Games Like Before the Silence Claims: In Absentia

The Headless Hunter is a dark horror game where a headless rider roams the dense forest, searching for anyone who dares to break his curse. Explore the haunted towns, collect cursed relics, and venture into the heart of the woods to lift the curse—before the hunter finds you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.3%, Survival Horror 26.4%, Mystery 12.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Psychological 11.2%

To escape from a hospital whose roof is underground, you must descend to the deepest level. At every step, you need to endure witnessing the results of horrific experiments. And rest assured, you will never predict the end of the story.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.3%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Psychological 13.8%, Mystery 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%

A first person psychological horror game. Explore an ever-changing mansion in a slow-paced, atmospheric experience that combines hauntingly beautiful melodies with a suffocating environment. Uncover the tragic past, escape or confront the spirit.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Mystery 10.6%, Psychological 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.1%

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 29%, Survival Horror 24.6%, Psychological 13.6%, Story Rich 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.4%

A first-person atmospheric horror experience where hidden clues and impossible spaces draw you deeper into a place that should not exist.

Why similar: Survival Horror 28.5%, Psychological Horror 27.8%, Mystery 13.5%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Investigation 5.3%

Have you ever wondered what happens when we fall into a coma? Why do only some make it back? Aphasia is a first-person horror where you’re trapped inside your own mind, with no memory of who you are. As you explore your fractured memories, your sense of guilt won’t let you escape...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29%, Survival Horror 26.3%, Psychological 17.2%, Atmospheric 10%, Choices Matter 5.8%

When your father goes missing with little more than a letter to clue you in, it's up to you to find him. His last known whereabouts? Ashmere Manor. Will you succeed in solving the mystery at the heart of the house and find your father, or will you succumb to its phantom call?

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Psychological 15.9%, Mystery 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.8%

STOP the mentally-ill patients from escaping F.U. Asylum . It is your first day of intern (maybe) and you don't want anything to go wrong (maybe).

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Survival Horror 26.8%, Psychological 18%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Atmospheric 6.1%

This is a psychological horror where for 14 days in a row you have to choose either a red door or a blue door. Make even one mistake - you die, and you have to start all over! Welcome to a terrifying puzzle with no room for error. And know this: someone is watching you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.2%, Survival Horror 27.6%, Psychological 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Atmospheric 6.8%

Lola Maria is a first-person psychological horror game where everyday tasks take a disturbing turn. Living with your grandmother, you uncover unsettling secrets as the line between family, memory, and the supernatural begins to blur.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.6%, Survival Horror 26.1%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Story Rich 8.9%, Mystery 8.7%

Echoes of Madness combines innovative gameplay, a story that plunges you into the deepest terrors, and an immersive visual and sound environment. This is the rebirth of psychological horror. Will you survive your watch?

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.3%, Psychological Horror 23%, Psychological 18.4%, Mystery 12.8%, Story Rich 6.2%

A psychological horror game about working the night shift in a store that reacts to your mistakes. Follow procedure. Avoid irregularities.

Why similar: Survival Horror 28.6%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, Mystery 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Psychological 6.3%

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 27.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Psychological 9.9%, Story Rich 9.8%, Survival Horror 9%

A girl. A store. A silence that never ends. The world outside is broken, but the paths within are worse. Every choice feels right. Until it’s too late.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Psychological 16.5%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Mystery 14%, Choices Matter 7%

The Last Frame is a psychological horror game about a father who disappeared. As you walk through the locations he documented, you discover that watching and recording them changed the place itself — and not for the better.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Psychological 20.6%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Mystery 14%, Atmospheric 10.7%

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 31.9%, Survival Horror 31.6%, Mystery 15.2%, Story Rich 11.6%, Horror 2.7%

A chilling horror game set in a typical American home at night. As nature fights back against neglect and waste, eerie noises and lurking shadows hint at something watching. With only a flickering light, uncover the terrifying consequences of humanity’s carelessness - before it’s too late.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Psychological 17.7%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Story Rich 6.6%

Survival horror game about a girl trapped in a car

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Survival Horror 24%, Psychological 14%, Story Rich 8.9%, Mystery 8.2%

Survive the night shift at an abandoned school. Complete your cleaning tasks before 5 AM, manage your flashlight battery, and avoid the darkness that hunts you. Can you last 5 nights?

Why similar: Survival Horror 34.6%, Psychological Horror 29.1%, Mystery 9.6%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Horror 5.5%

Grandma never showed up and Grandpa's tragic passing 3 days later left me in anger, confusion and sadness. I couldn't just let this go like it never happened, so I decided to go and find out what happened on my own. Will you survive a first-person psychological horror game and uncover the mystery?

