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Games like Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper

If Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Horror Tale 3: The Witch, Poppy Playtime and Dark Hours — 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 Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper: Uncover the mystery behind a terrifying kidnapper in this story-driven horror adventure. Solve puzzles, explore eerie locations, and help Tom and his friends survive in 1990s America. Horror Tale is a creepy escape game full of twists and suspense.

2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDWindowsby Euphoria Games
Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper 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. Horror Tale 3: The Witch

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Fight the scary witch in the most terrifying chapter of Tom's adventures!

    2025ActionAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Poppy Playtime

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Dark Hours

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.

    2025ActionAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Penumbra Overture

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Ad Infinitum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?

    2023ActionAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Five Nights at Freddy's 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l

    2015ActionIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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 ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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 ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Action with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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 ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Action with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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. 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 Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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 ↗

More from Euphoria Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Euphoria Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Antarctica 88

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Uncover the chilling secrets beneath the Antarctic ice in this survival horror FPS. Shoot unimaginable creatures, solve cryptic puzzles, and fight for your life in the frozen wastelands.​

    2020ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Mimicry

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    A terrifying online horror game where one player becomes an impostor monster. Disguise, hunt, and destroy your friends — or work together to survive. Mimicry is a fast-paced, multiplayer fun game full of deception, fear, and chaos.

    2022ActionIndieMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Death Park 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    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 ↗
  4. Death Park

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Survive a deadly clown in a haunted amusement park. Solve puzzles, search for items, and make choices that shape your escape. Death Park is a first-person horror game with multiple endings, tense stealth, and terrifying moments.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Horror Tale 2: Samantha

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Escape a terrifying prison, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the masked kidnapper. Continue the horror story of Tom and Samantha in this intense mystery escape adventure set in 1990s America.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. 911: Cannibal

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    A terrifying first-person hide-and-seek horror escape game. Outsmart a cannibal maniac, solve puzzles, and try to survive his creepy house.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. 911: Prey

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Indie with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    You’ve been kidnapped by a cannibal maniac—again. Hide, solve puzzles, and cover your tracks to avoid being caught in his terrifying house. Every choice matters. Escape is possible, but only one ending leads to freedom. Will you survive the nightmare?

    2023ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Horror Tale 3: The Witch

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Euphoria Games, the studio behind Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper. Shares Action and Adventure with Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

    Fight the scary witch in the most terrifying chapter of Tom's adventures!

    2025ActionAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper

How much does Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper cost?
Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper are Horror Tale 3: The Witch, Poppy Playtime, Dark Hours.
Who developed Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper?
Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper was developed by Euphoria Games.

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 Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper.

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