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Games like Hotel Carnivalia

If Hotel Carnivalia is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Gaslight, Blind Gavel and Imposters: Countdown — 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 Hotel Carnivalia: Hotel Carnivalia is a 15-player first-person social deduction game. Roam a gothic hotel on foot, hunt your prey as a predator, or follow the traces left behind to find the predators hiding among you.

2026ActionStrategyIndieWindowsby DARELARK Studio
 Hotel Carnivalia — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Hotel Carnivalia 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. The Gaslight

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hotel Carnivalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hotel Carnivalia.

    The Gaslight is a chaotic social deduction game where one player is the Murderer, one is the Detective, and everyone else is trying to survive. Talk, lie, complete missions, use your pepper spray, and figure out who you can trust before someone gets stabbed.

    2026ActionStrategyCasualSteam ↗
  2. Blind Gavel

    WHY THIS

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

    A Victorian age auction house built on deception. The auctioneer knows the real value of each item and quietly enriches partners hidden in the crowd. Bluff, pull the con, and bid before the room votes on your death

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Imposters: Countdown

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hotel Carnivalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Complete tasks & mini-games. Report bodies. Call voting sessions. Hack the station. Overload the reactor. Betray your friends. An online party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-12 players...in third person! Escape the ship before the countdown runs out! Don't get fooled by the rogue AI.

    2023CasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 4 Penny Coffins

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hotel Carnivalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hotel Carnivalia.

    In 4 Penny Coffins, up to 8 players hunt a hidden murderer through lies, shifting alibis, and hard evidence in our online multiplayer mode. This social investigation game also includes a solo mode for those brave enough to face the fog alone.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Among Us

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hotel Carnivalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!

    2018Casual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bitten! Someone has to be a villain

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hotel Carnivalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hotel Carnivalia.

    Multiplayer game (4-10 ppl) where traitors betray and kill other players while avoiding being noticed! Innocent players fight with zombies to pick up weapons and power-ups (like scanners to expose traitors). Players use voice or text chat to convince others they are innocent!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. WISE GUYS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hotel Carnivalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hotel Carnivalia.

    Wise Guys is a ruthless, high-stakes social deduction game where trust is a weapon and betrayal is just survival. Up to 8 players race against time to clean up their criminal operation and get out before the raid hits. Meanwhile, a Rat is quietly sabotaging the crew at every turn.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Suspects: Mystery Mansion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hotel Carnivalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hotel Carnivalia.

    Gather clues, complete tasks and discover which player is the killer! Suspects: Mystery Mansion is a social deduction game that features native voice chat, tons of unique game modes and regular fresh content — all within a stylized world of unique characters!

    2021ActionStrategyCasualSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hotel Carnivalia.

    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 ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hotel Carnivalia.

    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 ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hotel Carnivalia.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hotel Carnivalia.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hotel Carnivalia.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hotel Carnivalia.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hotel Carnivalia

Does Hotel Carnivalia have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Hotel Carnivalia supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Hotel Carnivalia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hotel Carnivalia are The Gaslight, Blind Gavel, Imposters: Countdown.
Who developed Hotel Carnivalia?
Hotel Carnivalia was developed by DARELARK Studio.

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