- #1 Murmurs of the Mist
97% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Jenna YourstonePub: JamJam Studios
Windows
In this game, you’ll encounter puzzles which require you to use your environment in order to solve them. Take note of every detail, they can help you in uncovering Sofia’s story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 15.3%, Story Rich 11.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
- #2 MINE MEMORY
96% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 36.9%, Surreal 13.9%, Mystery 13%, Story Rich 7.7%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
- #3 Afterdream
96% matchVery Positive93% of 349 reviews2023
Dev: Jesse MakkonenPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Why similar: Psychological 20.1%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Surreal 11.7%, Horror 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
- #4 CLeM
95% matchVery Positive92% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Mango ProtocolPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Mystery 14.5%, Puzzle 12%, Horror 11.2%
- #5 Love Alone Death
94% matchVery Positive99% of 418 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Cartoony 8.7%
- #6 Castle of Secrets
94% matchMixed62% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Serene Questworks StudiosPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Castle of Secrets is a dark psychological adventure with horror elements. Uncover the mystery behind your family's murder as you journey through the world of the dead, meet strange beings, solve puzzles, and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.9%, Surreal 16.5%, Female Protagonist 14%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 10.6%
- #7 Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
93% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363 reviews2019
Dev: Mografi
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
JENNY LECLUE is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet, mysteries and puzzles to solve across a vibrant, atmospheric world.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 16.1%, Cinematic 12.8%, Mystery 12.4%, Horror 11.4%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #8 Free Will
91% matchVery Positive97% of 344 reviews2024
Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
Windows
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: Psychological 42.5%, Puzzle 14.6%, Story Rich 14.2%, Horror 9.1%, Dark 6.3%
- #9 Murder by Numbers
92% matchVery Positive84% of 1,662 reviews2020
Dev: MediatonicPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Why similar: Comic Book 23.7%, LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Female Protagonist 13%, Puzzle 8.8%, Cartoony 8.7%
- #10 Bad Faith
91% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: Mado
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 23.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Thriller 11.8%, Horror 11%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
- #11 Fran Bow
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,182 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Point & Click 17.9%, Psychological 13.4%, Horror 9.7%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #12 Neve
88% matchVery Positive100% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Michelle SantosPub: Ritus Studio
Windows
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: Psychological 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Point & Click 12.8%, Thriller 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #13 灵童
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Taolizhixia Studio
Windows
Ling Tong "is a new Chinese style horror suspense puzzle game that combines click to solve puzzles and storyline adventure.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.2%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Thriller 12.8%, Horror 10.9%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #14 The Almost Gone
89% matchVery Positive80% of 1,208 reviews2020
Dev: Happy Volcano
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.
Why similar: Point & Click 23.1%, Puzzle 13.5%, Mystery 13.2%, Surreal 12.2%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
- #15 Fantasmagorie
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: Needlepoint Productions
Windows
Journey through a distorted theatre held together by the fragile mind of a grieving puppet master. With only a needle and thread, traverse through this world and evade twisted and terrifying creations. Shatter the delusion and unravel the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Psychological 24%, Surreal 20.5%, Cinematic 12.6%, Horror 10.4%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #16 Blood Orange: Definitive Edition
86% matchVery Positive94% of 233 reviews2023
Dev: Decent TreatmentPub: Semicolon
Windows
Underwater psychological horror with a shocking, character-driven narrative. Explore ruins beneath the amazon river basin, and converse with their dolphin inhabitants. Skillfully capture and develop photographs with your underwater camera.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Thriller 21.1%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Story Rich 11.4%
- #17 Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,824 reviews2021
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.8%, Story Rich 13.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Horror 13.3%, Puzzle 12.1%
- #18 vivid/stasis
84% matchVery Positive94% of 3,589 reviews2025
Dev: Team VividstasisPub: Hajimeli
Windows
Rhythm-mystery hybrid game about uncovering the history of a mysterious system. The stage is set. Will you step up and play your role?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.8%, Surreal 23.9%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Story Rich 6.1%, Psychological Horror 5.9%
- #19 Outlying Islands
84% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: 九指画尸Pub: 2P Games
Windows
A story about discovering anomalies, finding strange energy sources, and the intertwining of peculiar spaces. Get ready to uncover hidden stories, delve into a horrifying narrative and unveil the most fundamental truth!
Why similar: Comic Book 20.8%, Point & Click 12.7%, Thriller 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
- #20 Trauma
87% matchMixed69% of 689 reviews2011
Dev: Krystian Majewski
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 24%
An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
Why similar: Point & Click 47.8%, Female Protagonist 26.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Casual 9.9%, Story Rich 5.8%
- #21 Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 562 reviews2025
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Why similar: Psychological 20%, Point & Click 15.1%, Surreal 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
- #22 DERE EXE: Rebirth of Horror
83% matchVery Positive88% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: Darius Immanuel GuerreroPub: AppSir Games
Windows
Experience a meta horror pixel platformer retro game haunted by a mysterious yandere.
