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  1. #1 Edge of Insanity
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Grotta Game Studio
    Windows

    Edge of Insanity is a first-person psychological horror game focusing on story and exploration. Your in control of Paul Carson, a TV Horror Show Host, who's currently locked in a haunted manor in search for the missing information of a crime that happened decades ago.

    Why similar: Violent 55.1%, Psychological 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 10%, Indie 9.8%

  2. #2 Peekaboo Collection - 3 Tales of Horror
    97% matchMostly Positive77% of 43 reviews2020
    Dev: Vidas Salavejus
    Windows

    Three horror games. Three different stories exerting you into dark twist, forcing you confront face to face with the creatures that lurk there.

    Why similar: Violent 32.7%, Gore 11.3%, Indie 9.9%, Blood 9.9%, Supernatural 5.4%

  3. #3 Love, Sam
    95% matchVery Positive95% of 586 reviews2019
    Dev: Korean Linguistics Lab
    Windows

    Alone in your room, you see a diary sitting on your desk. It wants to tell you a story: a story about a high school crush. A story about small town romance. A story about how everyone is against you and nobody will ever love you again.

    Why similar: Violent 50.4%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 13.1%, Indie 9.7%, Supernatural 9.5%

  4. #4 Deluded Mind
    96% matchMixed62% of 108 reviews2018
    Dev: Sky HaubrichPub: Pyxton Studios
    Windows

    You wake up at the psychiatric institution Hillstone Asylum and find that you have been given a potent hallucinogen. As you cross the corridors of Hillstone Asylum, you notice that there's something wrong with you: The hallucinogen shows its effects and literally puts you in hell on earth.

    Why similar: Violent 37.2%, Gore 13.6%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Indie 9.9%, Psychological 9%

  5. #5 Mists of Aiden
    94% matchVery Positive91% of 1,138 reviews2020
    Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.

    Why similar: Violent 32.8%, Horror 14.7%, Blood 13.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Supernatural 6.8%

  6. #6 Banished Monsters
    94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
    Dev: VTC
    Windows

    Follow the story of a Fomorian bunny, a creature that gets banished to earth and has to adapt to earth and its lifestyle.

    Why similar: Violent 52.1%, Gore 19.1%, Indie 9.3%, Psychological 7.4%, Psychological Horror 6.3%

  7. #7 Timore 6
    93% matchPositive83% of 41 reviews2018
    Dev: Vidas Salavejus
    Windows

    Timore 6 is an indie horror game about facing your inner demons in order to save your child.

    Why similar: Violent 40.9%, Gore 20.9%, Indie 10.1%, Supernatural 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8%

  8. #8 Related
    92% matchVery Positive85% of 189 reviews2020
    Dev: Dariia BabchukPub: FRACTALCATZ
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Waking up from a nightmare, Jessica finds confirmation to her suspicions. To figure out her past, she goes to an orphanage, where she hopes to find answers to questions that she tried so hard to forget.

    Why similar: Violent 33.7%, Blood 11.7%, Indie 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Gore 9.4%

  9. #9 WARD
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 1096studios
    Windows

    Awake enough to wander, but not to leave. WARD is a nightmare you may never escape.

    Why similar: Violent 42.4%, Gore 15.6%, Indie 11.3%, Surreal 9%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

  10. #10 Last Day of FEAR
    91% matchMostly Positive70% of 117 reviews2017
    Dev: Laush Studio
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 35%

    Last Day of FEAR - the game tells the story about a detective for the County of Rayna. He was not an easy task to deal with the difficult situation. Near highway 66 was the house where it was quite numerous suicide and murder.

    Why similar: Violent 43.8%, Gore 16.1%, Blood 14.4%, Indie 7.8%, Horror 6.4%

  11. #11 Prelude: Psychological Horror Game
    91% matchMostly Negative37% of 19 reviews2017
    Dev: Juan P Dev
    Windows · Mac

    This game is not for everyone, do you have what it takes to unravel the secrets behind this... thing? Are you ready to face the truth and question your own existence? You've been warned...

