Games like The Heilwald Loophole
If The Heilwald Loophole is your kind of game, the closest matches are ROUTINE, The Norwood Suite and Amnesia: The Dark Descent — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its inverted survival horror expectations, atmospheric and immersive. 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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ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Top pick for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
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.
The Norwood Suite
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Second-strongest match for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Third-strongest match for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
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.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Ranked #4 for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Among Ashes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Ranked #5 for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
2Dark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Ranked #6 for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
2Dark is a stealth adventure game developed by Frédérick Raynal, the pioneer of survival horror games and creator of Alone in the Dark®. Make your way through the lairs of psychopaths, unravel intrigue where madness mingles with horror, and, above all, save the kids!
IMSCARED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Ranked #7 for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
"I need a Heart in order to open it"
The Outlast Trials
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Ranked #8 for The Heilwald Loophole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Heilwald Loophole
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Little Nightmares
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Reviewers of The Heilwald Loophole cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
INQUIR P.T.
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Heilwald Loophole cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
A post-apocalyptic story-based action adventure game. Fully customizable weapons and a high mobility character. Zombie horde mode and full of action, blood, brutality.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Reviewers of The Heilwald Loophole cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
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 The Heilwald Loophole at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Heilwald Loophole.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Heilwald Loophole.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Heilwald Loophole.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Heilwald Loophole.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Heilwald Loophole.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Heilwald Loophole.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Heilwald Loophole on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Heilwald Loophole.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Heilwald Loophole.
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 Heilwald Loophole.
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 Heilwald Loophole.
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 The Heilwald Loophole.
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 The Heilwald Loophole.
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 Heilwald Loophole.
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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More from Jan Malitschek
Other recommendable Steam games by Jan Malitschek, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
BETON BRUTAL
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Another title from Jan Malitschek, the studio behind The Heilwald Loophole. Shares Indie and Casual with The Heilwald Loophole.
Climb a massive overgrown concrete tower while constantly at risk of falling and losing precious progress. BETON BRUTAL offers a fluid and responsive first person parkour experience through tranquil brutalist architecture.
Trials of Argolis
WHY THIS
Another title from Jan Malitschek, the studio behind The Heilwald Loophole. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
Every year daring warriors and fighters from all across the land travel to the province of Argolis to partake in a sacred trial of strength and endurance.
Primordial Pain
WHY THIS
Another title from Jan Malitschek, the studio behind The Heilwald Loophole. Shares Indie and Casual with The Heilwald Loophole.
Primordial Pain is a brutally unforgiving, fast paced arena shooter with one key mechanic: Pain. Perform an elegant dance on the fine line between maximum power and certain death.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Among Ashes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
The Outlast Trials
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Heilwald Loophole.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Heilwald Loophole.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Frequently asked about The Heilwald Loophole
- Does The Heilwald Loophole run on Steam Deck?
- The Heilwald Loophole is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Heilwald Loophole cost?
- The Heilwald Loophole is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Heilwald Loophole?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Heilwald Loophole are ROUTINE, The Norwood Suite, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
- Who developed The Heilwald Loophole?
- The Heilwald Loophole was developed by Jan Malitschek.
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 Heilwald Loophole.
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