- #1 Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered
97% matchVery Positive93% of 16,883 reviews2022
Dev: Basically GamesPub: Basically Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Escape Baldi's schoolhouse again in this new remastered version of Baldi's Basics Classic! Use stealth and strategy to collect all 7 notebooks and win! Featuring three games in one, gameplay improvements, a more authentic art style, accessibility improvements, and brand new ways to play!
Why similar: Parody 20.9% ★, Survival Horror 10.3%, Horror 9.6%, 1990's 9%, Surreal 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is the primary inspiration for the seed game, offering the same core loop of educational tasks mixed with intense, high-speed stealth gameplay.
- #2 Baldi's Basics Plus
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,213 reviews2020
Dev: Basically GamesPub: Basically Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Baldi's Basics® Plus is an active stealth roguelike that parodies cheap '90s edutainment with a subtle horror twist! Play Hide & Seek with Baldi as he chases you through procedurally generated levels while using your surroundings, items, and game knowledge to shift chaos in your favor.
Why similar: Parody 22.7% ★, 1990's 11.7%, Horror 8.5%, Retro 7.8%, Surreal 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: The expanded, roguelike version of the original inspiration, providing more procedural chaos and variety in its school-themed environments.
- #3 Kindergarten
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,404 reviews2017
Dev: Con Man GamesPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 54.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.
Why similar: Funny 38.8%, Pixel Graphics 24.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Horror 11.1%, Indie 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the dark, subversive humor of a school setting while focusing on puzzle-solving and exploration within a confined environment.
- #4 Garten of Banban
95% matchMixed53% of 12,718 reviews2023
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, Survival Horror 18.4%, Surreal 17.5%, Horror 14.5%, First-Person 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential mascot horror experience that mirrors the colorful, school-like setting and exploration-heavy gameplay of the seed game.
- #5 Amanda the Adventurer
94% matchVery Positive94% of 7,191 reviews2023
Dev: MANGLEDmaw GamesPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Join Amanda and her pal Wooly on a series of adventures as they explore and learn about our wonderful world! With several NEW play-along, laugh-along, learn-along episodes there's always fun to be had! Just make sure to do everything Amanda says or she might get angry.
Why similar: Old School 25.3%, 1990's 24.8%, Horror 19.3%, First-Person 12.6%, Colorful 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar 'corrupted educational media' theme that blends innocent aesthetics with unsettling, dark secrets.
- #6 Broken Reality
94% matchVery Positive93% of 2,248 reviews2018
Dev: Dynamic Media TriadPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A humorous adventure set in a 3D parody of the internet. Diverse puzzles, beautiful worlds, friends, experiences, upgrades and more, await those who 'log on'!
Why similar: Surreal 24.4%, Walking Simulator 24.2%, Retro 12.7%, 1990's 12.1%, Colorful 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deeply surreal, retro-inspired world that mirrors the psychedelic art style and exploration-focused gameplay of the seed game.
- #7 My Friendly Neighborhood
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,387 reviews2023
Dev: John SzymanskiPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25%, Horror 16.4%, Funny 15.4%, First-Person 13.2%, Exploration 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a colorful, puppet-based aesthetic with chaotic survival-horror mechanics that feel right at home with the seed game's vibe.
- #8 The Classrooms
92% matchVery Positive89% of 3,121 reviews2022
Dev: Xefier Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.
Why similar: 1990's 22.2%, Surreal 19.6%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Horror 11.4%, First-Person 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A liminal space horror game that perfectly matches the 'trapped in a school' atmosphere with procedural generation and surreal exploration.
- #9 Alisa
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,539 reviews2021
Dev: Casper Croes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Alisa is a Horror-themed Action Adventure game and a genuine throwback to the golden age of 90s 3D games.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.4%, Old School 19%, 1990's 18.8%, Retro 11.6%, Horror 9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a retro, 90s-style survival horror experience with colorful, stylized graphics and challenging exploration.
- #10 Back in 1995
91% matchMixed66% of 143 reviews2016
Dev: Throw the warped code outPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac
A throwback to the survival horror and mystery games of the original Playstation, Back in 1995 faithfully re-creates everything from this forgotten era of games.
Why similar: Surreal 14.3%, 1990's 12.7%, Old School 11.1%, Horror 10.1%, Survival Horror 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A love letter to 90s survival horror that nails the retro, low-poly look and feel found in the seed game.
- #11 The Fridge is Red
91% matchMixed56% of 231 reviews2022
Dev: 5WORD TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
What is inside the Red Fridge? Collection of six episodes of psychological analog horror. Tour through liminal spaces filled with surreal events and uncanny strangers. Inspired by retro horrors of the PSX era.
