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In "Stories to Tell - Run Away" you are a young Spanish man named Mike who is staying at his grandparents' house since his parents have gone on a trip. One night his grandparents went out to dinner and Mike was all alone, or so he thought...
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In "Stories to Tell - Run Away" you are a young Spanish man named Mike who is staying at his grandparents' house since his parents have gone on a trip. One night his grandparents went out to dinner and Mike was all alone, or so he thought...

Echo of the Walls
Enter a world where the lines between reality are blurred. Like Daniel, you came here in search of the truth, but found yourself trapped in a terrifying mind game. Your only key to freedom and understanding is an ancient Polaroid camera, capable of capturing the invisible.

Fright Animatronics
Fright Animatronics is a first-person psychological horror game. Welcome to your new job as a night shift guard and technician in our pizzeria. Your task is to repair animatronics, to monitor them and the pizzeria building using video surveillance
Enter a world where the lines between reality are blurred. Like Daniel, you came here in search of the truth, but found yourself trapped in a terrifying mind game. Your only key to freedom and understanding is an ancient Polaroid camera, capable of capturing the invisible.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Adventure 9.9%, Psychological 9.8%, Action 9%
Fright Animatronics is a first-person psychological horror game. Welcome to your new job as a night shift guard and technician in our pizzeria. Your task is to repair animatronics, to monitor them and the pizzeria building using video surveillance
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Simulation 15.9%, Psychological 10.2%, Adventure 9.6%, Action 8.6%
Welcome to Shouxian Funfair, frozen in time since the millennium. You're just a new employee here: check tickets by day, patrol by night. Simple job, great pay. But you'll soon find the rules here are far more complex and dangerous than they seem.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Simulation 21.2%, 1990's 18.7%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 10.1%
A first-person walking simulator focused on atmosphere and introspection, where players explore surreal spaces, discover memories, and move at their own pace through a calm, dreamlike experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.9%, Simulation 14.2%, First-Person 11.8%, Exploration 10.5%, Atmospheric 10.1%
You are aboard an endless train. Find anomalies, report them, and move on. But be careful—missing just one may cost you the loop.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.4%, Exploration 16%, Dark 11.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%
A missing friend. Her last known location on your phone. A fence you probably shouldn’t cross. Enter the eerie woods, uncover her story, and face the kult that waits in the dark.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.2%, 1990's 22.2%, Adventure 11.2%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Survival Horror 7.9%
You are Alex, a curious journalist who has decided to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the entire staff of Synergy Soft. Six months ago, all the employees went mad at once, staging a bloody massacre. The official version is mass psychosis. But the truth is much more terrifying.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Psychological 11.6%, Adventure 10%, Exploration 9.7%, Action 9.4%
It is 1997. Farhad, an investigative journalist, arrives at an abandoned military base to uncover the truth behind a silenced 1986 meteor crash. But as he delves deeper into the forest, he finds that the debris isn't the only thing buried here. Some headlines are better left unwritten.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, 1990's 15.8%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 10.5%, Dark 8.6%
The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.5%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Exploration 10.4%, First-Person 10.3%, Dark 9.7%
Fright Animatronics 2 is a first-person horror game where your task is to work in a warehouse for a week. What can go wrong?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21%, Simulation 18.1%, Adventure 11%, Action 9.8%, Exploration 7.7%
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 28.1%, Simulation 17.7%, Exploration 10.3%, Dark 9.6%, First-Person 9.2%
Backrooms - 2005 is a chapter-based Backrooms exploration game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, 1990's 16.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 11.1%, Simulation 10.9%
