Games like HOST
If HOST is your kind of game, the closest matches are Data Rot, Diatribes and TERMINUS — 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 HOST: When your spacecraft crashes on an unknown planet, you navigate your way through its dark and puzzling corridors. Using only your hands and your wits, will you discover your parasitic power before it's too late?
Players who liked HOST also play
Steam players who put hours into HOST 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.
Data Rot
WHY THIS
Top pick for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A chilling, stylized VR horror game. Collect scattered Data Fragments while avoiding an insidious entity that is corrupting your system. Simple gameplay. Dynamic AI opponent. 20-45 min playthrough. Roomscale or Seated.
Diatribes
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
"Diatribes" is a poetic VR interactive experience that explores the internal conflicts that arise when we’re confronted with the reality of climate change.
TERMINUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with HOST.
Embark on a psychedelic 30 minute VR journey into a mysterious universe of alien architecture, populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols.
Isle of Pan
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Photograph strange creatures and open portals to surreal realms in this photography adventure. Isle of Pan is an alternative perceptual experience that recreates the joy of instant photography in the form of a supernatural walking sim.
Screensavers VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with HOST.
Screensavers VR is a portal beyond the two-dimensional world of the screen saver. Explore prismatic realms and discover the potential beyond the CRT.
Ayahuasca
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with HOST.
In the jungle at night, a journey awaits for you... are you ready to embrace the experience? Ayahuasca, the vine of the soul, and how to find your inner space.
EarWorm
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
You are an Earworm. You are an underworld contractor who hacks memories for a living. Dive into the memories of your victims in order to unlock the security questions to their bank account.
Narcosis
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for HOST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below HOST at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOST.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOST.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOST.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOST.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOST.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOST.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HOST on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HOST.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HOST.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HOST.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about HOST
- How much does HOST cost?
- HOST is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to HOST?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HOST are Data Rot, Diatribes, TERMINUS.
- Who developed HOST?
- HOST was developed by Garrett Fuselier.
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 HOST.
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