    Why similar: Violent 47.4%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Gore 17.4%, Horror 9.1%, Indie 8.4%

  12. #12 The Fragment
    90% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2019
    Dev: David PierucciPub: PG Entertainment
    Windows

    His wife Jane and you are scientists hired by the US government to investigate a strange element found in an asteroid that fell to planet earth, but in the middle of the investigation his wife Jane disappears, something terrible is happening in that place.

    Why similar: Violent 73.8%, Indie 13.1%, Horror 13.1%

  13. #13 Evil Park
    89% matchMixed66% of 29 reviews2017
    Dev: Mobsoftware
    Windows

    Evil Park is an atmospheric horror game, based on simulating obscure situations of distress, insecurity and anxiety.

    Why similar: Violent 63.1%, Gore 15.7%, Indie 10.8%, Horror 6.9%, Atmospheric 3.4%

  14. #14 Pieces of Me: Northbound
    88% matchMixed62% of 26 reviews2020
    Dev: Leonardo JassoPub: Good Enough Gang
    Windows

    You find yourself standing at a trolley station shortly after midnight. Confused as to where you are, the mystery of how you came to be there will slowly unravel as you interact with those you encounter.

    Why similar: Violent 48.1%, Gore 17.1%, Indie 8.8%, Surreal 7.2%, Psychological Horror 6.9%

  15. #15 Fragile
    87% matchMixed64% of 429 reviews2020
    Dev: Beer Night Studio
    Windows

    Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!

    Why similar: Violent 36.8%, Gore 16%, Psychological 7.9%, Horror 7.7%, Surreal 6.7%

  16. #16 The Plight
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Cellar Vault Games
    Windows

    The Plight is a first person Malaysian Chinese themed horror game surrounding the mystery of gruesome murders committed by an old woman in her home nearly two decades before. Three childhood friends disappeared more than a decade ago.

    Why similar: Violent 47.9%, Gore 9.2%, Horror 8.8%, Indie 8.7%, Surreal 6.5%

  17. #17 6120
    86% matchMixed42% of 38 reviews2019
    Dev: VikTor
    Windows

    The history of the driver, Alexander Rasputin, he goes on an internship to manage the train, and enters the paranormal world with his mentor. You have to uncover the secret of the train 6120, and its passengers!

    Why similar: Violent 46.1%, Blood 14%, Indie 8.7%, Psychological 7.2%, Psychological Horror 6.1%

  18. #18 The Emulator
    86% matchMixed61% of 99 reviews2018
    Dev: concluse_dev
    Windows · Mac

    It's the night before Halloween and a new terror is about to be unleashed from the deep web.. The Emulator!

    Why similar: Violent 48.6%, Gore 16.3%, Horror 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Indie 7.7%

  19. #19 IMMURE
    84% matchVery Positive93% of 111 reviews2019
    Dev: Wither Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    IMMURE is a story driven, psychological horror game. Will, the protagonist, has found himself trapped inside a foreboding Mansion with no exit. To escape, he must travel through strange doors which lead into other dimensions, filled with tormented souls.

    Why similar: Violent 49.5%, Gore 17.6%, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 10.7%, Indie 8.3%

  20. #20 Beyond
    85% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2018
    Dev: Tired Dad Games
    Windows

    Your grandma has died. No one knows how or why. You are the sole beneficiary of her will. Heed the warning in her will as you investigate her death. Explore, investigate, and survive.

    Why similar: Violent 54.1%, Gore 19.9%, Horror 11.2%, Indie 10.1%, Atmospheric 4.8%

  21. #21 Try to Survive!
    84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
    Dev: INGO
    Windows

    Try to Survive! - is an endless game where the player have to survive and kill creatures that want to kill him. At the same time, improving skills will affect the style of his game. The goal is to survive as long as possible and reach the best score.

    Why similar: Violent 42.5%, Blood 19.1%, Gore 15.6%, Indie 11.1%, Horror 7.5%

  22. #22 Palmyra Orphanage
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 705 reviews2019
    Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.

