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Games Like Barking from the Dark

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Horror, Psychological Horror, Atmospheric, Singleplayer.

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  1. #1 THRESHOLD
    97% matchVery Positive85% of 1,261 reviews2024
    Dev: Julien EveilléPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 16.9%, Dark 15%, Story Rich 9.5%, Survival Horror 9.3%

  2. #2 ORDER 13
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 1,427 reviews2025
    Dev: Cybernetic WalrusPub: Oro Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    You wake up in a dark warehouse, tasked with packing orders while something lurks in the shadows. Work fast, stay safe, and protect your cat. He’s all you’ve got.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Horror 15.9%, Stealth 12.5%, Dark 12.1%

  3. #3 Platform 8
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 2,690 reviews2024
    Dev: KOTAKE CREATEPub: PLAYISM
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 45%

    You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.9%, Horror 14.9%, Stealth 13.7%, Dark 13.6%, First-Person 8.3%

  4. #4 The Derailed
    95% matchVery Positive83% of 126 reviews2025
    Dev: Deformed Dreams Studio
    Windows

    The Derailed is a first-person psychological horror game. Beneath the dusty arches of a nearly forgotten depot, shadows of the past tremble. Whether you want to or not, you will have to uncover the dark secrets of this place.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.8%, Horror 28%, Dark 22.9%, Adventure 8.3%, Story Rich 5.5%

  5. #5 Dead Signal
    94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,066 reviews2023
    Dev: Reflect Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Monitor camera feeds, report valuable info, and hand-deliver shady packages. An hourly quota of reports will test your keen eye to spot the differences, while timed deliveries will force you outside unexpectedly. Until you clock out for the night almost nowhere is safe.

    Why similar: Horror 33.9%, Dark 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Simulation 12.9%, Atmospheric 11.1%

  6. #6 Corner Shop: NightShift
    94% matchVery Positive88% of 244 reviews2026
    Dev: Live Motion Games
    Windows

    Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 16.2%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Dark 13.4%, Story Rich 9.3%

  7. #7 Zoochosis
    93% matchMixed61% of 2,332 reviews2024
    Dev: Clapperheads
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Zoochosis is a bodycam horror simulation game. You’re a zookeeper. Identify infected mutant animals, make a vaccine and cure them. Will you save all of them and survive?

    Why similar: Dark 22.3%, Horror 18.8%, Survival Horror 17%, Story Rich 10.4%, Atmospheric 10.3%

  8. #8 Blair Witch
    92% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,941 reviews2019
    Dev: Bloober Team SAPub: Bloober Team NA
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.

    Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Dark 9.9%, Survival Horror 8.1%, Psychological 7.5%

  9. #9 That Which Gave Chase
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 1,055 reviews2023
    Dev: AslakPub: Fremmed
    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    A first-person dog sledding horror game. Play as a sled dog musher hired to transport a scientist deep into the unforgiving wastes of the arctic.

    Why similar: Horror 24.3%, Dark 19.5%, Atmospheric 14%, Psychological 13.8%, First-Person 10.1%

  10. #10 The Cabin Factory
    89% matchVery Positive91% of 3,623 reviews2024
    Dev: International Cat StudiosPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%

    Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Horror 25.5%, Atmospheric 10%, Survival Horror 8.5%, First-Person 8%

  11. #11 NIGHTSLINK
    91% matchVery Positive80% of 117 reviews2021
    Dev: Noiseminded
    Windows

    You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological 14%, Story Rich 9%, First-Person 7.7%

  12. #12 Sender
    90% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2023
    Dev: The Rat Zone
    Windows

    The winds of the frozen wasteland are calling in this atmospheric horror game. Operate an aging vehicle to locate the missing driver of the previous expedition. Be careful not to stray from the path...

