Games like Pretend
If Pretend is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadzone Blackout, Bargue and Strange Town — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its proximity chat changes everything, funny and intense. 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 →Pretend is a free-to-play social deduction game released in 2021 by whitesquare, where players must identify a hidden Pretender among a crew using proximity-based voice chat. Supporting 4 to 15 players in asymmetric co-op matches, the game uses a matchmaking system alongside its party-style gameplay. Players describe the experience as funny, intense, lighthearted, and tense depending on the situation, with voice communication fundamentally reshaping how rounds unfold whether playing solo or with friends. Each match involves sabotage tasks that require innocent crew members to venture into vents, adding risk to otherwise routine objectives. Reviewers highlight that the task variety is creative and keeps sessions fresh during short bursts of gameplay. The title holds a 58% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews.
About Pretend: An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players.
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Deadzone Blackout
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
Deadzone Blackout, the First Game from Mozambique on Steam! Face up to 100 Players, Communicate via VOIP and Activate Your Protection Wall to Dominate the Battlefield. Get Ready for This Intense Shooter Game.
Bargue
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
Bargue is an online role-playing game with 12 people. You can be a good customer, a bad mafia, or a neutral thief. To survive each round, you must convince the opponent with voice chat. At the end of the day, the surviving team wins!
Strange Town
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
Strange Town is a very enjoyable multiplayer survival game with a role-playing theme. The game can be played with 3-8 players. In the discussion phase, try to find out who the Werewolf is, and in the anger phase, try to survive! The traitor among you will appear as the Werewolf!
Bitten! Someone has to be a villain
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
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!
Sanitism
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
Sanitism: A rare mental illness with an unknown origin that causes its victims to lose their rationality and empathy, leading to uncontrollable, violent behavior. The disease induces a state of severe aggression, prompting individuals to attack anyone in their vicinity.
Project Winter
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Pretend.
Ranked #6 for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
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.
Wolvesville
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Pretend.
Ranked #7 for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
Wolvesville is a multiplayer game for up to 16 players. Each game has different teams such as villagers or werewolves all fighting to be the last team standing. Use special abilities to uncover the roles of other players and convince your fellow players to work with you.
Deducto 2
WHY THIS
Shares proximity chat and an intense mood with Pretend.
Ranked #8 for Pretend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pretend.
A fun sus-like game where you backstab your co-workers and get mad at your co-workers for backstabbing you. (up to 16 players)
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Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Pretend.
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 and Massively Multiplayer with Pretend.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Pretend.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Pretend.
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 Free To Play with Pretend.
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. Shares Free To Play with Pretend.
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 Pretend
- Does Pretend have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pretend supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Pretend?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pretend are Deadzone Blackout, Bargue, Strange Town.
- Who developed Pretend?
- Pretend was developed by whitesquare.
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 Pretend.
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