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A walking simulator in which you control a mentally ill hero. You must escape the ``something'' you encounter and return to the original world as you know it. Explore the map while running away from "something" and find a way to escape.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.8%, Horror 15.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Exploration 11.7%, First-Person 11.1%

Fight to keep your mind in the shadow of crime and the unknown. Crime & Anomaly is an indie psychological horror that drags you through the dark corridors of 1860s Saint Petersburg. Inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, every creaking floorboard and flicker of light can shatter your sanity.

Why similar: Stealth 29.9%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Exploration 12.5%, Horror 8%, First-Person 7.4%

YELLOW is a liminal survival horror game. As a M.E.G. inspector in hazmat gear, explore unstable Backrooms zones to document "Undocumented" entities. With zero data available, you must study these lethal threats, uncover their origins, and solve the mystery of why new levels are appearing.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.5%, Simulation 17%, Exploration 13%, First-Person 9.7%, Stealth 9.1%

Sumigami is a walking simulator set in a world of enigmatic creatures. Ranging from wholesome to horrific, each encounter pulls you deeper into a haunting journey with a unique visual style.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.2%, Stealth 28.8%, Exploration 17.3%, Horror 14%, Indie 1.7%

The protagonist Ken and his friend Jun have come to a certain mountain to visit a rumored ruin. What awaits them there is...

Why similar: Stealth 34.8%, Walking Simulator 21.7%, Horror 15.2%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 7.2%

A stealth horror game in the woods, investigate and progress while drawing as little attention to yourself as possible.

Why similar: Stealth 34.9%, Horror 15.6%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Supernatural 10.5%, First-Person 9.4%

Christmas Eve, a delivery driver turns onto Holly Ridge & becomes trapped inside a decaying house of death. Reality fractures as something hunts her through rooms that shouldn’t exist. Survive the night, uncover the truth behind the house, & escape the snowy nightmare, if escape is even possible.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.6%, Simulation 22.4%, Exploration 15.7%, Horror 13.7%, First-Person 12.2%

Welcome Home is a bone-chilling horror walking simulator that plunges you into a world of terror and intrigue. Set in a decrepit and sinister house that you have just purchased, this game will test your courage as you navigate through the eerie halls of your new home.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Simulation 17.9%, Horror 17.4%, Exploration 12.9%, First-Person 10.3%

A thrilling and fast-paced indie horror game.

Why similar: Stealth 32.6%, Demons 19.8%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Horror 17.3%, First-Person 9.9%

The Vending Machine is a survival stealth horror where you must sneak, run, and escape from an anomalous vending machine.

Why similar: Stealth 28.3%, Walking Simulator 27.8%, Horror 12.8%, Exploration 12.1%, Simulation 10.5%

PinDrop: Escape The Room is a brutal, one-sitting survival horror game where silence is your only weapon. Navigate dark, procedurally generated environments, outwit sound sensitive zombies, and find the true door to escape, if you can survive.

Why similar: Stealth 28.6%, Walking Simulator 21.1%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Horror 9.7%, First-Person 8.8%

The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...

Why similar: Stealth 27.9%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Horror 12.5%, First-Person 10.3%

Seroutte is a short atmospheric experimental horror dreamscape based on the developer's nightmares. It explores themes such as the loss of control, fear of the dark, and the paranoia found within the unknown.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Stealth 16.7%, Demons 13.1%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 10%

A first-person psychological horror game set in a pitch-black mansion where your only tool is a flashlight. Collect clues, make risky light-on or light-off decisions, and survive sudden shock jumpscares in a tense, combat-free experience focused on fear and uncertainty.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Exploration 15.2%, Demons 13.8%, First-Person 11.9%, Horror 8.8%

A missing engineer must be found. The communication towers must be restored. When the lights go out, the Hag will find you.

Why similar: Stealth 17.4%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Supernatural 13.8%, Horror 13.6%, Exploration 8.9%

Nightfall House is a first-person walking simulator game that allows you to feel as if someone is always around.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.6%, Stealth 20.6%, Simulation 18.1%, Exploration 12.3%, First-Person 8.1%

Single player horror game with puzzle elements. Solve the puzzles and Escape Camp Stranded.

