Steam Deck games like Extra Lives
Below are 10 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Extra Lives (7 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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Infinite Lives
Deck Verified alternative to Extra Lives — 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...
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Old School
Deck Verified alternative to Extra Lives — 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...
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Hyper Light Drifter
Deck Verified alternative to Extra Lives — 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.
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Terror of Hemasaurus
Deck Verified alternative to Extra Lives — 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.
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Abyss Odyssey
Deck Verified alternative to Extra Lives — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
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How to Survive
Deck Verified alternative to Extra Lives — 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?
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Welcome to ParadiZe
Deck Playable alternative to Extra Lives — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
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The Walking Dead
Deck Verified alternative to Extra Lives — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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.
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Hard Time
Deck Playable alternative to Extra Lives — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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!
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RoboCo
Deck Playable alternative to Extra Lives — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Extra Lives.
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!