Games like Hotel 188
If Hotel 188 is your kind of game, the closest matches are TAPE GLITCH, Liminal Horror and Inner Rooms — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Hotel 188: Dive into a realistic experience of the Backrooms, without jumpscares, getting lost in impossible spaces and feeling like something is watching you. The uncertainty of not knowing where you're going will make you want to quit… Will you be able to make it to the end?
Players who liked Hotel 188 also play
Steam players who put hours into Hotel 188 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.
TAPE GLITCH
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
A first-person psychological horror game where VHS tapes pull you into corrupted memories inside a flooded liminal complex.
Liminal Horror
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
You wake up trapped in a strange swimming pool. A 20-minute psychological horror experience where familiar spaces transform into alien nightmares. There are no monsters. Only you, an endless maze of water, and your slowly dissolving grip on reality.
Inner Rooms
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
Wander through vast, unsettling liminal spaces as a quiet presence grows alongside you. Inner Rooms is a psychological atmospheric exploration game set in a world that appears calm and peaceful, yet constantly radiates unease.
Liminalcore
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
BACKROOMS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
'BACKROOMS' is an immersive first-person exploration horror game. Wander through the endless liminal spaces made with procedural generation, try to survive, and find an escape.
POOLS
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hotel 188.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
Silent Threat
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
you will embark on a psychological exploration experience that will engulf you in deep curiosity and tension. in this world of modern buildings, dark corners, and mysterious tunnels, you will chase the unknown. walk, look around, and listen to the sounds.
No Visitors Allowed
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Ranked #8 for Hotel 188 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
A minimalist psychological horror game inspired by The Exit 8, where players must escape a looping post-Soviet-era abandoned hospital corridor by detecting anomalies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hotel 188 at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotel 188.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
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
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Priced ~75% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
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 ~83% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hotel 188.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotel 188.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotel 188.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hotel 188 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotel 188.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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 Hotel 188.
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 Hotel 188.
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 Indie with Hotel 188.
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 and Adventure with Hotel 188.
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 Indie and Adventure with Hotel 188.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hotel 188.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hotel 188.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Hotel 188
- How much does Hotel 188 cost?
- Hotel 188 is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hotel 188?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hotel 188 are TAPE GLITCH, Liminal Horror, Inner Rooms.
- Who developed Hotel 188?
- Hotel 188 was developed by Leonn Camayo and published by Andes Interactive.
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 Hotel 188.
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