Games Like SIDE EFFECTS

Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

Why similar: Gambling 39% ★, Multiplayer 11.3%, Dark 11%, Horror 8.7%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for high-stakes, first-person Russian roulette with a dark, gritty aesthetic.

Dive into this multiplayer online experience set in a sketchy bar where the games are as dangerous as the patrons. Join a table of 4 and test your skills in Liar's Dice and Liar's Deck, where lying and bluffing are key to victory. Ready for a night at Liar's Bar?

Why similar: Multiplayer 27.1%, PvP 16.8%, Dark 13.2%, Horror 9%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the tense, social-deduction atmosphere of gambling with friends in a dark, stylized setting.

A 2-4 player online party game about risking your life for the thrill of high-stakes gambling. Use your items wisely to gain an edge over chance and play until you are the last person standing.

Why similar: Gambling 40.8% ★, Dark 11.1%, Psychological 10.9%, Strategy 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer party game that focuses on the same high-stakes, dark-humored gambling mechanics found in the seed game.

Gamble your fingers against the devil and his bloodthirsty saw in this turn-based strategy game. Outsmart your opponent with special abilities, or test your luck as you defy the odds to escape eternal damnation!

Why similar: Gambling 36.6% ★, Dark 10.6%, Psychological 9.2%, Horror 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans into the visceral, dark, and strategic elements of gambling with a focus on turn-based tension.

A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!

Why similar: Gambling 43.7% ★, Psychological 8.4%, Dark 8%, Strategy 7.7%, Horror 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a psychological horror experience centered around gambling mechanics and roguelite progression.

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...

Why similar: Horror 22%, Dark 20.4%, Psychological 18.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Surreal 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends dark, surreal horror with card-based gambling mechanics that force you to make brutal sacrifices to survive.

The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

Why similar: Strategy 80.4%, Indie 10.5%, Singleplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more abstract, this roguelite captures the addictive, high-stakes thrill of gambling through strategic deck-building.

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Horror 28.3%, Multiplayer 22.8%, Psychological Horror 13%, Dark 11.3%, First-Person 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an intense, multiplayer psychological horror experience where survival depends on quick thinking under extreme pressure.

Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.

Why similar: Horror 18.4%, Dark 14.6%, Multiplayer 14%, Surreal 13%, Thriller 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-quality multiplayer horror game that excels at psychological tension and cooperative survival.

Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.

Why similar: Horror 25%, Dark 19.1%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, PvE 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer heist-horror game forces players to manage risk and survive against supernatural threats.

A new hero rises to challenge the Dealer in Hand of Fate 2! Master a living boardgame of infinitely replayable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal real-time combat! Draw your cards, play your hand and discover your fate!

Why similar: Strategy 50.2%, Indie 31.2%, Singleplayer 18.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines dark fantasy storytelling with a unique card-based gambling system that dictates your survival.

This will be the most thrilling pool game you have ever played. Join up to 3 of your friends in this exciting pool roulette game! Eliminate each other with pool until only one person is left.

Why similar: Gambling 37.3% ★, Dark 14.8%, Horror 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.2%, PvP 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A horror-themed simulation that applies the mechanics of roulette to a dark, multiplayer environment.

You're locked in a room where your only chance of survival is to play blackjack against a sinister dealer. Every hand isn't just a gamble, it's a deal with fate. Fail to repay your debt on time, and you'll fall into darkness... or something far worse.

Why similar: Dark 20.8%, Strategy 20.2%, Horror 16.3%, Psychological 15%, Psychological Horror 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: It merges traditional gambling simulation with dark, psychological horror elements and strategic depth.

Use the specialized equipment at your disposal to locate & log as many paranormal events as possible. Decipher the ingredients needed for your ritual and try to exorcise any demons within. Any incorrect ingredients and you may never leave! 1-4 Players

Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Dark 16.9%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15%, Strategy 15%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that emphasizes supernatural investigation and psychological stress.

Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

Why similar: Horror 38.3%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Dark 9.8%, First-Person 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for multiplayer psychological horror, focusing on investigation and survival against the unknown.

A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Why similar: Horror 44.2%, First-Person 18.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, PvE 11.3%, Co-op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines high-stakes exploration with dark humor and intense multiplayer moments where one wrong move means death.

KEEP GAMBLING is a hostile friendslop gamble-em-up featuring LOTTO TICKET, CASE OPENING, SLOTS, and SUBSTANCE ABUSE simulations. Work with or against your friends to repay your debt.

Why similar: Gambling 76.1% ★, Multiplayer 14.5%, PvP 5.3%, 3D 3.1%, Indie 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style simulation that focuses purely on the fast-paced, high-stakes nature of gambling.

Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.

Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Multiplayer 26.2%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Co-op 4.9%, Dark 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer psychological horror game that forces players to manage their sanity while completing objectives.

Gamble with your life in this explosive PvP game for 2-4 players. Cut wires, earn cash, use abilities and avoid the detonators. Test your luck, skills and remember to always bet on the boom!

