- #1 The Visitor
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 210 reviews2016
Dev: Stephen Long
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 27%
The Visitor is a VR horror experience about an unexpected visitor calling to your door in the middle of the night. The game relies heavily on atmosphere, utilizing a dark environment to make the player both as nervous and uncomfortable as possible.
Why similar: VR 74.4%, Indie 25.6%
- #2 瞳:祈愿 VR / Pupil: Wandering VR
96% matchMixed67% of 127 reviews2019
Dev: Spoon Network
Windows
Pupil : Wandering is an Asian-style horror VR game. The game focuses on an immersive horror atmosphere. All key items and game hints can only be found using the "Moon Lantern", a main feature that brings to light an extraordinary and truly terrifying experience.
Why similar: VR 77.9%, Indie 22.1%
- #3 Albino Lullaby: Episode 1
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 382 reviews2015
Dev: Ape Law
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Albino Lullaby is a horror adventure game that doesn't rely on jump scares or gore. Escape from a surreal psychological nightmare as the world dynamically twists and contorts around you.
Why similar: VR 53.3%, Indie 46.7%
- #4 Nevermind
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 432 reviews2015
Dev: Flying Mollusk
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #5 Nevrosa: Prelude
94% matchVery Positive87% of 223 reviews2017
Dev: GexagonVR
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 27%
You wake up in a strange, but yet familiar place. You feel like you are supposed to be here for something.VR roomscale puzzle-horror game with redirect walking locomotion.
Why similar: VR 71%, Indie 29%
- #6 Layers of Fear VR
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 273 reviews2019
Dev: Incuvo S.A.Pub: Bloober Team SA
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Enter a tangibly horrifying Virtual Reality and explore a mansion of horror as an artist falling into the depths of insanity. Will you find the muse for your masterpiece... or madness?
Why similar: Indie 65.6%, VR 34.4%
- #7 Shattered Lights
93% matchVery Positive87% of 432 reviews2019
Dev: Team MorbidPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Shattered Lights is a VR psychological horror room-scale experience, which focuses on drawing the player into the game with unparalleled immersion.
Why similar: VR 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #8 A Chair in a Room : Greenwater
92% matchVery Positive83% of 617 reviews2016
Dev: Wolf & Wood Interactive Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.
Why similar: VR 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #9 AFFECTED: The Manor - The Complete Edition
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 187 reviews2017
Dev: Fallen Planet Studios
Windows
AFFECTED: The Manor achieves its final form! Experience horror unlike anything you’ve known before as you try to escape The Manor. Terror lurks around every corner as you venture deeper into the abandoned house and find that the only thing keeping you alive is your sanity. Or lack thereof...
Why similar: VR 72.6%, Indie 27.4%
- #10 The Bellows
91% matchVery Positive86% of 244 reviews2016
Dev: BOT Jungle Productions
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 35%
The Bellows is a VR Horror experience designed to play like an interactive movie. Plunge yourself into a world of nightmares and fear, and discover just how frightening the past can really be.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #11 Bodyless
89% matchVery Positive82% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: NarriFlux
Windows
Bodyless is a VR journey set during Taiwan’s martial law era. You inhabit the ghost of a political prisoner, moving through fragmented spaces where folklore and surveillance intertwine. As environments distort, the line between memory and reality begins to dissolve.
Why similar: VR 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #12 Mental Hospital VR
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Igor MigunPub: AGaming+
Windows
Mental Hospital VR is a truly scary first-person stealth horror game. Discover heart-thumping terror, chase and scary creatures in this atmospheric horror game.
Why similar: VR 81.7%, Indie 18.3%
- #13 Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 108 reviews2018
Dev: Gattai Games
Windows · Mac
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
Why similar: VR 71.8%, Indie 28.2%
- #14 Doorways: Prelude
87% matchMixed62% of 636 reviews2013
Dev: Saibot Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Doorways is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.
Why similar: Indie 52.7%, VR 47.3%
- #15 Dead end Exit 8
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Linkup
Windows
This is a thriller game based on memory puzzles that supports PC play and VR mode. The theme is inspired by people's depression and tension while waiting in the hospital.In an infinite loop space, one must carefully observe all abnormal information and strive to escape from the infinite space
Why similar: VR 100%
- #16 Deadness
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 136 reviews2022
Dev: ALIEN studio
Windows
Deadness is a VR game of the horror genre that will literally knock you off your feet. Experience real fear and anxiety helplessly confined to a wheelchair in a super-realistic VR environment. Not for the faint of heart! This is no game anymore!
