Games like Stayin' Alive
If Stayin' Alive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Who's Your Daddy?!, Penguin's Dogma｜獄門ペンギン and Melon Simulator™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, dark and funny. 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 Stayin' Alive: Do your best to die or save your enemies from death in this frantic team multiplayer game about health issues. Death is in the air.
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Steam players who put hours into Stayin' Alive 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.
Who's Your Daddy?!
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Stayin' Alive.
Top pick for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 67 potentially ominous household items.
Penguin's Dogma｜獄門ペンギン
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Penguin's Dogma｜ 獄門ペンギン Welcome to Penguin's Dogma, a silly, lowbrow stealth game.
Melon Simulator™
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Stayin' Alive.
Third-strongest match for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon hoard...
Nidhogg 2
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Stayin' Alive.
Ranked #4 for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.
Dead Rising 4
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Stayin' Alive.
Ranked #5 for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Stayin' Alive.
Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Stayin' Alive.
Ranked #6 for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!
WARMA
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
WARMA is a multiplayer game about a showdown between the police and bandits! Robbery, chases, tuning and much more!
Rapture Rejects
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Stayin' Alive.
Ranked #8 for Stayin' Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
The Rapture Has Happened. You didn't make the cut. Rapture Rejects is a top down isometric last man standing game set in the apocalyptic Cyanide & Happiness universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stayin' Alive at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Stayin' Alive.
Priced ~83% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
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 ~50% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stayin' Alive.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stayin' Alive.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Stayin' Alive.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Stayin' Alive on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Stayin' Alive.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 Stayin' Alive.
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 with Stayin' Alive.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
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 Stayin' Alive.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Stayin' Alive.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Stayin' Alive.
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.
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More from IndieGala
Other recommendable Steam games by IndieGala, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Die Young
WHY THIS
Another title from IndieGala, the studio behind Stayin' Alive. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Kidnapped for no clear reason to a dazzling yet mysterious island on the Mediterranean Sea, a young girl has to find a way to escape. Armed with only her wits, agility, and the will to stay alive, she must make her getaway or Die Young.
Die Young: Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from IndieGala, the studio behind Stayin' Alive. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Die Young: Prologue narrates events that occurred a few hours before the main story of Die Young. You play as Nehir, a field agent on a mission to kill Brother No.1. The mission failed and now you have only one desperate attempt to reach the extraction point.
Vorax
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Stayin' Alive.
Another title from IndieGala, the studio behind Stayin' Alive. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
SuperTotalCarnage!
WHY THIS
Another title from IndieGala, the studio behind Stayin' Alive. Shares Action and Indie with Stayin' Alive.
Slay never-ending legions of monsters while running in circles! SuperTotalCarnage! is a gory and dark horror casual game with rogue-lite elements. Choose from a variety of weapons and perks and make every playthrough a different experience. Unlock many characters each one with different abilities.
No Clean Start
WHY THIS
Another title from IndieGala, the studio behind Stayin' Alive.
This is not a clean start. Explore a hostile world that reacts to your actions and remembers your mistakes. Learn through observation, failure, and persistence. Each new run is not a reset — it’s a transformation.
AdventureSteam ↗Dead Man Waiting
WHY THIS
Another title from IndieGala, the studio behind Stayin' Alive.
Await your verdict in a luxury apartment that can execute you. Your behavior is judged. Survive long enough and you might be pardoned.
Frequently asked about Stayin' Alive
- Does Stayin' Alive run on Steam Deck?
- Stayin' Alive is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Stayin' Alive cost?
- Stayin' Alive is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Stayin' Alive have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Stayin' Alive supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Stayin' Alive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stayin' Alive are Who's Your Daddy?!, Penguin's Dogma｜獄門ペンギン, Melon Simulator™.
- Who developed Stayin' Alive?
- Stayin' Alive was developed by IndieGala.
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