Why similar: Surreal 24.5%, Horror 20.1%, Female Protagonist 18.8%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Story Rich 12%
- #23 A Night at the Watermill
82% matchVery Positive95% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Neon Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.2%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Thriller 14.3%, Dark 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
- #24 Blood Lily Loop
81% matchVery Positive84% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
Windows
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 39.1%, Female Protagonist 22.9%, Horror 16%, Story Rich 12.9%, Mystery 9.1%
- #25 Paper Lily - Chapter 1
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,379 reviews2024
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.2 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: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Story Rich 14.9%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Horror 13.2%, Puzzle 12.4%
- #26 Hold Me Still
79% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Zeroshade123
Windows
"Hold Me Still" is a point-and-click puzzle mystery game where you investigate your friend's disappearance by exploring their house, collecting clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering the truth.
Why similar: Point & Click 37.2%, Puzzle 18%, Casual 11.9%, Mystery 9.4%, Emotional 9.3%
- #27 Intruder In Antiquonia
80% matchVery Positive90% of 113 reviews2022
Dev: Aruma Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Intruder In Antiquonia is a narrative mystery adventure that will immerse you in the Internet-hostile town of Antiquonia. Sarah does not remember who she is and how she got there. Help her solve the mysteries of her past while exploring beautiful hand-drawn environments.
Why similar: Narrative 24.5% ★, Point & Click 21.3%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #28 Whitehaven
81% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Somnambulist Games
Windows
Uncover the mysteries of Whitehaven Orphanage in this first-person psychological horror game. Explore the place, collect clues and put the pieces together to find out what happened years ago as you delve deep into your mind.
Why similar: Psychological 24.3%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Thriller 16.2%, Horror 14.7%, Dark 11.5%
- #29 Broken Pieces
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 521 reviews2022
Dev: Elseware ExperiencePub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.
Why similar: Psychological 21.8%, Thriller 12.7%, Surreal 12.1%, Point & Click 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
- #30 9 Clues 2: The Ward
78% matchVery Positive91% of 986 reviews2015
Dev: Tap It GamesPub: Artifex Mundi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Solve the mystery of Mnemosyne Asylum!
Why similar: Point & Click 28.6%, Horror 14.6%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Puzzle 12.2%, Mystery 9.6%
- #31 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
74% matchVery Positive88% of 5,930 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Mystery 17.6%, Point & Click 17.1%, Story Rich 14.9%, Horror 14.6%
- #32 If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,742 reviews2021
Dev: Dead Idle Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Narrative 21% ★, Point & Click 16.4%, Psychological 15.2%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #33 A Void Hope
76% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Elden Pixels
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.6%, Dark 26.3%, Puzzle 22%, Mystery 15%, 2D 9.1%
- #34 Whispering Willows
77% matchVery Positive82% of 1,867 reviews2014
Dev: Night Light InteractivePub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Interact with the spirits of the dead, solve the puzzles of the mysterious mansion and help Elena find her missing father in the horror/adventure puzzle game: Whispering Willows.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.5%, Point & Click 16.6%, Story Rich 15.9%, Horror 15.2%, Mystery 13.6%
- #35 Fear the Spotlight
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,212 reviews2024
Dev: Cozy Game PalsPub: Blumhouse Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…
Why similar: Surreal 22.1%, Female Protagonist 19%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 14.9%, Story Rich 13.5%
- #36 Reflection of Mine
77% matchVery Positive81% of 247 reviews2017
Dev: Redblack Spade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Reflection of Mine is a dark puzzle video game about the dissociative identity disorder. The entire game takes place in the broken mind of Lilly Witchgan and the goal is to discover who is real – Lilly herself or one of her many personalities.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Female Protagonist 18.8%, Puzzle 13.8%, Story Rich 12%, Mystery 11%
- #37 Adventure Escape Mysteries
75% matchVery Positive87% of 1,116 reviews2020
Dev: Haiku Games Co
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Play a story-driven room escape game with unique puzzles enjoyed by tens of millions of players. Solve mysteries, puzzle through escape rooms, and find the clue that will crack the case in a critically acclaimed puzzle adventure game!
Why similar: Point & Click 27.2%, Horror 14.9%, Puzzle 14%, Mystery 14%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #38 Marie's Room
73% matchVery Positive93% of 6,648 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Guillaume
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
Why similar: Story Rich 29.5%, Female Protagonist 22.4%, Point & Click 14.5%, Mystery 13%, Puzzle 8%
- #39 Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,243 reviews2025
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
Why similar: Point & Click 19.9%, Female Protagonist 13%, Thriller 12%, Mystery 11.9%, Horror 11.5%
- #40 LOVE ETERNAL
70% matchVery Positive97% of 369 reviews2026
Dev: brlkaPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows
Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.
