Games Like ColdSide

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 26.5%, First-Person 17.5%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Adventure 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a tense, underground facility setting with a heavy emphasis on atmospheric survival and psychological pressure.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.6%, Horror 25.1%, First-Person 13.4%, Adventure 11.9%, Atmospheric 11%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in sci-fi horror that explores deep-seated psychological themes within a decaying underwater research facility.

A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?

Why similar: Horror 53.5%, Atmospheric 24.2%, First-Person 22.3%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the anomalous research facility theme, focusing on escaping a containment breach in a first-person perspective.

Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

Why similar: Horror 37.9%, Psychological Horror 34.2%, First-Person 9.8%, Adventure 6.1%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly immersive, terrifying psychological horror experience that relies on environmental storytelling and atmosphere.

The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.

Why similar: Horror 38.1%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Adventure 13.8%, First-Person 13.2%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines realistic first-person exploration with deep psychological horror and a compelling narrative mystery.

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: Psychological Horror 28.5%, Horror 24.6%, First-Person 14.3%, Adventure 11.4%, Atmospheric 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror walking simulator that excels at building a sense of unease through environmental storytelling.

A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.4%, Horror 27.1%, First-Person 13.7%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, surreal psychological horror game that captures the same indie, first-person dread as ColdSide.

A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.

Why similar: Horror 38.6%, Psychological Horror 36.8%, First-Person 24.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a dense, atmospheric psychological horror experience set in a dark, futuristic environment.

Concluse is an atmospheric horror game which features puzzles, outstanding cutscenes, and something a little twisted..

Why similar: Horror 29.9%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Adventure 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.5%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a similar lo-fi, atmospheric, and psychological horror vibe that feels very much in line with indie horror classics.

Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.

Why similar: Horror 33.1%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 17.9%, Atmospheric 14%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person, atmospheric walking simulator that focuses on uncovering the truth in a mysterious, abandoned 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: Psychological Horror 30.4%, Horror 24.6%, First-Person 16%, Adventure 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential psychological horror walking simulator that uses shifting environments to disorient the player.

Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Why similar: Adventure 30.9%, Horror 25.2%, Indie 20.8%, First-Person 16.4%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a grand, atmospheric setting within a research vessel where things have gone horribly wrong.

"Exanimum: The Silent Call" is a first-person psychological horror game. In this chilling experience, you will find yourself confronting terrifying mysteries and chilling secrets.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34%, Horror 31.1%, Indie 13.1%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, realistic psychological horror game that emphasizes atmosphere and isolation.

This is a first-person indie horror game. In 9 Childs Street you will find the terrifying atmosphere of a recently abandoned house, and its captive inhabitants, through the eyes of a curious little boy in a red cap.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27%, Horror 23.8%, First-Person 14.3%, Indie 12%, Adventure 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie psychological horror game that uses a first-person perspective to build intense, localized dread.

The Door in the Basement is an atmospheric pixelated horror game set in a mysterious subterranean world.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Horror 24.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Atmospheric 12.1%, First-Person 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and psychological tension within a dark, confined setting.

Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Horror 22.6%, First-Person 14.3%, Adventure 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror game that focuses on exploration and uncovering dark secrets in a confined space.

Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

Why similar: Horror 26.1%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Adventure 15.4%, First-Person 14.8%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An isolated, first-person survival horror game that emphasizes the psychological toll of being trapped in a hostile environment.

Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.

Why similar: Horror 27.5%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Atmospheric 16.5%, First-Person 15%, Adventure 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, first-person walking simulator that prioritizes exploration and a sense of growing unease.

Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.9%, Horror 23.5%, Adventure 15.2%, Atmospheric 11.2%, First-Person 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, psychological horror title that excels at building tension through its first-person perspective and unsettling atmosphere.

The protagonist gets into a car accident and is forced to take shelter from the cold in an abandoned house, waiting for warmer temperatures, where it will soon turn out that he is not alone at all..

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.7%, Horror 28.1%, First-Person 16.4%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Adventure 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that leans heavily into psychological themes and supernatural atmosphere.

