Games like The Outer Side
If The Outer Side is your kind of game, the closest matches are JJJ, The Last of them and Oh! Fuse Box — 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 The Outer Side: Explore an abandoned black-n-white world, utilize your abilities to fight danger, and find the truth about this place.
Players who liked The Outer Side also play
Steam players who put hours into The Outer Side 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.
The Last of them
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Second-strongest match for The Outer Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
You play as a detective solving gruesome murders in a haunting, desolate city. Explore dark alleys, uncover hidden clues, and solve puzzles to unravel the mystery. Can you find the killer before they strike again, or will you fall victim to the terror?
Oh! Fuse Box
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Third-strongest match for The Outer Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
This is a new remake of a puzzle game that connects pipes.
Akolyta
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Ranked #4 for The Outer Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
Uncover the darkest secrets of the Cold War as you will slowly lose everything - even your sanity in the first-person horror adventure Akolyta. You will battle the worst Cold War products of the MK Ultra program and your own deteriorating mental health.
Hong Kong Obscure
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Ranked #5 for The Outer Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
The year was 1999. Something happened that shook the world and it all ended up in the 2nd Dust district of Hong Kong. Big Pharma, Influential Political figures, OP-SEC Corporations, webs of spies with absence of allegiance. The truth is there, its all documented. Just have to connect the dots...
Transmogrify
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Ranked #7 for The Outer Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
They're in the vents! Become Chris, cleaner of labs — a janitor armed with the mysterious Transmogrify gun. Escape the depths of Future Perfect Labs by turning a horde of escaped monsters into tools and objects that help you puzzle-solve and platform your way to freedom!
Bus stop in the fog
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Ranked #8 for The Outer Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Side.
A bus trip is a journey not a destination. You bought your first boat with your savings of the last 5 years and you find yourself stranded on an island in the Bermuda sea. You must take a very scary bus ride to get off the island ... but will the bus take you off the island?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Outer Side at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under The Outer Side on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under The Outer Side on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Side.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under The Outer Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Outer Side.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under The Outer Side on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~50% under The Outer Side on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~50% under The Outer Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Outer Side.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under The Outer Side on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Outer Side.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Side.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outer Side.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Outer Side.
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 The Outer Side.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Outer Side.
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.).
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Outer Side.
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!
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Frequently asked about The Outer Side
- How much does The Outer Side cost?
- The Outer Side is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Outer Side?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Outer Side are JJJ, The Last of them, Oh! Fuse Box.
- Who developed The Outer Side?
- The Outer Side was developed by Aquatic Games.
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 The Outer Side.
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