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Night Clerk is a first-person horror experience set in a quiet roadside motel. Monitor CCTV cameras, answer late-night calls, and uncover subtle anomalies as long stretches of silence slowly give way to unsettling patterns.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.9%, 1980s 15.1%, Adventure 9.8%, Realistic 9.5%, Exploration 9.3%

Dragged into a web of secrets and lies, Samantha seems to be part of a puzzle impossible to solve. What once seemed obvious soon turns into something far more sinister, and the line between villain and victim begins to blur.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.2%, 1980s 15%, Realistic 9.2%, Exploration 7.5%, First-Person 6.8%

FINAL AGE is a first person single player psychological horror game . The player takes on the role of a curious investigator who is drawn to a cottage which was previously owned by an army man Samuel, who mysteriously disappeared during a war. Contains tricky puzzles. Needs good observation skills.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.7%, 1980s 13.4%, 1990's 10%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, Realistic 7.4%

A deadly search for a grandmother in the village. Can you escape the loop? Unpredictable horror.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Adventure 10%, Exploration 9.9%, Realistic 9.7%, First-Person 8.6%

The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Realistic 11.5%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 9.2%, Psychological Horror 7.5%

r/nosleep is a short horror game series with episodes inspired by and adapted from posts on the r/nosleep subreddit. Night Shift at Paradise Valley Pool episode is the story of a night shift pool maintenance worker and his bizarre experiences during his first day on the job.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.2%, 1990's 12.9%, Realistic 10.1%, Exploration 7.7%, Dark 7.3%

2012. The Arctic research station "Persei" loses contact with the outside world. You are Ethan Miller, a technician sent to the facility to fix the issues. But something here has clearly gone out of control.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, First-Person 9.1%, Adventure 9%, Realistic 8.6%

Anna, an 18-year-old university freshman in a different city. Together with her friend, she rented a small apartment in the station district. They had no idea what would happen during their very first week in the new place.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, 1990's 11.6%, First-Person 10.5%, Exploration 9.7%

It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Explore a haunted apartment. Monsters jumping towards at your screen.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, 1980s 12.3%, 1990's 10%, Realistic 6.7%

Nick Harrison, a new security guard at the Guadalupe Cemetery, believes he is taking on a peaceful night shift. However, as night falls, he soon discovers he was very wrong. Nick realizes the cemetery holds more than just the dead.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.3%, 1980s 14.9%, 1990's 10.8%, Realistic 9.1%, Exploration 7.4%

Backrooms walking simulator. No entities lurk here, just the unnerving emptiness and dream-like isolation of the infinite maze. Feel mounting dread and strange nostalgia as you wander deeper into liminal spaces with your VHS camera.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, 1980s 11.7%, Realistic 8.5%, Thriller 8.1%, Exploration 8%

MATRESHKA is a first-person psychological horror experience, you need find a way to escape from a maze of old soviet building. If you die...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.9%, 1980s 12.7%, 1990's 9.8%, Realistic 9.2%, Thriller 7.7%

A first-person survival horror game where you play as Riley, a night guard trapped in an abandoned summer camp. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery while escaping a relentless creature that hunts you in the dark.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.1%, 1990's 12.6%, Adventure 10.4%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 7.7%

You are left alone on the top floor of an apartment. Your only goal is to reach the ground. But as you descend, the corridor you once knew begins to warp into something grotesque. There’s no telling what horror awaits. Just don't stop. Keep going down.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.3%, Adventure 12%, Realistic 10.5%, Exploration 10.4%, First-Person 9.6%

Explore and survive levels based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level offers various escape routes but also introduces perilous obstacles. Players can immerse themselves in the seemingly boundless and unsettling levels of the backrooms, experiencing the game's eerie and intricate mazes.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, 1980s 16.3%, 1990's 12%, Realistic 9.8%, Exploration 7.5%

"9 Hallways: The Anomaly Agent" is a first-person horror game where you explore cosmic passageways connecting all realities. Investigate eerie disturbances, report anomalies, and survive encounters with malevolent entities in a constantly shifting, otherworldly environment.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, 1980s 13%, 1990's 9.8%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Realistic 8.2%

Don’t Blink is a first-person psychological horror game. Navigate an abandoned asylum where blinking reshapes your surroundings - sometimes helping you, sometimes unleashing terror. The game blends slow-burn tension, stealth and psychological horror.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, First-Person 9.5%, Exploration 8.9%, Dark 8.6%

Atmospheric and calm horror, set in an disturbing Italian condominium. A story-driven adventure into the past traumas of Cesare. No hiding or running from monsters! Follow the dreamy shadows of your childhood trough the liminal spaces of your grandma's apartment.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.5%, 1990's 14.8%, Realistic 13.3%, First-Person 9.9%, Exploration 9.6%

Explore and survive levels based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level offers various escape routes but also introduces perilous obstacles. Players can immerse themselves in the seemingly boundless and unsettling levels of the backrooms, experiencing the game's eerie and intricate mazes.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.4%, 1980s 16.4%, 1990's 12%, Realistic 9.9%, Exploration 7.7%