Why similar: VR 80.6%, Indie 19.4%
- #17 Montas
86% matchMostly Negative37% of 169 reviews2014
Dev: Organic Humans
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.1 hrs≥1hr: 21%
Montas is a first person survival horror adventure that focuses heavily on exploration, immersion, atmosphere, story and interactivity. The player is cast into a dark and mysterious world with little introduction, and must do what is necessary to survive on a twisted ride full of intrigue and drama.
Why similar: VR 62.2%, Indie 37.8%
- #18 Organ Quarter
84% matchVery Positive90% of 315 reviews2017
Dev: Outer Brain Studios
Windows
Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror game built from the ground-up for hand-tracked virtual reality. Explore labyrinthine environments, engage in tense combat, carefully manage your resources and solve horrifying puzzles in this homage to the slow, methodical survival horror experiences of the '90s
Why similar: VR 77.5%, Indie 22.5%
- #19 Lost Diskettes Vol.1
82% matchVery Positive90% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Puko
Windows
This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
81% matchVery Positive83% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: X1 Games
Windows
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
- #21 Insane Decay of Mind: The Labyrinth
83% matchMixed57% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: GoManga InteractivePub: IV Productions
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Insane Decay of Mind: The Labyrinth is a first person horror game. You play the role of Katherine, a young girl lost in the eerie hallways of a building she believes to be her school.
Why similar: VR 54.4%, Indie 45.6%
- #22 Blue Effect VR
82% matchVery Positive80% of 135 reviews2017
Dev: DIVR Labs
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Our VR only, Blue Effect is an atmospheric sci-fi wave shooter that will thrill you with excitement, test your endurance and your bravery! Use our unique control system, enjoy outstanding sound design and fight for your survival. Are you ready to face your darkest fears?
Why similar: VR 73.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #23 Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D
81% matchVery Positive82% of 1,405 reviews2016
Dev: Escalation StudiosPub: ForwardXP
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Now with Vive Support! A cryptic, brain-racking, button-pushing non-linear puzzle game.
Why similar: VR 66.2%, Indie 33.8%
- #24 Dreamcore
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,683 reviews2025
Dev: MontraluzPub: Tlön Industries
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Horror
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: STuNT
Windows
HORROR is a test of your logic in the face of primal fear. You are unarmed. You are vulnerable. All you have is a flashlight with a dying battery and your intellect.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 ABE VR
80% matchMixed61% of 313 reviews2016
Dev: Hammerhead VR
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 27%
ABE VR is an intense experience that recreates the horrifying story about a misguided robot seeking the unconditional love of humans…at whatever cost.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #27 Doorways: The Underworld
79% matchMixed69% of 406 reviews2014
Dev: Saibot Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Doorways: The Underworld is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.
Why similar: VR 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #28 The Dire
77% matchVery Positive82% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: Grumpi
Windows
Dean Holt, popular Urbex vlogger, sets off on another exploration of an abandoned home but this time things aren't going as planned. Something dark is lurking inside and Dean quickly finds himself in over his head
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Subliminal
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,177 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
- #30 The Experiment: Escape Room
79% matchMixed54% of 270 reviews2018
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
"The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?
Why similar: VR 52.3%, Indie 47.7%
- #31 Cosmodread
75% matchVery Positive91% of 417 reviews2021
Dev: White Door Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
Why similar: VR 90.2%, Indie 9.8%
- #32 The Nightmare
78% matchMixed50% of 74 reviews2020
Dev: Leakage Games
Windows
The Nightmare is a first-person horror game. Dive into the nightmare and try to get rid of that nightmare...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 SCP: Blackout
75% matchMixed68% of 333 reviews2024
Dev: Mahelyk
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A VR/Desktop game where you are a new D-Class personnel in secret SCP Research Site-50 when everything falls apart. Use what you can find as you explore the facility, access logs to learn about the SCP entities in containment, and run for your life from the SCP entities that have escaped.
Why similar: VR 71.7%, Indie 28.3%
- #34 DEAD END
74% matchVery Positive83% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: PHANTOM PIXEL
Windows
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.
- #35 Project Liminal 2
72% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Don't Look
76% matchMostly Negative40% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DygoDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Don't Look is a horror game where you are being hunted by things that can only move when you see them. With no explanation or recollection of where you came from your only objective is to survive and make it out of that hell and hopefully uncover some secrets on the way.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 Infliction
73% matchVery Positive81% of 950 reviews2018
Dev: Caustic Reality
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 White Room Protocol
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Lefto Studio
Windows
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: Indie 100%
- #39 Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 794 reviews2017
Dev: VRWERX
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
AVAILABLE TO PLAY IN NON-VR (KEYBOARD/MOUSE AND CONTROLLER) VR HEADSET NO LONGER REQUIRED.“PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE LOST SOUL” immerses you in a terrifying realistic environment with haunting atmosphere, and the need to survive.
