Games like Harthorn
If Harthorn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Horror in the forest, Observer: System Redux and One Hunt — 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.
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Horror in the forest
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Top pick for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Harthorn.
Too much has gone wrong — and now, together with your companion, you must uncover what hides among the trees.
Observer: System Redux
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harthorn.
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
One Hunt
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Stranded in a blighted tundra with an ancient beast that is on the hunt. Keep your fingers warm and your shotgun loaded and you just might make it out alive.
Building 847
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Ranked #4 for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harthorn.
New Mexico, 1986. You're a private detective, investigating a bizarre incident that occurred inside a building in a small town. Find clues, visualize past events and learn about this alternate-reality.
Sincognito
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Ranked #5 for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
An social deduction investigation horror game where one of you is secretly possessed by a Deadly Sin. Use stealth and proximity chat to cooperate or deceive as you gather clues and compare findings to deduce which Sin is haunting the castle.
Reality Breach
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Ranked #6 for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Reality Breach is a first-person psychological horror game where your own creation turns against you. Step into the shoes of an exhausted indie developer trapped in a shifting home studio, evading a relentless entity born from your own corrupted code.
FINIS ACTUS
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Ranked #7 for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
1891 London. In the mansion of a famous illusionist, the connection between reality and madness is severed. Many who trusted their intellect have been lost in these corridors. Before the curtain falls, will you see beyond the illusion, or will you become part of this tragedy?
Candlehead
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Ranked #8 for Harthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Explore a dark and eerie first person folk horror game where your doom flickers in the form of a candle barely visible through the dusky gloom.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Harthorn
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Outlast
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
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.
Obscure
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Harthorn.
For some time now, Leafmore High School has been the setting for unexplained disappearances. In this survival horror game, you take control of a group of 5 American students. With your friends, you try to unravel the mysterious happenings at this unremarkable-looking school. The night will be long and survival not will not be easy...
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Harthorn.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Notorious cult-classic Korean horror. Sneak into school at midnight to return your sweetheart's diary and get caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Explore haunted hallways, solve classic survival horror puzzles and escape the clutches of a killer Janitor who is out for your blood.
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harthorn.
Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
The Swine
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Say goodbye to southern hospitality in the backwoods of rural America. The Swine is a short horror experience that explores isolation, witchcraft, and unforeseen consequences in your rural homestead.
Witching Hour
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.
SILENT HILL 2
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Reviewers of Harthorn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Harthorn.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Harthorn at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
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 ~50% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harthorn.
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 ~63% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harthorn.
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 ~75% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Harthorn.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Harthorn.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~75% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Harthorn.
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
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Priced ~75% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Harthorn.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Harthorn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harthorn.
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 and Casual with Harthorn.
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 Harthorn.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harthorn.
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 Harthorn.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Harthorn.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Vincent Lade
Other recommendable Steam games by Vincent Lade, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Swine
WHY THIS
Another title from Vincent Lade, the studio behind Harthorn. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Say goodbye to southern hospitality in the backwoods of rural America. The Swine is a short horror experience that explores isolation, witchcraft, and unforeseen consequences in your rural homestead.
Deathbloom: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Another title from Vincent Lade, the studio behind Harthorn. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Inspired by classic survival horror. Bachman Manor sprawls into a maze of corridors, bedrooms, foyers, and more. Filled with puzzles, traps, and hidden passageways that explore the secrets of its dark history and occupants.
Deathbloom: Chapter 2
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Another title from Vincent Lade, the studio behind Harthorn. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Continue your journey through Bachman Manor as you inch closer to freedom, or towards your mysterious friend Christina and her candle-lit secrets. Going deeper into the estate reveals more locations like the Abandoned Wing, Lower House, and the bunker complex "Salvation".
Witching Hour
WHY THIS
Another title from Vincent Lade, the studio behind Harthorn. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.
Jawbreaker
WHY THIS
Another title from Vincent Lade, the studio behind Harthorn. Shares Action and Indie with Harthorn.
Will you survive when the world falls apart? Jawbreaker is a punishing stealth & survival horror game that will have you running, hiding, and fighting in a terrifying gang-infested society on the verge of collapse. Though that’s not all, once the sun goes down the true fear begins...
Frequently asked about Harthorn
- How much does Harthorn cost?
- Harthorn is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Harthorn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Harthorn are Horror in the forest, Observer: System Redux, One Hunt.
- Who developed Harthorn?
- Harthorn was developed by Vincent Lade.
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 Harthorn.
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