Games like Hollowbody
If Hollowbody is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tormented Souls 2, Heartworm and 鬼魂街 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its thoughtful and unsettling atmosphere, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 →Hollowbody is a tech-noir survival horror indie game developed and published by Headware Games, released in 2024 at $16.99. Set in a post-apocalyptic British urban environment, it features third-person exploration with tank controls, puzzle-solving, and voice acting. Players navigate environmental challenges while managing resources in this challenging solo adventure. Reviewers have highlighted its thoughtful and unsettling atmosphere, noting how the game's perspective work creates an immersive experience. The game holds an 86% positive rating from 1,151 Steam reviews and is verified for Steam Deck play. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and unsettling as they explore its decaying cityscape.
About Hollowbody: A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.
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Tormented Souls 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Top pick for Hollowbody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
Heartworm
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Second-strongest match for Hollowbody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowbody.
Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.
SPIRITUS 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hollowbody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
The survival horror concludes in part two of SPIRITUS, set in a post-apocalyptic city and the depths of pure evil. Survive in classic 90's gaming tropes augmented with modern HD graphics.
Outliver: Tribulation
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hollowbody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowbody.
A dark history comes calling in this "African Mythology meets Survival-Horror and Souls-like" experience! You play as the soldier who mysteriously ends up in a supernatural realm, of which her only way out is to partake in an ancient ritual... or so she believes.
Tormented Souls
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hollowbody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
Crow Country
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Ranked #7 for Hollowbody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hollowbody.
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
Fear The Timeloop
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Ranked #8 for Hollowbody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
Sheriff James Cooper is slowly bleeding to death in an unfamiliar hospital. But the moment his life ends, everything starts over. He has fifteen minutes to break this endless cycle, uncover the truth, and find a way out before it's too late.
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SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Reviewers of Hollowbody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
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.
Resident Evil 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Reviewers of Hollowbody cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Reviewers of Hollowbody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
Resident Evil
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Reviewers of Hollowbody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Resident Evil 4
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Reviewers of Hollowbody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Metroidvania Maker
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Reviewers of Hollowbody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowbody.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
Parasite
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Reviewers of Hollowbody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Hollowbody.
This is a roguelike open-world sandbox survival horror set in a modern city. Play as an --redacted-- parasite, possess human hosts, exploit and evolve them to help you survive in a hostile world, all to find out your one true purpose.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hollowbody at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Hollowbody on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hollowbody.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~41% under Hollowbody on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowbody.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Hollowbody on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hollowbody.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under Hollowbody on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hollowbody.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Hollowbody on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowbody.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 Hollowbody.
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 Hollowbody.
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 Hollowbody.
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 Hollowbody.
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 and Adventure with Hollowbody.
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 Hollowbody.
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.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Heartworm
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowbody.
Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.
Tormented Souls
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Hollowbody.
Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
Crow Country
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowbody.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Hollowbody.
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
Frequently asked about Hollowbody
- Is Hollowbody verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hollowbody is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hollowbody cost?
- Hollowbody is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hollowbody?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hollowbody are Tormented Souls 2, Heartworm, 鬼魂街.
- Who developed Hollowbody?
- Hollowbody was developed by Headware Games.
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