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Games Like Beneath the Cardboard: Be Happy

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  1. #1 Christmas Nightmare
    97% matchVery Positive89% of 348 reviews2023
    Dev: JustTomcuk
    Windows

    Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Surreal 16.3%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 10%, Horror 7.9%

  2. #2 SnowBot
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2026
    Dev: inoutofit
    Windows

    Silence, cold, solitude… What lies ahead? A small atmospheric adventure about a robot lost in a frozen wasteland.

    Why similar: Snow 56.5%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Exploration 10.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%, 3D 5%

  3. #3 Near Death
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 1,059 reviews2016
    Dev: Orthogonal Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.

    Why similar: Snow 36%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Survival 12.4%, Exploration 7.1%, Dark 7.1%

  4. #4 Homeless Simulator
    95% matchMixed58% of 243 reviews2019
    Dev: Kiddy
    Windows

    Homeless Simulator is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.

    Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Sandbox 18.1%, Simulation 12.6%, First-Person 12%, Exploration 11.8%

  5. #5 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
    94% matchMixed55% of 102 reviews2025
    Dev: MubDev
    Windows

    A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

    Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 12.1%, Exploration 10.4%

  6. #6 TheSilentSnowfall
    94% matchMostly Positive75% of 59 reviews2024
    Dev: TrueGames
    Windows

    The Silent Snowfall is a first-person horror game.Embark on a dark Christmas journey where the silence of a winter night hides blood-chilling secrets.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 48.7%, Exploration 19.6%, First-Person 16.9%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Adventure 5%

  7. #7 Bottle
    93% matchVery Positive84% of 75 reviews2023
    Dev: Tonguç Bodur
    Windows

    Bottle is a very short game in which you play as an alcoholic man of solitude.

    Why similar: Snow 46.1%, Walking Simulator 24.4%, Exploration 11.5%, Atmospheric 7.5%, First-Person 5.3%

  8. #8 Winter Survival
    91% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
    Dev: DRAGO entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

    Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 15.7%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 12.9%

  9. #9 Northern Lights
    92% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
    Dev: MadGoat Studio
    Windows

    Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

    Why similar: Snow 24.6%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Survival 14.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 8.7%

  10. #10 ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL
    91% matchVery Positive87% of 195 reviews2025
    Dev: Cherrypick GamesPub: Games Operators
    Windows

    Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.

    Why similar: Snow 40.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 7.9%, Exploration 7.6%

  11. #11 Effugium
    90% matchMixed60% of 67 reviews2023
    Dev: Souporno GhoshPub: Team Glasses
    Windows

    Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.2%, Horror 17%, Atmospheric 15.5%, Exploration 14.8%, First-Person 12.6%

  12. #12 BABBDI
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,913 reviews2022
    Dev: Sirius LemaitrePub: Lemaitre Bros
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Surreal 19.3%, Exploration 13.1%, Atmospheric 9.7%, First-Person 8.3%

  13. #13 Pohinki Simulator
    89% matchMixed65% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: Niphilist Studios
    Windows

    Pohinki Simulator is a survival game set in a polish neighbourhood, where you need to explore the open world in search for trash in order to survive and gain power. Build structures, experiment with found items, and become the most powerful bum alive!

    Why similar: Survival 20.5%, Sandbox 20.4%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 9%

  14. #14 Erzurum
    89% matchMixed40% of 4,947 reviews2021
    Dev: Proximity Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Erzurum is a winter survival game which you will struggle against freezing temperatures, the wild nature, hunger and thirst.

    Why similar: Survival 29.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 15.3%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 10.5%

  15. #15 PANELKI
    86% matchVery Positive87% of 2,418 reviews2022
    Dev: Alexander Gromyko
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    A utility worker earns for a ticket to leave the endless Siberian city of panel houses. Permafrost, day/night cycle, dynamic weather and open world. Feel the atmosphere of the northern city, having been in the role of a handyman. Now with multiplayer!

