Games like Nightmare House
If Nightmare House is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dendrophobia, COMING HOME 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Nightmare House 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.
Dendrophobia
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Top pick for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
A twisted pixel-art horror thriller about death, ancient gods, and a persistent waiter. Explore The Willow’s Embrace hotel, solve puzzles, and gather paranormal evidence. Challenge the madness to find a way out and avoid becoming part of an eternal nightmare.
COMING HOME
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
A retro slasher horror game, with a focus on home defense. In the dead of night, you hear someone lurking outside - but you are not defenseless. Watch the cameras, barricade your doors, and have your gun at the ready - anything to keep the Sundown Rippers from claiming their next victim.
THE KING IN THE SHADES
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
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.
CALL OF CUTIE
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Ranked #4 for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
CALL OF CUTIE is a single-player horror adventure set inside a vast, terrifying laboratory. Explore dark corridors, solve puzzles, fight frightening enemies, and rescue the victims trapped inside. Choose your own path with Bubbles and find a way to escape.
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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Ranked #5 for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare House.
Command Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie cop who stumbles onto the carnage reporting for his first duty, or play as Claire Redfield, desperately searching for her missing brother. Cutting edge 3-D accelerated graphics that create a terrifying, photo-realistic experience.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
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Ranked #6 for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare House.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Play With Me: Escape Room
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Ranked #7 for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?
The Evil Within 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Nightmare House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare House.
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.
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 Nightmare House.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmare House.
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 and Indie with Nightmare House.
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 and Adventure with Nightmare House.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightmare House.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Nightmare House.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nightmare House.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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More from We Create Stuff
Other recommendable Steam games by We Create Stuff, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
In Sound Mind
WHY THIS
Another title from We Create Stuff, the studio behind Nightmare House. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.
Nightmare House: The Original Mod
WHY THIS
Another title from We Create Stuff, the studio behind Nightmare House. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.
Days Without Incident
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Another title from We Create Stuff, the studio behind Nightmare House. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmare House.
It has been -̷̯͙̔̈́-̴̱̽̓͝-̷̍̊̕͠ days without incident. Your investigation has brought you to an old metalworks factory, abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. But something’s been growing in the quiet. A short first-person survival horror experience.
Frequently asked about Nightmare House
- What games are most similar to Nightmare House?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightmare House are Dendrophobia, COMING HOME, THE KING IN THE SHADES.
- Who developed Nightmare House?
- Nightmare House was developed by We Create Stuff and published by Black Lantern Collective.
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 Nightmare House.
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