Games Like Birds Aren't Real

12 Hours Museum” is a 3D exploration adventure game. The goal of the game is to find 45 anomalies in order to escape from the museum using a pocket watch. Once you find an anomaly, you can view and re-experience it. Collecting all endings and performing certain operations will open an extra mode.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.3%, Walking Simulator 29%, Mystery 19%, Adventure 8.7%, Puzzle 6.3%

Tezcatlipoca is inspired by classic retro horror games with tank controls, like Alone in the Dark, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil. However, unlike those titles, while the game features enemies, combat is not a central feature.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Mystery 21.3%, Walking Simulator 19.9%, Story Rich 12.9%, Puzzle 10.3%

Get out of the building via the stairway. Observe the levels carefully for a successful exit.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.7%, Walking Simulator 29%, Mystery 24.2%, Puzzle 8.9%, Indie 2.5%

DEAD SECRET CIRCLE is a horror mystery set in Chicago in 1971. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed DEAD SECRET, reality and dreams collide as investigative reporter Patricia Gable sees beyond the flesh to chase a killer with a grisly M.O. Track the killer, narrow the suspects, and above all, stay alive.

Why similar: Mystery 32.1%, Psychological Horror 29%, Story Rich 17.8%, Adventure 13.5%, Indie 7.5%

You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Mystery 18.7%, Adventure 12.8%, Puzzle 11.7%

Settled At Sea is a first-person mystery set on a remote Scottish island. You are a lighthouse keeper grieving your wife's death-but the island doesn't feel as isolated as it should.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Psychological Horror 26.7%, Mystery 17.2%, Story Rich 16.2%, Adventure 8.5%

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 39.4%, Mystery 28.4%, Puzzle 12.8%, Story Rich 10.4%, Adventure 7.5%

There is a 'presence' haunting the long forgotten church of 'Northfield'. Angry spirits seek revenge for an ancient crime, from the terrible time of The Black Death. Ghost-hunter, Nigel Danvers, has been sent to investigate the case, using his kitbag of ghost-hunting gadgets, on the loneliest night of the year.

Why similar: Mystery 22.3%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Adventure 17.6%, Story Rich 12.3%, Puzzle 12.1%

DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Walking Simulator 20.6%, Mystery 19.8%, Puzzle 11%, Story Rich 9%

An apartment caught in a loop. A missing sister. A ritual gone wrong. Perpetuo is a first-person psychological horror game where each cycle changes the house, rewrites the story, and pushes you beyond the apartment into places that maybe shouldn’t exist.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.8%, Walking Simulator 21.8%, Puzzle 15.5%, Mystery 13.1%, Adventure 12.6%

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, Story Rich 25.1%, Mystery 19.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Adventure 4.5%

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 60.1%, Walking Simulator 35%, Adventure 3.1%, Indie 1.9%

Silent Confession is a first-person psychological horror game. Living in a cramped urban village building, You develop a sick obsession with the woman in the opposite building. Voyeurism is your daily routine. But after giving in to your urges one day, something in your room no longer feels right.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.6%, Walking Simulator 27.3%, Mystery 22.1%, Story Rich 10.2%, Adventure 4.2%

INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Mystery 20%, Puzzle 17.3%, Story Rich 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

Immerse yourself in poolcore-inspired vibes as you explore a vast complex of mind-bending liminal architecture straight out of your dreams. Navigate through a facility filled with obstacles and puzzles, venturing into depths that descend far below the rippling, chlorinated waters.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.6%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Puzzle 14.6%, Mystery 13.5%, Adventure 11.4%

On April Fool’s Day, the protagonist is caught in eerie supernatural events! As you investigate, uncover the truth behind a past tragedy. Explore chilling scenes, solve mysteries, and face unknown fears—can you survive?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.4%, Mystery 23.7%, Puzzle 14.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Story Rich 10.7%

'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.

Why similar: Mystery 27.7%, Puzzle 23.9%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Adventure 9.8%

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 57.7%, Story Rich 24.3%, Adventure 9.2%, Singleplayer 5%, Indie 3.8%

Haunting Memories is a psychological horror, walking simulator, platforming and puzzle game. You play as a middle aged man that has made a deal with the devil and must now face the consequences. The game takes place in an old mansion with occult themes and a rich story ready to be uncovered.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.1%, Walking Simulator 26.4%, Puzzle 15.5%, Story Rich 12%, Adventure 3.8%

