Games Like Cry of Fear

Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

Why similar: Horror 30.3%, Psychological Horror 25%, Survival Horror 24%, Psychological 11.6%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a landmark psychological horror journey about trauma and delusion, with oppressive exploration and grotesque monsters that strongly echo Cry of Fear's emotional tone.

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: Horror 27.6%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Psychological 10.7%, FPS 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its lo-fi first-person presentation, underground urban dread, scarce supplies, and intensely personal psychological horror make it one of the closest modern counterparts to Cry of Fear.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Why similar: Horror 55%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, First-Person 4.5%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: While it removes combat, its vulnerable first-person exploration, sanity-driven terror, and psychologically fractured narrative are fundamental Cry of Fear strengths.

Assume the role of Special Forces Sgt. Becket as your routine mission quickly turns into a fight for survival against the wrath of Alma Wade. As Alma's terrifying power surges out of control, your squad is forced to battle through an apocalyptic landscape in search of clues for how to destroy her!

Why similar: Horror 51.3%, FPS 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines frantic first-person shooting with supernatural hallucinations, oppressive environments, and a paranormal story centered on psychological terror.

Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.

Why similar: Horror 47%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Survival Horror 14.3%, First-Person 6.2%, Atmospheric 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its isolated first-person exploration, environmental puzzles, stealthy survival, and unnerving story of mental and physical deterioration make it an excellent fit.

Fort Oasis is no paradise—it's a decaying nightmare where reality crumbles. The creator of Turbo Overkill unleashes survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge to craft weapons, while a voice on your walkie-talkie guides you into the island's depths.

Why similar: Horror 34.4%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Psychological 14.2%, FPS 9.7%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This claustrophobic survival-horror FPS emphasizes improvised weapons, limited resources, hostile exploration, and a surreal descent into an abandoned nightmare.

Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

Why similar: Horror 54.9%, FPS 16.2%, Psychological Horror 8%, Shooter 4.5%, Atmospheric 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: The original's tense FPS combat, unsettling visions, abandoned interiors, and paranormal threats offer a more action-heavy version of Cry of Fear's hallucinatory horror.

Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.

Why similar: Horror 39.2%, Survival Horror 25%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Zombies 5.7%, Atmospheric 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its shifting nightmare spaces, limited ammunition, grotesque enemies, and increasingly disorienting psychological plot capture Cry of Fear's desperate survival feel.

A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.

Why similar: Horror 37.8%, Survival Horror 26.4%, Zombies 10.9%, FPS 9.8%, First-Person 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its retro first-person survival-horror design centers on navigating dangerous spaces, conserving ammo, solving puzzles, and fighting through undead-infested environments.

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

Why similar: Horror 49.7%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Multiplayer 6.1%, First-Person 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a relentless first-person escape through a decaying institution, using helplessness, disturbing imagery, and a conspiracy-driven psychological horror story.

In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.

Why similar: Horror 44.4%, Psychological Horror 25.7%, FPS 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.9%, First-Person 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person psychological horror game explores mental illness through surreal levels, puzzles, combat, and a story that treats its protagonist's fears as personal nightmares.

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

Why similar: Horror 45%, Psychological Horror 22%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%, First-Person 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its slow-burn exploration of a haunted home is exceptionally oppressive and psychologically disturbing, especially for players who value Cry of Fear's bleak mood over combat.

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Horror 21.8%, Zombies 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Co-op 11.8%, Survival Horror 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: For Cry of Fear's co-op side, this free survival-horror FPS offers tense teamwork, limited supplies, bleak environments, and dangerous zombie encounters.

Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.

Why similar: Horror 46.2%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Psychological 8.5%, First-Person 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This short psychological horror story turns an ordinary home into an increasingly unsafe space, capturing the intimate, grounded unease behind Cry of Fear's scares.

Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Survival Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Zombies 7.1%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person combat, inventory pressure, grotesque enemies, isolated setting, and deeply unpleasant family nightmare provide polished survival horror with real teeth.

