Games Like Below the Surface:Uncovering the Truth in the Sewers

This is a mysterious homicide that occurred in the forest of the border area. A forest ranger died under mysterious circumstances during patrol, without obvious external injuries but with suspected trap marks. As the player, you have to uncover the truth behind the murder.

Why similar: 1990's 25.3%, Adventure 24.6%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Puzzle 16.4%, Exploration 13.3%

Evil Spirit is a third-person, single-player psychological horror exploration game. As a psychiatrist drawn into a disturbing mystery, players will investigate a friend's disappearance by exploring eerie environments, collecting clues, and confronting unsettling visions to uncover the dark truth.

Why similar: Adventure 28.6%, Puzzle 20.5%, 1990's 19.6%, Exploration 16.8%, 3D 10.3%

《魍魉村》是一个单人开放世界推理探案解谜游戏，游戏中提供超过70个可探索地点和谜题，玩家可以根据自己的破案思路和喜好任意探索魍魉村以及周边地段，破解谜题获得线索，并根据得到的线索进行关联推理，最终得到真相。

Why similar: Adventure 23.7%, 1990's 21%, Puzzle 17.5%, Exploration 14.4%, Nonlinear 12.9%

Nyctophobia is a first person horror game where you play as a new motel worker who is afraid of the dark. As soon as you step into a dark area you start hallucinating scary faces, your goal is to survive your shift.

Why similar: 1990's 33.1%, Adventure 30.1%, Puzzle 21.2%, 3D 11.6%, Indie 2.3%

Magic Kingdom - This is a 3D puzzle treasure adventure from a first-person perspective. You have to take on the role of an ordinary citizen in a small magical kingdom that lives in peace and prosperity and flourishes every year.

Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Puzzle 25.4%, Exploration 20.7%, 3D 12.6%, Indie 2.9%

First-person horror game set in an abandoned Soviet-era school. You play as a Russian father whose son vanished years ago. Explore the decaying building, read forgotten letters, follow clues, and uncover a dark and disturbing truth.

Why similar: 1990's 35.1%, Puzzle 21.3%, Adventure 19.7%, Exploration 18.4%, Indie 3%

Wild Unknown is a first-person adventure game where players must explore, solve puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets in order to piece together the surprising story of the mysterious wilderness in which they awake. Includes DLC: Trial of Antiquity.

Why similar: Adventure 41.3%, Puzzle 25.9%, Exploration 23%, Indie 9.8%

Lost across fractured realms, Arkos must solve ancient puzzles and recover scattered runes to reactivate portals. Explore mysterious worlds, unlock hidden mechanisms, and rebuild the path back to Kreta.

Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Puzzle 26.2%, Exploration 21.4%, 3D 13.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Play as a tiny matchstick character in this third-person solo adventure, and set out to find ancient mirrors hidden throughout the world—then repair them using gathered resources. Your fire is your key to progress, helping you overcome the environment and face your enemies.

Why similar: Adventure 29.2%, Exploration 28.1%, Nonlinear 26.5%, 3D 7.3%, Indie 6%

You wake up disoriented in a labyrinth, armed with nothing but a flashlight and a video camera... Solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and find a way out, but you’ll have to hurry because time is running, and each day in the labyrinth brings you closer to the end... you are not alone in this place.

Why similar: Puzzle 28.6%, Adventure 25.9%, Exploration 24.3%, 3D 15.3%, Indie 4.1%

"Echoes Of Despair" plunges players into the horror of an abandoned hospital, where Sarah, an investigative journalist, must survive supernatural forces while uncovering the dark secrets of the past.

Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Puzzle 26.6%, Exploration 21.7%, 3D 12%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Two silent wanderers,6 full chapters,A game of exploration and adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 49.1%, Exploration 28.9%, 3D 17.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Ungrounded is a first-person puzzle adventure game. Explore, observe, and engage with Ungrounded’s mechanisms and machinery. The further you travel, the more uncertain the path home.

