- #1 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
97% matchVery Positive95% of 35,239 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 62%, Survival Horror 12%, First-Person 9.8%, Dark 6.1%, Walking Simulator 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive first-person horror experience that masterfully blends environmental storytelling with a sense of inescapable dread.
- #2 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
96% matchVery Positive88% of 8,931 reviews2014
Dev: The Astronauts
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Why similar: Horror 37.8%, Walking Simulator 29%, First-Person 17.4%, Open World 7%, Adventure 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the focus on investigating a mysterious, decaying environment through a first-person perspective.
- #3 Penumbra Overture
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,061 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Why similar: Horror 54.7%, Survival Horror 12%, First-Person 12%, Survival 7.1%, Dark 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This classic indie horror title emphasizes physics-based puzzles and atmospheric exploration similar to early first-person horror games.
- #4 Fingerbones
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,583 reviews2015
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.
Why similar: Horror 42.4%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, First-Person 16%, Dark 12.9%, Adventure 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A short, free-to-play indie horror game that relies on environmental storytelling and a dark, oppressive atmosphere.
- #5 Layers of Fear
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,582 reviews2023
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.
Why similar: Horror 48%, First-Person 17.9%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Dark 12.1%, Adventure 6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deeply psychological, first-person walking simulator experience that constantly shifts the environment around the player.
- #6 Blameless
94% matchVery Positive84% of 5,079 reviews2016
Dev: Vaclav HudecPub: Blameless Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Blameless is a mysterious first-person adventure with primary focus on puzzle solving and short story. The player will appear in a role of an architect trying to investigate strange happenings, after discovering evidence of an act of violence.
Why similar: Horror 58.1%, Multiplayer 16%, First-Person 9.4%, Adventure 4.5%, Survival Horror 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: A concise first-person horror game that focuses on puzzle-solving and tension within a contained, realistic setting.
- #7 Lost in Vivo
93% matchVery Positive92% of 3,869 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Horror 45.8%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Survival 14.3%, First-Person 13.2%, FPS 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: This indie title captures a claustrophobic and surreal sense of horror that feels very similar to the isolated tension of All Is Dust.
- #8 Iron Lung
91% matchVery Positive92% of 10,453 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Horror 58.3%, First-Person 14.2%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Dark 8.1%, Adventure 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A short, intense, and highly atmospheric horror experience that relies on limited visibility to build terror.
- #9 Passing Pineview Forest
92% matchMixed65% of 1,695 reviews2014
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...
Why similar: Horror 51.8%, Survival 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%, First-Person 6.3%, Survival Horror 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric walking simulator that captures the feeling of being alone in a hostile, natural environment.
- #10 the static speaks my name
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,722 reviews2015
Dev: the whale husband
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 7%
A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.
Why similar: Horror 44.1%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Dark 13.4%, First-Person 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal and short indie experience excels at creating a disturbing, dream-like atmosphere through simple exploration.
- #11 Only If
90% matchMixed62% of 5,958 reviews2014
Dev: Creability
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. It takes idiom into reality.
Why similar: Horror 36%, First-Person 15.1%, Survival 12.7%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person puzzle-horror game uses surreal environments to challenge the player's perception.
- #12 Cry of Fear
89% matchVery Positive89% of 82,586 reviews2013
Dev: Team Psykskallar
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Why similar: Horror 51.6%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Survival 6%, First-Person 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic free-to-play psychological horror game that delivers a gritty, first-person survival experience.
- #13 Paratopic
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,101 reviews2018
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Horror 61.8%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Dark 7.9%, First-Person 7.1%, Adventure 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal, short-form indie horror game uses a unique aesthetic to deliver a haunting and fragmented narrative.
- #14 Stories Untold
88% matchVery Positive87% of 5,390 reviews2017
Dev: No CodePub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Why similar: Horror 80.8%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines retro-tech aesthetics with psychological horror and mystery in a way that feels intimate and unsettling.
- #15 Shattered Lights
87% matchVery Positive87% of 430 reviews2019
Dev: Team MorbidPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Shattered Lights is a VR psychological horror room-scale experience, which focuses on drawing the player into the game with unparalleled immersion.
Why similar: Horror 42.7%, Walking Simulator 11.6%, Survival Horror 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, VR 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric horror title is built for immersion and focuses on the psychological toll of exploring dark, confined spaces.
