Games Like CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.8%, Surreal 13.1%, Dark 11%, Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same intense psychological horror and atmospheric walking-simulator pacing focused on unsettling environments.

Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Surreal 16.4%, Mystery 10%, Dark 9.2%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the eerie nature exploration and dark atmospheric dread of wandering through a haunted wilderness.

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: Walking Simulator 20.2%, Cinematic 18.3%, Dark 12.5%, Mystery 11.2%, Story Rich 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply narrative-driven psychological horror experience inside a restrictive, surreal domestic space.

A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Surreal 20.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Dark 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines walking-simulator exploration with surreal, unsettling environments that echo the mysterious tone of the seed.

A psychological first-person horror about a house that hides a disturbing truth beneath its walls. Explore, uncover fragments of the past, and decide whether to confront what lies below… or leave it buried forever.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18%, Cinematic 13.6%, Horror 11.1%, Mystery 11%, Dark 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on first-person exploration and psychological horror grounded in a claustrophobic, ominous domestic setting.

A different kind of liminal experience. Explore surreal spaces inspired by nostalgia, discover hidden paths, and unravel a mystery that is shaped by your own mind. No monsters, no combat. Just atmosphere, discovery, and dread.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Surreal 16.7%, Horror 14.3%, Exploration 9.8%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers an atmospheric journey through uncanny, exploration-heavy spaces designed to evoke quiet dread.

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Mystery 13.5%, Horror 12.1%, Dark 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Weaves atmospheric mystery and interactive fiction into a dark, puzzle-laden horror narrative.

Wander through intricate maze under the bed, and discover the secrets hidden in the long, dark tunnels. Document the existence of monsters. Retrieve the stolen treasures and memories.

Why similar: Surreal 19.4%, Horror 14.2%, Mystery 14.1%, Dark 11.8%, First-Person 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Explores supernatural dread and psychological terror from a grounded, first-person perspective.

On a task to find your sister, you find yourself exploring an old abandoned house. But you soon find out that things are not as they seem.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Horror 17.4%, Dark 13.1%, Mystery 8.6%, Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends dark, stylized aesthetics with a narrative walking-simulator experience centered on eerie exploration.

The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Surreal 14.7%, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 9.1%, Story Rich 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an unnerving story-driven exploration experience deeply rooted in psychological horror and strange discoveries.

The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.

Why similar: Experimental 25.8% ★, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Surreal 13.7%, Mystery 10.1%, Dark 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Presents an experimental narrative journey blending surreal imagery with walking-simulator mechanics.

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 19.7%, Horror 13.6%, Dark 13.3%, Mystery 12.2%, Surreal 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines Lovecraftian undertones with a dark walking-simulator framework and psychological themes.

You're a ferryman in Birchwood, a remote village isolated beyond a lake veiled in thick fog. Mysteries and folklore haunt your dreams in this narrative-driven psychological horror game.

Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Surreal 13.9%, Cinematic 12.5%, Mystery 12.4%, Horror 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on narrative mystery, psychological tension, and story-rich atmospheric exploration.

Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?

Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Dark 11.8%, Horror 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a dark, singleplayer horror narrative packed with multiple endings and heavy thematic resonance.

Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.9%, Horror 14.6%, Dark 11.3%, Mystery 10.6%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in an indie first-person horror adventure driven by dark environmental storytelling.

Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation.

Why similar: Mystery 20.5%, Exploration 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, First-Person 13.8%, Atmospheric 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Presents an immersive first-person journey through surreal, highly atmospheric environments.

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: Walking Simulator 16.2%, Surreal 13%, Horror 12.7%, Cinematic 10.3%, Story Rich 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes walking-simulator and puzzle elements to construct a tense, psychological horror atmosphere.

As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Mystery 14.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Dark 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Relies on atmospheric first-person exploration and a heavy story-rich focus to guide the player through dread.

The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.

Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Mystery 13.9%, Dark 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Horror 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on supernatural detective work and puzzle-solving within a moody, mystery-driven setting.

Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.

Why similar: Horror 40.1%, First-Person 20.5%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 11.8%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features moody, puzzle-focused first-person exploration inside a mysterious, isolated historical setting.

Your memory is fading. Things around your home keep changing; they are not what they appear to be. Find what is wrong, take pictures to restore your memory. Try to remember. Learn what you have forgotten, learn what has happened. It is not what it seems to be.

Why similar: Surreal 17.9%, Mystery 15.6%, Horror 14.4%, Dark 13.4%, First-Person 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends psychological horror and puzzle-solving into a dark, story-driven exploration title.

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.

Why similar: Card Game 31.9%, Mystery 25.6%, Horror 21.7%, Story Rich 12.6%, Atmospheric 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines dark atmospheric mystery and investigation with supernatural horror themes akin to the seed game.

God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.2%, Horror 12.9%, Dark 12.7%, Mystery 10.7%, Surreal 8%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in a narrative-heavy psychological horror walking simulator with a deeply unsettling house.

Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.1%, Surreal 16.4%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 9.7%, Horror 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Employs surreal exploration and walking-simulator mechanics to create an uncanny, unsettling space.

The Sixth Sorrow is a short, narrative-driven horror game where your choices impact the story. To what lengths can a mother's love drive her?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Horror 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Mystery 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes choices, multiple endings, and psychological horror within a deeply atmospheric narrative.

