Games Like Within the blade (2026)

Shared: Procedural Levels

Grab three friends and loot haunted moons for a faceless corporation. Lethal Company is chaotic co-op horror that thrives on everything going catastrophically wrong.

Shared: Permadeath Mode

Seven alien races, procedurally generated galaxies, and a sandbox that respects your attention span, Starbound is the space explorer's Terraria, for better and occasionally worse.

Shared: tier:sub-5

Russian roulette with a 12-gauge and enough item-based mind games to make pure luck feel like a skill issue. Dirt cheap, brutally short, weirdly hard to put down.

Shared: Weapon Crafting

Parkour-driven zombie survival RPG with best-in-class movement, a meaty open world, and all major DLC packed in. Still holds up years after launch.

Shared: Weapon Crafting

Parkour across a quarantined city by day, then pray you make it to a safe house before the Volatiles clock in. Ten years on, Dying Light still does the day-night survival loop better than almost anything else in the genre.