
ColdSide: Retro Edition is a reimagined version of the 2020 indie horror game, recreated in the style of classic retro titles. You once again find yourself in an abandoned bunker where research on anomalous phenomena is underway
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ColdSide: Retro Edition is a reimagined version of the 2020 indie horror game, recreated in the style of classic retro titles. You once again find yourself in an abandoned bunker where research on anomalous phenomena is underway

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A small horror story in the style of old video films, telling about the terrible events that the main character of the game faced, who got a part-time job in a diner.

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Turning onto an old road, the main character gets into an accident due to thick fog. Now he's trying to find someone who can help him. Forced to enter an old house, the main character finds himself trapped, from which it is not so easy to get out.
A small horror story in the style of old video films, telling about the terrible events that the main character of the game faced, who got a part-time job in a diner.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.1%, Cinematic 16.7%, Psychedelic 16.7%, Exploration 7.1%, Adventure 6.5%
Turning onto an old road, the main character gets into an accident due to thick fog. Now he's trying to find someone who can help him. Forced to enter an old house, the main character finds himself trapped, from which it is not so easy to get out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Cinematic 17.2%, Psychedelic 16.3%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 7.1%
The Butcher's Village is a psychological slasher horror game that provides a horrifying experience. Explore unsettling environments, solve intricate puzzles, and struggle to survive in a village that is at once eerily familiar and terrifyingly real.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Cinematic 15.9%, Psychedelic 14.7%, Exploration 7.2%, Adventure 7.2%
What hides in the depths of the forest?!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Cinematic 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Exploration 7.9%, Psychological 7%
REM is a short atmospheric dream exploration game. Explore surreal spaces and architecture. Collect all of the dream seeds and plant them. Every dream remembers the last one, and every dream is shaped by the garden you tend when you're awake.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Psychedelic 24.2%, Cinematic 21.9%, Exploration 10%, Atmospheric 6.6%
VHS mockumentary horror game. You're an employee of an underwater station. Something lurks in these depths. Something is waiting for you. Something calling to you. Make your way through the murky water.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Cinematic 14.2%, Adventure 6.7%, Exploration 6.4%
"MINDFALL" is a tense first-person psychological horror game that explores the depths of the human mind and its struggle with the unknown.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Cinematic 18.1%, Psychedelic 16.3%, Adventure 14.7%, Exploration 8.8%
The following is a series of tapes recovered near the Overlook National Park where four people were recently reported missing- a family of three and one motorist.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Cinematic 17.6%, Exploration 10.8%, Adventure 8.1%, Violent 7.4%
Liminal Death is a first person psychological horror game with liminal space environments where you will expirience what will happened when someone mind after it falls into comma and have to fight to get back to the body.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Cinematic 20.2%, Psychedelic 18.8%, Adventure 7.5%, First-Person 6.8%
A surreal psychological horror game where familiar rooms become strange and unpredictable. Explore your home, uncover hidden details, and experience reality changing around you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Psychedelic 19.8%, Adventure 11.3%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 7%
Delirium is a psychological horror game set in a suburban house. After a mysterious explosion, reality begins to unravel.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Psychedelic 18.2%, Cinematic 8.6%, Dark 7%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
Just Keep Waddling is based on the nihilist penguin. 70 kilometers of procedurally generated wilderness, a global leaderboard, and 8 original songs to waddle along to. A simple and laid back walking simulator, to enjoy the journey more than the destination
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Cinematic 20%, Adventure 14.5%, Exploration 10.2%, 3D 6.4%
Dear Diary is a short atmospheric first-person exploration game about the memories of a girl. Explore a small room and uncover five hidden objects while the story slowly unfolds.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, Cinematic 16.6%, Adventure 15.3%, Exploration 12%, Dark 7.1%
An atmospheric exploration game set in a Dark Fantasy world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilisation and uncover it's forgotten past through a short nonlinear story with timeless retro graphics.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.8%, Cinematic 22.6%, Adventure 13.9%, Exploration 10.6%, 3D 6.8%
A first-person psychological horror set in a decaying hotel that does not want to let you leave. Explore a dark, interconnected environment where sound, lighting, and subtle details drive a slow, relentless sense of dread. You are moving forward, whether you want to or not.
