Games Like The Ship: Murder Party

Murderous Pursuits is a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, all while avoiding witnesses.

Why similar: Action 52%, Assassins 14.4% ★, Multiplayer 13.8%, Stealth 11.1%, Mystery 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest spiritual successor to The Ship, focusing on stalking targets in a crowd while avoiding your own hunter.

SpyParty is a competitive espionage game about subtle human behavior. A Spy hides in plain sight at a fancy cocktail party, trying to accomplish missions while blending in with the other guests, while a Sniper with a single bullet looks inward, searching for the Spy.

Why similar: Multiplayer 46.3%, Assassins 20.1% ★, Stealth 18.4%, Mystery 6.4%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the ultimate high-stakes social stealth experience where one player must blend into a party while the other tries to spot them.

An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...

Why similar: Multiplayer 56.1%, Survival 9.8%, Funny 9.7%, Comedy 8.8%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines social deduction with first-person survival and combat, capturing the paranoia of a killer hiding among friends.

Congratulations, you’ve just been cast in your first slasher movie by the notorious Director X!

Why similar: Multiplayer 52.6%, Action 14.1%, FPS 10.7%, Funny 7.8%, Comedy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, it shares the same engine and humorous, over-the-top assassination gameplay.

You find yourself aboard a series of luxury 1920s cruise ships – a guest of the mysterious Mr X who has engineered your presence on board to take part in a murderous game.

Why similar: Multiplayer 53.7%, Stealth 12.2%, Action 9.1%, First-Person 9.1%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A direct graphical and mechanical update to the original experience for those wanting the classic gameplay with modern polish.

Hidden in Plain Sight is a local-multiplayer stealth party game. Blend into the crowd of AI characters and eliminate the other players before they eliminate you!

Why similar: Multiplayer 42.7%, Stealth 33.9%, Funny 8.6%, Action 6.7%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in social stealth where you must complete objectives while blending into a crowd of NPCs to avoid detection.

Inspired by the party games Werewolf and Mafia, Town of Salem is a game of murder, mystery and deception.

Why similar: Multiplayer 57.1%, Mystery 15.9%, RPG 5.6%, Funny 4.2%, Survival 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the social deduction and role-based mystery aspect, challenging players to use logic to survive.

First Class Trouble is a party game where players must work together and against each other to survive a disaster. The goal is to shut down a deadly A.I. Some players are impostors, secretly playing as human-looking killer robots intent on betraying the other players.

Why similar: Multiplayer 58.8%, Funny 13%, Survival 12.8%, Difficult 7.9%, Action 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the social deduction and sabotage elements in a luxury setting very similar to the cruise ship environment of the original game.

An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!

Why similar: Multiplayer 78.8%, Survival 9%, Funny 8.4%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive modern social deduction game that perfectly captures the paranoia of identifying a killer in a confined space.

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Multiplayer 57%, Survival 12.9%, Funny 11.8%, Action 7.7%, Stylized 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a survival layer to the social deduction formula, forcing players to trust others to gather resources and escape.

A heart-pounding and hilarious horror party game set in a pitch-black mansion. Armed with a flashlight, a revolver, and proximity chat, you and up to five friends sneak, shout, and stumble your way through tense shootouts, chaotic traps, and total darkness.

Why similar: Multiplayer 30.9%, Stealth 19.7%, First-Person 10.1%, FPS 9.9%, Funny 8%

Why You'll Like It: A modern FPS take on the social deduction murder mystery genre with a dark, atmospheric twist.

Hello Neighbor Multiplayer. Secret Neighbor is a Multiplayer Social Horror Game where a group of intruders try to rescue their friend from the Neighbor's creepy basement. Only problem is one of the intruders is the Neighbor in disguise.

Why similar: Multiplayer 39.7%, Stealth 23.5%, Mystery 11.2%, First-Person 10.3%, Funny 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends stealth and social deduction with a creepy, humorous tone as players try to uncover the secrets of their neighbor.

An 10 player online social deduction game inspired by games like Among Us & Town of Salem, where the stowaway is tasked with killing the crew before they reach land!

Why similar: Multiplayer 59.5%, FPS 12%, Funny 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social deduction and hidden traitor mechanics in a multiplayer setting with a humorous edge.

Online (6v2) social deduction game that will ruin your friendships. 6 crew members, 2 murderous shape-shifting aliens. Trust No One.

Why similar: Multiplayer 50.3%, Mystery 17.2%, Survival 9.8%, Funny 9%, Action 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced social deduction game where players must identify the alien among them while performing ship maintenance.

Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”

Why similar: Multiplayer 42.3%, Stealth 15.3%, FPS 14.4%, First-Person 8.6%, Action 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the high-stakes, objective-based multiplayer action found in some of the more intense modes of The Ship.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a freedom sandbox stealth experience, where each playthrough is unique, thanks to our British Countryside Generator. Escape from these robot-infested islands with violence, trickery and stealth. This brutally funny game is available for Windows, OSX, and Linux.

Why similar: Stealth 44%, First-Person 13.2%, Survival 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Indie 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the stealth and survival elements while being pursued by relentless enemies in a first-person perspective.

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.

Why similar: Multiplayer 43.5%, First-Person 12.9%, Funny 8.4%, FPS 8.3%, Comedy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The Prop Hunt mode is a quintessential social stealth experience that mirrors the paranoia of hiding in plain sight.

What the box is an Online Multiplayer shooter in which players control living boxes hiding amongst regular boxes while trying to destroy each other. Run around with your trusty box cutter in hand or stand still and wait for the perfect moment to strike!

Why similar: Multiplayer 48.6%, Stealth 19.7%, Action 11.5%, Indie 7.7%, Funny 7%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous, fast-paced multiplayer game about blending into the environment to avoid being spotted by other players.

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Why similar: Stealth 48.8%, Multiplayer 34.8%, Indie 7.4%, Action 5.2%, Strategy 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a top-down heist experience that emphasizes stealth, clever movement, and team coordination.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Multiplayer 69.7%, Survival 14.4%, Action 4.6%, Difficult 4.2%, Simulation 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more co-op focused, the constant paranoia of a potential traitor on board creates a similar tension to The Ship.

Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Why similar: First-Person 31.9%, FPS 21.6%, Survival 19.6%, Shooter 12.4%, Action 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a tense, survival-horror multiplayer experience with a focus on limited resources and tactical movement.

Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.

Why similar: Multiplayer 63.9%, First-Person 11.7%, Funny 6.5%, FPS 6.2%, Action 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on team-based coordination and chaotic multiplayer naval combat that requires constant communication.

Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.

Why similar: Multiplayer 71.8%, Action 7.5%, First-Person 5.1%, Indie 4.8%, FPS 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes team-based roles and coordination in a unique steampunk setting that rewards strategic planning.

A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

Why similar: Multiplayer 63.5%, FPS 13.2%, Action 6.8%, First-Person 5.2%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features asymmetrical combat and strategic team-based gameplay that requires players to adapt to different roles.

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.

Why similar: Multiplayer 53.2%, Funny 13.4%, First-Person 12.4%, Comedy 6%, Survival 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the chaotic, funny, and asymmetrical nature of the original game's multiplayer matches.

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Why similar: Difficult 51.1%, Indie 35.6%, Singleplayer 6.4%, Simulation 4.8%, Strategy 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Included for the complex puzzle-solving and logic-based gameplay that appeals to the strategic mind of a dedicated gamer.

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Why similar: Comedy 34.7%, Simulation 29%, Strategy 21.7%, Funny 10.5%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the satirical, humorous tone and management-style gameplay that fans of The Ship's quirky atmosphere will appreciate.

Sub Rosa is a multiplayer first-person shooter about tense deals, double-crosses, and the occasional high-speed car chase.

Why similar: Multiplayer 56.3%, FPS 10.8%, First-Person 9.7%, Action 6.5%, Shooter 5.8%

Frantic, multiplayer action involving Nazis and dinosaurs! What are you waiting for? This is World War II as it should have been!

Why similar: Multiplayer 54.2%, First-Person 10.2%, FPS 10%, Action 7.7%, Indie 4.5%

Burg is a First-Person Multiplayer Hide and Seek! Both teams are equipped with a set of abilities they can use to evade/capture the other. When a hider is caught they join the seeker until only one player remains victorious!

Why similar: Multiplayer 46.3%, Stealth 30.9%, First-Person 7.7%, Action 6.2%, Comedy 2.6%

The Ship is a murder mystery alternative to traditional FPS multiplayer games - hunt and be hunted! Package includes multiplayer, single player and tutorial.

Why similar: Action 67%, RPG 11.7%, Indie 8.2%, FPS 6.2%, First-Person 5.4%

A medieval mystery, 4 to 12 players, where villagers scheme and werewolves hunt. Sharpen your wits, trust no one, and see who makes it through the night.

Why similar: Multiplayer 35.1%, Stealth 26.1%, First-Person 10.7%, Survival 6.5%, Comedy 6.3%

Kill the spy who has blended in! Up to 8 players battle royale imposter

Why similar: Multiplayer 61.5%, Survival 13.1%, Funny 7.6%, Indie 7.2%, Shooter 5.7%

Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.

