Games Like Before the Silence Claims: In Absentia

An atmospheric, slow-burn psychological horror from a first-person view. Uncover a night that gradually fractures into blurred lines between reality and illusion — and face what should’ve stayed hidden.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 64.9%, Story Rich 30.7%, Horror 3.9%, Adventure 0.5%

Experience all the stages of dementia in this mood-swinging psychological horror game that we call FORGOTTEN. Travel as a fox through progressively disturbing stages searching for memories explaining the protagonist's life. Pay close attention to what the fox is trying to offer before it's too late

Why similar: Psychological Horror 68.2%, Story Rich 29.9%, Adventure 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%

You wake up in a locked room The only food is toothpaste. A giant Mouth in the wall eats everything else. Strangers appear. No one trusts anyone. Play quizzes. Win toothpaste! Decorate your room, because you're unsure how long you'll stay here. The Mouth is always hungry.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.9%, Story Rich 30.1%, Psychological 3.2%, Atmospheric 2.2%, Horror 1.7%

The dead linger in the CRT glow, their wails rippling through the screen like disembodied echoes. And now… you’re drifting with them...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 60.9%, Story Rich 30.7%, Horror 4.6%, Atmospheric 2.2%, Adventure 1.1%

The Archetype is a psychological-horror where you'll be in control (or not) of Archty's psychological aspects, like Fear, Despair, Anxiety, Sadness, Jealousy, Anger, Aggression, Libido, Envy, Guilt, Depression and Solitude.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 63%, Story Rich 31.9%, Adventure 2.6%, Atmospheric 2.5%

Congratulations, Mark! You’ve been selected as our new gallery night staff. Your duty: patrol the halls and ensure artworks stay in place. Should you notice hallucinations, injuries, strange events, or blackouts—no you didn’t. Welcome aboard. You start Monday.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.6%, Story Rich 29.3%, Psychological 5.4%, Horror 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Dandelion is a psychological horror adventure game focused on exploration. Navigate through a cute town and get to know others, even if the world you live in doesn't make sense. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Why similar: Psychological Horror 66.1%, Story Rich 30.5%, Adventure 1.8%, Exploration 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Serega Madness — is a single player horror adventure game set in a pixel world. Solve interesting puzzles while hiding from the insidious horrors waiting for you in the shadows.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.4%, Story Rich 28.9%, Horror 3.6%, Psychological 2.6%, Mystery 1.8%

This 2D horror game is set in Edo period of Japan. The girl notices that her old sister has disappeared. The girl will look for her and clues of her. What will the girl find in end of the story?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 62.3%, Story Rich 31.6%, Horror 3.7%, Adventure 2.4%

A SCP inspired horror game with psychological horror. Set in an non-official Foundation research facility where you are hired as a junior lab researcher. A company called OakRidge Research has started doing questionable and risky research on a top secret object unknown to the public

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.5%, Story Rich 28.5%, Emotional 4.3%, Horror 2.9%, Atmospheric 2.1%

Addictive old school first person shooting meets mystery horror as you blast your way through a mysterious alien forest!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 100%

Wrong Treatment is a psychological horror survival game where the protagonist's mind becomes the main setting.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.8%, Story Rich 28.2%, Survival Horror 4.8%, Horror 3.5%, First-Person 3.2%

Woken up in a strange and seemingly abandoned house, you discover what insanity has prevailed as you uncover the remnants of its past guilt-ridden inhabitant.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 64.1%, Story Rich 29.3%, First-Person 3.3%, Atmospheric 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Shadow Of The Abyss is a psychological horror game where you play through the eyes of a bodycam. As a security guard, your job is to survey an office building during a night shift, until you fall into the hands of fate.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 68.2%, Story Rich 24.9%, Horror 3.8%, First-Person 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Inside Intruder - is a psychological horror game that mostly focuses on atmosphere. Game takes place in your own home, where a uninvited guest comes in.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.1%, Story Rich 29.5%, Horror 3.7%, Psychological 3.1%, Atmospheric 1.8%

