Games like I Hate This Place
If I Hate This Place is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eternal Dread, HOW and 2Dark — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. 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 I Hate This Place: A craft-based, isometric survival horror game with twisted monsters and warped reality. Scavenge and build to survive terrifying days and nights while using stealth and noise to fight enemies that stalk by sound. All styled with bold comic art and an '80s horror vibe.
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Eternal Dread
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Top pick for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Eternal Dread is a Medieval Dark Fantasy Horror game. You wake up in a dungeon. Everyone is gone. Have your premonitions finally come true? You must use what you can find around you to survive.
HOW
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
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.
2Dark
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with I Hate This Place.
Third-strongest match for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
2Dark is a stealth adventure game developed by Frédérick Raynal, the pioneer of survival horror games and creator of Alone in the Dark®. Make your way through the lairs of psychopaths, unravel intrigue where madness mingles with horror, and, above all, save the kids!
Pseudo-Haunting
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Ranked #4 for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Fend off spirits by ripping your spirit off your body. Explore a glitched haunted house. Recall twisted memories. Get out alive.
Sanity of Morris
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with I Hate This Place.
Ranked #5 for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
Sanity of Morris: a psychological horror adventure game. Your flashlight reveals the clues you need to stay sane in the search for your father. Discover the truth. Could aliens be real?
System Under Surveillance
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Ranked #6 for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
System Under Surveillance (SUS) is a charming stealth puzzle adventure, where you have to avoid and trick enemies rather than fight them. Take control of Adam and his little robot, TURBO. Use their unique abilities to navigate a maze-like dystopian city. Do you have what it takes to escape?
Forest - The Call For Help
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Ranked #7 for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
After breaking down and calling for a pickup, you hear a call for help in the forest feet away. You decide to investigate the irregular forest while waiting for your friend to arrive.
Dread Flats
WHY THIS
Shares stealth, survival management and atmospheric with I Hate This Place.
Ranked #8 for I Hate This Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..
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Resident Evil
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Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with I Hate This Place.
Reviewers of I Hate This Place cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
The Evil Within 2
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Shares stealth, crafting and an unsettling mood with I Hate This Place.
Reviewers of I Hate This Place cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
How to Survive
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with I Hate This Place.
Reviewers of I Hate This Place cross-mention this title as a similar play.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Stranger Things 3: The Game
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Reviewers of I Hate This Place cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!
Stranger Things VR
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Reviewers of I Hate This Place cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Experience the world of Stranger Things from the never-before-seen perspective of Vecna as he explores unknown realities, forms the hive mind, and enacts his plan for revenge against Eleven and Hawkins.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below I Hate This Place at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~83% under I Hate This Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
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.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under I Hate This Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under I Hate This Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under I Hate This Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under I Hate This Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~83% under I Hate This Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
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 Indie with I Hate This Place.
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 Indie with I Hate This Place.
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 I Hate This Place.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
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 with I Hate This Place.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with I Hate This Place.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about I Hate This Place
- Does I Hate This Place run on Steam Deck?
- I Hate This Place is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does I Hate This Place cost?
- I Hate This Place is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to I Hate This Place?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside I Hate This Place are Eternal Dread, HOW, 2Dark.
- Who developed I Hate This Place?
- I Hate This Place was developed by Rock Square Thunder and published by Feardemic.
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 I Hate This Place.
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