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Games like One Socket

If One Socket is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stage Cleared, The Dark Delivers and COMING HOME — 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 One Socket: Charge the generator to power your devices, but be careful, you only have One Socket to work with. Make tough decisions to keep you safe from the monster in the dark while you solve the mysteries that will free you. Do you have what it takes to survive?

2024ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDWindowsby r8teful
One Socket — Steam game cover

Players who liked One Socket also play

Steam players who put hours into One Socket 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. Stage Cleared

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for One Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with One Socket.

    Your home security system is powered by a game. Keep it running. Stay sharp. And whatever you do... make sure he doesn't reach you.

    2025ActionStrategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Dark Delivers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for One Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with One Socket.

    Welcome to Postal Sector 7. As the Night Shift Package Inspector, your job is simple: assess parcels and reject anything not up to code. Stay alert for anomalous dangers and survive long enough to meet your quota by 6AM.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie7.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. COMING HOME

    WHY THIS

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

    A retro slasher horror game, with a focus on home defense. In the dead of night, you hear someone lurking outside - but you are not defenseless. Watch the cameras, barricade your doors, and have your gun at the ready - anything to keep the Sundown Rippers from claiming their next victim.

    2026ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Five Nights at Freddy's 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for One Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Socket.

    Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l

    2015ActionIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Five Nights at Freddy's 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for One Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

    2014Indie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Deadseat

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for One Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

    2025IndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Room

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for One Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Discolored

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for One Socket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below One Socket at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with One Socket.

    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 ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with One Socket.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Action with One Socket.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with One Socket.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Super Hexagon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with One Socket.

    Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

    2012ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Nodebuster

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under One Socket on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with One Socket.

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 with One Socket.

    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. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with One Socket.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 One Socket.

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with One Socket.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with One Socket.

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Five Nights at Freddy's 3

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with One Socket.

    Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l

    2015ActionIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Five Nights at Freddy's 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

    2014Indie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Room

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with One Socket.

    A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about One Socket

How much does One Socket cost?
One Socket is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to One Socket?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside One Socket are Stage Cleared, The Dark Delivers, COMING HOME.
Who developed One Socket?
One Socket was developed by r8teful.

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 One Socket.

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