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Games like The Halloway Haunting

If The Halloway Haunting is your kind of game, the closest matches are G.H.O.S.T. Ghost Hunt Ops Special Team, SMS Returns and Backrooms: Echo — 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 The Halloway Haunting: A first-person co-op horror game for 1-4 players. Explore five abandoned buildings in the town of Halloway, solve the puzzles that turn their lights back on, and get away from the thing hunting you in the dark. Play online, in splitscreen, or alone.

2026ActionIndieAdventureWindows · macOS · Linuxby New Bones Studios
The Halloway Haunting — Steam game cover

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  1. G.H.O.S.T. Ghost Hunt Ops Special Team

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Halloway Haunting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Halloway Haunting.

    G.H.O.S.T. — a tactical co-op for 1-4 players. Your main objective: track the Ghost via anomalies and capture it before it collects 7 runes to open the portal. Use Devastators, secure torsional artifacts, and remember—you are there to stop the invasion, not to become its victim.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. SMS Returns

    WHY THIS

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

    The 2012 viral phenomenon returns. A slender, faceless figure hunts you in your favourite maps rebuilt from the ground up, including the all-new Forest. Survive with friends in multiplayer, immerse yourself in VR, and build your own terrifying maps with the in-game editor. Will you survive?

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Backrooms: Echo

    WHY THIS

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

    A co-op horror for 1–4 players inspired by the Backrooms. Procedurally generated levels, terrifying entities, and a realistic atmosphere powered by Unreal Engine 5. Every playthrough is a unique experience. Try to find the way out, but don’t trust everything you hear and see.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Storebound

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Halloway Haunting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Halloway Haunting.

    A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure6.39 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Emissary Zero

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Halloway Haunting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Halloway Haunting.

    Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.

    2025IndieAdventureMassively Multiplayer8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. PARANOIA PLACE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Halloway Haunting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Halloway Haunting.

    PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Devourer: Hunted Souls

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Halloway Haunting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Halloway Haunting.

    Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?

    2023ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Haunt Chaser

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Halloway Haunting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Halloway Haunting.

    Haunt Chaser is a 4 Player Co-Op horror game, can be played as a Single-Player too. Chasers need to use all the hunting equipment in order to banish the evil and save the poor souls from torment while uncovering deeply disturbing secrets. Also, there is a 4v1 party game mode.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 The Halloway Haunting.

    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 The Halloway Haunting.

    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 Action and Indie with The Halloway Haunting.

    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 The Halloway Haunting.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 The Halloway Haunting.

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Halloway Haunting.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Halloway Haunting.

    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 The Halloway Haunting.

    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 The Halloway Haunting

Does The Halloway Haunting have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — The Halloway Haunting supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
What games are most similar to The Halloway Haunting?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Halloway Haunting are G.H.O.S.T. Ghost Hunt Ops Special Team, SMS Returns, Backrooms: Echo.
Who developed The Halloway Haunting?
The Halloway Haunting was developed by New Bones Studios.

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 Halloway Haunting.

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