Games like Sickness
If Sickness is your kind of game, the closest matches are POSSESSOR, Pikabuu: STOP! and Evil is near — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, dark and immersive. 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 Sickness: Sickness is a visual novel centering around Suoh Tesla, an amoral high school student whose life is rapidly deteriorating. Following the deaths of his parents, a brief stay in the hospital, and the emergence of his “Sickness”, his daily life quickly devolves from carefree school days to a life of crime.
Players who liked Sickness also play
Steam players who put hours into Sickness 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.
POSSESSOR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
2 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF G̫̐O̷̷̤̝̔̈͛̎͡D̷̨̺̳̹ͥ͢ . A SERIES OF INCREASINGLY BRUTAL MURDERS HAS SHAKEN WHAT WAS ONCE A SMALL AND PEACEFUL RUSSIAN COMMUNITY. IT HAS BEGUN. KILL THEM ALL.
Pikabuu: STOP!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
Beni, a loving husband to Nadia and father to Kaila, always ensured his family's needs were met with simple contentment. However, one day, an unwitting decision dragged his small family into a spiral that threatens everything.
Evil is near
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
Evil is Near is a game about a young bartender who gets a job at a mysterious bar, where he is visited by the ghost of a former employee. The ghost reveals the secrets of the establishment and warns him to be careful. You will have to mix cocktails, to survive and uncover the truth.
CHAOS;CHILD
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Sickness.
Ranked #4 for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sickness.
From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.
CORPSE FACTORY
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Sickness.
Ranked #5 for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an unsettling mood with Sickness.
Ranked #6 for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
Crimson Gray
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Sickness.
Ranked #7 for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sickness.
John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.
Amelie
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Sickness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
A psychological mystery yuri visual novel about a girl named Amelie. Forbidden from leaving the house, Amelie awaits the arrival of her long time penpal, Sofia, to her dear friend Lilika’s dismay. What secrets will Sofia unravel that were best kept buried?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sickness at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sickness.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sickness.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sickness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Sickness.
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.
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 Sickness.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sickness.
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 Sickness.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Sickness.
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.
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More from Zetsubou
Other recommendable Steam games by Zetsubou, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Tomboys Need Love Too!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a dark mood with Sickness.
Another title from Zetsubou, the studio behind Sickness. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Tomboys Need Love Too is a visual novel about two childhood friends who are starting to see one another as members of the opposite sex.
Sable's Grimoire
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sickness.
Another title from Zetsubou, the studio behind Sickness. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Sable's Grimoire is a visual novel featuring monster girls in a magic academy setting. Play as Sable, an aspiring magic researcher, as he get sucked into the daily lives and troubles of his demi-human classmates.
Wander No More
WHY THIS
Another title from Zetsubou, the studio behind Sickness. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Wander No More is a Kinetic Novel (visual novel without choices) which centers around the life of renowned samurai Kouichirou Nabatame, and Chiyo, a young village girl. Wander No More tells the story of how these two met, became a family, and attempted to restore their lives to what they once were.
Humanity Must Perish
WHY THIS
Another title from Zetsubou, the studio behind Sickness. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.
My Heart Grows Fonder
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a contemplative mood with Sickness.
Another title from Zetsubou, the studio behind Sickness. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Visual novel about a couple who are reunited after a three year separation. Have the two moved on during their time apart? Or will old passions be rekindled?
Sable's Grimoire: A Dragon's Treasure
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sickness.
Another title from Zetsubou, the studio behind Sickness. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Sleeping with a possessive half-dragon becomes the least of Sable's worries as he tries to stay one step ahead of his domineering mother-in-law.
Sable's Grimoire: Man And Elf
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a contemplative mood with Sickness.
Another title from Zetsubou, the studio behind Sickness. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sickness.
Elves' secrets run as deep as their grudges, and Sable is caught right in the middle of an old, escalating feud between a family of powerful elves.
Frequently asked about Sickness
- Is Sickness verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Sickness is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Sickness cost?
- Sickness is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sickness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sickness are POSSESSOR, Pikabuu: STOP!, Evil is near.
- Who developed Sickness?
- Sickness was developed by Zetsubou and published by Unwonted Studios, Zetsubou.
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 Sickness.
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