- #1 Who's Lila?
97% matchVery Positive95% of 3,610 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Surreal 24.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Point & Click 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same unsettling, surreal, and psychological-horror atmosphere while utilizing a unique, experimental interaction mechanic.
- #2 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,269 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.1%, Psychological Horror 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Surreal 7%, Adventure 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: A short, intense, and highly stylized psychological experience that captures the same surreal, uncomfortable vibe.
- #3 Mouthwashing
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,697 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Surreal 27.7%, Psychological Horror 26.8%, Gore 23%, Dark Humor 8.1%, Story Rich 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game delivers a deeply psychological and surreal narrative experience that mirrors the dark, dreamlike tone of the seed game.
- #4 Paratopic
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,120 reviews2018
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Surreal 59.1%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Violent 8.3%, Indie 6.9%, Adventure 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its lo-fi, fragmented, and surreal storytelling perfectly matches the dreamlike, unsettling nature of the seed game.
- #5 Isolomus
94% matchVery Positive95% of 407 reviews2020
Dev: Michael Rfdshir
Windows · Linux
Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!
Why similar: Surreal 34.8%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Dark Humor 17.5%, Point & Click 14.4%, Adventure 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A brief, highly surreal, and disturbing indie horror title that feels like a direct stylistic cousin to the seed game.
- #6 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,578 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Psychedelic 29.5%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Surreal 12.7%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: The direct continuation of the previous title, offering a deeper dive into the same surreal and psychologically taxing narrative style.
- #7 Cruelty Squad
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,524 reviews2021
Dev: Consumer Softproducts
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Why similar: Surreal 37.5%, Psychedelic 30.7%, Psychological Horror 16%, Dark Humor 11.4%, First-Person 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a jarring, psychedelic aesthetic and extreme, violent themes that resonate with the visceral nature of the seed game.
- #8 The Endless Empty
92% matchVery Positive96% of 305 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: Surreal 36.9%, Psychedelic 31.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Adventure 5.9%, Choices Matter 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: An experimental RPG that leans heavily into psychedelic visuals and surreal, existential themes.
- #9 Perfect Vermin
91% matchVery Positive93% of 3,830 reviews2020
Dev: Talia bob MairPub: ItsTheTalia
Windows
Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.
Why similar: Surreal 43.5%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Gore 13.3%, First-Person 5.1%, Indie 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal, and psychological horror experience that relies on atmosphere and subverting expectations.
- #10 Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
91% matchVery Positive95% of 9,194 reviews2019
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
Why similar: Gore 27.3%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Dark Humor 18.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, horror-filled point-and-click adventure that blends dark humor with a deeply unsettling corporate nightmare.
- #11 I Did Not Buy This Ticket
90% matchVery Positive87% of 374 reviews2023
Dev: Tiago RechPub: Time Galleon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Surreal 29.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal visual novel that captures the same eerie, atmospheric, and dreamlike quality of the seed game.
- #12 This Is Not Your House
89% matchVery Positive87% of 258 reviews2024
Dev: Cody Tierson (Trash Eyes)Pub: Trash Eyes
Windows
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Why similar: Surreal 24.2%, Psychedelic 20.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction horror game that uses surreal imagery and psychological tension to create a haunting experience.
- #13 Bad Dream: Coma
89% matchVery Positive91% of 2,208 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Surreal 23.1%, Gore 19.9%, Point & Click 17%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click horror adventure that emphasizes player choices and multiple endings within a dark, surreal world.
- #14 a pet shop after dark
88% matchVery Positive89% of 405 reviews2022
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Why similar: Point & Click 26.4%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction title that uses a dark, point-and-click interface to deliver a disturbing and mysterious narrative.
- #15 Dinner with an Owl
87% matchVery Positive95% of 860 reviews2021
Dev: BoringSuburbanDad
Windows
Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 20.8%, Psychedelic 17.8%, Noir 15.4%, Time Travel 12.9% ★, Point & Click 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, puzzle-heavy point-and-click game that maintains a consistent, unsettling, and mysterious tone throughout.
- #16 Hylics 2
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,455 reviews2020
Dev: Mason Lindroth
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.
Why similar: Surreal 51.3%, Psychedelic 40.1%, Adventure 3.4%, Psychological Horror 2.9%, Indie 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a distinct, claymation-inspired psychedelic aesthetic that creates a surreal world unlike any other.
- #17 Iron Lung
85% matchVery Positive92% of 10,709 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 49.5%, Surreal 25.5%, First-Person 9.2%, Indie 8.4%, Adventure 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A short, intense, and lo-fi horror experience that focuses on isolation and the terror of the unknown.
- #18 Lost in Vivo
86% matchVery Positive92% of 3,903 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Surreal 33%, Psychological Horror 30.3%, Gore 12%, Violent 10.3%, First-Person 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, surreal, and psychological horror game that masterfully builds dread through its oppressive atmosphere.
