Games like DEADLOCK
Closest overall match: 100% Orange Juice (★ 3.0). Highest rated: RimWorld at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Darwinia at about 1 hours.
These 25 games score highest on our similarity model for DEADLOCK — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Singleplayer, Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud. Updated Oct 15, 2026.
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59%
1. 100% Orange Juice
Shares Steam Leaderboards, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 higher.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 19%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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58%
2. Eador. Masters of the Broken World
Shares Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 higher.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
57%
3. Darwinia
Shares Top-Down and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
57%
4. Survivor Squad
Shares Top-Down, 2D, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
56%
5. Oxygen Not Included
Shares Resource Management, Early Access, 2D and Singleplayer; rated 1.8 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 23%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
56%
6. Kingdom: Classic
Shares Resource Management, 2D, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 1.1 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
55%
7. Multiwinia
Shares Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
55%
8. Satellite Reign
Shares Top-Down, Steam Leaderboards, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 11%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
55%
9. Forged Battalion
Shares Early Access, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 2.0
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
54%
10. Fractured Space
Shares Steam Leaderboards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 12%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
54%
11. Yet Another Zombie Defense
Shares Top-Down, Steam Leaderboards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
53%
12. The Red Solstice
Shares Top-Down, Steam Leaderboards, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 7%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
52%
13. Cortex Command
Shares 2D, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 44
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 29%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
52%
14. They Are Billions
Shares Resource Management, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 1.6 higher; about 5h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
52%
15. Banished
Shares Resource Management, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 1.6 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
52%
16. Blackguards
Shares Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
52%
17. DEFCON
Shares 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 higher.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
51%
18. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Shares Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 30%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
51%
19. Space Pirates and Zombies
Shares Top-Down, 2D, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
51%
20. Fortified
Shares Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 16%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
51%
21. Besiege
Shares Early Access and Singleplayer; rated 1.5 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 23%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
51%
22. RimWorld
Shares Early Access, 2D, Steam Cloud and Singleplayer; rated 2.1 higher; about 16h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 19h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
51%
23. Xenonauts
Shares 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
50%
24. Wargroove
Shares 2D, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 1.3 higher.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 21%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
-
50%
25. Geneshift
Shares Top-Down, Early Access, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 13%
- Shared genres
- Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like DEADLOCK?
On our similarity model, 100% Orange Juice is the closest match to DEADLOCK — shares Steam Leaderboards, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 higher.
Which game like DEADLOCK is rated highest?
RimWorld holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 634 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against DEADLOCK on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.