Games like Paradigm Island
If Paradigm Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unrest, Lost in the Void : Chapter One and Fay's Factory — 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 Paradigm Island: Step into the shoes of a young mercenary in the midst of an identity crisis. Explore a surreal world on the edge of collapse, shape your identity through choice, and navigate a web of shifting loyalties, hidden agendas, and uncomfortable truths.
Players who liked Paradigm Island also play
Steam players who put hours into Paradigm Island 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.
Unrest
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
Lost in the Void : Chapter One
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
Rediscover the magic of your childhood dreams with Lost in the Void, an immersive isometric pixel art adventure infused with RPG elements inspired by the nostalgic era of the 80s.
Fay's Factory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
Fay’s Factory is a story-based RPG at heart, with deckbuilding elements on top. Manufacture magic and fight duels. Go on hand-crafted adventures. Investigate, argue and lie. Become a great middle manager or a decent human being.
Travelling At Night
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Paradigm Island.
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
Sovereign Syndicate
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Paradigm Island.
A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Paradigm Island.
From the creators of Disco Elysium comes ZERO PARADES – an espionage RPG. You're a brilliant but tormented operant on one final desperate assignment. Gather your broken network, untangle a web of lies, and prove yourself on the world stage - or blow it all up again.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paradigm Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Paradigm Island.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paradigm Island at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm Island.
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 ~67% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Paradigm Island.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm Island.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm Island.
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 ~67% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm Island.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paradigm Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Paradigm Island.
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 Indie with Paradigm Island.
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 and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
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 with Paradigm Island.
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 Indie and Adventure with Paradigm Island.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paradigm Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paradigm Island.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paradigm Island.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Paradigm Island
- How much does Paradigm Island cost?
- Paradigm Island is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paradigm Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paradigm Island are Unrest, Lost in the Void : Chapter One, Fay's Factory.
- Who developed Paradigm Island?
- Paradigm Island was developed by End-all Entertainment.
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 Paradigm Island.
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