Games Like Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting [Enhanced Edition]

Dark Legends surround the old abandoned Blackwood house, secluded far away in the northern wastelands. For writer Michael Arthate, this cold, solitary atmosphere is fodder for his restless imagination. But Michael soon becomes distracted by the mysteries offered up, as he follows a trail exploring and delving into the secrets of the past.

Why similar: Point & Click 36%, Horror 24.1%, Adventure 15.1%, Mystery 11.3%, First-Person 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Corrosion, this is a classic first-person point-and-click horror game that relies heavily on atmosphere and environmental storytelling.

Somewhere deep within the woods of Cornwall, a timeless force is stirring. Unseen beneath the ancient burial mound, known locally as Barrow Hill, a forgotten myth awakens. Use archaeology to discover that the barrow is more than just a collection of forgotten standing stones.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.7%, Adventure 26.6%, Horror 21.9%, Indie 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the same investigative, first-person puzzle-solving DNA set in a remote, eerie location.

Embark on an eerie ghost-hunting adventure, featuring real evidence of paranormal activity, to solve the mystery of the Lost Crown. Be warned, to seek advice from the dead can have bitter consequences.

Why similar: Point & Click 31%, Adventure 25.7%, Horror 19.8%, Indie 13.2%, Mystery 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of supernatural mystery and point-and-click adventure mechanics in a moody, atmospheric setting.

Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?

Why similar: Mystery 36.1%, Horror 27%, First-Person 13.5%, Adventure 12.7%, Story Rich 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at the investigative aspect of horror, requiring players to piece together a dark mystery through exploration and document analysis.

This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember!

Why similar: Point & Click 39.9%, Horror 22.2%, Adventure 19.1%, Mystery 12.4%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same feeling of exploring a haunted, abandoned location through a classic point-and-click interface.

The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.

Why similar: Point & Click 32.9%, Mystery 19%, Adventure 13.4%, Horror 12.2%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strong narrative-driven point-and-click adventure that mirrors the dark, investigative tone of the seed game.

Sam is an addict who ends up in an institution named “Reaching Dreams”, hoping to kick his drug problem and sort out his miserable life. But during the first night, something goes horribly wrong and he gets stuck in an endless nightmare…

Why similar: Point & Click 36.2%, Horror 28.3%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 11.3%, First-Person 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This episodic horror adventure features the same point-and-click mechanics and psychological tension found in Corrosion.

Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

Why similar: Horror 49.8%, Adventure 17.9%, First-Person 17.3%, Indie 9%, Story Rich 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a more immersive, physics-based take on the first-person horror mystery genre that fans of Corrosion will appreciate.

ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.

Why similar: Adventure 31.9%, Horror 29.5%, Indie 21.3%, First-Person 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror experience that captures the feeling of being trapped in a facility with a dark, hidden past.

Explore a remote village and solve complex puzzles in The Whispering Valley, a folk horror point & click game. Delve into guilt and depression to investigate the village's deepest secret.

Why similar: Point & Click 28.5%, Horror 22.6%, Mystery 16.2%, First-Person 13.2%, Adventure 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a rich, atmospheric narrative experience that rewards players for exploring every corner of its mysterious setting.

Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.

Why similar: Horror 36.1%, Adventure 28%, First-Person 17.2%, Indie 12.9%, Story Rich 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This Lovecraftian horror game focuses on first-person exploration and puzzle-solving within a mysterious, isolated facility.

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: Horror 32.9%, Mystery 25.1%, First-Person 19.2%, Adventure 14.1%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a unique narrative-driven approach to horror that feels very similar to the investigative mystery found in Corrosion.

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: Horror 25.7%, Adventure 24.9%, Mystery 17.8%, Indie 16.7%, First-Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror adventure that focuses on exploration and survival in a dark, mysterious environment.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Mystery 34.5%, Horror 21.7%, First-Person 15.9%, Adventure 12.8%, Story Rich 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more modern, it shares the core focus on uncovering a dark, localized mystery through careful environmental observation.

Enter the twisted world of Forgotten Hill in a new third dimension

Why similar: Point & Click 32.2%, Adventure 20.4%, Horror 19.8%, Mystery 9.9%, First-Person 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal and unsettling point-and-click adventure that focuses on escape-room style puzzles and dark lore.

Immersed into dark and unexplored ancient woods in a search of the almost forgotten "Legend of the Ancients". But not everything goes as planned as the place keeps a never revealed horrifying secret. Hidden is a first person horror point n' click adventure game, with focus on story, puzzles and exploration.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.2%, Adventure 25.2%, Horror 24.5%, Indie 14%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward point-and-click adventure that focuses on uncovering secrets in a mysterious, isolated environment.

Join the all-night ghost vigil at Harwood House. As part of the 'OPG' paranormal team, explore the haunted buildings and investigate sightings of ghosts, long reported around the area of Wolfenden. Grab the ghost hunting gadgets and solve the mystery surrounding this abandoned building.

