Games like STRANGER
If STRANGER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hallways, Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery and Five Nights: No Escape — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its audio cues guide positioning, anxious and immersive. 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 STRANGER: STRANGER is a Single-player Survival Thriller Horror Game. Choose your house and difficulty, then survive until dawn. Uncover mysterious truths about the STRANGER. Play on PC or with VR support
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Steam players who put hours into STRANGER 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.
Hallways
WHY THIS
Top pick for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with STRANGER.
You must survive the night in this immersive survival horror. Utilize your limited power to keep the attacker from getting to you from one of the hallways surrounding you. Can you survive?
Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with STRANGER.
Second-strongest match for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
Five Nights: No Escape
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with STRANGER.
Survive Five Nights in Multiplayer co-op with real-time voice chat! Welcome to Megan’s Mall where your job is to uncover mysteries, find the truth, and survive by managing your power -- It's a summer job you will never forget!
Emiline: The Ghost of White Willow
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STRANGER.
A gothic horror with intense spine chilling atmosphere find yourself trapped in the unrelenting haunts of White Willow Manor Hall. Find a way out or perish at the hands of a sinister family of Victorian apparitions.
FOREWARNED
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with STRANGER.
Ranked #5 for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
FOREWARNED is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror. Delve deep into ancient Egyptian ruins with your team of fellow archaeologists. Investigate phenomena, collect treasure, discover lore, survive danger, and banish the evil that lurks within.
Silent Mansion : Part2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
Silent Mansion is a mystery place with a beautiful atmosphere. This game is a puzzle adventure game. You will find clues in this historic mansion and chase a witch!
MADiSON VR
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with STRANGER.
Ranked #7 for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
MADiSON VR now plunges you even deeper into its immersive and terrifying world. With the utilization of an instant camera in your virtual hands, bridge the gap between our world and the unknown. Snap photos, develop them by yourself to solve puzzles, explore the shadows and above all, survive.
CRYO
WHY THIS
Shares an anxious mood with STRANGER.
Ranked #8 for STRANGER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
Reviewers mention these as similar to STRANGER
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Scrutinized
WHY THIS
Shares time pressure and a tense mood with STRANGER.
Reviewers of STRANGER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with STRANGER.
Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.
Five Nights at Freddy's
WHY THIS
Shares an anxious mood with STRANGER.
Reviewers of STRANGER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with STRANGER.
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
T. B. P.
WHY THIS
Reviewers of STRANGER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with STRANGER.
This is a game in which the player needs to navigate through the planets of the corresponding type (so that the other planets are the same as the one on which the rocket is located).
INQUIR P.T.
WHY THIS
Reviewers of STRANGER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
A post-apocalyptic story-based action adventure game. Fully customizable weapons and a high mobility character. Zombie horde mode and full of action, blood, brutality.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below STRANGER at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with STRANGER.
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 ~44% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Action with STRANGER.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with STRANGER.
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 ~44% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STRANGER.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with STRANGER.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under STRANGER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STRANGER.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with STRANGER.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with STRANGER.
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 Action and Indie with STRANGER.
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 STRANGER.
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 STRANGER.
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 Action and Indie with STRANGER.
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.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with STRANGER.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with STRANGER.
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!
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Frequently asked about STRANGER
- How much does STRANGER cost?
- STRANGER is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to STRANGER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside STRANGER are Hallways, Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery, Five Nights: No Escape.
- Who developed STRANGER?
- STRANGER was developed by Lost Frame Development.
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 STRANGER.
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