Half Dead similar games & best alternatives

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Half Dead

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2016

Should you play it?

Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.

What works

  • Low price and great value
  • Fun cooperative multiplayer
  • Unique concept inspired by cube movie
  • Randomized traps and rooms
  • Engaging suspense and strategy

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited trap variety
  • Small player base for multiplayer
  • Can become repetitive after few hours
  • Minimal narrative and character customization
  • Some bugs and optimization issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Malum

  • CRYO

  • Subterror

  • GTFO

  • Lethal Company

  • Dark Hours: Prologue

More expressive

Games that feels like Half Dead but with more self-expression and customization

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Goblin Cleanup

  • MOTHERGUNSHIP

  • Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball

  • Black Ice

  • Elite Dangerous

Less social

Games that feels like Half Dead but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • System Shock

  • Cosmodread

  • Alien: Isolation

  • Dead Space (2008)

  • Prey

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

Less competitive

Games that feels like Half Dead but with less competition against others

  • System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

  • Storebound

  • USAC: Code Breach

  • Moros Protocol

  • UNDERWARD

  • Beyond Contact

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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).
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  • 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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Half Dead. These titles are not in What to play next.

Half Dead: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026