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Games like Paradise Lost

If Paradise Lost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vaulted Valor, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Empathy: Path of Whispers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional and reflective narrative, stunning visuals and thought provoking story. 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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About Paradise Lost: It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.

2021IndieAdventure14.99 USDWindowsby PolyAmorous
Paradise Lost — Steam game cover
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Steam players who put hours into Paradise Lost 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.

  1. Vaulted Valor

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    You are in a post-apocalyptic underground vault where every decision carries weight. As you embark on quests and unravel a deep, twisting story, your actions will permanently alter the lives of your fellow inhabitants.

    2026IndieAdventureRPG12.74 USDSteam ↗
  2. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Paradise Lost.

    Second-strongest match for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Empathy: Path of Whispers

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Paradise Lost.

    Third-strongest match for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

    2017IndieAdventure3.59 USDSteam ↗
  4. Bohemian Killing

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Paradise Lost.

    Ranked #4 for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.

    2016IndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. INDUSTRIA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    Embark on a gripping journey in INDUSTRIA, an atmospheric FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin. Unravel the secrets of a mysterious parallel dimension while searching for a missing colleague. Explore a haunting reality where the truth awaits. Discover the dark past that lies beyond.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Lifeless Planet Premier Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Paradise Lost.

    Ranked #6 for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...

    2014ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Light Remake

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Paradise Lost.

    Ranked #7 for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    There is only you, the abandoned remains of a former life and the flourishing nature that feels great in the absence of man. This world is both gloomy and empty, but so incredibly beautiful.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Road 96 🛣️

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Paradise Lost.

    Ranked #8 for Paradise Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.96 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paradise Lost at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Paradise Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Paradise Lost.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Paradise Lost.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paradise Lost.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paradise Lost.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Paradise Lost

Does Paradise Lost work on Steam Deck?
Paradise Lost is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Paradise Lost cost?
Paradise Lost is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Paradise Lost?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paradise Lost are Vaulted Valor, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Empathy: Path of Whispers.
Who developed Paradise Lost?
Paradise Lost was developed by PolyAmorous and published by Walkabout.

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 Paradise Lost.

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