- #1 Bad Dream: Coma
97% matchVery Positive91% of 2,208 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Point & Click 13.6%, Psychological 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #2 BROKEN LIFE
96% matchVery Positive98% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: IKKOSAMA
Windows
BROKEN LIFE is an atmospheric, fully voiced Point-and-Click Adventure set in a war-torn world. Follow Leo, a former soldier, as he returns to his hometown to uncover the fate of his family, restore his home, and confront the dark secrets hidden within.
Why similar: Point & Click 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 10.2%, Dark 9.3%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #3 Rakuen
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,912 reviews2017
Dev: Laura Shigihara
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A hospitalized Boy comes to terms with his own story by traveling with his Mom to a beautiful fantasy world; ultimately helping his fellow patients find closure by walking a mile in their shoes.
Why similar: Emotional 19.8%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Point & Click 15.4%, Story Rich 12.8%, Puzzle 10.6%
- #4 7 Days
95% matchVery Positive99% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Daver The DavePub: IC Industries
Windows
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Surreal 13%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Emotional 10.5%, Dark 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #5 Little Misfortune
94% matchVery Positive92% of 13,710 reviews2019
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.9%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Story Rich 10.7%, Horror 10.6%
- #6 Sally Face - Episode One
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 26,584 reviews2016
Dev: Portable Moose
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Point & Click 12.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Dark 10.6%, Horror 10.4%
- #7 Happy Game
92% matchVery Positive90% of 3,482 reviews2021
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Why similar: Horror 21.6%, Dark 16.1%, Surreal 15.2%, Point & Click 14.2%, Cute 11.4%
- #8 Lydia
93% matchVery Positive89% of 610 reviews2017
Dev: Platonic Partnership
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Why similar: Psychological 16.8%, Point & Click 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 9%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
- #9 Blackout Hospital
91% matchVery Positive97% of 174 reviews2023
Dev: arcadekitten
Windows
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: Puzzle 20.2%, Horror 17%, Cute 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Adventure 10.1%
- #10 OneShot
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 62,700 reviews2016
Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Why similar: Story Rich 18.2%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Cute 11%, Puzzle 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #11 My Hidden Things
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: SIXDOTS
Windows
In the beginning there was nothing, only a chaos of dreams, out of which came Xary. He tried to understand people's nature and help them. Yet he is too young. And here you are. Together, you need to figure this all out…
Why similar: Point & Click 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Psychological 12.1%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Story Rich 8%
- #12 Bulb Boy
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,136 reviews2015
Dev: Bulbware
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.
Why similar: Point & Click 29.7%, Horror 18.8%, Dark 14%, Puzzle 8%, Adventure 8%
- #13 Creepy Tale 2
88% matchVery Positive86% of 1,533 reviews2021
Dev: Creepy Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Experience the creepy tension of a brothers Grimm fairy tale in this puzzle adventure game. Follow the young and brave Lars as he embarks on a dangerous journey to save his sisters mind from the clutches of a mysterious evil.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.2%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #14 SOULS
89% matchVery Positive91% of 148 reviews2017
Dev: Team Fork
Windows
One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?
Why similar: Psychological 51.5%, Story Rich 30.6%, Adventure 9.4%, Horror 5.9%, Atmospheric 2.7%
- #15 Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow
87% matchMostly Positive70% of 280 reviews2023
Dev: Frozen LinePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Experience the altered memories of a dying man, reliving his entire life as a little boy while lying on his deathbed. Explore the profound depths of his subconscious as you assist Griffin to shed the remains of his miserable life before his impending demise.
