- #1 FAREWELL SEN
97% matchVery Positive94% of 173 reviews2022
Dev: amoxy
Windows
MAKE FRIENDS WITH GHOSTS
Why similar: RPG 61.6%, Adventure 20.1%, Indie 18.3%
- #2 Myths of Rules
96% matchVery Positive88% of 1,047 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Casual 39.1%, RPG 15.3%, Indie 6.1%
- #3 Something Strange
95% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Casual 50.8%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 21.4%
- #4 Grimm's Hollow
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 14,624 reviews2019
Dev: ghosthunter
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Why similar: RPG 58%, Adventure 22.4%, Indie 19.6%
- #5 鬼打墙(剧情版)
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: KX GAMES
Windows
This is a horror game adapted from the Chinese folklore. Players need to decrypt and collect key items in different stages. Ultimately find a way to escape the foggy forest. While searching for an exit, players will be disturbed by ghosts, players need to avoid the ghosts and evade their attacks.
Why similar: RPG 57.4%, Adventure 35.3%, Indie 7.2%
- #6 Seek Or Die
94% matchMixed67% of 175 reviews2018
Dev: FlashynuravPub: FLNStudios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
You are an investigator hired to find evidence about the missing children in the manor off the road. Once you enter, the door locks behind you, and you can hear something, lurking...
Why similar: Indie 53.2%, Casual 46.8%
- #7 Ghost room
92% matchVery Positive82% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: YajinPub: YajinGameProject
Windows
Strange phenomena occur one after another in one apartment. You, an exorcist, are asked to investigate and go to the room, but you are trapped by the spirits living in the room. The only way to escape is to suppress all the spiritual phenomena caused by the spirits.
Why similar: Adventure 74.8%, Indie 25.2%
- #8 그레텔과 윈슬로의 별장
91% matchVery Positive92% of 391 reviews2022
Dev: Team E.T
Windows
It's a story-based escape puzzle game. Gretel headed to Madame Winslow's Mansion on an errand by her parents. Following her parents' note, Gretel will stay at Madame Winslow's Mansion for three days to help her with her work. Help Gretel solve the mystery of the villa and escape safely.
Why similar: Adventure 51%, RPG 25.2%, Indie 11.9%, Casual 11.9%
- #9 ALONE
90% matchVery Positive88% of 225 reviews2021
Dev: DakeCraftPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
You have to help a guy named Yeongchul trapped inside his home, navigate the house to protect himself from suspicious person.
Why similar: RPG 52.5%, Casual 18.7%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 10.2%
- #10 缄默咖啡厅
89% matchVery Positive82% of 230 reviews2022
Dev: plasmafall
Windows
Silence Coffee Shop is a JRPG game inspired by SCP and 规则类怪谈(creepy rule).In this game,you'll act as a regular customer,unveil the truth of Silence Coffee Shop behind it conflicting rules.Of cause,you are not the only one attracted by this abnormal shop...
Why similar: RPG 87.6%, Indie 12.4%
- #11 My Friend is a Raven
89% matchVery Positive91% of 1,329 reviews2020
Dev: Two Star Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 17%
You return to your old apartment one last time, in search of a sickened raven. You must speak to him, and discover the cause behind the calamity that has spread across the world.
Why similar: RPG 36.6%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 21.4%, Casual 17.7%
- #12 Night Patrol Rules
87% matchVery Positive99% of 254 reviews2025
Dev: Te.Sa
Windows
Virtual group - PLAVE doujin game, set against the backdrop of winter school ghost stories. Experience the Night Patrol Rules of the Seven Mysteries through the eyes of all five band members, uncovering the unsettling truth hidden behind the mystery through your investigation and choices.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #13 Dissonance
88% matchVery Positive92% of 193 reviews2022
Dev: Resonance StudioPub: FAFO Studio
Windows
Dissonance is a top-down 3rd person adventure game. Players will encounter supernatural anomalies and creatures. Find and use specialized gadgets to aid you in your journey. Explore the abandoned research facility and reveal the secret of the organization that sent you here.
Why similar: Adventure 34.7%, RPG 27.5%, Casual 20.2%, Indie 17.6%
- #14 Paper Lily - Chapter 1
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,923 reviews2024
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Why similar: RPG 67.2%, Adventure 32.8%
- #15 Felt Mansion
86% matchVery Positive95% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: HaeldralPub: HS.NET
Windows
Felt Mansion is an Adventure/Action RPG fan-game set in the world of Andrew Hussie's Homestuck. Save the young Handmaid from the clutches of the fearsome Doc Scratch!