A short horror game about wandering through vaguely familiar memories while something endlessly follows you. It moves when you do, and you need to get out before it catches up.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.4%, Exploration 12.9%, Psychological 12.5%, First-Person 10.2%, 3D 7.5%
Trapped in a psychiatric hospital, you must escape demons lurking in the shadows.Explore Insanitorium only with your flashlight and scarce batteries, defend yourself with a machete and a dart gun, and face the strange patients. Remember, do not listen to the mannequins that whisper inside your head.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21%, Psychological 12.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Survival Horror 9.1%, Dark 8.2%
r/nosleep is a short horror game series with episodes inspired by and adapted from posts on the r/nosleep subreddit. Night Shift at Paradise Valley Pool episode is the story of a night shift pool maintenance worker and his bizarre experiences during his first day on the job.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, 1990's 15.9%, Simulation 9.7%, Dark 9.5%, Exploration 8.4%
DEAD FEED is a psychological ghost-hunting horror game where you control two friends investigating a haunted house. One explores the darkness while the other monitors the feeds, as something unseen and paranormal slowly turns their investigation into a quiet, creeping nightmare.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Simulation 17.9%, Psychological 11.2%, First-Person 9.8%, Dark 9.4%
A first-person psychological horror game about fear, guilt, and obsession. Explore a cursed estate, solve puzzles, find notes, and confront what lurks in the darkness. Atmosphere, suspense, and jump scares will make your heart beat faster.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.1%, Psychological 16.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 10.2%
"Do you think a house can dream?" Ritual Static is a surreal first-person photography horror game following a young man in his childhood home the day before a big move. Surf the television, sink into static, and rot in the dark.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.5%, Survival Horror 15%, 1990's 11.2%, Simulation 10%, Exploration 7.2%
After crashing in the winter wilderness, you wake up in the middle of a blizzard. The forest is dead, the roads are gone, communication is lost. The only chance of salvation is a village hidden in the snow.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.2%, Psychological 12.5%, Adventure 12%, Exploration 11.7%, First-Person 11.1%
Bit Lost is a single-player atmospheric first-person game set inside a broken digital space. Explore fragments of consciousness to uncover what happened and find a way out. +You can now explore Bit Lost in a special split-screen co-op mode.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.1%, Psychological 22.8%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 11.4%, Simulation 9.8%
wandering into the uncanny concept of liminality, captured in DV tape format you explore what seems to be another dimension, lost in an endless space that looks human-made but isn't.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.8%, Psychological 26.3%, First-Person 14.5%, Atmospheric 11%, Exploration 6.4%
Immerse yourself in a chilling nightmare where the darkest corners of the past come to life to haunt you. This is a tense first-person psychological horror game that transports you to the heart of an abandoned police station. .
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.3%, Psychological 12.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Exploration 9%, Dark 8.6%
Explore an oppressive and terrifying environment where you play as a young man who infiltrates the old and abandoned Ravenmoore Psychiatric Hospital in search of the harsh reality hidden behind this place. Every sound can be a sign of danger... Don't let them find you, and especially not HER......
Why similar: Survival Horror 15.1%, Dark 12.9%, Exploration 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, First-Person 10.3%
A psychological horror game where you spend a night in the shoes of an arcade worker named Marcus. Win prizes on the crane machine and shoot some hoops. Just make sure to keep the doors locked.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.5%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 10.2%, Dark 9.9%, Simulation 9.1%
Escape your nightmares. Explore the Backrooms and other dreams. Solve puzzles to find your way out. Don't get caught.