The Derailed is a first-person psychological horror game. Beneath the dusty arches of a nearly forgotten depot, shadows of the past tremble. Whether you want to or not, you will have to uncover the dark secrets of this place.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.9%, Horror 32.6%, Adventure 20%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses exploration and dark, atmospheric settings to build tension.

A first-person horror game Incoming Evil, you will explore an unsolved event about 3 missing people. Nobody knows what happened to them, the police could not solve the case. You are an experienced detective; the case handed over to you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.7%, Horror 22.3%, First-Person 16.3%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror game that focuses on narrative and atmospheric exploration.

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: Adventure 25.9%, Horror 23.7%, Indie 18.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, First-Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person exploration horror game that captures the feeling of navigating a dangerous, unknown environment.

Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Embark on a journey through the human psyche to experience the everyday challenges associated with these conditions.

Why similar: Indie 42.3%, First-Person 21.5%, Psychological Horror 20%, Adventure 16.3%

Why You'll Like It: A short, impactful psychological horror game that explores mental health through immersive, first-person environments.

Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...

Why similar: Adventure 57.9%, Indie 42.1%

Why You'll Like It: An indie, first-person horror game that emphasizes the feeling of being isolated and hunted.

As an employee of a night security firm, your first night on the job might be your last, as strange events push your sanity to the limit.

Why similar: Horror 30.1%, Psychological Horror 29.7%, Indie 19.9%, First-Person 16%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: An indie psychological horror game that utilizes a first-person perspective to create an unsettling experience.

Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.

Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Adventure 25.9%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, First-Person 12.4%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Astray is a first-person horror/puzzle game set in an abandoned museum based on unusual cultures, legends, and supernatural themes. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface..

Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Adventure 21.4%, Indie 15.2%, First-Person 14.2%, Psychological Horror 14%

ShadowSide is a First Person Exploration game. A policeman Alex Carter has been watching over the tranquility in the town for many years. He protects the people from robbery and crime. Nothing but a routine.

Why similar: Adventure 28%, Horror 27.5%, Indie 19.3%, First-Person 12.2%, Atmospheric 10.2%

Silver Chains is a first-person horror game with a strong emphasis on story and exploration. Search for clues within an old abandoned manor to unravel the truth about the terrible events which have happened.

Why similar: Horror 32.2%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 10.7%, First-Person 9.7%

Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.2%, Horror 25.1%, Adventure 14.7%, First-Person 12.4%, Atmospheric 12.1%

A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.8%, Horror 26.2%, First-Person 12.7%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 9%

"From the Other Side" immerses you in a chilling first-person psychological horror game. You are Steve, a security guard on his first night at work, tasked with monitoring security cameras and fixing unsettling anomalies that will make you question reality.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.9%, Horror 27.8%, Adventure 21.2%, First-Person 17.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

Why similar: Adventure 26.3%, Indie 18.6%, Horror 17.6%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, First-Person 10.8%

From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.

Why similar: Horror 34.4%, Psychological Horror 29.9%, First-Person 10.7%, Indie 8.9%, Adventure 7.8%

Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29%, Horror 25.3%, First-Person 19.5%, Adventure 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.1%

STAIRS is a first-person atmospheric psychological horror game, inspired by real-life events, that takes players through the stories of three missing people as seen through the eyes of journalist Christopher Adams. Start preparing yourself now, for to descend down these steps is to descend into madness...

Why similar: Horror 32.5%, Psychological Horror 28%, Adventure 22.2%, Indie 17.2%

A psychological horror game where a police officer investigates a cold case in a decaying house, uncovering a strange and haunting tape recorder that reveals a terrible secret.

Why similar: Adventure 24.7%, Horror 22.8%, First-Person 19.3%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Atmospheric 12.5%

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: Horror 32.5%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Indie 12.4%, First-Person 11.8%, Adventure 8.1%

The Demon Within Me is a first-person psychological horror game featuring a dark, lonely, and atmospheric environment that offers an immersive and disturbing experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.1%, Horror 26.3%, First-Person 19.5%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Adventure 5%

The Silent Snowfall is a first-person horror game.Embark on a dark Christmas journey where the silence of a winter night hides blood-chilling secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 28.1%, Psychological Horror 25.8%, First-Person 22.7%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Indie 9%

Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.

