Games like Deadly Joy
If Deadly Joy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mascot Mayhem (Asymmetrical Horror), Last Buzz and HOP-CO-OP — 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 Deadly Joy: Deadly Joy is a multiplayer horror game where Play Center employees must survive deadly missions. Cooperate or betray in challenges like Parkour, Basement, and Tower, while escaping terrifying mascots like Hugster and the CatBox.
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Mascot Mayhem (Asymmetrical Horror)
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Top pick for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadly Joy.
Asymmetrical Mascot Horror survival game where two mascots must team up to kill ALL the survivors. Featuring crossover characters from all across the mascot horror universe (and beyond!)
Last Buzz
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
Last Buzz is a 2–6 player Humans vs. Flies multiplayer game. Steal food, crawl on ceilings, hide in stupid places, and rescue your friends as a fly—or grab the bug spray, lock down the house, and hunt the little bastards before they take over.
HOP-CO-OP
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
Master the HOP, then wreck your friends' runs in CO-OP. HOP-CO-OP is a first-person movement parkour game — race online, sabotage rivals with wild powerups, build your own maps, and deck out your character. Pure speed, pure chaos, better together.
Hauntrap
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Ranked #4 for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
Asymmetric PvP horror where a player-controlled monster hunts survivors through dark experimental halls. Fix fuses. Trigger the Hunt. Escape.
Don't Puke!
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Ranked #5 for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Joy.
Only a few will make it to the top! Ride, jump, and fly either solo or with friends, in this virtual reality game! Mastering your cart control skills is essential to reach the island's highest peaks.
FlipBAKA
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Ranked #6 for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
Flip the floor panels and launch enemies — and friends — off the island! A top-down arcade party game inspired by golden-age couch gaming. Charge your shot to stun, then flip for the ring-out. 8 stages and a boss solo, local or online co-op, or last-one-standing PvP. Just one more round!
Fantasma
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Ranked #7 for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
Every summer, us and the crew find ourselves in trouble. We travel from one haunted site to another, chasing rumors, and searching for clues. We hunt down cursed artifacts, uncover the truth, and try to banish what could be the source of the rumor. What's the worst thing that could happen?
RADMINTON
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Ranked #8 for Deadly Joy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
Become a super rad parkour vigilante and fight back against ADCO. Experience over-the-top action and comical gunfights against 'the big corpo' as you traverse through movement-based levels and puzzles. A 3D-action parkour movement shooter where you can customize, style, rebel, and keep it RAD!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadly Joy at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deadly Joy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Deadly Joy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadly Joy.
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
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Priced ~67% under Deadly Joy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadly Joy.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Deadly Joy on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Deadly Joy.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Deadly Joy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Deadly Joy.
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 ~67% under Deadly Joy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Joy.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Deadly Joy on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Deadly Joy.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 and Casual with Deadly Joy.
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 Deadly Joy.
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 Deadly Joy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadly Joy.
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 Deadly Joy.
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 Deadly Joy.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadly Joy.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadly Joy.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Deadly Joy
- How much does Deadly Joy cost?
- Deadly Joy is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Deadly Joy have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Deadly Joy supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Deadly Joy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadly Joy are Mascot Mayhem (Asymmetrical Horror), Last Buzz, HOP-CO-OP.
- Who developed Deadly Joy?
- Deadly Joy was developed by Napping Penguin.
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