Games like SANTA
If SANTA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Murky Divers, Lethal Company and MIMESIS — 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 SANTA also play
Steam players who put hours into 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.
Murky Divers
WHY THIS
Top pick for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
MIMESIS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
Echoes Afterfall
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
Team up in a chilling co-op experience, delving into procedurally generated backroom style buildings. Survive together or succumb into the Echoes.
Sketchy's Contract
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
Content Warning
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Bunker Invaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SANTA.
A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing
Floor44
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SANTA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
Floor44 is a hardcore luckiness detector kinda game with randomly generated maps, the goal is to make it to the top floor. You can rely on your skills to reach floor30, but you'll need more than that to make it to Floor44.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SANTA at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Action with SANTA.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Action with SANTA.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with 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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Action with SANTA.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Action with SANTA.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Action with SANTA.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with SANTA.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under SANTA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with SANTA.
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?
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.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with 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 Adventure with 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 Adventure with 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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SANTA.
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.).
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Murky Divers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
MIMESIS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
Content Warning
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SANTA.
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Frequently asked about SANTA
- How much does SANTA cost?
- SANTA is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does SANTA have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — SANTA supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to SANTA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SANTA are Murky Divers, Lethal Company, MIMESIS.
- Who developed SANTA?
- SANTA was developed by Mightyy.
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 SANTA.
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