Games like Paradigm
If Paradigm is your kind of game, the closest matches are Alien Function, Maize and Four Last Things — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its humor lands consistently, lovingly crafted retro aesthetics and atmospheric. 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 Paradigm: Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.
Players who liked Paradigm also play
Steam players who put hours into Paradigm 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.
Alien Function
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Top pick for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Paradigm.
A suspenseful surreal comedy in the depths of space. Typhil and his companions set out to unravel the many mysteries of this enigmatic starship, facing aliens, killer robots, and more on a quest for the truth about their mission, and their lives.
Maize
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Second-strongest match for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Maize is a first-person adventure game about what happens when two scientists misinterpret a memo from the U.S. Government and create sentient corn. And that last sentence is pretty much the least ridiculous thing about the game.
Four Last Things
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Third-strongest match for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
The Henry Stickmin Collection
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure with Paradigm.
Ranked #4 for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.
The Procession to Calvary
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Ranked #5 for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue exploration, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Ranked #6 for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
Back to the Future: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and puzzle solving with Paradigm.
Ranked #7 for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Paradigm.
Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Ranked #8 for Paradigm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paradigm at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradigm.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paradigm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Paradigm.
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. Shares Adventure with Paradigm.
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 Paradigm.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paradigm.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
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 Paradigm.
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 and Adventure with Paradigm.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Four Last Things
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
The Henry Stickmin Collection
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure with Paradigm.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.
The Procession to Calvary
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue exploration, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paradigm.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradigm.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Frequently asked about Paradigm
- How much does Paradigm cost?
- Paradigm is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paradigm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paradigm are Alien Function, Maize, Four Last Things.
- Who developed Paradigm?
- Paradigm was developed by Jacob Janerka.
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 Paradigm.
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