Games like SIDE
If SIDE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Daymare: 1998, The Evil Within 2 and Airtight City 密闭之城1.0 — 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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Players who liked SIDE also play
Steam players who put hours into SIDE 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.
Daymare: 1998
WHY THIS
Top pick for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SIDE.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
The Evil Within 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SIDE.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Airtight City 密闭之城1.0
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SIDE.
This is a TPS, horror-type action shooting game. The game will draw players into a terrifying dark world with detailed atmosphere rendering and weird story. Here, you are not defenseless, but even with a gun, you can't suppress the trembling from the heart. Game revenue is used for 2.0 development.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SIDE.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Gears 5
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SIDE.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
Sniper Elite 5
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SIDE.
The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SIDE.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
Dark Sector
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SIDE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SIDE.
A third-person Action/Shooter that thrusts players into a sci-fi flavored nightmare scenario set in the post Cold War era.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SIDE at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SIDE.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SIDE.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Action with SIDE.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SIDE.
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 SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Action with SIDE.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SIDE.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SIDE.
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 SIDE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SIDE.
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 SIDE.
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 Action and Adventure with SIDE.
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 SIDE.
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 SIDE.
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 SIDE.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SIDE.
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.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SIDE.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Daymare: 1998
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SIDE.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
The Evil Within 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SIDE.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SIDE.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Frequently asked about SIDE
- How much does SIDE cost?
- SIDE is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SIDE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SIDE are Daymare: 1998, The Evil Within 2, Airtight City 密闭之城1.0.
- Who developed SIDE?
- SIDE was developed by Tly.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on SIDE.
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