Why similar: Point & Click 28.1%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 17.8%, Horror 14.3%, Mystery 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual successor to the Dark Fall series that maintains the classic point-and-click horror experience.

Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

Why similar: Adventure 33.1%, First-Person 25.3%, Indie 18.8%, Horror 14.5%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes non-linear puzzle-solving and narrative discovery in a way that aligns with the investigative nature of Corrosion.

Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .

Why similar: Point & Click 22.5%, Horror 19.1%, Mystery 18.7%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines investigative mystery with psychological horror in a first-person perspective that fans of the genre will enjoy.

Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!

Why similar: Point & Click 31.2%, Horror 22.1%, Mystery 18.3%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title uses a unique visual style to deliver a deep, story-rich horror experience that feels like a classic adventure game.

Developed by Phantomery Interactive, 1953 – KGB Unleashed is a tense and atmospheric First Person Adventure set deep within the bowels of a Soviet bunker during the Cold War. Players must uncover the dark and horrifc secrets buried within, fighting their own paranoia along the way as well as the possibility of all-too-real terrors within...

Why similar: Point & Click 35.6%, Horror 21.7%, Adventure 17.7%, First-Person 13.5%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person, point-and-click horror game that uses a historical setting to build a tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.

How far would you go if your daughter didn’t come home? Someday You’ll Return: Director’s Cut is a first-person psychological horror. This story-driven game offers enhanced features, an improved story, and additional content. Enter the woods if you dare and begin a search you’ll never forget.

Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Mystery 28%, Adventure 14%, First-Person 12.5%, Story Rich 10%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strong emphasis on exploration, puzzle-solving, and uncovering a dark mystery in a remote, atmospheric location.

In Fear I Trust is a critically acclaimed first-person horror adventure. Explore eerie locations, solve puzzles and unravel the dark truth behind a secret soviet experiment in this story-driven psychological thriller.

Why similar: Point & Click 34.5%, Horror 31%, First-Person 15.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This psychological horror game uses a first-person perspective to tell a dark, episodic story filled with puzzles.

This is a horror adventure game where the player go back and forth in between the real world and the hallucination world. The purpose of this game is to search items and collect scattered documents while solving mysteries and finding out the truth of the abolished hospital.

Why similar: Point & Click 32.5%, Horror 25.3%, Adventure 22.6%, Mystery 15.3%, Story Rich 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: While it leans into hidden object mechanics, it shares the same dark, psychological horror themes as Corrosion.

Doorways is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 50.3%, Adventure 19.8%, First-Person 13.9%, Indie 12%, Story Rich 4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a more intense, first-person horror experience while maintaining the puzzle-solving elements of the genre.

Enter a house where every clue feels wrong. Investigate a brutal crime scene, uncover hidden evidence, and use your detective tools to piece together a disturbing truth buried beneath the silence.

Why similar: Horror 29%, Mystery 27.7%, First-Person 17.8%, Adventure 15.7%, Story Rich 9.8%

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: Horror 38.1%, Indie 31.7%, Adventure 30.2%

Why You'll Like It: A short, indie horror adventure that focuses on narrative and atmosphere in a first-person perspective.

Wooden Floor is a first person horror game full of visual trickery ... Not being able to predict what is going to happen next you need to make your way through the haunted house.

Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Mystery 29%, Horror 23.3%, Indie 18%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a surreal, atmospheric horror experience that relies on exploration and puzzle-solving.

The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.

Why similar: Horror 33.2%, Mystery 26.1%, Indie 12.5%, First-Person 11.7%, Adventure 8.6%

Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.

Why similar: Adventure 25.8%, Horror 23.3%, Indie 21%, Mystery 13.7%, First-Person 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, first-person adventure that focuses on atmosphere and exploration in a way that mirrors the seed game.

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: Horror 53.4%, Adventure 29.2%, Indie 11.4%, Story Rich 6%

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 59.2%, Indie 40.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a classic first-person horror experience centered on escaping a dangerous, mysterious location.

You wake up in a strange place, not knowing who you are, where you are, or how you got here. Trapped in an environment that twists to break your sanity, your only way out is to delve into the unknown and face the horrors of a past your mind is trying to hide.

Why similar: Horror 31.4%, First-Person 19.3%, Adventure 18.5%, Indie 15.4%, Mystery 12.9%

Abandoned and marked for demolition, but its infamous legacy refuses to be buried.

Why similar: Adventure 30.8%, Point & Click 30.4%, Horror 20.6%, Indie 18.2%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click horror game that emphasizes environmental storytelling and puzzle-solving in a confined space.

CoRoT is a first-person psychological meta-horror game. Search for cassettes in a transforming house, unraveling its macabre past. A sinister atmosphere surrounds you as you try to understand what's happening and where you really are. Can you discover the truth hidden in its walls?