A short story-driven psychological horror game. No visual jumpscares; only mentally disturbing.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 62.6%, Story Rich 31.4%, Mystery 4.3%, Adventure 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

This is a psychological horror game where you (the player) explore a hospital that appears in your dreams, collecting fragments of memories and experiencing what happened to you. Enjoy the various changes that occur within the recurring dreams.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.6%, Story Rich 27.7%, Horror 4.5%, Psychological 3.6%, Atmospheric 2.3%

Gulman 4: Still alive – is a single-player first-person shooter by Svyatoslav Gulyaev.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 94.1%, Horror 2.8%, Atmospheric 1.7%, First-Person 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%

『OKAZU～Counting Fish Chill Game～』 is a simple adventure game with easy controls that even those unfamiliar with games can play with confidence. Players are tasked with only three things: First, touch key items. Second, count the fish. Third, escape alive from the imprisoned world.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 66.5%, Story Rich 27.9%, Horror 3.9%, Adventure 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%

In this game, you’ll encounter puzzles which require you to use your environment in order to solve them. Take note of every detail, they can help you in uncovering Sofia’s story.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 60.7%, Story Rich 27.9%, Horror 3.6%, Emotional 1.9%, Psychological 1.8%

Flan's MS is a 2D story game with some puzzles and gameplay systems. After escaping from everything she is familiar with, Flan needs to retrieve her lost dream diary and find the answers she needs.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 63%, Story Rich 30.5%, Horror 2.5%, Atmospheric 2.3%, Adventure 1.1%

You wake up in a place that feels strangely familiar. Something isn’t right. The experiment has begun. And it is watching you. Explore, survive, and uncover the truth behind a repeating reality.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 60.2%, Story Rich 22.9%, Horror 3.4%, Mystery 2.7%, First-Person 2.3%

4D Minesweeper brings the classic mechanics of Minesweeper into the fourth dimension and adds some new features to it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 97.2%, Horror 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%

A psychological-horror puzzle game where after 16 years in prison for a murder you don't remember, you're back at your family's manor as schizophrenia distorts your reality. Manage, or harness, your mental hallucinations to uncover the truth. Will it vindicate you? Or confirm your darkest fears...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 53.4%, Story Rich 25.4%, Mystery 2.8%, Dark 2.6%, First-Person 2.5%

Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 55.4%, Story Rich 23.2%, Survival Horror 4.7%, Great Soundtrack 4.5%, Psychological 4%

A narrative psychological horror settled in dreamlike spaces. Explore, observe, and listen as strange entities, cryptic clues, and discoveries pull you deeper. Inspired by Backrooms and Dreamcore. No jumpscares or chases, only the empty feeling that the world is a dream that you forgot to wake up.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 53.4%, Story Rich 26.3%, Psychological 4%, Mystery 3.1%, Lore-Rich 2.8%

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 59.7%, Story Rich 27.8%, Great Soundtrack 6%, Multiple Endings 2.5%, Horror 1.7%

A psychological horror game where every artifact traps you in the final moments of someone’s life. Face five distinct nightmares, each with its own monster, story, and theme. You’re not solving the mystery… you’re reliving it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 57.7%, Story Rich 26.1%, Survival Horror 5.8%, Mystery 3.5%, Horror 2%

Experience the unknown world of utility rooms through a VHS camera, you will have to feel all the fear and anxiety of loneliness, plunging deeper and deeper into the world of utility rooms behind the scenes In search of that very, cherished, last room

Why similar: Psychological Horror 96.7%, Horror 3.3%

Investigate the murder of a famous streamer and find out who the killer is, but beware of people who don't like you meddling.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 66.5%, Story Rich 18.2%, Mystery 4.5%, Investigation 4%, First-Person 2.5%

A dark fairy-tale horror adventure inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Use mysterious powers to forge your path and confront the horrors lurking within a world that is both adorable and cruel.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 60.7%, Story Rich 31.9%, Horror 4.1%, Adventure 1.6%, Exploration 1%