Why similar: Cinematic 23.5%, Walking Simulator 20.8%, Adventure 9.9%, First-Person 9.6%, Exploration 7.3%
You are a participant in Project Threshold, an experiment designed to force people to confront their deepest fears. Pass through sets of blue and red doors, survive what waits beyond them, and reach the end, if escape is even possible.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.7%, Cinematic 23.1%, Adventure 13.2%, First-Person 7.8%, Psychological 7.5%
Alex is a blogger who explores places with paranormal phenomena. At the request of his subscribers, he goes to an abandoned place where, according to rumors, some creepy things were noticed. What is happening there? You have to find it out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22%, Psychedelic 18.9%, Cinematic 12.8%, Exploration 6.4%, Adventure 6.3%
Late night. A young man called Sam is home alone. He finds a mystical book that takes him into a world of horror stories that come alive. Start reading, but you must not break the most important rule. Once you have started the book, you must finish it!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Cinematic 20.4%, Psychedelic 11.4%, Exploration 9.2%, First-Person 6.9%
SEGMENTS - is an atmospheric horror game where you investigate recordings of anomalous incidents known as SEGMENTS. Each SEGMENT is a captured-on-tape encounter with unexplained anomalous activity, experienced through the eyes of the person who recorded it
Why similar: Cinematic 22%, Psychedelic 15.6%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Exploration 9.6%, Stylized 7.7%
Are You Lost? Wander endless corridors where shifting environments, sinister voices, and echoes of real events create a chilling atmosphere. Andrey doesn’t remember who he was, but the walls know the truth. It’s time to remember everything.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.7%, Psychedelic 18.3%, Cinematic 15.8%, First-Person 7.5%, Psychological Horror 6.5%
Relive the lives of a student, teen, and worker in this first-person Japanese horror. With gentle scares, one-hour playtime, and a striking monochrome style, it’s perfect for newcomers. Crafted solo by a 20-year-old, this exploration-driven tale blends beauty with quiet dread.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.2%, Cinematic 17.4%, Adventure 13.2%, Exploration 9.3%, First-Person 6.4%
A night shift in a quiet suburb seemed like an easy way to earn some extra cash. You're a regular courier on foot. Deliver the orders and head home. But remember: the darkness hides those who stay awake at night, and someone is watching your route very closely.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Psychedelic 15.2%, Adventure 14.1%, Exploration 9.4%, Stylized 6.7%
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: Walking Simulator 32.7%, Psychedelic 25.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 9.1%
A war veteran, haunted by the scars of combat, struggles with tormenting hallucinations that revive the guilt of his darkest memories while trying to prepare everything for family dinner.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Cinematic 16.5%, Psychedelic 16.3%, Psychological 8.6%, First-Person 7%
If you get startled, you go back to Number 0. A Japanese-style horror anomaly-spotting game that uses your microphone to detect your reactions. Eerie shrines, schools, and cult-like locations await, filled with all kinds of horror and anomalies.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Psychedelic 17.2%, Cinematic 16.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Adventure 9.3%
Work the night shift at a quiet hotel where routine tasks slowly turn into something far more unsettling. Clean rooms, help guests, manage the hotel, and explore strange events as the elevator begins taking you to floors that should not exist.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Cinematic 19.5%, Adventure 14.6%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 6.3%
Ifrit is a first-person psychological horror game. It can impress you with its dark atmosphere, which is realistic and frightening. Are you ready to face the Ifrit demons, the strongest of the demons?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.1%, Psychedelic 17.8%, Cinematic 16.1%, Exploration 7.7%, Psychological 7.6%
Confront your deepest fears in Psychomachia, trapped in a nightmarish loop at the heart of the dorms of mental instability. Explore the intricacies of the human mind, faced with terrifying manifestations of madness.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Psychedelic 21.7%, Psychological 10.1%, Gore 6.6%, Dark 6.4%
Melancholia Maze is a brief atmospheric horror adventure in a twisted version of home. Complete everyday tasks while avoiding lurking demons, collect clues to piece together a lifeline, and find your way out of the darkness. Escape is just a call away.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Psychedelic 15%, Exploration 12.9%, First-Person 7.9%, Adventure 7.5%
