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Games like Dead Effect
BadFly Interactive, a.s. · 2014 · 73 % positive of 3,702
24 games that play like Dead Effect and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Dead Effect 2, Dead Effect 2 VR and Chasing Dead.
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At a glance
What games like Dead Effect have in common
- The tags they share most often with Dead Effect: Horror (23 of 24), Zombies (20) and FPS (17).
- They came out between 2008 and 2025, 17 of them after Dead Effect (2014).
- Best rated by Steam players: Dead Space™ 2 (94 % positive of 25,946).
- Chasing Dead and Putrefaction both play and look like Dead Effect.
By gameplay
Plays like Dead Effect
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Dead Effect 2
73 % positive of 2,254
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
Dead Effect 2 VR
80 % positive of 1,213
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
Chasing Dead
61 % positive of 221
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
Putrefaction
70 % positive of 478
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
Survival Zombies The Inverted Evolution
57 % positive of 1,096
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
Perdition
89 % positive of 198
Shared: FPS · Horror · Shooter
Zombie Shooter
83 % positive of 1,219
Shared: Zombies · Horror · Shooter
DOOMED
56 % positive of 175
Shared: FPS · Horror · Shooter
PATHOGEN X
82 % positive of 212
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
Dead Space (2008)
91 % positive of 27,660
Shared: Zombies · Horror · Shooter
Deadzone: Rogue
82 % positive of 4,204
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
Zombie Panic! Source
84 % positive of 7,726
Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
More matches
- Wandering in Space VR79 % positive of 208Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
- Dead Horde34 % positive of 654Shared: Zombies · Horror · Survival
- Killing Floor: Incursion50 % positive of 1,013Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
- Zomborg63 % positive of 165Shared: Zombies · Shooter · Sci-fi
- Earthfall64 % positive of 2,283Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
- EXOME79 % positive of 277Shared: Horror · Shooter · Sci-fi
- EBOLA43 % positive of 189Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
- Dead Space™ 294 % positive of 25,946Shared: Horror · Shooter · Survival
- EBOLA 269 % positive of 260Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
- Contagion72 % positive of 15,428Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
- Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now89 % positive of 2,372Shared: Zombies · Horror · Shooter
- Contagion VR: Outbreak63 % positive of 695Shared: Zombies · FPS · Horror
By look
Looks like Dead Effect
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Guns n Zombies
69 % positive of 976
Bedlam
75 % positive of 878
Sniper Fury
48 % positive of 2,729
Killing Floor
94 % positive of 67,472
Alpha Prime
55 % positive of 1,465
Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock
93 % positive of 557
Mimicry
81 % positive of 200
Zombie Shooter: Ares Virus
38 % positive of 177
E.T. Armies
49 % positive of 314
Sniper Strike: Special Ops
60 % positive of 356
Modern Combat 5
54 % positive of 5,725
HordeZ
83 % positive of 392
More matches
- Project: Snowblind75 % positive of 681
- Cyberline Racing62 % positive of 229
- Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope84 % positive of 1,395
- EPOCH82 % positive of 163
- Prodeus92 % positive of 7,556
- Quake 487 % positive of 3,424
- Killing Room69 % positive of 1,423
- Putrefaction70 % positive of 478
- Chasing Dead61 % positive of 221
- Alien Shooter TD86 % positive of 879
- Red Faction86 % positive of 2,780
- Espire 1: VR Operative54 % positive of 567
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.