# That's Not My Neighbor: the doorman job where some visitors are fakes

Source: https://roam.new/thats-not-my-neighbor/

That's Not My Neighbor is a horror game by Nacho Sama. You work as the doorman of an apartment building infested with doppelgangers, and every visitor who knocks needs your decision. Let residents in, keep the copies out. It started on itch.io and came to Steam in March 2025.

## How the job works

Someone knocks. You look at them through the window and check what they bring against the building's records. A real resident matches. A doppelganger looks almost right, and the tell is usually something small that is off.

You open the door or you do not. Wrong calls pile up, and letting the wrong thing into the building is how the night goes bad. The game gets harder as the copies get better and the line gets longer.

Reviewers often compare it to Papers, Please: the same booth, the same paperwork, with monsters on the other side of the glass.

Each shift is short, so it is easy to play one more and try to make zero mistakes.


## Tips for spotting fakes

- **Compare, do not glance**: Look at the record and the visitor side by side, one detail at a time.
- **Distrust a perfect story**: Copies are good at looking right. Check the boring details.
- **Slow down**: Most mistakes come from rushing the queue.
- **Learn the residents**: The more faces you know, the faster something wrong stands out.

## Roam inspection horror games

These are separate Roam games, not That's Not My Neighbor. Both keep the check-then-decide tension.

Pass or Purge leans on rules and papers, while Don't Feed Them puts the doubt across a food counter.

- **Pass or Purge**: A border checkpoint sim: check the rules, check the traveller, choose.
- **Don't Feed Them**: A night shift at a shawarma kiosk where some customers are wrong.

## Play it on Roam

- [Pass or Purge](https://roam.gg/play/pass-or-purge/): Read the rules. Check the face. Choose.
- [Don't Feed Them](https://roam.gg/play/dont-feed-them/): One shawarma, please. Are you sure?

## Make your own spot-the-fake game with Roam

Roam is a free iPhone app. Describe the door, the records and what the fakes get wrong, and put your real friends in as the residents. Roam is rated 13+ on the App Store.

Try: "doorman at my dorm, check every visitor against their photo, some are copies with one wrong detail, my friends are the residents"

[Get Roam on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6745489251?pt=126889634&mt=8&ct=rnew-thats-not-my-neighbor)

## Questions people ask

**Who made That's Not My Neighbor?**
Nacho Sama. It first came out on itch.io, then on Steam in March 2025.

**Is That's Not My Neighbor on mobile or console?**
We could not find an official phone or console version. It is on PC, for Windows, Mac and Linux.

**Is That's Not My Neighbor like Papers, Please?**
Yes, in its loop. You check people at a door and decide who gets through, but the risk is doppelgangers.

## About Roam

Roam ("Roam - Make Games" on the App Store) is an iPhone app where you play games and make your own by describing them or from a photo. It is free to download and play, and making games works without a subscription; optional Spark and Reality plans and credit packs add more creation. Android: pre-register on Google Play. https://roam.gg