Free games like Paranormal
Below are 9 free-to-play Steam games similar to Paranormal, 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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Ranked picks
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
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 Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window.
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!
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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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The Children of Clay
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. 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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Fractured Mind
Free-to-play alternative to Paranormal — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal.
This is a PT inspired psychological horror game, with a bodycam style.