Why similar: Gambling 55% ★, Strategy 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, PvP 8.8%, 3D 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the strategic, gambling-based tension of surviving against randomized, lethal outcomes.

Scam Line is a 4–8 player social deception game where your party will face different challenges. Become a liar, a manipulator, a cheater, or find your own path to victory

Why similar: Multiplayer 27.2%, Dark 20.3%, PvP 14.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, multiplayer social-deduction game that relies on deception and high-stakes interaction.

Drive into a world where a Bluff and a Bomb are separated by only a small wire, tied up by a psychopath in chairs with bombs strapped to their chests, play games, vote for losers and must cut a wire, risking instant death. Test your skill. Outsmart the imposter to be the survivor.

Why similar: Gambling 55.8% ★, Psychological 11.2%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Horror 8.1%, PvP 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a tense, cooperative gambling experience where communication and risk management are key.

You and your crew are sent in to assess reality in this 4-player co-op horror game. Memorize the environment. Spot disturbing anomalies. Decide if the timeline is safe. One bad call—and you’re forced to start over.

Why similar: Horror 17.8%, Psychological 17.5%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Surreal 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes cooperative psychological horror and the management of dangerous, unpredictable anomalies.

Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

Why similar: Horror 36.3%, Multiplayer 24.2%, First-Person 14.2%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Co-op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the surreal, multiplayer horror vibe with a focus on high-risk, high-reward gameplay.

Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.

Why similar: Horror 25.1%, Dark 22.9%, PvP 18.2%, Multiplayer 15.4%, 3D 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror title that emphasizes psychological dread and intense multiplayer encounters.

A 4-player online co-op survival horror game. Avoid the contaminated rain, gather scrap and get back to the tram. Monsters that copy your friends' voices and behavior, and many other threats, stand in your way. Gear up and stick together to survive.

Why similar: Horror 25%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, PvP 17.9%, PvE 17.6%, First-Person 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that incorporates social deduction and surreal elements into its multiplayer loop.

Your goal is simple, spot anomalies to escape. Play alone or together with up to 8 players in online co-op. Make the right decisions to advance to the next level, or risk being reset to the beginning!

Why similar: Psychological 18.7%, Horror 18.1%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Surreal 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror game that focuses on the psychological toll of investigating dangerous, supernatural phenomena.

Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

Why similar: Horror 38.5%, Multiplayer 27%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, First-Person 8.4%, Co-op 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the surreal, liminal horror aesthetic while forcing players to navigate dangerous, randomized spaces.

DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.

Why similar: Horror 48.3%, Multiplayer 24.6%, Dark 9.5%, Psychological Horror 7.1%, Co-op 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival-horror game that creates intense, high-pressure situations for all players involved.

Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...

Why similar: Horror 32.1%, Multiplayer 25.4%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Dark 11.1%, First-Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror experience that focuses on puzzle-solving and survival within a surreal, nightmarish setting.

An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

Why similar: Horror 38.4%, Multiplayer 23.6%, Psychological Horror 12%, Dark 7.5%, Co-op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a terrifying multiplayer experience where players must work together to survive a haunted environment.

Welcome to a sinful night with the galaxy’s wackiest aliens. Play twisted tabletop games with up to 4 players, devise brilliant strategies, bluff your way to victory, and try not to lose your head - literally.

Why similar: Gambling 33.1% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Dark 10.7%, PvP 9.8%

Outwit the HOST in a death game where fire spreads with each flip of a card. Be the last to burn. Do you fear death?

Why similar: Gambling 34% ★, Dark 10.1%, Horror 8.7%, Psychological 8.6%, Strategy 7.7%

Machine Party is a collection of violent party games where failure is lethal. Gather your friends and endure high stakes situations to prove your life is worth more than theirs. Survival is unlikely.

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.9%, Dark 20%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, PvP 7.9%

An online 1-6 player co-op "casino crawler" where you and your friends share one bank account and one massive debt. Gamble, buy sketchy items, make terrible decisions, and climb an ominous casino tower to hit your loan shark’s daily quota in 5 minutes - or face the consequences.

Why similar: Gambling 67.5% ★, Multiplayer 15.8%, First-Person 6.9%, 3D 5%, Co-op 4.8%

Spider Roulette is a tense online party game where 2-4 friends take turns flipping cups, trying to avoid finding each other's spiders..

Why similar: Gambling 47.1% ★, Horror 11.8%, Dark 10.3%, Strategy 10%, PvP 7.5%

An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you’ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.

Why similar: Horror 40.1%, Multiplayer 22.3%, First-Person 11.2%, 3D 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

Tabletop horror game where you take turns firing a shotgun. The game can be played with friends or a dealer, creating an intense, suspense-filled atmosphere. Russian Roulette reimagined.

Why similar: Gambling 36.2% ★, Dark 10.3%, Psychological 9.1%, Horror 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%

"I Have an Item" is a multiplayer game with a set of different game modes about risk, reward, and item manipulation. This IS NOT about getting the most loot — it's about SURVIVAL.

