- #1 Detention
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,651 reviews2017
Dev: RedCandleGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%, Dark 7.4%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #2 Lamentum
79% matchVery Positive88% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Obscure TalesPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Why similar: Blood 23.3% ★, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Lovecraftian 11.1%, Horror 10.7%, Survival Horror 9.5%
- #3 MADiSON
76% matchVery Positive87% of 3,271 reviews2022
Dev: BLOODIOUS GAMES
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 23.3%, Dark 11.6%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Violent 7.6%
- #4 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
77% matchVery Positive95% of 35,227 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 32.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Gore 11.2%, Lovecraftian 10.3%, Survival Horror 9.3%
- #5 Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
77% matchVery Positive94% of 2,897 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Why similar: Horror 27.9%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Lovecraftian 10%, Survival Horror 7.4%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #6 Lost in Vivo
75% matchVery Positive92% of 3,867 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.3%, Horror 17.2%, Lovecraftian 12.3%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Retro 10%
- #7 Penumbra Overture
76% matchVery Positive91% of 4,059 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Lovecraftian 9.7%, Dark 8%
- #8 SILENT HILL 2
72% matchVery Positive95% of 58,525 reviews2024
Dev: Bloober Team SAPub: KONAMI
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28%, Horror 18.7%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 11.9%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #9 Visage
74% matchVery Positive84% of 10,604 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Psychological Horror 30.2%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Dark 10.1%, Violent 4.9%
- #10 Downfall
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,626 reviews2016
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Horror 19.2%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Story Rich 10.6%, Dark 7.6%
- #11 IMSCARED
73% matchVery Positive94% of 3,708 reviews2016
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"I need a Heart in order to open it"
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.4%, Horror 22.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Dark 9.2%, Survival Horror 8.1%
- #12 No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
73% matchVery Positive87% of 2,400 reviews2020
Dev: Marevo Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Lovecraftian 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Retro 11.1%, Dark 9.2%
- #13 SOMA
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 50,405 reviews2015
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 17.3%, Lovecraftian 14%, Gore 11.2%, Dark 10.1%
- #14 Night At the Gates of Hell
69% matchVery Positive90% of 856 reviews2022
Dev: Black Eyed PriestPub: Torture Star Video
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
From the sick mind behind Bloodwash, Jordan King, comes his latest experiment in terror. Inspired by the Italian zombie flicks from Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei, Night of the Gates of Hell promises to be a blood dripping, neon soaked, flesh rotting experience.
Why similar: Blood 20.2% ★, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 13%, Gore 11.9%, Survival Horror 10.4%
- #15 Mouthwashing
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,084 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Horror 18.2%, Retro 13%, Gore 12%, Dark 9.8%
- #16 House
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,096 reviews2020
Dev: Bark Bark Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
Why similar: Horror 28.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Gore 14.3%, Violent 10%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
- #17 Fran Bow
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,753 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.2%, Horror 17.8%, Dark 10.2%, Story Rich 10.1%, Gore 8.9%
- #18 Scorn
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 17,522 reviews2022
Dev: Ebb SoftwarePub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
Why similar: Horror 20.1%, Gore 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Lovecraftian 11.7%, Dark 10.1%
- #19 The Count Lucanor
67% matchVery Positive93% of 2,865 reviews2016
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.
Why similar: Blood 23.4% ★, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 14.3%, Gore 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.1%
- #20 ULTRAKILL
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 217,941 reviews2020
Dev: Arsi "Hakita" PatalaPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Why similar: Blood 64.1% ★, Great Soundtrack 20%, Retro 15.9%
- #21 Bendy and the Ink Machine
63% matchVery Positive89% of 34,202 reviews2017
Dev: Joey Drew Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.
