Games like Awkward
If Awkward is your kind of game, the closest matches are Higher or Black, Fortune Avenue and Play Together: Party Games — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its questions spark unexpected conversations, twitch integration feels seamless and comedic. 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 Awkward: Awkward is the multiplayer party game guaranteed to get you discussing with your partner, friends or Twitch viewers! Players are asked increasingly uncomfortable questions on risqué topics and the other players try to guess their answers!
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Higher or Black
WHY THIS
Top pick for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Awkward.
A card game where the objective is to correctly predict the next card. If one fails to do so, they will be punished and have to try again.
Fortune Avenue
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?
Play Together: Party Games
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
Play with up to 8 players using phones as controllers! Play action minigames, strategy, drawing and other fun challenges with your friends, locally or online. No extra downloads needed! Turn any screen into a party with Play Together: Party Games!
Republic of Jungle
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
Gather your friends (5 to 10 players) and play as advisors to President Puma. His re-election depends on your loyalty. In a social deduction party game, Leakers try to sneak into missions to leak Puma's secrets- Loyalists try to suss them out. Read the room and bluff your way to a political victory.
Evil Cult
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
This is a strategy board game of Lovecraftian macabre. Gain resources, grow your cult, stay hidden from the world, and when the stars are finally right summon the Elder God you worship. Alternatively, just eliminate the competition in an invisible war.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Gem Rush
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
The well-loved board game comes to Steam. This mountain is rich in mystic gems. Combine gems to open up new rooms, providing new ways to dig up gems. Race against other players or race together against the clock to dig the greatest mine in this fast-paced, easy-to-learn strategy game.
Lunch: The Card Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Awkward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
In Lunch, players are working at an up-and-coming sandwich shop trying to make a profit by selling the largest, tastiest sandwiches possible.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Awkward at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awkward.
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 ~58% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awkward.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awkward.
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 ~58% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Awkward.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Awkward.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Awkward.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Awkward on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Awkward.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 and Casual with Awkward.
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.
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 Awkward.
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 Awkward.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Awkward.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Awkward.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Awkward
- Does Awkward run on Steam Deck?
- Awkward is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Awkward cost?
- Awkward is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Awkward have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Awkward supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Awkward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Awkward are Higher or Black, Fortune Avenue, Play Together: Party Games.
- Who developed Awkward?
- Awkward was developed by Snap Finger Click.
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 Awkward.
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