- #1 The Dark Room
97% matchVery Positive90% of 124 reviews2018
Dev: Developers At LargePub: John Robertson
Windows · Mac
Addictive and vicious retro-styled comedy puzzler chock full of profanity, abuse, unfairness and warped logic. Will You: Go North? Find Light Switch? Cower and whimper like a beaten swine? Make your decision and escape The Dark Room! Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!
Why similar: Gore 25.3%, Violent 23.5%, Dark Comedy 19.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Comedy 8.4%
- #2 JANITOR BLEEDS
96% matchVery Positive86% of 276 reviews2022
Dev: KorpusPub: Bonus Stage Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Enter the abandoned arcade after your car has crashed, and the shelter you were looking for is trying to eat you alive in this dark mystery-horror adventure. Solve mysteries, keep JANITOR satisfied, and always be aware of what's behind your back.
Why similar: Horror 46.2%, Mystery 40.8%, Adventure 13%
- #3 Creepy Support
95% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2026
Dev: Squirrel Melting
Windows
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Text-Based 47.1%, Horror 23.3%, Mystery 17.9%, Indie 6%, Adventure 5.7%
- #4 Blackbay Asylum
96% matchMixed57% of 552 reviews2014
Dev: TAD Productions ABPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Blackbay Asylum, you take on the role of a confused psychopath who finds himself able to leave his cell one day. Explore the hospital grounds, solve mind shattering puzzles, survive relentless horrors and follow the story of Doug Dunheiw as he tries to find some clarity in what goes on at Blackbay Asylum.
Why similar: Gore 46.4%, Violent 24.5%, Horror 11.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 8.4%
- #5 Unemployment Simulator 2018
94% matchVery Positive84% of 147 reviews2026
Dev: Samuel LehikoinenPub: turbolento publishing
Windows · Linux
Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 43.9%, Mystery 18.2%, Horror 12.5%, Comedy 11.5%, Indie 9.3%
- #6 Kindergarten
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,658 reviews2017
Dev: Con Man GamesPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 54.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.
Why similar: Gore 36.1%, Violent 25.3%, Dark Comedy 20%, Indie 5.3%, Mystery 5.3%
- #7 Old School FOTD
94% matchMostly Negative38% of 88 reviews2017
Dev: Andrey BelyPub: Narko Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
You play as a schizophrenic and must find an outlet at any cost...
Why similar: Gore 37.5%, Violent 33.9%, Indie 8.9%, Horror 7.8%, Comedy 6.6%
- #8 Bad Dream: Coma
92% matchVery Positive91% of 2,223 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Gore 51.3%, Horror 26.7%, Indie 13.1%, Adventure 8.8%
- #9 Myths of Rules
91% matchVery Positive88% of 1,047 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Text-Based 43.4%, Horror 39.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Indie 4.5%
- #10 Christmas Mutilator
91% matchMixed63% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Inspired by 80s slasher films, Christmas Mutilator™ is an immersive horror and home invasion game. Your husband and children are trapped in the storm, you are stuck in a cabin for the holidays. Use every tactic you can to stay alive and get out of your house as a vicious psychopath breaks in.
Why similar: Gore 40.1%, Violent 37.3%, Indie 10%, Horror 6.8%, Adventure 5.8%
- #11 House
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,237 reviews2020
Dev: Bark Bark Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.2 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: Gore 36.2%, Horror 26.5%, Violent 24.4%, Indie 7.8%, Adventure 5.1%
- #12 For Your Tranquility
90% matchMixed68% of 195 reviews2023
Dev: Gamesung Games
Windows · Mac
It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.
Why similar: Text-Based 37%, Mystery 31.8%, Indie 21.1%, Adventure 10.1%
- #13 Nobodies: Murder Cleaner
89% matchVery Positive90% of 468 reviews2019
Dev: Blyts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Nobodies is a puzzle-filled point-and-click adventure in which you must cover up government-sanctioned assassinations. Hide the bodies, destroy the evidence, and leave no trace you were ever there. They do the dirty work. You clean it up.
Why similar: Mystery 23.1%, Gore 20.3%, Violent 19.6%, Indie 14.9%, Horror 13.6%
- #14 Help Me
88% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2021
Dev: Wallace Lovecraft
Windows
A horrific choices matter adventure game where you need to get out of the house!
