Games like Kohate
If Kohate is your kind of game, the closest matches are LUNA: Obscura, Syndrome and Outlast — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and tense. 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 Kohate: Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
Players who liked Kohate also play
Steam players who put hours into Kohate 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.
LUNA: Obscura
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
A first-person psychological horror game of hiding, solving, and surviving inside a haunted moon base
Syndrome
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Second-strongest match for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kohate.
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Kohate.
Third-strongest match for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Venge
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Ranked #4 for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...
HORROR TALES: The Wine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Ranked #5 for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Ranked #6 for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Ranked #7 for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Ranked #8 for Kohate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Kohate
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The Subject
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Reviewers of Kohate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
You have been taken prisoner and sold to a deep space testing facility. Upon arrival, you are fitted with a device forcing you to participate in their experiment. Released into a massive complex, the dark halls wind around testing rooms and conceal pieces to puzzles. There is no option but to comply.
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Reviewers of Kohate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Kohate.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Alien: Isolation
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Reviewers of Kohate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Kohate.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kohate at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
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
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Priced ~80% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Kohate.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kohate.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kohate.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kohate.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Kohate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 with Kohate.
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 Action and Adventure with Kohate.
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 Action and Indie with Kohate.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kohate.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kohate.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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More from DarkStone Digital
Other recommendable Steam games by DarkStone Digital, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Mortuary Assistant
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind Kohate. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Dread X Collection 5
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind Kohate. Shares Action and Indie with Kohate.
A horror anthology in the Dread X Collection series. Featuring 12 new games from up-and-comers along with veterans, all wrapped up in an old, run down party venue that may be hiding more than it's letting on...
The Subject
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind Kohate. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
You have been taken prisoner and sold to a deep space testing facility. Upon arrival, you are fitted with a device forcing you to participate in their experiment. Released into a massive complex, the dark halls wind around testing rooms and conceal pieces to puzzles. There is no option but to comply.
Our Secret Below
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Kohate.
Another title from DarkStone Digital, the studio behind Kohate. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kohate.
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
Frequently asked about Kohate
- How much does Kohate cost?
- Kohate is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kohate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kohate are LUNA: Obscura, Syndrome, Outlast.
- Who developed Kohate?
- Kohate was developed by DarkStone Digital.
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