- #1 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,372 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.4 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 38.9%, Psychological Horror 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Surreal 7.1%, Adventure 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same deeply unsettling, surreal psychological horror tone and minimalist aesthetic.
- #2 I Did Not Buy This Ticket
96% matchVery Positive87% of 396 reviews2023
Dev: Tiago RechPub: Time Galleon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 29.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Captures a similar brand of bizarre, unsettling surrealism and bleak narrative choices.
- #3 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,405 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 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 29.8%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Surreal 12.4%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Continues the deeply psychological, surreal, and anxiety-inducing narrative style of its predecessor.
- #4 Who's Lila?
95% matchVery Positive94% of 3,836 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 23.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Point & Click 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Blends surreal storytelling with unconventional investigative mechanics and a chilling psychological atmosphere.
- #5 Isolomus
94% matchVery Positive95% of 442 reviews2020
Dev: Michael Rfdshir
Windows · Linux
Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!
Why similar: Surreal 34.8%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Dark Humor 17.3%, Point & Click 14.6%, Story Rich 4%
Why You'll Like It: A short, hand-drawn indie horror game rich in bizarre imagery and dark surrealism.
- #6 The Cat Lady
94% matchVery Positive94% of 6,305 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 30.4%, Psychological Horror 25.2%, Point & Click 24.5%, Story Rich 9.3%, Adventure 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similarly dark, mature, and surreal horror narrative exploring deep psychological trauma.
- #7 Paratopic
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,200 reviews2018
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 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%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Violent 8.7%, Indie 6.7%, Adventure 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a low-poly, highly atmospheric, and disjointed surreal horror experience.
- #8 Downfall
92% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2016
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.2%, Point & Click 21.5%, Gore 12.7%, Surreal 11.5%, Story Rich 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a twisted, grotesque point-and-click horror adventure full of psychological dread.
- #9 a pet shop after dark
91% matchVery Positive89% of 407 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 26.8%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Psychological Horror 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a mundane setting with deeply unsettling, dark psychological narrative beats.
- #10 Bad Dream: Coma
91% matchVery Positive91% of 2,223 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Surreal 22.8%, Gore 20%, Point & Click 17%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a stark artistic style and a surreal, dreamlike horror point-and-click structure.
- #11 The Hungry Fly
89% matchVery Positive92% of 128 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 35.2%, Gore 19.7%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Violent 10.5%, Story Rich 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, highly stylized surreal horror experience that mirrors the unsettling vibe of the seed game.
- #12 The Endless Empty
90% matchVery Positive97% of 320 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: Surreal 38%, Psychedelic 30.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Choices Matter 6.1%, Adventure 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Explores bleak, surreal psychological themes through a unique retro RPG lens.
- #13 This Is Not Your House
88% matchVery Positive86% of 283 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%, Psychedelic 21.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a deeply surreal interactive fiction experience steeped in dark psychological dread.
- #14 GAG
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Joshua Roland
Windows
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Surreal 22.4%, Psychedelic 18.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: An experimental, surreal indie title that leans heavily into psychological dread and weirdness.
- #15 Slender Threads
86% matchVery Positive91% of 633 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 27.3%, Point & Click 24.4%, Surreal 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Adventure 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines point-and-click adventure mechanics with a dark, eerie, and mysterious atmosphere.
- #16 GLITCH DADDY
86% matchVery Positive96% of 53 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 27.4%, Surreal 25.1%, Noir 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Multiple Endings 7%
Why You'll Like It: Embraces a psychedelic, surreal visual style matched with psychological horror elements.
- #17 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
87% matchVery Positive89% of 4,056 reviews2013
Dev: The Dreamers GuildPub: Nightdive Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 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 46.2%, Surreal 20.8%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Adventure 7.4%, Story Rich 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click adventure dealing with extreme psychological torment and dark surrealism.
- #18 Squirrel Stapler
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,377 reviews2023
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Hunt squirrels, staple them to a corpse, and meet god.
Why similar: Dark Humor 49.6%, Psychological Horror 32.3%, First-Person 10.8%, Action 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a uniquely absurd yet genuinely unnerving indie horror premise.
