Games Like STRAFE: Gold Edition (2026)

Shared: Permadeath

Surviving alone was already brutal - surviving with friends who make catastrophic decisions is another beast entirely. A deep, unforgiving co-op survival game that rewards patience, preparation, and someone on the team who knows what a Science Machine actually does.

Shared: Permadeath

Completely free, permanently complete, and built by one person responding to a YouTube dare. If you have 90 minutes and a friend with a Steam account, there is no excuse not to try Muck.

Shared: Permadeath

Few action games move this well and fewer still make dying feel this instructive. Dead Cells is the roguelite that converts roguelite skeptics, and it has years of post-launch polish behind it to prove it.

Shared: tier:sub-5

Russian roulette with a 12-gauge and enough item-based mind games to make pure luck feel like a skill issue. Dirt cheap, brutally short, weirdly hard to put down.

Shared: Weapon Upgrades

Ada's five-hour sprint back through RE4's greatest hits, rebuilt around a grappling hook that makes the combat sing. Superb if you finished Leon's run, baffling if you didn't.