6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Among Us. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Among Us.
Release Date: 23/10/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Lethal Company is a stealth role-play game where you work with friends to scavenge abandoned moons for scrap. To play you creep through the environment hunting scrap and on the lookout for lurking meat dogs, thumpers and other horrors. It's brilliant at...
Release Date: 03/10/2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Goose Goose Duck is a strategy communication game where you work with your fellow geese while completing missions. While you do, try and spot the malicious mallards who have infiltrated your team to stop you. Then, after the task, you get to vote out...
Release Date: 15/12/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Town of Salem is a social deduction strategy game where you work with (or against) other players trying to save a village from zany villains and murderers. Like Among Us, no one knows anyone else's role; everyone must carefully...
Release Date: 25/03/2022
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Just Act Natural is an online stealth game where you hide among computer characters in a hand-made world, to avoid detection. Play varies with each mode, but throughout you're trying to blend in with the AI characters so other players don't target you...
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Impostor is a space survival game like Among Us. It is a community-created version of that official game on Roblox as Impostor, but also on Minecraft as a couple of minigames called Among Us and Impostor. The Roblox game is a version of Among Us for...
Release Date: 08/06/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Speed Crew is a fast collaborative action game where you and up to three friends rush to repair race cars to help your team win. Play is about sequencing actions efficiently, so you need good communication and coordination as you attempt repairs in...
34 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Among Us. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Among Us.
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and changes their actions...
Release Date: 28/04/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Pico Park is a collaborative puzzle game for up to 10 players where you traverse levels using one another to solve puzzles. It's a game about communication and physics as players work to position themselves to bridge a gap, use ropes to hang off ledges...
Release Date: 21/03/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Deceive Inc is an online stealth traversal game where you are a spy trying to get into the vault to steal an artefact. The twist is that everyone can disguise themselves as different agents to blend in with the computer-controlled characters. It stands...
Release Date: 02/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
King Of The Castle is a narrative strategy game where you play a monarch battling nobles for power in a kingdom. The twist is that the nobles are controlled by other players who also have their own factions and objectives. You play by making decisions...
Release Date: 13/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a brain-communication game where you’re confronted with a bomb on the screen that has to be defused, requiring a series of modules to be disarmed. The bomb defuser player can see and operate the bomb but the other...
Release Date: 08/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Papers, Please is a narrative puzzle game where you play the role of a border-crossing immigration officer in the fictional dystopian Eastern Bloc-like country of Arstotzka. You review each immigrant’s and returning citizen’s passports and paperwork...
Release Date: 20/07/2020
Out Now: Web
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Blaseball is an online baseball simulation. Unusually though, it blends in an absurd horror story where players are incinerated and the rules can change -- a little like the board game Blood Bowl. Players compete not so much to get their team to win,...
Release Date: 10/09/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cartoon
Bake 'n Switch is a puzzle fighting game where 2-4 players are apprentice bakers fighting the "Mould" and taking on various Guardian bosses. It's ridiculously cute and a lot of silly fun, as you catch, merge and sacrifice the anthropomorphised dough...
Release Date: 19/09/2019, updated in 2022
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Hot Lava is a running and jumping game where you mustn't touch the floor because it's covered in lava. It takes the childhood playground game online as you work to cross nostalgia-filled maps on your own or with other players
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Scribble It is a digital take on the classic board game Pictionary. You take turns drawing a word as the other players try to be the first one to guess it. The benefit is that you don't have to be in the same place to play. Also, there's the added...
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Pixels
Return of the Obra Dinn is a narrative puzzle game where you play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the...
Release Date: 14/06/2016, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 16+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Dead by Daylight is a survival horror game where one player takes on the role of a killer and another other four try and work together to survive. It's unusual because of this asynchronous play and its cross-over with different franchise-inspired themes.
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Release Date: 20/03/2018
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Starbound is an action-adventure game from the developer of Terraria about the exploration of space. It's a world viewed from side-on, with simple visuals that enable it to offer complex systems and hundreds of items for players to discover their own...
Release Date: 03/04/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Photographs - Puzzle Stories is a narrative puzzle game where you witness the lives and memories of five different characters. You investigate old photos for memories that advance the story and solve simple puzzles that reflect their lives. It stands...