Why similar: Psychological 15.4%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 12%, Simulation 11.1%
In this game you explore a SCP Facility, while trying to stay sane and finish objectives by completing everything the SCP's have to offer. Interact with anomalous objects; experience, avoid, destroy, and use them. Learn how the facility operates and try to to keep it running as long as you can.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.8%, 1990's 15.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Adventure 12.3%, Exploration 10.3%
Indie anomaly-detection game set in a bleak Eastern-European stairwell. 11 floors, 40+ anomalies, minimal horror, maximal tension.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Psychological 18.1%, 1990's 14%, Dark 9.7%, Exploration 7.5%
How do you go about your life when self-isolation has become the new normal? CHESTNUT GROVE is based on my personal experience of quarantine and features 100% real documents and notices.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.6%, Adventure 14%, Exploration 13.1%, Dark 11.7%, First-Person 11.2%
I wolf down a cold, lonely meal. Work's wearing me down, and money's shaky. The syrup I pour into my cold coffee never mixes, no matter how much I stir. So I figure I'll just wander around in my dreams.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.4%, Exploration 15%, First-Person 13%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Adventure 10%
Museum renovation forces a curator, your grandpa in moving biblical relics intracity. His civilian chopper is purposely brought down by wicked Iblis. Relics are snatched for unholy rituals, while Grandpa is taken hostage. Can his grandson walk inside the mysterious temple to pull off a rescue?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.4%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Dark 11.5%, Psychological 10.2%, Adventure 8.8%
This is a 3D first-person walking simulator, where you'll take a leisurely stroll through a world of poolcore and bloomcore aesthetics. The goal of this game is to provide a pleasant and relaxing experience—no monsters, no jump scares, and no mandatory objectives.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.9%, Psychological 17.3%, Adventure 12.1%, Exploration 11.8%, First-Person 9%
A psychological horror where you dive in and investigate a signal emanating from within the abandoned facility. Be careful about what you see and what you don’t, as it can be your undoing. Ghost evidence, strange noises, and anomalies are all part of the gig.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.1%, 1990's 14.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Dark 8.2%
What happens when you’re trapped between life and death? A journey through the darkest parts of yourself, and the choice to fight for what you want most.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Simulation 21.8%, Adventure 13.4%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 10.5%
You find yourself lost in a strange, eerie forest with no memory of how you got there. Equipped only with a flashlight and a cassette player, you must survive and recover fragments of your memory. But beware—the trees are watching you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Psychological 14.2%, 1990's 12.6%, Exploration 9.8%, Survival Horror 9.1%
Do you miss your childhood? Do you want to escape the responsibilities that come with growing up? Then come here.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.8%, Simulation 16.8%, Psychological 16%, First-Person 11.2%, 3D 8.2%
Onryo | 怨霊 is a survival action horror game set in Japan. Your mission is to lift the curse of a haunted house using your exorcistic camera. As you explore the house and uncover its secrets, you will face enemies and puzzles.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.4%, Psychological 13.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Survival Horror 9.7%, Dark 8.4%
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 33.6%, Exploration 14.9%, Simulation 14.2%, First-Person 11.9%, 3D 8.5%
Immerse yourself in a dark dense forest in which terrible inexplicable things happen. You will have to find the missing people's belongings by following the coordinates left in the notes of the missing brother. Someone or something lives in the forest and changes everyone who goes there.
Why similar: Psychological 15.7%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Survival Horror 14.3%, First-Person 9.6%, Dark 8.7%
Turning onto an old road, the main character gets into an accident due to thick fog. Now he's trying to find someone who can help him. Forced to enter an old house, the main character finds himself trapped, from which it is not so easy to get out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.6%, 1990's 13.6%, Simulation 11%, Psychological 10.4%, Exploration 8.7%
'ROOST' is a brief first-person horror game, set in the English town of Mournbrough - a place harbouring dark secrets and seemingly lost to time. Welcome to your happy place.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, 1990's 15.2%, Psychological 12.8%, Dark 9.3%, Survival Horror 8.8%
A first-person adventure horror game where you play as a night security guard exploring an abandoned summer camp, solving environmental puzzles, and surviving a relentless creature while trying to escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.9%, 1990's 15.9%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Dark 9.4%
A walking simulator about dear memories, overcoming obstacles, and finding your path. Experience a story inspired by finno-karelian folklore.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.7%, 1990's 11.9%, Exploration 11.8%, First-Person 10.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%