Why similar: Gore 41.8%, Comedy 22.4%, Horror 20.3%, Indie 9.1%, Adventure 6.4%
- #15 Murder Is Game Over
86% matchVery Positive96% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: HitherYon Games
Windows
Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 47.4%, Text-Based 37.2%, Mystery 15.5%
- #16 The Lacerator
84% matchVery Positive99% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: Games From The AbyssPub: DreadXP
Windows
Lose a limb? You’ll adapt in THE LACERATOR! A titillating mix of survival horror and trashy 80’s film.
Why similar: Horror 50%, Comedy 50%
- #17 The Death Game Report
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,217 reviews2026
Dev: shu3
Windows
Identify how every participant in the death game died, and submit your report.
Why similar: Mystery 43.3%, Text-Based 25.4%, Indie 17.8%, Adventure 13.5%
- #18 Greenwood the Last Ritual
87% matchMixed62% of 65 reviews2017
Dev: AO2Game
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Greenwood The Last Ritual is an adventure game with isometric viewpoint where you will play as an envoy of Vatican. Use magic of pentagrams to break the Curse on the Valley. At the same time you will have to try to resist that Curse yourself and make it out alive.
Why similar: Gore 37%, Violent 31.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Mystery 10.8%, Indie 8.8%
- #19 I fell from Grace
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2017
Dev: Deep Taiga
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
I fell from Grace is a retro style adventure game, that blends storytelling and puzzle solving in a branching narrative style. Can you solve the mystery of the strange gift that has cured your wife of terminal illness, but unleashes sinister events before it's too late?
Why similar: Gore 40.6%, Violent 34.6%, Indie 15.3%, Adventure 9.5%
- #20 Stay Out Of The Farm: Prologue
85% matchMixed55% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Yasha
Windows
Free Prologue to Stay Out Of The Farm, a ps1 styled horror game where you try to escape from a serial killer.
Why similar: Gore 33.5%, Violent 28.4%, Horror 15.8%, Adventure 14.4%, Indie 7.9%
- #21 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
84% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Horror 57.4%, Comedy 23.1%, Adventure 19.5%
- #22 Stay Out of the House
82% matchVery Positive94% of 1,893 reviews2022
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
Why similar: Horror 64.1%, Indie 35.9%
- #23 SELF
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 278 reviews2020
Dev: doBellPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Indie 47.1%, Adventure 27.1%, Mystery 25.8%
- #24 [Redacted] The Safehouse
79% matchVery Positive97% of 155 reviews2026
Dev: Heartbeast
Windows · Linux
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Text-Based 68.5%, Mystery 17.8%, Indie 10.8%, Adventure 3%
- #25 Camp Sunshine
81% matchVery Positive92% of 295 reviews2016
Dev: Fossil GamesPub: Hound Picked Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Camp Sunshine is a 16-bit blood-soaked Horror RPG that pits you as Jez, who is dropped off at Summer Camp. He awakes in the middle of the night to discover blood everywhere, a rampaging killer on the loose dressed in a mascot costume and himself involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse!
Why similar: Gore 35.6%, Violent 27.9%, Horror 16.7%, Indie 14.1%, Adventure 5.7%
- #26 Gore In Crayon
79% matchVery Positive93% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Leigh CarrPub: Carrthulhu
Windows
A short pixel psychological survival horror and gruelling story told with no words.
Why similar: Horror 32.7%, Gore 29.6%, Violent 22.4%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 6.2%
- #27 DOCTOR VISCERA
78% matchVery Positive94% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: Liminal RoadPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Trapped in an abandoned asylum, survive by exploring, solving puzzles, and escaping the terrifying Doctor Viscera. Hide, fight back with limited resources, and uncover documents that reveal the way out before you become the next victim of his gruesome experiments.
Why similar: Horror 32.4%, Gore 30.4%, Violent 27.1%, Adventure 10%
- #28 Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure
81% matchVery Positive83% of 175 reviews2019
Dev: Screaming Void
Windows
NoW YoU SEE is a story driven, first-person, point & click, horror adventure. You must escape!!! Explore the house, solve fiendish puzzles, uncover horrible secrets and get ready to meet the family. STORY. PUZZLES. GORE.
Why similar: Gore 36.8%, Violent 34.2%, Indie 9.5%, Horror 8.3%, Mystery 5.8%
- #29 Kill Yourself
80% matchVery Positive88% of 134 reviews2020
Dev: Gugames
Windows
Enough with games where death is a nuisance that must be avoided at all costs: in Kill Yourself, death is your goal! But beware, it won't be easy: you'll need to work hard to find all the different ways to end the guy's miserable life.