Why similar: RPG 77.8%, Adventure 12.7%, Indie 9.4%
- #16 幽灵高校(Ghost College)
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 444 reviews2021
Dev: 血色双眸
Windows
An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.
Why similar: RPG 55.1%, Adventure 23.7%, Indie 12.6%, Casual 8.6%
- #17 Ticy Adventure Club
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,270 reviews2022
Dev: YEZHI studio
Windows
本作是2d剧情向角色扮演恐怖游戏。在本作设定中,玩家将扮演灵异探险社的社员,分工调查被委托的事件,探索场景,寻找线索,并最终解决委托中灵异作祟的问题。
Why similar: RPG 81.9%, Adventure 18.1%
- #18 At Home Alone Final
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,199 reviews2021
Dev: 阿正不经Pub: Peanut Bear Studio
Windows
A casual healing rpg that takes players on a journey around the house from the perspective of a young girl, what does she do when she's home alone? What strange things will you come across in the process, and while exploring, perhaps... What other strange secrets might you discover?
Why similar: RPG 63.5%, Adventure 14.4%, Casual 13.3%, Indie 8.7%
- #19 At Home Alone
84% matchVery Positive85% of 1,906 reviews2018
Dev: 阿正不经Pub: Peanut Bear Studio
Windows
This is a recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl. What will she do when she is alone? What strange stories will happen in the process, and in the process of exploration, you may find some strange secrets....
Why similar: RPG 46.6%, Adventure 21%, Indie 20.6%, Casual 11.8%
- #20 全网公敌:诡村
82% matchVery Positive88% of 636 reviews2024
Dev: Triangel GamePub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
本作是与《全网公敌》联动的全新故事,通过一台“旧电脑”进行互联网搜索解密的剧情互动游戏。你作为一名特殊调查员,需要负责解开隐藏在“登山客意外失踪”背后的超自然事件。随着调查深入,始作俑者也渐渐浮出水面,“祂”,似乎又与四十多年前消失在大火中的白河村,有着千丝万缕的联系。
Why similar: RPG 68.3%, Adventure 23.4%, Indie 8.3%
- #21 Fausts Alptraum
82% matchVery Positive94% of 1,268 reviews2017
Dev: LaboRatStudio
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Fausts Alptraum is an single player, puzzle game created by LabORat Studio, an indie game team from Taiwan. The story based on Goethe's Faust. Players will play as a troubled girl wandering around in a crayon-drawn world. Players will have to find the relevance between dreams and reality by collecting clues.
Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Indie 32.9%, RPG 27.6%
- #22 DEMON COMPASS
81% matchVery Positive88% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: xena-spectralePub: Provoker
Windows · Mac
This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.
Why similar: Adventure 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #23 Trick & Treat
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,422 reviews2016
Dev: Rabbiton
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Why similar: RPG 36.1%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 19.2%, Casual 17.6%
- #24 Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
78% matchVery Positive93% of 1,769 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Delve into the enthralling world of Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum, the acclaimed RPG Maker gothic horror game that'll take you on a moving journey of self-discovery.
Why similar: RPG 53.5%, Adventure 26.6%, Casual 19.9%
- #25 Staffer Retro : A Supernatural Mystery Quest
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,235 reviews2026
Dev: Team Tetrapod
Windows · Mac
Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Why similar: Adventure 61.4%, Casual 38.6%
- #26 梦魇:无归 Nightmare without return
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 628 reviews2022
Dev: 青衣工作室
Windows
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the ever-changing nightmare world appear in front of you Everything starts from here
Why similar: RPG 65.7%, Adventure 31.6%, Indie 2.7%
- #27 回门 Way Back Home
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: 漫森游戏工作室
Windows
"Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...
Why similar: RPG 49.5%, Indie 20.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Casual 13.2%
- #28 My Adorable Ghost Story
76% matchVery Positive100% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Mado games
Windows · Mac
A cowardly ghost needs your help to find peace. Complete his final wishes, get closer to him, and unravel the mystery of his death as you search for your own freedom in this short, story-driven adventure.
Why similar: RPG 62.7%, Adventure 37.3%
- #29 Azurael's Circle: Chapter 1
79% matchVery Positive87% of 112 reviews2018
Dev: Jordan AllenPub: Enkian Games
Windows
Azurael's Circle: Chapter 1 is a horror-mystery adventure game where you must find the truth about your mother's death. What evils await you in the depths of the Lancaster farmhouse? The further you go, the more strange things get.
