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Games like Cheat Day

If Cheat Day is your kind of game, the closest matches are Effigy : The Descent, Nightmare Journey and Ashen Vow — 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 Cheat Day: Your wife is captured by demons! You must find the passwords to the doors to release demons so they free your wife. Try to survive and crack the puzzles to find the passwords.

2022ActionIndieRPG0.99 USDWindowsby McHunter Studio
Cheat Day — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Cheat Day 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. Effigy : The Descent

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    Effigy : The Descent is a first-person survival-horror game in which you will face statues, with your lantern as your only tool to stop them. Gather all artefacts from the cave and freedom will be yours !

    2022ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Nightmare Journey

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    You’re on a bus, caught in a cycle of shifting nightmares. escape the horrors, and reach the station awake and alive.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Ashen Vow

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    You are a knight sworn to God’s word, wielding only a sword against the darkness. But not all believers walk in good faith. The Black Maw has sunk its claws into the misguided, twisting their devotion into madness. Explore a once familiar castle now warped by evil, and cut down the corrupted horde

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. I'm on Observation Duty 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cheat Day.

    A thrilling psychological horror game. Your job is to look for anomalies in a haunted house. If you see anyhting suspicious (furniture moving, extra objects, intruders), take a photo and send a report. Includes both VR- (windows only) and non-VR (windows, mac, linux)-versions.

    2020IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dementium: The Ward

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Hide Alone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    You try to play dangerous hide and seek with a doll at home alone. Started out of curiosity, this hide-and-seek game has rules that must be followed or your life will be at risk. Never get caught by them, stay calm and survive to the end.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. iBLiS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    Demon is a first-person psychological horror game. How much can a game affect your real life? Enjoy a realistic home environment and terrifying moments of being immersed in a real-life story.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Stygian: Outer Gods

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cheat Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Cheat Day.

    Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?

    2025ActionRPGEarly Access24.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cheat Day at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cheat Day.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cheat Day.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cheat Day.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Cheat Day on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

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 Cheat Day.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. 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 Cheat Day.

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cheat Day.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cheat Day.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cheat Day.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cheat Day.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cheat Day

How much does Cheat Day cost?
Cheat Day is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cheat Day?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cheat Day are Effigy : The Descent, Nightmare Journey, Ashen Vow.
Who developed Cheat Day?
Cheat Day was developed by McHunter Studio.

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 Cheat Day.

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