- #19 GLITCH DADDY
84% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Sad Mask Party
Windows
You have a strange dream where you meet a creature named Glitch Daddy, telling you that the world is ending very soon. Then, you wake up and go to unravel the truth through a wild, abstract psychedelic journey.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.4%, Surreal 24.7%, Noir 16.5%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic, surreal action-adventure that focuses on atmospheric, glitch-heavy visuals.
- #20 Slender Threads
83% matchVery Positive91% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Blyts
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Why similar: Gore 27.7%, Point & Click 23.8%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14%, Adventure 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that blends gore, psychological horror, and a rich, dark story.
- #21 Squirrel Stapler
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,257 reviews2023
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.
Why similar: Dark Humor 49.7%, Psychological Horror 32.3%, First-Person 10.6%, Action 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A short horror game that uses dark humor and strange, nature-based themes to create an unforgettable experience.
- #22 The Cat Lady
84% matchVery Positive94% of 6,142 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Surreal 30.6%, Psychological Horror 25.6%, Point & Click 24.1%, Story Rich 8.8%, Adventure 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, mature, and psychological horror adventure that explores heavy themes through a unique, grim visual style.
- #23 The Repairing Mantis
82% matchVery Positive96% of 142 reviews2021
Dev: Erupting Avocado
Windows
The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.
Why similar: Surreal 30.9%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Violent 9.8%, Gore 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, surreal exploration game that focuses on unsettling imagery and a unique, dark narrative.
- #24 Dread Delusion
78% matchVery Positive90% of 5,040 reviews2024
Dev: Lovely HellplacePub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.
Why similar: Story Rich 36.5%, First-Person 33.7%, Adventure 29.8%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, retro-styled RPG that offers a dark, imaginative world filled with bizarre lore and unsettling encounters.
- #25 Tear Factory
81% matchVery Positive90% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: Daddysucc5000
Windows
A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed.
Why similar: Surreal 41.1%, Psychological Horror 28%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, First-Person 5%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled horror game that uses pixel art to create a bleak and unsettling atmosphere.
- #26 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
81% matchVery Positive89% of 3,744 reviews2013
Dev: The Dreamers GuildPub: Nightdive Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!
Why similar: Point & Click 46.1%, Surreal 21%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Adventure 7.6%, Story Rich 5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click horror game that deals with extreme psychological themes and disturbing, surreal scenarios.
- #27 Psychopathy Assessment
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Psychopathy Assessment is a retro-80s V.H.S PS1 style analog horror game that blurs the line between reality and delusion. Step into a universe where you're not just playing a game; you're taking a psychopathy test, but the stakes are considerably higher than a straightforward diagnosis.
Why similar: Gore 36.9%, Violent 21.1%, Psychedelic 18.7%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Indie 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-style indie game that leans into gore and violent themes to create a disturbing, clinical atmosphere.
- #28 BAD END
80% matchVery Positive84% of 395 reviews2015
Dev: Arai Koh Create OfficePub: YOX-Project
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.2%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that explores horror and dark themes with a distinct, anime-inspired aesthetic.
- #29 Anglerfish
78% matchVery Positive83% of 283 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: Surreal 41.5%, Dark Humor 22.6%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Adventure 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: A horror-adventure game that mixes dark humor with escape-room mechanics in a surreal, exploration-heavy setting.
- #30 The Hungry Fly
76% matchVery Positive92% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: Erupting AvocadoPub: indie.io
Windows
Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.
Why similar: Surreal 35.6%, Gore 19.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Violent 10.1%, Story Rich 5.1%
- #31 Death Frame
75% matchVery Positive97% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: EpiXR Games UG
Windows
Explore a haunted mansion, uncover a killers madness, and enter surreal paintings to relive the twisted mind of a killer. Danger and mystery are lurking behind the screaming walls of this fascinating and frightening horror adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 25.2%, Psychedelic 24.5%, Noir 18.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%
- #32 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
76% matchVery Positive93% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Surreal 24.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dark Humor 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
- #33 Death Drive
74% matchVery Positive97% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: LunaticMoon
Windows
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #34 Where They Cremate The Roadkill
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 80 reviews2017
Dev: The Gunseed Collab
Windows
Death is a dream
Why similar: Surreal 63%, Violent 25.4%, Indie 6.2%, Action 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: An indie RPG that embraces surrealism and violence to create a uniquely disturbing world.
- #35 Cat Named Mojave
73% matchVery Positive95% of 288 reviews2025
Dev: Stargazers Studios
Windows
Stranded in the desert, your only hope of escaping rests in a strange Catman. His one request: hunt down surreal creatures, skin them, and chop them up so he can keep them as trophies.
Why similar: Surreal 29.1%, Gore 25%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #36 Butcher's Creek
73% matchVery Positive95% of 1,566 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: Surreal 31.3%, Gore 24.4%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Story Rich 4.9%
- #37 GAG
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Joshua Roland
Windows
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Surreal 22.4%, Psychedelic 17.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%
- #38 5omeday
73% matchVery Positive91% of 257 reviews2026
Dev: Indigo IngotsPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
You have been assigned to guard a dragon girl set to be executed at the end of 5 days and have the ability to kill her instantly at any time with the push of a button in this multi-ending visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Psychological Horror 18%, Gore 13%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #39 Do Animals Dream?