You are trapped in an endless airport terminal. Observe your surroundings carefully, find the anomalies, and find your way out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.6%, Exploration 14.4%, Cinematic 13.6%, Adventure 9.6%, First-Person 9.4%
A deadly search for a grandmother in the village. Can you escape the loop? Unpredictable horror.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.1%, Adventure 15.4%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 8.7%, 3D 7.4%
Richard, waking up after a nightmare in a quiet and empty office, decides he is alone at work. On his way out of the office, he encounters a broken elevator and realizes he can't go home.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Cinematic 22.8%, Adventure 13.8%, First-Person 6.8%, 3D 6.7%
Demersus is a first-person atmospheric walking sim that explores the horrific reality of alcohol addiction through environmental storytelling and puzzles. Navigate the protagonist's fractured psyche, rendered as a beautifully haunting, hand-crafted clay mindscape and see what lies beneath.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Exploration 12.1%, Adventure 12.1%, First-Person 9%, Stylized 8.1%
You’re a journalist who came to Russia for a report. After renting an apartment from Zinaida Petrovna, you quickly realize she’s hiding something - and this place isn’t meant for random tenants. To get out, you’ll have to dig into her past - and keep your sanity.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18%, Cinematic 16.1%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Psychological 10.3%
I wolf down a cold, lonely meal. Work's wearing me down, and money's shaky. The syrup I pour into my cold coffee never mixes, no matter how much I stir. So I figure I'll just wander around in my dreams.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 46%, Exploration 15%, Adventure 13.9%, First-Person 11%, Atmospheric 8.4%
Waking up alone on an deserted island, Keiko must discover the fate of her missing brother, find food to survive, and confront a warped force of nature who seeks to subsume her.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.8%, Psychedelic 21.1%, Adventure 16.2%, Exploration 11.5%, 3D 7.3%
CORID is a first-person hardcore psychological horror game that draws you into a dark, ever-changing world. Explore your surroundings, solve puzzles, and question your own perception—because even when nothing happens, it does not mean you are alone.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Cinematic 17.6%, Exploration 9.1%, First-Person 8%, Dark 6.9%
Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Cinematic 23%, Exploration 10.1%, Adventure 9.9%, First-Person 7.7%
My life has changed drastically: a new country, university, dormitory, work. Drowsiness and fatigue have become a habit, just like the silhouettes I’ve started seeing in my peripheral vision.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Adventure 17.1%, Exploration 12.1%, First-Person 8.9%, 3D 7.6%
You are aboard an endless train. Find anomalies, report them, and move on. But be careful—missing just one may cost you the loop.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.1%, Exploration 17.5%, Adventure 16%, 3D 9.5%, Dark 7.9%
The game, that supposed to be an ordinary, but developer accidentally made a fatal error, that completely brokes the game, and transforms it into a horror-game. Now, your goal is to somehow, fix the fatal error.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Psychedelic 21%, Adventure 10.3%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 7.3%
A first-person psychological horror set in an abandoned hospital. Explore dark corridors, face unpredictable jump scares, and uncover the origin of a deadly infection—before you become its next victim.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.1%, Adventure 17.1%, Exploration 11.2%, First-Person 8.9%, Psychological 8.2%
How do you go about your life when self-isolation has become the new normal? CHESTNUT GROVE is based on my personal experience of quarantine and features 100% real documents and notices.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.1%, Adventure 20.1%, Exploration 13.6%, First-Person 9.8%, 3D 8.5%
The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in the attic with your cat companion, armed only with a camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Cinematic 17.5%, Psychological 8.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Survival 7.1%
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: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Cinematic 19.2%, Psychedelic 17.9%, Adventure 9.1%, Exploration 9.1%
