Games like The Strange House
If The Strange House is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Schism, Specimen 13 and Paraplasm: Beyond the Veil — 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 The Strange House: Will you manage to escape ? The Strange House is a die-and-retry horror game where you will need to do everything you can to keep your cool and survive. Solve puzzles using VHS tapes, find tools to force open the exit door, and above all, stay STEALTHY !
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Steam players who put hours into The Strange House 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 Schism
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Top pick for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
The Schism is a sci-fy horror game. There has been a paranormal split, colliding realities and causing all manner of dangerous lifeforms to scatter across the globe. With the world in chaos, it seems like it's down to you to get to the bottom of it.
Specimen 13
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Second-strongest match for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
In Specimen 13 you play as one of five survivors (or a traitor) who find themselves as unwilling subjects in an experiment set on a mysterious island. Alternatively, play as the Specimen and prevent the survivors from escaping through the underground elevator.
Paraplasm: Beyond the Veil
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Third-strongest match for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
You fell into this cursed house! But will you be able to cope with the paranormal activity? Solve the puzzles and try to find your way out!
Inner Demons
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Ranked #4 for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
Inner Demons is a first-person psychological horror game where the line between madness and reality dissolves. Explore, fight, and evade disturbing manifestations of your own mind as they invade the world around you - if you can tell them apart from what is real.
Hidden Shelter
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Ranked #5 for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Strange House.
Death lurks in every corner of this journey filled with tension and despair. The brave may not be the smartest here and those who know the time to retreat are more likely to make it out alive in the end ... Find your lost friend in a house that holds unimaginable secrets.
Pole of Cold
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Ranked #6 for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Strange House.
Pole of Cold is a sci-fi survival horror game set at a research station somewhere in Antarctica. Explore it and find a way to escape death.
KONON: The Ritual
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Ranked #7 for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Strange House.
A narrative-driven psychological horror game set in the haunting town of Tenggarong, where you explore, survive, and uncover buried secrets using your sixth sense to navigate a world twisted by supernatural terror lurking just beneath reality.
ThroughHelltoHeaven
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Ranked #8 for The Strange House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Strange House.
Help Amy survive the Vile Demons in Hell in order to find the Portal and Ascend to Heaven.
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 The Strange House.
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 The Strange House.
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 The Strange House.
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 The Strange House.
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 The Strange House.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Strange House.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Strange House.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about The Strange House
- What games are most similar to The Strange House?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Strange House are The Schism, Specimen 13, Paraplasm: Beyond the Veil.
- Who developed The Strange House?
- The Strange House was developed by RIXE.
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 The Strange House.
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