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Games like Dad's Office 1998

If Dad's Office 1998 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ghost Frequency, The Backrooms: Unseen Tapes and LATITUDE OF THE CULT — 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.

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About Dad's Office 1998: A liminal office horror game in an endless procedurally-generated building.

AdventureWindowsby David Copeland
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  1. Ghost Frequency

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

    In Ghost Frequency, you are a ghost hunter from PIT - Paranormal Investigation Team. Your mission is to locate a sinister spirit using the EMF Ghost Detector to track paranormal activity, the IR Thermal Camera to reveal hidden entities, and the EVP Digital Recorder to capture eerie voices.

    2025ActionAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Backrooms: Unseen Tapes

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    "The Backrooms: Unseen Tapes" is a first-person survival horror game where you navigate a maze-like, ever-changing procedurally generated environment. With stealth, speed, and strategy, evade monsters and conserve limited resources to maintain your sanity and escape this nightmarish dimension.

    2024Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. LATITUDE OF THE CULT

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

    Latitude of the Cult blends psychological horror with stealth, combat, and exploration. Face fanatics and unpredictable threats as you fight, hide, and survive across hostile environments where tension, choice, and atmosphere shape every encounter and the reality around you.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. HEAVY AS STONE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

    You’re sick. So is the city. Explore a crumbling Terminal that loops when you die. Solve cursed investigations. Weaponize your symptoms. Find the truth, or spiral with it.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  5. Deflector: Specimen Zero

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

    Wield Eradicator’s boomerang in high-octane bullet hell roguelite action. Enter the trial for the cure to a deadly virus in the hostile microcosm of Deflector. Repel enemy projectiles, evolve with collected DNA and strike down all opposition.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Paranormal Cleanup

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

    Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Exit From

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

    Exit From - is a first-person horror-stealth game with quest and procedural generation elements where you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every new game.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Stela

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dad's Office 1998 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

    Stela is a cinematic, atmospheric platformer about a young woman witnessing the final days of a mysterious ancient world.

    2020IndieAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

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  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dad's Office 1998.

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Frequently asked about Dad's Office 1998

What games are most similar to Dad's Office 1998?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dad's Office 1998 are Ghost Frequency, The Backrooms: Unseen Tapes, LATITUDE OF THE CULT.
Who developed Dad's Office 1998?
Dad's Office 1998 was developed by David Copeland.

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 Dad's Office 1998.

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