    Why similar: Snow 40%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 7.7%, First-Person 6%

  16. #16 ШХД: ЗИМА / IT'S WINTER
    87% matchMostly Positive77% of 856 reviews2019
    Dev: ИЛЬЯМАЗО
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 30 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%

    Panel houses, snow, overcast sky, tiny kitchen, shabby staircase… It's Winter is an indie game which genre could be classified as sandbox, post-soviet, sad 3d, russian sadness. Nothing awaits you: there is no chance to get out, no room for adventures and breathtaking plot.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 56.8%, Atmospheric 23.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Horror 6%

  17. #17 Backrooms: Exploration
    84% matchMostly Positive73% of 73 reviews2025
    Dev: HNStudios
    Windows

    Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Horror 21.4%, First-Person 18.1%, Dark 15.8%, Atmospheric 7.1%

  18. #18 Beer Machine
    83% matchVery Positive81% of 75 reviews2025
    Dev: Crack Creations
    Windows

    Your father needs a beer, and it's your job to get it. He doesn't care what it takes, so do what you must. Be quick though - it's not so safe in the dark.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.7%, Horror 14.7%, Dark 14.4%, Surreal 11.2%, Atmospheric 9.6%

  19. #19 Mortal Decay
    84% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2020
    Dev: Roger Kaffer
    Windows

    You are a veteran, in a post World War 3 apocalyptic world. Starving and alone, you fight to keep your sanity in the hell that this world has decayed into. In a desperate attempt to find food, you stumble your way into an abandoned prison, but you find out it is not as abandoned as you believed...

    Why similar: Survival 17.5%, Walking Simulator 16%, Dark 12.1%, Horror 11.4%, First-Person 10.5%

  20. #20 Homeless Simulator 2
    86% matchMixed42% of 85 reviews2019
    Dev: Kiddy
    Windows

    Homeless Simulator 2 is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.

    Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Sandbox 20.5%, Open World 14.5%, Simulation 13%, First-Person 11.5%

  21. #21 The Holiday Story
    82% matchMostly Positive71% of 97 reviews2025
    Dev: JustTomcuk
    Windows

    The Holiday Story is an indie horror game about Christmas and New Year, set in the 80s.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Horror 15.3%, First-Person 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Exploration 10.3%

  22. #22 DOOMER SIMULATOR
    82% matchMostly Positive71% of 238 reviews2025
    Dev: Sebasa Games TaganrogPub: Sebasa Games
    Windows

    Immerse yourself in the bleak world of a doomer, lost within the gray walls of a post-Soviet Khrushchyovka. Work, bad habits, and endless self-reflection define his reality

    Why similar: Open World 25.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, Exploration 16.1%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Simulation 9.5%

  23. #23 SILENT BREATH
    80% matchMixed69% of 1,156 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 20.6%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Dark 17.8%, Exploration 12.9%, First-Person 12.4%

  24. #24 The Dark Gift
    79% matchMostly Positive78% of 116 reviews2024
    Dev: JustTomcuk
    Windows

    The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.4%, Horror 15.7%, Dark 14.8%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Exploration 9.4%

  25. #25 Neyasnoe
    78% matchVery Positive93% of 432 reviews2023
    Dev: sad3dPub: ИЛЬЯМАЗО
    Windows · Mac

    Wastelands, grim folks behind garages, a nightclub, and a huge gray sky — a lost world for a lost generation. Let techno trance music and white verses lead you through the wastelands of the Neyasnoe.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Sandbox 19.7%, Philosophical 10.4%, Exploration 9.7%, Stylized 8.5%

  26. #26 Storm VR
    81% matchMostly Positive75% of 108 reviews2017
    Dev: TeamStormVR
    Windows
    Median: 24 minMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 34%

    Storm is an atmospheric survival game. This is the first, short introduction to a series of episodes of Storm. You wake up in an intense snowstorm. As you look around for ways to get out of the biting cold, to somehow find shelter, your body gets colder, your hands freeze up, and the storm intensifies.

    Why similar: Simulation 71.6%, Adventure 28.4%

  27. #27 Investigator
    81% matchMixed69% of 1,025 reviews2016
    Dev: AdroVGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.7%, Horror 22.4%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Simulation 9.6%, First-Person 6.2%

  28. #28 Death On Holly Ridge
    77% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: MixoNat
    Windows

    Christmas Eve, a delivery driver turns onto Holly Ridge & becomes trapped inside a decaying house of death. Reality fractures as something hunts her through rooms that shouldn’t exist. Survive the night, uncover the truth behind the house, & escape the snowy nightmare, if escape is even possible.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.5%, Exploration 16.2%, Simulation 15.3%, Horror 14%, First-Person 13.9%

  29. #29 The Long Dark
    76% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 reviews2017
    Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

    Why similar: Survival 35.6%, Open World 14.6%, Exploration 10.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Walking Simulator 8.6%

