Games Like The DeadLine

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Trains 36.3% ★, Zombies 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Horror 6.1%, Shooter 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a train journey through a dying world, mirroring the core narrative hook of the seed game.

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 23%, FPS 19.9%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Horror 14.6%, 1990's 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A direct homage to classic survival-horror shooters that emphasizes exploration and resource scarcity.

In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28%, FPS 25.5%, Horror 14%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Shooter 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features the definitive underground subway survival experience with intense FPS combat and a post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.

Why similar: FPS 27.5%, Old School 22.8%, Shooter 13.9%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a gritty, old-school FPS experience with heavy horror themes and tactical combat against cultists and the undead.

Your squad's vehicle exploded during a patrol, and you're the only survivor. The enemy is unusual this time. A virus has turned the city into a warzone of the undead. Get to the exfil in time or die trying. A free-to-play short and intense FPS zombie survival horror game.

Why similar: Zombies 23.7%, FPS 15.6%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Horror 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a straightforward, high-octane FPS experience centered on fighting off waves of the undead.

Immerse yourself in a dreadful hand-drawn horror world and push Death’s armies back to the underworld!

Why similar: Underground 28.4% ★, FPS 21.6%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Horror 14.6%, Combat 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a stylized, old-school FPS experience with a dark, atmospheric horror setting.

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Zombies 45.5%, FPS 13%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival-horror shooter that forces players to scavenge and work together to survive zombie hordes.

Forgive Me Father is a dark retro horror FPS set in a comic book style world inspired by the novels of H.P. Lovecraft. As the only one left with full senses, you begin a journey in search of answers and relief. How long can you last?

Why similar: FPS 50.3%, Shooter 22.1%, First-Person 10.2%, Action 8.8%, Combat 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines retro-shooter mechanics with Lovecraftian horror and a distinct comic-book art style.

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 37.3%, FPS 26%, Horror 11.8%, Shooter 9.2%, Action 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced sci-fi FPS that leans heavily into zombie-slaying action and horror elements.

An immersive, first-person survival shooter where you step into the boots of Special Agent Aiden Clark. Dive deep into a hazardous underground laboratory, tasked with the perilous mission of neutralizing a biological menace and securing a pathogen sample.

Why similar: Zombies 24.2%, FPS 18.7%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Horror 11.6%, Shooter 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled FPS that focuses on intense zombie combat and survival-horror exploration.

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

Why similar: Zombies 24.8%, FPS 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Shooter 10.8%, Survival Horror 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style shooter that pits the player against relentless zombie hordes in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 21.5%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Shooter 10.1%, Old School 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 90s-inspired horror shooter that focuses on surviving against supernatural threats.

In this short first-person psychological horror game, falling asleep on the subway takes you to the final station, abandoned and eerie. Explore the area and try to survive the entity chasing you in the darkness. Who is it? Its face looks strangely familiar...

Why similar: Horror 25.8%, Survival Horror 25.2%, Dark 19.9%, First-Person 12.3%, Linear 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, first-person horror game set on a train that emphasizes isolation and survival.

Putrefaction is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, lots of enemies and weapons, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.

Why similar: FPS 29.7%, Horror 16.4%, Zombies 15.4%, Old School 10%, Shooter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features visceral, old-school FPS combat with a heavy emphasis on gore and horror atmosphere.

The Last DeadEnd is a game with elements of an adventure, shooter and horror. There is a mysterious atmosphere of a real old city, where the protagonist seeks answers to his questions and fights against the forces of evil.

Why similar: FPS 50.5%, Horror 32.4%, Action 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends first-person exploration with horror elements and combat in a mysterious, dark environment.

Fight, scavenge, and extract in The Midnight Walkers, a hardcore FPS game with deadly zombies, dangerous players, and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables; trade items; and maintain your hideout. Escape Liberty Grand Center mega complex, and thrive...or die and lose everything.

Why similar: Zombies 24%, FPS 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Horror 11%, PvE 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based shooter that forces players to scavenge for resources while avoiding zombies.

Close your eyes. Step into a world filled with nothing but darkness and terror, where everything wants to destroy you. Your time has come to fight the shrieking darkness, be brave and don't look back or you won't make it.

Why similar: FPS 20.1%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Zombies 14.7%, Horror 14%, Shooter 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric horror shooter that emphasizes tension and survival in dark, confined spaces.

Be permeated by the adrenaline-pumping gameplay worthy of the most famous shooters and survive the rise of madness! Experience the chaos and human perversion firsthand. This adventure will take you from the dark streets of DreamCity to the higher floors of the corporations that control it.

