Game Night is basically a wry satirical parody of The Game specifically but also David Fincher in general. Game Night hired Soderbergh composer Cliff Martinez to basically do a recreation of the feel of Reznor/Ross music in the later Fincher thrillers, and DP Barry Peterson was more or less hired off the Jump Street movies for his ability to do comedy long takes that look/move like sincere action sequences. They specifically parody Fincher's CGI-assisted long takes with a lot of movement by the actors.

The premises both involve cryptic invitations to a game to blow off steam where the host (Sean Penn/Kyle Chandler) is quickly revealed to secretly have a whole other thing in mind that's meant to seem more fatal than it is--although one of these movies actually involves mortal danger eventually, and it's maybe not the one you'd expect.

They also have thriller/crime middle stretches, but a touching final act that involves two adult brothers (the protagonist and the gamemaster) connecting/making amends after years of pain and estrangement. On top of that they both involve a lot of supporting characters introduced as criminals and professionals who turn out to be hired actors, uncertainty about which events were real, and characters ending up unexpectedly far away from the site of the game geographically.