- #16 The Painscreek Killings
85% matchVery Positive91% of 6,013 reviews2017
Dev: EQ Studios
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
Why similar: Horror 44.5%, Walking Simulator 20.7%, First-Person 14.3%, Open World 13.1%, Adventure 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pure walking simulator that tasks the player with unraveling a dark mystery in an abandoned location.
- #17 Sylvio
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 146 reviews2015
Dev: Stroboskop
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.
Why similar: Horror 75.5%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on first-person investigation and audio-based horror, mirroring the mystery-solving elements of the seed game.
- #18 Kraven Manor
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 737 reviews2014
Dev: Demon Wagon Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and prepare yourself. Explore the depths of the immersive, atmospheric world of Kraven Manor. Uncover its secrets, solve its mystical puzzles, and face its growing threat. Face your fears and see if you have what it takes...the doors of Kraven Manor await you.
Why similar: Horror 64.7%, Multiplayer 15%, First-Person 8.1%, Adventure 7.1%, Indie 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features first-person exploration and environmental puzzles that reward careful observation of the surroundings.
- #19 Minds Eyes
84% matchMixed70% of 1,826 reviews2016
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?
Why similar: Horror 65.9%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.3%, First-Person 3.4%, Adventure 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror title that leans into surrealism and first-person exploration to unsettle the player.
- #20 From The Darkness
82% matchVery Positive89% of 3,427 reviews2021
Dev: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.
Why similar: Horror 47.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Walking Simulator 10.2%, Dark 8.7%, First-Person 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: An indie psychological horror game that emphasizes the fear of the unknown while exploring an abandoned apartment.
- #21 Black Rose
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 978 reviews2016
Dev: Sir Bedlam Productions
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Equipped with a flashlight, investigate an abandoned funeral home that's said to be haunted. Find out what really happened to the people who once worked there, and hope that this dark, eerie building doesn't become your final resting place.
Why similar: Horror 62.5%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%, First-Person 8%, Adventure 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: An indie horror exploration game that focuses on the tension of navigating dark, unfamiliar environments.
- #22 Medusa's Labyrinth
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,112 reviews2016
Dev: Guru Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Medusa’s Labyrinth is a very short mythological first-person horror game set in ancient Greece. It takes myths and legends that have stayed with us for over 2000 years and mix them together with modern gameplay. The game let's you explore murky catacombs and follow along a classic, tragic story.
Why similar: Horror 65.3%, Multiplayer 15.6%, First-Person 7.7%, Adventure 5.1%, Action 2%
Why You'll Like It: This mythological horror walking simulator uses atmosphere and environmental design to build tension.
- #23 Death Motel
81% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Death Motel is a short, intense first-person horror experience about the paranormal events occurring at abandoned Crimson Motel.
Why similar: Horror 50.9%, Walking Simulator 22%, First-Person 15.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person walking simulator focuses on psychological horror and uncovering the dark history of a specific location.
- #24 Awkward Dimensions Redux
81% matchVery Positive80% of 2,955 reviews2016
Dev: StevenHarmonGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...
Why similar: Horror 38.6%, Walking Simulator 21.2%, First-Person 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Adventure 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal walking simulator that explores abstract themes through an experimental, first-person lens.
- #25 REALITY
82% 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: Horror 84.9%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A short, free-to-play indie horror experience that focuses on the disorientation of the player.
- #26 No More Room in Hell
79% matchVery Positive90% of 75,677 reviews2013
Dev: No More Room in Hell TeamPub: Lever Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.
Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Survival 18.8%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Zombies 13.5%, Survival Horror 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, this classic free-to-play game captures the gritty, survival-horror atmosphere of the era.
- #27 Disturbed
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,856 reviews2016
Dev: iBlackpen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.
Why similar: Horror 60.2%, Dark 17.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Adventure 8.1%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: A short, free-to-play horror game that uses a dark, hand-drawn aesthetic to tell a grim story.
- #28 Evil Inside - Prologue
78% matchMixed68% of 1,036 reviews2021
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
Why similar: Horror 40.6%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Survival 13.5%, Survival Horror 11%, First-Person 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This short psychological horror experience focuses on the terror of being trapped in a familiar, yet corrupted, home.
