Games like The House in the Forest
If The House in the Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Elision Effect, What Happened to Lily? and [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About The House in the Forest: The House in the Forest is a short, first-person exploration game about a family who moved out to go live a lonely life. You'll play as a person who got lost on the way back to his house ends up discovering clean but an abandoned house.
Players who liked The House in the Forest also play
Steam players who put hours into The House in the Forest also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Elision Effect
WHY THIS
Top pick for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
Evie
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
A girl crashed into a dark forest not knowing where to go, curiosity drives her to open a Pandora’s box that was never meant to be opened.
Route8
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Ranked #5 for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The House in the Forest.
"You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."
The Exit 8
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The House in the Forest.
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The House in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The House in the Forest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The House in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The House in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House in the Forest.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The House in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The House in the Forest.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The House in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The House in the Forest.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The House in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The House in the Forest.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The House in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The House in the Forest.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The House in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The House in the Forest.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The House in the Forest.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The House in the Forest.
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 Indie with The House in the Forest.
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 Simulation with The House in the Forest.
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 The House in the Forest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Simulation with The House in the Forest.
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 Adventure with The House in the Forest.
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.
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Frequently asked about The House in the Forest
- How much does The House in the Forest cost?
- The House in the Forest is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The House in the Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The House in the Forest are The Elision Effect, What Happened to Lily?, [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件.
- Who developed The House in the Forest?
- The House in the Forest was developed by _k.y..
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 The House in the Forest.
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