Games like Dad's Monster House
If Dad's Monster House is your kind of game, the closest matches are Woolly Boy and the Circus, ISOLAND3: Dust of the Universe and Rusty Lake Hotel — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and melancholic. 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 Dad's Monster House: Dad's Monster House is a hand-drawn puzzle game featuring horror and fantasy. It tells the story of Carlos' journey after he receives a distress call from his father, pleading for him to return to his old home and rescue his dad.
Players who liked Dad's Monster House also play
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Woolly Boy and the Circus
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dad's Monster House.
Top pick for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
'Woolly boy and the Circus' is a hand-painted style puzzle game. The game mainly tells the story of the protagonist, Our woolly boy, who is trapped in the "Big Pineapple Circus" and searching for a way out.
ISOLAND3: Dust of the Universe
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Second-strongest match for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
A sequel to the ISOLAND series, where you continue your journey to explore the story of the universe on this island.
Rusty Lake Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Third-strongest match for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Mr. Pumpkin Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Ranked #4 for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Mr. Pumpkin's Adventure is a point-and-click puzzle game. The main character of this game is Mr. Pumpkin who lost his memories. During the adventure, you will help him solve all the puzzles, which will eventually unveil an evil plot.
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Ranked #5 for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
Smile For Me
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Ranked #6 for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
A heartbroken clown, wayward souls, and juicy mechanical lips. As “The Big Event" draws near, help the troubled residents of the Habitat and de-mask the mysterious Doctor Habit... before it's too late.
Rusty Lake: Roots
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Ranked #7 for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
One Way: The Elevator
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Dad's Monster House.
Ranked #8 for Dad's Monster House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dad's Monster House.
One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Reviewers of Dad's Monster House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
One Way: The Elevator
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Dad's Monster House.
Reviewers of Dad's Monster House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Dad's Monster House.
One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.
Isoland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Reviewers of Dad's Monster House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets
Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon walled city
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Reviewers of Dad's Monster House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Dad's Monster House.
Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon Walled City is a sequel to the Mr. Pumpkin franchise. Our protagonist, an insignificant guy with a pumpkin head, will explore the Kowloon Walled City of Hong Kong, and witness the stories happening within these walls.
Forgotten Hill Tales
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Reviewers of Dad's Monster House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
A spin-off series of short stories set in the grotesque world of Forgotten Hill
PumpKin Majo
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dad's Monster House.
Reviewers of Dad's Monster House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Our pumpkin witch tries to avoid hitting the evil pumpkins and stay away from other enemies while collecting green orbs and trying to reach the highest score on halloween. So it takes a lot of effort to make the highest score on halloween.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dad's Monster House at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dad's Monster House on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dad's Monster House.
"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 Dad's Monster House on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House.
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 with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House.
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 Casual with Dad's Monster House.
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 Dad's Monster House.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Cotton Game
Other recommendable Steam games by Cotton Game, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon walled city
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and Casual with Dad's Monster House.
Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon Walled City is a sequel to the Mr. Pumpkin franchise. Our protagonist, an insignificant guy with a pumpkin head, will explore the Kowloon Walled City of Hong Kong, and witness the stories happening within these walls.
Sunset Hills
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all kinds of people and events on the way, and experiencing the new world after the war, and the real purpose of Nico's trip gradually emerges ......
One Way: The Elevator
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and RPG with Dad's Monster House.
One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.
Little Triangle
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Little Triangle has the most complete platformer experience among many others. All three game modes including single player mode, local co-op mode and local mini Battle Royale mode are all well polished and hilarious!
Mr. Pumpkin Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Mr. Pumpkin's Adventure is a point-and-click puzzle game. The main character of this game is Mr. Pumpkin who lost his memories. During the adventure, you will help him solve all the puzzles, which will eventually unveil an evil plot.
Isoland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets
Isoland 2 - Ashes of Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Isoland 2: Ashes of Time is a puzzle game with a fascinating non-linear story, charming 2D hand-drawn art, numerous challenging puzzles, and unique twists. Besides numerous sci-fi references and easter-eggs hidden throughout the game, you’ll find things aren’t quite the same second time you play through the story.
Tales of the Mirror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Another title from Cotton Game, the studio behind Dad's Monster House. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Rusty Lake Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Smile For Me
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
A heartbroken clown, wayward souls, and juicy mechanical lips. As “The Big Event" draws near, help the troubled residents of the Habitat and de-mask the mysterious Doctor Habit... before it's too late.
Rusty Lake: Roots
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dad's Monster House.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dad's Monster House.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
One Way: The Elevator
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Dad's Monster House.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Dad's Monster House.
One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.
Frequently asked about Dad's Monster House
- How much does Dad's Monster House cost?
- Dad's Monster House is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dad's Monster House?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dad's Monster House are Woolly Boy and the Circus, ISOLAND3: Dust of the Universe, Rusty Lake Hotel.
- Who developed Dad's Monster House?
- Dad's Monster House was developed by Cotton Game.
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