Games Like Despair

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

Why similar: Indie 37.3%, Horror 26.1%, First-Person 14.6%, Adventure 12.7%, Atmospheric 8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Despair, it drops you into a dark, abandoned underground facility filled with eerie atmospheres and unsettling mysteries to uncover.

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

Why similar: Horror 45%, Indie 26.4%, Walking Simulator 9.6%, Adventure 8.4%, First-Person 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same eerie, low-budget indie horror atmosphere and first-person exploration found in Despair.

Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

Why similar: Indie 36%, Horror 20.4%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Adventure 12.3%, First-Person 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric first-person indie horror game that mirrors Despair's themes of psychological distress and dark exploration.

Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.

Why similar: Horror 29.8%, Indie 26.7%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Adventure 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares Despair's first-person walking simulator style, focusing heavily on atmospheric exploration and uncovering dark secrets in enclosed spaces.

Tunnels of Despair is an atmospheric game with horror and survival elements, in which you are to explore the tunnels of an abandoned subway system, find a way out and escape the underground.

Why similar: Horror 26.1%, Indie 21.9%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, First-Person 12.6%, Action 9%

Why You'll Like It: Shares Despair's core theme of surviving and investigating perilous, claustrophobic underground tunnels.

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

Why similar: Indie 39.4%, Horror 22%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Adventure 11%, First-Person 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, first-person indie adventure that matches Despair's tense and atmospheric exploration of frightening places.

Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...

Why similar: Indie 56%, Action 25.5%, Adventure 18.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar indie first-person horror experience centered around navigating terrifying, confined environments.

Caffeine is a quirky first person adventure game with environmental puzzles and a dab of psychological horror. You awaken aboard one of these caffeine mining stations alone. Before long you realize that you are a young boy with no memory of what has transpired on this seemingly empty space station.

Why similar: Indie 40.6%, Horror 17.4%, First-Person 14.9%, Adventure 14.3%, Walking Simulator 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi psychological horror game with a strong emphasis on first-person environmental storytelling and eerie isolation.

You are trapped in an underground subway. Observe your surroundings carefully and take the correct trains to reach the 'Station 5' and exit the subway.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.5%, Horror 17.7%, Adventure 16.1%, First-Person 15.3%, Indie 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a focused, atmospheric first-person walking simulator experience centered around isolating and tense environments.

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

Why similar: Horror 29.7%, Indie 21.9%, First-Person 15.7%, Action 9%, Walking Simulator 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Takes players into deeply unsettling, dark underworlds with a heavy focus on horror and atmospheric adventure.

You find yourself in a deserted territory of a country house, and when you try to get out, understand that it's impossible. One on one with ghosts and your task is to survive and only then to figure out what happened here...

Why similar: Indie 35.1%, Horror 21.3%, Action 13.6%, Adventure 12%, First-Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror adventure featuring atmospheric exploration and spooky encounters reminiscent of Despair's pacing.

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

Why similar: Horror 41.2%, Indie 19.4%, First-Person 10.9%, Action 7.8%, Adventure 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same eerie, surreal first-person horror-adventure design philosophy as Despair.

Plunge into the atmosphere of fear and horror,investigate the dark house full of mysteries and danger!

Why similar: Horror 49.9%, Indie 25.2%, Walking Simulator 8.7%, Action 8.7%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie first-person horror walking simulator that leans into the same style of atmospheric dread and dark exploration.

Wander long creepy corridors in search for answers in this short and jumpscare filled game.

Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Indie 20.5%, Walking Simulator 17%, First-Person 14.8%, Action 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie first-person horror game that evokes a similar gritty, tense mood of survival and investigation.

You wake up to the smell of rotting flesh in what can only be described as someone's basement. Your memory is blank and your vision impaired, you have no idea where you are. The floors and walls are dirty, it appears there may be other people here as there are dirty sheets on the floor.

Why similar: Indie 57.1%, Horror 19.2%, Action 9.2%, Adventure 7.6%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror experience that traps players in a threatening environment where they must uncover what is happening.

Trapped in a hallucinatory, liminal-space style underground passageway, explore and unravel the endless "dead-end" paths to find a way forward. "Dead Path is a short ambient horror puzzle game that references Exit 8, but with a completely different core mechanic.

Why similar: Horror 36%, Walking Simulator 29.7%, First-Person 12.9%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror walking simulator that emphasizes eerie exploration and maze-like environments.

Short atmospheric first person horror game with elements of quest and shooter about being lost in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by weird mist.

Why similar: Horror 27.9%, Indie 24.9%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, First-Person 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that captures a similar sense of isolated, atmospheric dread.

You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...

Why similar: Horror 37.4%, Walking Simulator 28.1%, Atmospheric 13.2%, First-Person 9.9%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic walking simulator focused on psychological horror and deeply atmospheric storytelling.