Why similar: Adventure 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #30 Have a Nice Dream
76% matchVery Positive93% of 4,927 reviews2021
Dev: 榭季生
Windows
A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.
Why similar: RPG 66%, Adventure 23.7%, Indie 10.3%
- #31 [Nightmare Files] Clap Clap
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,355 reviews2024
Dev: Raycastly
Windows
Clap Clap is a short indie horror game that puts you in the shoes of a house sitter, experiencing strange occurrences in a seemingly ordinary home.
Why similar: Adventure 71.2%, Indie 19.6%, Casual 9.2%
- #32 Byakuya Museum
75% matchVery Positive92% of 815 reviews2023
Dev: 墨染_Aifeimo
Windows
“I should have...died...”Opened eyes again, he found himself in a bustling museum!Players need to take on the role of a raven specimen boy "Gregorio" to explore the Byakuya Museum. Your mission is to plumb the secrets of Time Town, uncover your own past, and escape from the museum.
Why similar: RPG 60.6%, Indie 39.4%
- #33 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
77% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: RPG 58.1%, Adventure 41.9%
- #34 BIRDHOUSE
74% matchVery Positive93% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: HELLLST4R
Windows
A short narrative-driven horror game made in RPGmaker featuring hand-drawn graphics and animated cutscenes. Players navigate the house and its backyard, interacting with the environment and collecting key items to progress the story.
Why similar: RPG 88.7%, Indie 11.3%
- #35 Arevan
80% matchMixed48% of 66 reviews2015
Dev: Overcloud9Pub: Aldorlea Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Arevan is an adventure RPG with an original storyline, enjoyable features and interesting game play. Travel with Maurean as he makes his way through challenging puzzles, gut-wrenching monsters, and intriguing side quests.
Why similar: RPG 49.4%, Indie 17.9%, Adventure 17.4%, Casual 15.3%
- #36 Subway Exorcist Girl
72% matchVery Positive83% of 331 reviews2025
Dev: 纤指游戏Pub: Delicate Fingers
Windows
A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.
Why similar: RPG 70.3%, Adventure 29.7%
- #37 The Outbound Ghost
74% matchMixed69% of 283 reviews2022
Dev: Conradical Games
Windows
The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.
Why similar: RPG 66.4%, Adventure 33.6%
- #38 Ms.Director
73% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: SketchyNonsense
Windows
Cameras and heads are rolling in this noir inspired RPGmaker horror game. Save the spectral starlets trapped in the deadly director's mansion, and escape without joining them in their fate.
Why similar: Adventure 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #39 Untitled Ghost Game
71% matchVery Positive91% of 516 reviews2023
Dev: Dubscr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Free multiplayer 2D ghost hunting game that you can play with friends created by a small game dev team.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #40 Forbidden Terror: Board Game
69% matchVery Positive91% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: Elite Lords Studios
Windows
A psychological horror game where you take the role of Jonah, an 18 year old trying out a new board game, The Ouija Board, with his friend Emily. Little did they know, it was far from a simple board game.
Why similar: Adventure 42%, Casual 38%, Indie 20%
- #41 Outcore: Desktop Adventure
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 18,424 reviews2022
Dev: Doctor Shinobi
Windows
All you wanted was a nice game. But now you find yourself opening Windows apps like Paint & Notepad to solve puzzles, and searching for files on your computers that you didn't put there... Who is she? Why did she appear on your desktop? Let's dive into her memories and find out.
Why similar: Adventure 41.6%, RPG 39%, Indie 19.3%
- #42 Threads of Karma
71% matchMixed54% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: 萝卜不长毛线公司Pub: Hawthorn Games
Windows
Lin Yue'an embarks on a journey home, but unsettling events soon disrupt her ordinary life. Strange dreams, lost memories, and eerie occurrences lead her to uncover hidden truths. Can she trace everything back to its true origin and escape the net of fate that has already been woven around her?
Why similar: RPG 77.6%, Indie 22.4%
- #43 Mimic Search
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,053 reviews2024
Dev: Gemezl
Windows
Mimic Search is a short indie horror game, in which you take the role of a police officer investigating a recent mimic attack.
Why similar: Adventure 84.1%, Indie 15.9%
- #44 The Ghost Cage
70% matchVery Positive96% of 202 reviews2021
Dev: SeaPhoenix
Windows
In this short and light-hearted adventure game, you inadvertently rent a house with a ghost. Should you befriend the ghost, or drive it out of the house? Multiple endings available depending on your choices and the items you find!