PIGFACE MASSACRE is a survival horror game can be played up-to 4 players. While trying to stay alive, uncover the serial killer PIGFACE's bloodcurdling mystery and find out the truth behind events.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, 1980s 16.5%, 1990's 12.5%, Realistic 9.7%, Dark 7.5%

Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.7%, Thriller 11.6%, 1980s 11.1%, 1990's 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

An atmospheric first-person adventure about a reporter investigating a mysterious disappearance, which leads to chilling secrets of hidden government projects and a close encounter with visitors from beyond. Inspired by classic thrillers about aliens and unexplained phenomena.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, 1990's 13.3%, Realistic 10.8%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 9.8%

Experience the psychological horror of being kidnapped by a serial killer. Driven to escape, explore everything around you, use your wits, uncover secrets, and face the unimaginable dread of being in the victim’s place. Inspired by a true story.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.5%, 1980s 13.1%, Realistic 9.2%, Exploration 9.1%, Thriller 8.8%

YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. An FBI intern leaked special investigation tapes before suddenly disappearing. The first tape of the series contains found footage from O'Brien State Park revealing the true events that were covered up in the 1980s.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, 1980s 19.4%, 1990's 14%, Realistic 8%, First-Person 7%

Mnemosyne is an atmospheric psychological horror and anomaly hunting game that pushes your observation skills to their limits. Trapped in a dark, shifting dungeon, use your camera to document subtle changes and trust your memory to break the endless loop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Thriller 12.2%, Realistic 10.5%, Exploration 10.1%

In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.5%, 1980s 12.6%, Thriller 10.2%, 1990's 9.2%, Realistic 9%

“Where the Road Fades” is a short psychological indie horror game. After an accident, you find yourself lost in the woods and seek help in a house but something isn’t right there. Explore, make decisions, and face the darkness. Can you find your way out?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, 1990's 15.5%, First-Person 14.3%, 3D 11.1%, Exploration 9%

Liminal City is a psychological horror and exploration game based on found footage, set in Backrooms Level 11. Walk through the streets of Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, dynamically moving to different levels and searching for a way out. Once you fall in here will you be able to get out?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Realistic 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Thriller 10.2%, Exploration 9.4%

The bus to the suburbs suddenly exploded, the scene was a mess, the sales staff, including all 10 people on board died. Lin Shanhai led the scene investigation team to conduct a detailed investigation and visited all the families and friends of the deceased, but the case is still no clue.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, 1980s 14.8%, 1990's 11%, Realistic 9.1%, Thriller 7.3%

You step into a street both strange and familiar, where eerie events unfold one after another. The air is thick with lingering spirits and overwhelming resentment, as if something in the shadows is waiting to drag you into the abyss…

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Thriller 15.6%, Realistic 10.8%, Exploration 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

"Grunenberg" is a single-player horror game that utilizes the visual and sound design of VHS tapes. The protagonist, Jimmy Solomon, comes to the abandoned area named Grunenberg to find his grandfather and captures everything he sees on the camera as his grandfather's request.

Why similar: 1980s 18.5%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Thriller 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, First-Person 8%

Red October: A scientific thriller in the USSR. Physicist Sokolov is drawn into the race for the energy of the future in the closed city of Oktyabrsk-21. Intrigue, espionage, moral choices. The fate of the world is in your hands!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, 1980s 17.3%, 1990's 12.5%, Realistic 11.1%, Exploration 8.7%

Explore and survive levels based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level offers various escape routes but also introduces perilous obstacles. Players can immerse themselves in the seemingly boundless and unsettling levels of the backrooms, experiencing the game's eerie and intricate mazes.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.2%, 1980s 16.5%, 1990's 12.1%, Realistic 9.9%, Exploration 7.7%

Sector 404 is a first-person anomaly horror game set in a crumbling Soviet housing block. After taking your medicine, your world begins to fracture. Climb from floor to floor, uncovering distorted anomalies and your own unraveling mind. Miss too much, and reality resets. Will you ever make it home?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24%, Realistic 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Thriller 8.4%, First-Person 8.4%

"Stories to Tell" Is a psychological horror game series developed by a 15 year old kid were each installment is based on a dream/nightmare me the developer has had. This is a game you wouldn't want to miss...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, 1990's 14.6%, Realistic 12.2%, Exploration 9.6%, First-Person 9.1%

Japan, September 12, 1999, at 8:00 p.m., Ms. Keiko Haraeda collapsed in her room and was found dead. Although the police have ruled that there is no case and closed the investigation, many puzzling points remain, and the family is still calling for information.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.1%, 1990's 17.7%, Dark 12.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, First-Person 7.1%

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Thriller 11.4%, 1990's 11.2%, Mystery 9.6%, Realistic 9%

You are Alex, a curious journalist who has decided to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the entire staff of Synergy Soft. Six months ago, all the employees went mad at once, staging a bloody massacre. The official version is mass psychosis. But the truth is much more terrifying.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Adventure 10.8%, Action 10.1%, Exploration 10%, Realistic 9.9%