Why similar: Survival Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Immersive 8.6% ★

FORCE RESTART is a first-person psychological survival horror game. An evil force creeps into a man's life, twisting his reality. Plunged into the VOID, a shifting abyss, he must explore mind-bending nightmares, unravel its mysteries, and confront the monsters to escape… or be lost to it forever.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.7%, Psychological Horror 23.2%, Psychological 15.8%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Story Rich 9.1%

In this Easter Horror Game compete in the mini games, solve puzzles, and escape the Easter Bunny. PS1 style survival horror!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Psychological 17.4%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%

You were with her. Then you weren't. Push an elderly woman's wheelchair through the shadowed halls of a Croatian monastery turned hospice. She is dying. She sees what you cannot. What do you owe the truth?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.9%, Psychological 18.7%, Mystery 11.8%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Story Rich 8.1%

SAFEHAVEN is a psychological survival horror game about life in a bunker, mysterious guests, and choices that carry real consequences.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.5%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Mystery 10.1%, Psychological 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.1%

John Herrin survived a horrible accident, damaging his brain and memory. Through falling asleep, he can rediscover his unfortunate past in his dreams, but due to his brain damage he'll start to see visions and hallucinations, and falling asleep won't be as easy as it seems at first...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Psychological 15.3%, Story Rich 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%

DEPRISION is a first-person survival horror game where you are the subject of a classified mental manipulation experiment. Explore environments distorted by memories and trauma, survive a system that adapts to your personal fears, and endure traumatic threats.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.6%, Psychological Horror 24%, Psychological 17%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Story Rich 9.6%

A mysterious story about the consequences of loneliness and unfulfilled dreams. Help artificial intelligence in the form of a little girl and avoid facing a ruthless monster.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Psychological 13.6%, Story Rich 9.1%, Mystery 8.7%

Your daughter has vanished inside the facilities of the company "THE BOX." Uncover mysteries, solve puzzles, and survive the creatures that hunt you in a game that blends psychological horror, survival, and atmospheric storytelling.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Psychological 14.9%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Story Rich 7.1%

Light The Way is a first-person horror adventure game. It takes place in a storage house after your character is kidnapped by a stranger.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.3%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Psychological 14.1%, Mystery 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Experience the horrors of one of the most infamous experiments that ever took place. As a test subject in a top-secret Soviet research facility, you must endure days without sleep while facing unimaginable terrors that lurk in the shadow.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.5%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, Atmospheric 8.5%

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.1%, Survival Horror 28.9%, Story Rich 13.6%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Horror 5%

A gritty camera-survival psychological horror. Survive against the manifestations produced by your clawing guilt in the sewer. Preserve your power, preserve your sanity.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.3%, Survival Horror 28.6%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Psychological 10%, Story Rich 7.2%

Miasma is a first-person psychological horror maze game with a horrific atmosphere, you are trapped in a maze-like prison with a mysterious creature, and your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.

Why similar: Survival Horror 32.9%, Psychological Horror 32.4%, Mystery 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Horror 5.8%

Inherited is a atmosphere-driven psychological horror where you wake up trapped in an isolated house that watches your every step. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the cycle you were chosen to inherit.

Why similar: Survival Horror 28%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Mystery 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Psychological 7.3%

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: Survival Horror 20.4%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Psychological 11.4%, Mystery 8.7%, Story Rich 7.5%

Timore Redo is a psychological horror game about sadness.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.1%, Survival Horror 20.3%, Psychological 14.7%, Mystery 10%, Atmospheric 9.8%

A psychological horror where your mind is your worst enemy and reality can’t be trusted. Focus or Doubt what you see, reshape the truth, and decide what’s real before your sanity collapses.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28%, Psychological 15.8%, Story Rich 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Atmospheric 9%

Charlotte is missing. Decode an ancient language, investigate a mystery, and stay away from ancient monsters in this compact puzzle thriller.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.8%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Mystery 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Story Rich 8%

Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland, and your brother has gone missing after becoming obsessed with a mysterious new VHS format. Follow his trail through the tapes and uncover why the government wants to ban "Video Ghastlies".

Why similar: Survival Horror 35.7%, Psychological Horror 28%, Mystery 10.7%, Story Rich 8.2%, Atmospheric 6.8%

You’re invited to a birthday sleepover in May 1985. But when the laughter fades, the nightmare begins. Explore, solve puzzles, and survive the night in this psychological horror inspired by MADiSON and Stranger Things.

