Games like Hillthorn
If Hillthorn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call of the Forgotten, The Traveller's Sight and The Operator — 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 Hillthorn: A disappearance in a secluded community. A mountain hiding its secrets. A detective running out of time. Welcome to Hillthorn, a dark investigation game that invites you to uncover the mystery without a single word spoken, using your skills of logic and intuition through cards.
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Steam players who put hours into Hillthorn 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.
Call of the Forgotten
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hillthorn.
A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure featuring a detective noir story set in a cyberpunk world, infused with cosmic horror.
AdventureSteam ↗The Traveller's Sight
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
Vincent Dumas, an investigator with supernatural powers, is sent to a small town in France with a murky history to uncover the truth behind the death of Laurène Delgado. Using his ability to communicate with the dead, he sets out to find clues that will lead him to the killer.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hillthorn.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
A Case of Fraud
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Ranked #5 for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
A short non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.
Tangle Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hillthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hillthorn.
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.
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 Hillthorn.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hillthorn.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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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.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Tangle Tower
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hillthorn.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
Frequently asked about Hillthorn
- What games are most similar to Hillthorn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hillthorn are Call of the Forgotten, The Traveller's Sight, The Operator.
- Who developed Hillthorn?
- Hillthorn was developed by Fool Moon, Finnegan Motors and published by Raw Fury.
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