    Why similar: Violent 38.8%, Horror 13.9%, Blood 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11%, Gore 8.4%

  23. #23 Raid on Area 51
    74% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
    Dev: BefuddleBug
    Windows

    Defend those alien cheeks from the horde of Kyles and Karens as the lone Johnson left at Area 51

    Why similar: Violent 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

  24. #24 Near Death Experience
    82% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2017
    Dev: Distorted Games
    Windows

    Near Death Experience is a defensless horror game that puts you in the mind of a car crash victim that lost his memory and finds himself in a threatening and unknown area. The player has to solve riddles to try to regain his memory while running from dark forces.

    Why similar: Violent 51.1%, Gore 18%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 9.9%, Indie 8.3%

  25. #25 The Road to Hades
    81% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2018
    Dev: AUTOSAVE
    Windows

    TRTH(The road to hades) is a horror adventure game full of Asian myths and art. Guide the girl safely in the world of the dead. Welcome to a new game you have not experienced.

    Why similar: Violent 51.2%, Gore 19.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Indie 9.1%, Horror 9.1%

  26. #26 ENDURE
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Noir Studios
    Windows

    ENDURE is a randomly generated psychological horror experience, focusing on individual phobias to create the most terrifying experience possible.

    Why similar: Violent 45.7%, Indie 21.6%, Gore 16.8%, Horror 7.4%, First-Person 4.4%

  27. #27 Deathbloom: Chapter 1
    79% matchMostly Positive78% of 134 reviews2019
    Dev: Vincent Lade
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Inspired by classic survival horror. Bachman Manor sprawls into a maze of corridors, bedrooms, foyers, and more. Filled with puzzles, traps, and hidden passageways that explore the secrets of its dark history and occupants.

    Why similar: Violent 46.8%, Blood 12.2%, Horror 8.8%, Indie 8.1%, Psychological Horror 6.9%

  28. #28 CHAIN SAW
    80% matchMostly Negative32% of 34 reviews2019
    Dev: VikTor
    Windows

    CHAIN SAW is a survival game. You have to go through various tests, find the right way out, and run away from the maniac. The game will be in every way to mock you, and scare.

    Why similar: Violent 49.2%, Blood 15%, Indie 9.3%, Psychological Horror 7.1%, Psychological 7%

  29. #29 The 8th Day
    79% matchMostly Negative23% of 26 reviews2019
    Dev: Tainted GamesPub: TAINTED GAMES
    Windows

    Trapped in an abandoned asylum. The only feeling of safety is light. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind every corner lurks an evil presence and horrifying noises...

    Why similar: Violent 52.1%, Gore 19.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Indie 9.2%, Horror 8.5%

  30. #30 Amberskull
    78% matchVery Positive85% of 93 reviews2018
    Dev: Charlie Behan
    Windows

    Amberskull is a survival horror anthology with several terrifying experiences where you must overcome 4 unique enemies in widely different environments.

    Why similar: Violent 60.1%, Indie 17.2%, Horror 15.4%, First-Person 7.3%

  31. #31 Brain
    69% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
    Dev: FadaStudio
    Windows

    “If the brain is a trap, then you are the key.” Brain is a first-person psychological horror game that offers an immersive and terrifying experience. Explore your environment and try to escape this creature that follows you like your shadow...

    Why similar: Violent 21.9%, Supernatural 16.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Horror 11.7%, Gore 10.9%

  32. #32 Drunkn Bar Fight on Halloween
    77% matchMostly Positive75% of 67 reviews2018
    Dev: The Munky
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 1.1 hrs≥1hr: 15%

    Drunkn Bar Fight on Halloween is holiday themed snippet of the VR game Drunkn Bar Fight.

    Why similar: Violent 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

  33. #33 Paper Bleed
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Chusketeer
    Windows

    Paper Bleed is a creepy and grotesque point-and-click adventure, made with a raw art style and disturbingly gory hand-drawn animations. You find yourself in a horrible yet familiar place, facing your deepest fears and darkest thoughts. Nothing really dies here and you are all alone...

    Why similar: Violent 26.7%, Blood 19.5%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Gore 10.2%, Horror 9.1%

  34. #34 The Final Days: I'm Still Alive
    78% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2016
    Dev: Kipsaim(Mike) Delgado
    Windows

    Text based survival game. Can you discover the reason for the chaos plaguing the world? Can you survive? Will you be a nice guy? Or a total douche? Is your call.