Why similar: Surreal 17.9%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Cinematic 11.9%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 10.8%
- #41 Lover's Enigma
71% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: FallenCranberry StudioPub: Okasan's Recipe
Windows · Mac
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma. Navigate a web of secrets involving a hidden cult and key characters. Your choices shape the story and lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.8%, Psychological Horror 24.9%, Horror 20%, Story Rich 16.1%, 2D 9.3%
- #42 Veloria
71% matchVery Positive91% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: WANDERING WITCH PROIECTUM
Windows · Mac
An Adventure game with environmental puzzles. Veloria awakens from a nightmare in an abandoned orphanage. As childhood fears resurface, she must piece together fragmented memories and uncover a dark past. Explore, solve puzzles, and survive this twisted place to reach her true ending.
Why similar: Thriller 17.4%, Female Protagonist 17%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Puzzle 12.6%
- #43 Reaplaced
73% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: Mystery Gamedev
Windows · Mac · Linux
A supernatural Halloween whodunnit. Solve a chilling locked-room mystery before the grim reaper reveals the answer!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.3%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 17.3%, Dark 15.4%, Mystery 13.9%
- #44 Belladonna
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 778 reviews2015
Dev: NeckboltPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Belladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.
Why similar: Point & Click 42.2%, Female Protagonist 30.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Horror 9.7%
- #45 GESTALT: The Fifth Day
71% matchVery Positive94% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: KINJAKOPub: 072 Project
Windows
Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.
Why similar: Surreal 20.2%, Point & Click 20.2%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Horror 13.8%
- #46 LUNA
73% matchVery Positive83% of 322 reviews2020
Dev: SimplePub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Play as a little girl named 'Luna', and survive from the dark being while discovering the secrets behind her. The more you traverse on her memory, the more you will discover dark truths that lie deep inside.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 17.5%, Thriller 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 12.9%, Puzzle 12.6%
- #47 Dead Dreams
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Aiaz Marx
Windows
"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...
Why similar: Thriller 17.5%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Puzzle 11.7%
- #48 Ms.Director
72% matchVery Positive97% of 68 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: LGBTQ+ 29.8%, Horror 23.2%, Cartoony 10.5%, Story Rich 10.1%, Puzzle 8.9%
- #49 Phoenix Springs
69% matchVery Positive89% of 255 reviews2024
Dev: Calligram Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
Why similar: Comic Book 21.6%, Psychological 18.1%, Point & Click 15.6%, Mystery 11.9%, Cinematic 11%
- #50 Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together
70% matchVery Positive90% of 1,883 reviews2021
Dev: Dream Toaster Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 23%
A 2-Player Networked Horror Co-Op game. Explore the deepest recesses of your mind to put yourself back together. Work together to defend yourself from its denizens.
Why similar: Psychological 32%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Dark 10%
- #51 Hazy Mind
69% matchVery Positive86% of 331 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological 31.7%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Story Rich 12.4%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Horror 10.1%
- #52 Ib
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,122 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Surreal 19.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Horror 15.1%, Story Rich 13%
- #53 Biphase
68% matchVery Positive96% of 265 reviews2021
Dev: Seasun Seed
Windows
Biphase is a 2D platform jumping game with exploration and puzzles as its core. In the game, the player plays a role who has bipolar disorder, trying to discover and break through the self in the abstract red and black world.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 30.6%, Emotional 18.9%, Puzzle 18.2%, Cartoony 14%, Casual 9.3%
- #54 Bye Sweet Carole
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,115 reviews2025
Dev: Little Sewing MachinePub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Bye Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game completely hand-drawn in the style of classic animated films. Follow the trail of missing Carole Simmons and uncover the dark secrets hidden behind her disappearance from Bunny Hall orphanage.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.6%, Horror 19.2%, Cartoony 17.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Dark 12.4%
- #55 Until Oblivion
66% matchVery Positive98% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: ixavon
Windows
Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.1%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Story Rich 20.3%, Colorful 7.7%
- #56 Narin: The Orange Room
65% matchVery Positive84% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: RedSensationGamesPub: Urnique Studio
Windows
Narin: The Orange Room is a third-person adventure horror game. Play as Narin, a young girl whose sister mysteriously disappeared. Help her find her sister in the twilight dimension, solve the mystery, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Thriller 16.4%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 12.6%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #57 Detective Ridelle
66% matchVery Positive99% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: PuzzLab
Windows
Detective Ridelle is a cozy murder mystery game featuring escape room style puzzles. Find clues, interrogate suspects, solve the mystery - before it's too late.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.4%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Mystery 16.1%, Story Rich 13.7%, Puzzle 12.6%
- #58 The Paradixion: Son's Room
68% matchVery Positive85% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: GomPangGames
Windows
[The Paradixion: Son's Room] is a point-and-click adventure game with a mysterious atmosphere.Solve various puzzles with a unique atmosphere and find the hidden elements in the game to gather clues about the story.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 13.3%, Puzzle 12%, Mystery 10.6%
- #59 At Home Alone II
69% matchVery Positive86% of 227 reviews2019
Dev: 阿正不经Pub: Peanut Bear Studio
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 20.8%, Female Protagonist 20%, Horror 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #60 The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
65% matchVery Positive92% of 3,087 reviews2022
Dev: Cloak and Dagger GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
Why similar: Point & Click 23.2%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Horror 12.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Dark 8.2%