Why similar: 1990's 16.6%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Surreal 15.4%, Horror 11.3%, Retro 11%
Why You'll Like It: A collection of surreal, retro-styled horror vignettes that share the same unsettling, low-poly aesthetic and dreamlike logic.
- #12 Hello Neighbor
89% matchVery Positive86% of 31,268 reviews2017
Dev: Dynamic PixelsPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
Why similar: Horror 17.6%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Surreal 16.1%, Family Friendly 10.9%, Funny 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same core loop of stealth, exploration, and outsmarting an AI-driven antagonist in a confined, house-like setting.
- #13 Paradox Vector
89% matchVery Positive84% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Schmidt Workshops
Windows
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.
Why similar: Old School 26.5%, Retro 24%, First-Person 14%, Exploration 13.6%, 3D 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines retro, low-poly visuals with first-person exploration and surreal, non-Euclidean geometry.
- #14 Midnight Shift
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 62 reviews2023
Dev: Shatter Glass games
Windows
A 90's horror inspired first-person game about working the midnight shift at a gas station.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.4%, Old School 13.6%, 1990's 13.4%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Horror 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person, walking-simulator-style horror game that focuses on atmosphere and exploration in a confined, eerie location.
- #15 Harold's Walk
86% matchVery Positive98% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Luke Vincent
Windows · Linux
Harold's Walk on Steam is a remaster of the original Harold's Walk game that debuted on the Nintendo 3ds in 2020. Odd and unusual spaces comprise most of your journey as you venture through this surreal collectathon.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, 1990's 15%, Arcade 12.8%, Colorful 8.4%, Old School 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game that blends simple, arcade-like movement with exploration in a stylized, colorful world.
- #16 God Damn The Garden
87% matchVery Positive83% of 78 reviews2021
Dev: Agelvik
Windows
The FPS Adventure where you're challenged to explore God Damn's World, and ultimately become the successor of Badass Heaven.
Why similar: Old School 21.1%, 1990's 16%, Retro 12.2%, Horror 11.8%, First-Person 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, chaotic, and retro-styled shooter that shares the intense, arcade-like energy of the seed game.
- #17 Granny
86% matchVery Positive94% of 10,657 reviews2018
Dev: DVloper
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 31.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You have to escape Granny`s house...You have five days...
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.6%, Horror 29.1%, First-Person 15.7%, Strategy 5.6%, Funny 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic stealth-horror game that emphasizes the tension of being chased through a building, similar to the core loop of the seed game.
- #18 Murder House
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,323 reviews2020
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Why similar: Old School 28.8%, Survival Horror 23.6%, Horror 20.8%, Retro 17.1%, 3D 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the authentic PS1-era horror aesthetic with a focus on exploration and survival against a persistent threat.
- #19 Five Nights at Roner's: Remastered
84% matchVery Positive97% of 462 reviews2024
Dev: Roane VaydichPub: RedShift Interactive
Windows
You are an ambitious paranormal investigator searching for his big break. When you're presented the opportunity of a lifetime--$25.99, to be exact, you jump at the offer. But everything comes with a catch, and Roner and his friends are keen to teach you that...
Why similar: Strategy 44.3%, Horror 34.6%, Action 17.2%, Singleplayer 4%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-based horror game that uses point-and-click mechanics to manage threats, similar to the seed game's core gameplay loop.
- #20 Funny Park Reawakening
84% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: RightarDevPub: Ginichi
Windows
Dive into this terrifying adventure as you solve challenging puzzles that will put your skills to the test. Equip your charge crossbow and activate the colored buttons in time. Run and use your wits to survive Funnybear, who will be stalking you in every corner of the park.
Why similar: Exploration 20%, Horror 17.2%, 1990's 15.3%, First-Person 14.6%, 3D 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and puzzle-solving within a colorful, slightly off-putting environment that mimics the seed game's aesthetic.
- #21 Superliminal
82% matchVery Positive95% of 33,523 reviews2020
Dev: Pillow Castle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Why similar: Surreal 33.4%, First-Person 18%, Funny 13.5%, Exploration 10.7%, Horror 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal puzzle game that plays with perspective and environment, mirroring the 'weird' and 'off-putting' nature of the seed game's world.
- #22 The OG Cake Factory
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Glaseeze
Windows
You've woken up in this magnificent cake factory, but soon realize that a crazy chef is after you… Get ready to bake cakes in this stressful First-person Horror game!
Why similar: Old School 25.8%, 1990's 15.4%, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 14.4%, First-Person 10%
Why You'll Like It: A difficult, old-school horror game that emphasizes puzzle-solving and survival in a strange, industrial setting.
