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Games like DayZ 2018
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About DayZ
Games closest to DayZ
The Solus Project 2016Also grave, contemporary and raw
Waste Walkers 2015Also grave, raw and unpretentious
P.A.M.E.L.A. 2020Also grave, contemporary and raw
The Long Journey Home 2017Also contemporary, epic and grave
Quasimorph 2026Also grave, bleak and epic
The Axis Unseen 2024Also grave, contemporary and epic
Subterrain 2016Also grave, bleak and earnest
Fade to Silence 2018Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Winter Survival 2025Also grave, earnest and raw
Backrooms: Realm of Shadows 2023Also grave, raw and contemporary
Icy 2015Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Desolate 2019Also grave, contemporary and raw
The same feel, in other forms
Series
WorldEnd: What are you doing at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? 2017Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Fear the Walking Dead 2015Also grave, contemporary and epic
7SEEDS 2019Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Books
Psychohistorical Crisis 2001Also grave, epic and contemporary
The Wounded Land 1980Also grave, earnest and epic
Memnoch the Devil 1995Also grave, contemporary and epic
Films
Red Sparrow 2018Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Kanguva 2024Also grave, epic and earnest
The Seventh Sign 1988Also grave, earnest and epic
Albums
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