Games like Holstin
If Holstin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vaccine Rebirth, Departure of Darkness and CLEARANCE: S-7 — 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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Vaccine Rebirth
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Top pick for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Holstin.
Enter once again into the world of Survival Horror.
Departure of Darkness
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Second-strongest match for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Pure determination to save her brother keeps Emma in this parasite-infected airport. Scavenge, unravel, and slaughter your way through Departure of Darkness, a 90s survival-horror throwback. Tread lightly when rescuing the survivors or you’ll succumb to the hive mind…
CLEARANCE: S-7
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Third-strongest match for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
November 1989, Czechoslovakia. As a secret-police officer you descend into the hidden facility Š-7, ordered to burn the archives and silence the witnesses. But no one down there is still alive — only corpses, tapes, and things that used to be people. A retro survival horror about guilt and memory.
PHASE ZERO
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Ranked #4 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
A grotesque illness binds the town of Flint Peak. Several survivors try to escape with their lives as mysterious creatures roam the streets. Face horrific monsters, solve puzzles and uncover the truth in this classic survival horror. Can you escape the nightmare?
Beneath
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Ranked #5 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Beneath is a Lovecraft-inspired survival FPS. Scarce ammo, merciless enemies and a sense of the unknown combine in a 10+ hour, story-driven single player campaign, built for both veteran gamers and those seeking a challenging old school experience.
Dead Beacon
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Ranked #6 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Holstin.
Dead Beacon is a first-person survival horror inspired by late 1990s games and taking place in the Beacon manor, a location crawling with zombies and creatures governed by a malevolent will. Survive using the given array of weapons and escape the island.
Flesh Made Fear
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Ranked #7 for Holstin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Holstin.
Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.
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 Vaccine Rebirth, Departure of Darkness, CLEARANCE: S-7.
- 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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