Free games like Short Stories Paranoia
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Short Stories Paranoia, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Short Stories Paranoia.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. 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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The Midnight Bus
Free-to-play alternative to Short Stories Paranoia — no purchase or trial window. 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.