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Games like Runaway Animals

If Runaway Animals is your kind of game, the closest matches are RADMINTON, Kaboom! and Spanky! — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Runaway Animals: Runaway Animals is a 1-4 player co-op & PvP action-comedy game. A mysterious man with a monkey freeing wild animals in captivity. What could go wrong? Complete your duties at your underpaid job while you cope with these uncontrollable animals in this story-driven adventure.

2022ActionIndieAdventureCasualEarly Access4.99 USDWindowsby Regl Studios, Roger G Lugo
Runaway Animals — Steam game cover

Players who liked Runaway Animals also play

Steam players who put hours into Runaway Animals 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.

  1. RADMINTON

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runaway Animals.

    Become a super rad parkour vigilante and fight back against ADCO. Experience over-the-top action and comical gunfights against 'the big corpo' as you traverse through movement-based levels and puzzles. A 3D-action parkour movement shooter where you can customize, style, rebel, and keep it RAD!

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Kaboom!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Runaway Animals.

    Kaboom! is a game about blowing up your friends in an online battle arena for 2-8 players with free-for-all and team-based game modes.

    2021ActionCasualEarly Access6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Spanky!

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runaway Animals.

    Spanky! is THE booty-physics party game that brings cheeky movement mechanics to chaos-filled party modes. Twerk online with up to 7 friends and slap some jiggly tush!

    2024ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. MoonMiners

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Runaway Animals.

    MoonMiners is a cooperative survival simulator of miners in space, in an alternative dystopian future. You take on the role of space miners working for an evil corporation far from home, and it will be much easier for you to die than to do your job.

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. MISTERY

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Runaway Animals.

    A multiplayer game of survival and social deduction. You work with others to collect materials, survive the dangers, and complete tasks. Beware of monsters, but more of the alternates disguising as your teammates. They can change into supernatural monsters and attack you at any time.

    2025ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer11.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. DUBIUM

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runaway Animals.

    DUBIUM is a survival deception game set in a near future sci-fi environment. Five Frontiers must work together to complete different missions to escape before it’s too late. But beware, one of the Frontiers is a Traitor whose goal is to escape and leave the others to fall into the abyss.

    2023ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Plains of Pain

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runaway Animals.

    Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Goonya Monster

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Runaway Animals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runaway Animals.

    GOONYA MONSTER is a party game where you go on a rampage playing as characters designed by Terada Tera. Split into Busters and Monsters to face off against one another! An absolutely absurd battle awaits you!

    2022ActionIndieCasual9.19 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Runaway Animals at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Runaway Animals.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Runaway Animals.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Runaway Animals.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Runaway Animals.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Runaway Animals.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Runaway Animals.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Action with Runaway Animals.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Runaway Animals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Runaway Animals.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Runaway Animals.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Runaway Animals.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Runaway Animals.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Runaway Animals.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Runaway Animals.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Runaway Animals.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Runaway Animals.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Runaway Animals.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Runaway Animals

How much does Runaway Animals cost?
Runaway Animals is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Runaway Animals have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Runaway Animals supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Runaway Animals?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Runaway Animals are RADMINTON, Kaboom!, Spanky!.
Who developed Runaway Animals?
Runaway Animals was developed by Regl Studios, Roger G Lugo and published by Regl Studios.

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