Games like Pinched
If Pinched is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead 4 Now: Extraction, Cursed Carts and Gehinnom — 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: A multiplayer horror-race through pitch-black tunnels that shift every round. Grab your flashlight, drop flares, and claw toward the only way out, before the thing in the dark reaches you first. Up to 10 players. Don't get caught. Don't get lost.
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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.
Dead 4 Now: Extraction
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Top pick 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.
Cursed Carts
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pinched.
A PvPvE horror game playable with 2–6 players. Compete against each other with your alien team split into two groups. In a massive mansion filled with creatures, the team that collects the most loot within the time limit wins.
Gehinnom
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
Gehinnom is a multiplayer horror game for 1-4 players. collect clues and complete various quests to perform a ritual and banish the demon that hunts you. Everything in Gehinnom is randomly generated, so you will always be scared.
Alterum
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Ranked #4 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.
Silentia
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Ranked #5 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pinched.
Choose your side in the darkness of Silentia. Hunt as a blind monster that grows stronger with every sound it hears, or escape as a survivor by completing objectives in silence. In this asymmetric multiplayer horror game: If it hears you, it’s over.
GLANCED
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Ranked #6 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pinched.
Step inside. Infiltrate the manor of porcelain dolls, some are maybe your friends. Steal the key from her cold neck, find the door, and whatever you do, don’t meet her eyes. One glance is enough to lose your body. GLANCED: forget FPS shooters. Here, just a look...KILLS. Now, just survive...
Come Out Guys
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Ranked #7 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
Get ready for a chaotic chase for 2-8 players! Experience high tension FPS Parkour Hide and Seek with tiny characters in a giant environment. Climb, jump, hide, and shoot to surprise your friends. Escaping and chasing have never been this exciting!
It Hears You: Together
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Ranked #8 for Pinched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pinched.
It Hears You - a co-op horror. Escape the forest as fast as you can. Play with 1 to 6 people. Move quietly and avoid unnecessary sounds so Stag doesn’t hear you. He’s blind, but his hearing is perfect.
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
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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 Dead 4 Now: Extraction, Cursed Carts, Gehinnom.
- Who developed Pinched?
- Pinched was developed by Jonathon Sprabary and published 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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