Games like Loathful
If Loathful is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Carnival Killer, Wraith Rage: A Shadow's Choice and Stigmata — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Loathful: Dive into a bone-chilling horror experience with PS1-style graphics. Step into the shoes of a Neural Net Solutions employee testing a virtual reality vacation system. Brace yourself for an immersive journey into terror, where the past meets cutting-edge fear.
Players who liked Loathful also play
Steam players who put hours into Loathful 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.
The Carnival Killer
WHY THIS
Top pick for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Step right up to the most twisted carnival you’ll ever encounter! In The Carnival Killer, 4 players find themselves trapped in a nightmarish amusement park where laughter turns to terror. Killer Clowns stalk the grounds, hunting down anyone who fails to escape the nightmare.
Wraith Rage: A Shadow's Choice
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Loathful.
They have been waiting for you. To survive, you must unravel the terrifying secrets of a deadly cult, find clues, solve twisted puzzles, and piece together the truth before you become their sacrifice.
Stigmata
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Stigmata is a classic survival horror experience where you must fight, explore, and manage your resources to survive. A man finds himself alone in a city where reality is beginning to unfold. Step into the confession booth and face the one who watches. Does judgement await you or something else?
Forest Keeper
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Loathful.
Survival Horror set on a sinister island. As a lone forest keeper, you'll unravel its grim secrets from the eerie backstory of a royal vacation home turned nightmare. Journey through the changing seasons, from day to night. Confront nightmarish abominations that emerge in the winter cold.
Pyromaniac
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Loathful.
Play as Nikolas, a 20-year-old guy who found himself lost in an abandoned city... or so he thought it was at first. Explore the city, defend yourself from monsters, and find answers to what is really going on.
Nightmare of Decay
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Loathful.
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
Maid of Sker
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Loathful.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Loathful fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Loathful.
NoW YoU SEE is a story driven, first-person, point & click, horror adventure. You must escape!!! Explore the house, solve fiendish puzzles, uncover horrible secrets and get ready to meet the family. STORY. PUZZLES. GORE.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Loathful at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
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 Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
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 Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
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 Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
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 Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
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 Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
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 Loathful on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Loathful.
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 with Loathful.
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.
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 Loathful.
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 with Loathful.
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 Indie with Loathful.
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 Loathful.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Loathful
- Does Loathful run on Steam Deck?
- Loathful 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 Loathful cost?
- Loathful is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Loathful?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Loathful are The Carnival Killer, Wraith Rage: A Shadow's Choice, Stigmata.
- Who developed Loathful?
- Loathful was developed by Fazerdoo and published by Fazerdoo's Studio.
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 Loathful.
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