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Games like Midnight Motel

If Midnight Motel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Notebook Entries Vol. 1, Plunge for Your Life and Backrooms Bodycam 2 — 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 Midnight Motel: Work the night shift at a remote motel to pay for your sick mother's medicine. Manage rooms, serve guests, and survive the night. But when escaped convicts arrive, you face a deadly choice: hide them from the police, reject them, or pull the trigger. The choice is yours.

2026ActionIndieAdventureSimulationCasualEarly AccessWindowsby CryVoltaStudio
Midnight Motel — Steam game cover

Players who liked Midnight Motel also play

Steam players who put hours into Midnight Motel 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. Notebook Entries Vol. 1

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Motel.

    Horror Anthology focusing on different tension methods. One should caress your fears..

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Plunge for Your Life

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Motel.

    A retro FPS with roguelike elements. Players take an elevator deeper and deeper, fighting unidentified armed hostiles, planting explosives to destroy targets, and uncovering the secrets behind Complex 17. As depth increases, enemies grow more dangerous—can you make it out of the elevator alive?

    2027ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Backrooms Bodycam 2

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Motel.

    Enter the Mysterious World of the Backrooms! Find weapons left behind by other wanderers, fight off dangerous entities, and make your way to the exit!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. RebelZ

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Motel.

    Join the RebelZ and experience intense, action-driven single-player FPS gameplay. Stand against a powerful AI empire and protect the last surviving groups of humanity in a world on the brink of extinction.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Object 24

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Motel.

    A psychological horror set in a Soviet apartment. By day, perform rituals to manage your anxiety. By night, face your home as it turns into a threat. Survive in absolute solitude, face the fears you tried to escape, and remember everything you were forced to forget.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. The Hideaway

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Midnight Motel.

    The Hideaway is a contemplative, realistic survival experience set in a low poly environment. Lost and wandering in a harsh environment without food, water and weapons, your objective here will be to survive and extract from this hostile area in one piece.

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Fractured Mind

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Motel.

    This is a PT inspired psychological horror game, with a bodycam style.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Subsurface

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Midnight Motel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Midnight Motel.

    A 1–4 player co-op underwater horror game where you and your crew descend into the depths, recover valuable resources, meet your quota, and survive whatever lurks below.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure9.99 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 and Casual with Midnight Motel.

    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 Action and Adventure with Midnight Motel.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Midnight Motel.

    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 ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 Midnight Motel.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Midnight Motel.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Midnight Motel

What games are most similar to Midnight Motel?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Midnight Motel are Notebook Entries Vol. 1, Plunge for Your Life, Backrooms Bodycam 2.
Who developed Midnight Motel?
Midnight Motel was developed by CryVoltaStudio.

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 Midnight Motel.

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