Why similar: Emotional 17.9%, Psychological Horror 13%, Story Rich 11.5%, Surreal 10.7%, Horror 9.7%
- #16 HOMESICKNESS
86% matchVery Positive96% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: jnity
Windows
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Point & Click 20.8%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Story Rich 12.9%, Psychological 11.5%
- #17 Lucid Dream Adventure
86% matchVery Positive82% of 233 reviews2018
Dev: Dali Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
Why similar: Psychological 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Point & Click 12.8%, Surreal 11.9%, Dark 9.8%
- #18 Creepy Tale: Snow Child
83% matchNo user reviews93% of 159 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Brothers
Windows
An explosive mix of action and mystery, seasoned with black humor and a sinister atmosphere. Journey into Hell alongside a brave boy named Blizzy and defeat Evil itself. Save the world and become a hero. But at what cost?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22.7%, Puzzle 17.2%, Story Rich 13.8%, Dark 13.5%, Side Scroller 10.3%
- #19 Ordinary Day
84% matchVery Positive89% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Late Night Studios
Windows · Linux
In this not so ordinary psychological horror your soul is bound from birth to fufil a singular purpose. Suffering a loss that has kicked in motion the bindings of your destiny, enter Ordinary Day.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Horror 15.6%, Thriller 12.6%, Emotional 11.7%
- #20 Sinking Inn
84% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: Open Alpha
Windows · Mac
A small, lonely boy on a hopeful quest navigates through a dark and dreary motel. Dive into its mysterious, eerie atmosphere and find your way through the motel's strange puzzles, as it becomes increasingly clear that reality is not as it seems.
Why similar: Point & Click 43.2%, Puzzle 21.1%, Dark 15.5%, Surreal 7.8%, Casual 7.2%
- #21 Monochroma
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 724 reviews2014
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
Why similar: Puzzle 33.3%, Adventure 18%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Horror 12%, Side Scroller 11.7%
- #22 白昼梦 · 心象病院
82% matchVery Positive85% of 235 reviews2024
Dev: 林檎树Pub: Eternal Dream
Windows
This is a pixel style puzzle game, including a certain micro-horror elements. Truth is blind love. Retrieve your memory and escape from this horrible hospital.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Emotional 14.9%, Psychological 14.1%, Surreal 12%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #23 Follow the meaning
80% matchVery Positive94% of 998 reviews2024
Dev: HiKing Mind StudioPub: Second Maze
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…
Why similar: Point & Click 21%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Surreal 12.2%, Puzzle 11%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #24 LIMBO
81% matchVery Positive92% of 60,918 reviews2011
Dev: Playdead
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
Why similar: Dark 25.4%, Puzzle 19.8%, Horror 16%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Surreal 10.4%
- #25 Darkness Under My Bed
82% matchVery Positive91% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows
Wander through intricate maze under the bed, and discover the secrets hidden in the long, dark tunnels. Document the existence of monsters. Retrieve the stolen treasures and memories.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Psychological 15.4%, Surreal 14.2%, Horror 12.8%, Point & Click 12.5%
- #26 INSIDE
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 74,205 reviews2016
Dev: Playdead
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Why similar: Dark 19.8%, Horror 18.5%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Story Rich 15.4%, Puzzle 13.2%
- #27 Imaginary Friend Asylum
78% matchVery Positive100% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Emporium
Windows
A psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. Here, you will uncover a dark conspiracy where you are to receive a terrible fate.
Why similar: Emotional 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Dark 18%, Horror 15.2%, Atmospheric 10.5%
- #28 Keep in Mind: Remastered
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 609 reviews2018
Dev: Little Moth GamesPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.