Cult -Vein- is a psychological horror game about post-cult trauma, featuring a girl who is striving to lead a normal life. Unravel the story behind her as you struggle to survive in a twisted world where every interaction has consequences.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.9%, Story Rich 23%, Survival Horror 5.9%, Horror 3%, Emotional 2.9%

the scream of darkness is a first person psychological horror with multiple endings, it shows the story about one guy that gets his whole life ruined in days. can you discover the truth?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.7%, Story Rich 27.6%, Multiple Endings 3.7%, Choices Matter 3.2%, Psychological 2.6%

Cinco anos após o misterioso fechamento da Delly University, uma carta anônima chega às mãos de Luck. Em meio a manchetes esquecidas e lembranças de uma tragédia que marcou o local

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.6%, Story Rich 27.4%, Psychological 3.9%, Exploration 2.1%, Dark 2.1%

There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 57.6%, Story Rich 28.7%, Great Soundtrack 4.6%, Horror 3%, Dark 1.9%

A cozy-horror adventure game where choices matter. Manage your resources each day to delve deeper into an eerie storybook forest. Gather items, aid the frightened denizens, and make it back to your cottage before your RESOLVE runs out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 62.8%, Story Rich 26.9%, Choices Matter 3.3%, Exploration 2.5%, Horror 2.2%

This place is his little hell. After everything that was done, he will spend as much time here as his personal devil wishes. The only problem is that his brain turned completely to mush. He doesn’t remember what happened. He doesn’t even remember his own name.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.3%, Story Rich 25.9%, Dark 3.9%, Mystery 3.5%, Multiple Endings 3.3%

You are trapped in an endless astral world. Keep a close eye on your surroundings to get out of the astral world.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 99.5%, Adventure 0.5%

In Don’t Remember, some things are better left forgotten. Fight your amnesia in this atmospheric, first person psychological horror game. Solve the mystery of the old mansion in 1900’s England through the use of your lantern’s various colors and face its hidden grotesque visage.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 62.1%, Story Rich 20.3%, Horror 3.7%, Investigation 3%, Mystery 2.4%

She was sent to the abandoned house in Yeongdeok as part of a viewer punishment challenge. But the joke ended the moment the door slammed shut.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.3%, Story Rich 28.1%, Horror 4.2%, First-Person 3%, Psychological 2.7%

Explore an abandoned hospital, solve puzzles, and uncover a nonlinear story where your choices have consequences. A hardcore psychological horror game in pixel art.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.9%, Story Rich 27.2%, Multiple Endings 3.4%, Choices Matter 2.6%, Horror 2%

本作是一款RPG恐怖解谜游戏。在游戏中，玩家将扮演一群以解决灵异事件为课外实践活动的学生，在提西城里调查有关“春日女王”的事件。随着调查的深入，一场巨大的阴谋正徐徐展开……

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.6%, Story Rich 34.6%, Horror 3.5%, Adventure 0.2%, Singleplayer 0%

A psychological thriller set in Scarlet Orphanage, where every choice shapes the fate of the residents. Nothing is as it seems. Are you facing ghosts… or something far worse?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.3%, Story Rich 26.3%, Horror 3.4%, Choices Matter 3.3%, Mystery 2.6%

Once in Hell: I tried to create a game where i union History,Horror,Riddle and Parkour. In game u can use: Inventory,torch,flashlight and everything that can help you to survive. I am sure that, time you'll spend on a game will be enjoyable.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 65%, Story Rich 29.9%, Adventure 2.6%, First-Person 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Noah had run from his past, from his sins. But they had other plans for him. The mind always harbors its deepest dread, and when the time comes, you must face it. For Noah, that time has come.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.2%, Story Rich 27.1%, Dark 3.6%, Horror 3.4%, Atmospheric 1.8%

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 61.7%, Story Rich 25.7%, Psychological 3.2%, Horror 2.6%, Dark 2.4%

Haruto, a 28-year-old reporter, hires a special team to solve his sister’s death from 9 years ago. But after his father dies mysteriously, he suspects both cases are connected. Explore a haunted mansion, uncover the truth, and face the past in Static Memory.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 57.7%, Story Rich 28%, Investigation 4%, Survival Horror 3.8%, Mystery 2.5%

