Games like Short Stories Paranoia
If Short Stories Paranoia is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Heirloom, Chaperone and ANOMALITH — 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 Short Stories Paranoia: How do you know, if something is real, or just in your mind? Are you really sure that you can distinguish imagination from reality? For the next couple of hours, listen, watch and be part of a story where imagination and reality intersect each other.

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Steam players who put hours into Short Stories Paranoia 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.
The Heirloom
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Top pick for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories Paranoia.
Uncover the secrets of your family and your grandfather's old lighthouse as you seek the truth behind the unusual happenings in The Heirloom, a mysterious thriller adventure inspired by the atmosphere of the Hebrides and Scottish folklore!
Chaperone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Chaperone is a first-person psychological horror game. The events are completely real. Supernatural events taking place in an atmospheric and constricting closed house, events of unknown cause. You can enjoy being scared to the fullest.
ANOMALITH
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Short Stories Paranoia.
“ANOMALITH” is a survival third-person shooter set in Japan, steeped in the atmosphere of liminal spaces and Showa-era retro aesthetics. To search for her missing friend, a girl steps into a world writhing with anomalies.
Inn The Dark
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Ranked #4 for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories Paranoia.
You have been sent to aid in a Triple Homicide case. But you soon find that things are not as they seem. Inn This first person horror game you must investigate the strange super natural on goings in a haunted hotel. Run and hide from danger using only a Flashlight and Camera!
The Midnight Bus
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Ranked #5 for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories Paranoia.
A short narrative horror experience, in which you find yourself in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm without knowing what has happened to the driver or the other passengers in the vehicle, you just know that there is something out there lurking.
Cliché Horror 2000s: The Witch’s Lair
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Ranked #6 for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Cliché Horror Anos 2000: The Witch’s Lair is a third-person horror game inspired by 2000s slasher movies. Four young filmmakers enter an abandoned mansion to shoot an amateur film, only to discover that the entity lurking within is just part of something far greater.
Tribulum
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Ranked #7 for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Fight and survive during a great supernatural tribulation. Explore abandoned locations, confront people possessed by a demonic plague that destroys moral conscience, and uncover a story where faith, fear, and humanity collide.
Don't Leave
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Ranked #8 for Short Stories Paranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Welcome to a mysterious adventure where justice and the supernatural intertwine! Judge Harlan, in his old country cottage, faces a mysterious presence after his mother's sudden departure. Explore justice's limits in this extraordinary tale!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Short Stories Paranoia.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories Paranoia.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories Paranoia.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories Paranoia.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Risen Realms, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Typing Hero
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Another title from Risen Realms, the studio behind Short Stories Paranoia. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
In a world filled with Zombies, the last survivor of a Spec Ops squad tries to survive, and make his way through Hordes of Zombies to reach his final destination.
Short Stories Whispers In The Walls
WHY THIS
Another title from Risen Realms, the studio behind Short Stories Paranoia. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Follow in the footsteps of Detective John Palisnki, drawn to a small town after a tragic suicide. As he searches for answers, John encounters supernatural phenomena that challenge his understanding of reality. Unravel dark secrets and face your fears in a haunting atmosphere filled with mystery.
Together We Play: Help Me Help You
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Another title from Risen Realms, the studio behind Short Stories Paranoia. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Join your friends to embark on a hilarious cooperative adventure! In this multiplayer game, gather up to 8 players and dive into a series of levels filled with quirky challenges, puzzles, and mini-games. Are you ready to unlock the fun?
Frequently asked about Short Stories Paranoia
- What games are most similar to Short Stories Paranoia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Short Stories Paranoia are The Heirloom, Chaperone, ANOMALITH.
- Who developed Short Stories Paranoia?
- Short Stories Paranoia was developed by Risen Realms.
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 Short Stories Paranoia.
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