Games like SCP: Short Story
If SCP: Short Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Curse of Darkness, Wandering Meatbags and Chernobyl Trap — 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 SCP: Short Story: SCP: Short Story is a first-person shooter set in a world where the K-class scenario destroyed almost every living form. You’ll have to get through this dead world, retrieve essential documents from Site-17, and most importantly - do not get killed by what survived.
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Steam players who put hours into SCP: Short Story 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.
Curse of Darkness
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Top pick for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Short Story.
is a tense survival game in a post-apocalyptic world where the player has to collect parts of a crashed car to save himself while avoiding deadly monsters. Four different creatures roam the world, each with their own special abilities
Wandering Meatbags
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Second-strongest match for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
Wandering Meatbags is a FPS zombie shooter. Walk around in the city, find loot and survive to the waves of zombies !
Chernobyl Trap
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Third-strongest match for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
You are survived pilot of fallen helicopter. Your mission is simple: go to evacuation point. But can you do it and not die?
ZIC – Zombies in City
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Ranked #4 for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.
Deep Space
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Ranked #5 for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
You are entrusted with the role of one of the elite captains, put on a high-tech mech suit suitable for travel into space and go on an exciting journey.
Contagion
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Ranked #6 for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Hover Junkers
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Ranked #7 for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
Engage in multiplayer VR gunfights that capture real gun play like no FPS you've played before. Pilot and fortify Hover Junkers as you physically walk, duck, dodge and aim in cross ship combat.
Glory to Ukraine!
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Ranked #8 for SCP: Short Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
On 24 February, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Your task is kill the invaders. Use any available weapons: knive and axe, machine gun and grenades. Be careful, enemies are crafty and merciless. The fate of Ukraine depends on you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SCP: Short Story at current Steam store prices.
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
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Priced ~41% under SCP: Short Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SCP: Short Story.
Digital ED Treatment Center is a random launcher for players in a gaming slump. We help you rediscover the joy of play and unearth hidden gems buried in your library. Click to start your treatment and reignite your gaming vigor!
The Vagrant
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Priced ~47% under SCP: Short Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Mining Mechs
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Priced ~61% under SCP: Short Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Short Story.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Seraph's Last Stand
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Priced ~54% under SCP: Short Story on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCP: Short Story.
Create insane builds and break the game in all possible ways to get your name into the leaderboards! Every round you get stronger, but so does the enemies...
ULTIMATE HARDBASS DEFENCE
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Priced ~61% under SCP: Short Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
SHOOT. SURVIVE. DANCE HARDBASS.
Your Mother
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Priced ~51% under SCP: Short Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SCP: Short Story.
《Your Mother》is a computer desktop companion. Experience the love and kindness from mothers.
LIZARDS MUST DIE
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Priced ~47% under SCP: Short Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SCP: Short Story.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with SCP: Short Story.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Short Story.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SCP: Short Story.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SCP: Short Story.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Short Story.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SCP: Short Story.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about SCP: Short Story
- How much does SCP: Short Story cost?
- SCP: Short Story is listed on Steam at 1.50 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SCP: Short Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SCP: Short Story are Curse of Darkness, Wandering Meatbags, Chernobyl Trap.
- Who developed SCP: Short Story?
- SCP: Short Story was developed by 10th Emerald Studio.
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 SCP: Short Story.
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