- #29 A Walk in the Woods
80% matchMixed41% of 551 reviews2018
Dev: Something Dark Studios
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 22%
A Walk in the Woods is a co-op multiplayer game where four players must roam a dark and dangerous forest in search of each other, avoid a terrifying creature, and reunite before the curse is complete.
Why similar: Horror 49.7%, Multiplayer 23.9%, Survival 8.4%, Survival Horror 7.2%, Adventure 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: This indie horror title captures the isolation of being lost in a dark, atmospheric forest setting.
- #30 DESOLATE
78% matchMixed67% of 8,009 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
Why similar: Horror 36.4%, Survival 26.2%, Open World 12.9%, First-Person 9.5%, Zombies 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival horror game that emphasizes exploring a mysterious, decaying open world.
- #31 Days Without Incident
73% matchVery Positive95% of 484 reviews2025
Dev: We Create StuffPub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows
It has been -̷̯͙̔̈́-̴̱̽̓͝-̷̍̊̕͠ days without incident. Your investigation has brought you to an old metalworks factory, abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. But something’s been growing in the quiet. A short first-person survival horror experience.
Why similar: Horror 54.6%, First-Person 11.1%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Dark 8.3%, Zombies 5.7%
- #32 Welcome to Dustown
76% matchMixed50% of 736 reviews2025
Dev: Onze 8 Degrés
Windows
Welcome to Dustown is a single-player or cooperative horror game for up to 4 players. Play as field scientists exploring vast labyrinthine cornfields, collecting samples and evidence for a mysterious corporation. Make sure you don't get killed at the crossroads.
Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Survival 14.3%, First-Person 12.3%, Survival Horror 12.1%
- #33 Propagation VR
74% matchVery Positive94% of 5,809 reviews2020
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?
Why similar: Horror 33.1%, Survival 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.2%, VR 11.6%, Zombies 8%
- #34 SCP: Blackout
74% matchMixed68% of 333 reviews2024
Dev: Mahelyk
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
A VR/Desktop game where you are a new D-Class personnel in secret SCP Research Site-50 when everything falls apart. Use what you can find as you explore the facility, access logs to learn about the SCP entities in containment, and run for your life from the SCP entities that have escaped.
Why similar: Horror 49.1%, Survival Horror 15%, First-Person 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%, VR 7.4%
- #35 Vigil
71% matchVery Positive86% of 2,025 reviews2025
Dev: Singularity Studios
Windows
Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.
Why similar: Horror 40%, Survival Horror 15.6%, First-Person 13.6%, Dark 10.2%, Survival 7.5%
- #36 Phantasmal: Survival Horror Roguelike
77% matchMixed44% of 364 reviews2016
Dev: Eyemobi Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Experience Terror that is Never the Same Twice with Phantasmal, a Lovecraftian survival horror that evolves every time you play!
Why similar: Horror 56.5%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Survival 8.8%, FPS 2.1%
- #37 Unlasting Horror
75% matchMixed64% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Matt Sowards Games
Windows
Experience the story of a Private Detective and find out what happened on the day of the accident in this First Person horror Adventure. play solo or with up to five friends using unique features from solving puzzles, buying equipment to stun the monsters and progress through the story.
Why similar: Horror 34.9%, Survival Horror 15.8%, First-Person 15.1%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Co-op 5.6%
- #38 Heaven Dust
73% matchVery Positive91% of 681 reviews2020
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
Why similar: Horror 39.9%, Survival Horror 21.8%, Adventure 15.2%, Zombies 7.4%, Indie 6.9%
- #39 Visage
72% matchVery Positive84% of 10,620 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 53.9%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%, First-Person 8%, Dark 7.2%
- #40 Changgwi
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: Mandam
Windows
First-perspective Co-op horror game (up to 4 online players). A terrible incident has struck a Joseon-era village. Become an investigator and survive the cursed night.
Why similar: Horror 41.7%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Survival Horror 14.4%, First-Person 13.1%, Dark 7.6%
- #41 Blinding Dark
76% matchMostly Negative32% of 62 reviews2014
Dev: Games HutPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Blinding Dark is a First Person Adventure horror game. Complete puzzles, collect items and power-ups, fight enemies and do your best to manage the very thin resources you have at your disposal to uncover terrible secrets.