Why similar: Horror 32.6%, First-Person 19.3%, Adventure 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Atmospheric 8.7%

You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible

Why similar: Adventure 23.1%, Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 18%, Indie 17.4%, First-Person 11.3%

A scientific experiment in which no one survives, in a first-person survival horror game made by one developer In the role of a random person who is trapped in an experiment, try to get out and find out what is happening in this abandoned place.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 43.8%, First-Person 22.6%, Atmospheric 18.6%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 4.1%

A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Horror 26.3%, Adventure 16.6%, First-Person 11.3%, Indie 10.3%

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.4%, Horror 21%, Adventure 16.2%, First-Person 14.6%, Atmospheric 13%

"The Last Visit: 98th" is a psychological indie horror from the first person, in the genre of a walking simulator, in the setting of the post-Soviet winter space. The main focus is on the atmosphere of horror, which is emphasized by realistic 3D graphics.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.2%, Horror 24.3%, Adventure 13.5%, First-Person 13.1%, Atmospheric 11.5%

"Madness Inside"" immerses you in the dark depths of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, where horrifying experiments were once conducted. Police Lieutenant Vic Voight, in pursuit of a dangerous criminal, unexpectedly finds himself trapped in this nightmarish place.

Why similar: First-Person 25.1%, Horror 22.7%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 15.1%

Indonesian horror game set in Ardan Radio station from Bandung. Don't listen to Nightmare Side alone, or you'll invite the darkness.

Why similar: Horror 33.4%, Psychological Horror 31%, First-Person 22.3%, Adventure 10.4%, Singleplayer 2.9%

You have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.

Why similar: Adventure 29.5%, First-Person 20.9%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 15.3%, Atmospheric 12.9%

Experience terrors only madness can conjure in HEKTOR, a psychological horror game set in a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn.

Why similar: Horror 35.1%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Adventure 14.7%, First-Person 14.3%, Indie 11.5%

A psychological horror game with a chapter-based plot, thriller and unusual elements! You are a novice paranormal detective, exploring secrets and finding ways to escape in an infinite loop of scenes. Many unusual things happen during this process, as if some strange force wants to devour you...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.8%, Horror 22.9%, First-Person 18.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 9.7%

The Guest is a first-person psychological horror game that focuses on creating fear and tension for the player.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Horror 23.1%, First-Person 14.3%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 11.5%

DYING: Reborn is a first-person Room Escape puzzle game in which players must tackle all kinds of puzzles in a series of dark and eerie environments. Gameplay revolves around collecting, discovering and putting together pieces of a twisted story that will make your hair stand on end...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.8%, Adventure 26.2%, Indie 18.3%, Horror 16.7%

Death Motel is a short, intense first-person horror experience about the paranormal events occurring at abandoned Crimson Motel.

Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Adventure 25.6%, Psychological Horror 24.7%, First-Person 16%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Psychological horror, which is part of the games CASE: Animatronics and CASE 2: Animatronics Survival.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.6%, Horror 24.3%, First-Person 14%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Adventure 11%

If hell is a state of the soul, these are the steps that will lead you to its gates. Dark Atlas: Infernum is a disturbing first-person story where an esoteric end of the world meets psychological survival horror with a strong narrative component.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.5%, Horror 28.6%, First-Person 18.4%, Adventure 17.3%, Singleplayer 5.3%

The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.8%, Horror 27.9%, Adventure 19.3%, Atmospheric 12%, First-Person 5.8%

Trapped in the depths of a frozen Soviet bunker, geophysicist Anna must survive deadly cold, horrifying abominations, and the trauma of a buried past. A third-person survival horror blending psychological storytelling with hand-drawn static cameras.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42%, Horror 29.9%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Adventure 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%

A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.6%, Horror 25.4%, First-Person 16.2%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Adventure 12.3%