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Games like Evil Cartridge

If Evil Cartridge is your kind of game, the closest matches are COMING HOME, CALL OF CUTIE and Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night — 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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About Evil Cartridge: After finding a cursed cartridge, explore a distorted reality in this retro survival horror. Manage scarce resources, solve puzzles, and push forward through a world that grows increasingly unreal. Find a way to escape before it’s too late.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Time Lever Games
Evil Cartridge — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Evil Cartridge 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.

  1. COMING HOME

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    A retro slasher horror game, with a focus on home defense. In the dead of night, you hear someone lurking outside - but you are not defenseless. Watch the cameras, barricade your doors, and have your gun at the ready - anything to keep the Sundown Rippers from claiming their next victim.

    ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. CALL OF CUTIE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    CALL OF CUTIE is a single-player horror adventure set inside a vast, terrifying laboratory. Explore dark corridors, solve puzzles, fight frightening enemies, and rescue the victims trapped inside. Choose your own path with Bubbles and find a way to escape.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.

    2026ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. SEVERANCE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Y. Village - The Visitors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Drifter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Cartridge.

    A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Pacify

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Alan Wake

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Evil Cartridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Evil Cartridge.

    A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

    2012ActionAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Evil Cartridge.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Cartridge.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Evil Cartridge.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Evil Cartridge.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Evil Cartridge.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. The Drifter

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Evil Cartridge.

    A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Pacify

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Evil Cartridge.

    An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Alan Wake

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Evil Cartridge.

    A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

    2012ActionAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Evil Cartridge

What games are most similar to Evil Cartridge?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Evil Cartridge are COMING HOME, CALL OF CUTIE, Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night.
Who developed Evil Cartridge?
Evil Cartridge was developed by Time Lever 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 Evil Cartridge.

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