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Games like Spy Carnival

If Spy Carnival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Counterweight, SUS! and Hunt-or-Haunt — 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 Spy Carnival: Spy Carnival is a 2-10 player social deception game set in a vibrant, chaotic funfair. Spies hide among the crowd, sabotaging rides and eliminating visitors while blending in with NPCs. Officers must stay sharp, read the crowd and take down the spies before the carnival turns into complete chaos.

ActionIndieWindows · macOSby haga interactive
Spy Carnival — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Spy Carnival 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. Counterweight

    WHY THIS

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

    A social deduction tower-builder for 3–8 players. Stack blocks, raise the tower, and figure out which of your friends is placing them badly on purpose. Grab chaotic items, vote people out, and forge the Impostor Detector before every block hits the ground.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  2. SUS!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Spy Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spy Carnival.

    Blend in, deceive, and strike in this chaotic PvP stealth party game! Thieves must steal and eliminate targets while Spies hunt them down - but one wrong shot at an innocent could cost it all. Customize every rule and outsmart your enemies in SUS!

    2027IndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Hunt-or-Haunt

    WHY THIS

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

    Hunt-or-Haunt is a 6 to 12 player online game where two teams, Hunters and Haunts, face-off in pandemonius battles of elimination! As Hunters combine forces to uncover and dispatch their ghostly foes, Haunts use their stealth and trickery to divide and conquer. Eliminate your opponents to win!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. West Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Spy Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spy Carnival.

    West Hunt is a 1-8 player social deduction game set in the Old West! Among the hardworking townsfolk hides an Outlaw or two causing mischief and mayhem across town. Luckily, there are eagle-eyed Sheriffs ready to sniff them out! No matter what role you play, you're sure to have a hog-killin' time!

    2023IndieCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Pretendr

    WHY THIS

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

    Blend in. Create chaos. Don’t get caught. Pretenders disguise themselves among NPCs while Guards search for suspicious behavior in this fast-paced multiplayer social stealth game.

    2026ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. Sail Ho!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Spy Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spy Carnival.

    Sail Ho! is an FPS social deduction game with economic elements for up to 12 players. Use resources to complete tasks and fix your ship to escape a cursed island before pirates catch your crew, or sell them to buy weapons and defend against traitors. Or maybe... you are the traitor!

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  7. Bitten! Someone has to be a villain

    WHY THIS

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

    Multiplayer game (4-10 ppl) where traitors betray and kill other players while avoiding being noticed! Innocent players fight with zombies to pick up weapons and power-ups (like scanners to expose traitors). Players use voice or text chat to convince others they are innocent!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. PAPARAZZI

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Spy Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spy Carnival.

    Take sneaky pictures of the Stars, or find and eliminate the Paparazzis in this chaotic multiplayer game of stealth and social deduction.

    2026ActionIndieCasual4.89 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Spy Carnival.

    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 ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

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

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Spy Carnival

Does Spy Carnival have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Spy Carnival supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Spy Carnival?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spy Carnival are Counterweight, SUS!, Hunt-or-Haunt.
Who developed Spy Carnival?
Spy Carnival was developed by haga interactive.

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 Spy Carnival.

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