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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Survival Horror, Horror, Adventure, Female Protagonist.

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Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!

Reviews: Very Positive — 92% — of 178 reviews
Released: 2025-12-29
Developer: Norbert Baranyi
Publisher: BEDTIMESTORIES
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows

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    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    Them and Us is a classic, survival horror game with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Discover the truth of Alicia’s past as she descends further into her strange, unending nightmare.

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    96% matchVery Positive90% of 7,918 reviews2021
    Dev: Dual EffectPub: PQube
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    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    95% matchVery Positive87% of 1,996 reviews2025
    Dev: Dual EffectPub: PQube
    Windows
    Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,212 reviews2024
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    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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    Dev: Malformation GamesPub: Kwalee
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%

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    93% matchVery Positive88% of 137 reviews2019
    Dev: Solkitte
    Windows

    Eldervale is a Third-Person Survival Horror Adventure game, made in the style of early 2000's classics. Explore a large, interconnected level, solve puzzles, uncover the story and survive the horrors by strategic use of your resources and fight or flight decisions.

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    91% matchVery Positive86% of 1,582 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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    90% matchVery Positive94% of 358 reviews2025
    Dev: Tainted PactPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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    Windows
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%

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    88% matchMostly Positive79% of 78 reviews2025
    Dev: Spectra team
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    89% matchMixed69% of 4,205 reviews2019
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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    Windows

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    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%

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    Windows
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    75% matchMixed57% of 53 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    72% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2026
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    75% matchMostly Positive72% of 93 reviews2018
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    74% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,662 reviews2014
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    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.

    Why similar: Survival Horror 26.8%, Horror 14.7%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Third Person 9.2%

  56. #56 Fear the Moon
    67% 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: Survival Horror 25.6%, Horror 19.4%, Inventory Management 19.3%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.2%

  57. #57 Christmas Massacre
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,076 reviews2021
    Dev: Puppet Combo
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Christmas is coming and Larry's got a big problem - his Christmas tree is telling him to KILL! Lead him through his murder rampage.

    Why similar: Survival Horror 28.6%, Horror 24.5%, Retro 18.6%, Third Person 11.3%, Puzzle 9.2%

  58. #58 Laser Tag Massacre
    66% matchVery Positive87% of 110 reviews2025
    Dev: Liminal Road
    Windows

    "Laser Tag Massacre" is a narrative-driven horror game inspired by 80s slasher movies, with a PS1-style aesthetic. On Halloween night, five friends throw a party in an abandoned arcade deep in rural Campinas, Brazil. What begins as a fun game of laser tag quickly spirals into their worst nightmare.

    Why similar: Horror 22.4%, Retro 21.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.1%

  59. #59 Dark Arcana: The Carnival
    69% matchVery Positive89% of 761 reviews2014
    Dev: Artifex Mundi
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.9%, Horror 26.2%, Puzzle 15.8%, Adventure 13.5%, Atmospheric 9.1%

  60. #60 COVEN
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 272 reviews2024
    Dev: Gator ShinsPub: Hellforge Studios
    Windows · Linux

    COVEN is a hyper-violent retro FPS where your path of vengeance will take you across time and space. Destroy your enemies and eat their flesh.

    Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Old School 23.3%, Female Protagonist 19.9%, Retro 7.8%, Atmospheric 7.7%

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