Games like Hand Simulator: Survival
If Hand Simulator: Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polygon In, Project Asteroids and Dead Event — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its controls are intentionally clunky, comedic and funny. 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 →Hand Simulator: Survival drops players on a deserted island where survival depends on mastering intentionally clumsy finger-by-finger hand controls. Released in 2019 by HFM Games, this physics-based survival game tasks players with managing thirst, hunger, and dangerous wildlife using only their awkward virtual hands. The deliberately awkward control scheme turns simple actions into deliberate challenges, creating emergent comedy during multiplayer chaos. Players describe the experience as fun despite the frustration, noting that repeated failure becomes oddly satisfying as each small success feels earned. The survival puzzles require creative thinking and cooperation, particularly in local co-op mode. Priced at $2.99, the game runs on Steam Deck and spans a medium-length campaign designed for short-burst sessions. Reviewers highlight the absurd humor that emerges naturally from the struggle, with an 87% positive rating from over 2,800 Steam reviews.
About Hand Simulator: Survival: Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.
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Polygon In
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Top pick for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
This is a cooperative survivor, there are bandits and zombies in the game that will not let you get bored. Complete tasks, build houses, defend yourself! And also do it all with a friend!
Project Asteroids
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Second-strongest match for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Dead Event
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Dead Event is a indie RPG survival game in which the player grows up as a creature. The creature will grow bigger overtime and with interactions in-game also lose some growth on death. Form a colony or hunt alone, become part of a player-created ecosystem. Survive, eat or be eaten...
Fistful of Frags
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Ranked #4 for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Multiplayer based, first person enabled, action packed and skill demanding shooter set in the Wild West times. A unique combination of non stop action and slow but powerful weaponry.
Rust
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Ranked #5 for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
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.
Stars End
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Hood: Outlaws & Legends
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hand Simulator: Survival.
In a violent, medieval world, outplay rival gangs in intense PvPvE multiplayer heists. Moving in stealth to steal treasures unseen or dominating through loud and brutal combat, only the best will escape with hard-earned riches.
Infestation: The New Z
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hand Simulator: Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hand Simulator: Survival at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Hand Simulator: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: 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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Hand Simulator: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hand Simulator: Survival.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Hand Simulator: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Hand Simulator: Survival.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Hand Simulator: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hand Simulator: Survival.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Hand Simulator: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Hand Simulator: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Hand Simulator: Survival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Hand Simulator: Survival.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hand Simulator: Survival.
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 Indie with Hand Simulator: 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 Hand Simulator: 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 Hand Simulator: 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 Hand Simulator: 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.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hand Simulator: Survival.
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!
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Other recommendable Steam games by HFM Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hand Simulator
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Shares a funny mood with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Simulation with Hand Simulator: Survival.
There are many different levels where you can play with spinners, plunge into the subtleties of handling weapons, milk a cow, take part in a Mexican duel with your friends, have a good time fishing, play chess or simply chat in an anonymous club.
FPV Kamikaze Drone
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Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Action and Simulation with Hand Simulator: Survival.
FPV Kamikaze Drone is a tactical game focused on FPV drones in modern warfare. Control drones in first-person in single-player and co-op, and in multiplayer play as a third-person soldier who finds and uses FPV drones during combat.
Cockroach Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hand Simulator: Survival.
This game is about the hard life in the kitchen. In this unusual place many interests intertwine. But the only war between humans and cockroaches is truly epic and destructive.
Cart Racer
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Shares a funny mood with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Get a new gaming experience as a racer in a shopping cart! Play for the brutal and steep Cart Racer. Overcome obstacles in the city, in the sea, in the ancient castle and the snowy mountains!
Hand Simulator: Horror
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Fear clouds the mind. Fear paralyzes the body. If your hands are shaking with fear, you will remain in this hell forever.
Evil Tag
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Shares a lighthearted mood with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
Four teenagers have to pass the rite of student initiation. To do this, they must read a spell from the ancient book in the basement of the abandoned house and spend a night there. They thought it would be fun...
Fly Simulator
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Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
You work as a waiter and lead an uphill battle for their clients. You pushing back the flies from the food, otherwise you'll never get anything. Maybe you are a hungry insect trying to increase their population? Choose the opposing side. The war is already underway.
Share
WHY THIS
Another title from HFM Games, the studio behind Hand Simulator: Survival. Shares Action and Indie with Hand Simulator: Survival.
In the backyard of the civilization, left by destiny without any hope, you'll find this house on the hill. It will become your shelter and give you everything you need. But then, the owners of the hill will come. And you will pay for this shelter.
Frequently asked about Hand Simulator: Survival
- Does Hand Simulator: Survival run on Steam Deck?
- Hand Simulator: 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 Hand Simulator: Survival cost?
- Hand Simulator: Survival is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hand Simulator: Survival have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hand Simulator: Survival supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hand Simulator: Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hand Simulator: Survival are Polygon In, Project Asteroids, Dead Event.
- Who developed Hand Simulator: Survival?
- Hand Simulator: Survival was developed by HFM Games.
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