Why similar: VR 91.5%, Indie 8.5%
- #40 Richie's Plank Experience
72% matchVery Positive80% of 630 reviews2017
Dev: Toast Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.
Why similar: VR 64.1%, Indie 35.9%
- #41 Insanity VR: Last Score
73% matchVery Positive83% of 179 reviews2017
Dev: Threevol
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Insanity VR combines an immersive and intuitive locomotion system in VR, a compelling horror story and escape the room like puzzles with stealth mechanics. As the new intern at a futuristic institute for mental illnesses you get transported into the mind of a patient to reconstruct his memories.
Why similar: VR 78.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #42 Deceived Of Joy
70% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: LevelBound Studios
Windows
Step into a Psychological Horror Experience where you live in an apartment complex where the walls between reality and nightmares are crumbling. Run for your life, solve small puzzles and use items to help you survive.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 LIMINAL SHIFT
69% matchVery Positive82% of 252 reviews2025
Dev: NextPhase Studios
Windows
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Fork Road
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 959 reviews2024
Dev: Simon Au Yeung
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Fork Road is a first-person immersive atmospheric game with new gameplay , Be prepared to face fears you've never faced before
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Out of Sight VR
68% matchVery Positive97% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Flat2VR Studios
Windows
Out of Sight VR pulls you into a chilling nightmare where you see through the eyes of a child’s only comfort: her teddy bear. Guide Sophie through a sinister mansion and evade the lurking horrors that stalk her every move. The shadows are watching. And Sophie is counting on you.
Why similar: VR 82.6%, Indie 17.4%
- #46 HINGE VR
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 202 reviews2020
Dev: Arcadia
Windows
HINGE is a psychological horror VR adventure. You suddenly find yourself in an abandoned skyscraper, devoid of all your senses and memories. The laws of physics are distorted, and time has collapsed. The only way out is to step into the terrifying unknown and piece together the fragmented clues
Why similar: VR 100%
- #47 The Exit 8 VR
68% matchVery Positive88% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: MyDearest Inc.
Windows
The popular indie game “The Exit 8” is reborn and brought to virtual life as “The Exit 8 VR”! Experience the eerie and thrilling atmosphere of Japan's underground passageways, now with new anomalies!
Why similar: VR 82.4%, Indie 17.6%
- #48 Hospitality VR
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 128 reviews2020
Dev: David FlossdorfPub: flossdorfgames
Windows
A VR Horror Experience, not a Game! No controller input needed! After having checked into a haunted hospital, you are being confronted with its evil resident who is not too pleased about your visit.
Why similar: VR 81.8%, Indie 18.2%
- #49 Shifting To The Backrooms
66% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Oopsome Games
Windows
Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 The Liminal Dimension
67% matchVery Positive82% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Airem
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're trapped in an endless loop within a liminal dimension, where each loop leads to increasingly unsettling places. Will you find the way out of this psychological horror? The game offers a unique déjà vu experience that blurs the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Don't Let Go!
71% matchMixed68% of 62 reviews2016
Dev: Skydome Studios
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 23%
In these 2 short experiences you are sat in a chair with your hands in front of you on the keyboard. Now, whatever happens, Don't Let Go!
Why similar: VR 52.5%, Indie 47.5%
- #52 Inside the Backrooms
64% matchVery Positive80% of 46,110 reviews2022
Dev: MrFatcat
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Why similar: VR 100%
- #53 Wooden Floor
71% matchMixed49% of 213 reviews2015
Dev: pheenix93
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Wooden Floor is a first person horror game full of visual trickery ... Not being able to predict what is going to happen next you need to make your way through the haunted house.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 DreadEye VR
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 162 reviews2017
Dev: Digital Happiness
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
DreadEye is a virtual reality experience that allows you to become an Indonesian shaman. Immerse yourself in terrifying experiences set in haunted rural Indonesia, and discover the gruesome horrors lurking in the shadows!
Why similar: VR 54%, Indie 46%
- #55 Whispering Fog
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Dark Snow Games
Windows
Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Into the Radius VR
63% matchVery Positive94% of 11,206 reviews2020
Dev: CM IMMERSIVE
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.
Why similar: VR 90.3%, Indie 9.7%