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 19.6%, Story Rich 10.3%, First-Person 9.4%, Dark 8.8%

  13. #13 The Cemetery Shift | 墓地の夜勤
    89% matchMostly Positive79% of 61 reviews2026
    Dev: KIKIPub: KM Studios
    Windows

    You are a young college student working the night shift as a security guard at a remote cemetery deep in the Arkansas woods. What starts as routine surveillance quickly turns into something far more unsettling.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.4%, Horror 29.1%, Story Rich 10.9%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Adventure 7.5%

  14. #14 Obey the Voice™
    86% matchVery Positive89% of 567 reviews2026
    Dev: svklmrtPub: Patchwork Interactive
    Windows

    You are here to listen to The Voice, do what he says. But don't listen to other voices...

    Why similar: Horror 25.8%, Dark 18.8%, Psychological 12.4%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

  15. #15 From The Past
    88% matchMixed70% of 119 reviews2025
    Dev: JustTomcuk
    Windows

    What hides in the depths of the forest?!

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological 17.5%, Dark 9.8%, Atmospheric 9.3%

  16. #16 CANINE
    87% matchVery Positive97% of 338 reviews2023
    Dev: Puko
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    PSX style horror game about a boy looking for his dog, kidnapped by an evil corporation that runs experiments with pets.

    Why similar: Horror 22.6%, Stealth 18.8%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Retro 13%

  17. #17 The Strange Lights
    86% matchVery Positive87% of 123 reviews2026
    Dev: JustTomcuk
    Windows

    You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 27%, Horror 23.9%, Psychological 12.7%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Dark 10.8%

  18. #18 The Lightkeeper
    84% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2025
    Dev: Darkphobia Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Horror 20.4%, Dark 18.4%, Psychological 17.8%, Atmospheric 10.9%

  19. #19 The Deadseat
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 610 reviews2025
    Dev: Curious Fox Sox
    Windows

    A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

    Why similar: Survival Horror 17.3%, Horror 15.6%, Dark 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Story Rich 10.8%

  20. #20 The Anomalous Hour
    84% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2024
    Dev: Gambir Studio
    Windows

    You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.

    Why similar: Horror 30.1%, Psychological Horror 27.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, First-Person 11.1%, Simulation 6.6%

  21. #21 Dollmare
    82% matchVery Positive94% of 2,064 reviews2024
    Dev: Alex GradePub: Almost Done Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, Horror 27.5%, First-Person 11.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Atmospheric 7.2%

  22. #22 It follows you
    85% matchMixed51% of 51 reviews2022
    Dev: Boom Games
    Windows

    You are all alone in this dark and frightening place. Run and hide, hurry to find a way out, because it follows you...

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Horror 17%, Dark 12.6%, Stealth 11.6%

  23. #23 Last Report
    80% matchVery Positive89% of 2,212 reviews2025
    Dev: Monopixel Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Last Report is a dark horror game where you play as a night shift park ranger. While monitoring the camera footage, you start noticing strange events. Uncover the terrifying secret of the National Park. Something moved in the window, but don’t worry it’s probably just another deer, right?

    Why similar: Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Psychological 16%, Dark 14.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%

  24. #24 Project13: Nightwatch
    83% matchMixed51% of 70 reviews2024
    Dev: DRYBREADPub: Glacier LTD
    Windows

    A new Observer Gametype where you take on the role of an Observer tasked with guarding the HQ of the Project 13 Corp. . Prevent any Observer Prisoner, each potentially containing a anomaly, from infiltrating the HQ. Equipped with a high-tech binocular, your observation skills are the key to success.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Horror 26.9%, Simulation 20.5%, First-Person 18%, Indie 2.4%

  25. #25 The Gravedigger
    81% matchVery Positive85% of 123 reviews2024
    Dev: Authogin
    Windows

    You're hired to dig up graves at a local church, looting valuables while demonic activity escalates. You must find and return all the burnt bones to stop the demonic activity. Each night you will dig for valuables to find bones, fend off growing corruption, and survive to solve the mystery.