- #23 Buckshot Roulette
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 121,665 reviews2024
Dev: Mike KlubnikaPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Why similar: Horror 23.8%, First-Person 20%, Strategy 18%, Surreal 11.7%, 3D 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes, intense, and short-form experience that captures the same 'chaotic and stressful' energy as the seed game.
- #24 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
81% matchVery Positive94% of 35,341 reviews2022
Dev: Crows Crows Crows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.3%, First-Person 15.6%, Funny 14.3%, Exploration 10.1%, 3D 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative walking simulator that excels in subverting player expectations, much like the seed game's parody elements.
- #25 Content Warning
78% matchVery Positive94% of 160,914 reviews2024
Dev: ZorroPub: Evil Landfall?
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)
Why similar: Horror 26.2%, Funny 17.9%, Exploration 17.5%, Survival Horror 16.5%, First-Person 15.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on chaotic, exploration-based gameplay in a surreal environment, emphasizing the fun of recording and surviving dangerous encounters.
- #26 Lethal Company
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 509,512 reviews2023
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Why similar: Horror 26.6%, Survival Horror 26.4%, First-Person 16.2%, Funny 15.2%, Exploration 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features high-intensity exploration and scavenging in surreal, dangerous facilities that feel like a more multiplayer-focused version of the seed game's tension.
- #27 A Liminal Place Remastered
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 108 reviews2024
Dev: Mirage Entertainment
Windows
A Liminal Place RMSTER is a solitary game, and relaxing on some levels. ALPR Uses Body-Cam, Analog Horror and Found Footage style. Including realistic Liminal Spaces, and "Backrooms" levels.
Why similar: Exploration 28.3%, First-Person 24.2%, 1990's 22.9%, 3D 16.7%, Indie 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the exploration of empty, unsettling spaces, which is a key component of the seed game's atmosphere.
- #28 Julian & Friends
79% matchVery Positive91% of 313 reviews2025
Dev: JacksonG13Pub: JacksonGameStudios
Windows
Join Julian and his friends in this psychological horror experience inspired by point-n-click computer games from the early 2000s. Witness many shenanigans with characters from the infamous 98xx.
Why similar: Old School 33%, Horror 27.6%, Colorful 20.7%, Retro 11.4%, Singleplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cartoonish, point-and-click horror game that uses a deceptive, kid-friendly aesthetic to hide its darker themes.
- #29 Math Fun
81% matchVery Positive80% of 165 reviews2018
Dev: Yash Future Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Windows
Math Fun is amazing fun loving app for everyone. This app will let you learn math in an fun and easy manner while playing.
Why similar: Survival Horror 59.7%, Strategy 29.4%, Indie 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A difficult, educationally-themed game that shares the niche focus on math-based challenges.
- #30 S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters
80% matchVery Positive93% of 148 reviews2021
Dev: Doomster Entertainment
Windows
In S.U.M. you'll put your Quick-Math skills to test! Fight very Uncool Monsters using Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division. Level up and progress in the Campaign(s), or show your prowess in Endless Mode with Leaderboards.
Why similar: Family Friendly 22.5%, Retro 18.7%, Arcade 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Funny 14.3%
Why You'll Like It: Uses math-based mechanics as a core gameplay loop, directly mirroring the educational twist of the seed game.
- #31 The Roach Hotel
77% matchVery Positive89% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Hawt Combo
Windows
The Roach Hotel is a first person analog horror game that drags you into its halls, where every shadow hides a question and every corner dares you to keep following its path.
Why similar: Old School 16.7%, 1990's 16.6%, Horror 12.3%, Survival Horror 11.1%, First-Person 11%
- #32 Banana Blood
77% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
This is the banana horror game. They call it certain death. I call it an a-peeling adventure. Time to go bananas.
Why similar: Parody 18.7% ★, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Horror 12.1%, Surreal 9.4%
- #33 Super Algebrawl
76% matchVery Positive92% of 185 reviews2024
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Add up, multiply, clone, and divide your party members to beat the monsters on your path!
Why similar: Family Friendly 34.7%, Colorful 26.1%, Pixel Graphics 22.7%, Indie 16.6%
- #34 Dave.EXE
75% matchVery Positive95% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Dave Microwaves Games
Windows
Time travel and explore different worlds to save the universe from the evil overlord, Edgy Dave. Empty vending machines of their soda, go on various errands and evade E.D's goons as you desperately run for your life in this goofy comedy horror game!
