Deadside similar games & best alternatives

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Deadside

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

What works

  • Engaging gunplay and combat
  • Large map with exploration
  • Base building and crafting
  • Welcoming community and multiplayer
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content leading to boredom
  • Challenging and sometimes unfair ai
  • Lack of vehicles and fast travel
  • Small player base on some servers
  • Tedious inventory and building mechanics

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Arena Breakout: Infinite

  • POLYGON

  • Insurgency: Sandstorm

  • Zero Hour

  • SCUM

  • Rust

More fantastical

Games that feels like Deadside but with more imaginative fiction

  • CRSED: Cuisine Royale

  • ORION: Prelude

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • STALZONE

  • Contractors

  • DUCKSIDE

More story-driven

Games that feels like Deadside but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands

  • Isonzo

  • Battlefield™ 1

  • Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm

  • Hell Let Loose

  • Easy Red 2

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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).

Deadside: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026