Games like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
If The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead by Daylight, Soul Walker and Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative characters and lore, distinct character tools and grim. 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 →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 2023 asymmetric horror game developed by Sumo Digital and published by Gun Interactive, available on Steam for $14.99. Players take on the roles of either the notorious Slaughter family or their victims in third-person gameplay that draws from the iconic 1974 horror film. The experience features creative characters with distinct tools, a leveling system, hide-and-seek mechanics, and a lore system. Reviewers and players describe the atmosphere as grim, intense, and tense, with players highlighting the vocal performances and the feeling of playing out a movie. The game is playable on Steam Deck and currently holds a 67% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews.
About The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Take on the role of one of the notorious Slaughter family, or their victims, in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a third-person asymmetrical horror experience based on the groundbreaking and iconic 1974 horror film. Experience the mad and macabre for yourself in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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Dead by Daylight
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Shares a tense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Top pick for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Soul Walker
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
A 3v1 asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where sound is deadly. Survive together or betray others for your own safety, uncover hidden roles, and outsmart the Soul Walker that hunts by noise.
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Plan your own alien invasion and harvest humans as the iconic Killer Klowns, or gather a team of survivors to fight the extraterrestrial threat, in a game based on the ‘80s cult classic movie. Welcome to a new, craazzy take on the asymmetrical multiplayer horror experience!
Carnival Hunt
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Ranked #4 for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Carnival Hunt is an asymmetric multiplayer horror game set inside a living, ever-shifting mechanical carnival designed by the Puppetmaster. One player becomes the Carnival Monster, while others play as puppet Bunnies struggling to survive, ascend, and escape the hunt.
Death's Playground
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Ranked #5 for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Invite your friends over to play this nice lovely game and then.. BAM! Out of nowhere, you scare them to death, leaving them with nothing but paranoia and trust issues! Run, hide, shoot, scream.. try to survive the cursed mansion's creepy environment in this multiplayer (4v1) Psychological Horror.
Backrooms: Imposter
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Ranked #6 for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Work together to escape the Backrooms, but choose carefully who you trust. An imposter hides among your team, turning survival into a deadly mind game.
Manhunt
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Shares a grim mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Ranked #7 for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
Friday the 13th: The Game
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Shares a tense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Ranked #8 for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Jason is back! Jason Voorhees is unleashed and stalking the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake! Take on the role as Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake counselors. This is the game you’ve been waiting for; the chance to kill or be killed on Friday the 13th!
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Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Reviewers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Friday the 13th: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Reviewers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Jason is back! Jason Voorhees is unleashed and stalking the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake! Take on the role as Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake counselors. This is the game you’ve been waiting for; the chance to kill or be killed on Friday the 13th!
The Outlast Trials
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Reviewers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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?
Halloween: The Game
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Reviewers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
On Halloween night, 1978, no one is safe from Michael Myers. Become the Boogeyman or fight back against the face of evil itself in Halloween.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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.
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 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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 Action and Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Sumo Digital
Other recommendable Steam games by Sumo Digital, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Compete across land, water and air in incredible transforming vehicles that change from cars to boats to planes mid-race.
Hood: Outlaws & Legends
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
In a violent, medieval world, outplay rival gangs in intense PvPvE multiplayer heists. Moving in stealth to steal treasures unseen or dominating through loud and brutal combat, only the best will escape with hard-earned riches.
Team Sonic Racing™
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Team Sonic Racing combines the best elements of arcade and fast-paced competitive style racing as you face-off with friends in intense multiplayer racing.
Sackboy™: A Big Adventure
WHY THIS
Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
PERFECTLY CRAFTED FOR PC. PlayStation® icon Sackboy bursts into action on PC in a huge 3D multiplayer platforming adventure. An epic journey stuffed with platforming challenges. Deeply immersive controls. Collaborative, chaotic and joyful multiplayer fun.
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
WHY THIS
Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
SONIC AND SEGA ALL-STARS RACE FOR VICTORY IN A HIGH SPEED HIGH SKILL RACETRACK SHOWDOWN! TAKE TO THE TRACK BY CAR, MONSTER TRUCK, BIKE AND EVEN AEROPLANE IN SONIC & SEGA ALL-STARS RACING. Explore stunning new circuits including Sonic Seaside Hill, Curien Mansion and Blizzard Castle as you zip around medieval castle ramparts, hurtle...
Snake Pass
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Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Shares Indie with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Slither, coil and climb your way to the top of Haven Tor in this one of a kind physics based, puzzle platform adventure from award winning independent studio Sumo Digital!
DeathSprint 66
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Shares Action with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Compete in a bloody fight to the finish in DEATHSPRINT 66, fusing high-speed on-foot racing with deadly obstacles and brutal abilities. Unleash your velocity, push limits, and claim glory like never before.
NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager
WHY THIS
Another title from Sumo Digital, the studio behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.
Frequently asked about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Does The Texas Chain Saw Massacre run on Steam Deck?
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 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 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre cost?
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Texas Chain Saw Massacre have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Texas Chain Saw Massacre supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are Dead by Daylight, Soul Walker, Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game.
- Who developed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was developed by Sumo Digital and published by Gun Interactive.
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