Games like Paranormal
If Paranormal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fractured Mind, The Forest and Interstellar Marines — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its subtle horror escalates unpredictably, atmospheric 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 Paranormal: Experience the horrors of a haunting that's never the same twice. Paranormal is a 3D fully dynamic haunting experience. The player takes the role of Mattel Clarke, an artist who has a haunted house. Mattel decides to film the hauntings with his camera, which is the viewpoint of the game.
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Fractured Mind
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
This is a PT inspired psychological horror game, with a bodycam style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Second-strongest match for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Interstellar Marines
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Third-strongest match for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
UPDATE 28 AVAILABLE - Interstellar Marines is an immersive tactical sci-fi First Person Simulator in the making, offering a unique blend of tactical gameplay, dynamic environments and non-scripted AI. Play Singleplayer or Co-op/PvP on servers around the world.
EmergeNYC
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
EmergeNYC is a simulation of New York City's Emergency Services. Drive over 30 different Emergency Vehicles with up to 32 of your friends through busy City Streets with blazing sirens and air horns. Take the role of a firefighter, medic, or police officer and ride with your friends to emergencies
The Isle
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Withstand: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Ranked #6 for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Play as journalist who arrived to unknown island to reveal all the mysteries and find information about secret government experiments. Explore beautiful and dangerous open world. Try to survive, fight enemies, craft new objects and complete quests to reveal what happened.
Girl Amazon Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Ranked #7 for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Stay alive fighting with the bandits and zombies. Hunt animals, build houses.
Scavenger SV-4
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Ranked #8 for Paranormal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.
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Visage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Paranormal.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Paranormal.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Five Nights at Freddy's
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal.
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!
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Paranormal.
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paranormal.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Ben The Exorcist
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Ben the Exorcist is horror/comedy game from first person perspective. The task of our titular Hero is to banish annoying ghosts from haunted house of Whiterspoon family so they could finally continue their boring life peacefully.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Paranormal.
Reviewers of Paranormal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paranormal at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paranormal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal.
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 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
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 ~55% under Paranormal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paranormal.
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 ~50% under Paranormal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paranormal.
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 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paranormal.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Paranormal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Paranormal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
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 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
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.
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 Paranormal.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Paranormal.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Paranormal
- Does Paranormal run on Steam Deck?
- Paranormal is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Paranormal cost?
- Paranormal is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paranormal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paranormal are Fractured Mind, The Forest, Interstellar Marines.
- Who developed Paranormal?
- Paranormal was developed by Matt Cohen.
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 Paranormal.
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