Games like The Hostage

Hooked on the tense and story-driven side of The Hostage? These games line up well for what comes next.

Hostage Down
In this hostage simulation, take the mic and negotiate the ransom to free the hostages. With advanced AI and complete freedom of choice, use your charisma, your narrative decisions, and your power of persuasion to manipulate unpredictable situations. Every word matters—and could come at a high cost.
Story-driven, Replayable
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Escape until Friday
You are kidnapped by a maniac who keeps you locked up in his basement. You have to get out of the kidnapper's house at any cost until Friday.
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
82% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Buried: An Interactive Story
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
95% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story
Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
89% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
85% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
Rescue Operation
Is a first-person shooter game. The game will follow the scenario of the game, and destroy the enemies in its path
Tense, Dark, Mysterious
87% of 255 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Self-Isolation
This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
85% of 418 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Back to the Dawn
A story-rich prison RPG: you have 21 days to gather evidence, survive Boulderton Prison and break out. Play a framed reporter or an undercover agent, befriend 47 inmates, pick a gang or play lone wolf, and find your own route to freedom in a pixel-art mystery with multiple endings.
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
94% of 8,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 136$23.99
Backseat
A psychological taxi horror game where every passenger may be dangerous. Drive through the night, question criminals, read their behavior, hack for clues, and survive each ride to save your kidnapped wife.
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
68% of 125 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Blood Money: Lethal Eden
A live-action thriller where a trip to meet your online lover ends in a scam compound called Eden. Forced to run phone fraud under threat of violence, you climb, scheme or resist, and every choice pushes the story toward very different endings. Dark, tense and surprisingly hard to put down.
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
91% of 1,276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$8.99
STAY
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Tense, Story-driven, Dark
67% of 471 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Cheaper than The Hostage

Flashback

Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month.

$0.49

One Night Stand

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.

$0.74

Better Off Dead - Life as a Prison Guard

Story driven first-person comedy-thriller where you are tasked with guarding a small prison for 7 days.

$0.49

Antagonist

Play as D’Vil, the Dark Lord… and rising star at Evil Productions. Team up with Hero of Light, Ralph, and unleash devastating combos on your foes.

$0.89

Anime And Your Life

This is more than a game. This is your whole life!

$0.49

Summon

A first-person comedy about a streamer, a mysterious knocking and every excuse in the world not to open the door.

$0.49

Psychiatrist Simulator

Have you ever wanted to be a psychiatrist? Now you can! Be a shrink for 14 days. Meet 14 patients with unique story of their lives.

$0.71

Ninja Stealth

Evade the guards and the defences to escape the evil facility on this click and play stealth game, there will be difficult on your path, young…

$0.49

MAN STANDING

The ALFINA GAMERS team together with ALFINA WORLD GAME PUBLISHING are pleased to present a unique game experience.

$0.79

Flight Risk

Fight Risk is a minimalistic desk job game where you play as an air traffic controller trying to save a rogue flight.

$0.74

Psychiatrist Simulator 2

Take role as Dr. Smith, psychotherapist. Game consists of real people video recordings. Talk with them, treat, learn about psychology.

$0.74

TheEvilKing

Text-Based Game, Adventure Game

$0.90

Hidden gems like The Hostage

Blood Money: Lethal Eden

A live-action thriller where a trip to meet your online lover turns into a scam compound, and every choice you make under pressure shapes how your…

$8.99

1998: The Toll Keeper Story

A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of…

$11.99

Welcome to the Game III

Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…

$19.99

Back to the Dawn

A 21-day race to uncover who framed you, survive behind bars and find your own way out.

$23.99

MINDHACK

Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into…

$12.99

Life Eater

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar…

$14.99

The Testing Chamber

For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result...

$4.99

HeatStroke

HeatStroke is a simulation game tasking you to transcribe an unhinged short story while driving down a seemingly endless desert road.

$1.99

We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of…

$7.49

Backseat

A psychological taxi horror game where every passenger may be dangerous.

$9.99

Buddy Simulator 1984

Type answers to a lonely old computer, watch it build a tiny world around you, and find out what it really wants from you.

$9.99

Rescue Operation

Is a first-person shooter game. The game will follow the scenario of the game, and destroy the enemies in its path

$3.99

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