- #1 Sylvio
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 146 reviews2015
Dev: Stroboskop
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Horror 33.6%, Indie 28.9%
- #2 Daughter of Shadows: An SCP Breach Event
96% matchMixed57% of 99 reviews2016
Dev: Blackrose Industries
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The player assumes the role of a dangerous and powerful girl known as SCP-029. After a facility wide power outage occurs, numerous SCPs breach containment and proceed to wreak havoc throughout the facility. SCP-029 must use her mind-controlling powers to survive and find a way to escape from the facility.
Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Indie 32.1%, Horror 24.1%
- #3 Long Night
95% matchMixed45% of 85 reviews2014
Dev: Trickster Face
Windows
In this third person survival horror, play as David, a teenage boy during a summer night, who will have to escape his unconscious fears, taking many forms. In the same time, he will have to save his friends from their own scary projections.
Why similar: Horror 46.8%, Adventure 29.2%, Indie 24%
- #4 Nyctophobia
94% matchMixed45% of 607 reviews2015
Dev: Lightning Man MediaPub: Lightning Man Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Your truck is wrecked, your flashlight is dimming and darkness surrounds you. Your fears come alive. Get to the generator and bring back the light before “The Keeper” finds you.
Why similar: Indie 36.2%, Adventure 32.3%, Horror 31.5%
- #5 Blinding Dark
94% matchMostly Negative32% of 62 reviews2014
Dev: Games HutPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Blinding Dark is a First Person Adventure horror game. Complete puzzles, collect items and power-ups, fight enemies and do your best to manage the very thin resources you have at your disposal to uncover terrible secrets.
Why similar: Horror 58.9%, Adventure 41.1%
- #6 Gevaudan
93% matchMixed55% of 156 reviews2017
Dev: Nicolas BernardPub: Microids Indie
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Escape the Beast and overcome your own fear.
Why similar: Indie 36.9%, Adventure 33.6%, Horror 29.5%
- #7 You Deserve
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 272 reviews2016
Dev: TGA Company LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
"You Deserve" is an horror indie game in which you will experience a bullying story about revenge, starring a teenager called Amy who is lost in a world that she doesn’t know and her only objective is to escape from it without getting murdered.
Why similar: Adventure 39%, Indie 32.7%, Horror 28.3%
- #8 Nightfall: Escape
91% matchMostly Negative38% of 60 reviews2016
Dev: ZeenohPub: Zeenoh Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Nightfall: Escape puts you in the shoes of a field journalist who is on a mission to investigate the mysterious disappearances in a remote area. Explore the place, search for leads and use your wits to survive the hidden terrors of the cursed place. Tread carefully, for curiosity may come at a price.
Why similar: Horror 42.3%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 27.9%
- #9 Ghost Stories
90% matchMixed69% of 85 reviews2019
Dev: AK Studio
Windows
You find yourself in a deserted territory of a country house, and when you try to get out, understand that it's impossible. One on one with ghosts and your task is to survive and only then to figure out what happened here...
Why similar: Adventure 40.5%, Indie 31.2%, Horror 28.4%
- #10 Somewhere in the Shadow
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 728 reviews2021
Dev: Aydy
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...
Why similar: Horror 61.8%, Adventure 28.2%, Indie 10%
- #11 Familiar Stranger
88% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Duanyang WangPub: Horror engine games
Windows
The Familiar Stranger is a 3D psychological horror game where twisted memories and nightmares blur. Uncover dark secrets while evading a relentless entity that watches from the shadows. Can you escape the horrors of the past, or will they consume you?
Why similar: Horror 44.6%, Indie 30.3%, Adventure 25.1%
- #12 BUDDY
89% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Hoshko
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
BUDDY is a horror adventure based on a little girl Mary’s story nightmare. Will you able to distinguish the real story from the girl's fantasy?
Why similar: Horror 41.1%, Indie 32.4%, Adventure 26.5%
- #13 White Shadows
86% matchVery Positive82% of 1,927 reviews2021
Dev: MonokelPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.
Why similar: Horror 42.5%, Adventure 33.3%, Indie 24.2%
- #14 Fear of Dark
87% matchMixed51% of 125 reviews2020
Dev: Perfect games
Windows
Can you survive and kill the monster in the night forest? Or fall in a fight with this dangerous creature
Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Horror 33.4%, Indie 30%
- #15 Black Sheep
85% matchMixed53% of 785 reviews2022
Dev: 完蛋了的国王Pub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Black Sheep" is a 2D story-driven adventure game, you will play a high school student who explores the flooded school ruins, trace the shadow of the past, and unveil the evil those buried in the bottom of the river to see the light of day.
Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Adventure 35.4%, Indie 15.8%
- #16 Veranoia: Nightmare of Case 37
84% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Horrawr
Windows
Play as Vera the gifted detective who can dive into nightmares of deceased to resolve their death mysteries, But.. Things don't always go your way, You're not alone. the threats are greater than your capabilities, are they? 3D Psychological Horror Game Project by the one-person studio "Horrawr".
Why similar: Adventure 42.3%, Horror 33.4%, Indie 24.3%
- #17 Bernie’s Nightmare
86% matchMixed55% of 78 reviews2018
Dev: Kevin Yang GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightmares come true in Bernie's Nightmare, a first-person survival horror game developed by 15-year-old indie horror developer. As Bernie Janson, fight through this interactive horror journey inside a person's nightmare... and try to escape.....or else.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Indie 32.4%, Horror 30.5%
- #18 Fear the Moon
83% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Jonny's Games
Windows
A story driven cryptid horror game featuring survival horror elements where you come face to face with a Midwest cryptid dubbed "the Wolfman". Play as Jane and fight to survive the full moon while uncovering dark secrets in the Wolfman's territory.
Why similar: Horror 69.4%, Adventure 30.6%
- #19 Backrooms: Realm of Shadows
84% matchMixed41% of 183 reviews2023
Dev: Cyprus Games
Windows
Backrooms: Realm of Shadows is a horror game that takes place in a seemingly endless maze of interconnected rooms and hallways, known as the Backrooms.
Why similar: Adventure 49.9%, Horror 37.2%, Indie 12.8%
- #20 Fear the Spotlight
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,212 reviews2024
Dev: Cozy Game PalsPub: Blumhouse Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…
Why similar: Horror 57%, Adventure 43%
- #21 SKYHILL: Black Mist
82% matchMixed46% of 236 reviews2020
Dev: Mandragora
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 43%
In this psychological survival horror your daughter was kidnapped and whole building is overrun by dark monsters and crazy cultist for whom you are a prey. Survive and save your family in a face of danger from the mysterious black mist that covered entire city and changes human into vile creatures.
Why similar: Horror 58.6%, Adventure 41.4%
- #22 DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,166 reviews2016
Dev: Digital Happiness
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a new standalone horror game that takes place in the DreadOut universe. In this missing chapter, you will help Linda face the challenges of the DreadOut world with even more dangers lurking within.
Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Adventure 30.9%, Indie 23.7%
- #23 Solarix
81% matchMixed63% of 486 reviews2015
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Solarix is a science-fiction stealth/horror game, set in world that overpowers you with unease, insecurity, and desperation, forcing you to confront your own role in the horrors to come.
Why similar: Horror 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #24 Nocturia The Game
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: BrossLab
Windows
Trapped in total darkness, you’re a helpless kid, alone and hunted by something lurking in the shadows. Solve puzzles, navigate shifting rooms, and uncover creepy secrets. Your worst nightmares are real. Can you make it through the night?
Why similar: Horror 59.1%, Adventure 40.9%
- #25 The Trud
79% matchMixed62% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: Matheus Antônio
Windows
The Trud is a horror game that combines exploration with stealth gameplay, here you'll need to find your way out and discover what's happening in the school while monsters are trying to catch you.
Why similar: Adventure 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #26 Dark Night
80% matchMostly Negative38% of 64 reviews2016
Dev: NighthoodGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Welcome home Amelia, familiar eyes are watching you, and they want to play. Home alone you can feel them. You can hear their footsteps. You need to move. You have limited visibility. Light a matchstick to see in the dark. Close your eyes. Start begging for your life.
Why similar: Indie 36.9%, Adventure 33.8%, Horror 29.4%
- #27 Bushside Rangers
75% matchVery Positive85% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: Daniella GarnerPub: Team Bushside
Windows
Bushside Rangers® is a first-person survival horror game that forces you to use your wits as you navigate through the dark, dreary depths of an abandoned nature park.