Why similar: Gore 53.7%, Violent 23.7%, Indie 13.6%, Adventure 9%
- #30 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,036 reviews2026
Dev: Laplacian
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.1%, Text-Based 19.8%, Gore 17.3%, Violent 14.7%, Horror 9.5%
- #31 Desktop Explorer
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,312 reviews2026
Dev: Recurring Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Text-Based 58.5%, Mystery 31.3%, Adventure 10.3%
- #32 Anglerfish
78% matchVery Positive83% of 290 reviews2022
Dev: Professional Villains
Windows
The game only saves when you die. Every time you die, something changes. Every change is based on where and how you died. Go on an epic adventure only equipped with your trusted shotgun, your wit and your strong stomach for disturbing exploration. Can you survive a night at the bar, Anglerfish?
Why similar: Horror 85.1%, Adventure 14.9%
- #33 Envelope
77% matchVery Positive88% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: Skaar Game Productions
Windows
A first-person exploration sim with unrestricted freedom of choice. Envelope is all about gathering supplies, completing quests for strange characters, and preparing yourself for the Final Mission.
Why similar: Gore 33.1%, Violent 27.9%, Mystery 15%, Horror 14%, Indie 6.3%
- #34 Log.in
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 95 reviews2026
Dev: Little氷華
Windows
Log.in is a mystery-horror game where you explore a PC screen, digging through images, videos and files. Hidden somewhere in the system is the location of a girl being held captive. Your actions on the desktop will dramatically change the story and her fate.
Why similar: Mystery 24.9%, Horror 22.3%, Gore 19.8%, Violent 18.4%, Adventure 9.2%
- #35 Homicide Desk
75% matchMixed67% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Shu'la Lab LLC
Windows
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Text-Based 60.3%, Mystery 25.7%, Adventure 14%
- #36 The Innsmouth Case
77% matchMixed64% of 207 reviews2020
Dev: RobotPumpkin GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.1%, Horror 20.8%, Mystery 20.7%, Indie 10%, Adventure 5.4%
- #37 Cannibal Abduction
73% matchVery Positive96% of 372 reviews2023
Dev: Tomás EsconjaureguyPub: selewi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The family is hungry and he must provide, VHS slasher survival horror.
Why similar: Gore 26.2%, Horror 25.4%, Mystery 19.4%, Violent 14.8%, Indie 8.1%
- #38 CaseCracker3
71% matchVery Positive86% of 433 reviews2026
Dev: BlackRobe
Windows · Mac
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: Text-Based 55.8%, Mystery 35.2%, Adventure 9.1%
- #39 Interrogation Simulator
74% matchVery Positive95% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Otis MillerPub: Fire Cycle Games
Windows · Linux
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.
Why similar: Text-Based 100%
- #40 Dirty Room
75% matchMixed62% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Tactic Forge
Windows
First person shooter horror adventure game. As detective C, you arrived at an old friend's home and try to find out what's going on.
Why similar: Horror 29.3%, Gore 28.3%, Violent 26.3%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 7.3%
- #41 Mr. Meat
72% matchVery Positive89% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Luka Hizo Algo
Windows
After a long time in isolation, something appears inside your fridge. Satisfy the meat, or resist it.
Why similar: Gore 27.5%, Comedy 24.3%, Mystery 17.8%, Horror 13.6%, Adventure 9.8%
- #42 Isolomus
72% matchVery Positive95% of 442 reviews2020
Dev: Michael Rfdshir
Windows · Linux
Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!
Why similar: Horror 32.8%, Indie 24.2%, Violent 18.7%, Adventure 12.6%, Mystery 11.6%
- #43 Butcher's Creek
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,681 reviews2025
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.
Why similar: Gore 66.5%, Horror 33.5%
- #44 Charon's Staircase
73% matchMixed60% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: Indigo Studios - Interactive StoriesPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
In this first-person horror mystery game, you set out to bury the horrible past of a tyrannical government. Retrieve and destroy the documents that unravel the secrets that lie beneath Oack Grove. Will you discover the terrifying truth and find your way out?
Why similar: Gore 25.5%, Violent 24.2%, Mystery 16.5%, Horror 15.7%, Indie 9.7%
- #45 Don't Escape Trilogy
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 806 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.
