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Games like Room 42

If Room 42 is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, The Walking Dead and SKYHILL — 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 Room 42: You wake up in a locked room with five strangers. Something unknown lurks outside. Will you survive the night?

2017ActionAdventure0.99 USDWindowsby Akumu Games
Room 42 — Steam game cover

Players who liked Room 42 also play

Steam players who put hours into Room 42 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 Walking Dead: A New Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Room 42 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Room 42.

    After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?

    2016Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Walking Dead

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Room 42 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Room 42.

    A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.

    2012Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. SKYHILL

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Room 42 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Room 42.

    World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

    2015IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Room 42 at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Room 42.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Room 42.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Room 42.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Room 42.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Room 42.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Room 42.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗
  7. Shotgun Legend

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Room 42.

    Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.

    2018ActionIndieRPG0.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Love wish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Room 42 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Room 42.

    Love Wish is an easy, fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle.♪(^∇^*) Put the pieces together to restore the full picture of the girls. Collect their photos and animations and remember this wonderful moment❤

    2020ActionIndieCasual0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Madness Fantasy

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Room 42.

    What happens when you mix south park and GTA? Five friends leave for a crazy weekend, but end up arrested. Now they will be forced by police to infiltrate a dangerous criminal organization and take on crazy missions. Will you succeed in take them out of this mess?

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck 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 Room 42.

    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 Adventure with Room 42.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Akumu Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Akumu Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. ikenie

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Akumu Games, the studio behind Room 42. Shares Action and Adventure with Room 42.

    Embark on a journey into the unknown. ikenie is a 2D action-adventure/puzzle game for PC featuring challenging and unique mechanics, multiple paths, and original soundtrack in a dark themed world. Can you change your fate?

    2016ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. YOMOTSU

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Akumu Games, the studio behind Room 42. Shares Adventure with Room 42.

    A transport that sets out at dusk and arrives at midnight. A world above. A world below. YOMOTSU is the thin line that connects the two.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Miraculo Island

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Akumu Games, the studio behind Room 42. Shares Adventure with Room 42.

    What you thought would be eight boring days in a remote island will become your worst nightmares. Is the place haunted? Is someone else out there to get us? Is there another motive they brought us here? Depends on you and your mates to survive in this mysterious place.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Room 42

How much does Room 42 cost?
Room 42 is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Room 42?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Room 42 are The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, The Walking Dead, SKYHILL.
Who developed Room 42?
Room 42 was developed by Akumu 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 Room 42.

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