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Games like Long Live Santa!

If Long Live Santa! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, SurvivalZ Battlegrounds and The Sperminator: Rescuing Tzar Vlad — 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.

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Long Live Santa! is a free-to-play multiplayer action game set in the Norwegian wilderness where players battle to become the next Santa. The sandbox combat system features a weapon-triangle balance inspired by rock-paper-scissors mechanics, which players note becomes particularly engaging in larger lobbies. Santa skill progression lets characters learn absurdly violent abilities as they advance through the single-level arena. The game supports online co-op with spectator mode and server capacity limits shaping the competitive experience. Reviewers highlight the challenging yet whimsical tone, and players describe it as intense and contemplative during tense stand-offs. The compact sandbox design enables endless replayability, and many players report returning to play it every Christmas with friends. It holds an 88% positive rating from over 2000 Steam reviews.

About Long Live Santa!: Santa is dead. Now the remaining bearded men of the Norwegian wilderness must fight to the death. Will you be the next Santa, or die in the snow? Punch, slice, outwit your way to a fulfilling new seasonal job in this online PvP third-person fighter!

2017ActionIndieFree To PlayFree to playWindows · macOSby Doborog Games
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Free to play with no pay to win mechanicsRock paper scissors weapon balance shines in big lobbiesSanta learns absurdly violent skillsChallengingContemplativeIntense

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Steam players who put hours into Long Live Santa! 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. Clone Drone in the Danger Zone

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Long Live Santa!.

    Top pick for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Long Live Santa!.

    Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

    2021ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. SurvivalZ Battlegrounds

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Long Live Santa!.

    SurvivalZ Battlegrounds is a mini Battle Royale in a cubic world!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Sperminator: Rescuing Tzar Vlad

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Long Live Santa!.

    Be a Hero Super soldier Sperminator, beat evil Trumpster and Save Iconic Tzar Vlad

    2020ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Nidhogg 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Long Live Santa!.

    Ranked #4 for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Long Live Santa!.

    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.

    2017ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Bato Battō

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Long Live Santa!.

    Bato Battō is a 3D platformer-fighter set in classic arena-style multiplayer. Fight with unique direction based melee combat, athletic movement, and multi-chain combos using stylized physics. Compete a variety of game modes - Deathmatch, CTF, King of the Hill, Multi-Team and more!

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  6. Clone Drone in the Hyperdome

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Long Live Santa!.

    Ranked #6 for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Long Live Santa!.

    Cut robots apart in VR. Feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Now you live and die in the Crashloop, a roguelike tournament to the death. Lock swords! Shoot shurikens from your wrist! This is CLONE DRONE... in the HYPERDOME!!!

    2024ActionIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. NARAKA: BLADEPOINT

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with Long Live Santa!.

    Dive into the legends of the Far East in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT; team up with friends in fast-paced melee fights for a Battle Royale experience unlike any other. Find your playstyle with a varied cast of heroes with unique skills. More than 40 million players have already joined the fray, play free now!

    2021ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. FOR HONOR™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Long Live Santa!.

    Ranked #8 for Long Live Santa! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Live Santa!.

    Fight alone or with friends in For Honor, a third-person hero-based melee fighting game. Enter the chaos of war as a Knight, a Viking, a Samurai, a Wu Lin, or an Outlander. Fight in brutal PvP and team-oriented modes, or play the thrilling story campaign.

    2017Action29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Long Live Santa!

Does Long Live Santa! work on Steam Deck?
Long Live Santa! is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
Is Long Live Santa! free to play?
Yes — Long Live Santa! is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
Does Long Live Santa! have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Long Live Santa! supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Long Live Santa!?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Long Live Santa! are Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, SurvivalZ Battlegrounds, The Sperminator: Rescuing Tzar Vlad.
Who developed Long Live Santa!?
Long Live Santa! was developed by Doborog Games.

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 Long Live Santa!.

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