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Games like Midnight Murder Club

If Midnight Murder Club is your kind of game, the closest matches are OctoRaid VR, RunOut - Hothead Paws and BrawlMart — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, funny and lighthearted. 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 Midnight Murder Club: A heart-pounding and hilarious horror party game set in a pitch-black mansion. Armed with a flashlight, a revolver, and proximity chat, you and up to five friends sneak, shout, and stumble your way through tense shootouts, chaotic traps, and total darkness.

2025ActionIndie9.99 USDWindowsby Velan Studios
Midnight Murder Club — Steam game cover
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Cross platform play with guest versionCross platform play works wellHidden shooter tension in darknessAtmosphericFunnyLighthearted

Players who liked Midnight Murder Club also play

Steam players who put hours into Midnight Murder Club 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. OctoRaid VR

    WHY THIS

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

    OctoRaid VR is a Cross-Platform-Based Asymmetric PvP VR Party Game in which you become an Octo or Hunter character and Fight against each other. If you access a VR device, you play Octo, a Giant Octopus Monster, and if you access Only PC or Mobile, you play Hunter, a Employee with a Diver concept.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. RunOut - Hothead Paws

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘RunOut’ is an online party platformer game for 2 to 6 players! Pick a cute animal character, race through unpredictable obstacle courses, collect coins, and be the first to grab the stuffed bear. Prepare for a fun, fast-paced mix of running, fighting, and partying!

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. BrawlMart

    WHY THIS

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

    BrawlMart is a fast-paced, physics-driven party game where up to four players crash their carts through a rotating playlist of wild minigames. Every round twists the rules, every arena is unpredictable, and every match is absolute chaos.

    2026ActionIndieCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. BOTSU

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Midnight Murder Club fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    ARE YOU READY TO BOTSU? It’s the ultimate robo-sport showdown! Compete online or split-screen in a series of ragdoll, physics-based battlesports to prove your mechanical mettle.

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗
  5. Party Animals

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Midnight Murder Club.

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

    Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?

    2023ActionIndieCasual13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Ultimate Chicken Horse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Midnight Murder Club.

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

    Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

    2016ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. MageQuit

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Midnight Murder Club.

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

    A wizard brawler about spell drafting and beard envy, MageQuit allows up to 10 mages to battle online or locally. Beards grow longer with each kill; the wizard with the longest beard after 9 rounds wins!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. NiuMa

    WHY THIS

    Shares real time combat, party game and a funny mood with Midnight Murder Club.

    Ranked #8 for Midnight Murder Club fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    A party game that supports online multiplayer for up to 8 players, where you can also create mods together. It features asymmetric gameplay with cute animals and the beloved platforming fun.

    2025ActionIndieCasual5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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

    Shares loadout customization with Midnight Murder Club.

    Priced ~55% under Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Action with Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  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 Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club.

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    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 Midnight Murder Club.

    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. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. BrawlMart

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    BrawlMart is a fast-paced, physics-driven party game where up to four players crash their carts through a rotating playlist of wild minigames. Every round twists the rules, every arena is unpredictable, and every match is absolute chaos.

    2026ActionIndieCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Party Animals

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Midnight Murder Club.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?

    2023ActionIndieCasual13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Chicken Horse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Midnight Murder Club.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

    2016ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. MageQuit

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Midnight Murder Club.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Murder Club.

    A wizard brawler about spell drafting and beard envy, MageQuit allows up to 10 mages to battle online or locally. Beards grow longer with each kill; the wizard with the longest beard after 9 rounds wins!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Midnight Murder Club

Does Midnight Murder Club work on Steam Deck?
Midnight Murder Club is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Midnight Murder Club cost?
Midnight Murder Club is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Midnight Murder Club have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Midnight Murder Club supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Midnight Murder Club?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Midnight Murder Club are OctoRaid VR, RunOut - Hothead Paws, BrawlMart.
Who developed Midnight Murder Club?
Midnight Murder Club was developed by Velan Studios and published by PlayStation Publishing LLC.

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 Midnight Murder Club.

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