users and runs at Playable level on Steam Deck.
About Mist Survival: MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
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The Infected
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Shares base building with Mist Survival.
Top pick for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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.
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Second-strongest match for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Mist Survival.
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).
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Third-strongest match for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Mist Survival.
Ranked #4 for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Mist Survival.
Ranked #5 for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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.
The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Ranked #6 for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mist Survival.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Survival: Fountain of Youth
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Ranked #7 for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
SCUM
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Ranked #8 for Mist Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
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7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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!
SurrounDead
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Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
SCUM
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Dying Light: The Beast
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mist Survival.
Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Mist Survival.
BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mist Survival.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
No One Survived
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with Mist Survival.
Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mist Survival.
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
State of Decay
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Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Mist Survival.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
VEIN
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Mist Survival.
Reviewers of Mist Survival cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Mist Survival.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mist Survival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~55% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mist Survival.
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 ~55% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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 ~59% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mist Survival.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~43% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mist Survival.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~55% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mist Survival.
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 ~55% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mist Survival.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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 ~73% under Mist Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mist Survival.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Mist Survival.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Mist Survival.
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 Mist Survival.
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. Shares Indie with Mist Survival.
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 Mist Survival.
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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mist Survival.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Mist Survival
- Does Mist Survival run on Steam Deck?
- Mist Survival is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Mist Survival cost?
- Mist Survival is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mist Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mist Survival are The Infected, Subsistence, Green Hell.
- Who developed Mist Survival?
- Mist Survival was developed by Dimension 32 Entertainment.
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