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Games like Night Hike

If Night Hike is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadhead: Autorail, BATHYSPHERE and EXCISA — 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 Night Hike: Find your way through a dark wilderness in this atmospheric roguelike where you assemble the trail. Navigate obstacles by spinning your compass, interact with lost souls and choose the path out of the endless night.

StrategyIndieAdventureWindows · Linuxby Michael Neumann
Night Hike — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Night Hike 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.

  1. Deadhead: Autorail

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Hike.

    Learn what a hostile workplace truly feels like on this ever-changing haunted train. Can you trust yourself to make the right decisions? Will you figure out the train's dark secrets on this journey or the next?

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. BATHYSPHERE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Hike.

    The year is 1940—you wake up in a bathysphere, stuck in an endlessly repeating battle against enemies unknown. Investigate your surroundings and uncover the truth behind the time loop.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. EXCISA

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Hike.

    Sit down at a séance table in an abandoned house. Choose a tarot card. Roll the dice. Risk everything to summon the Angel who never lies. Every reach across the table might bring you closer to the truth—or seat something else opposite you. Five chairs. The dead have heard you, too.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. PRESS: Authorized Disposal

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Hike.

    Manage a trash disposal factory. Press, Burn, and Sort each load. Complete your contracts. Upgrade your operation. Keep the pit empty. Don't ask about the contents!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. INFERIUS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Hike.

    Descend through nine dominions of Hell in a first-person horror roguelike deckbuilder. Wield Major Arcana tarot cards, upgrade your deck between deaths, use your lantern to survive the dark, and defeat each ruler before your sanity breaks.

    2027StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Night Hike.

    True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3 is the final chapter of the psychological thriller trilogy. With point-and-click mechanics, intricate puzzles, and cinematic cutscenes, immerse yourself in a dark horror experience that redefines the genre.

    2025AdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Oxenfree

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Hike.

    Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

    2016IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Xi

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Night Hike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Hike.

    "Xi" is a horror puzzle game set in the context of modern Chinese folklore. The story takes place in an long-abandoned mountain mansion. This immersive escape room experience feels a bit too real, with eerie and strange elements everywhere—an empty banquet, an endless corridor.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Hike.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Night Hike.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Hike.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Night Hike.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Night Hike.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Night Hike.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Hike.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Night Hike.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Night Hike

What games are most similar to Night Hike?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Night Hike are Deadhead: Autorail, BATHYSPHERE, EXCISA.
Who developed Night Hike?
Night Hike was developed by Michael Neumann.

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 Night Hike.

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