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Games like The Escapists: The Walking Dead

Games like The Escapists: The Walking Dead

Games like The Escapists: The Walking Dead

Looking for games like The Escapists: The Walking Dead? Here are top open world role playing shooter recommendations with a horror and violence focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Escapists 2, How to Survive or The Escapists.

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  1. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    91% User Score Based on 13,802 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 26 reviews

    The Escapists 2 is the forthcoming sequel to the sandbox prison-escape game which will include, in a first for the series, drop in/drop out play for up to four players in both local and online play. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Escapists 2.

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  2. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 9,120 reviews
    Critic Score 91%Based on 1 reviews

    You are shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive? Collect the pages of a Survival Guide and figure it out, of course! Find food, water, and shelter before you perish. Uh oh, is it getting dark? Figure out how to get through the night! While you’re at it, gather up some of this awesome stuff and piece together over 100 handmade weapons… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to How to Survive.

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  4. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    56% User Score Based on 3,019 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 15 reviews

    It’s the holiday season in Willamette, Colorado and a mysterious outbreak has overrun the Willamette Memorial Megaplex Mall and surrounding town with dangerous and deadly predators. Join Frank West as you explore a vast, open world sandbox filled with dangerous new zombies and a million ways to kill them as you seek to uncover the truth behind the outbreak – or die trying. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead Rising 4.

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  5. 56%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    56% User Score Based on 711 reviews

    Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Escape Dead Island.

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    66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    67% User Score Based on 13,922 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Thief.

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  7. 70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    71% User Score Based on 2,921 reviews
    Critic Score 69%Based on 3 reviews

    Dead State is a compelling, high-tension survival RPG set in central Texas at the collapse of civilization and the dawn of the undead apocalypse. As society is beginning to fall apart, the player must organize a group of survivors together, fortify a shelter, scout for food and supplies, negotiate with or defend against other factions, and maintain order inside the shelter as humanity teeters on t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead State: Reanimated.

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  8. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    85% User Score Based on 9,562 reviews
    Critic Score 77%Based on 3 reviews

    Chernobylite is a non-linerar, science-fiction survival horror RPG. Explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and uncover the truth of your tortured past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chernobylite.

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  10. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    75% User Score Based on 9,452 reviews
    Critic Score 79%Based on 8 reviews

    After an asteroid impacts Earth, humanity attempts to rebuild. Sheltered in cryogenic lifeboats, survivors emerge years after impact to a devastated planet where some of mankind survived in struggling settlements or murderous bandit clans, while horrific mutants roam the dead cities. And a mysterious tyrannical government is on the hunt… for you If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rage.

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  11. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    78% User Score Based on 8,408 reviews

    Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents. Design and fortify your base against the relentless hordes of the undead. Perform daring raids for food and ammunition, and… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to State of Decay: YOSE.

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  12. 56%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    56% User Score Based on 6,553 reviews

    You and your friends are the deadliest killers in the galaxy. Another glorious day in the Corps. Buckle up, soldier! Welcome to Aliens™: Colonial Marines. Created by Gearbox, the critically acclaimed and fan-favourite developers of Borderlands and Brothers In Arms, you and your friends will become the most badass military outfit in the galaxy – the US Colonial Marines. It’s up to you to not just… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection.

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  13. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    66% User Score Based on 2,287 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Wild Eight.

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  14. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    78% User Score Based on 5,050 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Survivalists.

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  15. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    79% User Score Based on 3,448 reviews
    Critic Score 72%Based on 9 reviews

    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. This is The Final Station. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Final Station.

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    74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    73% User Score Based on 10,844 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 2 reviews

    Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built-in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever-changing. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Contagion.

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  17. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    66% User Score Based on 3,838 reviews
    Critic Score 72%Based on 7 reviews

    Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana… Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to How To Survive 2.

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  18. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    67% User Score Based on 12,829 reviews
    Critic Score 82%Based on 9 reviews

    Buy Far Cry 6 on PlayStation Store. Play as Dani Rojas, a local Yaran, and become a guerrilla fighter to liberate the nation. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Far Cry 6.

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  19. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    77% User Score Based on 3,601 reviews

    Survive, exploring a vast island where everything is interactive and covered with zombies. - Build and upgrade bases using materials obtained by cutting down trees, mining up stones and collecting artifacts. - Get food through hunting and farming, cook and eat. - Build fortresses and traps to guide zombie movements to defend the flocking zombie waves. - Collect various items, weapons and costumes … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Night of the Dead.

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    70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, music
    70% User Score Based on 668 reviews

    Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Flesh Eaters.

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  21. 72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    77% User Score Based on 2,905 reviews
    Critic Score 67%Based on 11 reviews

    It is 1873. An escaped slave is slowly walking through the desert, making his way from Mexico to Texas. He keeps a revolver close and is wearing the sombrero stolen from a dead man. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 12 is Better Than 6.

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  22. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    67% User Score Based on 1,924 reviews

    Fast, deadly, the way he looks tell everything - nothing can stand a chance when it comes to dinosaur all star: Carnotaurus. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dinosaur Hunt.

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  23. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    82% User Score Based on 17,686 reviews
    Critic Score 68%Based on 5 reviews

    The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world. You choose where to make your stand, designing and fortifying your home base, performing daring raids for food and ammunition, and rescuing other playable survivors … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to State of Decay.

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  24. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    65% User Score Based on 6,070 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 7 reviews

    In the days leading up to the events of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, Agent Nico DaSilva volunteers for a series of dangerous secret experiments to identify and treat a terrifying new pathogen. Maximize your combat skills and push your team to its limits to protect a friend from his own hallucinated terrors. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.

