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Games like Dead Effect 2, Garry's Mod and Terraria

30 games that play like them, 30 of them like more than one.

Dead Effect 2
Dead Effect 2
Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod
Terraria
Terraria

Like more than one of them

30 games close to two or more of Dead Effect 2, Garry's Mod and Terraria

  1. 1

    Scrap Mechanic

    Garry's Mod, but a survival crafting game, and with base building

    Loved · 92%Building · PhysicsAlso like Terraria

  2. 2

    Starbound

    Terraria, but in space

    Loved · 90%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod and Dead Effect 2

  3. 3

    Valheim

    Terraria, but with base building

    Loved · 94%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod

  4. 4

    Project Zomboid

    Terraria, but with zombies, and post-apocalyptic

    Loved · 94%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Dead Effect 2

  5. 5

    Core Keeper

    Terraria, but with base building, and half the hours

    Loved · 93%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod

  6. 6

    Grounded

    Terraria, but horror, and a third of the hours

    Loved · 90%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Dead Effect 2

  7. 7

    Subsistence

    Terraria, but a base builder, and a third of the hours

    Mixed · 72%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod and Dead Effect 2

  8. 8

    7 Days to Die

    Terraria, but a base builder, and made of voxels

    Liked · 87%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Dead Effect 2 and Garry's Mod

  9. 9

    The Forest

    Terraria, but a survival horror game, and a quarter of the hours

    Loved · 96%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Dead Effect 2

  10. 10

    Dune: Awakening

    Terraria, but story-rich, and more divisive

    Mixed · 71%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod and Dead Effect 2

  11. 11

    Space Engineers

    Garry's Mod, but a survival crafting game, and in space

    Liked · 89%Building · SandboxAlso like Terraria

  12. 12

    Dead Island Definitive Edition

    Much the same as Dead Effect 2

    Liked · 82%Zombies · SurvivalAlso like Terraria

  13. 13

    Raft

    Terraria, but a base builder, and a quarter of the hours

    Loved · 93%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod

  14. 14

    Necesse

    Terraria, but a colony sim, and a quarter of the hours

    Loved · 93%Open World Survival Craft · SandboxAlso like Garry's Mod and Dead Effect 2

  15. 15

    Back 4 Blood

    Dead Effect 2, but twice the hours

    Mixed · 69%Zombies · FPSAlso like Garry's Mod

  16. 16

    No More Room in Hell

    Dead Effect 2, but free to play

    Loved · 90%Zombies · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod

  17. 17

    Left 4 Dead

    Dead Effect 2, but team-based, and even better loved

    Loved · 96%Zombies · FPSAlso like Garry's Mod

  18. 18

    Empyrion - Galactic Survival

    Garry's Mod, but a space sim, and about survival

    Mixed · 78%Building · PhysicsAlso like Terraria and Dead Effect 2

  19. 19

    Left 4 Dead 2

    Dead Effect 2, but three times the hours, and even better loved

    Loved · 98%Zombies · FPSAlso like Garry's Mod

  20. 20

    Don't Starve Together

    Terraria, but harder, and half the hours

    Loved · 95%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Dead Effect 2

  21. 21

    Tinkerlands

    Terraria, but a quarter of the hours

    Liked · 86%Open World Survival Craft · SandboxAlso like Garry's Mod and Dead Effect 2

  22. 22

    Unturned

    Dead Effect 2, but free to play, and a survival crafting game

    Loved · 91%Zombies · SurvivalAlso like Terraria and Garry's Mod

  23. 23

    Palworld

    Terraria, but a creature collector, and half the hours

    Loved · 95%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod

  24. 24

    Far Cry 4

    Garry's Mod, but open world, and half the hours

    Liked · 85%FPS · SandboxAlso like Dead Effect 2 and Terraria

  25. 25

    Satisfactory

    Terraria, but an automation game, and with base building

    Loved · 97%Open World Survival Craft · CraftingAlso like Garry's Mod

  26. 26

    Dead Rising 3

    Dead Effect 2, but a hack and slash game, and funny

    Mixed · 77%Zombies · SurvivalAlso like Terraria and Garry's Mod

  27. 27

    SCUM

    Terraria, but an MMO, and realistic

    Mixed · 74%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Dead Effect 2

  28. 28

    Far Cry 3

    Dead Effect 2, but stealthy, and twice the hours

    Liked · 88%FPS · ShooterAlso like Garry's Mod and Terraria

  29. 29

    The Planet Crafter

    Terraria, but single-player, and in space

    Loved · 96%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod

  30. 30

    Abiotic Factor

    Terraria, but co-op, and sci-fi

    Loved · 96%Open World Survival Craft · SurvivalAlso like Garry's Mod

How this list is made

Each game is measured against each of your picks the way a games-like list measures it: the Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes they share, each counting for more the fewer games carry it. A game's place is how alike it is to your picks together, as a share of each pick's best match, so one alike to two of them comes before one alike to just one. It must be close to at least one of them, as close as it would have to be on that game's own list.

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