Games Like Araha : Curse of Yieun Island

Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.

Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Adventure 24.7%, Survival Horror 21.1%, Indie 16.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Araha, this game features intense first-person exploration of cursed environments with a heavy focus on stealth and puzzle-solving.

ARAYA is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.

Why similar: Horror 41.1%, Adventure 33.3%, Indie 22.4%, Multiplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic peer, this game features first-person exploration of a haunted location with a strong emphasis on uncovering a mystery.

Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.

Why similar: Horror 28.5%, Indie 28%, Survival Horror 25.9%, Adventure 17.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the same indie horror spirit, focusing on navigating a dark, abandoned building filled with supernatural threats.

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 38.7%, Survival Horror 27.8%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deeply atmospheric and terrifying experience within a shifting, haunted environment that mirrors the dread found in Araha.

Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.3%, Adventure 28.5%, Indie 20.3%, Horror 20%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of atmospheric exploration and survival horror mechanics within a mysterious, isolated setting.

Notorious cult-classic Korean horror. Sneak into school at midnight to return your sweetheart's diary and get caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Explore haunted hallways, solve classic survival horror puzzles and escape the clutches of a killer Janitor who is out for your blood.

Why similar: Adventure 32.3%, Horror 28.9%, Survival Horror 24.2%, Indie 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a similarly claustrophobic and abandoned location, this survival horror game emphasizes hiding and exploration to uncover dark secrets.

MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.2%, Horror 29.1%, Adventure 24.2%, Indie 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: This psychological horror game utilizes first-person mechanics and puzzle-solving to create a sense of unease similar to the exploration of the hospital in Araha.

The Ritual on Weylyn Island is a First-Person Survival Horror Story set on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by classic horror movies, The Ritual on Weylyn Island is a weapons-free, story-driven action adventure game.

Why similar: Adventure 49.6%, Indie 36%, Horror 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the island-based survival horror setting of Araha, focusing on exploration and uncovering the truth behind a dark ritual.

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: Adventure 59.4%, Horror 40.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the focus on environmental storytelling and psychological tension as you navigate a constantly changing, haunted space.

Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.

Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Adventure 31.7%, Indie 19.9%, Multiplayer 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Sharing the hospital setting of Araha, this game emphasizes the tension of being trapped in a supernatural medical facility.

Curse of Anabelle is a story driven adventure-horror/puzzle game which players can experience in the first person perspective. The storyline is based on real world myths and legends.

Why similar: Adventure 54%, Indie 40.9%, Horror 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines adventure and horror elements, tasking players with uncovering dark secrets in a mysterious, atmospheric setting.

Wounded is a first-person survival horror game, bringing you the old-school indie horror vibe through a detailed and eerie environment.

Why similar: Adventure 31.2%, Survival Horror 23.9%, Indie 23.4%, Horror 18%, Multiplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar indie horror experience, focusing on the protagonist's journey through a dangerous, abandoned location.

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: Adventure 30.2%, Survival Horror 23.9%, Horror 22.2%, Indie 20.4%, Multiplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the psychological aspect of horror, using a first-person perspective to explore a home filled with paranormal activity.

''No70: Eye of Basir'' is a story based first person perspective adventure game which focused on investigation. Players will help Aras and Erhan to solve the mystery about Basir and the No70 house.

Why similar: Adventure 43.6%, Indie 33.6%, Horror 17.3%, Multiplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on investigation and exploration in a haunted environment, capturing the slow-burn mystery feel of Araha.

Test of Courage is a horror game where you have to explore an abandoned school in search of your two friends. The only hint you have is the "Courage Test" in which you have to find 10 objects around the academy while maintaining your sanity.

Why similar: Adventure 31.1%, Survival Horror 27.8%, Indie 23%, Horror 18.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strong indie horror match that focuses on exploration and survival in a dark, atmospheric environment.

Short first-person horror experience with a unique mirror mechanic. Escape from an invisible monster that can be only seen in the reflection.

Why similar: Adventure 35.1%, Survival Horror 28.7%, Horror 23.7%, Indie 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the eerie, isolated feeling of exploring a forgotten location, much like the island setting in Araha.

Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.

