Games like MiSide
If MiSide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape from Yandere, 回煞录 | Phantom Reckoning and 回门 Way Back Home — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and emotional. 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 →MiSide is a 2024 Indie RPG Adventure with Simulation elements from developer AIHASTO, published by IndieArk and Shoichiku. Players navigate a branching narrative with dialogue choices, environmental puzzles, and exploration mechanics while uncovering hidden collectibles. The anime-styled game blends character-driven investigation with horror themes in a first-person perspective. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric soundtrack and visual design, noting the characters evoke strong emotional investment. Multiple endings, hidden secrets, and easter eggs reward replay, alongside mini-games featuring racing and rhythm challenges. The game achieves a 98% positive rating from over 25,000 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck, available for $13.49.
About MiSide: Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Players who liked MiSide also play
Steam players who put hours into MiSide 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.
Escape from Yandere
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving, dialogue choices, horror and an unsettling mood with MiSide.
Top pick for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
Yandera has locked you in your house and is asking for a declaration of love. You can stay with her or try to escape. Explore the house, but be careful, Yandera can kill you.
回煞录 | Phantom Reckoning
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
Phantom Reckoning En este juego psicológico de terror chino en miniatura, encarnarás a una enfermera de un hospital rural en los años 90, atrapada en una pesadilla que se repite sin fin.
回门 Way Back Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MiSide.
Third-strongest match for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
"Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...
Nightmare Shift
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving, branching narrative and atmospheric with MiSide.
Ranked #4 for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
Lilly and the murder in a dream
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
릴리와 꿈속의 살인(Lilly and the murder in a dream)은 공포 어드벤처 알만툴 게임입니다. 주인공 릴리를 조종하면서 그녀의 내면을 반영해 만들어진 꿈속 세상을 여행하고, 릴리에게 어떤 일이 있었는지 알아낼 수 있습니다.
Other Side Of Mist And Mountain
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
In 2005, a sophomore student named Maha Igarashi boarded a private train to Soukyo City. However, she vanished upon alighting at the "Kisaragi" station. Five years later, her lover, Shizuno Yokoyama, initiated an investigation into her disappearance, unraveling a series of mysteries along the way.
Back
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and atmospheric with MiSide.
Ranked #7 for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
《Back》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
杀青
WHY THIS
Shares narrative branching, environmental puzzle solving and atmospheric with MiSide.
Ranked #8 for MiSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
"Shaqing" is a Chinese horror puzzle game set in "Wuzhan Town". Players must help the protagonist escape an evil scene where dreams and reality blur, and save his beloved. The objective is to help the protagonist escape and save his beloved.
Reviewers mention these as similar to MiSide
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Yanpai Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of MiSide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
Can you get the girl you love?
Outlast
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with MiSide.
Reviewers of MiSide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Reviewers of MiSide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
The Backrooms is a first person survival horror game set in one of the most terrifying environments of the human psyche. Explore an ever evolving nightmare while running from terrifying creatures to stay alive.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Reviewers of MiSide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with MiSide.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Team Fortress 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of MiSide cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a dark mood with MiSide.
Reviewers of MiSide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MiSide.
Reviewers of MiSide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MiSide at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MiSide.
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 ~63% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with MiSide.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MiSide.
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 ~41% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
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 ~63% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MiSide.
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 ~63% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MiSide.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under MiSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 MiSide.
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 MiSide.
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 Indie with MiSide.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MiSide.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
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 and Simulation with MiSide.
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 MiSide.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from AIHASTO
Other recommendable Steam games by AIHASTO, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Umfend
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MiSide.
Another title from AIHASTO, the studio behind MiSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important. However, in 2005, the past emerges again to hunt you once more. An atmospheric horror about love and time.
Wire Lips
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MiSide.
Another title from AIHASTO, the studio behind MiSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
Leta’s life changed in one moment. She and her friend Lina found an old music box in the mountains... and soon Lina disappeared, leaving behind only a photograph and the ominous music box. Uncover the secrets in atmospheric third-person horror game.
ECO HOLE
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with MiSide.
Another title from AIHASTO, the studio behind MiSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
ECO HOLE is a survival game for one or two players with unique gameplay. Strange events began to happen in the world, and people began to turn into monsters. You are mysterious heroes who suddenly appeared at the right moment, and you strive to stop the nightmare at any cost.
Fariwalk: The Prelude
WHY THIS
Another title from AIHASTO, the studio behind MiSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
The world where humanity is almost gone. A few remaining people search for each other amongst monsters, common inhabitants of the Earth. However, this story is about a child who is going to obtain something very important. Fariwalk: The Prelude is a short prologue to The Fariwalk game.
Rugida
WHY THIS
Another title from AIHASTO, the studio behind MiSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with MiSide.
The girl ended up in the dungeons. And although her heart is now barely beating, she still hopes to get her soul back. The dungeon is just the beginning of the journey. And it is already teeming with everything that can be teeming with. Will you help her on this difficult journey?
Frequently asked about MiSide
- Does MiSide run on Steam Deck?
- MiSide 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 MiSide cost?
- MiSide is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to MiSide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MiSide are Escape from Yandere, 回煞录 | Phantom Reckoning, 回门 Way Back Home.
- Who developed MiSide?
- MiSide was developed by AIHASTO and published by IndieArk, Shochiku (Japan).
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