Games like Sinister Night
If Sinister Night is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deep Dark Space, Sinister Night 2 and In Silence — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, intense and mysterious. 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 Sinister Night: In this multiplayer survival, horror, and deduction game, eight streamers enter a mysterious old building, planning to get famous via a livestream, but two of them become possessed by evil spirits. They will kill their companions and sacrifice them at the altar to complete a sinister ritual.
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Deep Dark Space
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Top pick for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Deep Dark Space is a 4-player online co-op horror experience set in space. Explore abandoned stations, gather clues, and uncover the monster lurking in the dark. Trust no one — paranoia runs high as hidden betrayals threaten your survival.
Sinister Night 2
WHY THIS
Shares social deduction and a tense mood with Sinister Night.
Second-strongest match for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sinister Night.
Nine Streamers enter an ancient Chinese mansion, hoping to attract a huge following and become famous through livestreaming. However, two of them are tragically possessed by evil spirits. These possessed will slaughter their companions, and complete a malevolent ritual of a ghostly wedding.
In Silence
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Sinister Night.
Third-strongest match for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sinister Night.
In Silence is a multiplayer horror game. One player takes on the role of the monster who has hypersensitive hearing abilities and is almost completely blind. The other players(2-6) play as survivors, trying to escape or hunting the monster.
MetaPhysical
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Sinister Night.
Ranked #4 for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Supernatural phenomena are on the rise. In MetaPhysical you and up to 5 other friends can go on the hunt for eerie creatures to put an end to their sinister activities! Whether it's an ordinary ghost or a demon, your task is to identify the rumbling creature and then finish it off.
Vade Retro : Exorcist
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Sinister Night.
Ranked #5 for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Vade Retro is a PvP exorcism game up to 4 player. Play as Demon and make your opponents go through hell, or join the exorcist team by choosing a specialty to save victims from the devil's grip in this action-packed experience.
BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Sinister Night.
Ranked #6 for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?
Dread Hunger
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Ranked #7 for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
A game of survival and betrayal. Eight Explorers path their ship through the unforgiving Arctic. Among the crew, two traitors call on dark powers to undermine them. Note: Official server support ends 2024-01-01
Monstrum 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Sinister Night.
Ranked #8 for Sinister Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Monstrum 2 is a survival horror game for 2-5 players, set inside the procedurally-generated sea labyrinth - Sparrowlock. Join a team of prisoners evading the terrors within whilst figuring out how to escape, or become one of the deadly monstrosities whose only goal is to hunt them down.
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Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sinister Night cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Deceit
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Sinister Night.
Reviewers of Sinister Night cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Test your instincts at trust and deception in an action-filled, multiplayer first-person shooter. You wake up in unknown surroundings to the sound of the Game Master’s unfamiliar voice, surrounded by five others. A third of your group have been infected with a virus, but who will escape?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sinister Night at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sinister Night.
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 ~50% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sinister Night.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sinister Night.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sinister Night.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
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 ~70% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Sinister Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Sinister Night.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
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 Sinister Night.
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 Action and Indie with Sinister Night.
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 Sinister Night.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sinister Night.
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 Sinister Night.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Sinister Night
- Does Sinister Night run on Steam Deck?
- Sinister Night 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 Sinister Night cost?
- Sinister Night is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Sinister Night have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Sinister Night supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Sinister Night?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sinister Night are Deep Dark Space, Sinister Night 2, In Silence.
- Who developed Sinister Night?
- Sinister Night was developed by zstar.
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