"I need a Heart in order to open it"

Why similar: Horror 42.1%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Survival Horror 17.3%, First-Person 5.2%, Atmospheric 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This meta-horror classic uses deliberately primitive visuals, unstable reality, and direct psychological manipulation to create dread far beyond its simple presentation.

For some time now, Leafmore High School has been the setting for unexplained disappearances. In this survival horror game, you take control of a group of 5 American students. With your friends, you try to unravel the mysterious happenings at this unremarkable-looking school. The night will be long and survival not will not be easy...

Why similar: Horror 44.2%, Survival Horror 28.8%, Co-op 13.2%, Multiplayer 2.9%, Survival 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This school-set survival horror game mixes puzzles, weapons, monster encounters, and co-op support in a tense campaign built around vulnerable young protagonists.

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Horror 34.2%, Survival Horror 25.4%, Psychological Horror 20%, Survival 7.2%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though viewed from above, it offers similarly unforgiving survival, scarce resources, deeply unsettling sound design, and a nightmarish psychological atmosphere.

Multiplayer survival horror game based on stories from the SCP Foundation. The game is about a facility containing anomalous entities known as SCPs. When a catastrophic containment breach occurs at one of the facilities, it is your main goal to escape the facility. Try to escape with your friends!

Why similar: Horror 32.2%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Co-op 11%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op containment-facility escapes emphasize unpredictable monsters, dark corridors, panic, and emergent teamwork in a distinctly oppressive first-person setting.

A 3rd person, fixed-camera survival horror adventure. Fear the Presence, a mysterious entity you cannot fight: stay alert, hide, breathe slowly... Explore cursed places where unseen spirits and lost souls linger in a true horror story for the ages.

Why similar: Horror 29.9%, Survival Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 19%, Psychological 15.7%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its fixed-camera survival-horror structure, exploration-heavy pacing, and an adaptive supernatural entity reward careful navigation through haunted locations.

Sign of Silence is a 4-player cooperative horror game set in dreadful outskirts of Danwille town. Whether you will escape the place or stay here forever depends on cautious and coordinated actions of the whole team!

Why similar: Horror 36.7%, Co-op 20.2%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Psychological Horror 8%, Survival Horror 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op horror game sends players into a cursed forest full of lethal creatures, emphasizing navigation, communication, and desperate escape.

Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.

Why similar: Horror 49.6%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Multiplayer 9.4%, First-Person 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person exploration, stealth, puzzle-solving, and supernatural threats create a focused ghost-story nightmare with a similarly oppressive sense of pursuit.

F.E.A.R. 3 delivers all the hallmarks that define the F.E.A.R. brand: terrifying paranormal experience, frenetic combat and a dramatic storyline.

Why similar: Horror 37.5%, Co-op 20.7%, FPS 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Online Co-Op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign blends supernatural horror and fast FPS action while adding dedicated co-op play for those who enjoyed Cry of Fear's multiplayer mode.

Explore a decadent hotel across different timelines and uncover the dark history of a fanatical cult and your role in their plans.

Why similar: Survival Horror 36.3%, Horror 31.8%, First-Person 7.4%, Shooter 6.9%, Atmospheric 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This modern first-person survival-horror game combines puzzles, firearms, inventory management, and a bizarre conspiracy inside a decaying hotel.

DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.

Why similar: Horror 67.9%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Psychological Horror 5.7%, Adventure 2.2%, Survival 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: It follows a young protagonist trapped in a hostile supernatural world, mixing exploration, puzzle-solving, and ghost encounters with a strong Asian horror identity.

Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.

Why similar: Horror 49.9%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 10%, Multiplayer 8%, First-Person 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person pursuit horror, dark exploration, and escalating sense of helplessness make it a solid atmospheric choice despite its lighter combat focus.

GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its punishing co-op FPS missions require stealth, resource management, coordination, and sudden violent encounters against horrific creatures in pitch-black facilities.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Horror 45.7%, Survival Horror 22.4%, Survival 14.9%, First-Person 5.1%, Zombies 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines first-person survival, unsettling cave exploration, mutant enemies, and optional co-op, giving groups a longer-form version of Cry of Fear's vulnerable horror.