- #19 Anglerfish
85% matchVery Positive83% of 290 reviews2022
Dev: Professional Villains
Windows
The game only saves when you die. Every time you die, something changes. Every change is based on where and how you died. Go on an epic adventure only equipped with your trusted shotgun, your wit and your strong stomach for disturbing exploration. Can you survive a night at the bar, Anglerfish?
Why similar: Surreal 41.4%, Dark Humor 22.5%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Adventure 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: A horror adventure filled with dark humor, strange characters, and unsettling situations.
- #20 DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
84% matchVery Positive93% of 12,933 reviews2015
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Why similar: Indie 68.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Story Rich 3.1%, Gore 2.9%, Dark Humor 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror adventure that relies heavily on eerie atmosphere and surreal symbolism.
- #21 DISTRAINT 2
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,931 reviews2018
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Why similar: Surreal 26.8%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Psychedelic 18.1%, Point & Click 16.2%, Dark Humor 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Continues the dark psychological journey with enhanced surreal imagery and themes of despair.
- #22 Dinner with an Owl
82% matchVery Positive95% of 882 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 21%, Psychedelic 18.2%, Noir 14.8%, Time Travel 13.3% ★, Point & Click 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A short, bizarre point-and-click horror puzzle game with a distinctively strange tone.
- #23 Tear Factory
82% matchVery Positive91% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Daddysucc5000
Windows
A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed.
Why similar: Surreal 41.4%, Psychological Horror 27.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, First-Person 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Uses striking retro pixel graphics to deliver an obscure, unsettling horror atmosphere.
- #24 SIGNALIS
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,748 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 59%, Violent 29.8%, Adventure 6.4%, Action 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled sci-fi survival horror game dripping with surrealism and psychological dread.
- #25 Yume Nikki
79% matchVery Positive94% of 10,656 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Surreal 57.9%, Psychological Horror 31.6%, Indie 5.9%, Adventure 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential surreal dream exploration game filled with eerie, silent psychological horror.
- #26 BAD END
81% matchVery Positive83% of 398 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 29.4%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: An indie visual novel exploring dark themes with an atmospheric and foreboding tone.
- #27 Cube Escape Collection
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,028 reviews2020
Dev: Rusty Lake
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology you follow the path of Dale and Laura and other famous Rusty lake characters such as Mr. Crow and Mr. Owl. The series will be updated, preserved and bundled to survive the end of the Flash Games era.
Why similar: Point & Click 38.7%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Surreal 21.4%, Story Rich 6.6%, Indie 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: A compilation of surreal, puzzle-box point-and-click adventures filled with bizarre psychological imagery.
- #28 Where They Cremate The Roadkill
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 80 reviews2017
Dev: The Gunseed Collab
Windows
Death is a dream
Why similar: Surreal 62.3%, Violent 26.5%, Indie 6%, Action 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A violently surreal indie adventure that plunges the player into a bizarre, grotesque world.
- #29 The Count Lucanor
78% matchVery Positive93% of 3,004 reviews2016
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.
Why similar: Gore 35.1%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Dark Humor 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dark fairy tale adventure full of grim choices, puzzles, and a genuinely spooky atmosphere.
- #30 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
77% matchVery Positive92% of 74 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%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Dark Humor 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
- #31 Death Frame
76% matchVery Positive97% of 59 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 25.3%, Psychedelic 25.2%, Noir 17.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.4%
- #32 Death Drive
76% matchVery Positive97% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: LunaticMoon
Windows
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Dark Humor 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
- #33 Cat Named Mojave
75% matchVery Positive96% of 341 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%, Gore 25.5%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Dark Humor 15.3%, Story Rich 6%
- #34 FEED IT
75% matchVery Positive84% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: Games On A ChairPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac
A first-person, PSX-style horror game about living with a monster. Do as you're told... or don't. Just be ready for the consequences.
