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Co-op games like Die for Pay

Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Die for Pay, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.

Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Die for Pay page.

Ranked picks

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    Dirty Business — Steam game cover

    Dirty Business

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Simulation with Die for Pay.

    Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.

    2026SimulationEarly AccessCo-opSimilar games →
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    Drug Dealer Schedule — Steam game cover

    Drug Dealer Schedule

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Action and Simulation with Die for Pay.

    Start from the streets and rise to the top produce, sell, and manage a growing drug empire. Expand operations, evade the law, and crush the competition. Build labs, hire dealers, and dominate the underworld. Will you rule or get rolled?

    2026ActionStrategySimulationCo-opSimilar games →
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    Schedule I — Steam game cover

    Schedule I

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Action and Simulation with Die for Pay.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableCo-opSimilar games →
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    Technicity: Prologue — Steam game cover

    Technicity: Prologue

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Action and Simulation with Die for Pay.

    Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.

    2022ActionIndieSimulationFreeCo-opSimilar games →
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    JUNKPUNK — Steam game cover

    JUNKPUNK

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Simulation with Die for Pay.

    JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableCo-opSimilar games →
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    Ready or Not — Steam game cover

    Ready or Not

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Action with Die for Pay.

    Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure49.99 USDDeck VerifiedCo-opSimilar games →
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    Techtonica — Steam game cover

    Techtonica

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Simulation with Die for Pay.

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableCo-opSimilar games →
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    Reign Of Kings — Steam game cover

    Reign Of Kings

    Online Co-op alternative to Die for Pay — playable with friends. Shares Action and Simulation with Die for Pay.

    Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDCo-opSimilar games →