- #1 FAREWELL SEN
97% matchVery Positive94% of 167 reviews2022
Dev: amoxy
Windows
MAKE FRIENDS WITH GHOSTS
Why similar: RPG 61.5%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 18.9%
- #2 Grimm's Hollow
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 14,295 reviews2019
Dev: ghosthunter
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.1 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 57.8%, Adventure 22%, Indie 20.2%
- #3 Myths of Rules
95% matchVery Positive88% of 1,027 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.7 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: Casual 39.9%, Adventure 38.6%, RPG 15.3%, Indie 6.3%
- #4 Wish Giver 偿愿人
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 242 reviews2018
Dev: KelPub: 0Cube
Windows
《Wish Giver》is a role playing game for solving puzzles. The game tells us that the protagonist, as a new wish giver, has received very challenging entrustment due to huge rewards.But the road to fulfill the wish of the aspirant is far more complicated than she imagined.
Why similar: RPG 41%, Adventure 22.3%, Casual 20.5%, Indie 16.2%
- #5 Something Strange
94% matchPositive91% 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 51.3%, Adventure 26.7%, Indie 21.9%
- #6 鬼打墙(剧情版)
93% 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 57.8%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 7.6%
- #7 Seek Or Die
94% matchMixed67% of 174 reviews2018
Dev: FlashynuravPub: FLNStudios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 53.6%, Casual 46.4%
- #8 White Dove 白雀
92% matchVery Positive84% of 420 reviews2019
Dev: 不公开Pub: 0Cube
Windows
《白雀》是一款有轻度惊悚要素的解谜游戏,玩家需要扮演主角白雀,在陌生而诡异的异空间中找到逃离的方法,以及隐藏在这之下的故事……
Why similar: RPG 44.4%, Adventure 19.7%, Casual 18.7%, Indie 17.2%
- #9 그레텔과 윈슬로의 별장
91% matchVery Positive91% of 383 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 50.1%, RPG 25.3%, Indie 12.4%, Casual 12.2%
- #10 ALONE
91% matchVery Positive88% of 218 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 52.1%, Casual 19.1%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 10.6%
- #11 缄默咖啡厅
90% matchVery Positive84% of 221 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 87.2%, Indie 12.8%
- #12 My Friend is a Raven
89% matchVery Positive91% of 1,316 reviews2020
Dev: Two Star Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 18%
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 36.4%, Adventure 23.6%, Indie 22%, Casual 18%
- #13 Dissonance
89% matchVery Positive92% of 186 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 33.8%, RPG 27.4%, Casual 20.6%, Indie 18.2%
- #14 Paper Lily - Chapter 1
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,133 reviews2024
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 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 66.9%, Adventure 33.1%
- #15 Felt Mansion
87% matchVery Positive96% of 50 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 12.4%, Indie 9.8%
- #16 幽灵高校(Ghost College)
88% 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 23.1%, Indie 13%, Casual 8.8%
- #17 At Home Alone Final
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,910 reviews2021
Dev: 阿正不经Pub: 0Cube
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 63.2%, Adventure 14.1%, Casual 13.7%, Indie 9%
- #18 Night Patrol Rules
84% matchVery Positive100% of 202 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%
- #19 Ticy Adventure Club
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,234 reviews2022
Dev: YEZHI
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 82.2%, Adventure 17.8%
- #20 At Home Alone
85% matchVery Positive85% of 1,891 reviews2018
Dev: 阿正不经Pub: 0Cube
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 46.3%, Indie 21.3%, Adventure 20.5%, Casual 12%
- #21 全网公敌:诡村
83% matchVery Positive90% of 527 reviews2024
Dev: Triangel GamePub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 68.5%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 8.6%
- #22 DEMON COMPASS
82% matchVery Positive88% of 80 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 68.6%, Indie 31.4%
- #23 Trick & Treat
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,403 reviews2016
Dev: Rabbiton
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 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 35.9%, Adventure 26.3%, Indie 19.8%, Casual 18%
- #24 Azurael's Circle: Chapter 1
82% matchVery Positive86% of 111 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 55%, Indie 45%
- #25 Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,607 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 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 53.3%, Adventure 26.1%, Casual 20.6%
- #26 梦魇:无归 Nightmare without return
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 625 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 66.1%, Adventure 31.1%, Indie 2.8%
- #27 Fausts Alptraum
80% matchVery Positive94% of 1,233 reviews2017
Dev: LaboRatStudio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 38.4%, Indie 34%, RPG 27.6%
- #28 Have a Nice Dream
78% matchVery Positive93% of 4,858 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 66.1%, Adventure 23.2%, Indie 10.7%
- #29 BIRDHOUSE
77% matchVery Positive95% of 178 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%
- #30 Byakuya Museum
77% matchVery Positive93% of 723 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 59.7%, Indie 40.3%
- #31 [Nightmare Files] Clap Clap
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,034 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%, Indie 19.3%, Casual 9.7%
