Games like The Hope Incident
If The Hope Incident is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fear Night Tales - Brothers Kebab Saloon, Apestin Explorer and Dorm 17 — 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 The Hope Incident: In The Hope Incident, you take on the role of a nighttime supermarket employee. What starts as a regular shift quickly turns into a terrifying test of your skills. Serve suspicious customers, deal with the devastating effects of underground anomalies, and uncover the mysteries of GSO-7.

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Steam players who put hours into The Hope Incident 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.
Fear Night Tales - Brothers Kebab Saloon
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Top pick for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
You are the person who looks after the kebab shop because your brother is sick. You learn how to make kebabs and get to know the customers. But there seems to be something strange here...
Apestin Explorer
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Second-strongest match for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
Monsters roamed among us, wearing masks of wealth and status. In the early 2000s, disturbing crimes were hidden behind power and influence. Explore, gather evidence, connect clues, and expose a web of corruption. The real monsters are never supernatural, they are people protected by power.
Dorm 17
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Third-strongest match for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
Dorm 17 is a PSX-style first-person psychological horror game about your first night as a dormitory receptionist, where routine tasks slowly turn into disturbing late-night events.
4am
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Ranked #4 for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
A tiny gimbap café in a back alley, lights on until 4 a.m. Lured by oddly high pay, you take the night shift — greet customers, cook, walk home through the dark. Night by night, something slips out of place. Where did the last clerk go?
Pimalai Mansion: หอนี้ ผีไม่ดุ
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Ranked #5 for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
A part time job where you explore an abandoned building for a Radio station. Player can encounter a ghost or taking a photo.
Arcadia Cafe
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Ranked #6 for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
Arcadia Cafe - domestic horror in early 2000s. Work the night shift as a student at a roadside cafe. Meet bizarre guests, get cash for your job, but beware — homecoming may be much more horrible than you expect.
Clink
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Ranked #7 for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
El 39
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Ranked #8 for The Hope Incident fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
Constitución, CABA. 3 AM. You leave a party, feeling defeated because the girl you liked didn't even look at you. You go to wait for the last "39" bus of that night. You try to stop it, but it goes straight away. Tomorrow you have the exam that defines whether you graduate or not. Good luck.
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 Hope Incident.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Hope Incident.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hope Incident.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 The Hope Incident.
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 and Simulation with The Hope Incident.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hope Incident.
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 The Hope Incident.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Hope Incident
- What games are most similar to The Hope Incident?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hope Incident are Fear Night Tales - Brothers Kebab Saloon, Apestin Explorer, Dorm 17.
- Who developed The Hope Incident?
- The Hope Incident was developed by Avent 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 Hope Incident.
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