Games like Dead Engine

If Dead Engine scratched a replayable and tense itch for you, keep reading. These games line up well for what comes next.

Deadly Days: Roadtrip
A bullet heaven road trip through a pixel zombie apocalypse where your backpack is your build. Loot weapons and gear, puzzle them into place until the numbers stop making sense, then decide: push on for better loot, or extract while the horde still lets you. Playable solo or on the couch with a friend.
Replayable, Tense, Retro
87% of 3,276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,370$9.74
Night Raider
A top-down extraction shooter with zombies, darkness and a backpack full of decisions. Gear up at camp, loot the ruined city building by building, and call for extraction before the ammo runs out. Die, and everything you carried stays behind. Over 60 guns, hundreds of attachments, and survivors who are worse than the dead.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
85% of 1,928 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$5.99
Z Dawn
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
Replayable, Tense, Dark
72% of 259 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
ZED ZONE
Your plane crashes in a quarantined zone full of zombies, mutants and rogue machines. Scavenge, craft, build a fortified base, level up your skills and fight your way toward escape. A top-down survival sandbox with guns you can mod, a loyal dog, and hordes that test every wall you build.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
81% of 3,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,206$7.19
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to the undead, and you lead ordinary survivors trying to get out alive. Scavenge ruined streets, craft weapons and shelter upgrades, and keep moving from refuge to refuge as the hordes close in.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Tense, Dark
89% of 9,430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,001$24.99
The Dead Await
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Tense, Dark
66% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
FatalZone
An auto-shooter where your weapons do the shooting and you do the surviving. Lead mercenaries into zombie hordes, haul resources back to camp, level up between runs, and decide when to call the evac copter. Permadeath is real, mutations are weird, and humanity is counting on you.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
66% of 2,132 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$6.99
Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城
《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology. Players will play the role of one of the few surviving humans in the end of the world, surviving in difficult conditions and trying to change the fate of the world.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
66% of 159 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
A turn-based survival roguelike in a zombie apocalypse. Spend your action points wisely, scavenge a procedurally generated city, and reach the Terminus, escape by boat, or build a vaccine. Every run is a new city, and every step could be your last.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
94% of 4,358 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$19.99
Survival Log
You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days to live with what you grabbed. Scavenge the city, fortify your home, farm, cook, keep the lights on, and hold the door when the horde arrives. Death just sends your memories into the next run.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Tense, Dark
81% of 3,764 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 747$10.99
Apocalypse: The Last RV
You die in the apocalypse, then wake up seven days before it starts. This time you know what is coming: make money, hoard supplies and turn an RV into a warm, self-sufficient home on a freezing, ruined road. A story-rich survival management game with farming, crafting, card combat and roguelite runs.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Tense, Dark
67% of 246 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.99
Dead Age
A zombie survival RPG with turn-based combat, permanent death and a camp full of people who need you. Scavenge, craft, make brutal story choices and defend your camp for 40 days. Die, and your next run starts stronger. Six endings, and every decision pushes you toward one of them.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
83% of 4,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99

Cheaper than Dead Engine

Night Raider

Raid a zombie-ridden city in tense top-down runs, where every bullet counts and death leaves your gear behind.

$5.99

Deadly Days

Lead survivors through a zombie outbreak, racing the clock to grab supplies and turning everyday objects into absurd weapons.

$0.95

ZED ZONE

Scavenge a hostile open world, craft and mod your gear, raise a fortified base and push toward escape, alone or with friends.

$7.19

FatalZone

Move your squad through zombie hordes while your guns fire themselves, then call the evac before permadeath calls it for you.

$6.99

Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城

《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology.

$5.99

Apocalypse: The Last RV

Rewind to the week before the apocalypse, stockpile supplies, upgrade your RV and survive the frozen road in runs that play out differently every…

$4.99

Decision: Red Daze

Lead a squad of survivors through a zombie-ridden wasteland, claim its ruins and turn them into settlements that can hold out against the Red Daze.

$3.99

Deadline Escape

Raid zombie-filled maps against a countdown, haul your loot home and turn it into better gear.

$4.99

Backpack Dungeon

Pack your gear, let the ball roll, and turn clever packing into dungeon survival, one run at a time.

$3.99

Welcome to ParadiZe

Turn the undead into farmhands and bodyguards, then carve a home out of a ruined world, alone or with friends.

$2.99

Infectonator: Survivors

Run a group of survivors through a zombie apocalypse: scavenge, build, fight, and hope someone makes it out.

$0.99

Nearly Dead - Live and Let Die

2D top-down multi co-op action game. Survive the zombies together with a stranger.

$6.99

Hidden gems like Dead Engine

Backpack Dungeon

Pack your gear, let the ball roll, and turn clever packing into dungeon survival, one run at a time.

$3.99

Deadline Escape

Raid zombie-filled maps against a countdown, haul your loot home and turn it into better gear.

$4.99

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$19.99

Deadly Days: Roadtrip

Fight through a pixel zombie apocalypse on a road trip where looting and arranging your gear decides how long you survive.

$9.74

Survival Log

Scavenge a dying city, build up your shelter and hold out against the horde in a roguelite survival run where death carries your memories forward.

$10.99

Terminus: Zombie Survivors

Scavenge a new city each run, spend your action points carefully, and fight toward an escape or a cure.

$19.99

Night Raider

Raid a zombie-ridden city in tense top-down runs, where every bullet counts and death leaves your gear behind.

$5.99

ZED ZONE

Scavenge a hostile open world, craft and mod your gear, raise a fortified base and push toward escape, alone or with friends.

$7.19

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Keep a fragile group of survivors fed, armed and moving through a grim, tense story where every choice can cost a life.

$24.99

VEIN

Scavenge, build and fight your way through a grim open world, alone or with friends at your side.

$19.99

Urban Strife

A turn-based tactical survival RPG with real bullet physics, factions with their own agendas and a shelter to rebuild.

$34.99

Apocalypse: The Last RV

Rewind to the week before the apocalypse, stockpile supplies, upgrade your RV and survive the frozen road in runs that play out differently every…

$4.99

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