The Death | Thần Trùng is a Viet Nam psychological horror adventure game made by three Vietnamese people from a tiny indie studio. The game takes place in Hanoi city in 2022.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.9%, Walking Simulator 21%, Mystery 16.4%, Puzzle 13.2%, Story Rich 8.7%

Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and barely any traces of human life remain. You will have to use all your ingenuity to escape and avoid becoming the meal of the hideous denizens.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.8%, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Mystery 20.4%, Story Rich 14.5%, Puzzle 9.1%

Embark on this Lovecraft-inspired tale and discover the mysteries that await you in this island. Explore the enigmatic lighthouse, solve challenging puzzles and most importantly: try not to lose your sanity when facing the darkness of your mind.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.2%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Mystery 16.8%, Puzzle 13.3%, Story Rich 12.8%

A psychological horror experience about a lonely mind haunted by guilt it can’t escape.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.7%, Mystery 22.5%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Story Rich 13.4%, Adventure 9.3%

Spot anomalies through endless corridors in an experiment known only as 'Hallway 41'. Successfully traverse them 10 times to complete the trial!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.6%, Psychological Horror 35.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 3.9%

Into the Sands is a mystery game set in a desert. As a scrapper, explore the dunes and find interesting treasures. As you explore you may uncover new and interesting secrets!

Why similar: Mystery 40.7%, Puzzle 20.3%, Story Rich 18.6%, Adventure 13.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Apartment 203: HongKong is a first-person horror adventure game set in the urban landscape of Hong Kong. The story follows a young man who returns from abroad to investigate his sister's mysterious disappearance by moving into her former residence in an old tenement building.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35%, Mystery 25.1%, Puzzle 15.7%, Story Rich 9.7%, Adventure 8%

Fragments of Dread is an episodic psychological horror series. Each episode tells a self-contained story of dread, fear, and survival.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.1%, Walking Simulator 25.2%, Mystery 18.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Puzzle 7.6%

INVARIANT is a first-person psychological horror game. Step into the shattered mind of a mathematician. Rely on your destructive addiction to bend reality, explore ever-changing environments, and hide from the terrifying manifestations of your grief. Truth and lies are a sip apart.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.5%, Walking Simulator 30.7%, Story Rich 14.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Adventure 7.2%

NIGHTGHAST is a first-person horror game about wicked witches and sinister widows...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.8%, Walking Simulator 31.3%, Puzzle 13%, Adventure 10.5%, Story Rich 8.7%

Oujia: Rumors provides a first-person thriller-horror survival experience taking in a haunted house. The fictional storyline is set to raise awareness against rumors. The wise do not buy rumors, do you?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.2%, Puzzle 16.2%, Psychological Horror 16%, Mystery 14.6%, Adventure 9.1%

You wake up to find yourself standing before an old house. The painful memories buried deep within your heart suddenly return. You don’t remember it well, but you used to live here. This is where it happened.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.5%, Walking Simulator 31.4%, Mystery 15.6%, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 5.2%

"Abyss of Light" is a narrative-driven sci-fi adventure game. In this story, you play as a stranded interstellar colonist who crash-landed on a mysterious planet and struggles to find a way home.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Mystery 22.7%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Story Rich 16.6%, Puzzle 12.7%

Play as an ambitious YouTuber known for exploring paranormal and creepypasta stories. Your latest video takes you to a hauntingly beautiful, abandoned mansion, rumored to hide dark secrets.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.7%, Mystery 24.7%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Story Rich 12.9%, Adventure 6.3%

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: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Mystery 17.3%, Adventure 12.5%, Story Rich 11%

John, a 30-year-old detective experiences paranormal occurrences while investigating an abandoned house trying to find information on missing persons.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.4%, Walking Simulator 23.8%, Mystery 15.9%, Puzzle 9.8%, Story Rich 8.7%

You are a special investigator sent to a construction site halted by a supernatural event. Beneath it lies a deadly mining accident where almost no one survived. Using old photos, trace the memories of the dead, relive their final moments, and uncover long-buried secrets.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.6%, Mystery 27.5%, Story Rich 14.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Adventure 8.3%

Tisis is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and sanity management as you navigate the thin boundary between light, darkness, and madness.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.8%, Walking Simulator 26.4%, Mystery 16.1%, Story Rich 11.9%, Adventure 3.6%

Exorcize the demonic in this psychological horror game set in early 1900s England. Navigate a haunted university by solving light puzzles, fueling your lantern, and hiding from a demon that can phase through walls. The gates of hell shall not prevail.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Psychological Horror 25.8%, Mystery 16.4%, Story Rich 14.6%, Adventure 6.8%

