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Games like This Side (Early Access Game)

If This Side (Early Access Game) is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mycelium: The Silent Contract, Backdoors and The Backrooms Project — picked from the ranked list below. 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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About This Side (Early Access Game): Fight your natural fears and help your friend to find a way to escape this forgotten place. Set on an abandoned mine. This Side is a roguelike survival horror game that you will have a terrifying experience with a friend to find the way to freedom.

2019ActionIndieAdventureEarly Access9.99 USDWindowsby Rising, Crystal Realms Entertainment
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Steam players who put hours into This Side (Early Access Game) 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. Mycelium: The Silent Contract

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Mycelium: The Silent Contract is a co-op/single player extraction horror set in a haunted liminal forest. Your contract is simple: get mycelium and extract. But in this forest, nothing is what it seems. So what did you sign, exactly?

    2026ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Backdoors

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Enter the twisted realm of the Backrooms. Explore 100 procedurally generated rooms, and survive with up to three friends in intense co-op action. Unravel the secrets, beware of lurking entities. Find the way out or become lost forever in the depths of the Backrooms.

    2023ActionAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Backrooms Project

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?

    2022ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Floor44

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Floor44 is a hardcore luckiness detector kinda game with randomly generated maps, the goal is to make it to the top floor. You can rely on your skills to reach floor30, but you'll need more than that to make it to Floor44.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Ghostbane

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Ghostbane, is a Co-Op horror game for 1-4 players. Detect paranormal activity, collect evidence of ghosts, hunt ghosts by rituals, and conduct detailed investigations about ghosts in your main base.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Together After Dark

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Together After Dark is a co-op horror psychological game with a survival touch for 1-4 players. 4 Teens are stuck in the forest and need to find a way out but they are not alone

    2025ActionAdventureCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Outlast Trials

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    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?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Malum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for This Side (Early Access Game) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Malum is the premier C-list horror game. Run from a motely collection of bizarre demons then summon in some guns to turn the tables on them. Best enjoyed with friends.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Side (Early Access Game) at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Action with This Side (Early Access Game).

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under This Side (Early Access Game) on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 This Side (Early Access Game).

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Side (Early Access Game).

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 This Side (Early Access Game).

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with This Side (Early Access Game).

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Side (Early Access Game).

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with This Side (Early Access Game).

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about This Side (Early Access Game)

How much does This Side (Early Access Game) cost?
This Side (Early Access Game) is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does This Side (Early Access Game) have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — This Side (Early Access Game) supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to This Side (Early Access Game)?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Side (Early Access Game) are Mycelium: The Silent Contract, Backdoors, The Backrooms Project.
Who developed This Side (Early Access Game)?
This Side (Early Access Game) was developed by Rising, Crystal Realms Entertainment and published by Rising, Crystal Realms Entertainment.

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