Why similar: Horror 73.5%, Adventure 26.5%
- #28 The Spirit Underneath
78% matchMostly Negative36% of 124 reviews2017
Dev: Acuze InteractivesPub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Spirit Underneath is a first-person horror game. You wake up in an unknown, creepy looking environment which you soon discover is hell. The problem? You don't remember what happened before waking up there, and don't know your way out. Are you ready to visit the most terrifying depths of hell?
Why similar: Indie 65.3%, Adventure 34.7%
- #29 The Dark Occult
76% matchMixed69% of 1,264 reviews2018
Dev: RYM GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Dark Occult is a psychological driven horror game that puts players in a constant state of anxiety that crescendos into raw panic and terror. You will encounter grotesque creatures, who will take your life at any moment.Your only goal -- survive.
Why similar: Horror 52.8%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 20.2%
- #30 EVIL POSSESSION
77% matchMixed57% of 161 reviews2017
Dev: 2DragonsGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
SURVIVAL HORROR in first person. We incarnate an investigator of paranormal events that only with the help of a paranormal activity detector (EMF DETECTOR) and a small oil lamp, we will try to perform an EXORCISM.
Why similar: Horror 37%, Adventure 35.1%, Indie 27.9%
- #31 Selene's Unbearable Night
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Farelas
Windows
A third person survival horror game. Search for key objects, solve puzzles and face dangers in order to escape. Inspired by the old survival horror, with two playable characters and modern mechanics delve into the narrative story of Selene's Unbearable night.
Why similar: Horror 48.6%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 18.8%
- #32 Shadows of Kurgansk
77% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!
Why similar: Adventure 35.6%, Horror 35.4%, Indie 28.9%
- #33 Ayasa: Shadows of Silence
74% matchMixed68% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: Aya Games
Windows
A dark tale of survival and conscience, blending platforming, puzzles, and haunting beauty. Journey through surreal lands where every choice shapes the fate of a world on the edge of ruin will you restore the light or embrace the darkness?
Why similar: Horror 47%, Adventure 30.7%, Indie 22.3%
- #34 QuattroMan
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: natamigame
Windows
Escape from creepy and irrational enemies. Fight your fear!
Why similar: Horror 51.5%, Adventure 37.2%, Indie 11.3%
- #35 Obsessed : Night Shift
72% matchVery Positive90% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: arydkPub: Akhir Hayat Studio
Windows
A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.
Why similar: Horror 57.4%, Adventure 28.5%, Indie 14.1%
- #36 Don't Look
76% matchMostly Negative40% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DygoDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Don't Look is a horror game where you are being hunted by things that can only move when you see them. With no explanation or recollection of where you came from your only objective is to survive and make it out of that hell and hopefully uncover some secrets on the way.
Why similar: Horror 56.2%, Adventure 30.7%, Indie 13.1%
- #37 Blasfemia
71% matchVery Positive91% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: Nakashima Studios
Windows
Blasfemia is a first-person horror game. You are trapped in a seemingly normal apartment but realize early on that you're not alone. Explore a handcrafted, detail rich environment in a tense and terrifying atmosphere and try to find a way out before an ominous entity gets to you.
Why similar: Horror 47.3%, Adventure 32.8%, Indie 19.9%
- #38 Sinister Entity
73% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2023
Dev: Spooky Hand Games
Windows
Third-Person horror game . The game contains many puzzles and mysteries. The game contain escaping and hiding from evil entity.
Why similar: Horror 42.5%, Adventure 41.4%, Indie 16.1%
- #39 The Consuming Shadow
73% matchVery Positive95% of 421 reviews2015
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.
Why similar: Adventure 44.4%, Horror 37%, Indie 18.6%
- #40 Blackout
75% matchMixed51% of 87 reviews2019
Windows
You will be lost in the labyrinthine house and chased by the devil in the blacked out house. You will experience tremendous fear, stress and madness playing this game and something invisible makes you get panicked and lost your mind.
Why similar: Indie 45.8%, Horror 35.5%, Adventure 18.7%
- #41 Rabbit Riot
72% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: Reactor Studios
Windows
Trapped in a rabbit’s body after military experiments, you must navigate a haunted mansion filled with dangers, unravel dark secrets, and escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Horror 61.3%, Adventure 38.7%
- #42 Evil Tonight
70% matchVery Positive87% of 534 reviews2021
Dev: DYA Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Silvia never runs from evil—she makes it her business. Eccentric yet warm-hearted, this seasoned modern exorcist has mastered the art of confronting the supernatural, turning haunted places into tangible nightmares. But on this fateful night, nothing goes as planned.