Protagonist of the game is investigating the disappearance of people. The investigation leads him into an old house, and then it becomes a party to the strange and dangerous events.

Why similar: Horror 29.1%, Indie 23.9%, First-Person 18.1%, Atmospheric 10%, Action 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person indie horror game focusing on dark atmospheres, survival, and grim storytelling.

Escaping from a car trunk, you find yourself in the garage of a mysterious house, with no memory of what happened. Step inside this first-person psychological horror experience and uncover the truth hidden inside.

Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Indie 15%, Atmospheric 11.2%, First-Person 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric walking simulator that relies on psychological tension and deeply unsettling environments.

The Derailed is a first-person psychological horror game. Beneath the dusty arches of a nearly forgotten depot, shadows of the past tremble. Whether you want to or not, you will have to uncover the dark secrets of this place.

Why similar: Horror 45.4%, Walking Simulator 22.4%, Indie 19.3%, Adventure 11.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Explores themes of transportation-related dread and dark psychological mystery in a first-person perspective.

A psychological first-person horror about a house that hides a disturbing truth beneath its walls. Explore, uncover fragments of the past, and decide whether to confront what lies below… or leave it buried forever.

Why similar: Horror 28.2%, Walking Simulator 21.8%, First-Person 16.7%, Indie 16.4%, Atmospheric 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror walking simulator centered on intense environmental exploration.

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

Why similar: Horror 30.7%, Indie 29.8%, First-Person 18.1%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: An indie psychological horror adventure that challenges players with uncovering dark mysteries from a first-person view.

A claustrophobic first-person horror game about crawling through a dark, winding cave system in search of three missing divers.

Why similar: Horror 41.9%, Atmospheric 14.5%, First-Person 13.3%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A linear, atmospheric psychological horror experience focused on tense exploration of enclosed spaces.

Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and barely any traces of human life remain. You will have to use all your ingenuity to escape and avoid becoming the meal of the hideous denizens.

Why similar: Indie 24.5%, Walking Simulator 23.5%, First-Person 20.1%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Adventure 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in dark, claustrophobic environments with a heavy focus on survival horror and mystery.

In this short first-person psychological horror game, falling asleep on the subway takes you to the final station, abandoned and eerie. Explore the area and try to survive the entity chasing you in the darkness. Who is it? Its face looks strangely familiar...

Why similar: Horror 44.1%, First-Person 24.7%, Atmospheric 11%, Action 9.6%, Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features train-themed atmospheric horror and dark first-person exploration echoing Despair's prologue setting.

Deep beneath the abandoned subway, an unknown threat awaits. Collect gold and find a way out.

Why similar: Horror 47.6%, Indie 15.5%, Action 13.5%, First-Person 11%, Adventure 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Engages players in deep, suspenseful underground survival and stealth-horror gameplay.

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Horror 37.9%, Walking Simulator 30.9%, First-Person 23%, Atmospheric 8.2%

04/03/2017How much does this date tell you? For the main character, it became very significant, because this is the day of his death. The protagonist was precisely in the train that arrived at the metro station "Technological Institute" with the bodies of innocent, already dead, people ...

Why similar: Horror 35.4%, Indie 35.2%, Action 13.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie action-horror game set in dark, confined environments requiring tense navigation.

Distorted Reality is a first-person survival horror, which takes place in the hospital of Alexandria. For mysterious reasons, the usual laws of physics in the hospital completely stopped working.

Why similar: Indie 43.3%, Horror 24.6%, Action 16.5%, Adventure 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror adventure featuring unsettling environments and disorienting gameplay loops.

[REC] Desolation takes you to an abandoned manor as journalist Ethan Carter. Your goal is to investigate its dark past and uncover the truth. But some secrets should remain hidden…

Why similar: Horror 32.7%, Indie 27.9%, First-Person 15.6%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Walking Simulator 7.7%

You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible

Why similar: Indie 33.8%, Horror 22.4%, Walking Simulator 13%, First-Person 11.7%, Adventure 10.9%

The number of missing in the city increased. People talk about the experiments on human beings. And now, only you can figure out if it was true. Especially because you have no choice. Mysteriously, you find yourself in a terrible location 40 meters underground. Your name is Katrine, and you do not remember anything about your past.

Why similar: Indie 53.8%, Horror 29.5%, Action 15.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror-action title that rounds out the list with its dark aesthetic and tense tone.

It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Horror 29.7%, Indie 20.3%, First-Person 18.7%, Action 11.9%, Adventure 9.6%

Equipped only with a weapon that consumes your own blood, explore an ancient brutalist catacomb. Beware the Eyes of The Whispering Crypt. Find the 4 artifacts of desire. Confront God.

Why similar: Horror 38.4%, First-Person 24.3%, Atmospheric 14.7%, Action 10.8%, Adventure 9.7%

Lost in a series of endless train station hallways, find your way to the exit Platform in this First-Person Anomaly Spotting game set in the Midnight Monitor universe. Watch out for anomalies - If you see any, turn back immediately! Can you find your way out of Aldercourt Station?

Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Walking Simulator 25.7%, First-Person 20.4%, Atmospheric 12%, Action 10.2%

The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.

Why similar: Horror 36.1%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, First-Person 12.3%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 10.2%

It is a short but very interesting horror,about a man who woke up in his own grave,next to his family.

Why similar: Indie 31.6%, Horror 27.1%, Walking Simulator 21%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Adventure 6.6%

Metro trip simulator

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.3%, First-Person 38.9%, Atmospheric 18.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%

You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.

Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Walking Simulator 23.2%, First-Person 17.1%, Indie 9.3%, Atmospheric 9.3%

The Descent, a horror walking sim in Rockwell Mine, immerses players in miners' harsh life and unsettling mine encounters. Play as an investigator uncovering a hometown mystery.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.8%, Horror 24.7%, First-Person 20.6%, Indie 15.4%, Atmospheric 9.6%

Linear underwater horror game about a search dive that quickly turns into fight for survival after an encounter with hellish creature.

Why similar: Horror 34.3%, First-Person 19%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Action 9.6%

Death Motel is a short, intense first-person horror experience about the paranormal events occurring at abandoned Crimson Motel.

Why similar: Horror 37.4%, Walking Simulator 26%, First-Person 17%, Adventure 12.4%, Action 6.3%

You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.

Why similar: Horror 46.2%, Walking Simulator 24.2%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Action 7.9%, Adventure 6%

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

Why similar: Indie 31.2%, Horror 28%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Action 12.5%, Adventure 10.3%

MATRESHKA is a first-person psychological horror experience, you need find a way to escape from a maze of old soviet building. If you die...

Why similar: Horror 32%, Walking Simulator 23.2%, First-Person 14.3%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Action 10%

There's Nothing Down There is a short undersea horror exploration game. Descend into a sinkhole at the bottom of the ocean and discover the remains of a lost, yet not dead, civilization.

Why similar: Horror 34%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, First-Person 17.1%, Indie 16.9%, Adventure 7.8%

Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.

Why similar: Horror 35.7%, Walking Simulator 26.5%, Indie 18.6%, First-Person 16.8%, Atmospheric 1.4%

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: Indie 33.5%, Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Action 10.5%, Adventure 8.6%

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

Why similar: Horror 32.6%, Indie 28.7%, First-Person 18.2%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Adventure 5.9%

"Anomalous Railroad Crossing" is an escape game where you search for strange happenings, set at Japan's most famous railroad crossing. - You suddenly realize that you're standing on a road leading to a railroad crossing with an ocean view. Escape from a world invaded by strange happenings!

Why similar: Horror 28.3%, Walking Simulator 22.3%, First-Person 15.8%, Indie 14.6%, Adventure 8.2%

You are a veteran, in a post World War 3 apocalyptic world. Starving and alone, you fight to keep your sanity in the hell that this world has decayed into. In a desperate attempt to find food, you stumble your way into an abandoned prison, but you find out it is not as abandoned as you believed...

Why similar: Horror 36.2%, First-Person 21.8%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 5.2%

You wake up to a horrible smell, and whispering vents in your apartment. Something's wrong.

Why similar: Horror 27.4%, Indie 21.1%, First-Person 17.8%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Adventure 7.1%

You wake up buried alive. You are running out of oxygen and you can't remember how you got here. There must be a way out, can you figure it out in time?

Why similar: Horror 49.7%, First-Person 31.7%, Indie 11.6%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Silent Decent is a highly-immersive first-person horror game with a rich and engaging atmosphere. Trapped in purgatory, you play as Samuel Harris who roams in an endless loop of anguish, pain and suffering. Can you find a way to save a tormented man's soul?

Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Indie 20.7%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, First-Person 13%, Action 8.8%

The player finds himself in an abandoned school, which was once a place of study for local schoolchildren. The protagonist is a paranormal researcher who came here to solve the mystery that shrouds this gloomy location.

Why similar: Horror 27.8%, Walking Simulator 27.5%, First-Person 19.3%, Action 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Horror 32.6%, Walking Simulator 23.9%, Indie 15.8%, Atmospheric 11.8%, First-Person 9.3%

A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Walking Simulator 23.3%, First-Person 14.1%, Indie 12.8%, Atmospheric 10.7%

As captain of the Pandora sub, you must explore the Trench and retrieve data from the Neptune wreckage. But beware - the trench is home to unimaginable horrors that will test your courage. Can you survive the terrors of the deep and complete your mission, or will you become the next victim?

Why similar: Horror 49%, Atmospheric 16.4%, First-Person 13.1%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 10%

Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.

Why similar: Horror 51.4%, Indie 18.3%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 5.7%, Action 4.4%