Games like Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
If Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice is your kind of game, the closest matches are BadLads, Apollo4x and EmergeNYC — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its minimalist and atmospheric design, atmospheric and bleak. 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 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!

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BadLads
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Top pick for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.
Apollo4x
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Second-strongest match for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Apollo4x is a casual-to-difficult space trading tycoon game, where success is measured in earnings from how efficient your trade routes are in transporting supplies to demands on your planets. Combat is card based, and uses a unique system never before seen.
EmergeNYC
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Third-strongest match for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
EmergeNYC is a simulation of New York City's Emergency Services. Drive over 30 different Emergency Vehicles with up to 32 of your friends through busy City Streets with blazing sirens and air horns. Take the role of a firefighter, medic, or police officer and ride with your friends to emergencies
Astro Colony
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Ranked #4 for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Caster
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Ranked #5 for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Dash across Scenic Locations destroying bug like creatures called the Flanx using 6 Unique Attacks that include Massive Terrain Deformation and High Speed Barrages of Energy Blasts!
HelixVision
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Ranked #6 for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Epic stereoscopic gaming, HelixMod in virtual 3D TV brings your full length 2D games into the 3rd dimension. Try our Free slideshow Demo in VR.
The Revenant Prince
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Shares a bleak mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Ranked #7 for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
After gaining the ability to control time, Troy sets off on an adventure, guided by a mysterious voice in an attempt to fulfill his long-time - potentially misleading destiny: saving the world! Kill or show mercy, the choice is yours. Your actions lead to certain consequences and outcomes that cannot be undone!
No Heroes Here
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Ranked #8 for Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
No Heroes Here is a frantic co-op game for 1 to 4 players, available in local and online modes. Craft and use several items effectively whilst coordinating your ragtag band of non-heroes to defend castles and survive! ...Oh, as well as saving the Kingdom in the meantime!
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SAMOLIOTIK
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Shares a contemplative mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
SAMOLIOTIK is a stylish shoot-em-up with different enemies, bosses, colour palettes, power-ups, set in different eras. In this game you will fight Adolf Gutler,The Illuminati, and other creatures.
Among Ass
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Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Local party or single player game about teamwork and killing with forbidden items!
Help
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Your daughter was gone at a research of the abandoned bunker. Having gone to find her, you meet the horrors living in these walls, solve puzzles, discover what has happened in this place and to find the daughter. Everything that you have, is a lamp which charge constantly decreases also the radio.
Rogue Port - Blue Nightmare
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Help reunite your missing friends and save your family from wild animals, mutants, inanimate objects, aliens and the undead!
Possessed
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Action and Adventure with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Possessed is a fast-paced story driven survival first person shooter spread across 3 action-packed regions. It features witty characters, terrifying creatures and a strong focus on physics and world interaction.
Drunken Fight Simulator
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Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
For real fun and drunken fighting experience, try Drunken Fighting Simulator.
Dexodonex
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Indie and Casual with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Hexagonal puzzle with the ability to edit levels
Byte Family
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Another title from Volens Nolens Games, the studio behind Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice.
Overcome obstacles and restore the cyber world ByteFamily, eliminating the system virus, unlocking new game modes and gaining new skills! HERE IS THE TERRIBLE WORLD ENEMIES BYTE FAMILY
Frequently asked about Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
- 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 BadLads, Apollo4x, EmergeNYC.
- Who developed Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice?
- Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice was developed by Volens Nolens Games.
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