Games like Second Odium
If Second Odium is your kind of game, the closest matches are First Odium, Harvest of Names and SYDI — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Second Odium: Seek purpose while managing a plethora of various afflictions and personality traits in hopes to survive an endless barrage of nightmarish threats that continuously seek to consume your mind.

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First Odium
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Top pick for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
A psychological Turn Based Combat RPG Dungeon Crawling Horror
Harvest of Names
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Second-strongest match for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Harvest of Names is an RPG of mythical investigation set in a UK university. Navigate student life and face monsters haunting your community. Ideals you choose will define your options in combat and your personality in conversation. Shape your own self!
SYDI
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Third-strongest match for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
SYDI is a turn-based JRPG inspired by tabletop RPGs like by D&D, where every battle comes down to the roll of a die. Explore a silent, colorless world and find your friends again, and face the question waiting for you at the end.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
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Ranked #4 for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.
封神榜2022
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Ranked #5 for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
This game takes Nezha, Xiaolongnv, Yang Jian and Jiang Taigong as the protagonists. It tells the legendary story of the protagonists going to various places to adventure, and finally to Chaoge City to destroy the three demons and defeat King Zhou.
Breath of Fire IV
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Ranked #6 for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Master an array of skills and magic to unlock strategic victories in battle as you go head to head with unique enemies using powerful "Dragon Transformations" and combo actions! Follow the intertwining stories of Ryu and Fou-Lu to their thrilling conclusion in this classic RPG adventure.
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
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Ranked #7 for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Experience YIIK: A Postmodern RPG 1.5 (I.V) update with revamped battles and cutscenes. A child relinquishes her name for a birthday invite, hoping to find her brother. Alex's reality unravels, guided by a mysterious cat, witnessing a woman vanish, igniting an obsession that threatens his world.
FINAL FANTASY
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Ranked #8 for Second Odium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
The original FINAL FANTASY comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the first game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Second Odium at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~69% under Second Odium on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
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?
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~54% under Second Odium on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
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!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~54% under Second Odium on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~69% under Second Odium on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
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Priced ~69% under Second Odium on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~69% under Second Odium on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
LiEat
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Priced ~54% under Second Odium on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Welcome to a world in which dragons are born from the desires of mankind. Each dragon is bestowed with unique powers in accordance with the specific desires of their human familiar. One mysterious stranger travels the land, accompanied by a young dragon graced with the power of eating lies.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Coming soon from James H. Van der Meulen
Announced and quality-gated upcoming releases from James H. Van der Meulen — ranked by community wishlist demand from our scraped pool.
First Curse
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Announced upcoming release from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
A lone warrior awakes from a deep slumber, sensing something is terribly wrong with the world. Set out to seek the reason for this underlying sense of unease that has afflicted the people of the land.
Technoidium
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Announced upcoming release from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium.
Master the swing of your dual directional combat tandem whip tether weapon. Seek and destroy the Corrupted Mechanoids and purge the infection.
Psycho Ripper
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Announced upcoming release from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium.
Psycho Ripper is a top down action shooter with modified conditional formations. Explore a randomization of challenges as you blast through a sentient crystal mine, confronting progressively baneful threats and equip unusual armaments, as you speculate further through a grand and unknown chaos.
More from James H. Van der Meulen
Other recommendable Steam games by James H. Van der Meulen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Victim
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium.
A game like none other. Victim invites you into the world of The Ominous Oppression. A desolate landscape of horrors and mental anguish. A place where only the mentally strong can survive and overcome the seemingly endless relentless trials of perpetuating devastation.
First Odium
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
A psychological Turn Based Combat RPG Dungeon Crawling Horror
Crazy Brain
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium.
Use perceptive skills and cognition to attempt to gather points, collect an accumulated a score and attempt to exit the stage without failing.
Happy Mask
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
This is what it feels like to be enslaved by your own mind. Toxic happiness and the brutal reality of a world that cannot be argued away. Step into the backward flipside of a perspective of being mocked and rediculed by blind observers that subscribe to the way of the mob.
The Knowledge of Hermit
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium. Shares RPG with Second Odium.
A puzzle solving, dungeon crawling, action adventure, role playing game.
TVS Sample Box
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium.
An evolving app with random surprising updates.
Drone Break
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium.
Run and Gun Roguelite where the goal is to upgrade each consecutive alien drone on death so the next can strive to become overpowered enough to escape the all consuming hive mind.
Dissociative
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Second Odium. Shares RPG and Early Access with Second Odium.
Enter this dark fantasy nightmare adventure game. Spanning a vast unpredictable mindscape of over 2000 unique areas. Answer perplexing questions, gain abilities, power ups and transfer between dark and light worlds in this seemingly endless dreamscape.
Frequently asked about Second Odium
- How much does Second Odium cost?
- Second Odium is listed on Steam at 6.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Second Odium?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Second Odium are First Odium, Harvest of Names, SYDI.
- Who developed Second Odium?
- Second Odium was developed by James H. Van der Meulen and published by Trash Vomit Studios.
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