Why similar: Adventure 37%, Puzzle 33.2%, Exploration 23.1%, Singleplayer 3.3%, Indie 3.3%

一款悬疑解谜的探案游戏，您将扮演负责案件的警探Chen，在犯罪现场搜索物证，利用关联系统层层推理，直到找到案件的真相。当然游戏中还有层层机关需要破解。真相只有一个，速来破案。

Why similar: Adventure 25%, 1990's 21%, Puzzle 17.3%, Exploration 14.2%, Nonlinear 12.7%

Two silent wanderers,6 full chapters,A game of exploration and adventure

Why similar: Adventure 49.5%, Exploration 30.9%, 3D 15.1%, Singleplayer 4.6%

The 54-year-old protagonist, living solely on memories from the past 10 years, undergoes a year of hypnotherapy with a psychiatrist to recover lost memories from 44 years ago. On January 14th, with no significant progress in the therapy, he encounters ruins and a young girl during hypnosis.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Puzzle 26.2%, Exploration 21.3%, 3D 13%, Singleplayer 2.2%

A valuable painting titled "Luo Shen Fu" worth over 100 million was stolen from the top-floor treasure vault of the Central Art Museum in F City. The police department has been ordered to solve the case within 3 days, as a national treasure is involved.

Why similar: 1990's 24.8%, Nonlinear 22.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Adventure 12.9%, Exploration 12.6%

Can you get out of this world?

Why similar: Adventure 45.4%, Puzzle 29.6%, 3D 14.7%, Indie 10.3%

Immerse yourself in an exciting journey on the island of dreams. Explore the open world and interesting places, while solving various puzzles that use environment.

Why similar: Adventure 31.8%, Puzzle 23.5%, Nonlinear 21.5%, Exploration 19.4%, Indie 2.3%

Fleshless is unique fixed camera exploration game with rich lore, where you need to explore abstract world and discover it's secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Puzzle 24.7%, Exploration 19.9%, 3D 12.1%, Indie 2.9%

This is a horror adventure game developed solely by a Korean high school student. This PC room was once incredibly popular, but one day, customers started disappearing, forcing the PC room to close. Years later, someone enters the PC room...

Why similar: Adventure 35.8%, Puzzle 25.6%, Exploration 20.7%, 3D 12.5%, Indie 3%

Schwarz Dohkai, a doctor of space engineering, is suddenly transported to the royal palace of another world. Guided by a mysterious voice, will he be able to break through the strict security and return to the original world?

Why similar: Adventure 34.8%, Puzzle 26.3%, Exploration 21%, 3D 13.3%, Indie 2.7%

Step into the world of D-topia in this gentle-paced puzzle adventure. In D-topia, life is curated by artificial intelligence to maximize happiness. As the newest Facilitator, it’s up to you to solve puzzles to keep the D-topia residents happy and the facility running.

Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Puzzle 27.4%, Exploration 22%, Singleplayer 3.5%, Indie 3.4%

Welcome to the Threshold, a place where reality is altered, and memories become disturbing, dark reflections of what once was. Find items to help escape, and explore an almost fully interactive environment!

Why similar: Puzzle 31.1%, Adventure 25.4%, Exploration 23.8%, 3D 14.7%, Indie 2.8%

It is 1997. Farhad, an investigative journalist, arrives at an abandoned military base to uncover the truth behind a silenced 1986 meteor crash. But as he delves deeper into the forest, he finds that the debris isn't the only thing buried here. Some headlines are better left unwritten.

Why similar: Adventure 27.7%, 1990's 24.4%, Puzzle 21%, Exploration 16.1%, 3D 10%

Explore a dark world of rust and worms. Phrixothrix is an adventure game with point and click elements, where you control yourself and an alien worm.

Why similar: Adventure 35.8%, Puzzle 26.6%, Exploration 21.9%, 3D 13.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Maze: Rising Trials is a First Person Adventure Puzzle game where you solve your way out of massive and complex labyrinths. Solve puzzles, collect coins, leave markers, and find your path through each maze!

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Puzzle 26.5%, Exploration 21.8%, 3D 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%

The goal of Go Home is to get home without dying.Sounds simple, if there wouldnt be a variety of enemies and traps, which will make it difficult for you to reach your home before the time runs out.

