Games like Desolation Seed

If the dark and tense rhythm of Desolation Seed stuck with you, this helps. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

D.E.C.A.Y.
Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with your robot companion, gather resources, and maintain the Atlas network in hardcore VR, where order is a matter of choice.
Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
81% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
The Last Caretaker
You are the last working Caretaker, a machine with one job: fish human seeds from a drowned Earth, grow them in the Lazarus Complex, and launch them back to the stars. Scavenge wrecks, wire up power, fight off rogue machines, and read a flooded world as you go.
Dark, Atmospheric
86% of 14,133 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,169$34.99
DRUDGE
You are a slave. A collar with three lights hangs around your neck: each one fades and shocks you for mistakes or disobedience. Your life is quotas: sorting waste, growing food, and expeditions into lower levels with zombies. Earn, unlock passages, buy gear, and seek a path to freedom.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99
DESOLATE
Granichny Island went wrong two years ago, and nobody will say how. As a Volunteer for the New Light conglomerate, you search its abandoned settlements and sealed facilities for answers, fighting or sneaking past what lives there now. A bleak open-world survival horror for up to four players, or one very nervous loner.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
68% of 6,248 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Genesis Survivors
Welcome, hackers, you're being transferred to Eden City to defend its citizens against the alien threat! Eden Survivors is a single-player survivor-like auto-shooter where players must defeat hordes of alien invaders until the extraction time.
Tense, Fast-paced
69% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Steel Seed
Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction. Play as Zoe and her drone Koby as they explore a hostile underground facility. Uncover secrets, survive dangers, search for answers, and humanity’s last hope.
Dark, Tense, Fast-paced
78% of 346 Steam reviews are positive$39.99
Urge
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
90% of 506 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$17.99
Cargo Hunters
You pilot a humanoid robot scavenging a dead Earth, hauling whatever still has value back to your shelter before the wasteland takes it. Loot, craft, swap limbs, and get out alive. Play solo or with up to three friends in this tense PvE extraction shooter where every kilogram counts.
Dark, Tense, Fast-paced
81% of 817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$19.99
P.A.M.E.L.A.®
Explore, fight, and survive as an awakened sleeper, in a fallen utopian city ravaged by a horrific disease. With an array of hi-tech weapons, highly immersive UI, full-body awareness, and much more, P.A.M.E.L.A. delivers an intense and unforgiving survival experience.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
58% of 848 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Once Human
Once Human is an odd post-apocalyptic survival game where you join friends against monsters, build your own territory, and uncover what Stardust wants. You watch food and water for Sanity, hunt bosses for powerful loot, and shape guns with parts, perks, and upgrades.
Dark, Tense, Fast-paced
79% of 195,611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16,311Free
Hell is Others
Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.
Dark, Tense, Fast-paced
73% of 992 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
DREADZONE
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
51% of 1,189 Steam reviews are positive$24.99

Cheaper than Desolation Seed

DRUDGE

You are a slave. A collar with three lights hangs around your neck: each one fades and shocks you for mistakes or disobedience.

$12.99

Genesis Survivors

Welcome, hackers, you're being transferred to Eden City to defend its citizens against the alien threat!

$4.99

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

SurrounDead

Scavenge a zombie-ridden open world for gear and supplies, trade for what you lack, and turn a hideout into a base that keeps you alive.

$11.99

DEAD TRASH

Years into a brutal lockdown, a once-thriving city lies in ruins, abandoned by its government and overrun by vicious, mindless infected.

$2.99

Wrought Flesh

Rip out organs and equip them in your own body. Fight biopunk monsters and drugged-up space bandits.

$11.99

HELL OF FEAR: Mind Breach

Step into the boots of Major Axel Vex in this survival horror descent into deep space.

$11.04

EMPTY SHELL

You sign up for a recovery operation in an abandoned facility on a Japanese island, then die and get replaced by the next volunteer.

$11.99

Atomic Exile

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America.

$11.24

Mist Survival

Scavenge, build and defend a base while the infected hunt in the fog.

$10.99

The Rule of Land: Pioneers

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground.

$10.99

Almost Alive

Almost Alive is redefining the role playing tactical games with an awesome fast paced but complexe real time combat system in a mad hand drawn post…

$11.99

Hidden gems like Desolation Seed

DRUDGE

You are a slave. A collar with three lights hangs around your neck: each one fades and shocks you for mistakes or disobedience.

$12.99

Scavland

Scavenge the wasteland for parts, build your own guns and push a little further each time, knowing ammo runs out faster than mutants do.

$19.99

Desecrators

Desecrators is a retro six-degrees-of-freedom shooter set in a 41st-century galaxy where outlaw hovercraft pilots plunder deep-space installations.

$14.99

LIFE EFFECT Survival

A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.

$14.99

DEAD TRASH

Years into a brutal lockdown, a once-thriving city lies in ruins, abandoned by its government and overrun by vicious, mindless infected.

$2.99

Cargo Hunters

Pilot a scavenger robot across a dead Earth, grab what still has value, and haul it home before the wasteland takes it back.

$19.99

Psycho Patrol R

A brutal, funny mecha cop sim in a decaying open world, where the cases are strange and every quest is optional.

$39.99

D.E.C.A.Y.

Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with…

$24.99

EMPTY SHELL

You sign up for a recovery operation in an abandoned facility on a Japanese island, then die and get replaced by the next volunteer.

$11.99

Atomic Exile

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America.

$11.24

Steel Seed

Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction.

$39.99

VEIN

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

$19.99

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