A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.

Why similar: Horror 46.4%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Psychological 22.5%, Action 6.6%, Indie 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its mundane late-night setting gradually becomes a paranoid stalking nightmare, making it a strong choice for Cry of Fear fans drawn to realistic urban unease.

An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

Why similar: Horror 38.8%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Co-op 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%

Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

Why similar: Horror 28.5%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Co-op 12.4%, Psychological Horror 6.3%

Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...

Why similar: Horror 54.3%, Survival Horror 10%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Psychological Horror 5.6%, Co-op 4.9%

Dive into the zombie apocalypse with Zombie Panic! Source: a cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter. A fast-paced standalone modification.

Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Mod 13.6% ★, Zombies 13.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Co-op 9.7%

Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?

Why similar: Horror 38.9%, Co-op 22.7%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%

Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

Why similar: Horror 25.9%, Survival Horror 21.8%, Co-op 13.7%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?

Why similar: Horror 56.2%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Psychological Horror 6.2%, Co-op 3%

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

Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, FPS 5.7%

Codename CURE is a first person, co-operative zombie game with support for up to five players, providing dynamic, fast-paced zombie fragging with both objective, and survival-based missions.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.3%, Mod 15.3% ★, Co-op 14.3%, Zombies 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%

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

Why similar: Horror 49.4%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, First-Person 5.6%, Atmospheric 4.2%

Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.

Why similar: Horror 45.8%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Co-op 12.6%, Survival Horror 4.7%

It's 2009. A 20-year-old Nikolas Rendl wakes up on a bench near a bus stop in an unfamiliar city, without any previous knowledge of what happened. Nikolas has to wander around the cold streets of the city and defend himself from scorched monsters with only one goal: Find answers to all of this.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Survival Horror 26.6%, Horror 24.8%, Action 4%, First-Person 3.6%

Silent Rain is a challenging and immersive co-op horror game, for 1 to 4 players. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, and gather information while trying to survive the threats lurking in the dark. How many tries will it take you to master your fear?

Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Co-op 12%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Losing his parents during the holocaust to a mad man of a doctor. You're to play as Grobuskna Vladinov, 20 years after the incident that changed his life dramatically. Grobuskna receives an unknown phone call that'll start a journey that'll twist your mind...

Why similar: Horror 35.6%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Mod 12.9% ★, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Zombies 6.4%

Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

Why similar: Zombies 21.8%, Co-op 18.5%, Horror 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.8%, FPS 8%

A multiplayer horror where you escape a laboratory at the cost of others.

Why similar: Horror 25.1%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Co-op 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Welcome to Dustown is a single-player or cooperative horror game for up to 4 players. Play as field scientists exploring vast labyrinthine cornfields, collecting samples and evidence for a mysterious corporation. Make sure you don't get killed at the crossroads.

Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Co-op 11.9%, Multiplayer 10%

A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Why similar: Horror 78.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Multiplayer 2.9%, Atmospheric 2.2%, First-Person 1.9%

Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...

Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Co-op 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.

Why similar: Horror 47%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, First-Person 4.6%

Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Co-op 9.7%

Sven Co-op is a co-operative game originally based around Valve Software's Half-Life. In this game players must work together against computer controlled enemies and solve puzzles as a team.

Why similar: Co-op 28.3%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, FPS 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Shooter 8.9%

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

Why similar: Horror 45.4%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, First-Person 4.3%

CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...

Why similar: Horror 33.9%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Co-op 8.1%, First-Person 7.1%

Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?

Why similar: Horror 31.1%, Co-op 23%, Multiplayer 15%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Online Co-Op 8%

Forest Escape: Last Train is a co-op surreal horror game for 1–4 players. Explore bizarre nightmare locations, gather resources, solve the insane Warden's twisted puzzles, and keep your locomotive running as you fight to escape his unhinged world.

Why similar: Horror 25.2%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Co-op 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.4%

6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!

Why similar: Horror 21.3%, Co-op 18.9%, Zombies 12.9%, FPS 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%