Why similar: Adventure 44.9%, Indie 40.5%, Horror 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the first-person indie horror aesthetic, focusing on the tension of navigating dark, unknown spaces.

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 43.9%, Adventure 40.6%, Indie 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a short, intense horror experience that mirrors the focused, indie-style gameplay of Araha.

The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.

Why similar: Horror 81.3%, Survival Horror 7.1%, Adventure 6.2%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the feeling of isolation and exploration in a vast, cursed wilderness, matching the island-exploration vibe of Araha.

Distorted Reality is a first-person survival horror, which takes place in the hospital of Alexandria. For mysterious reasons, the usual laws of physics in the hospital completely stopped working.

Why similar: Adventure 59%, Indie 41%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a classic indie horror experience with a focus on navigating unsettling environments.

A chilling psychological horror set in 1980s Kerala. After weeks of silence, you arrive on a remote island to search for your missing wife. Explore an abandoned house, uncover local folklore, survive haunting encounters, and unravel the island’s buried secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Horror 22.3%, Survival Horror 21.3%

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: Adventure 47.5%, Indie 35%, Horror 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique investigation mechanic that pairs well with the mystery-solving elements found in Araha's gameplay.

Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.

Why similar: Horror 48.7%, Adventure 42.3%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on narrative-driven exploration in a creepy, abandoned location, mirroring the atmospheric focus of Araha.

You have just awoken without knowing who or where you are. You can't remember anything but it is clear you are not alone.

Why similar: Adventure 35%, Indie 31.1%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Horror 12.2%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the hospital/laboratory horror trope, providing a similar setting to the hospital exploration in Araha.

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Horror 51.8%, Adventure 48.2%

CURSE is a point-and-click horror game that throws the player into the world of paranormal investigations.

Why similar: Adventure 30.6%, Survival Horror 27%, Indie 24%, Horror 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the atmospheric, first-person horror feel that defines the experience of playing Araha.

『Japanese House Exploration』is a first-person puzzle horror adventure game set in a traditional Japanese house. You explore a house that is both eerie and nostalgic. To find a dear friend.

Why similar: Horror 48.3%, Survival Horror 26.5%, Indie 25.2%

The Wendigo - is a first person investigation horror game set in a Victorian era mansion, located in the heart of a forest. You must rely on your instinct and intuition to survive the horrors that lie within. With tools to aid you, you will seek answers, but will you survive?

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on survival and exploration in a cursed, isolated location.

The plague destroyed the world you once knew. This unknown bacteria destroyed the lives of many people who lived in various countries around the world. When the plague was first identified by doctors, researchers started working on a cure immediately. The infected people were transported into hospitals to isolate them from other people.

Why similar: Adventure 46.5%, Indie 33.7%, Horror 19.8%

Why You'll Like It: As the title suggests, it focuses on the feeling of being alone in a dangerous, haunted environment.

SURVIVAL HORROR in first person. We incarnate an investigator of paranormal events that only with the help of a paranormal activity detector (EMF DETECTOR) and a small oil lamp, we will try to perform an EXORCISM.

Why similar: Adventure 35.5%, Indie 26.9%, Horror 15.3%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Multiplayer 11%

Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.

Why similar: Adventure 46.5%, Indie 32.7%, Horror 12.7%, Survival Horror 6.4%, Multiplayer 1.6%

Explore and experience this horror story, as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.

Why similar: Adventure 45.5%, Indie 34.5%, Horror 20%

Fear in Hospital is a short survivor horror in hospital where you should find a occult path to escape alive!

Why similar: Adventure 32.1%, Survival Horror 30.9%, Horror 21%, Indie 16.1%

Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.

Why similar: Horror 63.2%, Adventure 36.8%

Yoko no Hanashi is a first-person survival horror game where you need to survive in an abandoned college with one of your chosen yandere: Yoto (male version) and Yoko (female version)

Why similar: Indie 28.8%, Adventure 26.4%, Survival Horror 22.4%, Horror 22.3%

Racing against time, a guy wanders around a graveyard on the middle of nowhere, searching for something that may break a deadly curse. Among murders and secrets, only darkness is certain.