Unveil the truth in a genre-blending sci-fi mystery. Awaken from cryogenic slumber you find your shelter damaged by unknown circumstances. Scavenge your surroundings, repair the shelter and explore the ruins in hopes of uncovering – or perhaps avoiding – the uncomfortable truth of what has transpired.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.9%, Mystery 25.5%, Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 14.8%, Indie 9.4%

『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 45%, Walking Simulator 23.9%, Story Rich 18.1%, Adventure 8.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Exploration. Silence. Echoes. Wander a shifting pyramid where rooms change and reality bends. No monsters, just atmosphere, isolation, and subtle unease. Uncanny, immersive, and unsettling. Solve light environmental puzzles across 8 levels. Experience the pyramid alone - empty, yet somehow present.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.5%, Psychological Horror 30%, Mystery 14.1%, Puzzle 13.6%, Adventure 6.1%

You and your friends are trapped in a shopping mall with strange rules. Countless strange things appear in front of you... Please abide by everything the system stipulates, so that you have a chance to survive...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.7%, Psychological Horror 30.7%, Story Rich 20.9%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 2.7%

Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Walking Simulator 25.1%, Mystery 16.4%, Story Rich 13.2%, Puzzle 10.3%

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 37.6%, Mystery 25.1%, Story Rich 16.6%, Walking Simulator 9.8%, Adventure 6.8%

A psychological horror where you're trapped inside your own school, hunted by an unrelenting entity. As you search for an escape, the walls shift around you, and reality begins to distort. Escaping is just as important as keeping your sanity intact.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 52.2%, Walking Simulator 31.9%, Adventure 8.1%, Singleplayer 4.4%, Indie 3.3%

The Profaned is an Anomaly-Hunt horror game about a person who's trying to cleanse his sins. The primary task is to investigate the endless forsaken church to find the anomalies and capture them with your camera to cleanse your sins. And if you fail to do so, start again from the beginning.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.1%, Walking Simulator 31.4%, Story Rich 8.5%, Adventure 7.7%, Mystery 7.6%

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 35.6%, Mystery 20.1%, Story Rich 16.3%, Puzzle 16%, Adventure 6.6%

Your mind is shattered. Step into a first-person psychological horror where you must relive your deepest trauma, uncover fragments of your past, piece them back together and face the tormentors that haunt your mind.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.4%, Mystery 17.5%, Story Rich 14.7%, Puzzle 14.3%, Walking Simulator 13.3%

You wake up in a strange place, not knowing who you are, where you are, or how you got here. Trapped in an environment that twists to break your sanity, your only way out is to delve into the unknown and face the horrors of a past your mind is trying to hide.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.6%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Mystery 12.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 8%

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 48.2%, Story Rich 21.3%, Adventure 12.7%, Puzzle 7.9%, Indie 7.4%

This is a game where you move 5 boxes. Move it from the first point to the next point, and then back to the first point. That's just the game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 49%, Psychological Horror 43.2%, Singleplayer 4.4%, Indie 3.4%

Hayley finds her apartment empty. The love of her life packed and gone. What starts as a search for an answer soon turns into a personal journey. Was her life as perfect as she remembers it ? With each new clue she finds, the truth becomes more and more unbelievable.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Mystery 20.4%, Adventure 13.3%, Story Rich 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%

A short horror observation thriller. Could you tell what's real and what isn't? You stole intel from your company. Now you wake up in a hospital every day with two choices: take your medication if something looks wrong, or hit the call button if you're sure the room is safe.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.3%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Mystery 22%, Puzzle 12.3%, Story Rich 8.6%

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.3%, Mystery 27.3%, Story Rich 18.8%, Indie 8%, Puzzle 6.9%

Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.3%, Walking Simulator 22.9%, Story Rich 15.5%, Puzzle 14%, Mystery 11.5%

A new home. A new family. A nightmare waiting inside. Adopted into a new family, Maria soon realizes she was never meant to feel safe there.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.1%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Story Rich 16.3%, Puzzle 13.8%, Mystery 11%

You ignored the whispers, but curiosity trapped you in the Chizzo Tunnel. Now, evade the sinister Cheddar Chizzo in this heart-pounding, claustrophobic horror escape!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.4%, Walking Simulator 30%, Puzzle 19.6%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 3%

Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.7%, Mystery 21.7%, Puzzle 13%, Story Rich 10.2%, Adventure 10%

A psychological horror walking sim about five teenagers who get their summer break cut short by being trapped in a cabin from a monster. All of them die.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33%, Walking Simulator 26.7%, Mystery 24.3%, Story Rich 13.5%, Indie 1.7%