Why similar: Multiplayer 66.4%, Survival 11.7%, First-Person 8%, Action 6.8%, Funny 2.6%

Sneak Thief is a first person, shooter, strategy, stealth and puzzle game that lets you choose how you want to play. Use your wits and expertise to setup and perform heists whether that be by using brute force to smash your way through or by getting away without making a sound.

Why similar: Stealth 41.1%, Multiplayer 26%, First-Person 11.3%, Action 6.4%, FPS 5%

In a dark Cyberpunk world, you (and up to 3 friends) wage war against the all-powerful Federation in this Source-powered FPS/RPG.

Why similar: Multiplayer 28.8%, RPG 19.3%, FPS 16.8%, Stealth 8.8%, First-Person 8.7%

Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.

Why similar: Multiplayer 57.5%, FPS 12.8%, Action 9.4%, First-Person 8.2%, Shooter 5.7%

Treason is a 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, set among Italian mobsters. Use proximity voice chat, unique abilities/gadgets, and strategy to prove your innocence or deceive others.

Why similar: Multiplayer 42.7%, Stealth 25.2%, First-Person 13.5%, FPS 11.4%, Action 7.3%

PLAY, CREATE, PARTY! Tower Unite is a community-based virtual world party game with online games, entertainment, activities, and absolutely NO microtransactions.

Why similar: Multiplayer 65.9%, Funny 9%, FPS 8.8%, Action 6%, Indie 5.1%

Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.

Why similar: Multiplayer 48.7%, First-Person 13.5%, FPS 13.4%, Action 8.6%, Shooter 5.7%

The #1 rated Xbox Live Indie Game. Halo-inspired. Destructible/constructible environments. Vehicles. Zombie survival. Hookshots. Infection mode: Be the zombie & eat the dead to level up your zombie abilities. Community playdates are still hosted every week, join us!

Why similar: Multiplayer 50.9%, First-Person 17.7%, FPS 12.3%, Shooter 6.9%, Action 6.8%

Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.

Why similar: Indie 86.7%, Singleplayer 13.3%

Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

Why similar: Funny 18.5%, First-Person 18.3%, Comedy 15.3%, Difficult 11.4%, Indie 10.5%

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 72.5%, Funny 13.7%, Action 6.6%, Indie 4.1%, Stylized 3.2%

A fun hidden role game where you backstab your co-workers and get mad at your co-workers for backstabbing you. (6-10 players)

Why similar: Multiplayer 55%, First-Person 11.4%, Funny 10.3%, Action 5.2%, FPS 5.1%

Hide & Chick is a multiplayer hide-and-seek party game in which you kill each other amongst tons of identical looking NPCs. Key to winning is blending in with NPCs.

Why similar: Multiplayer 54.7%, Stealth 28.5%, Action 4.7%, Funny 4.7%, Indie 3.7%

Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.4%, FPS 19.4%, First-Person 10.9%, Action 8.3%, Indie 5.2%

Impostor Online is a 4–16 player social deduction game of murder, lies, and paranoia. Every match you're dealt a secret role: investigate, heal, deceive—or kill. Someone at the table wants you dead. Find them first, or make sure they never find you.

Why similar: Multiplayer 55.5%, Mystery 19.9%, First-Person 12.9%, Funny 8.6%, Strategy 3.2%

Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities. Play intense local matches with friends and foes, challenge yourself in the singleplayer mode or battle it out online.

Why similar: Multiplayer 74.1%, Indie 10.1%, Action 9.5%, Funny 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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.

Why similar: Multiplayer 46.2%, First-Person 11.6%, Action 8.3%, Survival 7.7%, Funny 7.7%

Multiplayer based, first person enabled, action packed and skill demanding shooter set in the Wild West times. A unique combination of non stop action and slow but powerful weaponry.

Why similar: Multiplayer 37.9%, First-Person 13.2%, FPS 8.8%, Survival 8.7%, Funny 8.4%

Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.

Why similar: Multiplayer 81.4%, Funny 6.6%, Indie 5.9%, Action 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Online co-op horror for 1–6 players. Board a cursed flying ship, raid haunted graveyards for loot, and survive monsters that hear every sound. Beware of UFO abductions, grab boosters from vending machines, gamble in the onboard casino, and embrace pure chaos with friends in voice chat.

Why similar: Multiplayer 45.5%, Stealth 19.9%, First-Person 9.7%, Comedy 7.6%, Action 6.2%

Contains full Rising Storm content as well!

Why similar: Multiplayer 60%, First-Person 14.3%, FPS 13.1%, Action 6%, Shooter 4.3%

Perfect Heist 2 is a round-based online game, where robbers try to hide in plain sight while robbing a bank without being noticed by the cop team!

Why similar: Multiplayer 36.9%, Stealth 28.4%, First-Person 8.7%, FPS 6.4%, Action 5.5%