    Why similar: Violent 84.3%, Indie 15.7%

  35. #35 Nightmare Simulator
    77% matchMostly Negative38% of 34 reviews2018
    Dev: Eathrabaria
    Windows

    Nightmare simulator is a first-person exploration horror game. You walk as a tormented soul and discover disturbing places from subconscious. Nightmare never ends, when you wake up you go to another nightmare.

    Why similar: Violent 84.3%, Indie 15.7%

  36. #36 The Black Knight
    76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
    Dev: notreallythin
    Windows

    Black knight is a short (10 minutes to complete) arcade line defence game. Tons of monsters are trying to escape from an ancient crypt and only you can stop them. The main hero can move between three lines and cast spells to destroy the enemies. You need to defeat 10 waves of monsters to win!

    Why similar: Violent 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

  37. #37 Den: A Short Horror Story
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: tea_cb
    Windows

    Den is a short survival horror slasher game, in which you play as a person who rented a small cabin for a weekend getaway, deep inside the woods.

    Why similar: Violent 41%, Gore 15.1%, Indie 10.9%, Psychological 9.1%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

  38. #38 The Backrooms: You've Been Here Before
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Development Forever
    Windows

    You find yourself in Backrooms, and it's up to you to find a way out of this place. You are completely lost, in a world of endless corridors and liminal spaces. And no one knows what's waiting for you around the next corner.

    Why similar: Violent 38.1%, Blood 16.4%, Gore 14%, Indie 10.2%, Supernatural 9%

  39. #39 KARTOFELKA
    75% matchMixed65% of 102 reviews2018
    Dev: ObshaGaming
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Platform of medium complexity, where the main role is played by 'potato'.

    Why similar: Violent 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

  40. #40 Burgerwise the Clown
    75% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2018
    Dev: Andrew AugustinePub: Monkeystein Games
    Windows

    When Burgerwise finds his home broken into, his friends murdered, weird monsters roaming the halls, and his BURGERS taken, he does what any sensible puppy-smashing clown would; he takes advantage of the situation to kill the rest of his roommates. And take their stuff!

    Why similar: Violent 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

  41. #41 Flame of Mirrors
    76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
    Dev: Alexandr Borovikov
    Windows

    In The Flame of Mirrors You will go into mysterious mazes which shrouded in mystery, soot and smoke. To get out of them You should only rely on sounds, intuition and dim backlight of radio.

    Why similar: Violent 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

  42. #42 Odyssee
    74% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
    Dev: Earth and Life SoftwarePub: Earth and Life Marcoms
    Windows

    A old-fashion adventure through galaxies and times. Help Ody to find of all his robot-girlfriend's pieces among 16bit levels, solving platformer-style levels, with challenging enigmas and hard-core enemies.

    Why similar: Violent 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

  43. #43 Ajgal
    65% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Studio Echo
    Windows

    Your daughter vanished. You did nothing. In Ajgal, descend into a world shaped by guilt, memory, and flesh—where redemption costs more than blood, and silence always comes back.

    Why similar: Violent 30.5%, Supernatural 12.2%, Gore 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Surreal 11.3%

  44. #44 Uncanny Tales: Cold Road
    63% matchMixed66% of 117 reviews2025
    Dev: VYASTUDIO
    Windows

    Uncanny Tales is an episodic horror series where the real terror comes not from monsters or the supernatural, but from people. Each episode is a new unsettling story inspired by real fears and eerie situations from everyday life.

    Why similar: Violent 32.5%, Psychological 15%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 11.3%, Gore 10.7%

  45. #45 Totally Mayhem
    73% matchMixed58% of 55 reviews2017
    Dev: Mihai Morosanu
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 12 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%

    A huge city. You can drive cars, taxis, helicopters, vans, airplanes, many other vehicle types, shoot from turrets etc Complete missions, shoot with many weapons(pistol, shootgun, missile launcher, grenades), drive all vehicles, including cars tanks, helicopter, Each mission is unique, you will have to kill a number of enemies or a...

