Games like Bad Santa
If Bad Santa is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lightout 2, Pollen and The Jurassic Labyrinth — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Bad Santa: Solve puzzles and collect presents all while avoiding the big bad santa. Also watch out for whatever lurks in the basement.
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Steam players who put hours into Bad Santa 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.
Lightout 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
Lightout 2 is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an Abandoned hospital.
Pollen
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
Pollen is a hardcore escape-the-maze game where every move counts. Find keys, unlock doors, and outsmart relentless guardians hunting you down. Strategically place your Respawn Totem save your position in the level., but one misstep can send you back to the start.
The Jurassic Labyrinth
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bad Santa.
A psychological horror puzzle game set in a living labyrinth that adapts to your choices. Solve shifting mechanisms, navigate ever-changing corridors, and evade a relentless presence that learns your behavior as you try to escape.
Christmas Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bad Santa.
Christmas Story is a horror game filled with Christmas warmth and coziness, where every festive light hides darkness, and the sense of comfort fades with every step you take.
Hatch
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
Clink
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Santa.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Barbotine
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
Night Grove
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Bad Santa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bad Santa.
This is a first-person indie horror game. A young deliveryman took an unusual order that led him to Night Grove. This place has a dubious reputation among the townspeople, because for many years it has been sent to live with people that society has long since abandoned.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bad Santa at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Santa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Santa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Bad Santa.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Santa on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bad Santa.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Bad Santa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Santa on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bad Santa.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Santa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bad Santa on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bad Santa.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Santa.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Bad Santa.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bad Santa.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bad Santa.
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 Bad Santa.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Santa.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bad Santa.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Bad Santa
- How much does Bad Santa cost?
- Bad Santa is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bad Santa?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bad Santa are Lightout 2, Pollen, The Jurassic Labyrinth.
- Who developed Bad Santa?
- Bad Santa was developed by DropoutStudios.
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 Bad Santa.
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