Why similar: Zombies 22.5%, FPS 17.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.5%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Horror 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror FPS that leans into the dread of fighting through undead-infested corridors.

Paris, 1968. As the city sinks into social unrest, a far darker threat rises from deep underground. Charles Mercier, a former SOLDIER recruited by a secret organization, is sent into the METRO tunnels to prevent an IMMINENT CATASTROPHE.

Why similar: Underground 26% ★, Horror 21%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Shooter 16.3%, Dark 9%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, realistic shooter that focuses on survival against overwhelming odds.

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 40.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, FPS 21.1%, Horror 13%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A robust survival game that emphasizes base building and scavenging to survive nightly zombie hordes.

A western occult FPS game against the unknown on a train speeding through the western wilderness.

Why similar: FPS 42.7%, Shooter 17.1%, PvE 11.2%, Action 10.5%, First-Person 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A singleplayer FPS that captures the aesthetic and feel of 1980s action shooters.

Drive through hordes of zombies in this zombie-splattering roguelike, collecting hardware to upgrade your vehicle with turrets, flamethrowers, nitro boosts and more.

Why similar: Zombies 45.2%, Post-apocalyptic 29.4%, First-Person 9.6%, Action 7.1%, Linear 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines vehicle-based survival with zombie combat, echoing the train-based progression of the seed game.

Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.

Why similar: FPS 30.4%, Old School 21.3%, Shooter 14.1%, Horror 13.9%, 1990's 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in modern retro-shooters that captures the fast-paced, violent spirit of 90s FPS games.

In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, FPS 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-intensity PVE shooter that focuses on wave-based survival against grotesque enemies.

"We are food, but not for long." The Zombie apocalypse has come, and your squad is the last line of defense. Command a Special Forces unit with high-tech weaponry in this mission-based FPS with sprawling indoor and outdoor environments.

Why similar: Zombies 43.4%, FPS 38.2%, Action 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art FPS that focuses on classic zombie-killing action in a retro style.

Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements.

Why similar: FPS 30.3%, Old School 19.4%, Shooter 12.8%, Horror 10.7%, Dark 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A loot-driven retro shooter that combines fast combat with horror-themed exploration.

Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.

Why similar: FPS 60.7%, Shooter 19.2%, Action 7.4%, First-Person 6.1%, Horror 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the classic shooter formula with high-fidelity gore and fast-paced combat.

HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.

Why similar: FPS 35.6%, Old School 18.9%, Shooter 13.8%, Horror 9.9%, Dark 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, old-school FPS set in a dark, atmospheric version of 1980s Czechoslovakia.

Project Warlock is a first-person shooter that fans of Doom, Hexen, and Wolfenstein cannot miss. It serves you an exploding cocktail of bullets, spells, and monsters. Battle through 60 levels of non-stop action, packed with bloodthirsty enemies and challenging bosses.

Why similar: FPS 31.7%, Old School 17.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.9%, Shooter 9.7%, Horror 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired shooter that features diverse weapons and challenging combat encounters.

Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 49.9%, FPS 18.2%, Zombies 13.7%, Shooter 9.5%, PvE 3.1%

Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!

Why similar: Trains 41% ★, Zombies 13.1%, Action Roguelike 11.6%, Survival Horror 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%

Lost in the woods. Trapped in a cabin. Face wave after wave of undead horrors in this intense 80s-themed zombie survival shooter. Play solo or co-op with up to 4 players, in VR or on PC. Keep the lights on, defend the cabin, and survive the night if you can!

Why similar: Zombies 21.1%, FPS 16.7%, Action Roguelike 12.1%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Shooter 10.2%

Find yourself on a mission exploring the depth of an ominous forgotten mine. You arrive barehanded but quickly find the tools needed to go deeper. Destroy the infected living parts of the mine and face the final threat and complete your mission.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.2%, Shooter 19.8%, Zombies 13.8%, Horror 12.5%, Dark 11.6%

Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Zombies 18.5%, FPS 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Action Roguelike 9.7%, PvE 9.6%

Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.

Why similar: Zombies 26.6%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Horror 12.3%, Dark 9.3%

Tunnels of Despair is an atmospheric game with horror and survival elements, in which you are to explore the tunnels of an abandoned subway system, find a way out and escape the underground.

