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Games like The Hell Hives

If The Hell Hives is your kind of game, the closest matches are Banshee Hunt, Escape From Violet Institute and Horror in the forest — 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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About The Hell Hives: Classic FPS style game with modern graphics. Fight through a series of highly challenging levels in a variety of environments. Take on many types of enemies with your shotgun, assault rifle, grenade launcher & nuke launcher. Solve puzzles, race rising lava, decipher codes and activate portals.

2021ActionIndie2.99 USDWindowsby Adam Bradley
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Steam players who put hours into The Hell Hives 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.

  1. Banshee Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Banshee Hunt is a Banshee hunting horror game, a supernatural spirit from Irish folklore, on an island isolated from the world. Track the creature by listening to its distant cries and loud screams, prepare your weapon and kill it, before it reaches you.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Escape From Violet Institute

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    2D sidescrolling 1st Person Survival Horror game

    2020ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Horror in the forest

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Hell Hives.

    Too much has gone wrong — and now, together with your companion, you must uncover what hides among the trees.

    2025Action29.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Chupacabra Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Chupacabra Hunt is a Chupacabra hunting horror game, a vampiric creature that is feeding on the blood of animals in the region. Track the creature by following its footprints and listening to its screams, prepare your weapon and kill it.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Death Park 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Shoot terrifying monsters and a killer clown in a haunted city full of nightmares. Explore 8 locations, solve puzzles, switch between dream and reality, and make choices that shape your escape. Death Park 2 is a horror FPS with multiple endings and a boss fight.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Project Silverfish

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NO BACKUP

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Escape together or die alone. In this intense co-op bodycam horror game, you and your team are hunted by a relentless creature. Communicate, stay quiet, and fight to survive. Every move counts. Every sound could be your last.

    2026ActionIndieEarly Access8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Amnesia: The Bunker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Hell Hives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Hell Hives at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hell Hives.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Hell Hives.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hell Hives.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Hell Hives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hell Hives.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hell Hives.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 The Hell Hives.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Hell Hives.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hell Hives.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Hell Hives.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Hell Hives.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Hell Hives

How much does The Hell Hives cost?
The Hell Hives is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Hell Hives?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hell Hives are Banshee Hunt, Escape From Violet Institute, Horror in the forest.
Who developed The Hell Hives?
The Hell Hives was developed by Adam Bradley.

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 Hell Hives.

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