Games like Scottside
If Scottside is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rusts Of Corruption, Esoteric Ebb and The Aurora Chronicles — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Scottside: "Scottside" is a non-linear visual novel in the thriller genre. A small provincial town may seem quite dull. However, everything changes when you find a strange object in the forest.
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Steam players who put hours into Scottside 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.
Rusts Of Corruption
WHY THIS
Top pick for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scottside.
You've mysteriously awoken on an isolated island on an unknown world. A corrupting force spreads through the island, leaving only a short amount of time to learn about the islands mysteries... Who will you meet? What will you learn? Are you ready to see the world die?
Esoteric Ebb
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Scottside.
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
The Aurora Chronicles
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Scottside.
A crew of four. Mysteries at the edge of known space. A utopia that might be more fragile than it appears. The Aurora Chronicles is an episodic sci-fi visual novel where your choices shape relationships, uncover buried secrets, and test whether hope can survive what you discover.
YOUR HOUSE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scottside.
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scottside.
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
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Ranked #6 for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scottside.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Mindcop
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scottside.
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.
Storyteller
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Scottside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scottside.
Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle game about building stories. Start with a title, settings and characters and create a story that fits the story’s description. Play with stories of love, intrigue, crime, monsters, betrayal, and more!
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 Scottside.
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 Scottside.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scottside.
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 Scottside.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scottside.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Scottside.
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.
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 Scottside.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scottside.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Esoteric Ebb
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Scottside.
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scottside.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Mindcop
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scottside.
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.
Storyteller
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Scottside.
Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle game about building stories. Start with a title, settings and characters and create a story that fits the story’s description. Play with stories of love, intrigue, crime, monsters, betrayal, and more!
Frequently asked about Scottside
- What games are most similar to Scottside?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scottside are Rusts Of Corruption, Esoteric Ebb, The Aurora Chronicles.
- Who developed Scottside?
- Scottside was developed by Plotline Games.
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 Scottside.
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