Why similar: Horror 40.2%, First-Person 21.9%, Adventure 18.6%, Story Rich 10.1%, Indie 9.1%

The sequel to "Wooden Floor". Reveal the truth hiding in the dark, haunted mansion of Blackdust Field. A mysterious and horrific adventure game by Pheenix93.

Why similar: Adventure 40.5%, Mystery 32.9%, Indie 26.6%

Are you ready to investigate a mysterious occurrence at a remote lighthouse? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game.

Why similar: Point & Click 33.8%, Adventure 18.1%, Horror 17.7%, Indie 13.2%, Mystery 13.1%

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 42.8%, Adventure 29.9%, Indie 19.3%, First-Person 8%

Family curse is a mystical horror from the first person with a frightening atmosphere. Immerse yourself in the intricate history of the Crouse family and find out the terrible secret of the people who died in the cursed house.

Why similar: Horror 45.9%, First-Person 26.8%, Adventure 15.6%, Story Rich 11.7%

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: Horror 36.4%, Mystery 26.7%, Adventure 22.4%, First-Person 6.9%, Story Rich 5.9%

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: Horror 30.5%, Mystery 23.8%, First-Person 21.6%, Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 10.7%

What hides in the depths of the forest?!

Why similar: Horror 44%, Adventure 23.3%, First-Person 21.8%, Mystery 10.8%

Lethe is a first person adventure with survival horror elements. Explore an atmospheric and frightening world and uncover the dark secrets of your origins.

Why similar: Horror 32.3%, Adventure 30.3%, Indie 19.8%, First-Person 17.7%

Emergency Protocol activated: Dark Energy Particle Synthesis failed. Now you – late and alone – must navigate a facility where science and sanity have collapsed. Face entities born from the corruption of dark energy in this atmospheric FPS-horror hybrid, where human ambition meets primal terror.

Why similar: Horror 46.3%, First-Person 27.7%, Adventure 13.3%, Story Rich 12.7%

You’ve discovered evidence of a cosmic presence influencing humanity since its origins. Now something born in the depths of the cosmos is calling again. Investigate, uncover forbidden knowledge and survive a disturbing first person Lovecraftian horror adventure.

Why similar: Horror 35%, Mystery 26.6%, First-Person 15.1%, Adventure 13.1%, Story Rich 10.3%

Coma:Mortuary is the introduction part of a trilogy about events in the world of the dead. The game`s genre is Adventure-Ambient with Horror-quest element.

Why similar: Horror 54.3%, Adventure 22.4%, Indie 16.1%, First-Person 7.2%

A retro point-and-click horror adventure game that tests the boundries of the genre! In this "found-footage" horror game you have to navigate the rooms and hallways of the mysterious Narrow Woods Hotel. Collect keys and items and use them to find your way out.

Why similar: Point & Click 34.5%, Horror 23.9%, Mystery 15.8%, Adventure 14.3%, First-Person 11.5%

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 26.2%, Horror 24.4%, Indie 18.6%, Mystery 17.5%, First-Person 13.2%

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: Point & Click 51.3%, Mystery 30.8%, Adventure 17.9%

Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…

Why similar: Horror 36.6%, Mystery 26.5%, First-Person 15.6%, Adventure 12.4%, Story Rich 9%

Re-live a dark and haunting tale in this fixed camera puzzle-horror game RE-miniscent of the first generation of survival horror games.

Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Horror 33.5%, Indie 27.1%

Wake up inside an abandoned mansion. Uncover the dark fate of a missing family. Survive the presence that stalks you within these walls.

Why similar: Horror 47.2%, First-Person 27.3%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 12.6%

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: Horror 38.4%, Adventure 18%, Mystery 15.3%, Indie 11.8%, First-Person 11.5%

Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?

Why similar: Point & Click 36.8%, Horror 29.3%, Adventure 13%, Indie 10.6%, Story Rich 10.2%

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: Mystery 27.7%, Horror 26.1%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 11.4%, Story Rich 9.9%

Delve into the dream of a dying town in 'Boreal Tenebrae' , a retro-style adventure with horror elements.

Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Indie 26.1%, Point & Click 13%, Horror 10.4%, Mystery 8.8%

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 46.9%, First-Person 39%, Indie 14.1%

Explore and experience this horror story, as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.

Why similar: Horror 42%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 23.6%

You're a journalist searching for answers... but beneath the surface lies only terror. The labyrinth you’ve entered to find the missing may never let you leave.

Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Mystery 21.4%, First-Person 17.9%, Indie 13.6%, Adventure 12.4%

A slow-burn folk farming horror. You bought an isolated farm to start a new life. Your peaceful routine is shattered when the former owner's terrible secrets rise from beneath the ground.

Why similar: Horror 39.9%, Mystery 26.3%, First-Person 21.8%, Indie 6.2%, Adventure 5.8%