Games like Pinched
If Pinched is your kind of game, the closest matches are DEPLETED, Alterum and Manikin Mimic — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Pinched: Co-op horror in the dark. Four players, each with a flashlight in a winding tunnel system that is generated fresh each round. Proximity voice carries through the tunnels. Your friends can hear echoes of your screams. Something else can hear them too.
Players who liked Pinched also play
Steam players who put hours into Pinched 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.
DEPLETED
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Pinched.
DEPLETED is an upcoming asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where sacrifices must escape a ritualist who hunts them down for blood in order to complete the ritual. Use stealth, teamwork, and strategy to survive.
Alterum
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
A multiplayer social deduction horror where spells are spoken aloud. One of you is altered. Cast magic with your voice, hunt the traitor, survive the ritual. Every word can save - or kill.
Manikin Mimic
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
Pose, blend in, and don’t get caught! Pretend to be one of the Manikins and fool the Finder before they blast you.
Fickle Allies
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
Collect and deposit every crystal to escape in this first-person multiplayer thriller game. Form shifting alliances, steal from rivals, protect your haul, or eliminate threats as you explore a mansion, subway, and abandoned facility where trust never lasts.
Dead 4 Now: Extraction
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
A 4v1 asymmetrical horror where survivors escape by solving shifting puzzles. Use always-on proximity voice to manage sanity, but speak too loudly and the monster will find you.
Fuse or Lose
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
Fuse or Lose is a tense multiplayer bomb-passing game of deduction and betrayal. Poke at wires and switches, twist cryptic clues to your advantage, and shove the ticking device into someone else’s hands before it explodes.
ESCAPE: FALSE COLORS
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
A multiplayer party game blending painting, deception, horror chases, and parkour. A fun, chaotic take on MM2-style gameplay with body painting and camouflage. Paint your disguise, blend in, deceive others, escape with parkour, and survive to the end.
UNDERFED
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
Trapped in a vertical facility where food comes from above and always runs out before it reaches the bottom. Talk, trade, betray or climb. Every night the cages lock and only two can stay.
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 Pinched.
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 with Pinched.
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 Pinched.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pinched.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pinched.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Pinched.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pinched.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Pinched
- Does Pinched have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pinched supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Pinched?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pinched are DEPLETED, Alterum, Manikin Mimic.
- Who developed Pinched?
- Pinched was developed by Spray Coding 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 Pinched.
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