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Games like Once Alive
Cem Boray Yıldırım · 2024 · 85 % positive of 342
24 games that play like Once Alive and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: 35MM, I Am Alive and Miasmata.
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At a glance
What games like Once Alive have in common
- The tags they share most often with Once Alive: Story Rich (15 of 24), Walking Simulator (12) and Post-apocalyptic (8).
- They came out between 2012 and 2025, one of them after Once Alive (2024).
- Best rated by Steam players: The Descendant (88 % positive of 7,123).
By gameplay
Plays like Once Alive
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

35MM
71 % positive of 4,193
Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Exploration

I Am Alive
68 % positive of 2,753
Shared: Story Rich · Post-apocalyptic · First-Person

Miasmata
77 % positive of 1,210
Shared: Mystery · Story Rich · Walking Simulator

Investigator
69 % positive of 1,012
Shared: Walking Simulator · Post-apocalyptic · First-Person

The Living Remain
79 % positive of 249
Shared: Story Rich · First-Person · Action-Adventure

Another Try
54 % positive of 305
Shared: Exploration · Post-apocalyptic · Action-Adventure

Withstand: Survival
68 % positive of 322
Shared: Exploration · Post-apocalyptic · First-Person

The Imagined Leviathan: Prologue
78 % positive of 160
Shared: Mystery · Story Rich · Walking Simulator

Eidolon
60 % positive of 436
Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Exploration

Noch
78 % positive of 306
Shared: Story Rich · Exploration · Investigation

Lone Leader
35 % positive of 360
Shared: Adventure · Indie

EDENGATE: The Edge of Life
70 % positive of 192
Shared: Mystery · Story Rich · Walking Simulator
More matches
- Empathy: Path of Whispers60 % positive of 213Shared: Mystery · Story Rich · Walking Simulator
- Lifeless37 % positive of 521Shared: First-Person · Open World · Indie
- The Descendant88 % positive of 7,123Shared: Story Rich · Post-apocalyptic · Atmospheric
- DESOLATE66 % positive of 7,881Shared: First-Person · Open World · Atmospheric
- Shadows of Kurgansk65 % positive of 220Shared: Post-apocalyptic · First-Person · Open World
- Potentia68 % positive of 413Shared: Mystery · Story Rich · Exploration
- Everybody's Gone to the Rapture68 % positive of 1,901Shared: Mystery · Story Rich · Walking Simulator
- Shame Legacy61 % positive of 170Shared: Mystery · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存80 % positive of 1,000Shared: Post-apocalyptic · Open World · Adventure
- The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day76 % positive of 5,787Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Post-apocalyptic
- Husk45 % positive of 709Shared: Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Exploration
- Last Days of Lazarus88 % positive of 161Shared: Mystery · Story Rich · Walking Simulator
By look
Looks like Once Alive
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
37 % positive of 332

Unholy
63 % positive of 216

Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut
86 % positive of 208

Surrounded
43 % positive of 563

Pathologic 3
80 % positive of 2,834

EBOLA VILLAGE
83 % positive of 234

Graveyard Shift
75 % positive of 537

Slender: The Arrival
88 % positive of 9,032

Deceit 2
59 % positive of 5,257

PARANOID
40 % positive of 236

Evil Nun: The Broken Mask
95 % positive of 998

Expedition Zero
60 % positive of 183
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- I'm counting to 6...85 % positive of 614
- ECO HOLE92 % positive of 199
- Blackberry60 % positive of 164
- The Highrise55 % positive of 262
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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.