Games like Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR
If Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hillthorn, Short Stories Paranoia and The Heirloom — 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.
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Hillthorn
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Top pick for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
A disappearance in a secluded community. A mountain hiding its secrets. A detective running out of time. Welcome to Hillthorn, a dark investigation game that invites you to uncover the mystery without a single word spoken, using your skills of logic and intuition through cards.
Short Stories Paranoia
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Second-strongest match for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
How do you know, if something is real, or just in your mind? Are you really sure that you can distinguish imagination from reality? For the next couple of hours, listen, watch and be part of a story where imagination and reality intersect each other.
The Heirloom
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Third-strongest match for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
Uncover the secrets of your family and your grandfather's old lighthouse as you seek the truth behind the unusual happenings in The Heirloom, a mysterious thriller adventure inspired by the atmosphere of the Hebrides and Scottish folklore!
Ritual Tides
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Ranked #4 for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
Ritual Tides is a story rich, psychological horror game set on the dark, atmospheric, isolated British island of Hortus. Explore the island, uncover its dark past, loot food, ammunition and supplies, evade the cult of the Fallow Parish, as you fight for survival against Lovecraftian horrors.
Mothman: Shadows of Point Pleasant
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Ranked #5 for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
A former military investigator travels to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to solve a series of murders and child disappearances. Follow the legend of the Mothman into secret underground facilities, government conspiracies, and unimaginable horrors hidden beneath America.
The Echo Paradox
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Ranked #6 for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
The Echo Paradox is a first-person psychological horror game. Humanity stands on the brink of an unsettling revelation – alternate dimensions are real, but eerily without signs of life.
Saturnalia
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Ranked #7 for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.
UFOPHILIA
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Ranked #8 for Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR.
UFOPHILIA is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore areas marked by alien phenomena. Use specialized equipment to detect, identify, and photograph aliens—but do so at your own risk... They are watching you too.
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR are Hillthorn, Short Stories Paranoia, The Heirloom.
- Who developed Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR?
- Strange Absurdity: DOG STAR was developed by MERIDIAN COLLECTIVE.
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