Games like Generation Zero®

If Generation Zero® scratched a dark and tense itch for you, keep reading. Start with these games when you are ready. Plenty here let you team up if you like.

ZERO Sievert
A top-down extraction shooter in a pixel-art wasteland. Raid procedurally generated maps, loot what you can carry, and get out alive. Between runs, build up a bunker, mod your guns and pick a faction. Solo, tense, and endlessly replayable: every raid plays out differently.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
84% of 14,567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 287$19.99
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
Aloy, a young hunter and outcast, sets out to uncover her past in a post-apocalyptic Earth where tribal societies live alongside deadly animal-like Machines. Hunt with bow, traps and cunning, tear the weapons off your prey and use them back, and unravel a sci-fi mystery that slowly explains what happened to the old world. The Complete Edition adds the Frozen Wilds expansion and extra gear.
Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
87% of 95,902 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 244
The Forever Winter
A tactical PvE extraction shooter where you are a scavenger, not a hero. Loot the dead beneath war machines the size of buildings, sneak past armies that have their own battles to fight, and get out alive with what you carried. Grim, tense and punishing, with an atmosphere worth the bruises.
Also in Co-op · Dark, Tense, Brutal
68% of 21,601 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 249$29.99
Scavland
A hardcore top-down survival RPG in a post-apocalyptic Soviet wasteland. Scavenge bunkers and irradiated swamps, build guns from found parts, earn a reputation among Zalesye's survivors, and dig into the mystery of the Mist. Ammo is scarce, mutants are fast, and every expedition is a decision about how much you are willing to risk.
Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
83% of 1,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 113$19.99
Homefront®: The Revolution
Philadelphia is occupied and it is your job to take it back, street by street. An open-world shooter about guerrilla war: sabotage patrols, hack enemy tech, build improvised weapons and watch an oppressed city rise up behind you. Rough in places, but the setting and the rebellion feel real.
Also in Co-op · Dark, Tense, Brutal
63% of 11,442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52$19.99
MISERY
A 1-10 player co-op survival game in a nuclear exclusion zone. Raid radioactive ruins for loot, build out your bunker, hunt artifacts and try not to lose your mind. Dark, tense and best shared with friends.
Also in Co-op · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
85% of 20,733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 399$19.99
Gray Zone Warfare
A PvE-first open-world tactical shooter on a quarantined island torn by faction warfare. Deploy solo or with a squad, run 250+ tasks, earn reputation, loot and tune your guns, and pick apart the mystery behind the Event at your own pace.
Also in Co-op · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
72% of 71,105 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12,355$39.99
Zero Hour
A tactical FPS set across fictional locations in Bangladesh, where you plan the operation, pick your loadout, and breach doors with four friends or nine AI squad mates. Slow, methodical close-quarters work: cut the lights, watch for traps, and clear rooms where one mistake ends the mission.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced
78% of 28,585 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$9.99
Project Silverfish
An immersive sim FPS in a hostile exclusion zone: hunt artifacts, fight mutants and gun-toting scavengers, and unravel why humanity went extinct. No quest markers, no hand-holding, just you, your wits and whatever you can scavenge. Every run plays out differently, and every mistake is yours alone.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
92% of 3,254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 238$29.99
Project: Mist
Project: Mist drops you on a foggy island full of monsters, abandoned facilities and dark secrets. You survive with a Gravity Gun, a train you build into a moving base, and a cooking pot full of strange critters. Play the story campaign alone or with up to three friends. It is rough in places, and the atmosphere makes up for it.
Also in Co-op · Dark, Tense, Atmospheric
72% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$17.99
The Front
A post-apocalyptic survival sandbox with a twist: you are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop a tyrannical empire. Gather, craft, build fortified bases with trap-filled defenses, assemble your own combat vehicles, and raid enemy territory alone or with friends.
Also in Co-op · Tense
66% of 9,525 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
METAL GEAR SURVIVE
A survival spin-off built on METAL GEAR SOLID V's stealth action: scavenge a hostile parallel world, craft weapons, raise a base camp and hold it against waves of creatures, alone or with three friends in co-op. Slow to start, strange in tone, and oddly more fun than its reputation suggests.
Also in Co-op · Dark, Tense, Brutal
64% of 3,706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$29.99

Cheaper than Generation Zero®

ZERO Sievert

Raid a pixel-art wasteland, grab what you can carry, and make it back to your bunker before the wasteland takes it all.

$19.99

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

Homefront®: The Revolution

Philadelphia is occupied and it is your job to take it back, street by street.

$19.99

MISERY

Raid irradiated ruins, hunt artifacts and keep your bunker standing while your mind holds on.

$19.99

Project: Mist

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

$17.99

The Front

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

$19.99

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

Scrapnaut

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

$1.39

No Such Place

Welcome to the Unknown Research Consortium (U.R.C.), where you’re tasked with conducting reconnaissance missions, terminating unknown threats…

$17.99

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3

Scout, plan and hold your nerve as a lone sniper working behind enemy lines in an open war zone.

$19.99

Frozen State

Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids.

$11.99

C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM)

C.A.S.T. is a third-person extraction shooter set in an alternate 1950s Europe, playable solo or with up to three others.

$6.99

Hidden gems like Generation Zero®

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

LIFE EFFECT Survival

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

$14.99

Project Silverfish

Scavenge what you can, stay out of sight when you must, and piece together humanity's fate one dangerous run at a time.

$29.99

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

Greedland

A top-down roguelike where hordes of aliens charge in and your firepower never stops growing.

$12.99

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

Road to Vostok

Loot, gear up and cross a hostile border zone, where every run into Vostok is permadeath and the best loot sits behind the worst risks.

$19.99

Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse

Lead Delta Team through a zombie-ruined open world, scavenging, fishing, and crafting your way from scraping by to rebuilding.

$19.99

Project: Mist

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

$17.99

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