Games like Alter Animus
If Alter Animus is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Backworld, Vagrant Shifter and Second Odium — 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 Alter Animus: Alter Animus is a turn-based RPG with horror elements, mysteries to unveil and a character-driven narrative. It's up to you if these unforeseen and unthinkable circumstances make these people truly come together or if they succumb to the consequences of their actions.
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Steam players who put hours into Alter Animus 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.
The Backworld
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Top pick for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
Slip between the cracks of reality into a world where danger awaits at every turn. Survive with strategy, battling when necessary or fleeing when the odds are stacked against you. Collect strange items, unlock new abilities, and recruit unique companions. Forge your own path; every choice matters.
Vagrant Shifter
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Second-strongest match for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
An RPG about Life, Death, and all that we leave behind...
Second Odium
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Third-strongest match for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Alter Animus.
Seek purpose while managing a plethora of various afflictions and personality traits in hopes to survive an endless barrage of nightmarish threats that continuously seek to consume your mind.
RUNT
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Ranked #4 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Empty Village (Part 1)
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Ranked #5 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
A supernatural curse, or a product of distorted science? Trace the unknown entity. Within a warped reality, you must uncover the hidden side of forbidden truths using only the arrow keys and Enter."
Because The World Died
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Ranked #6 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
Retro pixel art RPG set in a dying world full of coldness, rats, and hard choices. Survive long enough to uncover your past... or die. Nonlinear narrative. Money and resources. Many endings. Zero mercy. Why? Because The World Died.
LISA: The Painful
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Ranked #7 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alter Animus.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Supernormal
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Ranked #8 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
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 Alter Animus.
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.
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 Indie with Alter Animus.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Alter Animus
- What games are most similar to Alter Animus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alter Animus are The Backworld, Vagrant Shifter, Second Odium.
- Who developed Alter Animus?
- Alter Animus was developed by Verminick.
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 Alter Animus.
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