Games like The Guest
If The Guest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Homesick, The Park® and The Inheritance of Crimson Manor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and tense. 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 The Guest: 'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Players who liked The Guest also play
Steam players who put hours into The Guest 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.
Homesick
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Top pick for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
The Park®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Second-strongest match for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Guest.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Third-strongest match for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Ranked #4 for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Ranked #5 for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Ranked #6 for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
INFRA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Ranked #7 for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.
Virginia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Ranked #8 for The Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Guest at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guest.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guest.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guest.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guest.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
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 ~70% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guest.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guest.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Guest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Guest.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 The Guest.
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 The Guest.
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 The Guest.
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 The Guest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Guest.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Guest.
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. Shares Indie with The Guest.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Park®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Guest.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Virginia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Guest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Guest.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
Frequently asked about The Guest
- Is The Guest verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Guest is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Guest cost?
- The Guest is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Guest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Guest are Homesick, The Park®, The Inheritance of Crimson Manor.
- Who developed The Guest?
- The Guest was developed by Team Gotham and published by 505 Games.
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 The Guest.
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