Games like Never Give Up
If Never Give Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are HAMISH, Shank n' Bake and My Friend Pedro — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. 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 Never Give Up: Never Give Up is a hardcore platformer determined to turn you into bloody chunks. Run, jump, and slide your way through ever-changing levels that get harder each time you succeed. You’ll need to try, die, and try again if you want to conquer the game without pressing the Give Up button.
Players who liked Never Give Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Never Give Up 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.
HAMISH
WHY THIS
Top pick for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
Hamish is a fast-paced, momentum-driven action platformer where every step could be your last. Run, jump, and grapple your way through rising lava, snowy peaks, neon-lit cities, and more, mastering speed and precision while taking down ruthless enemies.
Shank n' Bake
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
Shank n' Bake is an exciting, twisted take on runner games. Set off to end humanity's healthy food movement by slashing and slamming your foes while avoiding your own untimely, violent death.
My Friend Pedro
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
Will You Snail?
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Never Give Up.
Ranked #4 for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
Dead Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Never Give Up.
Ranked #5 for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
Challenging 2D platformer in the best traditions of classic games, with an excellent chiptune soundtrack. The game will check your nerves for strength and bring a lot of emotions.
10 Second Ninja X
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Never Give Up.
Ranked #6 for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
10 SECOND NINJA X is a hardcore sidescroller. You're a ninja, there are robots, you've got ten seconds to destroy them all. Get three star ratings, climb leaderboards, discover secrets and stop Captain Greatbeard.
Downwell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Never Give Up.
Ranked #7 for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Sockventure
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Never Give Up.
Ranked #8 for Never Give Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
In this challenging 2D platformer game, play as a Superhero and help the Kid to find all the missing socks inside the cursed washing machine, Sockventure has stunning colorful graphics, hand-crafted levels, tight controls and fun ever-changing gameplay.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Never Give Up at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Never Give Up.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with Never Give Up.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with Never Give Up.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Never Give Up.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Never Give Up.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Never Give Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Never Give Up.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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 with Never Give Up.
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 Never Give Up.
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 Never Give Up.
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 Never Give Up.
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 and Adventure with Never Give Up.
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 with Never Give Up.
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 Never Give Up.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
My Friend Pedro
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
Will You Snail?
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Never Give Up.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
Downwell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Never Give Up.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Never Give Up.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Frequently asked about Never Give Up
- Does Never Give Up run on Steam Deck?
- Never Give Up 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 Never Give Up cost?
- Never Give Up is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Never Give Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Never Give Up are HAMISH, Shank n' Bake, My Friend Pedro.
- Who developed Never Give Up?
- Never Give Up was developed by Massive Monster, Tasselfoot and published by Armor Games Studios.
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 Never Give Up.
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