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Survive the zombie apocalypse and make humanity's last stand in this three-game legacy bundle, revamped for modern hardware. Explore, build, and survive for as long as you can in The Last Stand, The Last Stand 2, and The Last Stand: Union City.

Why similar: Zombies 57.2%, Survival 19.6%, Action 13.7%, Gore 5.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This collection features the definitive 2D survival-defense gameplay that heavily influenced the genre.

A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 60.9%, Action 10.7%, Survival 8.6%, Indie 7.1%, Side Scroller 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling zombie shooter that shares the retro pixel-art aesthetic and survival-focused gameplay of the seed game.

“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se

Why similar: Zombies 60.4%, Action 8.5%, Side Scroller 7.8%, Indie 6.2%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic 2D side-scrolling survival game that perfectly captures the atmosphere of a zombie-infested world.

Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.

Why similar: Zombies 91.6%, Survival 3.6%, Action 1.3%, Tower Defense 1.1%, Indie 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the base fortification and wave-based survival mechanics found in the seed game.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 64.6%, Survival 17.4%, Action 9%, Indie 6.5%, 2D 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled zombie survival game that emphasizes squad management and intense action-packed escapes.

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 57.4%, Survival 17.4%, Action 12.3%, Indie 10.3%, 2D 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep squad management experience where you must lead a group of survivors through dangerous zombie-filled environments.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Zombies 68.2%, Survival 9.1%, Indie 8.7%, Retro 6.8%, 2D 2%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-themed survival game that forces you to manage resources and companions while traveling through a zombie apocalypse.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 57.2%, Survival 18.6%, Indie 7.5%, Action 6.9%, Tower Defense 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines squad management with survival strategy in a pixel-art world that feels very similar to the seed game.

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Zombies 67.2%, Action 8.9%, Indie 7%, Horror 6.1%, Gore 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you manage a zombie horde, offering a unique perspective on the genre.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 85.6%, Indie 9.4%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game that focuses on the desperate management of a group of survivors in a war-torn environment.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 56.2%, Action 14.8%, Survival 13.3%, Indie 12.6%, Retro 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game that tasks you with managing a group of survivors and scavenging for supplies.

Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 40.5%, Survival 15.7%, Action 9.6%, Indie 7.3%, Gore 7%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated base-defense game that requires you to manage weapons and barricades to survive nightly zombie attacks.

Zombie Kill of the Week - Reborn is a challenging, fast paced, 2D survival shooter! Featuring a compelling single player survival mode and cooperative multiplayer for up-to four players, this is one zombie firefight you're not going to want to miss!

Why similar: Zombies 64.2%, Action 17.6%, Indie 9.7%, 2D 5.8%, Platformer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action game that focuses on fast-paced zombie combat and survival in confined spaces.

Top down, action packed, multiplayer, zombie shooter. Build your base with friends and see how long you can survive the endless horde of zombies. Level up with friends, or alone, how you die is up to you.

Why similar: Zombies 48.9%, Survival 17.2%, Action 11.5%, Tower Defense 7%, Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of building defenses and upgrading weaponry to survive waves of undead.

Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!

Why similar: Zombies 54.8%, Action 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Horror 6.6%, Shooter 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy zombie shooter that provides a more intense, combat-focused survival experience.

"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.

Why similar: Zombies 45.8%, Survival 18.9%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Action 9.8%, Gore 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that tasks you with managing hunger, thirst, and defense in a hostile world.

You and up to three friends fight to survive the Zombie outbreak in this game inspired by early '80s horror films!

Why similar: Zombies 81.2%, Action 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game that focuses on surviving zombie encounters through careful movement and resource use.

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!

Why similar: Zombies 51.6%, Survival 27.9%, Action 8%, Horror 6.3%, Tower Defense 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for base-building and survival against zombies, offering deep fortification mechanics.

Shoot zombies from terrace like a boss! Zombo Buster Rising Remastered brings you a nostalgic experience of classic 2D side shooting-defense in enhanced build right from your Steam library!

Why similar: Zombies 40.9%, Action 22.9%, Indie 16.3%, Tower Defense 8.1%, Shooter 7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling tower defense game that pits you against relentless zombie waves.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 67.6%, Indie 8%, Zombies 7.9%, Side Scroller 6.5%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival management game that emphasizes resource gathering and protecting your family unit.

Undeadz! is an open world Zombie Survival game with a retro art style!