Why similar: Adventure 57.9%, Puzzle 42.1%

There You Are is an exploratory narrative game that features stop-motion-inspired graphic design and two endings from your choices and actions.

Why similar: Adventure 27.6%, 1990's 22.8%, Puzzle 20.4%, Exploration 17.3%, 3D 10.8%

The critically acclaimed adventure of Uru: Ages Beyond Myst returns with this special collection that contains more Uru than ever before. Already the deepest Myst adventure to date, Uru is significantly expanded with the addition of To D'ni™ and The Path of the Shell, expansion packs that will take Uru beyond your imagination.

Why similar: Adventure 49.1%, Puzzle 26.5%, Exploration 18.3%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Two silent wanderers,6 full chapters,A game of exploration and adventure

Why similar: Adventure 48.8%, Exploration 31.1%, 3D 17.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

This Australian Indie studio is committed to converting the old Infocom text adventures to 3d first person adventures. 3D Text Adventure is the first of these to be developed. These infocom remakes are practically exactly the same as the originals.

Why similar: Adventure 62.6%, Puzzle 37.4%

Two silent wanderers,6 full chapters,A game of exploration and adventure

Why similar: Adventure 50%, Exploration 29.4%, 3D 17.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%

A knowledge-based progression game. Explore and solve the strange misteries of the interconnected fantasy worlds trapped inside an esoteric book and discover the roots of a terrible evil. No stats, no log, no savefiles. Only pure knowledge is your progress.

Why similar: Nonlinear 24.7%, Adventure 21.1%, Exploration 20.8%, Puzzle 18.8%, 3D 8.8%

Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Puzzle 33.4%, Exploration 21.4%, Indie 8.1%

It's a new maze every time! Find your way out! Keep track of your moves and the amount of time it takes for you to make it out! Also, this helps me get through school! Hope you enjoy!

Why similar: 1990's 42.5%, Adventure 19.6%, Puzzle 18%, 3D 13.2%, Singleplayer 4.2%

In Demand-Dial Exorcist, you play a demon hunter solving eerie puzzles. Investigate clues, place ritual items on the pentagram, and banish demons before they claim you as their next victim.

Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Puzzle 26.6%, Exploration 21.6%, 3D 13.1%

Welcome to my Labyrinth! I call it the "Myriad." While it's not full of traps, monsters, shifting hedges, or teleporting goblets, it is quite large....256 meters squared to be exact, and aside from a few artifacts and other collectables, it's all maze..

Why similar: Adventure 32.8%, Puzzle 21.3%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Exploration 17.4%, 3D 9.7%

A first-person adventure horror game where you play as a night security guard exploring an abandoned summer camp, solving environmental puzzles, and surviving a relentless creature while trying to escape.

Why similar: Adventure 26.7%, 1990's 23.8%, Puzzle 20.8%, Exploration 16.2%, 3D 10.1%

Ancient Scroll - the game is a mixture of an adventure game and classic quests. You have to go to an abandoned ranch in search of an ancient scroll. Where an exciting adventure awaits you, hiding many mysteries!

Why similar: Adventure 34.1%, Puzzle 26.3%, Exploration 21.5%, 3D 13.2%, Indie 2.9%

A handcrafted indie game brought to life with clay models and stop motion visuals. Journey through a strange world and light ancient shrines to release trapped spirits. But you are not alone, guardians stand in your way, and with every shrine you awaken, a creeping corruption begins to spread.

Why similar: Adventure 52.5%, Puzzle 21%, Exploration 18.6%, Indie 7.9%

Box Hard is a minimalist and challenging game where every room is a puzzle. No tutorial, no hints—observe, experiment, and find the solution to progress. Only the most perceptive will succeed. Are you ready for the challenge?

Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Puzzle 28.3%, Exploration 23.1%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%

In this game you explore a SCP Facility, while trying to stay sane and finish objectives by completing everything the SCP's have to offer. Interact with anomalous objects; experience, avoid, destroy, and use them. Learn how the facility operates and try to to keep it running as long as you can.

