IMHO.

Games like Pay To Slay

If Pay To Slay is your kind of game, the closest matches are Area Survivors, Stonecall and Horde Sweepers — 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 Pay To Slay: Survive endless zombie hordes, unlock devastating weapons, craft powerful synergies with drinks and tarot cards, defeat deadly bosses, and compete for the top spot on the online leaderboards.

ActionIndieCasualWindowsby RiojaDevs
Pay To Slay — Steam game cover

Players who liked Pay To Slay also play

Steam players who put hours into Pay To Slay 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.

  1. Area Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Area Survivors is a top-down survival action game where you fight off relentless hordes of enemies and struggle to stay alive. Defeat enemies to grow stronger, upgrade your weapons and skills, and take on increasingly powerful foes and massive waves of enemies.

    2026ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Stonecall

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Stonecall is a permadeath action roguelike where every room tests your skill. Dodge, reposition, and time your shots while building powerful synergies to survive the deadly challenges of the Stone Vault.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  3. Horde Sweepers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Fast-paced Rogue-lite action. A high-octane mashup of Vampire Survivors and Hades. Unlock and combine upgrades, create your unique builds, use active abilities, enhance your weapons, find enemy weaknesses, and cleanse this city of mutants.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  4. Contagion Protocol

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Survive an endless undead horde in this brutal auto-battling roguelike. Slash, upgrade, and evolve your arsenal as chaos unfolds to the pulse of an industrial metal soundtrack. Contagion Protocol is fast, bloody, and built for replayability.

    2027ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  5. FatalZone: Outbreak

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Outbreak is the demo version of FatalZone, a bullet heaven zombie apocalypse shooter where you'll have to upgrade your base, hone your mercs' skills, and put them to the test to survive.

    2023ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dead Engine : Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Dead Engine : Prologue delivers a survival challenge in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city swarming with intelligent zombies. Scavenge the ruins, combine items to grow stronger, upgrade your backpack, and uncover the tragic stories of the survivors.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. In Game Adventure: Legend of Monsters

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    A top-down arena shooter with a wide variety of weapons and enemies. Confront hordes of zombies and monsters in totally random generated arenas.

    2017ActionIndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. GUNTOUCHABLES

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Pay To Slay fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Guntouchables is an online co-op doomsday roguelite for 1-4 players. You play as a gun-toting group of 'preppers' trying to reclaim the world from an ever-evolving horde of mutants, constantly working to develop new unique ways to kill you.

    2025ActionIndie3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pay To Slay.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pay To Slay.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Pay To Slay.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pay To Slay.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pay To Slay.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pay To Slay.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pay To Slay.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pay To Slay.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Pay To Slay

What games are most similar to Pay To Slay?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pay To Slay are Area Survivors, Stonecall, Horde Sweepers.
Who developed Pay To Slay?
Pay To Slay was developed by RiojaDevs.

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 Pay To Slay.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.