Rank 01Why this
Same atmospheric mood as Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
- $19.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- Deck Playable
- 2019
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Shares mini games with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
- $4.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- 2020
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- 2014
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Why this: Same bleak mood as Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
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The full ranked list: top 24 games like Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
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- Released: 2015
- Developer: Volens Nolens Games
- Price: Free to play
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 65% of 240 reviews
- Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie, Adventure, Casual
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Light paths with ghostly remains
- Minimalist and atmospheric design
- Navigate darkness by dying intentionally
- Atmospheric
- Bleak
- Contemplative
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About Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
The closest matches to Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice: Dark Devotion, Wait! Life is beautiful!, Continue?9876543210, Linelight, and Castle In The Darkness. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Devotion, Wait! Life is beautiful! and Continue?9876543210 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, bleak and contemplative, and single out its achievement tracking and ghost illumination. 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.
About Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice: Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, the title says it all! You get thrown into a dark room, with no light to be found anywhere! Are you willing to end your life to light the way for the next generation to proceed further? Play it today and find out!
Is Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 65% of 240 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Free to play.
- People who recommend it had played a median of 3 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 3 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Light paths with ghostly remains
- Minimalist and atmospheric design
- Navigate darkness by dying intentionally
- Repetitive but meditative gameplay loop
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“Game with simple idea... well... bad idea, in my opinion :) It only makes game tedious to die and re-run some places to get some light to get to the end. The "campaign" takes less than 15 minutes to finish... and mini-games are just…”
“If I get it right, the key feature here is that when you die, you light the darkness. The problem is that you can't die in the first level. Hence the first level gameplay is: bump into invisible walls until you find the exit. Helluva fun…”
People who play it also play: Dark Devotion, Wait! Life is beautiful!, Continue?9876543210
Frequently asked about Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
Can I run it?
Does Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice run on Steam Deck?
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
Is Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice free to play?
Yes — Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
What games are most similar to Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice are Dark Devotion, Wait! Life is beautiful!, Continue?9876543210.
Who developed Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice?
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice was developed by Volens Nolens Games.