Why similar: Survival Horror 27.5%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Story Rich 7.5%, Mystery 6.9%

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: Psychological Horror 23.6%, Psychological 17.7%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Mystery 12.2%, Story Rich 9.9%

Solve your supervisor's deadly task sequence to survive, but be warned: every wrong guess makes the store a more monstrous labyrinth. Unravel the horrific code and finally clock out, or be a permanent employee.

Why similar: Survival Horror 32.7%, Psychological Horror 25.6%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Mystery 5.9%

"Clandestine: The Hidden Truth" is a first-person psychological horror game. Investigate a family homicide, manipulate reality with polaroids, and solve puzzles to unveil chilling secrets hidden within this enigmatic home of horrors. Will you come back unscathed?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.8%, Psychological 19.1%, Mystery 12.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Story Rich 8.5%

Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.5%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Mystery 11%, Psychological 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Join Sebastian Harrington, an archeology student, on a quest to find his missing professor. Explore ancient temple ruins, solve puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets in the Temple of Shadows.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Mystery 11.8%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Psychological 10.3%

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 31.3%, Psychological 15.1%, Mystery 14.3%, Story Rich 12.4%, Atmospheric 12%

Parasomnia: No REM is a psychological horror game where sleepwalking pulls you into realities twisted by childhood trauma. Explore two interconnected worlds, solve puzzles, and survive the horrors hidden inside your own mind.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Psychological 17.6%, Mystery 12.2%, Atmospheric 10%

Stay alive in this first-person horror-puzzle game. Trapped inside a claustrophobic train, each carriage tests you differently.

Why similar: Survival Horror 33.9%, Psychological Horror 28.6%, Mystery 15%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Horror 5.4%

BLOK is an Orwellian psychological horror game set in post-communist Poland. You play as a political exile who fled during the communist regime. Years later, after the system’s collapse, a strange letter from your mother draws you back home. But something is deeply wrong.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Mystery 16.6%, Story Rich 12.4%, Atmospheric 11.2%

Psychological horror experience where exploration, tension, and environmental storytelling guide you through a decaying world full of secrets best left buried. What was meant to be just another exploration quickly unravels into something far more disturbing.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Psychological 17%, Mystery 12.8%, Atmospheric 10.6%

In a mansion shrouded in mist, face the ghosts of the past. With puzzles, exploration, and moments of sheer terror, Villa Nocturne awaits.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Survival Horror 23%, Mystery 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Story Rich 8%

Morbus is a psychological survival horror that explores how the inner world can become a living hell. Journey through the twisted mind of a serial killer with the protagonist, uncover every mystery—and face a terrifying truth about him… and herself.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.2%, Psychological Horror 27.3%, Psychological 19.5%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Dark 4.7%

A psychological horror game where you play as Hannibal, a father trapped between two terrifying worlds. After stealing a mysterious compass, he’s pulled into a distorted mansion inhabited by supernatural entities from the jinn realm. Can you survive and save your daughter before it’s too late?

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.2%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Mystery 13.5%, Story Rich 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%

A first-person horror adventure that combines environmental exploration, combat, strategic puzzles, and intense encounters in a fog-covered town that refuses to let you escape. Can you find a way out? Estimated playtime: 4–7 hours

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.7%, Psychological Horror 28.7%, Mystery 12%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Story Rich 7%

In this immersive sci-fi thriller, you will experience the atmosphere of classic 3D games as you solve puzzles, follow an intriguing non-linear storyline, and engage in battles with monsters.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.2%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Mystery 11.5%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Story Rich 9%

A mysterious object brings a former detective to a distant place in the middle of nowhere, where the worst nightmares clash with reality. Are you prepared to face your fears in what might be your last investigation?

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.3%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Psychological 13.9%, Mystery 9.6%, Story Rich 9%

Doomed Inheritance is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game set in a decaying Gothic manor where a brain-shaped sanity meter steadily drains. Explore eerie rooms, solve immersive environmental, light-and-shadow, and pattern puzzles, and collect vials to stave off creeping control drift.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.3%, Psychological Horror 26.6%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Psychological 10.1%, Mystery 8%

The United Nations secretly approved funds for the development of a general artificial intelligence, but something went horribly wrong. Entities from another world have emerged in a secret military lab. Our civilization is in serious danger.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.3%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Psychological 14.9%, Mystery 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.2%

A dark, 90s-inspired psychological/cosmic horror set on a remote island. You play as Aron, returning years after an ill-fated expedition, haunted over abandoning his brother. Uncover the secrets of the island, confront the horrors awakened, and face those who seek to control its power.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.4%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Psychological 14%, Mystery 10.4%, Story Rich 8.3%

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 40%, Story Rich 16.1%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Psychological 13.9%, Choices Matter 6.7%