- #1 captain midnight
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tim OxtonPub: oxblud
Windows
the tide always wins
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Detective 15.8%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Walking Simulator 12.7%
- #2 Inexplicable Deaths In Damipolis: Inner Thoughts
97% match8 user reviews0% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: TiesoftPub: Badland Publishing
Windows
One tragic night, the power dome of Damipolis died during dinner under strange circumstances... What were they doing there? What really happened that night? And... who is the culprit? Solve the mystery in this first-person 3D graphic adventure, inspired by classic film noir.
Why similar: Noir 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Detective 15.3%, Narration 9.3%
- #3 VOID PRIEST
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KIB Games
Windows · Linux
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: Detective 15.3%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, Lovecraftian 14.3%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #4 Loveland
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DEVHOUR GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take on the role of an Agency Detective, as you explore a rural trailer park in Loveland, Ohio, uncovering the secrets of a frog-worshipping cult in this immersive horror game
Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Walking Simulator 24.6%, Immersive Sim 23%, Horror 11.3%, Mystery 4.8%
- #5 The Happy Dismal Town
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Box Tales
Windows
A funny and dramatic game telling the story of a detective. NOIR themed with a cyberpunk background with elements of Lovecraftian horror story.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Lovecraftian 13.3%, Action-Adventure 10.1%
- #6 Obsidian Moon
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lost Cabinet Games
Windows
Investigate your way in a branching noir horror detective game inspired by Lovecraftian horror and ancient Minoan myth. Analyze evidence, connect clues, and uncover dark secrets through genre-bending deduction mechanics. Face a sinister plot—and an ultimate choice.
Why similar: Noir 18.7%, Detective 13.5%, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Lovecraftian 10.4%
- #7 The Island: Into The Mist
94% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Detective 16.5%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #8 White Room: Mind’s Prison
92% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Manja Studio
Windows · Linux
White Room: Mind's Prison is a psychological horror game. Choose your own story in the White Room. You have 100 days to survive! Survive as long as possible.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Immersive Sim 17%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
- #9 Route8
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 125 reviews2024
Dev: PLAY Mephistowaltz
Windows
"You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #10 Echoes of Madness - The Hawthorne Case
91% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Mr.Bane Games
Windows
Detective Norman faces one of the longest nights of his career. Alone, he searches for the missing girl, Felicia, only to discover that this case runs far deeper than he ever imagined.
Why similar: Noir 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Detective 15.9%, Lovecraftian 12.9%, Narration 8.8%
- #11 The Wickie : Journey of a Lighthouse Keeper
90% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Crispian RobsonPub: Cheese Tax Productions
Windows
The Wickie is a first-person thriller set in the 1930s Outer Hebrides. Explore handcrafted islands, uncover cosmic horrors, and survive deadly dangers. With no weapons or maps, rely on wit and courage to solve mysteries. Rich in story,art, and Lovecraftian dread, Will you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Detective 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Walking Simulator 13%, Lovecraftian 10.3%
- #12 YUMEGIDO
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: トロヤマイバッテリーズフライド
Windows
YUMEGIDO urges the termination of YUMEGIDO.
Why similar: Noir 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
- #13 The Testing Chamber
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 690 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Psychological Horror 11%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #14 The Yellow Sign
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WeAreWild
Windows
Worlds brought to life by H.P. Lovecraft and R.W. Chambers combined in the form of a pixelart point&click game. As Solomon Hill, investigate the mysterious death of your twin brother and an ancient plot to bring back the lost city of Carcosa and its resident Hastur, known as the King in Yellow.
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Detective 15%, Lovecraftian 10.5%, Narration 9.2%
- #15 The Incident Room
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ludotronics
Windows
A 2–4 player cooperative supernatural horror investigation about intervening in recorded tragedies. The opening chapter unfolds in a fog-shrouded 1700s coastal town, where players inhabit different townsfolk and act within a relentless final hour before the outcome becomes irreversible.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Detective 15.3%, Lovecraftian 10.7%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
- #16 The Cabin Factory
85% matchVery Positive91% of 3,493 reviews2024
Dev: International Cat StudiosPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Immersive Sim 18.8%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #17 Akolyta
86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Pterosoft studio
Windows
Uncover the darkest secrets of the Cold War as you will slowly lose everything - even your sanity in the first-person horror adventure Akolyta. You will battle the worst Cold War products of the MK Ultra program and your own deteriorating mental health.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Narration 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Horror 8.7%
- #18 Forgotten Forest: Eye of the Great One
87% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: BarzsiGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Lovecraft inspired point and click cosmic horror, that takes places in a mysterious forest, where dreadful things happen. Getting closer to the Unknown, you keep becoming more distant fom your true self. Can you survive and reveal the secrets of the ruthless sect and the mysterious forest?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.6%, Detective 13.8%, Lovecraftian 13.4%, Female Protagonist 10%, Horror 7.8%
- #19 STILL WATCHING: The Night Caregiver
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 0xFF
Windows
Your real smartphone is your only weapon... Sync your phone with the game and pray it doesn't ring while you're hiding in the closet.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.1%, Narration 15%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Detective 11.8%
- #20 Lost Eclipse
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fabicomm Pro. Interactive Division
Windows
After the city was shrouded with nightmares, you’ve been assigned to dive into this psychological survival-horror adventure to uncover the strange phenomenon that were affiliated to a certain science-tech corporation and bring them to justice.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
- #21 Unforgotten: Ordinance
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: ScoreboardGames
Windows
Face your fears, uncover the secrets of the past and fulfill your own destiny. In the wild impenetrable forests of Siberia you will face those who look beyond our reality and only the right choice will allow you to reach the end. Test yourself in a new psychological ethno-horror.