  30. #30 Life Tastes Like Cardboard
    78% matchVery Positive95% of 322 reviews2019
    Dev: Demensa
    Windows

    A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.3%, Surreal 36.5%, Dark 22.2%

  31. #31 A SECOND BEFORE US
    79% matchMixed58% of 106 reviews2017
    Dev: DimleTeam
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%

    They have no names, only serial numbers. They have no freedom, no memories from the past. You are one of them. Explore the last center of civilization on a shattered Earth to understand what is really going on.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 49.8%, Exploration 24.9%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Adventure 8.6%

  32. #32 PAGER
    75% matchVery Positive88% of 124 reviews2025
    Dev: bilge
    Windows

    You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Surreal 15.3%, Philosophical 11.7%, Dystopian 10.5%, Horror 8%

  33. #33 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
    76% matchVery Positive94% of 119 reviews2022
    Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
    Windows

    An unsettling rogue-lite horror adventure. Iconic Backrooms levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.

    Why similar: Surreal 23.6%, Walking Simulator 21.2%, Exploration 12.8%, Horror 12.1%, Open World 10.6%

  34. #34 Project Silverfish
    73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,854 reviews2025
    Dev: Siris Pendrake
    Windows
    Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

    Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, Dark 14.1%, Exploration 13%, Horror 11.5%, Open World 11.1%

  35. #35 When the Darkness comes
    75% matchVery Positive92% of 8,408 reviews2019
    Dev: Sirhaian
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.9%, First-Person 15.4%, Horror 15.2%, Dark 13.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%

  36. #36 Motherland
    77% matchMixed60% of 103 reviews2021
    Dev: Andreev WorldsPub: My Way Games
    Windows

    Motherland (A sad fairytale for adults) is an indie-game that allows you to immerse in the atmosphere of a provincial town during the epidemic.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.3%, Open World 13.6%, First-Person 10.9%, Horror 10.6%, Atmospheric 9.6%

  37. #37 Hobo: Tough Life
    73% matchVery Positive84% of 9,646 reviews2021
    Dev: Perun Creative
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

    Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Conversation 15.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 14.7%, First-Person 10%

  38. #38 The Black Ice
    72% matchVery Positive81% of 144 reviews2025
    Dev: Antelus Games
    Windows

    A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you.

    Why similar: Snow 54.3%, Dark 15.1%, Survival 13.5%, Horror 8.7%, Atmospheric 6.7%

  39. #39 Doomer
    73% matchMostly Positive77% of 104 reviews2023
    Dev: Doomers TeamPub: Conglomerate 5
    Windows

    Step into the melancholic world of a Russian doomer, living in the bleak confines of a typical post-Soviet Khrushchev. Your life is a cycle of addictions, mundane work, and endless introspection, set against the backdrop of a provincial town that time forgot.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Sandbox 21%, Survival 14.2%, Exploration 13%, First-Person 10.5%

  40. #40 HELLMART
    71% matchMostly Positive78% of 908 reviews2026
    Dev: GAZE IN GAMES
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.

    Why similar: Surreal 23.5%, Dark 14.5%, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 12.5%, First-Person 11.1%

  41. #41 The Hermit Chronicles
    74% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2023
    Dev: WinterTent Studio
    Windows

    The Hermit Chronicles is a 1st-person survival horror game set in a deep forest. Assuming the role of a hermit, you will have to get food, scout your neighborhood, and search for resources to make gear. But after the sun goes down, you'll have to survive for real...

    Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Sandbox 18.3%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Dark 11.9%, Exploration 10.8%

  42. #42 Arctic Anxiety
    74% matchMixed55% of 290 reviews2020
    Dev: Arctic Studio
    Windows

    Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water. To survive, the player will have to search for a cargo washed up on the shore.

    Why similar: Survival 43.4%, Open World 23.3%, First-Person 17%, Simulation 12.2%, Adventure 4%

  43. #43 Unemployment Simulator 2018
    70% matchVery Positive86% of 85 reviews2026
    Dev: Samuel LehikoinenPub: turbolento publishing
    Windows

    Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

    Why similar: Surreal 44.6%, Horror 19.7%, Simulation 16.2%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Adventure 4.9%

  44. #44 The Backrooms Regret
    72% matchMixed61% of 147 reviews2024
    Dev: Noirware
    Windows

    Are you ready to survive in this hostile world? Discover who you are and how you ended up in this dimension. But don't worry, you can rely on warm company that will make your experience much more 'pleasant.' Oh, and good luck, you'll need it.