Why similar: Stealth 27%, Horror 16.1%, Exploration 15.7%, First-Person 15%, Supernatural 12.7%

A game in the genre of horror that will immerse you in the story of a prisoner who had a chance to try to get out of the bunker in which strange things happen. In the game you will have to solve small puzzles, learn the history of the game while reading diaries and of course hide.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Stealth 18.4%, Horror 16.9%, First-Person 12.9%, Dark 8.2%

A security job gone wrong. Now you are trapped with something deep inside an underground research bunker, and you are all that is left. Can you overcome your fear in this escape room horror?

Why similar: Stealth 37.4%, Horror 16.4%, First-Person 10.8%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Simulation 10%

Cases of disappearances have become more frequent in the small town. The tracks lead to an empty house on the outskirts of the city...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.6%, Exploration 18.2%, Simulation 13.7%, First-Person 11.7%, Horror 10.2%

A short walking simulator with a horror feel that recreates actual found footage, which can be related to Liminal Space and Backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.7%, Exploration 19.4%, Simulation 14%, Horror 13.2%, First-Person 12.8%

Descend into darkness as John, a search and rescue officer reaching the final destination of the journey. Explore claustrophobic mines in this horror experience that blends atmospheric exploration with stealth-based survival.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.8%, Stealth 23.4%, Exploration 16.2%, First-Person 12.7%, Horror 10.8%

Backrooms: What's Next is a Co-op horror game up to 4 players, where you and your friends will explore the game, try to pass the game level using your mind, wit, remembering the places where you were

Why similar: Stealth 30%, Walking Simulator 22.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Horror 9.7%, First-Person 9.4%

Backrooms: The Others is a cooperative horror game for up to 4 players where you will be forced to explore these unknown nooks and crannies, trying to survive in this complex world where death can be waiting for you at every turn!

Why similar: Stealth 31.4%, Walking Simulator 22.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Horror 9.9%, First-Person 9.4%

Isle of Lament is a first-person mystery game set on a haunted island. Uncover its dark secrets as you explore eerie landscapes, solve intricate puzzles, and wield supernatural abilities to track and banish vengeful spirits. Can you break the curse before it claims you?

Why similar: Stealth 31.5%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Supernatural 15.8%, Exploration 14.3%, First-Person 11%

A first-person audio game, telling the tale of a blind yet gifted hero. Make your way through a 3D environment without receiving any visual cues. Put all your faith in your ears and help our hero in his quest to uncover the sinister secrets of these twisty uranium mines, which he calls his home.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Stealth 25.8%, Exploration 14.1%, First-Person 13.9%, Horror 10.7%

Backrooms: The Deep Dark is a 4-player cooperative horror game where you will survive in a mysterious scary atmospheric world, wander through unknown dark corners and get scared of every nook and cranny!

Why similar: Stealth 32.2%, Walking Simulator 23.1%, Exploration 13.7%, Horror 10%, First-Person 9.2%

Enthaur is a poetic and visceral solo first person journey where players are launched in a decaying world made of flesh, where they need to play with body-like mechanics to survive.

Why similar: Stealth 31.5%, Walking Simulator 22.7%, Exploration 19.5%, Horror 15%, First-Person 8.9%

"Mitsume" is a two-player cooperative horror game. Wander together through a dimly lit university campus and communicate to find "anomalies" that appear from only one player's perspective.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39%, Stealth 23.3%, Horror 16.2%, Simulation 11.4%, First-Person 8.6%

Born Into Fear is a first-person horror game set in an evacuated neighborhood. You'll have to complete task and avoid enemies to destroy the evil Buffer.

Why similar: Stealth 23.1%, Nonlinear 19.9%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Horror 12.5%, Exploration 10.9%

Zack has a simple choice.. Run. Escape. Survive. With lots of puzzles to solve, Keys to find, Puzzle items to obtain to help progress through the game to lead to your escape. Will you live to tell the tale of JJ Randalls Orphanage?

