Games like Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
If Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, Sam & Max Save the World and Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, eerie 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 →About Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.
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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, puzzle solving and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Top pick for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Sam & Max Save the World
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Second-strongest match for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Third-strongest match for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Sam is a dog in a suit. Max is his naked rabbity partner. Together, they’re the Freelance Police. Jump into the not-quite-right world of Sam & Max via the wonder science of virtual reality, and join the multimedia darlings in their never-ending quest to slap the stupid grin off the face of evil.
Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, point and click and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Ranked #4 for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
James Peris 2: The fountain of eternal drunkenness
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The long awaited new adventure by James Peris, after No License, No Control, Much more of everything! A point-and-click adventure with adult humor and a touch of hooliganism. Totally open gameplay and non-linear puzzles.
Mutropolis
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a funny mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Ranked #6 for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
Toonstruck
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a funny mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Ranked #7 for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Toonstruck combines live action, cell animation, and an all star cast: Christopher Lloyd, Ben Stein, Dan Castellaneta, Tim Curry, and Dom DeLuise, for a not-to-be-missed adventure through a zany cartoon world on the brink of total Malevalation!
Polda 7
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Ranked #8 for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Polda Pankrác v podání Luďka Soboty se vrací již posedmé. A je to návrat jaksepatří. Záhadná zpráva Temného lorda Vedra a havárie kosmické lodi odstartují kolotoč událostí, které může vyřešit jen náš elitní detektiv Pankrác.
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Reviewers of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Reviewers of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Sam & Max Hit the Road
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, puzzle solving and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Reviewers of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
Sam & Max Save the World
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Reviewers of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, puzzle solving and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Reviewers of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Reviewers of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
Save The World
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The story is a young man summoned to another world is suffered from the scourge of aggression by monsters,and save the world with the native heroes. Game mode is rogue,you only release your kill desire to kill the monsters all! Special Zhen Fa System,allow you active powerful Zhen Fa to bombing!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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 ~60% under Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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 Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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 with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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 Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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 Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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 Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Skunkape Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Skunkape Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Poker Night at the Inventory
WHY THIS
Shares character driven and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Another title from Skunkape Games, the studio behind Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Seven years after the Inventory closed its doors, this underground social club has reopened for business. Play No Limit Texas Hold’em with four video game icons in a high-stakes battle of cards, bets, and trash talk.
Sam & Max Save the World
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Another title from Skunkape Games, the studio behind Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, puzzle solving and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Another title from Skunkape Games, the studio behind Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, puzzle solving and a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Sam & Max Save the World
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Mutropolis
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a funny mood with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
Frequently asked about Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
- Is Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse cost?
- Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse are Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, Sam & Max Save the World, Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!.
- Who developed Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse?
- Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse was developed by Skunkape Games.
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