Release Date: 27/05/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game that conveys the sombre mood of the dark period of history between January 1933 and May 1945. With interactive drama, it tells the story and the struggles of average people living in the 3rd Reich.
Release Date: 06/09/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Samsara Room is an abstract point-and-click puzzle-horror game. By solving the puzzles hidden throughout the room, you uncover an uneasy story about judgement and atonement told through the things you find.
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Kirby Fighters is a light-hearted fighting game where you play as the round Nintendo character, Kirby. You can choose from various abilities that your character "copies" from opponents. You fight other characters from the Kirby games in fights against...
Release Date: 02/11/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
The Past Within is a co-operative puzzle game where you solve a mystery by communicating with the past. You play the game with another person, either in the same room or elsewhere, by communicating what your different times and perspectives reveal.
Release Date: 24/10/2017
Out Now: PS4
Skill Rating: 16+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Hidden Agenda is an adventure noir crime thriller. It's from the people who made Until Dawn, but uses the PlayLink technology to let multiple people play on the PlayStation using their smartphones to interact and make decisions.
Release Date: 08/04/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
First Class Trouble is a survival puzzle game where six players must work together and against each other to survive a disaster. It's a social deduction game, like Among Us, so the real trick to surviving is working out which players are robot Personoids.
Release Date: 27/04/2015, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Cube Escape Collection is a set of 9 point-and-click escape room-style games set within the Rusty Lake universe. As you follow a murder case through the games, you uncover secrets and hidden meanings in unusual places that enable you to piece together...
Release Date: 23/05/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Project Winter is a multiplayer survival game. Up to 8 people work to survive the winter by gathering resources, repairing structures, and braving the wilderness dangers together. However, up to two people are traitors within the group and try to dash...
Release Date: 01/12/2012
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Spaceteam is a puzzle communication game where players pilot a spaceship, each with their own control panel on their smartphone or tablet screen. The switches, dials, sliders and levers are labelled with randomly-generated peculiar names: ‘Astral...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Am I The Baddie? is a running and collecting game of hide and seek where you control a character on a simple maze of streets. Up to five people compete on separate devices or computers. One person is the baddie who tries to collect the clues without...
Release Date: 20/07/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Triple Agent is a parlour-style game that uses one device passed between 5-9 players, assigning them either an agent or double-agent role as the game starts. There are tip-offs from the game about other players, the discussion around the table with each...
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person
Due Process is a tactical shooting game that focuses on both the planning and execution of missions. You are presented with a unique mission where teams of five either have to defend or attack a particular location. Spending time talking through tactics...
Release Date: 18/01/2014, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Murder Mystery is a Roblox game where 12 people try to escape the murderer until the sheriff finds them. It's a classic parlour brought to life in Roblox. It works well because of the tense peril action combined with the need to carefully observe and...
Release Date: 26/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
OddBallers is an over-the-top action party game where you compete in dodgeball-style battles, only here you throw more explosive things not just balls. From wacky ball games to fistfights on moving ships dodging crates, each battle is unique and offers...
Release Date: 21/09/2017
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Heat Signature is a tactical shooting game where you break into spaceships on missions to hijack them, steal important technology, assassinate crew members and rescue captives. With simple visuals, viewed from above, you can approach this in many ways...
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Obakeidoro is a hide and seek adventure game. You play with up to four people, three are humans hiding from the other player who uses a monster to chase them down. The humans have 3 minutes to work together to get away.
Release Date: 26/01/2022
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Dread Hunger is a strategy survival game where you venture into the arctic wastes to find coal and food to keep your ship running, while trying to uncover the players who are two secret killers. In many ways like the hugely popular [link to...
Release Date: 26/10/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Slayaway Camp: Butcher's Cut is a macabre puzzle game. You control Skullface, a serial killer hellbent on killing every camper in this homage to 80's horror movies. It combines a basic slide the block puzzle with a cute block world but with a dark sense...
Release Date: 18/08/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an online stealth action based on the film of the same name. In detailed arenas based on locations from the film, you play either the notorious Slaughter family hunting down victims, or an innocent trying to escape.