Games like SideEye High
If SideEye High is your kind of game, the closest matches are Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill, Antioch: Scarlet Bay and Blake: The Visual Novel — 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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Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill
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Top pick for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Antioch: Scarlet Bay
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.
Blake: The Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SideEye High.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Dahlia View
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Ranked #5 for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with SideEye High.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with SideEye High.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SideEye High fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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 SideEye High.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
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 SideEye High.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SideEye High.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SideEye High.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SideEye High.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with SideEye High.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Blacksad: Under the Skin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with SideEye High.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SideEye High.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Frequently asked about SideEye High
- What games are most similar to SideEye High?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SideEye High are Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill, Antioch: Scarlet Bay, Blake: The Visual Novel.
- Who developed SideEye High?
- SideEye High was developed by Fundamental Studios.
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 SideEye High.
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