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  25. 49%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    49% User Score Based on 1,390 reviews
    Critic Score 49%Based on 6 reviews

    OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead is a four player co-op action FPS, where you and your friends fight the dead as well as the living. Set in The Walking Dead Universe, you and your group try to survive in a post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Each character has their own Special Abilities, Skill Trees, Squad Roles, Play Styles and Story Arcs, but teamwork is paramount. The action is close-up and intense: … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Overkill's The Walking Dead.

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  26. 62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    73% User Score Based on 20,321 reviews
    Critic Score 49%Based on 8 reviews

    The Year 1 Pass includes: - Mission: Siren's Call, previously called Greenstone - Expansion: Deep State - Expansion: Red Patriot, previously called Transcendence - In-game DLC: Special Operations Forces Pack If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

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  27. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    85% User Score Based on 6,699 reviews
    Critic Score 66%Based on 8 reviews

    The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Zombie Army Trilogy.

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  28. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 11,258 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 14 reviews

    Buy Resident Evil Revelations 2 on PS4. Resident Evil Revelations 2 follows two interwoven stories of terror across 4 episodes of intense survival horror. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Resident Evil Revelations 2.

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  29. 55%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    58% User Score Based on 1,794 reviews
    Critic Score 51%Based on 5 reviews

    With numerous multiplayer modes and a highly engrossing cinematic single player experience, Lost Planet 3 delves deeper into the Lost Planet universe, uncovering hidden truths within the unique environment of E.D.N. III If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Planet 3.

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  30. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    76% User Score Based on 25,330 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 9 reviews

    Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Far Cry New Dawn.

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  31. 71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    81% User Score Based on 6,653 reviews
    Critic Score 61%Based on 26 reviews

    MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Murdered: Soul Suspect.

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    75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    75% User Score Based on 533 reviews

    The world was plunged into chaos following an accident at a bio-weapon research facility. 100% of the earth's population has been infected. There is an antidote that blocks infection from the airborne strain of the virus, but the effect is temporary. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bloody Walls.

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  33. 58%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    61% User Score Based on 1,706 reviews
    Critic Score 53%Based on 5 reviews

    Work your way up from small-time crook to boss of the underworld in this strategic simulation set in the Golden Twenties by setting up speakeasies, gambling dens and distilleries. Recruit a hard-hitting crew armed with a variety of lethal weapons and equipment for tactical turn-based combat. Match wits with the AI or work your way up the global leaderboards in action-packed online duels. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Omerta City of Gangsters.

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  34. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    81% User Score Based on 2,587 reviews

    It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences. Your aim is to find other survivors, gain their respect, and build a community. You'll scavenge for supplies, trade, plan… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Survivalist.

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  35. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    69% User Score Based on 18,414 reviews
    Critic Score 87%Based on 7 reviews

    Includes: pre-order bonus mission The Way of the Berserker Join a legendary Norse Berserker on his quest for revenge. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

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    67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    67% User Score Based on 4,434 reviews

    DESOLATE is a first person survival horror. Form a research team with up to 4 other players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions or do it all by yourself. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DESOLATE.

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    52%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    52% User Score Based on 1,040 reviews

    War covers the southern islands until it finally reaches the idyllic isle of Feshyr. You take on the role as the new nameless hero after your village has been pillaged and destroyed by paladins of the king. Seeking revenge, you soon realize that this cowardly attack did not just happen on a reckless mercenary`s whim. A mysterious evil power lies in waiting and fortunately you’re not alone to unrav… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ArcaniA.

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  39. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    71% User Score Based on 7,223 reviews
    Critic Score 79%Based on 7 reviews

    Buy Star Wars Outlaws on PlayStation Store. Risk it all as Kay Vess, a scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Wars Outlaws.

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  40. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    92% User Score Based on 48,987 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 12 reviews

    Buy Days Gone, an action game for PS4 from the official PlayStation website. Explore Days gone game detail, images, videos, reviews and more. Buy now. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Days Gone.

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  41. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 11,983 reviews
    Critic Score 73%Based on 66 reviews

    Buy Dead Island 2 on PlayStation Store. The open-world zombie-slaying action RPG makes its long-awaited return. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead Island 2.

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  42. 75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    75% User Score Based on 13,234 reviews

    We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial. Set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England, you'll have to blend in with its other inhabitants, who don't take kindly to people who don't abide by their not-so-normal rules. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to We Happy Few.

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  43. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    79% User Score Based on 7,002 reviews
    Critic Score 67%Based on 36 reviews

    Mirror's Edge Catalyst is an action-adventure game and the reboot to Mirror's Edge. The story in the game explores the past of the protagonist Faith. Like in the previous game, the main gameplay in Mirror's Edge Catalyst involves traversing the city using parkour to reach certain objectives. Unlike the linear levels in Mirror's Edge, Mirror's Edge Catalyst features an open-world free-roaming envir… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mirror's Edge Catalyst.

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  45. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    85% User Score Based on 39,982 reviews

    As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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  46. 62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    62% User Score Based on 678 reviews

    "Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world. You must scavenge resources, build defenses, and find a way to survive in a game where death is permanent and levels are randomly … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Infectonator: Survivors.

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  49. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    67% User Score Based on 607 reviews

    The Ship is a murder mystery alternative to traditional FPS multiplayer games - hunt and be hunted! Package includes multiplayer, single player and tutorial. This is a standalone campaign, if you want multiplayer, you'll need the Ship. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Ship: Single Player.

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  50. 52%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    52% User Score Based on 824 reviews

    A deadly new breed of human monster is on the rise, and it’s up to players to stop the infestation before it spreads. Breach & Clear: DEADline Rebirth is a new and greatly improved version of B&C: Deadline, the follow-up to Breach & Clear, the critically acclaimed hybrid tactical strategy game. The game gives players real-time control over a squad of four elite Special Forces tasked with tracking … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Breach & Clear: Deadline Rebirth.

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