    Why similar: Horror 25.7%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Dark 21.1%, First-Person 11.6%, Survival Horror 10.2%

  26. #26 Empty Gauge
    79% matchNo user reviews96% of 56 reviews2026
    Dev: Playnova Studio
    Windows

    A short, single-sitting VHS-style psychological horror game. Work the night shift at a remote gas station, return home to uncover disturbing clues, and reach one of three endings.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.4%, Horror 18%, Dark 14.9%, Story Rich 11%, Atmospheric 9.7%

  27. #27 Shift 87
    79% matchVery Positive88% of 208 reviews2024
    Dev: PixelsplitPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Your task today: Memorize your environment and report any anomalies. Good luck with your shift! "Shift 87" is an observation horror game with subtle anomalies and unsettling occurrences.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.1%, Dark 16.3%, Horror 15.3%, First-Person 11.2%, Psychological 7.3%

  28. #28 Pomberito
    78% matchVery Positive94% of 452 reviews2024
    Dev: Lara the Pitbull
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Survive 5 nights in the heart of northeastern Argentina as a local farmer and reveal the truth behind the haunting tales of the Pombero in a world where folklore meets terror.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Werewolves 17.6%, Horror 16.7%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Dark 10.1%

  29. #29 Those Who Remain
    81% matchMixed67% of 844 reviews2020
    Dev: Camel 101Pub: Wired Productions
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 13.2%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Psychological 12.2%, Stealth 12.1%

  30. #30 THE LAST TRAIN: Baquedano
    77% matchVery Positive92% of 384 reviews2025
    Dev: Matías AvilésPub: Plastic Frog
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 24 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 16%

    In this short first-person psychological horror game, falling asleep on the subway takes you to the final station, abandoned and eerie. Explore the area and try to survive the entity chasing you in the darkness. Who is it? Its face looks strangely familiar...

    Why similar: Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Dark 16.8%, Survival Horror 14.1%, First-Person 7.8%

  31. #31 Static Dread: The Lighthouse
    76% matchVery Positive91% of 1,355 reviews2025
    Dev: solarsuit.gamesPub: Polden Publishing
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

    Why similar: Psychological 19.2%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 13.7%, Dark 12.3%, Survival Horror 11.5%

  32. #32 UFOPHILIA
    77% matchMostly Positive73% of 83 reviews2026
    Dev: k148 Game StudioPub: JanduSoft
    Windows

    UFOPHILIA is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore areas marked by alien phenomena. Use specialized equipment to detect, identify, and photograph aliens—but do so at your own risk... They are watching you too.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 26%, Horror 25%, Dark 15.3%, First-Person 9.3%, Adventure 5.9%

  33. #33 Dead of Night: Supermarket
    78% matchMostly Positive71% of 63 reviews2025
    Dev: SilverMoon Studios
    Windows

    Experience the dread of a midnight shift in a quiet supermarket. As mundane tasks blur with eerie events, discover that the darkness hides more than just silence.

    Why similar: Psychological 24.3%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 19.7%, Story Rich 10.2%, First-Person 7.1%

  34. #34 I'm on Observation Duty 8
    74% matchVery Positive96% of 219 reviews2025
    Dev: Notovia
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 28%, Psychological 26.3%, Horror 22.2%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Conspiracy 5.5%

  35. #35 PAGER
    75% matchVery Positive87% of 135 reviews2025
    Dev: bilge
    Windows

    You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Psychological 19.8%, Horror 17.8%, Atmospheric 8.9%, First-Person 8.2%

  36. #36 From The Other Side
    75% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2025
    Dev: Vania Studios
    Windows

    "From the Other Side" immerses you in a chilling first-person psychological horror game. You are Steve, a security guard on his first night at work, tasked with monitoring security cameras and fixing unsettling anomalies that will make you question reality.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 22.8%, Dark 18.6%, First-Person 9.3%, Adventure 8.3%

  37. #37 Midnight Crane
    73% matchVery Positive86% of 81 reviews2025
    Dev: Dekaizen Studios LLC
    Windows

