Games like Desperation

Miss the tense and dark pull of Desperation? These games could fill that gap nicely. Plenty here let you team up if you like.

Survival Classic
Try to survive the harsh realities of the cold Siberian countryside. Live long and always remember, man is man's enemy. You can trust no one but it is almost impossible to survive on your own. Choose your path and go to finish. Firefights, transport, crafting and survival.
Also in Survival crafting · Tense, Dark, Scary
66% of 312 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
LifeZ - Survival
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Also in Survival crafting · Tense, Dark, Scary
68% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Andarilho
A first-person survival sandbox on a small, walled-in patch of post-apocalyptic countryside. Scavenge food and water, chop wood, craft tools, build a shelter, hunt for dinner, and when walking gets old, get behind the wheel of a car and drive. Zombies and aliens included.
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Scary
65% of 1,207 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.99
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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Scary
51% of 1,189 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Scary
55% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Survivalist
A year after civilization collapses, hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler leaves his bunker and finds a world of fast zombies, wary survivors and hard choices. Scavenge, farm, trade and build a community in a huge open-world RPG where people remember exactly what you did, and your choices carry real consequences.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Scary
80% of 2,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
Deborg Desolation Pre-Born
Deborg Desolation is a first-person indie game intended for the survival of mankind. Train to be a soldier capable of containing any injurious entity to achieve the survival of your own race, seek to plan strategies that allow your advancement without stopping.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Scary
77% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Dead District: Survival
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Scary
47% of 428 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Scary
68% of 6,247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Another Try
The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors! You will have to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world populated by the living dead.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense, Dark, Scary
49% of 290 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
Gone: Survival
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Scary
40% of 254 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Deadly Flare
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
Also in Survival crafting · Tense, Dark, Scary
53% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$13.99

Cheaper than Desperation

Deborg Desolation Pre-Born

Deborg Desolation is a first-person indie game intended for the survival of mankind.

$1.99

Another Try

The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors!

$2.99

SurvivalZ

A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors!

$0.69

Girl Amazon Survival

Stay alive fighting with the bandits and zombies. Hunt animals, build houses.

$2.99

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

Block Survival: Legend of the Lost Islands

As the lone survivor of a plane crash, use weapons as your tools and bullets as your shelter in a fast paced FPS mixing survival and crafting with…

$0.99

Afterinfection

Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand.

$2.24

Story Of the Survivor

Story of the Survivor is an action RPG that takes place during a zombie apocalypse.

$2.99

Fallen Region

Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.

$1.99

NightZ

Events occur several months after the global epidemic. Infected turned into aggressive creatures. All survivors are infected with the virus.

$0.99

Survival Zombies The Inverted Evolution

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

$0.49

TheDark

Single player and online multiplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world, With an open world dungeon system

$2.99

Hidden gems like Desperation

Deadline Escape

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

$4.99

VEIN

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

$19.99

HumanitZ

Scavenge ruined cities, build a shelter worth defending, and see how long you last in a grim open world.

$19.99

Night of the Dead

An open-world zombie survival game where the day is for gathering, crafting and building, and the night is for holding the line.

$29.99

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

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

Survival Nation

An open-world online RPG, survival game designed for VR. In this game, you will kill hundreds of zombies, acquire weapons, learn new skills, craft…

$29.99

iZolated

iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest…

$5.99

Deadside

A grim open-world survival shooter where every run risks your gear against other players, and a fortified base waits for what you bring home.

$9.99

DeadPoly

Loot a low-poly apocalypse for supplies, raise a base, and keep yourself fed as long as you can, alone or with friends.

$9.99

The Front

Gather, craft and fortify a base, then push back against the empire in first person, alone or with friends.

$19.99

No One Survived

Scavenge, craft and build a real home in a grim zombie world, then hold it when the dead close in, alone or with friends.

$16.99

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