Why similar: Horror 29.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Dark 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Survival Horror 11%
- #22 DUSK
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 24,900 reviews2018
Dev: David SzymanskiPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Why similar: Blood 21.3% ★, Retro 18.5%, Horror 16.1%, Lovecraftian 15.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%
- #23 Dark Watching Chapter 1
60% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Cannedheart's studios
Windows
your goal is to find your sister that went missing. Solve simple puzzles and avoid being found by the Watcher.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Horror 20.6%, Blood 14% ★, Dark 11.2%, Atmospheric 6.4%
- #24 OMORI
60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,856 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.2%, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Horror 12.9%, Story Rich 12%
- #25 This Strange Realm Of Mine
62% matchVery Positive82% of 630 reviews2017
Dev: Doomster Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
This Strange Realm Of Mine is a First Person Shooter mixed with poetry and psychological horror. Graphic style is 3D mixed with pixel art.
Why similar: Blood 17.5% ★, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 11.7%, Gore 9.4%, Retro 9.3%
- #26 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
59% matchVery Positive97% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.2%, Horror 18%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Dark 12.1%, Gore 8.6%
- #27 DELTARUNE
57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 97,124 reviews2025
Dev: tobyfox
Windows · Mac
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.8%, Pixel Graphics 25.4%, Story Rich 18.5%, Dark 10.9%, Retro 10.4%
- #28 SIGNALIS
58% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,882 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Lovecraftian 18.4%, Survival Horror 18.1%, Dark 11.9%, Violent 10.2%
- #29 RIP Party
59% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: RewdanSprites
Windows
Throw a party at a maniac's mansion. RIP Party is a single player slasher horror game inspired by 80s & 90s horror movies where you and the NPCs are being hunted. Try and survive the micro sandbox experience.
Why similar: Blood 16.7% ★, Horror 14.1%, Lovecraftian 10.5%, Dark 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
- #30 Ad Infinitum
59% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,399 reviews2023
Dev: HekatePub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 19.6%, Gore 12.6%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Dark 11%
- #31 Pizza Tower
57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 70,682 reviews2023
Dev: Tour De Pizza
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 48.6%, Pixel Graphics 24.1%, Retro 14.9%, Indie 10.2%, Adventure 2.2%
- #32 Cruelty Squad
58% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,088 reviews2021
Dev: Consumer Softproducts
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Why similar: Psychological Horror 74.1%, Retro 25.9%
- #33 The Flayed Man
57% matchVery Positive92% of 363 reviews2025
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Gore 11.1%
- #34 Lunacid
57% matchVery Positive91% of 10,616 reviews2023
Dev: KIRA LLC
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Cast into the Great Well, unwanted by the world above. You delve the dark in search of the Old One, your last salvation. Lunacid is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by Shadow Tower and King’s Field.
Why similar: Retro 35.8%, Horror 26.4%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Gore 9%, Violent 8.5%
- #35 The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
58% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,401 reviews2020
Dev: Dvora Studio Co., Ltd.Pub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean survival horror-adventure. Venture from your deserted school to survive the horrors of the night. Explore the surrounding Sehwa district and uncover the shadow realm's dark secrets. Use everything at your disposal to avoid a demoness hellbent on killing you!
Why similar: Horror 34.4%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Indie 6.1%, Dark 6.1%
- #36 POSTAL: Brain Damaged
57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 10,506 reviews2022
Dev: HyperstrangePub: Running With Scissors
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
POSTAL: Brain Damaged is a new, action-oriented take on the Running With Scissors’ cult game series with throwback graphics, and fast-paced, modern gameplay. Take a wild roller coaster ride through the twisted wonderland encased in the POSTAL DUDE’S messed-up mind.
Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Gore 18%, Retro 17.1%, Violent 15.5%
- #37 Flan's MS
57% matchVery Positive89% of 155 reviews2024
Dev: Geism
Windows
Flan's MS is a 2D story game with some puzzles and gameplay systems. After escaping from everything she is familiar with, Flan needs to retrieve her lost dream diary and find the answers she needs.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Faith 16.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Horror 14.8%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #38 ENA: Dream BBQ
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 34,868 reviews2025
Dev: ENA TeamPub: Joel G
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Why similar: Retro 47.2%, Story Rich 21.4%, Atmospheric 19.5%, Adventure 11.9%
- #39 Look Outside
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,387 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Lovecraftian 19.8%, Survival Horror 16%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Gore 8.1%
- #40 Fear & Hunger
57% matchVery Positive94% of 20,988 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Horror 20.9%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Gore 15.4%, Violent 13.3%, Lovecraftian 12.7%
- #41 Dread X Collection
59% matchMostly Positive80% of 618 reviews2020
Dev: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Horror 20.7%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Gore 10.2%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #42 Dementium: The Ward
55% matchVery Positive88% of 250 reviews2025
Dev: Atooi
Windows
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
Why similar: Blood 17.9% ★, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 12.9%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Retro 10.5%
- #43 WEBFISHING
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 69,660 reviews2024
Dev: lamedeveloper
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 No, I'm not a Human
54% matchVery Positive93% of 26,671 reviews2025
Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.9%, Horror 22.5%, Gore 12.3%, Dark 11.4%, Retro 10.1%
- #45 HROT
56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,261 reviews2023
Dev: Spytihněv
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
Why similar: Retro 25.3%, Blood 17.5% ★, Horror 12%, Gore 11.5%, Violent 9.8%
- #46 Crow Country
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,152 reviews2024
Dev: SFB Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 17.8%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Retro 13.4%, Gore 10.6%
- #47 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,224 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Horror 12.2%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #48 AMID EVIL
57% matchVery Positive93% of 7,556 reviews2019
Dev: IndefatigablePub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
Why similar: Retro 59%, Atmospheric 28.6%, Adventure 12.4%
- #49 Turbo Overkill
56% matchVery Positive94% of 7,148 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger Happy InteractivePub: Apogee Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Why similar: Retro 24.3%, Gore 19.7%, Violent 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%
- #50 Blood West
56% matchVery Positive90% of 5,866 reviews2023
Dev: HyperstrangePub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS. Become the Undead Gunslinger, doomed to roam the barren lands until he manages to purge their curse, freeing his soul. 3 varied scenarios, perk-based character progression, and 20+ hours of gameplay await you!
Why similar: Horror 25.9%, Lovecraftian 21.8%, Retro 21.8%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Dark 15.1%
- #51 Touch of Madness
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NLT Productions
Windows
In this 2D Survival-Horror, you switch between two protagonists as you advance through the story: Neo, a man lost in his own mind, trying to survive an endless nightmare, and Lavina, a loyal friend who will do anything to try to save him.
Why similar: Horror 20.5%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Dark 7.4%
- #52 Inscryption
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,012 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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...
Why similar: Horror 37.8%, Dark 22.8%, Story Rich 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #53 MiSide
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 136,753 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.1%, Horror 27.7%, Story Rich 13.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Puzzle 3.7%
- #54 Iron Lung
56% matchVery Positive92% of 10,407 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Horror 29.6%, Psychological Horror 28.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Dark 9.1%
- #55 CULTIC
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,221 reviews2022
Dev: Jasozz GamesPub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Retro 19.8%, Gore 15.7%, Dark 12.1%, Violent 11.5%
- #56 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,135 reviews2022
Dev: Miro Haverinen
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
F&H 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 24.2%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Lovecraftian 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
- #57 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,632 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.1%, Horror 32.6%, Story Rich 15.5%, Adventure 3.8%
- #58 SILENT HILL f
54% matchVery Positive81% of 25,366 reviews2025
Dev: NeoBards Entertainment Ltd.Pub: KONAMI
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hinako's hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.9%, Horror 23.2%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Story Rich 9.7%, Gore 8.6%
- #59 Just Ignore Them
59% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,450 reviews2017
Dev: Stranga GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.
Why similar: Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Gore 12.7%, Dark 8.6%
- #60 Gloomwood
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,870 reviews2022
Dev: Dillon RogersPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.1%, Lovecraftian 22.9%, Retro 20.9%, Dark 16.3%, Atmospheric 11.8%