    A psychological horror game where you spend a night in the shoes of an arcade worker named Marcus. Win prizes on the crane machine and shoot some hoops. Just make sure to keep the doors locked.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 19.1%, Dark 13.9%, Atmospheric 9.7%, First-Person 9%

  38. #38 Water Delivery
    74% matchVery Positive87% of 211 reviews2024
    Dev: Frozen Lake Software
    Windows

    Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 17.8%, Dark 14.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.2%

  39. #39 Bubbaruka!
    76% matchVery Positive89% of 66 reviews2021
    Dev: Benjamin SchadePub: Super Nova Studios
    Windows

    A survival horror puzzle game about exploring an abandoned children's toy, stalked by the shambling husks of scrapped concepts that pursue you endlessly throughout the environment as you try to solve the cryptic puzzles left behind by the developers and keep your pet alive.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Survival Horror 20.1%, Horror 19.7%, Dark 12.4%, Atmospheric 9.8%

  40. #40 Locomotive 115
    73% matchVery Positive93% of 133 reviews2024
    Dev: Bucket of Fish
    Windows · Mac

    It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?

    Why similar: Horror 25%, Dark 15.8%, Story Rich 13.6%, First-Person 11.7%, Atmospheric 10.1%

  41. #41 I'm on Observation Duty 7
    72% matchVery Positive95% of 432 reviews2024
    Dev: Notovia
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.6%, Horror 24.1%, Psychological 23%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Story Rich 8.1%

  42. #42 The Oily Depths
    71% matchVery Positive85% of 88 reviews2026
    Dev: Ryan R. Burns
    Windows

    Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen. This is deep-sea horror. Obey or drown.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 16.5%, Dark 16.4%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Atmospheric 10%

  43. #43 Whispering Fog
    72% matchMostly Positive72% of 54 reviews2025
    Dev: Dark Snow Games
    Windows

    Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 20.3%, Dark 17.7%, Psychological 17.3%, Atmospheric 9.8%

  44. #44 Stay With Me
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2026
    Dev: Balambu Games
    Windows

    The roads are comfortably quiet at night. The only sound to keep you company is the medical equipment rattling behind you. You turn on the radio, but instead of music you hear a growl behind you. A strange being has appeared in the back, eyes pleading for help. It reminds you of someone.

    Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Stylized 12%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 9.5%

  45. #45 Brno Transit
    68% matchVery Positive84% of 406 reviews2026
    Dev: Spytihněv
    Windows

    A short narrative-driven psychological horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.6%, Horror 22.2%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Story Rich 11.6%, First-Person 9.3%

  46. #46 Lighthouse Keeper
    73% matchMostly Positive77% of 405 reviews2020
    Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 1.1 hrs≥1hr: 9%

    This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.

    Why similar: Horror 22.5%, Survival Horror 22.3%, Psychological 12.1%, Dark 10.1%, Story Rich 9.1%

  47. #47 Japan Stigmatized Property -日本事故物件監視協会-
    70% matchMostly Positive74% of 356 reviews2025
    Dev: 日本事故物件監視協会
    Windows · Mac

    Can you endure until morning Monitor Japan's stigmatized properties and report any paranormal activity If you miss a report or make repeated mistakes——

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Psychological 19.7%, Dark 12.9%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Story Rich 10.3%

  48. #48 No, I'm not a Human
    65% matchVery Positive93% of 28,177 reviews2025
    Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 18%, Psychological 15.9%, Dark 11.9%, Story Rich 9.1%

  49. #49 Descending The Woods
    71% matchMixed51% of 126 reviews2024
    Dev: AIONWARE LTD
    Windows

    By day, tend to your farm, care for your pets, and explore the mysteries of the haunted woods. By nightfall, They will come from the woods, Beware of ghosts and demons of the haunted woods. Hide, Survive, Build, Fight and Explore in this eerie Survival Horror alone or with friends.

