Games like Extra Lives
If Extra Lives is your kind of game, the closest matches are Infinite Lives, Old School and Hard Time III — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, brutal and comedic. 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 Extra Lives: See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.
Players who liked Extra Lives also play
Steam players who put hours into Extra Lives 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.
Infinite Lives
WHY THIS
Shares emergent storytelling, weapon variety, open world and a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Top pick for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Explore infinite possibilities with INFINITE LIVES - where superhumans and subhumans fight for control of the ultimate shared universe! Bursting into the 3rd dimension brings new powers with unprecedented freedom, in a vicious cycle that never ends...
Old School
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox mode, open world exploration, action adventure and a bleak mood with Extra Lives.
Second-strongest match for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
Hard Time III
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, character driven and a brutal mood with Extra Lives.
Third-strongest match for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.
How to Survive
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Extra Lives.
Ranked #4 for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Contagion
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Extra Lives.
Ranked #5 for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Terror of Hemasaurus
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Ranked #7 for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
A retro city smash 'em up with satisfying destruction physics. Play as a Giant Monster unleashing terror upon mankind in this modern arcade experience with the action turned up to eleven.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Ranked #8 for Extra Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Extra Lives
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The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Extra Lives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Extra Lives.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Wrecked
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Extra Lives.
Reviewers of Extra Lives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Extra Lives.
Choose your vehicle, install weapons and protections, and launch yourself in the biggest multiplayer challenge ever seen!
Hard Time
WHY THIS
Shares open ended sandbox, emergent storytelling and a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Reviewers of Extra Lives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!
RoboCop: Rogue City
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Extra Lives.
Reviewers of Extra Lives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Extra Lives at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Action with Extra Lives.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Extra Lives.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Action with Extra Lives.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Extra Lives on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Liquidators
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Extra Lives.
A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from MDickie
Other recommendable Steam games by MDickie, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wrestling Empire
WHY THIS
Shares character customization with Extra Lives.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The lightweight champion of wrestling comes full circle with higher resolution visuals and a smoother frame rate - whilst still retaining the retro style that puts the fun first! Now featuring whole other booking & roaming modes at no extra cost for the biggest Triple Threat in wrestling.
Hard Time III
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, character driven and a brutal mood with Extra Lives.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.
Old School
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox mode, open world exploration, action adventure and a bleak mood with Extra Lives.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
Wrestling Revolution 3D
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The original 3D wrestling sim takes you either side of the curtain in one epic shared universe - where you can either take shots in the ring as a wrestler or call the shots backstage as a booker!
Hard Time
WHY THIS
Shares open ended sandbox, emergent storytelling and a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!
Infinite Lives
WHY THIS
Shares emergent storytelling, weapon variety, open world and a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Explore infinite possibilities with INFINITE LIVES - where superhumans and subhumans fight for control of the ultimate shared universe! Bursting into the 3rd dimension brings new powers with unprecedented freedom, in a vicious cycle that never ends...
Wrestling Revolution 2D
WHY THIS
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Indie with Extra Lives.
The original 2D wrestling sim brings the revolution to your desktop - where it now includes BOTH sides of the business in one epic universe!
The You Testament: The 2D Coming
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox mode, survival management, sandbox and a funny mood with Extra Lives.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Extra Lives. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
This 2D remake of the biblical epic puts YOU on the scene of each story, where you can either repeat history or rewrite it! Follow in the footsteps of a prophet as he seeks to enlighten the masses, and find your place among them as the struggle to survive tests your faith...
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Infinite Lives
WHY THIS
Shares emergent storytelling, weapon variety, open world and a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Explore infinite possibilities with INFINITE LIVES - where superhumans and subhumans fight for control of the ultimate shared universe! Bursting into the 3rd dimension brings new powers with unprecedented freedom, in a vicious cycle that never ends...
Old School
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox mode, open world exploration, action adventure and a bleak mood with Extra Lives.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
Hard Time III
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, character driven and a brutal mood with Extra Lives.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.
How to Survive
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Extra Lives.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Contagion
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Extra Lives.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Terror of Hemasaurus
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Extra Lives.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
A retro city smash 'em up with satisfying destruction physics. Play as a Giant Monster unleashing terror upon mankind in this modern arcade experience with the action turned up to eleven.
Frequently asked about Extra Lives
- Does Extra Lives run on Steam Deck?
- Extra Lives is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Extra Lives cost?
- Extra Lives is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Extra Lives have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Extra Lives supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Extra Lives?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Extra Lives are Infinite Lives, Old School, Hard Time III.
- Who developed Extra Lives?
- Extra Lives was developed by MDickie.
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