Why similar: Noir 22.8%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 10.7%
- #22 True Nightmare - Diner Loop
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Frost Fox Studios
Windows
Immerse yourself in an atmospheric psychological horror with a haunting VHS aesthetic. As a new FBI agent, you become trapped in a looping anomaly inside a secluded roadside cafe. With every room you explore, the nightmare grows, and something relentlessly follows you. Can you escape?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, Immersive Sim 20%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #23 Womb of Worms
81% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Isopodomancer
Windows
A short horror game where a terrifying ancient god manifests itself through worms, maggots, etc, looking to be reborn through someone's body. You will have to find that someone, speaking to the locals, investigating, uncovering truths and decide who to kill before the world is taken over.
Why similar: Detective 32.9%, Noir 19%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #24 What have you done, Father?
81% matchVery Positive91% of 140 reviews2024
Dev: Darkania Works
Windows
A dark murder mistery game combined with a visual novel revolving around a disturbing plot. Embark on the frightening adventure of a young priest entangled in a forbidden affair with a beautiful lady who meets a gruesome end. Lust, wrath, murder, despair.
Why similar: Noir 29.8%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Detective 15.4%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Narration 9.1%
- #25 プレイすると死ぬゲーム
80% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Hartree FR
Windows
You've launched “The Game That Dies When You Play It”... How to avoid death... Desktop Horror Adventure Game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 15.3%, Narration 14.3%, 2D Platformer 12.6%
- #26 Lacuna: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive91% of 169 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 27.7%, Detective 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Narration 11.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #27 Cthulhu Mysteries: Veins of Arkham
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: W&W Innovations sp. z o.o.
Windows · Mac
Cthulu Mysteries: The Veins of Arkham is Lovecraftian narrative mystery, where staying sane is the greatest challenge. Interview the witnesses, gather clues and draw conclusions to solve the most unusual case. Will you be able to handle the truth?
Why similar: Noir 24.2%, Detective 20%, Lovecraftian 16.9%, Narration 9%, Investigation 6.6%
- #28 HEAVY AS STONE
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: jøyPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
You’re sick. So is the city. Explore a crumbling Terminal that loops when you die. Solve cursed investigations. Weaponize your symptoms. Find the truth, or spiral with it.
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Detective 19.6%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Horror 8.4%, Investigation 8.1%
- #29 Choose Cthulhu Files: The Call of Cthulhu
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wildspell Games
Windows · Linux
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Lovecraftian 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
- #30 Shadow City Mysteries: A Clockwork Noir
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Play On Words Studios
Windows
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
Why similar: Noir 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Detective 14.7%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Narration 8.7%
- #31 Death Drive
76% matchVery Positive97% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: LunaticMoon
Windows
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 32%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 8.5%, Lovecraftian 8%
- #32 夜班护士模拟器
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Arit Game Studio
Windows
nurse simulator
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Detective 16.7%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
- #33 NUTS
77% matchVery Positive88% of 1,022 reviews2021
Dev: Joon, Pol, Muutsch, Char & TorfiPub: Noodlecake
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Narration 13.1%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
- #34 Cosmic Fear
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alessandro Guzzo
Windows
Since the dawn of mankind, mysterious phenomena beyond human comprehension have occurred. Your studies suggest that everything is part of one big picture. What lies hidden in the depths of the cosmos? Explore, solve puzzles and survive in this disturbing Lovecraftian horror adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.4%, Lovecraftian 18%, Detective 17.6%, Narration 10.9%, Action-Adventure 10%
- #35 Necropolis Suite
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Freesphere
Windows
Necropolis Suite, is an immersive narrative-driven cosmic horror game about discovery, knowledge, and the meaning of transcendence. Can you escape the terror that lurks in the suite?
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Noir 24.2%, Lovecraftian 20.2%, Horror 10.4%, Investigation 6.4%
- #36 The Test: Hypothesis Rising
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,928 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #37 Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
74% matchVery Positive83% of 2,656 reviews2023
Dev: Frogwares
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Lovecraftian 18.4%, Narration 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Horror 8.6%
- #38 Beyond your Fear
74% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Vladyslav Fedorenko
Windows
Descend into an atmospheric, story-driven psychological horror game where the player must investigate a case, solve riddles, and make hard choices on the way to uncovering what lies beyond your fear.
