Games like HOLE
If HOLE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forest Keeper, Trepang2 and Quantum Hell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its gameplay is highly immersive, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →HOLE is a single-player extraction shooter with roguelike progression developed and published by NEGAFISH. Released in 2024 at a price of 3.99 USD, it combines atmospheric horror and psychological elements in a dark, mysterious setting. Players navigate procedurally generated runs, collecting loot and customizing weapons while unlocking new characters and upgrades through meta-progression. The first-person gameplay is described as immersive and intense by players, with satisfying gunplay and sound design cited as standout features. The roguelike structure offers high replayability despite the game's short length, designed for short burst sessions with quick load times. The game is not supported on Steam Deck and carries a hard difficulty rating. It holds a 95% positive rating from 2602 Steam reviews.
About HOLE: Casual & Hard FPS. Be careful with jam.
Players who liked HOLE also play
Steam players who put hours into HOLE 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.
Forest Keeper
WHY THIS
Top pick for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Survival Horror set on a sinister island. As a lone forest keeper, you'll unravel its grim secrets from the eerie backstory of a royal vacation home turned nightmare. Journey through the changing seasons, from day to night. Confront nightmarish abominations that emerge in the winter cold.
Trepang2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with HOLE.
Second-strongest match for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
Quantum Hell
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Take on the role of a journalist trapped in a ruthless quantum universe where you'll need a diverse arsenal and the manipulation of quantum physics to survive and progress. Quick thinking, speed, and precision will be essential to surviving in this retro style physics FPS
Incursion Red River
WHY THIS
Shares gun customization and an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Ranked #4 for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HOLE.
IRR is a tactical PvE Co-Op extract shooter set in a de-stabilized and immersive modern-day Vietnam. As a PMC for a mysterious organization, deal with 3 factions that stand to gain from the chaos. Engage in ruthless combat, plan your deployment, and explore the world as your journey unfolds.
Far Far West
WHY THIS
Shares extraction shooter and an intense mood with HOLE.
Ranked #5 for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Yee-haw, Cowboys! Team up in this chaotic 1-4 player co-op shooter. Journey to the Far Far West to blast monsters, sling spells, complete missions, and collect bounties. Work as a team to get in, get paid and get out (mostly) alive.
Into the Radius VR
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with HOLE.
Ranked #6 for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.
Flesh & Wire
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Delve into the psychological roots of the POSTAL series in Flesh & Wire, a horror first person shooter that ventures into the twisted reality of a hapless victim seeking enshrouded answers and grisly vengeance against the crazed gunman who changed her life forever.
Inner Chains
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Ranked #8 for HOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HOLE.
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.
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Prey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HOLE.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Super Motherload
WHY THIS
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with HOLE.
Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.
A Game About Digging A Hole™
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management, underground exploration and an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with HOLE.
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HOLE.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Black Mesa
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
Relive Half-Life.
Assassin's Creed® Origins
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HOLE.
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HOLE.
Explore Ancient Egypt in this action-adventure game. Battle powerful enemies, unveil conspiracies, and discover the origin story of the Assassin’s Brotherhood.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HOLE.
Reviewers of HOLE cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HOLE.
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below HOLE at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOLE.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOLE.
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 ~75% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Action with HOLE.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOLE.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOLE.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOLE.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under HOLE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 HOLE.
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 with HOLE.
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. Shares Action and Indie with HOLE.
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 with HOLE.
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 Action and Indie with HOLE.
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
Shares an intense mood with HOLE.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HOLE.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HOLE.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HOLE.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about HOLE
- Does HOLE work on Steam Deck?
- HOLE is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does HOLE cost?
- HOLE is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to HOLE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HOLE are Forest Keeper, Trepang2, Quantum Hell.
- Who developed HOLE?
- HOLE was developed by NEGAFISH.
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 HOLE.
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