Games like ShadowSide
If ShadowSide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Investigator, Clink and The Solus Project — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and mysterious. 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 ShadowSide: ShadowSide is a First Person Exploration game. A policeman Alex Carter has been watching over the tranquility in the town for many years. He protects the people from robbery and crime. Nothing but a routine.
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Steam players who put hours into ShadowSide 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.
Investigator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Top pick for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
Clink
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
The Solus Project
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Third-strongest match for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
Visage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Ranked #4 for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Uninvited Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Ranked #5 for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
Rise of Insanity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Ranked #6 for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.
The Station
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Ranked #7 for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
ColdSide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Ranked #8 for ShadowSide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ShadowSide at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShadowSide.
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 ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ShadowSide.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShadowSide.
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 ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ShadowSide.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
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 ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShadowSide.
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 ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ShadowSide.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ShadowSide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShadowSide.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 ShadowSide.
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 Adventure with ShadowSide.
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 Indie with ShadowSide.
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 ShadowSide.
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 Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
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 ShadowSide.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShadowSide.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from AdroVGames
Other recommendable Steam games by AdroVGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Investigator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Another title from AdroVGames, the studio behind ShadowSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
ColdSide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Another title from AdroVGames, the studio behind ShadowSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.
Uninvited Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShadowSide.
Another title from AdroVGames, the studio behind ShadowSide. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShadowSide.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
Frequently asked about ShadowSide
- Is ShadowSide verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — ShadowSide 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 ShadowSide cost?
- ShadowSide is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ShadowSide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ShadowSide are Investigator, Clink, The Solus Project.
- Who developed ShadowSide?
- ShadowSide was developed by AdroVGames.
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