Why similar: Adventure 42%, Horror 34.5%, Indie 19.1%, Multiplayer 4.3%

A narrative horror game set in the daily lives of Indonesian society. Interact with various mystical objects as you explore haunted places, unravel their lingering mysteries, and experience how Indonesian myth, taboo and culture, combined with your choices, shape the course of your nights.

Why similar: Adventure 45.3%, Indie 36.2%, Horror 16%, Multiplayer 2.6%

Surreal survival horror, where you alone or with a friend have to solve puzzles and try to survive in the endless entrance among the monsters

Why similar: Adventure 43.6%, Indie 33.4%, Horror 23%

You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?

Why similar: Adventure 52.9%, Horror 34.9%, Indie 12.2%

Your main task is to find out who is involved in the spread and experiment on the "E" virus - Ebola, you need to stop the spread of the virus, and at the same time survive yourself! Millions of people may die.

Why similar: Survival Horror 39.7%, Adventure 28.3%, Horror 23.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%

A 3D Survival Horror Game, in which the player has to investigate an abandoned medical research facility, while looking out for whatever danger that resides in the unknown darkness. An indie game made by a 14 year old student.

Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Survival Horror 34.6%, Indie 17.4%, Adventure 8.6%, Multiplayer 4.7%

Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.

Why similar: Adventure 48.4%, Indie 38.1%, Horror 13.6%

Misery Mansion is a first-person survival horror game. After your car broke down you find yourself helpless in a forest. All alone you will search for help in the dark. You will discover and explore a mysterious old mansion. But soon all you want is to escape the horrors within.

Why similar: Survival Horror 42.2%, Adventure 29.3%, Horror 28.5%

In this story focused horror game, you are a priest! And you need to help a family with their cursed house, explore, follow your visions, find the root, and exorcize it!

Why similar: Survival Horror 45.2%, Horror 29.5%, Adventure 25.3%

Missing Hiker is a short indie horror game, where your brother Ethan went missing while hiking and you need to find him.

Why similar: Adventure 45%, Horror 40.9%, Multiplayer 14%

A difficult obstacle course 3D platformer where the goal is to survive and escape the Island!

Why similar: Adventure 63.2%, Indie 23.5%, Multiplayer 13.3%

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: Survival Horror 48.3%, Horror 32.9%, Adventure 18.7%

Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…

Why similar: Survival Horror 44.7%, Adventure 35.6%, Horror 19.7%

Take part in a one-man investigation and solve the mystery of your brother’s disappearance. Find out the truth by exploring unsettling liminal locations. Discover the story chapter by chapter, with each one unveiling their common tragedy.

Why similar: Survival Horror 55.5%, Horror 44.5%

This is a horror adventure game where the player go back and forth in between the real world and the hallucination world. The purpose of this game is to search items and collect scattered documents while solving mysteries and finding out the truth of the abolished hospital.

Why similar: Adventure 71.8%, Horror 28.2%

Montague's Mount is disturbing psychological thriller set in the bleakness of an abandoned Irish island, featuring exploration and challenging puzzle solving. This game is part one of a two part story, some questions are left unanswered and open to interpretation.

Why similar: Adventure 47.8%, Indie 37.9%, Horror 14.3%

Like Clay is a story driven adventure game with horror elements. Find out what happened to a friend of yours by reading messages and listening to audio files. Search for hidden doors and items, solve light puzzles and survive deadly foes and lethal traps.

Why similar: Indie 44.3%, Adventure 38.4%, Horror 17.3%

You are called to a secluded house on a remote island to conduct a paranormal investigation. However, you find the island and the house abandoned. Or are they?

Why similar: Horror 54.6%, Adventure 45.4%

Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness

Why similar: Horror 43.8%, Adventure 21.9%, Indie 18.6%, Multiplayer 15.8%

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 33%, Adventure 21.5%, Survival Horror 20.2%, Indie 18.6%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Trapped in an abandoned asylum with the sinister Doctor Viscera, who will stop at nothing to keep you there as his test subject for cruel experiments. Explore the old GrimmHaus Asylum in this PSX-style survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival Horror 41.6%, Adventure 28.5%, Horror 22.7%, Indie 7.2%