Games like Death Motel
If Death Motel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slender: The Arrival, Scanner Sombre and Daylight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its anxious, atmospheric and eerie. 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 Death Motel: Death Motel is a short, intense first-person horror experience about the paranormal events occurring at abandoned Crimson Motel.
Players who liked Death Motel also play
Steam players who put hours into Death Motel 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.
Slender: The Arrival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Top pick for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Scanner Sombre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Second-strongest match for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
Daylight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Third-strongest match for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
Inner Chains
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Ranked #4 for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
An FPS horror game set in a surreal, dark and deadly biomechanical world never seen before. Humankind is just a small part of a hostile universe. Want to survive? Discover its secrets.
Husk
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Ranked #5 for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Husk is a purebred FPP horror inspired by the most classical representatives of the genre. Discover Shivercliff - a daunting town where you uncover the ominous and tantalizing plot. Face the worst nightmares, solve mysteries and survive the devouring darkness in order to find your family.
Garten of Banban 7
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, collectible hunting and atmospheric with Death Motel.
Ranked #6 for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Explore the monster-occupied levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dreads that reside below as you are now completely on your own. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…
Garten of Banban 6
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, point and click and atmospheric with Death Motel.
Ranked #7 for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Explore the forgotten levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the new terrors that reside below. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…
Layers of Fear (2016)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Ranked #8 for Death Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Death Motel at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Death Motel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Death Motel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Death Motel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Landlord of the Woods
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Death Motel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Ukrainian ball in search of gas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Death Motel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
You play as a man turned into a ball and you need to steal all the gas from the forest at all costs.
LoveChoice
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Death Motel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
"What is love?" We try to answer that with this game. The game encourages people to have a warm, soft, and understanding heart.
The Vagrant
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Death Motel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
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.
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 Adventure with Death Motel.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Death Motel.
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 Adventure with Death Motel.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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More from Playstige Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Playstige Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Solarix
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel.
Solarix is a science-fiction stealth/horror game, set in world that overpowers you with unease, insecurity, and desperation, forcing you to confront your own role in the horrors to come.
De-Void
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
De-Void is a first-person adventure game, where the player unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a remote space colony crew.
Post War Dreams
WHY THIS
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel.
POST-WAR DREAMS is a 2.5D Story-Rich, Side Scrolling Action Game, set in the wasteland of USA, plagued with constant war.
Reframed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Death Motel.
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel.
ReFramed is a badass, old-school FPS horror game set in the Solarix universe. Relive the terrors of Solarix in this high-octane, bullet spraying reimagining, only this time, stealth is not an option...
Blind Souls
WHY THIS
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Blind Souls is a first-person adventure game where you can see the world through the eyes of a dead painter.
Caretaker
WHY THIS
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel.
Caretaker is a first-person horror experience. You are hungry for truth and maybe this "caretaker" is hungry for something else. Enjoy a ride of psychotic wickedness, through a maze of “criminally insane” mind
Frightence
WHY THIS
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel. Shares Adventure with Death Motel.
Frightence is a short, intense first-person horror experience.
Platform Game Maker
WHY THIS
Another title from Playstige Interactive, the studio behind Death Motel.
Platform Game Maker is exciting tool to make your dream Platform Game!
Frequently asked about Death Motel
- How much does Death Motel cost?
- Death Motel is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Death Motel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Death Motel are Slender: The Arrival, Scanner Sombre, Daylight.
- Who developed Death Motel?
- Death Motel was developed by Playstige Interactive.
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