The Thing That Happened/Similar games
Games like The Thing That Happened
24 matches, ranked by how much their player tags overlap
What “like The Thing That Happened” means here
Looter ShooterThird-Person ShooterPost-apocalypticShooterAction-AdventureAction RPG
Matches come from the tags Steam players vote on each game, weighted so a rare tag counts for far more than one that sits on half the store. A game's popularity never moves it up this list.
1
Tom Clancy’s The Division™
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Shooter
71% of 96,575 reviews positive · 648 playing now
80%
match
2
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Shooter
79% of 35,056 reviews positive
79%
match
3
OUTRIDERS
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Shooter
67% of 61,217 reviews positive
78%
match
4
EVERSPACE 2
Looter Shooter · Action-Adventure · Action RPG · Third-Person Shooter
86% of 12,903 reviews positive
77%
match
5
Warframe
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Action RPG · Third Person
88% of 671,446 reviews positive · 64,594 playing now
77%
match
6
Defiance
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Shooter
77% of 12,614 reviews positive
76%
match
7
Project L33T: Founders Edition
Looter Shooter · Cinematic · Early Access · Realistic
54% of 638 reviews positive
75%
match
8
Defiance 2050
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Shooter · Third Person
49% of 2,288 reviews positive
74%
match
9
Deadzone: Rogue
Looter Shooter · Early Access · Post-apocalyptic · Zombies
82% of 16,073 reviews positive
74%
match
10
The Last of Us Part I
Cinematic · Third-Person Shooter · Action-Adventure · Post-apocalyptic
84% of 106,570 reviews positive
74%
match
11
Borderlands Game of the Year
Looter Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Action RPG · Shooter
90% of 31,848 reviews positive · 131 playing now
74%
match
12
鋼鉄戦記C21
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Action RPG · Action-Adventure
67% of 135 reviews positive
73%
match
13
UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Action-Adventure · Cinematic · Third-Person Shooter · Third Person
91% of 42,720 reviews positive
73%
match
14
DeadPoly
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Zombies
78% of 6,091 reviews positive
73%
match
15
Resident Evil 4
Third-Person Shooter · Cinematic · Zombies · Action-Adventure
97% of 267,741 reviews positive
73%
match
16
After the Fall
Looter Shooter · Action-Adventure · Post-apocalyptic · Zombies
77% of 3,104 reviews positive
73%
match
17
Anarchy: Wolf's law
Looter Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Realistic · Action-Adventure
77% of 820 reviews positive
73%
match
18
REMNANT II
Third-Person Shooter · Looter Shooter · Action-Adventure · Post-apocalyptic
82% of 67,756 reviews positive
73%
match
19
Unturned
Looter Shooter · Post-apocalyptic · Zombies · Survival
91% of 564,067 reviews positive · 13,816 playing now
72%
match
20
The Callisto Protocol
Third-Person Shooter · Action-Adventure · Cinematic · Realistic
65% of 43,469 reviews positive
72%
match
21
Spec Ops: The Line
Third-Person Shooter · Psychological · Dark · Post-apocalyptic
93% of 56,206 reviews positive · 52 playing now
72%
match
22
Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta - Episode 1 - Gold Edition
Cinematic · Third-Person Shooter · Action-Adventure · 3D
54% of 828 reviews positive
72%
match
23
Risk of Rain 2
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Early Access · Shooter
94% of 350,574 reviews positive · 5,655 playing now
71%
match
24
The Forever Winter
Looter Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Early Access · Post-apocalyptic
69% of 24,359 reviews positive
71%
match
Frequently asked
What games are similar to The Thing That Happened?
The closest matches to The Thing That Happened on Steam are Tom Clancy’s The Division™, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, OUTRIDERS, EVERSPACE 2, Warframe. They rank highest because their Steam community tags overlap most with The Thing That Happened's — shared tags include Looter Shooter, Third-Person Shooter, Post-apocalyptic.
How are games like The Thing That Happened chosen?
Every game is described by the tags Steam players vote on it. Rare, specific tags such as Looter Shooter, Third-Person Shooter, Post-apocalyptic count far more than catch-all ones like "Indie" or "Singleplayer", and each game is scored on how closely its whole tag profile matches The Thing That Happened's. Popularity never affects the ranking.
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