Why similar: Psychedelic 27.2%, Surreal 26.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Dark Humor 7.8%
- #35 and yet, we dream
74% matchVery Positive92% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: arda bolat
Windows · Mac · Linux
a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.3%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #36 5omeday
73% matchVery Positive88% of 326 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 20.9%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Gore 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8.6%
- #37 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 21.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Gore 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.6%
- #38 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
80% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation
Why similar: Point & Click 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven indie game focusing on grim moral choices and heavy atmosphere.
- #39 Butcher's Creek
72% matchVery Positive94% of 1,681 reviews2025
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.
Why similar: Surreal 31%, Gore 25.1%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Story Rich 5.1%
- #40 BAD END THEATER
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,071 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Gore 8.9%
- #41 Growing My Grandpa!
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 516 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 30.2%, Point & Click 29.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #42 SPOOKWARE
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 804 reviews2021
Dev: BEESWAX GAMESPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.4 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 42.1%, Point & Click 34.4%, Story Rich 11%, Indie 6.3%, Action 6.2%
- #43 Love Alone Death
71% matchVery Positive98% of 450 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 18.2%, Gore 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #44 Necrophosis
69% matchVery Positive90% of 909 reviews2025
Dev: Dragonis AresPub: Dragonis Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.8 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 48.4%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%, First-Person 4.9%
- #45 While We Wait Here
69% matchVery Positive89% of 2,471 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
- #46 Nightmare Zapping
70% 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 16.3%, Point & Click 14.1%, Violent 13.9%, Dark Humor 11.5%
- #47 Dissolution of My Self
67% matchVery Positive95% of 363 reviews2026
Dev: Pop Elephant Studio
Windows
A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him. In a cramped rented room abroad, click on objects and piece together a codependent relationship filled with brutality and endurance. Watch helplessness turn into violence, tenderness into torture.
Why similar: Surreal 19.4%, Noir 14.3%, Psychedelic 14%, Visual Novel 12%, Point & Click 10.9%
- #48 Death and Taxes
70% matchVery Positive86% of 8,579 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 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 23.7%, Multiple Endings 14%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
- #49 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
71% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Surreal 21.6%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Point & Click 19.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
- #50 Cute Things Dying Violently
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 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 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #51 Cyber Rats
67% matchVery Positive91% of 152 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 57.1%, Violent 29.1%, Action 7.2%, Indie 6.6%
- #52 The Repairing Mantis
70% matchVery Positive95% of 145 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 30.5%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Violent 10.2%, Gore 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #53 Endacopia
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 7,578 reviews2026
Dev: Andyland
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.
Why similar: Surreal 34.9%, Point & Click 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8%
- #54 Perfect Vermin
68% matchVery Positive93% of 3,885 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 21.7%, Gore 13.6%, First-Person 5.2%, Indie 4.8%
- #55 Circus of Pain
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 84 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 35.1%, Psychological Horror 33.3%, Violent 17.1%, Adventure 6.3%, Action 3.5%
- #56 CAMERAMAN NEVER DIES
69% matchMixed42% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Stefanobeck
Windows
An interactive horror-comedy adventure where you play as a cameraman trapped in a surreal nightmare. React to quick-time events, make life-or-death choices, and survive AI-generated terror in this cinematic FMV experience.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Violent 12.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Dark Humor 10.4%
- #57 For Sale
66% matchVery Positive97% of 270 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 51.6%, Multiple Endings 32.1%, Adventure 9.7%, Action 4.9%, Indie 1.7%
- #58 Psychopathy Assessment
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 146 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 37%, Violent 21.8%, Psychedelic 18.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Indie 4.5%
- #59 Found Horror Game 101.exe
71% matchMixed69% of 61 reviews2018
Dev: Yai Gameworks
Windows
You'll scream in pleasure... Choke with fear! Play through 101 sick, frightening and perverted games, released in an experimental episodic format Can the curious souls brave through the hidden depths of each game to reach the shocking conclusion? Maybe what's been lost was never meant to be found...
Why similar: Gore 26%, Psychedelic 15.7%, Surreal 14.5%, Violent 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
- #60 Happy Game
67% matchVery Positive90% of 3,640 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 37.4%, Surreal 23.9%, Gore 13.9%, Point & Click 10.5%, Violent 7.2%
