Games like ColdSide
If ColdSide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Uninvited Guest, ShadowSide and Investigator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration reveals hidden secrets, atmospheric and immersive. 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.
Get personalized picks →About ColdSide: ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.
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Steam players who put hours into ColdSide 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.
Uninvited Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Top pick for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
ShadowSide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Second-strongest match for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
ShadowSide is a First Person Exploration game. A policeman Alex Carter has been watching over the tranquility in the town for many years. He protects the people from robbery and crime. Nothing but a routine.
Investigator
WHY THIS
Shares fragmented narrative and an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Third-strongest match for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
The Beast Inside
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Ranked #4 for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
Conarium
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
Narcosis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Ranked #6 for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with ColdSide.
Ranked #7 for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Ranked #8 for ColdSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ColdSide at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ColdSide.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ColdSide.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ColdSide.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ColdSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ColdSide.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ColdSide.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ColdSide.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ColdSide.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ColdSide.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Investigator
WHY THIS
Shares fragmented narrative and an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Another title from AdroVGames, the studio behind ColdSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
ShadowSide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Another title from AdroVGames, the studio behind ColdSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
ShadowSide is a First Person Exploration game. A policeman Alex Carter has been watching over the tranquility in the town for many years. He protects the people from robbery and crime. Nothing but a routine.
Uninvited Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ColdSide.
Another title from AdroVGames, the studio behind ColdSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with ColdSide.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
Frequently asked about ColdSide
- Does ColdSide run on Steam Deck?
- ColdSide is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does ColdSide cost?
- ColdSide is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ColdSide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ColdSide are Uninvited Guest, ShadowSide, Investigator.
- Who developed ColdSide?
- ColdSide was developed by AdroVGames.
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