Games like Paranormal: Found Footage
If Paranormal: Found Footage is your kind of game, the closest matches are In The Backrooms, Echoes of The Backrooms: Remastered and Platform 8 — 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 Paranormal: Found Footage: You are a student journalist who decides to make a documentary about the abandoned «North» cosmodrome, where in the 1990s a series of man-made disasters occurred that caused serious genetic changes in humans and animals, forming previously unknown mutations.
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In The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
Echoes of The Backrooms: Remastered
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
"Echoes of The Backrooms" is an indie horror game that masterfully captures the unsettling atmosphere of the Backrooms and the uncanny eeriness of liminal spaces. This game excels in creating an immersive horror experience with its cinema-quality visuals and meticulously crafted environments.
Platform 8
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
Near Death
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
Hatch
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
The Cabin Factory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.
Shhh!
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)
The Black Ice
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paranormal: Found Footage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paranormal: Found Footage at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
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 ~57% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Paranormal: Found Footage on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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: Found Footage.
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 and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
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 Paranormal: Found Footage.
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 Paranormal: Found Footage.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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: Found Footage.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Paranormal: Found Footage.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Paphnutius
Other recommendable Steam games by Paphnutius, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
ZonZon
WHY THIS
Another title from Paphnutius, the studio behind Paranormal: Found Footage. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
The main character is a journalist who arrived at a large warehouse to record a documentary about the warehouse operation. But instead, he is faced with a real nightmare. The warehouse turns out to be populated by hungry guards and crazy warehouse operators who turn it into a death trap.
Escape From Warehouse
WHY THIS
Another title from Paphnutius, the studio behind Paranormal: Found Footage. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
The journalist goes to the warehouse to record a documentary, but becomes a witness to creepy stories. The guards and warehouse workers look very strange. What is really hidden behind the endless shelves and how not to become a victim of the warehouse?
Ragdoll Playground
WHY THIS
Another title from Paphnutius, the studio behind Paranormal: Found Footage. Shares Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Ragdoll is a fun sandbox game with realistic collision physics. Launch your character as you would anywhere.
BOO! ARE YOU SCARED?
WHY THIS
Another title from Paphnutius, the studio behind Paranormal: Found Footage. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
"Boo! Are you scared?" – game with realistic physics of collisions and destruction, where every step can be the last. Gloomy levels full of dangerous obstacles and bottomless abysses await you.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Platform 8
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
Near Death
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
The Cabin Factory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.
The Black Ice
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Paranormal: Found Footage.
A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you.
Frequently asked about Paranormal: Found Footage
- How much does Paranormal: Found Footage cost?
- Paranormal: Found Footage is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paranormal: Found Footage?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paranormal: Found Footage are In The Backrooms, Echoes of The Backrooms: Remastered, Platform 8.
- Who developed Paranormal: Found Footage?
- Paranormal: Found Footage was developed by Paphnutius and published by WINTERMUTE.
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