Arriving in a strange world, your only way to return home is to farm for the Pumpking in return for a safe passage. You must grow your farm, survive the dangerous of this world and make it home. Be careful who you trust.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 62%, Story Rich 29.9%, Horror 2.8%, Atmospheric 2%, Adventure 1.4%

A terrifying VHS-style horror game. You're trapped in a cursed house haunted by a failed ritual. Stay silent, your microphone is always listening. Speak, and something will hear you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 65.3%, Story Rich 24.6%, Horror 3.2%, First-Person 2.9%, Adventure 1.9%

After your grandfather’s death, you return to his old house. But something's still there. Something that watches. Something that remembers. Face the haunting truth in this atmospheric psychological horror experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.1%, Story Rich 29.6%, Psychological 5.7%, Mystery 1.7%, First-Person 1.2%

Navigate Corinne through a realm of pixel horrors, surrounded by neighbors that are turning into bloodthirsty monsters. Discover the secrets of this twisted dimension before it's too late for Corinne and her friends.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.7%, Story Rich 29.1%, Emotional 2.2%, Choices Matter 2%, Multiple Endings 2%

A psychological horror game that delves into the lives of the Synclair Family, following a horrible tragedy.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 50.6%, Story Rich 24.5%, Psychological 4.4%, Choices Matter 3.1%, Horror 2.6%

Embark on a spine-chilling journey, wielding a dimensional camera to unveil occult mysteries. Decrypt ancient runes as you traverse the enigmatic horrors within. Can you escape the abyssal whispers that echo through the darkness?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.8%, Story Rich 27.2%, Exploration 2.4%, Horror 2.2%, Mystery 2%

Serene Asylum is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game. Solve puzzles as you uncover the dark history of the insane asylum and try to escape before you are stuck in game forever. But don't be scared, it's just a game after all, right? Now... if you can read this, you need to wake up!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 64.4%, Story Rich 31.8%, Exploration 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Embark on a creepy point-and-click adventure through the heart of a post-apocalyptic world in Memory Trap: Hidden Protocol. Dive into a fractured past to solve puzzles, uncover clues, and reveal the long-buried secrets of the Soviet era.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.1%, Story Rich 29.7%, Horror 2.9%, Dark 2.5%, Adventure 1.4%

A psychological RPG where you switch between two perceptions of reality and discover that not everything sweet is innocent.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 64.1%, Story Rich 31%, Exploration 2.2%, Adventure 1.5%, Atmospheric 1%

The abandoned cemetery always intrigued you. Today you finally entered. While exploring, time distorted. It's midnight now. A chapel appears before you. Inside there's a manual: "Survival Protocol. Follow the rules until dawn or something worse than death awaits you."

Why similar: Psychological Horror 52%, Story Rich 23%, Horror 3.8%, Psychological 2.9%, Immersive 2.9% ★

引きこもり気味の高校2年生、主人公の『夢宮める』はある日魔法使いである『ミュリィ』に助けられ、魔法少女になることに。 人々の心を悪に変える『バグ』と戦う魔法少女となっためるはこの世界の『悪』と対峙する事になる。 『バグ』と呼ばれる怪物と戦う、かわいくて不穏な魔法少女RPG。

Why similar: Psychological Horror 62.5%, Story Rich 30.4%, Exploration 2%, Atmospheric 2%, Dark 1.6%

Your family and even the objects have turned into monsters. Survive the nightmare and fight to save them before the infection takes you too. Solve puzzles to uncover the truth behind the failed experiment.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59%, Story Rich 23.8%, Psychological 4.7%, Horror 3.4%, Multiple Endings 2.9%

Backrooms: Reminiscence is a single-player horror game where you experience something unexpected, and now you're left all alone in the cold world of The Backrooms.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.4%, Story Rich 26.3%, Horror 4.1%, Investigation 2.4%, Adventure 1.8%