    Why similar: Horror 26.4%, Survival Horror 26.4%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Atmospheric 10.1%, First-Person 7.8%

  50. #50 Fear the Moon
    69% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
    Dev: Jonny's Games
    Windows

    A story driven cryptid horror game featuring survival horror elements where you come face to face with a Midwest cryptid dubbed "the Wolfman". Play as Jane and fight to survive the full moon while uncovering dark secrets in the Wolfman's territory.

    Why similar: Werewolves 30.2%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Story Rich 6.6%

  51. #51 Sub Terra
    68% matchVery Positive93% of 81 reviews2025
    Dev: artescape
    Windows

    Sub Terra is a first person psychological horror game set deep underground. As a maintenance worker, your job is to fix a broken water line at the end of tunnel 04-R. Enter the tunnel, repair the pipe, and get out.

    Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Psychological Horror 25.3%, Conspiracy 11.7%, Psychological 11.3%, First-Person 8.8%

  52. #52 SILENT BREATH
    69% matchMixed69% of 1,189 reviews2024
    Dev: EXODIAC STUDIOS
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%

    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 30.6%, Psychological Horror 30.3%, Dark 20.1%, First-Person 8.9%, Simulation 4.7%

  53. #53 Idols of Ash
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,081 reviews2026
    Dev: Leafy Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    Grapple, clamber and fall thousands of meters down into a dark and ancient place in this first-person horror climbing game. You are being hunted.

    Why similar: Horror 33.6%, Dark 22.5%, Atmospheric 16.6%, First-Person 11.2%, Simulation 6.8%

  54. #54 Interference: Dead Air
    71% matchMostly Positive74% of 84 reviews2023
    Dev: Fear of CornPub: V Publishing
    Windows

    All hell's breaking loose in a mysterious research facility and the only person who can save the day is the night shift security guard in the booth outside. Remotely control systems, guide scientists to safety or just… goof off? You’re not in danger. Yet.

    Why similar: Psychological 35.7%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Horror 16.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, First-Person 7.5%

  55. #55 Skinwalkers Valley
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2025
    Dev: Fireplay Studio
    Windows

    The protagonist, Ethan, heads into the forest with his dog, Ranger, for a simple hunting trip. At first, nothing seems out of the ordinary—but as the time goes on, the hunt slowly turns into a nightmare. Something strange and unexplainable lurks deep within the woods...

    Why similar: Horror 26.7%, Dark 22.4%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Adventure 9.4%

  56. #56 These Darker Tides
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 77 reviews2025
    Dev: Pixel Drip Games
    Windows

    Welcome [EMPLOYEE] to your new job protecting Deep Sea Cables from creatures of the deep. We're not liable for loss of limbs, sanity, or life while on the job. Don't forget to keep your desk clean and your eyes on those cameras!

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Horror 24.8%, Conspiracy 23.6%, First-Person 10.9%, Simulation 6.2%

  57. #57 I'm on Observation Duty 3
    70% matchMostly Positive77% of 360 reviews2020
    Dev: Notovia
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%

    A thrilling psychological horror game. Your job is to look for anomalies in a haunted house. If you see anyhting suspicious (furniture moving, extra objects, intruders), take a photo and send a report. Includes both VR- (windows only) and non-VR (windows, mac, linux)-versions.

    Why similar: Psychological 20.8%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Horror 15.2%, Dark 8.6%

  58. #58 Nightmare Shift
    67% matchMostly Positive75% of 236 reviews2025
    Dev: Binary Lunar
    Windows

    Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.4%, Horror 18.9%, Psychological 15.3%, Story Rich 12.4%, Atmospheric 9.5%

  59. #59 Overtime Anomaly
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2025
    Dev: BiteMe Games
    Windows

    You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Psychological 24.2%, Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 12%, Story Rich 9.3%

  60. #60 Beyond the Doors
    66% matchMostly Positive73% of 66 reviews2026
    Dev: Dream Error
    Windows · Linux

    An atmospheric horror, exploration and automation game all set in the dim halls of an apartment building

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Horror 18%, Dark 15.4%, Retro 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.6%

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