Games like Project Winter
If Project Winter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bitten! Someone has to be a villain, Deceive Inc. and Spy Carnival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its immersive sound design, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Project Winter is an 8-player social deduction and survival game developed by Other Ocean Interactive, released in 2019 at $9.99. The game combines hidden objectives, role-based strategy, and survival challenges where players must coordinate as a team while navigating deception. Set in a harsh winter environment, players work together to complete tasks and reach extraction, but traitors hidden among them create constant uncertainty. Reviewers highlight the immersive sound design and note that tactical positioning matters when suspicion and paranoia mount. The game is verified for Steam Deck, supports online co-op, and has earned an 87% positive rating from over 4,700 Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as stressful and tense, with the challenging difficulty and medium-length sessions lending themselves to focused sit-down play.
About Project Winter: Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Players who liked Project Winter also play
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Bitten! Someone has to be a villain
WHY THIS
Top pick for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Project Winter.
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!
Deceive Inc.
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Project Winter.
Go undercover as the world’s greatest spies in this tense multiplayer game of subterfuge. Disguise as anyone, deploy an arsenal of high-tech gadgets or neutralize the competition. As long as you extract with the objective, no trick is too dirty when you work for DECEIVE INC.
Spy Carnival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project Winter.
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.
Dread Hunger
WHY THIS
Shares social deception and team coordination with Project Winter.
Ranked #4 for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project Winter.
A game of survival and betrayal. Eight Explorers path their ship through the unforgiving Arctic. Among the crew, two traitors call on dark powers to undermine them. Note: Official server support ends 2024-01-01
MISTERY
WHY THIS
Shares team coordination and a stressful mood with Project Winter.
Ranked #5 for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Winter.
A multiplayer game of survival and social deduction. You work with others to collect materials, survive the dangers, and complete tasks. Beware of monsters, but more of the alternates disguising as your teammates. They can change into supernatural monsters and attack you at any time.
MORDHAU
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project Winter.
MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Project Winter.
Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Now also including 2-8 person crossplatform multiplayer - work your way down the slopes together as a group, or risk it all in a breakneck race to the base!
West Hunt
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Project Winter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Project Winter.
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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Project Winter
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Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Winter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Winter.
The Prince of Persia, a seasoned warrior, returns from the Island of Time to Babylon with his love, Kaileena. Instead of the peace that he longs for, he finds his homeland ravaged by war and the kingdom turned against him.
Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Project Winter.
Reviewers of Project Winter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Project Winter.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Winter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Winter.
Explore the myths and monsters of Europe’s last primeval wilderness. Play as Maia, who arrives at the ancient Białowieża Forest looking to explore her family history. Discover Rage in an adventure game inspired by the experience of the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
Find The Murderer 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Winter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Winter.
A young man has disappeared from his apartment. Detective Silantyev begins to investigate the case
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Project Winter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Project Winter.
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 Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Project Winter.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project Winter.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project Winter.
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 Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Project Winter.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Project Winter.
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 ~50% under Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Project Winter.
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 ~70% under Project Winter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Project Winter.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Winter.
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 Project Winter.
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 Project Winter.
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 and Adventure with Project Winter.
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 Project Winter.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project Winter.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Winter.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project Winter.
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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More from Other Ocean Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Other Ocean Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist
WHY THIS
Another title from Other Ocean Interactive, the studio behind Project Winter.
Relive past Dueling glory against Yu-Gi-Oh! characters from the past and present! Compete against other players online with your custom deck, then challenge them in Battle Pack Draft and Sealed Play!
Dark Void™ Zero
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Project Winter.
Another title from Other Ocean Interactive, the studio behind Project Winter. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Winter.
Rise On! After 20 years, the legendary lost project "Dark Void" is back! To commemorate the game's humble origins, Capcom has commissioned the recreation of the original 8-bit classic, now re-titled "Dark Void Zero."
The Walking Dead: Betrayal
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Project Winter.
Another title from Other Ocean Interactive, the studio behind Project Winter. Shares Casual with Project Winter.
Betray your friends in this 5-8 person game of cooperation and social deception set in the universe of The Walking Dead. Work together to survive, but trust no one! Traitors have so many ways to sabotage the team, the walkers are the most predictable threat.
Giant Cop: Justice Above All
WHY THIS
Another title from Other Ocean Interactive, the studio behind Project Winter. Shares Indie and Casual with Project Winter.
Giant Missions, Giant Fun in pint sized Micro City. You are the Giant Cop. Use your size to your advantage to explore the open world, find hidden interactive objects and tower over the city uncovering a criminal plot that threatens Micro City.
Diebrary
WHY THIS
Another title from Other Ocean Interactive, the studio behind Project Winter. Shares Action and Indie with Project Winter.
Enter the Diebrary! Test your reflexes and wit in this fast-paced arena roguelike, where you must fight through thousands of enemies to make it out alive. Choose upgrades and power-ups to increase your chances of survival, then vote on new twists to spice up your next run!
Scrap Daddies
WHY THIS
Another title from Other Ocean Interactive, the studio behind Project Winter. Shares Action and Strategy with Project Winter.
Scrap Daddies is a slapstick co-op looter for 1–6 friends where teamwork keeps you alive and we promise not to jump scare you. Explore flooded bases, recover power cells, and haul scrap back to upgrade your gear in a world lost to the sea.
Frequently asked about Project Winter
- Is Project Winter verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Project Winter 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 Project Winter cost?
- Project Winter is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Project Winter have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Project Winter supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Project Winter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Winter are Bitten! Someone has to be a villain, Deceive Inc., Spy Carnival.
- Who developed Project Winter?
- Project Winter was developed by Other Ocean Interactive and published by Other Ocean Group.
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