    Why similar: Violent 83.2%, Indie 16.8%

  46. #46 The Dark Occult
    71% matchMixed69% of 1,264 reviews2018
    Dev: RYM GAMES
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.0 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: Violent 40.4%, Horror 19.4%, Gore 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Indie 7.8%

  47. #47 Gorytale
    71% matchVery Positive93% of 67 reviews2019
    Dev: NYAARGH!
    Windows · Mac

    Gorytale is a fast-paced, adrenaline-rushed FPS shooter set in a candy land, that is so damn sweet it could be called someone’s Hell

    Why similar: Violent 53.3%, Blood 14.6%, Gore 14.1%, Indie 8.7%, Psychological Horror 4.7%

  48. #48 Unrest Indigo
    72% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2019
    Dev: Marcos DumontPub: Marcos Dumont
    Windows

    The idea that all feelings have a single definition is about to change. Unrest Indigo is a first person game of the horror genre that explores the dark depths of a great change.

    Why similar: Violent 79.2%, Indie 20.8%

  49. #49 Follow My Footsteps
    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Edvardas ŠneiderisPub: Lukas Litinskas
    Windows

    This is horror VR game with puzzle elements and deep story line that you have to unfold when you play this game. You have to learn everything about this new house and beyond.

    Why similar: Violent 54.8%, Gore 20.1%, Horror 10.5%, Indie 9.7%, Puzzle 4.9%

  50. #50 Ash Asylum
    71% matchMixed42% of 33 reviews2020
    Dev: Tainted Games
    Windows · Linux

    In Ash Asylum you play an amnesiac thrust into a morbid, really creepy universe. After an accident you wake up to find that instead of lying in a hospital, you’re in an asylum with your head wrapped in bandages. Who the hell am I? What am I doing here? How do I escape?

    Why similar: Violent 48.8%, Gore 17.9%, Indie 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Horror 10.1%

  51. #51 The Great Emu War Of 1932
    72% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2019
    Dev: HoneyBeeSoftware
    Windows

    The Great Emu War Of 1932 is a fast paced top-down shooter based on the famous failed emu cull in outback Western Australia.

    Why similar: Violent 79.2%, Indie 20.8%

  52. #52 Unsacrifice
    62% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Unreal SpiritPub: Daniel Muñoz Michán
    Windows

    Unsacrifice is a classic survival horror game compile in a solo campaign. You will play as a priest apprendice, lost in a world full of mysteries, hidden dangers and deformed creatures that the player has to escape from.

    Why similar: Violent 64.7%, Gore 23.8%, Indie 11.5%

  53. #53 The Dark Wish
    62% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BitRay Studio
    Windows

    The Dark Wish is adventure horror game. Are you brave enough to discover true?

    Why similar: Violent 64.7%, Gore 23.8%, Indie 11.5%

  54. #54 CULT OF FLIES
    59% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
    Dev: Alexander Wiseman
    Windows · Mac

    After the death of your grandmother, strange events occur and unravel the secret of her suicide.

    Why similar: Violent 24%, Supernatural 12.4%, Psychological 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.4%

  55. #55 Entwined: The Visual Novel
    59% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: Modell Studio LLC
    Windows

    Entwined is a visual novel horror game set in a hospital. A lockdown has occurred and no one can escape. Team up with either a nurse or a patient in order to escape the hospital. Make your choice for the path ahead…

    Why similar: Violent 50.4%, Gore 18.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Indie 9%, Horror 8.2%

  56. #56 House
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,101 reviews2020
    Dev: Bark Bark Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.

    Why similar: Violent 26%, Horror 17.5%, Gore 11.9%, Surreal 11%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

  57. #57 The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
    68% matchVery Positive90% of 104 reviews2018
    Dev: Deceptive Games Ltd.
    Windows · Mac

    Three people awake in adjacent prison cells with no recollection of how they got there. Now, they must work together in order to escape this nightmarish captivity. But can they really trust one another?

    Why similar: Violent 58%, Indie 10.6%, Horror 9%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Female Protagonist 5.3%

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