Why similar: Psychological 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Emotional 15%, Horror 13.8%, Dark 13.7%
- #29 Fran Bow
78% 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 20.8%, Point & Click 17.2%, Horror 9.7%, Psychological 9.5%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #30 Uncanny Tales: 1992
76% matchVery Positive85% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: VYASTUDIO
Windows
Autumn, 1992. Anton, a 14-year-old boy, moves with his parents to a small town and is left alone in his grandmother's apartment. Meanwhile, children are disappearing across the town — the police are powerless, and no one knows who's behind it…
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Thriller 20.9%, Horror 20.3%, Story Rich 11%, Dark 8.4%
- #31 Just Ignore Them
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,535 reviews2017
Dev: Stranga GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 16.1%, Point & Click 15.1%, Dark 11.5%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #32 In Nightmare
77% matchVery Positive82% of 94 reviews2022
Dev: Magic Fish Games
Windows
In Nightmare is a narrative-driven horror adventure game combining sneak action with diverse puzzles. It follows a young boy in search for the last hope of love who is working out his own salvation by navigating through his fear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.1%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Story Rich 14.1%, Adventure 13.4%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #33 The Paradixion: Son's Room
76% 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 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 11.7%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Puzzle 9.9%
- #34 OMORI
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 86,619 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.6%, Story Rich 17.6%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Horror 11.1%
- #35 Children of Silentown
74% matchVery Positive87% of 1,521 reviews2023
Dev: Elf GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Children of Silentown is a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a girl growing up in a village deep in a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon here, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
Why similar: Point & Click 15.6%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Surreal 10.3%, Horror 9.7%, Dark 9.6%
- #36 Heartbound
77% matchMixed55% of 3,671 reviews2018
Dev: Pirate Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Heartbound is a non-traditional role-playing game about a boy, his dog, secrets, and sanity.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.6%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Horror 15.2%, Story Rich 15%, Puzzle 11.7%
- #37 Boyhood's End
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: WSS playground
Windows
Boyhood's End is an adventure horror game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe, and Campenella, the delinquent genius, and their journey on the galactic railroad regarding the "human" and "inhuman".
Why similar: Story Rich 29.7%, Emotional 25.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Cute 14.7%, Horror 9.4%
- #38 Heal
75% matchVery Positive84% of 807 reviews2020
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.9%, Psychological 16.2%, Emotional 13.2%, Surreal 13.1%, Puzzle 11.3%
- #39 My Light In The Dark
75% matchVery Positive93% of 88 reviews2019
Dev: TaleHammer
Windows
My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.
Why similar: Point & Click 17.2%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Dark 12.7%, Emotional 10.9%, Horror 10.5%
- #40 Home
70% matchVery Positive100% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Spoon
Windows
A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles. Enjoy live acoustic sounds and a story that feels like a musical film!
Why similar: Emotional 27.5%, Dark 20.9%, Story Rich 20.3%, Puzzle 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
- #41 Alex's Hope & Alex's Solitude
71% matchVery Positive91% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Violet Horizons Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A boy regains his hope and a girl finds herself in solitude. A kinetic novel that will take you through their darkest days and immerse you in their deepest emotions.
Why similar: Psychological 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Emotional 15%, Story Rich 9%
- #42 Antivine
72% matchVery Positive93% of 95 reviews2022
Dev: Regeneration studioPub: USERJOY Technology Co.,Ltd.
Windows
Do plants feel? A unique boy from the village and a girl lost her memory stay together for the adventure in the Chengying plain, a breathtaking place but fulfilled with bushy vines. Through changing viewpoints and the way of thinking, solve puzzles and move towards the source of the Treeman.
Why similar: Emotional 27.3%, Point & Click 18%, Story Rich 15.7%, Cute 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
- #43 Creepy Tale: Some Other Place
69% matchVery Positive94% of 637 reviews2024
Dev: Creepy Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to "some other place." Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.2%, Hand-drawn 16.6%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Dark 13.5%, Puzzle 11.3%
- #44 A Day Without Me
73% matchMixed68% of 81 reviews2020
Dev: Gamecom Team
Windows
You wake up in an unknown city. A city without people, a city completely deserted. But you’re not alone. There's something out there, something strange, something terrifying. Somehow, you know your only way out is to figure out why you're the only one left when everyone else is gone.