Why similar: Horror 38.1%, Mystery 25.4%, Indie 22.4%, Adventure 14.1%
- #46 Like Clay
73% matchVery Positive87% of 125 reviews2017
Dev: free08Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Like Clay is a story driven adventure game with horror elements. Find out what happened to a friend of yours by reading messages and listening to audio files. Search for hidden doors and items, solve light puzzles and survive deadly foes and lethal traps.
Why similar: Indie 44.9%, Horror 38.2%, Adventure 16.9%
- #47 The Third Shift
69% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Teebowah Games
Windows
In this Game Boy styled horror game, uncover the mystery of the Roanoke Museum of History and Wonder. Get lost in its maze-like exhibits, solve peculiar puzzles, and survive being hunted by grotesque creatures from the controversial Human Body Exhibit. Can you leave the museum alive?
Why similar: Horror 47.2%, Mystery 31.5%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 4.7%
- #48 Cut to the Core
70% matchVery Positive94% of 186 reviews2022
Dev: Plasma PressPub: AAD Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
Why similar: Gore 64%, Horror 34.2%, Indie 1.7%
- #49 Homicipher
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,339 reviews2024
Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Text-Based 55.6%, Horror 36.5%, Adventure 8%
- #50 Critters for Sale
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,917 reviews2021
Dev: Sonoshee
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Experience death from the comfort of your seat.
Why similar: Gore 52.7%, Violent 31.2%, Indie 10.8%, Adventure 5.3%
- #51 The Horror Of Salazar House
69% matchVery Positive94% of 391 reviews2020
Dev: Maldo19Pub: Torture Star Video
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!
Why similar: Gore 29.9%, Violent 27.4%, Horror 16.1%, Mystery 13.2%, Indie 8.8%
- #52 Infliction
70% matchVery Positive80% of 968 reviews2018
Dev: Caustic Reality
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Why similar: Gore 37.5%, Violent 28.5%, Horror 20.3%, Indie 8.5%, Adventure 5.1%
- #53 Backspace Backspace Backspace
68% matchVery Positive97% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 51.2%, Horror 28.1%, Mystery 9.2%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 4.3%
- #54 SLACKJAW
67% matchVery Positive82% of 158 reviews2025
Dev: Nostromo Interactive
Windows
As the latest prey of a deranged serial killer, you must use your wits and resources to survive in this atmospheric first-person escape room-style horror game. Explore, uncover secrets, and plan your escape... but be quiet, or you'll be his next victim. Inspired by true events.
Why similar: Horror 48.6%, Mystery 31.3%, Indie 13.2%, Adventure 6.9%
- #55 Found Horror Game 101.exe
71% matchMixed69% of 61 reviews2018
Dev: Yai Gameworks
Windows
You'll scream in pleasure... Choke with fear! Play through 101 sick, frightening and perverted games, released in an experimental episodic format Can the curious souls brave through the hidden depths of each game to reach the shocking conclusion? Maybe what's been lost was never meant to be found...
Why similar: Gore 32.8%, Violent 24.6%, Horror 14.9%, Indie 11.7%, Mystery 10.1%
- #56 Serial Cleaners
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 463 reviews2022
Dev: Draw DistancePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Serial Cleaners is a top-down stealth-action game, where you get to experience being a murder scene cleaner for the mob in 1990s New York. Alternate between four cleaners, each with their own unique style, and live their stories.
Why similar: Gore 55.8%, Comedy 23.1%, Indie 14.2%, Adventure 6.9%
- #57 Nightmare Zapping
67% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Violent 41.4%, Horror 26.4%, Mystery 18.7%, Indie 8.3%, Adventure 5.2%
- #58 Hearing Voices
66% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Fuupu
Windows
Hearing Voices is a unique indie short horror experience where you will need to put your listening and deduction skills to the test to solve puzzles. Mistakes have consequences.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.2%, Horror 22.3%, Adventure 17.3%, Mystery 13.6%, Indie 12.7%
- #59 Zarya-1: Mystery on the Moon
68% matchVery Positive88% of 182 reviews2017
Dev: Your Story Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.
Why similar: Text-Based 41.6%, Indie 26%, Horror 16.9%, Adventure 15.5%
- #60 The Blind Prophet
67% matchVery Positive87% of 543 reviews2020
Dev: Ars Goetia
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A point'n'Click adventure game. Resolve mysteries and fight the Great Evil.
Why similar: Indie 38.5%, Gore 27.6%, Adventure 23%, Horror 10.8%