Games like The Hostel Project
If The Hostel Project is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corsair Cove, Academia : School Simulator and Mega Mall Story — 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 Hostel Project: Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.
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Corsair Cove
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Top pick for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Hostel Project.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Academia : School Simulator
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Second-strongest match for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hostel Project.
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Mega Mall Story
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Third-strongest match for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hostel Project.
Design a towering mega mall in this mall management simulation game.
Two Point Museum
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Ranked #4 for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hostel Project.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
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Ranked #5 for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hostel Project.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
The Sushi Spinnery
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Ranked #6 for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hostel Project.
Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #7 for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Hostel Project.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Foundation
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Ranked #8 for The Hostel Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hostel Project.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hostel Project.
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.
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 Hostel Project.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hostel Project.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hostel Project.
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 with The Hostel Project.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hostel Project.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hostel Project.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about The Hostel Project
- What games are most similar to The Hostel Project?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hostel Project are Corsair Cove, Academia : School Simulator, Mega Mall Story.
- Who developed The Hostel Project?
- The Hostel Project was developed by figmargaux.
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 Hostel Project.
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