Games like The Dead Await
Games like The Dead Await include 7 Days to Die, Project Zomboid, SurrounDead, Kenshi, and VEIN. We matched them by the tags players give The Dead Await on Steam (Survival Horror, Strategy, RPG, Deckbuilding, and Party-Based RPG): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

7 Days to Die
Shared: Survival · Zombies · Post-apocalyptic

Project Zomboid
Shared: Survival · Zombies · Post-apocalyptic

SurrounDead
Shared: Survival · Zombies · Post-apocalyptic

Kenshi
Shared: RPG · Survival · Post-apocalyptic

VEIN
Shared: Survival · Zombies · Post-apocalyptic

Dying Light
Shared: Survival Horror · Zombies · Survival

Sons Of The Forest
Shared: Survival Horror · Survival · Base Building

State of Decay: YOSE
Shared: Survival · Zombies · Post-apocalyptic

Sheltered
Shared: Strategy · Survival · Post-apocalyptic

Slay the Spire
Shared: Deckbuilding · Card Battler · Strategy

They Are Billions
Shared: Strategy · Base Building · Survival

Frostpunk
Shared: Strategy · Survival · Post-apocalyptic

DYSMANTLE
Shared: RPG · Survival · Zombies

No One Survived
Shared: Survival Horror · Survival · Zombies

Survivalist
Shared: RPG · Strategy · Survival

Dead Age
Shared: RPG · Strategy · Zombies

9 Kings
Shared: Strategy · RPG · Deckbuilding

DayZ
Shared: Survival · Zombies · Post-apocalyptic

Factorio
Shared: Strategy · Base Building · Survival

Fallout 76
Shared: RPG · Post-apocalyptic · Survival

This War of Mine
Shared: Strategy · Survival · Base Building

Dead State: Reanimated
Shared: RPG · Strategy · Survival

Infection Free Zone
Shared: Strategy · Post-apocalyptic · Base Building

Enshrouded
Shared: RPG · Survival · Base Building