C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM) similar games & best alternatives

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

2025

Should you play it?

C.A.S.T is a third-person PvE extraction shooter playable solo or in co-op. Select your character and loadout to battle enemy hordes, evade anomalies, and complete objectives across handcrafted maps with dynamic procedural elements.

What works

  • Fun and addictive gameplay loop
  • Solid cooperative multiplayer
  • Satisfying gunplay and progression
  • Unique retro horror aesthetic
  • Excellent value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited maps and content currently
  • Some janky collision and ui issues
  • Ai voice acting is poor
  • Lack of vaulting and movement options
  • Small player base

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • LORT

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

  • Dying Light: The Beast

  • LIZARDS MUST DIE 2

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • Abyssus

More expressive

Games that feels like C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM) but with more self-expression and customization

  • Enshrouded

  • Nioh 3

  • Valheim

  • Lost Castle 2

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Killing Floor 2

More competitive

Games that feels like C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM) but with more competition against others

  • Chivalry 2

  • STALZONE

  • Shatterline

  • Ultimate Zombie Defense 2

  • Strike Force Heroes

  • PERISH

Less intimate

Games that feels like C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM) but with less focus on close relationships

  • LIZARDS MUST DIE

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Serious Sam 4

  • ELDEN RING

  • Generation Zero®

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM): A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 04/08/2026