Games like Anomaly Center
If Anomaly Center is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paranormal Snap Shot, S.A.M. - Stasis Asset Management and 宿の掟 / Rules of the Inn — 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 Anomaly Center: After a wave of layoffs following a murder at the mall, you step in as the night security guard. The job is simple: catch shoplifters and stop anomalies from reaching safe limits. Just remember - DAC has its eye on you.
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Steam players who put hours into Anomaly Center 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.
Paranormal Snap Shot
WHY THIS
Top pick for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Anomaly Center.
Trapped in an endless looping school, can you find your way out by photographing all of the anomalies?
S.A.M. - Stasis Asset Management
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Anomaly Center.
Take the night shift watching CCTV over a sealed-off site: spot the smallest thing out of place, report it, and last until your shift ends. You can't trust what's on the screens — or the aging terminal showing them to you.
宿の掟 / Rules of the Inn
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Anomaly Center.
The rules do not lie. The guests who obeyed them are still in the ledger, and nowhere else. An inn on the border of the afterlife; each night, another rule. Lower your eyes, cover your ears, judge what slips in. Some nights, what comes wears the name of a thing the rules describe. Obey, or doubt.
Watch and Whisper
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Anomaly Center.
A microphone-based surveillance game. Monitor a magical ball for paranormal anomalies. Draw precise sigils and whisper incantations to banish them. You must keep the cursed mirror sealed until the ritual is complete to finally defeat the lurking demon!
Passage Zero
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Anomaly Center.
A short psychological horror experience that asks one question: are you paying attention, or just doing what you were trained to?
Midnight Monitor: Anomaly Watch
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Anomaly Center.
A "spot the difference" horror game where you have to monitor cameras in a haunted house and report anomalies. You have no choice but to finish the job. Can you spot every anomaly? Can you survive the night?
I'm on Observation Duty 8
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Anomaly Center.
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
The Gretlow Tapes
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Anomaly Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Anomaly Center.
Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game. Uncover a chilling mystery through a realistic found-footage lens.
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 Anomaly Center.
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.
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 Anomaly Center.
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 with Anomaly Center.
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 Anomaly Center.
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 with Anomaly Center.
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 Anomaly Center.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Anomaly Center
- What games are most similar to Anomaly Center?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anomaly Center are Paranormal Snap Shot, S.A.M. - Stasis Asset Management, 宿の掟 / Rules of the Inn.
- Who developed Anomaly Center?
- Anomaly Center was developed by Liminal Doors Studios.
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 Anomaly Center.
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