Games like Up or Lava!
If Up or Lava! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monkey Doo, CTRL+ALT+REPEAT and Stickit — 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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Players who liked Up or Lava! also play
Steam players who put hours into Up or Lava! 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.
Monkey Doo
WHY THIS
Top pick for Up or Lava! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Up or Lava!.
Live in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle with all your Monkey friends! Swing on vines, throw doo at your enemies, and climb everything! A Variety of Playable Maps Multiple Gamemodes Customizable Cosmetics
CTRL+ALT+REPEAT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Up or Lava! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Up or Lava!.
CTRL+ALT+REPEAT is a multiplayer 3D parkour platformer where you race against the clock and your friends. As you progress through harder obstacles you will unlock increasingly complex movement abilities.
Hop Man
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Up or Lava! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
Are you sick of walking? Do better and just jump. Go on a Castle adventure in Hop Man with your pals! You must overcome the traps by yourself to see what lies behind them, but keep in mind that there are no shortcuts to the castle.
Squeebing Up the Tower of Friendship
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Up or Lava! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
Can you make it to the top of the Tower of Friendship? Run, jump, climb, fall, and then do it all again. Play by yourself or with your friends. Be nice and lay down to make jumps easier for others, or push each other off when the falls are the highest. But whatever you do, never stop squeebing.
Only Straight and Up!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Up or Lava! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
This is a fun and hardcore roguelike platformer for 1-5 players in which you have to reach the coveted reward by overcoming various traps! Only a few can make it through...
SALMON
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Up or Lava! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
You are a salmon, performing platforming that feels as satisfying as it feels ridiculous that a salmon can do it. Jump off walls, race your salmon friends, learn the ways of the salmon. Also, did you know that salmon are magnetic?
Only Up: SKIBIDI
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Up or Lava! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
Only Up: Skibidi is an exciting multiplayer 3D platformer. Overcome challenging obstacles and climb higher and higher. Attention and focus will help you reach new heights, and this rule applies both in the game and in life.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Up or Lava! at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
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 Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
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 Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
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 Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Up or Lava!.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Up or Lava!.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Up or Lava!.
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 Up or Lava! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Up or Lava!.
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!
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 Up or Lava!.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Up or Lava!.
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 Up or Lava!.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Up or Lava!.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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More from Garden of Dreams
Other recommendable Steam games by Garden of Dreams, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Meltopia
WHY THIS
Another title from Garden of Dreams, the studio behind Up or Lava!. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up or Lava!.
A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.
Let's Journey
WHY THIS
Another title from Garden of Dreams, the studio behind Up or Lava!. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
Let's Journey - idle clicker rpg in amazing fantasy world. Choose your hero, roll dice and embark on an epic adventure! During the journey you will defeat hundreds of monsters, find rare equipment and meet legendary dragons.
Nordicandia
WHY THIS
Another title from Garden of Dreams, the studio behind Up or Lava!. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
A semi-idle action RPG with a deep and unique crafting system. Collect epic loot, craft and merge items, and level up your character to beat the World Bosses!
Bunker 21 Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Garden of Dreams, the studio behind Up or Lava!. Shares Action and Indie with Up or Lava!.
"Bunker 21" is a story-driven first-person action game in a post-apocalyptic world. You are the last survivor. Explore the secrets of Bunker 21. Fight against monsters. Find answers in a devastated world.
Silicone Heart
WHY THIS
Another title from Garden of Dreams, the studio behind Up or Lava!. Shares Indie with Up or Lava!.
Build a self-sustaining cyber farm on a planet-sized junkyard. Grow biomechanical crops, automate production, repair discarded robots, and secretly reshape a mechanical society from the inside in this cozy farming and automation adventure.
Frequently asked about Up or Lava!
- How much does Up or Lava! cost?
- Up or Lava! is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Up or Lava! have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Up or Lava! supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Up or Lava!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Up or Lava! are Monkey Doo, CTRL+ALT+REPEAT, Stickit.
- Who developed Up or Lava!?
- Up or Lava! was developed by Garden of Dreams.
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 Up or Lava!.
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