You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.5%, Surreal 13.5%, Mystery 11.4%, Dark 10.9%, Horror 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a compact, highly atmospheric psychological horror experience inside a remote, unsettling location.

The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.

Why similar: Horror 13.4%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Mystery 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Dark 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Masterfully combines a shifting, murmuring house environment with psychological walking-simulator horror.

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Horror 22%, Story Rich 19.8%, Dark 18.7%, Surreal 16.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a deeply dark, surreal narrative adventure where a young protagonist confronts twisted supernatural horrors.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Walking Simulator 20.2%, Mystery 15.4%, Horror 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers breathtaking atmospheric exploration and a dark, story-driven mystery that rewards close observation.

A narrative horror game set in the daily lives of Indonesian society. Interact with various mystical objects as you explore haunted places, unravel their lingering mysteries, and experience how Indonesian myth, taboo and culture, combined with your choices, shape the course of your nights.

Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Adventure 17.4%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Story Rich 13.2%, Indie 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Centers around narrative exploration and choices where interacting with the wrong things awakens local dread.

Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Surreal 19.5%, Mystery 12.8%, Horror 11%, Dark 10%

Your Grandpa descends into madness in a family cosmic horror. Dig cursed relics, meet eldritch beings, and awaken a forgotten God.

Why similar: Horror 16.8%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 11.6%, Atmospheric 11.1%

The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...

Why similar: Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Dark 17.1%, First-Person 13.7%, Exploration 10.5%

You are a monster under someone's house.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Horror 21.2%, Exploration 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, First-Person 10.5%

An experimental narrative-focused walking-simulator experience that explores dark settings and stories through multiple perspectives.

Why similar: Experimental 18.9% ★, Surreal 15.6%, Cinematic 13.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Dark 10.9%

UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!

Why similar: Card Game 16.9%, Mystery 14.6%, Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Dark 12.4%

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Detective 21.7%, Surreal 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%

Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.

Why similar: Surreal 20.5%, Horror 12.8%, Walking Simulator 9.5%, Story Rich 9.2%, First-Person 8.2%

Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Mystery 10.2%, Dark 8.3%

Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.

Why similar: Mystery 16.2%, Surreal 12.6%, Dark 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Story Rich 10.7%

After a sudden rent hike, you move into a suspiciously cheap house deep in the woods. The price is absurdly low and there’s work nearby-it seems like a stroke of luck. But you soon realize something is seriously wrong with the place...

Why similar: Horror 21.5%, Cinematic 20.8%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Atmospheric 11%, Adventure 8.8%

Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.

Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Cinematic 14.5%, Mystery 11.1%, Dark 9.6%

You're driving away on a forest road, late at night, under a heavy storm. Your car breaks down. Luckily, there might be a gas station nearby. But a misfortune never comes alone. The storm has brought something else, something otherworldly that oddly smells of spilled diesel oil.

Why similar: Surreal 15%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Dark 10.7%, Horror 10.3%, Cinematic 9.7%

Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Mystery 15.6%, Horror 12.5%, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 9.5%

KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.

Why similar: Experimental 23% ★, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Cinematic 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Horror 8.5%

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Why similar: Surreal 27.1%, Adventure 13.4%, Horror 13.3%, Atmospheric 12.3%, First-Person 10.5%

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Detective 29.1%, Horror 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Mystery 12.5%, Story Rich 9.5%

A first-person horror adventure game that will take you on a journey through an ancient castle and that lies beneath. Dangers and forgotten horrors await in the dark...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.9%, Horror 16.7%, Mystery 14.3%, Adventure 10.3%, Exploration 9.4%

7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Surreal 13.5%, Exploration 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, Surreal 17.4%, Horror 17%, Mystery 14.4%, Story Rich 10.3%

Zemblanity is an atmospheric first-person horror game. What seemed like a little creepy invitation over from an old childhood friend turns into disturbing uncovering of mysterious forces ruling in the mansion. Will you find a way out?

Why similar: Dark 13.8%, Horror 13.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Walking Simulator 11.4%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Mystery 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%

"I hope that someday, you'll dream of me." -- CINERIS SOMNIA is a 3D adventure through a beautifully strange and mesmerizing world - and a young girl's cruel and forlorn dreams.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, Cinematic 14.5%, Horror 13.6%, Mystery 11.7%, Dark 9.1%

Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.

Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Surreal 15.2%, Mystery 10.1%, Horror 9.5%

It's 3am in your childhood home. The year is 2006. Everyone's asleep, but you. Sneak out of your room and do as you're told - "T.W.I.R.L." - whatever that means.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21%, Cinematic 14.1%, Dark 11.4%, Surreal 11.1%, Story Rich 9.7%

Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.3%, Horror 17.7%, Exploration 15.7%, Atmospheric 12.1%, First-Person 9.4%

Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.1%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Horror 12.5%, Mystery 9.4%

A short interactive story for room-scale VR: Become Caliban, the scion of a broken lineage struggling to understand your dark inheritance. Explore the ruins of the family estate, and the incredible realm below seeking clues to your past, and to the events that severed you from your family long ago.

Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Mystery 20.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Story Rich 10.5%

A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.3%, Surreal 32.4%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 3.8%

You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Horror 13.9%, Mystery 12.3%, Exploration 9.6%