Games like Rental
If Rental is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Fridge is Red, Keep in Mind: Remastered and Homesick — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 →Rental is a short horror-adventure game set in a rental house, developed by Lonely House and released in 2024 as a free-to-play title. Players explore the environment, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover hidden collectibles while the protagonist, an adorable bunny, navigates what reviewers describe as a mysterious and eerie setting. The game emphasizes atmospheric exploration and environmental storytelling, with ambient sound design that players note builds tension throughout. Reviewers and players highlight how Rental blends cozy, cute visuals with unsettling horror elements, creating a distinctive atmosphere that combines casual adventure with atmospheric horror. The title has received positive reception with approximately 93% approval from over 3,300 Steam reviews, though it is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Rental: Rental is a short and spooky adventure game about the dangers of renting a house in an unknown place.
Players who liked Rental also play
Steam players who put hours into Rental 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.
The Fridge is Red
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Top pick for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
What is inside the Red Fridge? Collection of six episodes of psychological analog horror. Tour through liminal spaces filled with surreal events and uncanny strangers. Inspired by retro horrors of the PSX era.
Keep in Mind: Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Second-strongest match for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.
Homesick
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Third-strongest match for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Ranked #4 for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Ranked #5 for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Lydia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Ranked #6 for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles and atmospheric with Rental.
Ranked #7 for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
Little Misfortune
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an unsettling mood with Rental.
Ranked #8 for Rental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Lydia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rental.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles and atmospheric with Rental.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rental.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
Frequently asked about Rental
- Does Rental work on Steam Deck?
- Rental is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Is Rental free to play?
- Yes — Rental is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Rental?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rental are The Fridge is Red, Keep in Mind: Remastered, Homesick.
- Who developed Rental?
- Rental was developed by Lonely House and published by Animita Project, Astrolabe Games.
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 Rental.
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