Nature so serene… yet so violent. In this adventure-thriller, you are cast into a mystical world with nothing but your mind and body. To survive, you must leverage your five powerful senses and overcome the horrors that surround you. Can you make it home, or will the journey be too draining?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Cinematic 25.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Stylized 7.7%
Welcome to "Waking Tides," a small but captivating atmospheric adventure game that thrives on experimentation. Delve into a world where augmented reality extends your gameplay, seamlessly blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Cinematic 19%, Psychedelic 11.9%, Adventure 7.4%, Dark 7%
You are a ghost forever trapped in endless worlds you never even knew existed. An atmospheric experience focused on slow pacing, exploration, and deep environmental immersion.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.7%, Adventure 17%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 9%, 3D 7.7%
The player finds himself in an abandoned Soviet bunker, built at the height of the Cold War. The protagonist is a stalker, a hunter for artifacts and secrets of the past. He entered the bunker, attracted by legends of secret experiments and the mysterious disappearance of all personnel.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Psychedelic 19.6%, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 8.5%, Survival 7.2%
Family is the most precious thing you have. No matter what, right
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Psychedelic 20%, Adventure 10.8%, Exploration 9.7%, First-Person 7%
Nightmare Hospital is a fast-paced horror game focused on chase sequences. You will play as a patient, encountering various entities in the hospital, and understanding and deciphering their rules is the only way to safely leave the hospital.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.3%, Cinematic 17.4%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 8.1%, Dark 8%
"September 7th" is a short horror game released for Christmas. The plot of the game is simple to the point of banality, and the gameplay is not delayed.The game also contains some Easter eggs and mentions. The game takes place in 2009.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Psychedelic 16.6%, Cinematic 13.2%, Exploration 9.5%, First-Person 7.7%
You’re operating a drill machine beneath an abandoned chemical lab. You’ll feel the ground tremble, hear faint whispers in the dark, and glimpse shadows just beyond your lights. Stay focused—ignore what you see and hear—and keep drilling until your tasks are done.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Adventure 17%, Cinematic 17%, 3D 8.9%, Exploration 8.1%
You are here to listen to The Voice. Do what he says. But don't listen to other voices... Obey the Voice is a pressure-driven psychological horror experience built on constant threats and rule-based challenges, where survival depends on attention, timing, and decision-making under extreme stress.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.1%, Cinematic 15.6%, Adventure 11%, Exploration 10.1%, Dark 9.5%
A first-person psychological horror game. Play as Marlene, an 86-year-old woman preparing for her family's visit. They're coming. They always do.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Cinematic 19.4%, Adventure 10.9%, Exploration 9%, First-Person 6.5%
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 25.3%, Cinematic 21.1%, Psychological 8.6%, Exploration 8%, Dark 7.9%
Set against the backdrop of a Japanese-style townscape reminiscent of Gion, this exploration-based horror game involves searching for “anomalies” and offering prayers. A work dedicated to those who feel bored with their daily lives.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Psychedelic 19.1%, Cinematic 15.6%, Adventure 14.8%, Exploration 9.3%
Step into an art gallery where reality and illusion intertwine. As the night security guard, you must confront sinister forces emerging from a mysterious art exhibit and unravel the dark legacy of 'The Cube'. Your night shift begins.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Cinematic 18.8%, Cats 13.9%, Psychological 8.3%, First-Person 5.6%
A first-person psychological horror set in a cursed forest village. Explore the ruins, uncover a forbidden ritual, and follow voices that guide you… or lead you into darkness.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, Cinematic 21.9%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 7.1%, Psychological 6.8%
A man who has lost his wife and seeks to escape loneliness and grief begins working as a firewatch in a forest. He meets a girl named Sarah and encounters strange occurrences while uncovering deep family secrets. He learns that not every voice is human and not every farewell signifies an end.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Psychedelic 21.4%, Psychological 10.8%, First-Person 7.3%, Adventure 6.3%