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Games like Fatherhood

If Fatherhood is your kind of game, the closest matches are Espionage, Super Lone Survivor and Hollow Home — 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 Fatherhood: Play a 2.5D side-scrolling war adventure as a single father protecting his blind daughter. Navigate through dangers, sacrificing everything to keep her safe. Every choice matters—use the hugging mechanic to appease Asma, discover multiple endings, and solve puzzles in this emotional war story.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Persis Play
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Players who liked Fatherhood also play

Steam players who put hours into Fatherhood 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. Espionage

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Fatherhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.

    1941, occupied Europe. You are Siegfried, a British SOE agent paired with Selena, a Soviet spy posing as your wife. Infiltrate, decode, and choose — across Paris, Berlin, and Lisbon. Every decision rewrites history. A WWII spy thriller where love and betrayal are the deadliest weapons.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Super Lone Survivor

    WHY THIS

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

    The masked protagonist must escape the city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary. Use stealth to scavenge food, or kill everything in your path. Nurture your mental health or descend into madness. How you survive is up to you.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hollow Home

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Fatherhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.

    Hollow Home is a narrative survival RPG set in a city under siege. Learn to adapt, choose who to trust and make decisions that carry real weight. No weapons, no battles and no easy answers.

    2026IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  4. Deer & Boy

    WHY THIS

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

    In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. 1000xRESIST

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Fatherhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.

    1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Steel Seed

    WHY THIS

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

    Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction. Play as Zoe and her drone Koby as they explore a hostile underground facility. Uncover secrets, survive dangers, search for answers, and humanity’s last hope.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Goodnight Universe

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Fatherhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.

    From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. This War of Mine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Fatherhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.

    In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

    2014IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Fatherhood.

    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 Fatherhood.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Fatherhood.

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Fatherhood

What games are most similar to Fatherhood?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fatherhood are Espionage, Super Lone Survivor, Hollow Home.
Who developed Fatherhood?
Fatherhood was developed by Persis Play and published by Paiband Game 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 Fatherhood.

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