Games Like Pathologic 3: Quarantine

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Detective 14.6%, Dystopian 12.5%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Surreal 8.3%, Psychological Horror 6.8%

In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

Why similar: Detective 10.4%, Dystopian 10.2%, Lovecraftian 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Immersive Sim 8.2%

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Detective 35.5%, RPG 18.7%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Surreal 10.9%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.4%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, First-Person 10.2%

1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.4%, Detective 18.7%, Horror 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Atmospheric 5.6%

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 26%, Lovecraftian 20.9%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, First-Person 9.6%

Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

Why similar: Horror 23.3%, Lovecraftian 17.5%, Survival Horror 12.5%, First-Person 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.3%

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: Lovecraftian 29.3%, Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Survival Horror 13.1%, First-Person 10.1%

Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.

Why similar: Atmospheric 15.5%, Survival 14.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 11.3%, First-Person 10.7%

Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!

Why similar: Choices Matter 48.7%, Story Rich 31%, Adventure 15.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%, Indie 1.5%

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.3%, Horror 17.2%, Survival Horror 10.4%, First-Person 8.7%, Atmospheric 5.1%

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: Lovecraftian 34.9%, RPG 19.7%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Horror 14.8%, Atmospheric 5.9%

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 20.9%, Lovecraftian 19%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, First-Person 12.4%, Survival Horror 9.2%

Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.9%, Detective 22.5%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Horror 9.3%, RPG 8.1%

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.2%, Dystopian 17.3%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 9%, Survival Horror 8.5%

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.1%, Survival 13.6%, RPG 9.8%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Horror 8.3%

From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.

Why similar: Dystopian 29%, Survival 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, First-Person 9.9%, Horror 8.6%

Den-Den: Tokyo Horror is a J-horror RPG where events unfold in real-time. Survive eight hours in a city where every choice you make impacts the world around you. How many deaths will you be responsible for tonight?

Why similar: Dystopian 15%, Detective 13%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Horror 7.6%, Survival Horror 7.1%

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: Lovecraftian 33.7%, Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Surreal 11.6%, Atmospheric 9%

Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.

Why similar: First-Person 25.4%, Immersive Sim 20.2%, Dystopian 18.4%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Open World 8.1%

Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.2%, Detective 17.9%, Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Adventure 8.3%

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: Lovecraftian 23.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Horror 12.9%, Surreal 10.6%

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 13.4%, Survival 11.5%, RPG 11.5%

Agent of Strange is a dark role-playing thriller where every mission is a labyrinth of choices and possibilities. You play as a Conspirator who infiltrates a sealed city ruled by the monstrous Family. Overthrow the regime, uncover occult secrets, and shape the City's fate.

Why similar: Detective 11.1%, RPG 10.2%, Surreal 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Dystopian 9.6%

Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

Why similar: Atmospheric 28.5%, Adventure 19.9%, Open World 16.6%, Difficult 16.2%, Story Rich 11.2%

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Why similar: RPG 46.1%, Horror 18.7%, Atmospheric 13.7%, First-Person 10.6%, Story Rich 5.5%

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Dystopian 45.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Story Rich 5%

Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.5%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9%, Horror 8.2%

A compilation of two slow-paced, cosmic horror walking simulators, to be completed in under an hour. Please makes you maintain a power station and ignore the noises from the main engine, while Please Follow has you explore the trenches of a losing war, exposing your mind to visions of another world.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.8%, Dystopian 18.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, First-Person 10.4%, Horror 9.2%

The Hatchling is a short experimental horror where time and resource management decide your fate. Locked in a dystopian lab, a strange egg stirs. Control its environment before the system deems you unfit. Every second ⏳ counts. The Overseer 👁 is watching…

Why similar: Dystopian 19.5%, Lovecraftian 16.3%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%

You are the Void Priest, bound to an Elder God against your will. Guided only by relics, symbols and light, you must solve eldritch mysteries, perform forbidden rituals, and survive long enough to choose: remain faithful or betray.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.7%, Detective 18.6%, Immersive Sim 16.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Surreal 8.8%

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 36.5%, Surreal 29.6%, First-Person 16.5%, Story Rich 11.8%, Adventure 5.6%

Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Why similar: Horror 27%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Atmospheric 19.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 8.1%

Survival in a closed room. Every hour you get $1000. Stay as long as you want. The main thing is not to go crazy. Be careful in the room besides you there is someone else. Maintain your mental health and create items that will help you survive.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 22.3%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14%, Survival 13.1%, Horror 13.1%

Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.1%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, First-Person 9.3%, Adventure 9.1%

The prologue to Agent of Strange — a dark role-playing thriller where every mission is a labyrinth of choices and possibilities. Start your path as a Conspirator in a desperate struggle against the secret occult regime.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.3%, RPG 13%, Detective 11.5%, Horror 10.9%, Immersive Sim 10.3%

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 36.1%, Horror 21.1%, Surreal 13.5%, Atmospheric 10%, Adventure 9.4%

Navigate an underground warehouse, approve special items, and eliminate anomalies over a tense 7-day contract or face termination.

Why similar: Dystopian 25.1%, First-Person 11.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Surreal 10.7%, Horror 9.7%

"'Aijin' is a Chinese dreamcore psychological and survival horror game with multiple endings. you play as a student who has returned from the 'Lover Internet Addiction Treatment School.' After enduring severe psychological trauma, one day you discover the truth about 'Aijin' and your own identity...

Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 13.3%, First-Person 10.9%, Survival Horror 10.7%

RESIDUUM is a first-person psychological horror game set in a decaying research facility. With only a dwindling flashlight and faulty heartbeat sensor, manage power, seek answers, and escape what hides in the dark.

Why similar: Dystopian 25.5%, First-Person 13.2%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Horror 11.8%, Simulation 10.3%

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Detective 39.4%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Story Rich 8.6%

HINGE is a psychological horror game that draws inspiration from Lovecraft and Bioshock. Delve into atmospheric environments, uncover clues, navigate the chilling nightmare, and find a way out of the time loop.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.6%, Detective 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.6%, First-Person 9.3%

A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.7%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Horror 16.7%, Simulation 15.7%, Difficult 6.4%

You find yourself in a strange place and the only way out is within. Navigate liminal corridors and rooms filled with psychological terrors as you traverse all six floors of this mysterious place in order to save your soul.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.5%, Surreal 16.7%, First-Person 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 14.1%

Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.

Why similar: Detective 29.1%, Survival 12.3%, First-Person 10.3%, Horror 9%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Backrooms Doors - This is an atmospheric first-person horror game. Explore spaces that can't exist in the real world and find your way out before the entities find you.

Why similar: Survival Horror 14.5%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Horror 13%, First-Person 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

An archaeological game

Why similar: Detective 28.7%, Immersive Sim 23.4%, First-Person 15.5%, Open World 12.2%, Simulation 10.2%

Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 12.8%, Surreal 8%, First-Person 7.9%

The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.1%, Detective 26.4%, Horror 12.7%, Simulation 9%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Kappa's Asylum is a survival horror game in which you control a YouTuber in an abandoned asylum to record a video.

Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, First-Person 11.3%

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Atmospheric 16.4%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 14.2%, Open World 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.4%

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.9%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 15.6%, First-Person 10.1%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Solve your supervisor's deadly task sequence to survive, but be warned: every wrong guess makes the store a more monstrous labyrinth. Unravel the horrific code and finally clock out, or be a permanent employee.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 17.1%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 12.8%, First-Person 12.5%

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: Lovecraftian 29.6%, Horror 19.2%, RPG 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Void Crawler is a horror game set in a dystopian future, where you pilot a vehicle nicknamed 'The Mole' into a mysterious void deep within the Earth to collect an extremely valuable material for a company dedicated to solving the world's energy crisis.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.2%, Dystopian 16.6%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Surreal 10%, Survival Horror 9.8%

Red button and blue button. Your choice determines everything.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 22.2%, Simulation 12%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, First-Person 10.6%

Swallow is a first-person psychological horror game with a heavy focus on story and exploration. Based on a true story, describe an unsolved case that took place on an isolated island of 20th century England. Players take control of a lighthouse keeper to uncover the truth.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 21.5%, Lovecraftian 19.5%, Surreal 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12%, First-Person 10.6%

A series of mysterious murders takes place in a small provincial town. Detective Cooper must unravel a tangle of mystical, chilling events to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Lovecraftian 19.2%, Horror 11.2%, Surreal 10.9%, First-Person 9.8%

Experience the horrors of one of the most infamous experiments that ever took place. As a test subject in a top-secret Soviet research facility, you must endure days without sleep while facing unimaginable terrors that lurk in the shadow.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.8%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 12.9%, Simulation 8.3%