INVARIANT is a first-person psychological horror game. Step into the shattered mind of a mathematician. Rely on your destructive addiction to bend reality, explore ever-changing environments, and hide from the terrifying manifestations of your grief. Truth and lies are a sip apart.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Realistic 11%, First-Person 7.3%, Adventure 7.1%

Two have been reborn. One remains in the shadows. Explore a cursed temple, uncover ancient secrets, and survive a gripping and terrifying journey through forgotten gods and darkness.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, 1980s 15.9%, Dark 11.9%, Realistic 9.9%, Exploration 9.4%

Explore and survive levels based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level features different ways to escape with dangers along the way. Explore the seemingly infinite expanse of eerily familiar levels in the backrooms for a taste of the game's creepy maze-like twists and turns.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, 1980s 18.1%, Realistic 11.2%, Exploration 9.5%, First-Person 8.3%

These dark and desolate woods appear abandoned. Can you still hear the whispers of its missing hikers? Unravel their mysteries.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.6%, 1980s 15.6%, 1990's 11.2%, Realistic 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9%

The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.6%, 1980s 12.4%, 1990's 11.3%, Realistic 9.5%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

Horror Game made in Hong Kong. 1st POV walking simulator. Investigating weird case happened to next door. By Unreal Engine 5.2.1.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.2%, Realistic 14.1%, Adventure 12.3%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 8.2%

Lost August is a single-player open-world walking simulator game based on the concept of liminal spaces and the backrooms. Experience a dream-like world through the lens of a VHS camera as you explore the contents of a recently discovered video tape.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, 1990's 14.1%, Realistic 11.6%, Exploration 10.9%, First-Person 9.9%

A Night On The Farm is an atmospheric horror adventure with deep lore and surprising plot twists. Uncover the mystery surrounding your crash and the farm’s inescapable draw. Utilize key items, cryptic notes, and audio logs as you venture deeper and deeper into the unknown.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.6%, 1990's 15.9%, Adventure 12.4%, Exploration 11.9%, First-Person 11.1%

A psychological horror where you dive in and investigate a signal emanating from within the abandoned facility. Be careful about what you see and what you don’t, as it can be your undoing. Ghost evidence, strange noises, and anomalies are all part of the gig.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, 1990's 12.7%, Realistic 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Exploration 8.9%

Spot the "anomalies." One wrong call sends you back to square one. "The Parking Garage" is a first-person anomaly-spotting walking simulator.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.9%, Mystery 13.7%, Exploration 9.7%, Realistic 9.5%, Casual 9.1%

The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Thriller 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Realistic 9.6%, Dark 9.3%

A first-person atmospheric exploration game set in dreamlike liminal spaces, with no monsters, combat, or jump scares.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Adventure 11.8%, Realistic 10.1%, Exploration 9.7%, Casual 9%

Liminality sets in the near future, where humanity discovers a liminal hell full with anomalies, explore multiple unique levels with increasing difficulty and teamwork, good luck on your next expedition.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Realistic 12.8%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 9.5%, Dark 8.3%

Derek Morgan is a 29-year-old watchman who works at a garage complex. One night, he enters an abandoned carpenter's workshop. Inside, he comes across an old wooden puppet. But soon he realizes that his curiosity has brought nothing good with it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, 1990's 15.5%, Realistic 10.5%, Mystery 10.1%, Thriller 9.7%

Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Realistic 12.4%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Thriller 8.5%, Dark 8.2%

An experimental found footage horror game set in 2017.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, 1980s 12.6%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 9.6%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

A VHS found-footage horror anthology where everyday chores become your worst nightmares. Experience a growing collection of bite-sized analog horror episodes, from a late-night trip to the laundromat to a terrifying walk home. Can you survive the mundane?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.2%, Exploration 13.6%, First-Person 10.5%, Realistic 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

Inside SCP-167 is a first-person psychological horror game that combines investigation and puzzle-solving. Take on the role of Alex, the most experienced agent of the SCP Foundation, and explore a labyrinth of cubic rooms in order to put an end to a growing evil that is spreading throughout the area

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.7%, Exploration 11.1%, First-Person 9.9%, Adventure 8.6%, Action 8.4%

Prepare for terror as you follow your tiny lost kitten into an ancient crypt where a protected coven of pirates lie buried. Dig for clues... literally, while unraveling a chilling mystery, all in a desperate bid to rescue your curious pet from this dark tomb.(First-Person psychological horror game)

Why similar: Exploration 17.4%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Action 10.1%, Dark 9.9%, Adventure 9.6%

Henry's Forgotten Performance is a dark horror game about an abandoned corporation, a forgotten arcade machine, and choices that decide your fate.

Why similar: Realistic 14.1%, 1980s 13.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Exploration 10.1%

"The Last Visit: 98th" is a psychological indie horror from the first person, in the genre of a walking simulator, in the setting of the post-Soviet winter space. The main focus is on the atmosphere of horror, which is emphasized by realistic 3D graphics.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Realistic 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark 9.5%, First-Person 8.5%