    Why similar: Exploration 23.7%, Horror 21.3%, First-Person 17%, 3D 14.7%, Simulation 14.2%

  45. #45 The Pale Beyond
    68% matchVery Positive89% of 2,115 reviews2023
    Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

    Why similar: Snow 44.6%, Survival 21.2%, Dark 9.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.3%

  46. #46 The Moon Sliver
    71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,146 reviews2014
    Dev: David Szymanski
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 34%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 12.5%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 10.1%

  47. #47 Self-Isolation
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 491 reviews2020
    Dev: Dymchick1
    Windows

    This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

    Why similar: Dark 23.8%, Conversation 17.4%, Horror 16.4%, Atmospheric 15%, Simulation 8.8%

  48. #48 Paradise Lost
    70% matchMixed64% of 2,474 reviews2021
    Dev: PolyAmorousPub: Walkabout
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Dystopian 19.5%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Exploration 11.7%, First-Person 10.5%

  49. #49 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
    67% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
    Dev: X1 Games
    Windows

    Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Dark 15.3%, Horror 13.5%, Surreal 12.7%, First-Person 8.5%

  50. #50 Christmas Story
    66% matchVery Positive92% of 151 reviews2025
    Dev: ZV GAMES
    Windows

    Christmas Story is a horror game filled with Christmas warmth and coziness, where every festive light hides darkness, and the sense of comfort fades with every step you take.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 45.7%, First-Person 17.6%, Horror 17.4%, Dark 16.3%, Adventure 3%

  51. #51 Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
    66% matchVery Positive92% of 1,788 reviews2024
    Dev: PentaclePub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

    Why similar: Survival 22%, Sandbox 19.7%, Open World 13%, First-Person 11.7%, Exploration 11.3%

  52. #52 My Grandparents' Christmas Mystery
    69% matchMostly Positive72% of 67 reviews2022
    Dev: Korvinrular
    Windows

    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: Surreal 22.4%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Dark 12.5%, Horror 12.1%, Exploration 9.2%

  53. #53 Silent Nights
    68% matchMostly Positive74% of 210 reviews2023
    Dev: JustTomcuk
    Windows

    Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.9%, Dark 15.2%, Horror 15.2%, Atmospheric 10.6%, First-Person 9.8%

  54. #54 Forest Doesn’t Care
    66% matchMostly Positive72% of 87 reviews2025
    Dev: MOROZ GAMES
    Windows

    Forest Doesn’t Care — you are alone in a real wild forest: with no hints, no GPS, and no goal except the one you choose. The forest doesn’t care — but you should.

    Why similar: Survival 26.4%, Sandbox 18.3%, Exploration 15.9%, First-Person 13.6%, Atmospheric 10.4%

  55. #55 Demesne
    71% matchMixed50% of 66 reviews2016
    Dev: Demesnegame
    Windows

    The main objective of the game is to survive in the taiga.

    Why similar: Survival 48.6%, Open World 23.4%, Simulation 21.6%, Adventure 6.3%

  56. #56 Frost Survival VR
    65% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2025
    Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
    Windows

    Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!

    Why similar: Snow 32.1%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Exploration 8.3%, First-Person 7.7%

  57. #57 The Day Of Survival
    68% matchMixed46% of 92 reviews2024
    Dev: xHARDHeMPuS
    Windows

    The Day Of Survival Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic world where every decision is crucial. "The Day Of Survival" is a thrilling survival game that challenges players to explore a harsh, unforgiving landscape filled with zombies and enemy soldiers.

    Why similar: Snow 40.3%, Survival 13.7%, Exploration 9.4%, Dark 8.5%, First-Person 8.3%

  58. #58 Butcher of the North
    65% matchMostly Positive77% of 102 reviews2025
    Dev: Admia
    Windows

    You never received any New Year's gifts. This year, you decided to take what is yours. After tracking Santa down by his IP address, you head to his lair to take what is rightfully yours.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.7%, Horror 21%, Dark 13%, 3D 10.8%, First-Person 8.8%

  59. #59 Deep Sorrow
    70% matchMixed51% of 92 reviews2017
    Dev: QuickSavePub: SA Industry
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 28%

    Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 26%, Survival 19.6%, Dark 14%, Horror 13.7%, First-Person 11.4%

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