Why similar: Gambling 57.5% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, PvP 9.6%, Multiplayer 6.9%

S.E.M.I. is a single-player and co-op action platformer with puzzle elements. Play as patients of an unusual clinic, take experimental drugs, interfere with each other, and be ready for chaos and unpredictable side effects!

Why similar: Psychological 28%, Surreal 26.2%, Multiplayer 22.4%, 3D 9.4%, Co-op 9.1%

Survive the world's deadliest psychopaths. Experience a unique 2-player co-op experience that puts your teamwork and communication to the test. Complete your duties alone or with a partner in a prison like no other.

Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, First-Person 16.1%, PvE 16%, 3D 12.2%

A 1–4 player co-op horror game. Cleanse cursed lands, perform forbidden rituals, and survive a spreading plague. Fear is not scripted. It emerges from your choices, your mistakes, and your team.

Why similar: Horror 18.8%, Dark 17.2%, Thriller 16.2%, Surreal 15.5%, Multiplayer 13.8%

Final Sentence is a Battle Royale typing game. Together with other players, you find yourself in a hangar, with a typewriter in front of you and a revolver loaded with a single bullet at your temple. Every mistake can be fatal. Only one will remain.

Why similar: Horror 24.5%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Thriller 17.9%, PvP 16.4%, Psychological Horror 14%

Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.

Why similar: Horror 30.6%, Multiplayer 23.7%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Dark 13.3%, First-Person 9.9%

Survive. Sabotage. Style on your friends. Twisted Party is a retro horror party game for 2-8 players with open and private lobbies, stuffed with deadly mini-games and buckets of blood. Betray your way to victory and unlock crazy skins by conquering brutal challenges. Last one standing wins.

Why similar: Dark 22.6%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, 3D 9.7%

An online horror game of exploration, teamwork and betrayal for 3-15 players.

Why similar: Psychological 18.5%, Dark 15.5%, Surreal 14.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Horror 12.2%

PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.

Why similar: Horror 33.2%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Multiplayer 19.5%, First-Person 17.1%, Co-op 8.7%

The Other Side is a co-op psychological thriller for up to 6 players. Your goal is to investigate haunted locations using modern ghost hunting equipment, gather evidence, identify entities, and cleanse them from the location. Customize your character, headquarters, and more.

Why similar: Horror 22.6%, Dark 22.4%, Multiplayer 13.1%, First-Person 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.9%

Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.

Why similar: Horror 27.3%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Thriller 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, PvE 7.8%

Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

Why similar: Horror 34.4%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, First-Person 14%, PvE 10.2%

the cabin game is a 1-4 player, chaotic horror game where you are trapped inside a cabin and the only way out is through a game of cards. Just beware, as the cards you play have a surprising twist on this humble abode...

Why similar: Horror 25.1%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Thriller 16.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, First-Person 8.7%

Survive the night in a deadly asylum—deliver sinister meds, keep the insane in line, and outwit a killer hiding in the dark.

Why similar: Psychological 18.5%, Horror 17.4%, Dark 17.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%

A frightening asymmetrical multiplayer experience! Survive as the Human or terrorize as the Entity that can only move when it isn't being watched.

Why similar: Horror 18%, Psychological 15.5%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Dark 13.8%, PvP 12.5%

Doll Impostor is a horror game where 1-4 players take on the role of guardians of possessed dolls. Work together to identify the impostor doll before 9 a.m, or face dire consequences. Every hour counts in this tense, fear-filled race against time.

Why similar: Strategy 37.9%, Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, 3D 9.6%, First-Person 9.1%

A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?

Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Multiplayer 24.7%, PvP 22.2%, Psychological Horror 16%, First-Person 9.5%

Exorcist Simulator is a 1‑4 player online co‑op horror where every play asks the same, terrible question: Will you cast out the Devil —or wear his skin?

Why similar: Dark 22.3%, Horror 20.5%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, First-Person 11.5%

"Exanimum: The Silent Call" is a first-person psychological horror game. In this chilling experience, you will find yourself confronting terrifying mysteries and chilling secrets.

Why similar: Horror 27.4%, Dark 21.5%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Thriller 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%

A co-op seance communications game where one of you died first, and only you can see what's killing the others. Your only voice is a Ouija board your friends keep misreading. Guide them down 9 floors of a haunted house and banish the demon before sunrise. 2-6 players. Brain required.

Why similar: Psychological 29.6%, Horror 24.5%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Co-op 4.7%

Gehinnom is a multiplayer horror game for 1-4 players. collect clues and complete various quests to perform a ritual and banish the demon that hunts you. Everything in Gehinnom is randomly generated, so you will always be scared.

Why similar: Dark 17.5%, Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 13.2%, PvP 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Trapped in a prison hell, a desperate orange will play a deadly game in the hopes of getting shipped to safer markets. Can he survive what his captors have freshly squeezed for him?

Why similar: Strategy 57.3%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, 3D 11%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%