Inside SCP-167 is a first-person psychological horror game that combines investigation and puzzle-solving. Take on the role of Alex, the most experienced agent of the SCP Foundation, and explore a labyrinth of cubic rooms in order to put an end to a growing evil that is spreading throughout the area
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 10.4%, Dark 9.9%, Adventure 8.4%
You are a young Spanish woman who has just moved to the outskirts of Venice, and has just found a job in a newly opened pizzeria...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Psychological 12.9%, First-Person 9.5%, Survival Horror 8.6%
The Cold Forest is a hardcore survival walking simulator game. You have a goal, and it's important, but can you achieve it?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.3%, Simulation 18.8%, Psychological 12%, Adventure 11.6%, Exploration 10.7%
An atmospheric survival and life simulation where you live alone as a lighthouse keeper, maintaining the light, braving storms, and surviving the quiet weight of isolation at sea.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.1%, 1990's 16%, Psychological 13.2%, Exploration 10.2%, Survival Horror 8.4%
You are a broken ex–police officer haunted by your partner’s disappearance. A mysterious clue drags you into decaying places infected by a devilish presence, breathing, waiting, watching from the dark. Solve cryptic puzzles, face buried guilt, and uncover a truth that was never meant to surface.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Psychological 19%, Exploration 9.5%, Simulation 9.4%, First-Person 6.8%
Run your own toy workshop in this horror-themed crafting simulation game. Chop, saw, paint, pack, and deliver toys for your mysterious customers.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30%, 1990's 15.6%, Psychological 14.1%, First-Person 8.2%, 3D 7.6%
You participate in an experiment with your memory lost. You have to determine if you are dreaming or if you are back to reality. The only way to wake up from your dream is to take the given medicine and collapse. Complete the experiment successfully.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.3%, Psychological 21.9%, Simulation 11.5%, First-Person 11.4%, Adventure 8.7%
The Paranormal Is Happening is a psychological horror experience set in an isolated forest village abandoned after a mysterious event in the 1940s. Sent to investigate its disappearance, you must collect evidence and uncover the truth before something in the woods finds you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Action 11.7%, Adventure 10.6%, Exploration 8.6%
Uncanny Tales is an episodic horror series where the real terror comes not from monsters or the supernatural, but from people. Each episode is a new unsettling story inspired by real fears and eerie situations from everyday life.
Why similar: Psychological 20.5%, Walking Simulator 17.4%, 1990's 11.9%, Dark 11.4%, First-Person 8.6%
The story begins as the protagonist receives a cursed doll and starts suffering from recurring nightmares. Players explore dark environments and face fear through various horror elements. The game offers two different endings and delivers a short but intense horror experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.9%, Adventure 12%, Exploration 11.9%, First-Person 11.3%, Survival Horror 9.9%
A short-form horror exploration game where every floor hides a different story, and every ritual brings you one step closer to the truth.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.2%, Simulation 17.6%, 1990's 14.9%, Adventure 10.7%, Exploration 10.3%
Many have vanished without a trace, swallowed by the endless halls of the Backrooms. Now it’s your turn to step inside. Wander through unsettling liminal spaces, guided only by the constant hum of fluorescent lights. Are you the next to disappear?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Simulation 15.9%, 1990's 10.2%, Exploration 9.7%, Adventure 9.6%
Assume the role of an urban explorer, whose curiosity leads you into destinations forgotten by time. Soon you discover the haunting mysteries you uncover are not left behind in the places you explore – they follow you home.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.1%, Simulation 20.3%, Psychological 16.1%, Survival Horror 10.5%, 3D 7.3%
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 25.6%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Exploration 9.7%, First-Person 9.2%
This is a horror game where you explore an abandoned village at the request of a friend.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Psychological 27%, Dark 15.6%, Exploration 7.9%, First-Person 7.5%
You find yourself lost in a place that shouldn’t exist. Everything feels off — the silence, the looping spaces, the emptiness around you. Instinctively, you begin documenting it all. Liminal State is the beginning of something larger, something unknown — and it all starts here.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Psychological 20.1%, 1990's 14%, Simulation 10.4%, First-Person 7.7%
«Echoes in the White» is a psychological horror from the first person. Return to the apartment of your childhood to uncover the dark secret of the family. The action takes place 10 years later. A creepy and tense atmosphere, a deep plot and riddles - all this awaits you in this game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.8%, Simulation 19.9%, Exploration 11.2%, First-Person 9.9%, Dark 7.3%
Survive a deadly descent from a mountain peak. One wrong step ends it all. Be slow, focused, and patient caution is your only ally in this unforgiving journey. There’s no map, no help just you, your instincts, and the will to make it out alive. One mistake, and it’s all over.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 40%, Adventure 17%, Exploration 14.2%, Atmospheric 13.8%, 3D 8.9%