Games like Holstin
If Holstin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Departure of Darkness, Tobias' Inferno and THE KING IN THE SHADES — 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 Holstin: A psychological survival horror game set in an eerie, isolated 90’s Polish town consumed by an ominous presence. You’ve come looking for answers, but everyone seems possessed by something foul. Explore the festering town, interrogate locals and fight ungodly manifestations to get to the truth.
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Departure of Darkness
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Top pick for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Emma is forced to clear a horrifying parasite-infested airport as she fights to save her brother. In this 90s style Retro Survival Horror, you’ll have the option to save or leave behind fellow survivors during your adventure. However, your choices will have consequences...
Tobias' Inferno
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Tobias' Inferno is a third-person mascot survival-horror game, where you are the mascot! Caught up in a zombie situation, you must escape the place you call home, while working with friends familiar, and unfamiliar! Explore a mysterious facility, fight the undead and earn your ticket to freedom!
THE KING IN THE SHADES
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
A classic survival-horror experience set in a fictional universe where the invisible hand of unspeakable horrors is turning humanity into a fleeting memory. Enter the world of THE KING IN THE SHADES and rid this decaying world of the curse of Gods.
TORNBLADE
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Ranked #4 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
TORNBLADE is a dark action game combining top-down exploration with direct side-scroll combat, inspired by the uncompromising spirit of classic games from the 80s and 90s, and shaped by Slavic and Celtic atmosphere.
Dead Memories: Left Behind
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Ranked #5 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Holstin.
A girl. A store. A silence that never ends. The world outside is broken, but the paths within are worse. Every choice feels right. Until it’s too late.
Leaving Eden
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Ranked #6 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Embark on an action-adventure RPG with pixel-inspired graphics. Play as The Banished Priest, who must explore a shadowy world filled with secrets and powerful enemies to rescue his daughter from eternal fear!
SILENT HILL: Townfall
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Ranked #7 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Returning to an island town to ‘put things right’, Simon Ordell descends into a world of tense evasion, explosive confrontations, and mind-bending puzzles that slowly surface the truth of St. Amelia.
Silver Pines
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Ranked #8 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Holstin.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Holstin.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Holstin.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Holstin
- What games are most similar to Holstin?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Holstin are Departure of Darkness, Tobias' Inferno, THE KING IN THE SHADES.
- Who developed Holstin?
- Holstin was developed by Sonka and published by Team17.
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 Holstin.
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