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Games like Murder Next Room

If Murder Next Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terminate: Study X, French Crime Detective Game and WISE GUYS — 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 Murder Next Room: Murder Next Room is a multiplayer social deduction game. You are trapped in a location with others and one or more of them are killers. The police has been called and in the mean time try to survive. You can try to report the killer but there is no guarantee that the phones will be working.

2024ActionIndieCasualEarly Access9.99 USDWindowsby Haven Software
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Steam players who put hours into Murder Next Room 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. Terminate: Study X

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Murder Next Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    Become the machine, find out what happened in New Sapiens and eradicate the infected in a single player first-person shooter campaign of horror and gore.

    2023ActionIndieEarly Access9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. French Crime Detective Game

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Murder Next Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    The French government entrusts citizens to solve criminal cases over the internet. French Crime is a realistic and immersive criminal investigation game.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. WISE GUYS

    WHY THIS

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

    Wise Guys is a ruthless, high-stakes social deduction game where trust is a weapon and betrayal is just survival. Up to 8 players race against time to clean up their criminal operation and get out before the raid hits. Meanwhile, a Rat is quietly sabotaging the crew at every turn.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Betrayal Banquet

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Murder Next Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    Betrayal Banquet is a tense medieval party game where servants race to serve the kings while hiding deadly secrets. Work together, watch your allies closely, and uncover betrayal before the feast turns fatal

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Alterum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Murder Next Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    Social deduction horror game with voice recognition, full of betrayal and dark rituals. Awaken in a cult of restless souls: spells spoken aloud summon powers - or doom. Alliances or deceit: can you distinguish truth when a word is a curse?

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  6. North Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Murder Next Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    An online social deduction game that will ruin your friendships. Thieves hide as Viking villagers, fake NPC behavior, and use chaotic abilities while Chiefs try to expose them. Trust no one.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Beyond Sandbox

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Murder Next Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    Beyond Sandbox is a multiplayer VR modding platform powered by Unreal Engine 5. With advanced physics and the creativity of our modding community, anything is possible.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. KILLER INN

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Murder Next Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    KILLER INN is a fast-paced asymmetrical PvP shooter where you eliminate the killers (the wolves) in battle—no time for discussion or voting! Choose the right weapons, abilities, and build. Gather clues, identify the wolves, then take them down with force!

    2026ActionMassively MultiplayerCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Murder Next Room at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Action with Murder Next Room.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Murder Next Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Murder Next Room.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    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. 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 Murder Next Room.

    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 ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Murder Next Room.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Murder Next Room.

    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 ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Murder Next Room.

    a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

    2019IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Murder Next Room

How much does Murder Next Room cost?
Murder Next Room is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Murder Next Room have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Murder Next Room supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Murder Next Room?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Murder Next Room are Terminate: Study X, French Crime Detective Game, WISE GUYS.
Who developed Murder Next Room?
Murder Next Room was developed by Haven Software.

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 Murder Next Room.

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