Why similar: Adventure 78.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #45 Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity
72% matchVery Positive91% of 131 reviews2017
Dev: Connor O.R.T. Linning
Windows
A soldier wakes up in darkness with a headache - Where is he, and how did he get here? Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity is a prequel mystery minigame to the upcoming full length RPG Towards The Pantheon.
Why similar: RPG 42.6%, Adventure 23.7%, Casual 17.4%, Indie 16.4%
- #46 Ghostbane: Prologue
71% matchMixed54% of 435 reviews2024
Dev: Pi Bit
Windows
"Ghostbane: Prologue" is a multiplayer horror game that you can play with your friends. Detect paranormal activity, collect evidence of ghosts, hunt ghosts by rituals, and conduct detailed investigations about ghosts in your main base.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #47 REALITY
73% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Grey Reality Studios
Windows
REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.
Why similar: Adventure 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #48 I Must Kill: Fresh Meat
75% matchMostly Negative28% of 265 reviews2015
Dev: Gaming Cats Studio
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
I must kill...: Fresh Meat is a light horror story adventure game based on a sad story of a butcher. One day, one night and one accident will bring his misty past and memories to light.
Why similar: Adventure 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #49 Bureau of Contacts: Mansion
68% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: MIROWIN
Windows
Explore an old mansion full of paranormal dangers alone. Find clues, identify ghosts, collect their dossiers and exorcise them.
Why similar: Adventure 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #50 Hearing Voices
67% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Fuupu
Windows
Hearing Voices is a unique indie short horror experience where you will need to put your listening and deduction skills to the test to solve puzzles. Mistakes have consequences.
Why similar: Adventure 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #51 Dirty Room
70% matchMixed62% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Tactic Forge
Windows
First person shooter horror adventure game. As detective C, you arrived at an old friend's home and try to find out what's going on.
Why similar: RPG 63.6%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 9.5%
- #52 Perceptions of the Dead
69% matchVery Positive92% of 336 reviews2017
Dev: Ithaqua Labs
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Follow three stories set in a world where the dead linger, and things far worse wait beyond the veil.
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Indie 30.3%, Casual 30%
- #53 My Sticker Book
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,412 reviews2022
Dev: ElementSu
Windows
"I can't sleep." A cute and possibly just a little bit scary puzzle platformer game. Move stickers to the right positions in order to get rid of the monsters and complete the sticker book.
Why similar: RPG 47%, Adventure 27.9%, Casual 20.6%, Indie 4.6%
- #54 Arai-san Mansion Exploration Game: Incarnation
65% matchVery Positive96% of 113 reviews2026
Dev: A.C.3
Windows
"Arai-san Mansion Exploration Game: Incarnation" is a command-based text adventure based on the "Kemono Friends". As an investigator, explore an eerie mansion with astronomical floors. Use your skills and Ally cards to survive anomalies, and find a way to contain the mystery.
Why similar: Adventure 72%, Indie 28%
- #55 Revengeful Ghost
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Akumu Yuko/RegistaPub: Regista
Windows
This title is a horror adventure game. The story unfolds mainly through line messages on smartphones. Just like real time, the in-game time is also ticking away, and messages arrive in real time. The player must use mysterious videos and messages as clues to unravel the mystery of the incidents.
Why similar: Adventure 68.7%, Indie 31.3%
- #56 Monstro Maestro
66% matchVery Positive90% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Game Academy
Windows
Play as a conductor trapped in a haunted and crazy mansion! As a concert begins, a jealous ghost appears and takes possession of your orchestra. To free them, you must explore every corner of the mansion, complete musical challenges, and rebuild your troupe.
Why similar: Adventure 48.3%, Casual 39.8%, Indie 11.9%
- #57 THANATOS
67% matchVery Positive83% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Angela NguyenPub: WahooCat Productions
Windows · Mac
THANATOS is a first-person psychological horror mystery game that involves finding clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets to prevent a friend from taking their own life.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #58 Backrooms: Found Footage
65% matchVery Positive82% of 396 reviews2024
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
Backrooms: Found Footage is a single-player horror game where you are the main character trying to survive the Backrooms. Curiosity wins and you decide to explore this weird place that you got trapped in. What could go wrong?
Why similar: Adventure 81.5%, Indie 18.5%