- #32 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
78% matchMixed66% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: RPG 58.7%, Adventure 41.3%
- #33 Arevan
81% 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 49.1%, Indie 18.5%, Adventure 16.9%, Casual 15.5%
- #34 Subway Exorcist Girl
74% matchVery Positive83% of 304 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 70.5%, Adventure 29.5%
- #35 The Outbound Ghost
76% matchMixed69% of 281 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 66.9%, Adventure 33.1%
- #36 Ms.Director
75% matchVery Positive97% of 67 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 55%, Indie 45%
- #37 Backrooms: Found Footage
73% matchVery Positive84% of 280 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 80.6%, Indie 19.4%
- #38 Ghostbane: Prologue
74% matchMixed54% of 407 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%
- #39 Untitled Ghost Game
72% matchVery Positive91% of 504 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 回门 Way Back Home
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 518 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 49.1%, Indie 21.6%, Adventure 15.9%, Casual 13.4%
- #41 Mimic Search
70% matchVery Positive88% of 966 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%, Indie 16%
- #42 Threads of Karma
72% matchMixed54% of 59 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%, Indie 23%
- #43 The Ghost Cage
71% matchVery Positive96% of 195 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 77.7%, Indie 22.3%
- #44 I Must Kill: Fresh Meat
76% matchMostly Negative29% of 264 reviews2015
Dev: Gaming Cats Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 47.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #45 Vanildo's Journey
71% matchVery Positive97% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Paulo Sacilotti JuniorPub: Half Moon Game Development
Windows · Mac
Vanildo, a skilled retired adventurer is forced to return to work because of the peculiar events that are taking place in the city of Pirarotoba, including the disappearance of his old friend.
Why similar: RPG 76.8%, Adventure 23.2%
- #46 Outcore: Desktop Adventure
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 17,301 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 45.1%, RPG 34.9%, Indie 20%
- #47 Bureau of Contacts: Mansion
69% 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 79.8%, Indie 20.2%
- #48 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 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #49 Dirty Room
71% matchMixed63% of 51 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 63.8%, Adventure 26.3%, Indie 9.9%
- #50 Revengeful Ghost
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 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 67.4%, Indie 32.6%
- #51 Monstro Maestro
66% matchVery Positive93% of 69 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 47.1%, Casual 40.6%, Indie 12.3%
- #52 THANATOS
68% matchVery Positive85% 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%
- #53 Karisvale
68% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2022
Dev: Brendan Tighe
Windows
Your next job awaits in Karisvale, detective. Will you fulfill your duty? Or become lost in the mystery... Explore a retro top-down world, question its citizens, and collect hidden items to uncover Karisvale's dark secret.
Why similar: RPG 58.5%, Adventure 27.4%, Indie 14.1%
- #54 My Sticker Book
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,368 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 27.3%, Casual 21.1%, Indie 4.6%
- #55 Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity
69% matchVery Positive91% of 129 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 42.4%, Adventure 23%, Casual 17.7%, Indie 16.9%
- #56 Eremidia - Archivist's Curse
67% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: Crescent SunPub: YSY Softworks
Windows
Archivist's Curse brings you into an otherworldly harbor of knowledge: The Great Library, although unfortunately, you ended up in the dangerous section of the complex called Hall of Pawnsmoor.
Why similar: RPG 67.3%, Adventure 32.7%
- #57 Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 169 reviews2016
Dev: Sinister SystemsPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Try on the role of a Supernatural Newspaper Agency boss and editor. The world it takes place in is a dark and haunted one, with ghosts, zombies, monsters and even shapeshifting murderers, pretending to be human after they have stolen their victims' bodies or infiltrated the humanity.
Why similar: RPG 40.5%, Adventure 21.3%, Casual 19.5%, Indie 18.7%
- #58 Cursed Mansion
67% matchVery Positive90% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Dragon EmperorsPub: Nuon Games
Windows
Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.
Why similar: RPG 46.6%, Adventure 28.8%, Indie 24.6%
- #59 Forest Ranger Services: Episode 1
65% matchVery Positive82% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: GuardHouse
Windows
Horror game series about the investigation of missing hikers in the U.S. National Parks. Follow the story of a wannabe reporter who got a job as a ranger to investigate the disappearances - several episodes that tell one story! Based on true events.
Why similar: Adventure 50.6%, Casual 49.4%
- #60 Forbidden Terror: Board Game
63% matchVery Positive93% of 152 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: Casual 56.3%, Adventure 43.7%