Why similar: Detective 22.6%, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #39 Tron: Identity
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 290 reviews2023
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Noir 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #40 Experiment 404
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lost Input Game
Windows
Room 404 repeats. Identify anomalies, file reports, and stay alive—some anomalies might hurt you. Nurture the plants, listen to the overlord, end the loop, and unlock multiple unique endings.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, Immersive Sim 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 10.6%
- #41 Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary
73% matchVery Positive98% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #42 A Study in Blue
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Relate Games
Windows
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Noir 21.7%, Detective 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Narration 12%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #43 Vivere Memento
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neo Vulgate Cycle
Windows · Mac · Linux
A city forgotten by everyone, two women trying to unravel its secrets, and a dismal silence of war. Is it possible to create without the hope of being heard? Is it possible to mourn for someone obliterated in memories? And what horrors are hidden in the shadows of forgotten town?
Why similar: Noir 27.5%, Detective 18.5%, Lovecraftian 16.9%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Horror 7.9%
- #44 While We Wait Here
70% matchVery Positive89% of 2,242 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Walking Simulator 22.6%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #45 /R - A Neurodivergent Thriller
71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: negative_development
Windows · Linux
Run, hide, adapt and survive in a mansion of endless night and bizarre brain-twisting phenomena in this 2D hand-drawn psychological horror title.
Why similar: Noir 22.8%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Narration 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #46 Alone in the Dark
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,498 reviews2024
Dev: Pieces InteractivePub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
Why similar: Noir 28.5%, Lovecraftian 18.8%, Detective 15.6%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 9.5%
- #47 Who's at the door?
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,538 reviews2025
Dev: SKONEC Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Immersive Sim 19.3%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
- #48 Echoes
70% matchPositive94% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Why similar: Noir 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Detective 14.9%, Lovecraftian 11.1%, Horror 6.5%
- #49 The Test
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,124 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 23%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Detective 16.6%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #50 A Case of Distrust
73% matchVery Positive82% of 601 reviews2018
Dev: An Open Ben
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Detective 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Narration 10.3%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
- #51 The shaved ice shop
68% matchMixed52% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Holitass
Windows
A cozy horror game where you run a shave ice shop. Serves customers by serving shaved ice, coffee, milkshakes...
Why similar: Immersive Sim 27.3%, Walking Simulator 24.6%, Psychological Horror 15%, Female Protagonist 14%, Horror 13.1%
- #52 After Lights Out
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: POQI STUDIO
Windows
After Lights Out is a first person psychological horror game. Players will explore a terrifying house that keeps changing in the dark. Use the lights to solve the puzzles and uncover the hidden truth in the room.
Why similar: Detective 28%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Horror 13.2%
- #53 Witness the Dark - Episode 1 - Bloody Burger
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold NarrativePub: Under NDA
Windows
A series of psychological horror episodes about routine and the fear buried in everyday life. Each story reveals a broken mind, an isolated place, and a truth that should’ve stayed hidden. Are you ready to witness what’s real?
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Narration 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Horror 11.4%
- #54 SAVEN
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Horrawr
Windows
You’re Carl, a maintenance worker spending seven nights in a remote lodge. Fix what’s broken, explore its dark corners, and face the feeling that you’re not alone.. while pretending nothing is wrong.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Immersive Sim 19.7%, Narration 11.7%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
- #55 Dead Faces
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aza Game Studio
Windows
Dead Faces is a mind bending psychological horror. Unravel Jack's disturbing mind, the faces from his past and the ultimate truth behind his actions. You must remember their faces.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.5%, Detective 17.1%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Narration 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #56 Call of Cthulhu®
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,295 reviews2018
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 30.4%, Detective 21.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 11.4%, Walking Simulator 8%
- #57 Room 404
65% matchVery Positive91% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Multimedium
Windows
Room 404 is a first-person Chinese horror game.Players must discern anomalies within an endlessly looping corridor, make decisions,and attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding themselves and the four floors of the apartment.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Immersive Sim 24.6%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #58 Care
66% matchVery Positive96% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: The Pocket Dimension
Windows
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Lovecraftian 15.1%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Horror 10.1%
- #59 Fear Is In The Mind
67% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong Way GamesPub: Liquid Heart
Windows
Immerse yourself in Fear Is In The Mind, a psychological horror game that blurs the lines between reality and the mind's darkest corners. Face your fears, decipher the truth, and explore a world where every word can alter your fate.
Why similar: Noir 39.6%, Walking Simulator 26.2%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Female Protagonist 12%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #60 The Allure Of Wanton Cove
66% matchVery Positive80% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Ktulhu Solutions
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Noir 22.9%, Lovecraftian 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Detective 14.5%, Horror 8%