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 89 reviews2021
Dev: Black Vein Productions
Windows · Mac
You’re shipwrecked on a mysterious island of talking animals! You’ll need to make friends with the local critters if you hope to return home. This adventure includes branching conversations, memorable endings, and dark secrets...
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Gore 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%
- #40 Necrophosis
72% matchVery Positive91% of 791 reviews2025
Dev: Dragonis AresPub: Dragonis Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.
Why similar: Surreal 48.6%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%, First-Person 4.8%
- #41 SPOOKWARE
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 794 reviews2021
Dev: BEESWAX GAMESPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Play through loads of hand-crafted fast-paced microgames based on horror tropes, explore the world of the afterlife and help the skelebros live their death to the fullest.
Why similar: Dark Humor 42.7%, Point & Click 34.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Indie 6.5%, Action 6.3%
- #42 For Sale
70% matchVery Positive97% of 259 reviews2025
Dev: Collarpill
Windows · Linux
The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 52.4%, Multiple Endings 31.2%, Adventure 9.8%, Action 5%, Indie 1.7%
- #43 Death and Taxes
72% matchVery Positive86% of 8,276 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Point & Click 23.4%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
- #44 Cyber Rats
69% matchVery Positive92% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: Outpost Games
Windows
Cute rats in deadly mazes... Cyber Rats is a dark and brutal action game. Escape sadistic horrifying death mazes, Improve your rats with upgrades, and find your way out of this sinister facility.
Why similar: Gore 57.3%, Violent 28.3%, Action 7.4%, Indie 7%
- #45 Love Alone Death
70% matchVery Positive99% of 418 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: Psychedelic 23.3%, Point & Click 18.4%, Gore 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #46 Nightmare Zapping
71% 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: Visual Novel 24.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Point & Click 14.1%, Violent 13.3%, Dark Humor 11.7%
- #47 Growing My Grandpa!
70% matchVery Positive99% of 478 reviews2022
Dev: Yames' Games
Windows
Growing My Grandpa! is a Cronenberg-inspired point-and-click adventure game with virtual pet elements that puts a heavy emphasis on exploration and lore.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.8%, Point & Click 29.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #48 While We Wait Here
68% matchVery Positive89% of 2,307 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Choices Matter 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
- #49 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
71% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Surreal 21.6%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Point & Click 18.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #50 Mango
71% matchVery Positive91% of 128 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Mask PartyPub: NILWARE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
Why similar: Surreal 31.3%, Psychedelic 28.6%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Story Rich 4%
- #51 Cute Things Dying Violently
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: ApathyWorks, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Flick hapless Critters around to get them safely out of each level! Dodge all sorts of lethal goodies like spikes, buzzsaws, and fire, and use a variety of wacky items to pull it off.
Why similar: Dark Humor 73.2%, Indie 26.8%
- #52 Lost Diskettes Vol.1
69% matchVery Positive90% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Puko
Windows
This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22%, Surreal 21.7%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #53 The Salesman
67% matchVery Positive83% of 715 reviews2025
Dev: Backstab IndustriesPub: Bad Ideas Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
In the Salesman, you play as a recently laid-off employee trying to survive the grind of job applications, debt, and dwindling hope. Trade your belongings for ad-supported replacements as you slowly sell away your life in this psychological horror game
Why similar: Psychological Horror 54.3%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Story Rich 8.8%, Indie 6%
- #54 Circus of Pain
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: ZV GAMES
Windows
Immerse yourself in the terrifying world of Circus of Pain, where you become the main participant in a deadly circus show. Solve dangerous puzzles to survive.
Why similar: Gore 34.6%, Psychological Horror 34.2%, Violent 16.3%, Adventure 6.4%, Action 3.6%
- #55 Happy Game
67% matchVery Positive90% of 3,482 reviews2021
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Why similar: Psychedelic 37%, Surreal 24.8%, Gore 13.7%, Point & Click 10.4%, Violent 6.8%
- #56 Burnhouse Lane
67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,087 reviews2022
Dev: Harvester Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Burnhouse Lane tells a story of Angie Weather, a one foot in the grave agency nurse attempting to complete five impossible tasks in order to win her life back. Solve puzzles, make friends and enemies, run, hide and fight in this dark adventure that'll take you on a trip to another world and back...
Why similar: Psychedelic 32.7%, Surreal 17.7%, Dark Humor 14%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #57 Purrgatory
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 4,957 reviews2021
Dev: Niv
Windows
A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35%, Point & Click 30.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #58 Dead Reset
65% matchVery Positive88% of 715 reviews2025
Dev: Dark Rift HorrorPub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Violent 16.2%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Point & Click 12.2%
- #59 Gore In Crayon
65% matchVery Positive97% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Leigh CarrPub: Carrthulhu
Windows
A short pixel psychological survival horror and gruelling story told with no words.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, Dark Humor 26.4%, Gore 21.4%, Violent 10%, Adventure 6.8%
- #60 Loop//Error
66% matchVery Positive88% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
Windows
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Surreal 24.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%, Point & Click 8.7%