Why similar: Adventure 30.1%, 1990's 23.4%, Puzzle 20.9%, Exploration 15.7%, 3D 8.7%

GUILT is indie horror game inspired by P.T GUILT contain Jumpscares, Puzzles, Flickering Light, Psychological Atmosphere. Support 32 and 64 bit. Recommend using headphones while playing this game

Why similar: Adventure 42.8%, Puzzle 30.4%, 3D 16.6%, Indie 6.5%, Singleplayer 3.6%

A 3D Puzzle Platform in which you’ll GO through a rescue mission to reunite a lost puppy with his best friend, who is a fragile glass bottle that enjoys hip hop.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.3%, Adventure 26.6%, Exploration 19.2%, 3D 16.9%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Dusty is a third-person puzzle game focused on explore beautiful environments. Join archaeologist Dusty on his search for a mysterious civilization. Explore equipped with your extensible cane and notebook to resolve the past, the ways of the civilization and his technology of light.

Why similar: Adventure 36.5%, Puzzle 26.9%, Exploration 20.5%, 3D 6.7%, Indie 6.1%

On My Way Out is a heartwarming adventure game about a spinning top trying to watch the sunset with his friends. The problem - the front gate won't budge. Play as Culver, who will have to spin, jump and dive through the obstacles the neighborhood contains in order to find a way out.

Why similar: Nonlinear 38.9%, Adventure 32.1%, Exploration 26.5%, Indie 2.5%

A first-person psychological puzzle horror where you escape control using a TV remote. Explore surreal rooms filled with CRT televisions, switch channels to solve logic-based puzzles, and uncover a haunted smart home system that constantly observes you.

Why similar: Adventure 31.5%, Puzzle 23.5%, 1990's 22.4%, Exploration 11.6%, 3D 4.5%

Puss in Hell is an ohwdidtaht-inspired, punk-horror stealth psychological thriller where you control a small, frightened kitty navigating rooms that progressively decay into hostile nightmare spaces.

Why similar: Adventure 29.2%, Puzzle 22.1%, 1990's 22%, Exploration 15.7%, 3D 8.2%

Will you be able to get out of this long corridor? A long road with death on the prowl will stand between you and the exit. There is no other way, you are already inside.

Why similar: Adventure 45.2%, Puzzle 32.9%, 3D 16%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Join Rachel as she faces the Cleansing, a coming-of-age ritual that will determine whether she joins the last survivors of the end of the world or is banished above ground.

Why similar: Adventure 49.3%, Puzzle 38.4%, Indie 12.3%

Traverse the fractured scapes to test your skills, uncover the stories of the ancients, or explore the mystical world around you in search of secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 48.9%, Puzzle 22.7%, Exploration 16.8%, Indie 11.6%

Chronon is a puzzle game in the first person.

Why similar: Adventure 52%, Puzzle 35.6%, Indie 12.4%

The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets

Why similar: Adventure 53.8%, Puzzle 33.5%, Indie 12.8%

Accompany Leona in a clever puzzle adventure to save the inhabitants of a strange but lovely world. Featuring fresh puzzle mechanics, wonderful retro graphics, lots of exploration and an excellent soundtrack by legendary game composer Chris Huelsbeck.

Why similar: Adventure 54.8%, Puzzle 32.8%, Indie 12.5%

Take the role of child who has to escape the house by outsmarting the babysitter. You have to solve puzzles without getting caught in order to escape

Why similar: Adventure 35.8%, Puzzle 25.5%, Exploration 20.6%, 3D 12.5%, Indie 3%

RHEM IV takes you into a huge, fantastic world full of strange vehicles and buildings, secret passages and doorways. A sense of adventure, logic, attentiveness and the ability to solve puzzles will help the player to slowly but surely unveil the mystery of this latest adventure on the island RHEM.

Why similar: Adventure 76.5%, Puzzle 23.5%

Meiqi 2024 is a narrative puzzle game and the latest installment in the MeiQi series. Liu Qingchun, the bureau chief, personally takes charge of investigating the cases of the 403 Intelligence Division. This season presents you with six unique cases to solve.

Why similar: 1990's 25.5%, Puzzle 19.6%, Adventure 16.2%, Exploration 14.7%, Nonlinear 12%