Why similar: Zombies 58%, Action 21.1%, Indie 15.9%, Retro 5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled 2D action game that focuses on simple, arcade-like zombie survival.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Survival 55.4%, Tower Defense 36.7%, Singleplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game that emphasizes base building and defense against encroaching threats.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Survival 54.3%, 2D 14%, Action 13.5%, Indie 10.8%, Platformer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features side-scrolling exploration, base building, and survival combat against waves of enemies.

Create your character and survive wave after wave of zombies! Gain exp, level up and unlock new skills. Acquire over 20 Weapons with different rarities.

Why similar: Zombies 48.6%, Action 20.8%, Indie 14.8%, Side Scroller 11.5%, 2D 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-RPG that emphasizes survival and combat against hordes of undead.

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..

Why similar: Zombies 62.4%, Survival 31.1%, Indie 4%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that offers the most realistic and punishing zombie survival experience available.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 55.5%, Survival 27.9%, Action 10.1%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that encourages scavenging and building defenses in an open-world zombie apocalypse.

As a survivor of the mutant virus, make your way through the city and wipe out the hordes of flesh eating mutants. Teamwork is the key to survive the DEAD HORDE...

Why similar: Zombies 67%, Action 14.9%, Indie 9.3%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that focuses on the frantic action of surviving against massive zombie numbers.

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Zombies 49.2%, Survival 21.5%, Action 10.7%, Shooter 8.2%, Indie 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that blends base building and combat in a stylized, accessible package.

Dead Sky takes place admist the chaos of a mysterious outbreak where you will fight tooth-and-nail through hordes of undead creatures in order to escape the epidemic and survive. At its core, Dead Sky is an action-packed survival shooter that ties in several strategic tower defense elements.

Why similar: Zombies 59.6%, Action 22.6%, Indie 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival shooter that emphasizes resource management and combat in a dark, atmospheric setting.

Post soviet zombies - is an action shooter with a top view, in which you have to get out of the virus infected post-Soviet city for one of the four unique characters. On the way you will meet a variety of zombies, military, marauders and people who need your help in 1993.

Why similar: Zombies 52.4%, Action 17.1%, Indie 13%, Gore 6.9%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling shooter that captures the gritty, retro feel of early zombie survival games.

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 51.7%, Indie 23.1%, Action 14%, Survival 8.5%, Retro 2.7%

Team up or face it alone in this top down zombie slaying defense adventure! Featuring up to 4 player online co-op, cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses to build the Ultimate Zombie Defense. Can YOU stop them?

Why similar: Zombies 55%, Action 15.4%, Survival 12.8%, Tower Defense 6.8%, Gore 5.5%

This is the world after a zombie apocalypse in which the main characters have to go through many perils. It is a story about ordinary people who, when faced with danger, decided not to run away from it, but to fight back. As the story goes along, you will learn what caused the disaster and help other survivors to overcome its aftermath.

Why similar: Zombies 69.1%, Action 17.4%, Indie 8%, Survival 5.6%

In this game you have to fight your way through hordes of zombies in search of a safe place.

Why similar: Zombies 50.5%, Action 14.5%, Survival 13.2%, Shooter 8.8%, Horror 4.2%

Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Why similar: Zombies 63.7%, Action 14.9%, Indie 8.6%, Gore 6.6%, Shooter 5.5%

A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.

Why similar: Zombies 46.1%, Action 13.6%, Horror 11%, Survival 9.3%, Gore 6.6%

Bloody Streets is a brutal top-down shooter which will challenge you with areas swarmed by undead in a beautifully stylized and hand painted 2D world complemented by high energy rock music. How long can you survive the sea of monsters while pumping round after round of bullets?

Why similar: Zombies 60%, Action 17.7%, Indie 14%, Gore 8.3%

Zombie Desperation is a small horror game where you shoot hordes of zombies until you die, aiming to obtain a higher rank in the online leaderboards while unlocking new scenarios and weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 39.3%, Action 15.2%, Indie 12.1%, Gore 11.5%, Survival 11.1%

What will you do when the zombie apocalypse comes, are you ready to tackle it right now and stay face to face with all the horrors that will appear?

Why similar: Zombies 48.2%, Action 14.4%, Survival 11%, Indie 9.8%, Gore 5.7%

Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.

