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2024PCSteam Deck playable98 % positive14.79 €

MiSide traps you inside a mobile life simulation where your seemingly sweet companion grows increasingly unsettling. A short, story-driven horror adventure that surprises with genre shifts and stylish presentation.

Dread and tension
Strong, story-driven narrative
Lavish presentation
Distinctive, stylised art style

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The closest matches for MiSide are Sally Face, Poppy Playtime and Layers of Fear. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes MiSide special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Sally Face

92 %Match

2016PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive2.99 €

Dread and tension
Strong, story-driven narrative
Distinctive, stylised art style

An episodic point-and-click adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face who investigates a murder series and supernatural secrets in a gloomy apartment building. Its distinctive comic-like low-poly look, 90s atmosphere and emotional story set it apart.

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Poppy Playtime

Lavish presentation

A horror puzzle adventure set in an abandoned toy factory, where you use the GrabPack to manipulate circuits and flee from creepy toy monsters. Environmental puzzles mixed with chase sequences deliver short, intense scares.

Layers of Fear

Lavish presentation

A psychological horror walking sim set in a mad painter's Victorian mansion that rearranges itself whenever you look away. Its shifting rooms and unsettling art slowly piece together a tragic tale of obsession and ruin.

Mouthwashing

Dark, serious atmosphere

A short, harrowing psychological horror story aboard a crippled space freighter, where the survivors unravel under guilt, despair and madness. Its fractured timeline, bleak humor and grimy low-poly look make it memorable.

Layers of Fear 2

Lavish presentation

A psychological horror walking-sim where you play an actor wandering an ocean liner whose film sets shift and warp around you. Its strengths are oppressive atmosphere, environmental puzzles and a surreal, cinematic story.

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi

Dark, serious atmosphere

You read through a dark sound novel that starts in an idyllic village and slowly slips into paranoid horror. The blend of everyday life, mystery and sudden violence is carried strongly by its music and sound design.

The Medium

Lavish presentation

As the medium Marianne, you move between the real world and the spirit world, solving puzzles that span both and unraveling a disturbing story. The simultaneous dual-reality presentation, thick atmosphere and soundtrack define this horror adventure.

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Dark, serious atmosphere

What starts as a sugary anime dating sim about a school poetry club gradually turns into unsettling psychological horror that breaks the fourth wall and even toys with the game's own files.

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Distinctive, stylised art style

A twisted murder-mystery visual novel where trapped students are goaded into killing each other by a sadistic bear. Frantic class trials have you literally shoot down lies with evidence, all wrapped in pop-art style and pitch-black humor.

Oxenfree

Distinctive, stylised art style

A night out on an island turns supernatural when a group of teens tune a radio into eerie frequencies. Its fluid walk-and-talk dialogue lets you answer without stopping, and those choices shape both the friendships and the ending of this moody mystery thriller.