Games like Struggling
If Struggling is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chumps Chained, El Panadero -The Baker- and Shell Corp — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its grotesque humor and charm, nightmarish controls feel intentional and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Struggling: Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork. Control the arms of a squishy abomination and lead it through a deranged world.
Players who liked Struggling also play
Steam players who put hours into Struggling also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Chumps Chained
WHY THIS
Top pick for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
After a failed phishing scheme, two scam artist best friends are cursed by an evil wizard who permanently chains them together. In this 2D couch co-op platformer, join Walter and Jellybean in navigating through the wizard's mayhem and a surreal world to undo the curse!
El Panadero -The Baker-
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Action Packed 2D Arcade Action Platformer featuring hand-drawn graphics. Armed with your fists (or a rolling pin) and a variety of bread-based boosts, fend of the Alien Plants, and avenge the Bakery they destroyed.
Shell Corp
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Shell Corp is a 1-8 local multiplayer, physics based egg-centric, party game where you control, paint, and crack eggs! Using simple controls and wobbly eggs, play against your friends, or AI, in a series frantic mini-games. Will you take home the Egg Cup?
Wheel Make It
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Struggling.
One wheelchair. Two players. Infinite chaos. Solo or co-op physics-based game about teamwork, clumsiness, and the unstoppable power of friendship.
Hamster Blitz!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Hamster Blitz! is a wave defense game where you and up to 3 other friends work together to defend your household from waves of devious rats.
Gelly Break Deluxe
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Gelly Break Deluxe is a couch co-op platformer in which you, as Gel and Lee, have to save the Gellies' home planet from Evil Blob. As a team, use your shooting and switching skills in challenging jump'n'run passages to survive together against the ever-changing enemy types.
Nonsense Soccer
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Struggling.
⚽ Nonsense Soccer ⚽ is a platformer-soccer-hybrid for people who like chaotic local multiplayer games
Miner Ultra Adventures 2
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Struggling.
Ranked #8 for Struggling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Our friend Miner is back !!! Amazing adventures with extreme difficulty, this 3d platform game will surprise you and give you a lot of satisfaction to overcome all the challenges !!! Be versatile and have quick reflexes to be the best !!!
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Earthworm Jim
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Struggling.
Reviewers of Struggling cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Struggling.
Jim wasn't always a studly super-worm. He was once just a spineless, dirt-eater with no real mission in his life...
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Struggling.
Reviewers of Struggling cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
Heave Ho
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Struggling.
Reviewers of Struggling cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Struggling.
Heave Ho is a riotous multiplayer party game for up to four players in couch co-op and versus play, or online with Steam Remote Play. Reach out, get a grip, and swing to victory — or meet your messy end!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Struggling at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Struggling.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Action with Struggling.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Action with Struggling.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Struggling.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Struggling.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Struggling on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Struggling.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Struggling.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Struggling.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Struggling.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Struggling.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Struggling.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about Struggling
- Is Struggling verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Struggling is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Struggling cost?
- Struggling is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Struggling have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Struggling supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Struggling?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Struggling are Chumps Chained, El Panadero -The Baker-, Shell Corp.
- Who developed Struggling?
- Struggling was developed by Chasing Rats Games and published by Frontier Foundry.
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