Games like Alter Animus
If Alter Animus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vagrant Shifter, Because The World Died and LISA: The Painful — 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.
Vagrant Shifter
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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.
An RPG about Life, Death, and all that we leave behind...
Because The World Died
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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.
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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Third-strongest match 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...
Cursed Order
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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.
Fight for Astaria's freedom as a revolution army against a kingdom-dominating cult with a bunch of teens in your party!
Scotophobia
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Ranked #6 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
Scotophobia is a psychological horror in which you’re your accommodation is rapidly changing ceasing to belong to you. Will you be able to uphold your abode, reveal the origin of the mysterious guests, keep sanity, and… survive?
Bad Omens: 8th Apartment
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Ranked #7 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
You play as a student named Lisa, who has just moved in with her university friend. But instead of a carefree student life, Lisa faces events full of despair and fear when she is left alone in her apartment number 8...
Dude My House Is Haunted
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Ranked #8 for Alter Animus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
Welcome to a Haunted house full of ghostly shenanigans and spooky jump scares! You are a top G ghost hunter and you must capture all the ghostly anomalies that terrorize this luxurious home. This isn't just paranormal activity, this is paranormal BRUH-tivity.
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.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alter Animus.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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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 Vagrant Shifter, Because The World Died, LISA: The Painful.
- 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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