Why similar: Zombies 67.4%, Action 11.4%, Survival 9.3%, Indie 6.1%, Gore 3.8%

Deadly Escape is a Survival Horror game made with pixel art graphics, inspired by survival horror games of the '90s.

Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Action 24.4%, Indie 17.9%, Gore 10.9%, Horror 10.8%

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 44.2%, Action 21.2%, Indie 18%, Survival 12.9%, 2D 2.7%

Blackout Z' is a super fast top-down view shooter where you face ZOMBIES, SAWS and the DARK. Do you have what it takes to have what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse with only your gun and an old flashlight?

Why similar: Zombies 45.6%, Action 21.2%, Indie 13.6%, Horror 6.8%, Gore 6.2%

As a part of the Borderwatch team, scavenge, defend and survive against zombie hordes in this 3rd person action horror survival! Will you be able to see the daylight?

Why similar: Zombies 50.1%, Action 22.3%, Shooter 13.3%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Gore 1.7%

A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!

Why similar: Zombies 40.5%, Survival 28.5%, Action 17.4%, Indie 13.5%

Blending horror survival/ Building and tower defence elements Damned Nation gives the player more ways to experience the post apocalypse the ever before.

Why similar: Zombies 45.2%, Survival 17.2%, Action 15.1%, Indie 9.3%, Horror 7.6%

Dead Beacon is a first-person survival horror inspired by late 1990s games and taking place in the Beacon manor, a location crawling with zombies and creatures governed by a malevolent will. Survive using the given array of weapons and escape the island.

Why similar: Zombies 50.1%, Action 16.4%, Horror 11.1%, Shooter 9.4%, Gore 9.4%

Survival Zombies is a bloody chaotic survival first person shooter that pits heavily armed players against humanity's greatest fear - hordes of undead.

Why similar: Zombies 55.9%, Action 14.7%, Indie 9.7%, Gore 8.5%, Shooter 6.3%

Embark on a survival horror saga set in a treacherous world ruled by primal terrors. Scour for invaluable treasures, fortify your arsenal to combat evolving threats, and unravel the chilling mystery shrouding Delta squad's fate. Can you survive amidst the lurking jaws of the ancient predators?

Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Action 16.8%, Side Scroller 12.8%, Horror 12.7%, Shooter 11.8%

Survive the world's deadliest psychopaths. Experience a unique 2-player co-op experience that puts your teamwork and communication to the test. Complete your duties alone or with a partner in a prison like no other.

Why similar: Survival 39%, Action 24.7%, Horror 23.9%, Retro 12.3%

Necrosis: Dawn of Dread is a full-length co-op survival horror experience inspired by the golden age of zombies. 15+ hours of missions, vehicles, puzzles, with many playable survivors await across a world consumed by the dead. No microtransactions, no shortcuts: just pure survival.

Why similar: Action 41.3%, Horror 30%, Shooter 27.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!

Why similar: Zombies 48.7%, Survival 18.8%, Action 17.6%, Indie 12.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

My Night Job sends players into an abandoned building and sicks hordes of monsters on them. They can use more than 60 weapons to defend themselves and save as many survivors as possible. But beware – if too many rooms are thrashed, the end may be nigh-er than you originally thought.

Why similar: Zombies 44.9%, Action 13.9%, Survival 11.3%, Indie 10%, Horror 9.6%

Get ready for an intense survival battle against an ever-growing horde of zombies. Play solo or co-op with friends, test your shooting skills and luck in this relentless combat and see how long you can stay alive.

Why similar: Zombies 53.6%, Survival 15.2%, Action 9.1%, Shooter 7.2%, Horror 6.5%

Deadly Broadcast is a co-op horror and survival game that can be played with 1-4 players. As a Famous Streamer, you have to stay alive, but at the same time you should stream the paranormal events in the cursed places to gather more donations and more viewers. Don’t die! Don’t cut the Broadcast!

Why similar: Zombies 51.1%, Survival 23.5%, Action 14.4%, Horror 11%

Dead Purge: Outbreak is a modern first-person shooter set in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic world where every minute can be your last.

Why similar: Zombies 39.2%, Action 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Gore 11.1%, Indie 10.4%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Zombies 43.3%, Survival 22.8%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Tower Defense 10.4%, 2D 5.1%

A wave based FPS where you defend a barricaded house against increasing hordes of the dead.

Why similar: Zombies 43.6%, Action 19.4%, Shooter 13.7%, Horror 9.4%, Gore 6.6%