Why similar: Horror 71.5%, First-Person 13.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Action 4.8%
- #42 Occult
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,944 reviews2022
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Occult is a dynamic cooperative game with elements of horror and quest. You are waiting for a variety of opponents, puzzles and endings!
Why similar: Horror 48.4%, Multiplayer 18.9%, First-Person 11%, Dark 7.1%, Co-op 5.5%
- #43 Skull Hotel
70% matchVery Positive83% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: James Hall
Windows
Skull Hotel is a horror game where you clean hotel rooms while creatures hide, waiting to kill you.
Why similar: Horror 29.5%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Survival Horror 11.4%, First-Person 10.9%, Survival 10.4%
- #44 Lights Off!
71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,843 reviews2022
Dev: TheDollarGameStore
Windows
Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed.
Why similar: Horror 57.9%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Dark 7.3%, Adventure 5.4%
- #45 Arizona Sunshine®
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,299 reviews2016
Dev: Vertigo Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Why similar: Horror 24.5%, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Survival Horror 9.3%, Zombies 8.3%
- #46 Ghost Watchers
66% matchVery Positive86% of 16,100 reviews2025
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses
Why similar: Horror 48.9%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Survival Horror 13.3%, First-Person 7.3%, Co-op 7.2%
- #47 Silent Rain
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 220 reviews2024
Dev: 2Brains&CoffeePub: Seedlers Interactive
Windows
Silent Rain is a challenging and immersive co-op horror game, for 1 to 4 players. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, and gather information while trying to survive the threats lurking in the dark. How many tries will it take you to master your fear?
Why similar: Horror 30.4%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Survival 12.8%, First-Person 11.6%
- #48 AfterHours
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 607 reviews2022
Dev: Runway Studios
Windows
Experience psychological horror in a large abandoned hospital. Hide, explore and survive from a mysterious creature living in the ruins of this hospital.
Why similar: Horror 67.8%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, First-Person 11.6%, Adventure 5.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #49 Frightence
68% matchVery Positive82% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Frightence is a short, intense first-person horror experience.
Why similar: Horror 61.2%, Walking Simulator 26.3%, Adventure 9.5%, Singleplayer 3%
- #50 Shadow of Pharos
68% matchMixed69% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: Team Gaivot
Windows
Shadow of Pharos is a short first-person horror game.
Why similar: Horror 63.6%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, First-Person 11.7%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #51 Escape From Monster
69% matchMixed67% of 275 reviews2022
Dev: Thunder Games
Windows
You woke up in a dusty room, in an unknown place, with no memory of how you got here. Your pockets are empty, and there is something outside the door producing frightening sounds.
Why similar: Horror 42.2%, Multiplayer 17.6%, Survival Horror 15%, First-Person 7.5%, Survival 5.9%
- #52 FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate
67% matchVery Positive86% of 522 reviews2018
Dev: Alex Olinkiewicz
Windows
Survive the arctic research base simply known as Base 75, or die from the freezing cold or by the horrors that lurk within the halls?
Why similar: Horror 43.5%, Survival 16.1%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Zombies 6.7%, First-Person 6.5%
- #53 It Lurks in the Woods
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 reviews2017
Dev: Olivier Leclair
Windows
It Lurks in the Woods is a short first-person horror game based on French Canadian folklore.
Why similar: Horror 50.2%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Dark 13.6%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 6.1%
- #54 Altarium
66% matchMixed56% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Metavision Studio
Windows
Altarium is a first-person, asymmetric PVP Co-Op horror game that can be played by 1-5 players together. Players can choose to play as either the victim or the evil character. Get ready, choose your role, shape your destiny, and survive!
Why similar: Horror 39.9%, Multiplayer 17.4%, First-Person 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Dark 8%
- #55 Golgotha
65% matchVery Positive81% of 1,031 reviews2023
Dev: Craig LawrencePub: LockleyGames
Windows
Dare to explore the most haunted vicinity in all of England? You will leave no stone unturned as you walk along the eerie grounds of the Black Waters Station and uncover the horror that lies within.
Why similar: Horror 43%, Multiplayer 19.8%, First-Person 16.1%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Open World 5.5%
- #56 Contagion VR: Outbreak
67% matchMixed64% of 697 reviews2020
Dev: Monochrome, Inc
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!
Why similar: Horror 24.2%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Zombies 12.1%, Survival 11%, VR 9.8%