Why similar: Horror 38.9%, Arcade 29.9%, Colorful 10.5%, 3D 10.4%, Indie 6.5%
- #35 Five Nights At Skibidi Toilets
76% matchMixed52% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: CITADELE
Windows
FNAST offers a unique gameplay that combines elements of strategy, survival and horror. Will you be able to solve the mystery of this mysterious building and prove the truth of the information from the newspapers?
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Horror 16.7%, Funny 15.6%, 3D 12.9%
- #36 Old School
74% matchVery Positive83% of 443 reviews2023
Dev: MDickie
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
Why similar: Old School 73.4%, 3D 15.5%, Action 11.1%
- #37 Water Boiling Simulator
73% matchVery Positive94% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: wolfyer
Windows · Linux
It's 2016. Explore through your house in the middle of the night and complete your chores before the water you put on the stove starts boiling. Sounds easy, right? If only you hadn't said things you would soon regret.
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.9%, Horror 17.4%, First-Person 12.6%, Exploration 10.7%, Strategy 10.2%
- #38 Madhouse Madness: Streamer's Fate
74% matchMixed66% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Hurrycat Studios
Windows
Dive into Madhouse Madness: Streamer's Fate, where your stream turns into a wild, eerie adventure. Uncover secrets, solve puzzles, and expect the unexpected in a haunted asylum where nothing is as it seems. Will you brave the madness and reveal the truth?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Horror 16.8%, First-Person 14%, Funny 13.9%, Survival Horror 13%
- #39 ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard
71% matchVery Positive93% of 136 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel ManiacsPub: PM Studios, Inc.
Windows
Shoot paint, mix colors, and solve puzzles in this adventure about friendship and redemption. Just don't enter that portal to another universe, and ᴇᴠᴇʀʏTʜɪɴɢ will 𝐛𝐞 ᴘEʀ𝐅𝓔ᴄᴛʟʏ 𝒇 𝔦 𝓃 ҽ . • °
Why similar: Parody 30.2% ★, Surreal 15.2%, First-Person 14%, Family Friendly 11.4%, Funny 8.5%
- #40 Slaughter Me Street: 1999
72% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: GlitchedLizardPub: Impulse Game Studios, LLC.
Windows
You are being hunted for your misdeeds. With blood on your hands and weight on your conscience, you must collect the relics of your past, and confront your demons once and for all...
Why similar: 1990's 22.6%, Arcade 15%, Strategy 13.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Survival Horror 10%
- #41 Very Scary Backrooms Game
72% matchVery Positive87% of 178 reviews2023
Dev: Wilboforce
Windows
You have no weapons. You have no means of defending yourself. Some will chase you, some will outsmart you. If you are in danger, run and hide.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Parody 17% ★, Horror 15.3%, Colorful 6.7%
- #42 Brutalism22
73% matchMixed65% of 69 reviews2023
Dev: Marginal act
Windows
This is a retro horror game about the war in Ukraine and brutalist architecture in Eastern Europe
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.4%, Horror 11.3%, Exploration 11%, First-Person 10.9%, Survival Horror 10.5%
- #43 Deadly Escape
75% matchMixed64% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: Ominous Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Deadly Escape is a Survival Horror game made with pixel art graphics, inspired by survival horror games of the '90s.
Why similar: Surreal 17.8%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Horror 12.7%, Retro 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11%
- #44 Employee of The Month
71% matchVery Positive96% of 182 reviews2022
Dev: Projeckt Skeleton
Windows
An atmospheric retro inspired survival horror game. Enjoy the late shift at 'The Month' in an abstract and unsettling night of terror, spooks and convenience.
Why similar: Old School 28.3%, Walking Simulator 24.3%, Survival Horror 22%, Funny 11.5%, Exploration 10.7%
- #45 Coffin Mall
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: O. KayaPub: OKSoft
Windows
An atmospheric retro survival horror game. Your first night on the job as a mall cop gets rudely interrupted, and you must survive somehow.
Why similar: 1990's 15%, Surreal 14.3%, Old School 13.5%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Horror 9.5%
- #46 Dadish
71% matchVery Positive93% of 279 reviews2021
Dev: Thomas K. Young
Windows
Explore an exciting world, face off with fast-food themed foes, and reunite Dadish with his missing children in this challenging platforming adventure.
Why similar: Retro 21.9%, 1990's 18.8%, Old School 18.1%, Funny 13.7%, Action 12.3%
- #47 Laser Tag Massacre
69% matchVery Positive88% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: Liminal Road
Windows
"Laser Tag Massacre" is a narrative-driven horror game inspired by 80s slasher movies, with a PS1-style aesthetic. On Halloween night, five friends throw a party in an abandoned arcade deep in rural Campinas, Brazil. What begins as a fun game of laser tag quickly spirals into their worst nightmare.