Why similar: Stealth 31.9%, Walking Simulator 22.4%, Exploration 13%, First-Person 10.2%, Dark 5.9%

“Remember it? Remember it! ” I can’t remember anything. Somebody keeps speaking to me: ”Where are you? Where are you? ” I need to go into my mind and find myself! I have come to this place named “The Third Building”. My memory is buried here.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.3%, Stealth 28.6%, Horror 15.9%, Gore 10.6%, First-Person 10.5%

A short atmospheric horror game where you play a father searching for his missing son in a quiet neighborhood haunted by a wandering entity inspired by an old Saudi legend. Explore, collect keys and notes, survive encounters, and uncover the truth as the presence stalks you through the night.

Why similar: Stealth 35.1%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Horror 18.4%, Demons 10.9%, Exploration 8.5%

Escape a dark, confusing, and hostile world with only a few and limited spells. Escape Maroxyn - if you can.

Why similar: Stealth 22%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Demons 11.5%, Horror 11.2%, Exploration 10.6%

One small mistake on vacation can lead to big trouble. Are you ready for it? Are you ready to face the Beaver… who’s out for revenge?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.3%, Stealth 19%, Horror 14.7%, Simulation 14.5%, First-Person 12.1%

Find your way out of a haunted house like a maze. A first-person horror exploration adventure.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 46.1%, Exploration 20%, Horror 18%, First-Person 12.9%, Indie 1.9%

Experience the spine-chilling horror game where you explore the haunted depths of an ancient cave shrouded in mystery. As Rani, you will navigate cryptic puzzles, eerie spirits, and survive the supernatural to uncover dark secrets and escape with your life.

Why similar: Stealth 17.3%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Horror 15.7%, Supernatural 14.8%, Exploration 14%

Tomb of Chacal is a first-person horror game with stealth and puzzle mechanics. You are an archeologist who has stumbled upon the discovery of a lifetime - an undiscovered tomb hidden deep in the jungle. But the riches here are being guarded by an ancient evil.

Why similar: Stealth 26.5%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, Demons 11%, Horror 10.5%, Exploration 9.6%

Use 3D spatial audio to track a demonic stalker while searching for a hidden supernatural doll seven times in a darkened house. Hide in closets, manage three lives, and survive 15-minute horror sessions with strategic gameplay and smart pacing.

Why similar: Stealth 21.5%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Demons 13.3%, Horror 11.9%, Supernatural 11.7%

Checkout is a psychological horror walking simulator where players attempt to escape from endlessly looping hotel corridors. The game delivers an intense immersion with its tension-building soundtrack and realistic graphics. Unravel the hidden stories and find your way out of the hotel.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Simulation 23.6%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 13.6%, Gore 10%

A systemic immersive sim where the city learns your habits. Switch between two fugitives, hack humans and machines, and gamble with 3–10 minute time fractures that can spawn parallel selves—every solution works, and every solution leaves a bill.

Why similar: Stealth 39.6%, Walking Simulator 27.5%, First-Person 11.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Exploration 9.6%

Take control of an urban explorer content creator as you explore and abandoned underground genetics lab. Find items and unlock secrets to escape. Tread carefully however, the horrors of the past still lurk in the shadows here.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.7%, Stealth 22.2%, Exploration 18.3%, Horror 13.4%, First-Person 12.6%

Backrooms: The Next Level is a Co-op horror game up to 4 players, where you and your friends will explore the game, try to pass the game level using your mind, wit, remembering the places where you were

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Stealth 21.7%, Exploration 13.1%, Simulation 12.1%, First-Person 10.3%

Selenetrope is a survival horror game where you play as a lab grown homunculus struggling to survive in a base below the surface of an exoplanetary moon. Battle your insane and misbegotten brothers and stave off a raging fever that threatens to destroy you from within.

