Games like HOW
If HOW is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Leave, Satan Moans and Barbotine — 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 HOW: A psychological horror game where you play as a prisoner exploring the depths of a large and horrific medical facility. You must survive the many creatures and abominations inside and find all the secrets hidden within the strange new labyrinth.
Players who liked HOW also play
Steam players who put hours into HOW 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.
Don't Leave
WHY THIS
Top pick for HOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with HOW.
Welcome to a mysterious adventure where justice and the supernatural intertwine! Judge Harlan, in his old country cottage, faces a mysterious presence after his mother's sudden departure. Explore justice's limits in this extraordinary tale!
Satan Moans
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for HOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with HOW.
Are you ready for an adrenaline-fueled adventure with "Satan Moans"? In this horror-packed game, you'll explore the supernatural events surrounding a teenager returning home in the dead of night. Are you ready to dive into a suspenseful universe?
Barbotine
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for HOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOW.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
Psychopomp GOLD
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for HOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with HOW.
Psychopomp is BACK. The catacombs stretch down farther than ever before. Your entire life has been a lie. Delve into the depths, and discover the horrors that lie below. More realms, more modes, more secrets. An ancient voice calls to you from the center of the earth. Will you answer it?
Hatch
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for HOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOW.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
Pacify
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for HOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with HOW.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
Mirror Forge
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for HOW fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOW.
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below HOW at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOW.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOW.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with HOW.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOW.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOW.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with HOW.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOW.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOW on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOW.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 HOW.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HOW.
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 HOW.
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 HOW.
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 HOW.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOW.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOW.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOW.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about HOW
- How much does HOW cost?
- HOW is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to HOW?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HOW are Don't Leave, Satan Moans, Barbotine.
- Who developed HOW?
- HOW was developed by LXXII.
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 HOW.
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