Games like Foul Play
If Foul Play is your kind of game, the closest matches are BattleBlock Theater®, Final Exam and Abyss Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and funny. 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 Foul Play: Play as the daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth in a side-scrolling co-op brawler set entirely on the grand spectacle of a theatre stage that rewards performance over pummeling. Perform shattering takedowns and reversals!
Players who liked Foul Play also play
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BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Foul Play.
Top pick for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Final Exam
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer and a funny mood with Foul Play.
Second-strongest match for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Jump into the frenzied action and the whacky humor of a pure 2.5D side-scroller! While they were going to their old high school for what was supposed to be the party of their life, four long-time friends end up in a ghost town full of monstrous creatures.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Third-strongest match for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
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…
Absolum
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer and an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Ranked #4 for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
Charlie Murder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Ranked #5 for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
Speed Brawl
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Speed Brawl is a co-op platform beat 'em up about moving fast and hitting hard! Maintain your momentum, build your combos, and unleash powerful special moves. Find your own fighting style, and assemble the finest team of brawlers ever seen. Then do it all again faster... faster... FASTER!!!
Streets of Rage 4
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Foul Play fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Foul Play
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SENRAN KAGURA Burst Re:Newal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Foul Play cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Foul Play.
Experience the original SENRAN KAGURA Burst, the beginning of the world's best-loved buxom battle series, like never before! Tackle the classic ninja brawler from a whole new perspective in gorgeous, fluid HD, with new features and mechanics throughout!
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Foul Play cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Foul Play.
Reviewers of Foul Play cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Cuphead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Reviewers of Foul Play cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Fall Guys
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Foul Play.
Reviewers of Foul Play cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Fall Guys is a free, cross-platform massively multiplayer party royale game. Clumsily compete in absurd obstacle courses with friends or build your very own chaotic course to share with the community.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Foul Play at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Foul Play.
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 Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
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 Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Action with Foul Play.
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 Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
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 Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Action with Foul Play.
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 Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Foul Play.
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 Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Foul Play.
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 Foul Play on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Foul Play.
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.
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 Foul Play.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Foul Play.
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?
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 Foul Play.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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More from Mediatonic
Other recommendable Steam games by Mediatonic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fall Guys
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Foul Play.
Another title from Mediatonic, the studio behind Foul Play. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Fall Guys is a free, cross-platform massively multiplayer party royale game. Clumsily compete in absurd obstacle courses with friends or build your very own chaotic course to share with the community.
Hatoful Boyfriend
WHY THIS
Another title from Mediatonic, the studio behind Foul Play. Shares Indie and Casual with Foul Play.
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.
Murder by Numbers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Another title from Mediatonic, the studio behind Foul Play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Foul Play.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Another title from Mediatonic, the studio behind Foul Play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Foul Play.
The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star!
Who's That Flying?!
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Foul Play.
Another title from Mediatonic, the studio behind Foul Play. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
As the mysterious and powerful "Guardian of Earth" your steely eye and HYPER-POWERED LASER ARM have kept the citizens of Earth safe for generations.
Fable Fortune
WHY THIS
Another title from Mediatonic, the studio behind Foul Play.
A collectible card game that combines the iconic world and characters of the Fable series with fast-paced tactical gameplay. Choose between Good and Evil to alter your special abilities and even the cards in your deck. Compete in leagues and events, or take on a boss with a friend in co-operative mode.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Foul Play.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
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…
Charlie Murder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Foul Play.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
Speed Brawl
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Speed Brawl is a co-op platform beat 'em up about moving fast and hitting hard! Maintain your momentum, build your combos, and unleash powerful special moves. Find your own fighting style, and assemble the finest team of brawlers ever seen. Then do it all again faster... faster... FASTER!!!
Streets of Rage 4
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Foul Play.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
Frequently asked about Foul Play
- How much does Foul Play cost?
- Foul Play is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Foul Play have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Foul Play supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Foul Play?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Foul Play are BattleBlock Theater®, Final Exam, Abyss Odyssey.
- Who developed Foul Play?
- Foul Play was developed by Mediatonic and published by Epic Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Foul Play.
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