Why similar: Zombies 18.3%, Trains 17.5% ★, Survival Horror 16.1%, Underground 14.6% ★, Horror 12.3%

Survive as long as you can through the waves of magic guardians, level up to heighten your own magical abilities, and unlock game changing weapon upgrades and new arenas as you explore Dark Willow Crypt! Will you escape, or are you bound for the grave...

Why similar: FPS 34.2%, Action Roguelike 19.2%, Shooter 14.8%, Action 11.8%, PvE 9.4%

Become an interdimensional zombie slayer in Temporal Purge: Z, an action-packed zombie-survival FPS. Face the zombie onslaught as you eradicate countless undead monsters on your quest to save the future.

Why similar: Zombies 28.8%, FPS 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Horror 10%, Shooter 7.9%

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 42%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Horror 13.8%, Shooter 11.6%, Action 10.8%

Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.

Why similar: Trains 30.2% ★, Zombies 19.9%, FPS 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Shooter 8.2%

Take your guns and start killing zombies in the best FPS Shooting game

Why similar: Zombies 25%, FPS 22.7%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Shooter 14.2%, Action 8%

Once a prosperous city Istanbul is fallen. Prepare your gear, defeat zombie hordes and reclaim your hometown. Uncover hidden story behind the disaster and learn what controls the zombies. Select your side between military and rebels and fight for the control of the city.

Why similar: Zombies 45%, FPS 23.5%, Shooter 13.2%, Action 5.8%, First-Person 5.3%

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 40.9%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Action Roguelike 13.4%, Shooter 11.2%, Dark 6.9%

Battle Royale and Extraction that blends PvP and PvE, You are a operative that will drop into the infected region and attempt to recover artifacts and eradicate the infected.Each player is pitted against Zombies, Monsters and each other. Online or Single player for practice with bots!

Why similar: Zombies 16.7%, FPS 16.4%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Horror 10.9%

In Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape, a group of humans try to outrun a player-controlled swarm of infected. Everyone spawns in a train station until one is randomly infected and needs to turn fleeing survivors into zombies. Survivors try to escape by train.

Why similar: Trains 32.9% ★, Zombies 16.8%, FPS 14%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Horror 9.1%

Blightspire is a fast-paced, wave-based survival shooter. Battle through a cursed graveyard as undead abominations rise in endless waves. With only your reflexes and firepower, survive the darkness in a world where death is never the end.

Why similar: FPS 32.3%, Dark 15.9%, Shooter 14.6%, Combat 10.6%, First-Person 8.9%

Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.

Why similar: Trains 36.2% ★, Survival Horror 18.2%, Horror 11.9%, FPS 10.4%, Shooter 8.2%

Dead Containment is an on-rails shooter inspired by classic arcade games. Players fend off the undead as they race through a city under siege, blasting away the horrors that roam the streets using a variety of weapons. Playable solo or online co-op.

Why similar: Zombies 33.1%, FPS 15.2%, Old School 13.5%, Horror 9%, Shooter 8.9%

A classic-style hardcore dynamic shooter which takes place in a science underground center.

Why similar: Zombies 23.9%, FPS 20.8%, Underground 17.8% ★, Shooter 11.3%, Horror 8.3%

Blood, guts, meat. Humanity's waging total war against a horrific zombie apocalypse. Lead one of four of humanity's deadliest survivors against the horde in this first person, wave defense shooter. Load up your guns, set up turrets, sharpen your skills, and maybe you'll make it through the night.

Why similar: Zombies 26.8%, FPS 21%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Shooter 11%

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: FPS 21%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Horror 14.5%, Shooter 12.6%, Dark 7.3%

Years into a brutal lockdown, a once-thriving city lies in ruins, abandoned by its government and overrun by vicious, mindless infected. Grab your hammer, collect your nerves and enter the mayhem.

Why similar: FPS 25.4%, Shooter 13.3%, Old School 13.2%, Horror 12.7%, Zombies 9.2%

A World War II outbreak awakens prehistoric horrors. Face relentless dinosaur hordes in a wave-based survival shooter where every bullet counts.

Why similar: FPS 22.7%, PvE 12.9%, Horror 12.7%, Shooter 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%

Battle through Zombie Apocalypse horror! Which is better - shotgun, pistol or AK-47? Blast their rotten, infected brains out and choose your favorite! Scavenge weapons and armor to pimp out your souped up zombie slaying car - then plow down the man-eating hordes to Escape the Undead City, and try not to get your guts torn out!!!

Why similar: Zombies 62.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.5%, Action 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.5%

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

Why similar: FPS 33.7%, Zombies 21.2%, Shooter 16.6%, Horror 12.1%, First-Person 9%