Why similar: 1990's 27%, Horror 18.8%, Retro 17.6%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 9.8%
- #48 One Night at Barneys 3
70% matchVery Positive92% of 197 reviews2023
Dev: IFMGStudios
Windows
A survival horror game based off of Five Nights at Freddy's featuring many iconic characters from Barney & Friends. Defend, upgrade, and discover secrets throughout the one night you will spend trapped in a prison.
Why similar: Strategy 35.2%, Survival Horror 25.1%, Horror 17.5%, First-Person 14.9%, Indie 4.6%
- #49 PsiloSybil
68% matchVery Positive86% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: bad_vertex
Windows
An old-school, tough-as nails classic linear 3D platformer with a faithful PS1 cartoony aesthetic. 25 fully original levels, boss fights, collectibles, time-trials, and many secrets.
Why similar: Surreal 20.3%, Retro 15.8%, Old School 13.6%, Colorful 11.9%, Family Friendly 11.8%
- #50 Nubby's Number Factory
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 18,877 reviews2025
Dev: MogDogBlog Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Why similar: Surreal 31.9%, Arcade 20.8%, Strategy 17.8%, Retro 9.5%, 1990's 9.3%
- #51 Garten of Banban 0
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,209 reviews2025
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Explore the origins of the mysterious Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dark past of the establishment. Try to make some friends. Uncover the truth behind the place, and who you are…
Why similar: Horror 19.3%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, First-Person 14.4%, Surreal 10.7%
- #52 School Teacher Simulator
68% matchMixed70% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Eathrabaria
Windows
Become a teacher in a local school. Teach kids, but make sure that your students stay focused during the lesson and react if they misbehave. Each day has unique events. Living school environment with each teacher and student having their own personality.
Why similar: First-Person 49.6%, 3D 39.5%, Singleplayer 11%
- #53 Super 3-D Noah's Ark
70% matchVery Positive88% of 907 reviews2015
Dev: Wisdom Tree, Inc.Pub: Piko Interactive LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Fast paced, first person adventure aboard Noah's ark!
Why similar: Family Friendly 31.3%, Retro 17.9%, Action 13.3%, First-Person 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
- #54 Poolscape
66% matchVery Positive93% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: CosmicArcade
Windows
Explore the Poolrooms as if it were lost media from 1998.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, 1990's 17.3%, Surreal 16.9%, Old School 16.1%, Exploration 7.6%
- #55 Dump of the Dead X
68% matchMostly Positive69% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Drop_Dead_FredPub: Emergency Exit
Windows
Heavily drawing inspiration from the likes of Zombies Ate My Neighbors, DUMP OF THE DEAD X casts you as a guy who’s just chilling in every man’s safe space — the bathroom.
Why similar: 1990's 23.3%, Retro 16%, Colorful 11.8%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 11.1%
- #56 Corn Defenders
69% matchVery Positive92% of 60 reviews2022
Dev: Jackson WynnPub: JC384
Windows
A modern game inspired by many popular 1980s arcade games that depicts a student locked inside of a school. You will need to trade for and collect corn to escape. You will also need to run away from Dr. Small and the teachers
Why similar: Old School 27.1%, Arcade 22.8%, Action 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Retro 12.8%
- #57 Bear Haven Nights
70% matchVery Positive87% of 105 reviews2016
Dev: SunRay Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Bear Haven Nights is a great indie horror game where you have to survive scary nights.
Why similar: Strategy 41.8%, Horror 28.5%, Action 16.7%, Indie 13%
- #58 Last Term
66% matchVery Positive93% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Jakub.T
Windows
You’ve been trapped in a school by a mysterious God. Memorize your surroundings, spot the anomalies, and reach floor 0 to earn your escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.3%, Horror 19.8%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 13.6%, 3D 9.9%
- #59 OYASUMII
66% matchVery Positive83% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: NEO PROJECT Studios
Windows
Relive the nostalgia with OYASUMII, a horror and exploration game inspired by PSX and N64 classics. Enter liminal spaces and face surreal terrors in an adventure that challenges your skills and sanity. Are you ready to relive the golden age of video games with OYASUMII?
Why similar: Surreal 25.6%, Survival Horror 20%, Horror 17.1%, Retro 15.3%, Exploration 12.4%
- #60 RATSHAKER™
63% matchVery Positive93% of 3,728 reviews2024
Dev: Sunscorched Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
RATSHAKER™ is the fun and quirky solution to all your rat problems! Hold on to the RAT, shake your arm, and watch life’s problems disappear! How far can you go?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Horror 14.9%, Funny 12.4%, First-Person 11%, Exploration 11%
