Games like Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's
If Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's, Catacombs: The Asper Case and Amelia's Escape — 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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's: A nostalgic 80's VR escape room puzzle adventure! You're a detective searching for a kid who went missing in 1987. Explore the kid's game room, play with retro toys, figure out puzzles and find the kid to solve the case!
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Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's
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Top pick for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
90's teen Delia has disappeared in an abandoned arcade and it’s up to you to find her in this thrilling VR escape room adventure! Solve challenging puzzles and discover mysterious clues, all while playing awesome retro 90's arcade games!
Catacombs: The Asper Case
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
In 1804, doorman Philibert Asper's body was found in the Catacombs of Paris. His death remains unsolved to this day. This VR experience takes you 20 feet underground to uncover the truth about his demise. Find out what lurks in the darkness, but make no mistake, spirits never come alone.
Amelia's Escape
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Amelia’s Escape is a VR escape room with an interwoven narrative! Take on the character of Amelia to solve puzzles to escape the room of a time travel obsessed scientist! Will you be able to escape?
The Atlas Mystery: A VR Puzzle Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Explore the haunted halls of the infamous Atlas Theater, a 1940’s era movie palace that played host to a shocking Hollywood tragedy. Solve intricate puzzles, discover startling artifacts, and evade sinister forces to uncover the twisted truth behind the theater’s dark history.
EscapeVR: The Basement
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
You find yourself locked in the cell of an unknown basement with nothing else than a bed and a toilet. Can you escape? Explore the environment, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and find your way through a total of 7 rooms to -hopefully- escape the basement of this VR escape room game.
Ghost Town
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Ranked #6 for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Ghost Town is a single player VR puzzle-adventure from the makers of The Room. London, 1983. Edith Penrose is a ghost hunter, busy exorcising her way through the city's restless spirits. But after her brother goes missing Edith must draw upon her wits & supernatural talents to unravel the mystery.
I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
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Ranked #7 for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Become an elite super spy ready for espionage, explosives, and gadgets galore. This popular escape-the-room VR franchise is back with more ingenious puzzles, cunning villains, and dangerous locales.
Twin Peaks VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Twin Peaks VR brings people into the world of Twin Peaks using the immersive technology of VR. Based on the iconic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, players will be able to experience several locations from the show including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff's Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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
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Priced ~70% under Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Other recommendable Steam games by LunaBeat, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cinderella VR
WHY THIS
Another title from LunaBeat, the studio behind Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Enter a world full of magic, fairy godmothers and storybook castles in Cinderella VR! Solve puzzles and play games with Cinderella as you cook, dance, design a gown, and pilot a magic pumpkin. All these and more charming minigames are included this wholesome, family-friendly adventure!
Rainy City: Pandemic
WHY THIS
Another title from LunaBeat, the studio behind Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Explore the cyberpunk metropolis of Rainy City while delivering pizzas, meeting the locals and saving your sister!
Kris Kringle's Christmas Village VR
WHY THIS
Another title from LunaBeat, the studio behind Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's. Shares Simulation and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
Get into the spirit of Christmas with this festive holiday VR experience. Play wintery carnival activities- Holi-Darts, Ski-Ball, Reindeer Basketball and the Blizzard Blaster Gallery!
Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's
WHY THIS
Another title from LunaBeat, the studio behind Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's. Shares Simulation and Casual with Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's.
90's teen Delia has disappeared in an abandoned arcade and it’s up to you to find her in this thrilling VR escape room adventure! Solve challenging puzzles and discover mysterious clues, all while playing awesome retro 90's arcade games!
Frequently asked about Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's
- How much does Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's cost?
- Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's are Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's, Catacombs: The Asper Case, Amelia's Escape.
- Who developed Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's?
- Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's was developed by LunaBeat.
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