Why similar: Stealth 26%, Nonlinear 24.5%, Horror 17.3%, Exploration 15.6%, First-Person 11.4%

Trapped At Home is a horror game focused on hiding and avoiding a serial killer who has broken into your house and is looking for his next victim.

Why similar: Stealth 34.8%, Walking Simulator 23.4%, Horror 16.3%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 7.9%

You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Demons 14.3%, Exploration 13.3%, Simulation 12.7%, First-Person 10.9%

Trapped in a haunted loop at a forgotten three-way junction— Can you find what’s wrong before the night consumes you?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.8%, Simulation 24.9%, Exploration 15.7%, Horror 10.3%, First-Person 9.7%

Last Shift is a first-person survival horror game with no combat. Explore an abandoned grocery store, flee from a sinister creature, find hidden items, and solve unsettling puzzles. Overcome your fear to uncover the terrifying truth behind the store’s abandonment.

Why similar: Stealth 25.3%, Horror 13.9%, Gore 12.5%, Supernatural 10.9%, First-Person 10.8%

He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad, or good. So be good... for goodness sake... Santa Claws is coming to town.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Demons 16.6%, Exploration 16.3%, Horror 14.4%, First-Person 12.8%

Silent Still 3 is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on sleep paralysis, limited movement, and environmental tension. Fear builds slowly through silence, observation, subtle audio cues, and realistic spaces, creating a lasting sense of unease as control gradually slips away.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29%, Simulation 17.6%, Exploration 13.8%, Demons 11.5%, First-Person 8.8%

The game "From Day To Day" is a psychological thriller in the first person. You bought a seemingly ordinary abandoned house to start life with a clean slate after the tragic events in your family.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.1%, Horror 16.2%, Exploration 14.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Nonlinear 9.9%

"Alone in the house" is a short horror game. In this chilling horror game, you return to an empty house. Your mother has left a message with tasks for you to complete. As you fulfill each task, eerie events unfold around you. Will you uncover the dark secrets, or succumb to the fear?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Horror 18.1%, Exploration 16.3%, Demons 14.5%, Dark 6.7%

One final night watch in a half-renovated hotel. Corridors stretch too far, doors breathe open, and the silence is full of footsteps. They said just make it to morning—but the building was never empty, and it doesn’t want you to leave.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Stealth 24.3%, Supernatural 11.9%, Horror 10.8%, First-Person 10.7%

Skull Hotel is a horror game where you clean hotel rooms while creatures hide, waiting to kill you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Demons 19.5%, Horror 13.6%, First-Person 10.7%, Dark 10%

A psychological horror walking simulator set in an abandoned school corridor. Detect subtle changes, make the right decisions, and reach Corridor 13 before the corridor keeps you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Simulation 19.8%, Exploration 15.1%, Horror 9.7%, Nonlinear 8.9%

A small, survival horror game with retro style graphics similar to consoles from the past. Explore, collect items, and hide from any possible danger.

Why similar: Stealth 40.8%, Exploration 21.9%, Horror 18.2%, First-Person 16.5%, Indie 1.7%

Explore the Archaeological Park in Sardinia in search of Ellie, your girlfriend who vanished after her work shift. Uncover the dark connection between Lithus Corporation and Ellie’s fate and stay silent: something is hunting you.

Why similar: Stealth 39.9%, Horror 17%, Exploration 16.3%, First-Person 13.1%, Dark 7.6%

Cooperative survival horror. Four friends find themselves in a forest where an ancient ritual has awakened something terrifying. Your goal is to destroy the root of evil by burning a cursed tree and survive until morning. Explore, hunt, hide. Alone is scary. Together is even worse.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, Demons 14.8%, Exploration 14.6%, First-Person 11.5%, Nonlinear 10.9%

You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Horror 14.4%, Exploration 13.7%, First-Person 12.5%, Simulation 11.6%

An ordinary home video from 2002 takes a terrifying turn as you get lost in the Backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.6%, Stealth 20.4%, Exploration 18.2%, Horror 13%, First-Person 12.2%