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.6%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Surreal 13.3%, Psychological 12.2%, Horror 12.1%
- #45 Poco
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,463 reviews2025
Dev: WhalefallPub: Micah Boursier
Windows · Mac
Poco is the story of the world's smallest clown, who is banished from the circus and finds themself in a mysterious undergrowth full of lost and broken things. Explore, meet strange creatures, solve puzzles, and help Poco return to the circus in this charming 2D/3D hybrid point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.8%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Story Rich 11.1%, Choices Matter 10%
- #46 Dad's Monster House
70% matchVery Positive94% of 274 reviews2021
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Dad's Monster House is a hand-drawn puzzle game featuring horror and fantasy. It tells the story of Carlos' journey after he receives a distress call from his father, pleading for him to return to his old home and rescue his dad.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.3%, Point & Click 15.1%, Surreal 14.8%, Horror 11.1%, Dark 11.1%
- #47 Masochisia
72% matchVery Positive84% of 432 reviews2015
Dev: Oldblood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A young man discovers through a series of hallucinations that he will grow up to become a violent psychopath. How will he respond to these revelations? Can he change his fate? Can you even... change fate...
Why similar: Psychological 24.3%, Point & Click 23.7%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 17.4%, Story Rich 13.8%
- #48 Fear in Hospital
74% matchMixed48% of 513 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Fear in Hospital is a short survivor horror in hospital where you should find a occult path to escape alive!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 16.2%, Thriller 15.8%, Dark 14%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #49 The Heilwald Loophole
68% matchVery Positive98% of 363 reviews2022
Dev: Jan Malitschek
Windows
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.6%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 16.6%, Dark 14%, Puzzle 6.7%
- #50 Psychroma
68% matchVery Positive89% of 189 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket AdriftPub: Gamma Space Collaborative Studio
Windows · Linux
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17%, Emotional 12.1%, Surreal 11.5%, Side Scroller 10.9%
- #51 Five Stages of Pink
69% matchVery Positive98% of 93 reviews2022
Dev: Kaffein
Windows · Mac · Linux
Horror mystery about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city while trying to survive one more day. In a universe where Sleep is an illness. This is a visual novel with point and click features.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.1%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 14.2%, Emotional 13.7%, Story Rich 11.7%
- #52 Luto
66% matchVery Positive85% of 1,263 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Bird Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Psychological 16.7%, Dark 12.8%, Emotional 11.1%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #53 Silence of the Sleep
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 706 reviews2014
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Dark 9.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Psychological 7.3%
- #54 Seen
67% matchVery Positive91% of 9,952 reviews2019
Dev: Seen Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A lonely kid desperately tries to escape his dark world.
Why similar: Dark 25%, Puzzle 16.4%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Story Rich 11.2%, Emotional 10.8%
- #55 Birth
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,993 reviews2023
Dev: Madison Karrh
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.1%, Surreal 17.8%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Puzzle 10.1%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
- #56 Omitted
71% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: PsychoRavens
Windows
Omitted is a first-person psychological horror game. Experience being left alone in an old hospital, discover its secrets and try to survive.
Why similar: Psychological 21.7%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 13.8%, Thriller 13.6%, Dark 11.8%
- #57 Children of Silentown: Prologue
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,048 reviews2020
Dev: Elf GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
Why similar: Point & Click 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Surreal 11.3%, Horror 11.1%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
- #58 STAY
70% matchMixed68% of 567 reviews2018
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Psychological 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Thriller 11.4%, Horror 10.1%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #59 Whateverland
67% matchVery Positive88% of 179 reviews2022
Dev: Caligari Games
Windows
Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges. Get to meet the charismatic Whateverlanders, steal and deceive or be a good boy to discover all the different endings of Vincent's story.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.4%, Point & Click 17.3%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #60 Unleaving
66% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: orangutan matter
Windows · Mac
When everything seems hopeless a child is awakened by the whispers of the last leaf, drawn into an imaginary world. Unleaving invites the player into a narrative-driven puzzle platformer where each challenge unfolds within a hand-painted landscape, exploring perception and meaning
Why similar: Surreal 19.8%, Hand-drawn 19.5%, Dark 15.7%, Story Rich 11.6%, Puzzle 9.4%