Why similar: Horror 56.5%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 18.7%
- #43 Beyond The Darkness
68% matchVery Positive88% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: My Little StudioPub: IndieGO Publishing
Windows
💀🧩🕹️ Beyond The Darkness is a horror adventure game with puzzles where you help little girl Milly battle nightmares in the darkness to find her missing family. You will find yourself in bizarre worlds of memories, distorted by fears, and your only weapon will be the light of a small lamp...
Why similar: Horror 76.3%, Adventure 23.7%
- #44 Asleep: Act 1
67% matchVery Positive94% of 557 reviews2024
Dev: Black Hole GamesPub: CriticalLeap
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Immersed in her nightmares, in a chaotic reality, confused and all alone. The only safe place is her room, but not forever... She wanders through an empty city and strange places while fleeing from creatures lurking in the darkness to find out what's going on. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.
Why similar: Horror 49%, Adventure 29.3%, Indie 21.7%
- #45 Heaven Dust
68% matchVery Positive91% of 681 reviews2020
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
Why similar: Adventure 41.5%, Indie 36%, Horror 22.5%
- #46 It follows you
70% matchMixed51% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Boom Games
Windows
You are all alone in this dark and frightening place. Run and hide, hurry to find a way out, because it follows you...
Why similar: Horror 68.7%, Adventure 31.3%
- #47 Dark Matter
71% matchMixed45% of 264 reviews2013
Dev: InterWave StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...
Why similar: Indie 64.5%, Horror 35.5%
- #48 Insane Decay of Mind: The Labyrinth
71% matchMixed57% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: GoManga InteractivePub: IV Productions
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Insane Decay of Mind: The Labyrinth is a first person horror game. You play the role of Katherine, a young girl lost in the eerie hallways of a building she believes to be her school.
Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Indie 33%, Horror 27.4%
- #49 The Night Shift
67% matchMixed58% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: Red Spiral Studios
Windows
Trapped in a department store during a storm, survive with only a flashlight while completing tasks and evading a malevolent presence that only moves when you're not looking. Uncover secrets and face evolving horrors in this immersive first-person horror game.
Why similar: Horror 56.7%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 16.3%
- #50 Bad Omens: 8th Apartment
66% matchVery Positive89% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: Neon Flamingo Games
Windows
You play as a student named Lisa, who has just moved in with her university friend. But instead of a carefree student life, Lisa faces events full of despair and fear when she is left alone in her apartment number 8...
Why similar: Horror 73.7%, Adventure 26.3%
- #51 Mortanis Prisoners
66% matchVery Positive81% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Alexey BulgakovPub: Honor Games
Windows
Mortanis Prisoners - A survival horror game set in a Third Reich concentration camp where the camp's leadership, upon discovering a planned rebellion, orders the execution of all accomplices. Main protagonist encounter an even more terrifying fate. Will they be able to escape the nightmare?
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #52 Worse Than Death
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 67 reviews2019
Dev: BancyCo
Windows · Mac
Worse Than Death is a scary, action-adventure horror game about a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong! Run for your life, hide from terrifying enemies, and solve devious puzzles to uncover the dark secrets of your wretched home town.
Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Horror 30.6%, Indie 29.7%
- #53 Matanga
69% matchMixed46% of 57 reviews2019
Dev: MATANGA GAMES
Windows
Are you not afraid of horror anymore? You are mistaken! The inhabitant of these places - Matanga, is always glad to new guests in his lair and is ready to prove to you that there is always a place for fear! Test your ability to survive in a fight with a local maniac. The game is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Horror 37.3%, Adventure 35%, Indie 27.8%
- #54 Phantaruk
69% matchMixed61% of 238 reviews2016
Dev: PolyslashPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Phantaruk combines survival horror with adventure and stealth mechanics. Expect true shivers down your spine as you fight for your life not only facing the dangers of the Purity-02 spaceship, but most of all - when you try to get rid of toxins continually destroying you from the inside.
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Indie 31.5%, Horror 28.9%
- #55 Forest Horror
67% matchMixed54% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Neki4 Electronics
Windows
You have to explore the mysterious forest and complete many tasks to get out of there alive.