Games Like Duck Season PC

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Horror 64.2%, Psychological 24.9%, First-Person 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Duck Season, this game uses a meta-narrative framework where a seemingly innocent game hides a much darker, reality-bending mystery.

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.5%, Horror 37.6%, Indie 10.3%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Funny 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at breaking the fourth wall by presenting itself as a corrupted, cursed game that the player must navigate to survive.

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 55.9%, Psychological Horror 26.5%, First-Person 7.1%, Atmospheric 5.1%, Indie 2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-fidelity psychological horror experience that focuses on the domestic, haunted nature of the environment.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Horror 41.1%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, 1980s 15.7%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This episodic collection perfectly captures the 1980s retro aesthetic while delivering a psychological horror experience rooted in experimental, text-based, and environmental gameplay.

Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

Why similar: Horror 37.4%, Psychological Horror 25.4%, 1980s 20.4%, Indie 6.5%, Casual 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of interacting with a sentient, potentially malicious piece of retro software that slowly warps the player's reality.

Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.

Why similar: Horror 61.9%, First-Person 20.4%, Atmospheric 17.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends mundane, repetitive tasks with a creeping sense of surreal, retro-themed horror that feels very similar to the Duck Season experience.

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 29.9%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Psychological 11.8%, FPS 9%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply psychological horror game that uses tight, claustrophobic spaces and surreal imagery to evoke a sense of constant unease.

A free, VHS styled, first-person found footage horror game, which runs exactly for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.

Why similar: Horror 52.4%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Indie 8%, First-Person 7.6%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A short, found-footage style horror game that perfectly replicates the feeling of watching a cursed VHS tape.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Horror 43.8%, Psychological Horror 27.6%, First-Person 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Casual 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, meta-horror experience that forces the player to manipulate facial expressions and navigate a deeply unsettling, glitch-filled world.

Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

Why similar: Horror 52.2%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Indie 10.4%, First-Person 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game utilizes a low-poly, retro aesthetic to create an atmosphere of surreal, dream-like dread that mirrors the experimental nature of Duck Season.

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 49.1%, Psychological 24.2%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the specific, grainy VHS-style horror aesthetic that makes modern indie psychological horror so effective.

Explore 12 horror games made in 10 days connected by a meta narrative experience you didn't expect. Step into a world of darkness and discover the secrets you didn't know were right beneath the surface. Find the tapes and unlock the mystery inside the Dread X Collection 2.

Why similar: Horror 38.8%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, First-Person 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Shooter 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This anthology features various experimental horror shorts that capture the same indie, psychological, and atmospheric spirit as the seed game.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.

Why similar: Horror 50%, VR 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, First-Person 9.7%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the mascot-horror and VR-to-flat-screen transition elements that make the Duck Season experience so iconic.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Horror 47.2%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Atmospheric 12.3%, First-Person 9.9%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, experimental horror experience that relies on limited feedback and environmental storytelling to build intense psychological pressure.

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.9%, Atmospheric 20.3%, First-Person 17.6%, VR 10.4%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: A liminal space exploration game that focuses on pure atmosphere and psychological unease without relying on traditional jump scares.

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Horror 44.5%, Psychological Horror 32.9%, First-Person 10%, Indie 7.7%, Atmospheric 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A short, free-to-play psychological horror game that uses surrealism and dark themes to create a lasting, uncomfortable impression.

Chicken Feet is a first person survival-stealth horror game about a giant, angry chicken. Descend into the depths of GOOBER laboratories and uncover the horrors that lie beneath the lab's shiny façade.

Why similar: Horror 55.2%, Psychological Horror 29.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a tense, first-person survival experience that feels like a high-stakes experiment in atmospheric horror.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.3%, Horror 43.5%, First-Person 4.7%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential meta-horror experience that subverts player expectations by turning a seemingly harmless game into a psychological nightmare.

First Person Psychological Horror. Addicted to virtual ecstasy, trapped in digital hell. Navigate glitchy dreamscapes and a city that never sleeps. Every mission brings you closer to your next dose, but will you follow your protective AI, or the man behind a liberating new drug?

Why similar: Horror 34.9%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Psychological 16.8%, Atmospheric 10.4%, First-Person 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled psychological horror game that focuses on narrative depth and a slow-burn sense of dread.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 57.4%, Atmospheric 24.7%, Shooter 13.3%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A love letter to classic survival horror that uses a retro-tech aesthetic to tell a deeply psychological and tragic story.

Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

Why similar: Horror 74.7%, Atmospheric 9.9%, First-Person 9.3%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines mundane job simulation with intense, reality-warping supernatural horror that keeps the player constantly off-balance.

Step into the mind of Rosaline in this psychological horror FPS. Face her fears, engage in intense combat, and help her find peace. Solve puzzles to unlock her psyche's secrets and progress by completing quests

Why similar: Horror 27.4%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, FPS 13.8%, Psychological 11.7%, Shooter 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a repetitive, first-person loop structure to build psychological tension in a confined, atmospheric setting.

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 32.7%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Atmospheric 9.1%, First-Person 8.2%, FPS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This indie title uses pixelated graphics and a heavy atmosphere to deliver a classic psychological horror experience.

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: Horror 34.8%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Psychological 13.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features multiple endings and a heavy emphasis on psychological atmosphere, making it a great fit for fans of experimental horror.

Step into the shoes of a young girl who must face solitude and mystery while waiting for her mother at the taco stand where she works. It’s a rainy night, but that won’t stop some unwelcome visitors from showing up...

Why similar: Horror 39.4%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Psychological 15.8%, Atmospheric 10.1%, First-Person 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game that uses a mundane setting to ground its psychological and atmospheric scares.

Sort forms, get to know your mysterious new collegues & unravel mysteries they're trying to cover up as you step in to replace the previous RH at this mysterious pharmaceutical company.

Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Psychological Horror 33.8%, First-Person 14.6%, Multiple Endings 6.9%, Atmospheric 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game explores the intersection of capitalism and psychological horror through a unique, first-person perspective.

Clap Clap is a short indie horror game that puts you in the shoes of a house sitter, experiencing strange occurrences in a seemingly ordinary home.

Why similar: Horror 46.3%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, 1980s 15.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%, First-Person 7.2%

As an employee of a night security firm, your first night on the job might be your last, as strange events push your sanity to the limit.

Why similar: Horror 48.3%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, First-Person 12.8%, Indie 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A focused, first-person psychological horror game that emphasizes isolation and environmental storytelling.

A thrilling psychological horror game. Your job is to look for anomalies in a haunted house. If you see anyhting suspicious (furniture moving, extra objects, intruders), take a photo and send a report. Includes both VR- (windows only) and non-VR (windows, mac, linux)-versions.

Why similar: Horror 33.3%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Psychological 18.5%, VR 13.9%, First-Person 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges the player to spot anomalies in a static environment, creating a unique, high-tension psychological experience.

The game of your dreams just dropped, DUCK SEASON, a hunter with ridiculous graphics. Luckily, it's summer vacation and Mom just surprised you with a one day rental of it! Unfortunately, as you binge play it becomes apparent that all is not right with Duck Season...

Why similar: Horror 41.8%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, VR 16%, 1980s 6.9%, First-Person 4.2%

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: Horror 31.3%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, 1980s 16.4%, VR 13.6%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: While primarily a VR title, it offers a intense, first-person survival-horror experience that aligns with the genre roots of the seed game.

Now with Vive Support! A cryptic, brain-racking, button-pushing non-linear puzzle game.

Why similar: Horror 32.5%, VR 22.5%, Casual 17.3%, Indie 15.5%, Multiple Endings 10%

A psychological horror game where you spend a night in the shoes of an arcade worker named Marcus. Win prizes on the crane machine and shoot some hoops. Just make sure to keep the doors locked.

Why similar: Horror 37.9%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, First-Person 13.6%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Casual 8.8%

This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.

Why similar: Horror 45.1%, Psychological Horror 27.1%, First-Person 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Singleplayer 2.1%

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

Why similar: Horror 47.3%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, First-Person 12.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Indie 6.3%

Revenge of the colon is a story driven, single-player, atmospheric, body horror game with multiple endings. Perform colonoscopies on five patients and discover the horrors concealed deep within them. PS1 horror style!

Why similar: Horror 33.6%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Psychological 16.7%, Atmospheric 9.9%, First-Person 7.2%

Legendary Hunter VR is a VR duck hunting game inspired by the old classic NES game Duck Hunt. Hunt Duck during the day time while surviving vicious crow attacks. And survive the wolves and the crocodiles at night. Enjoy the day / night cycles with dynamic weather and atmospheric surround sound.

Why similar: Horror 21.6%, VR 18.7%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Shooter 12.6%, FPS 9.7%

Experience Halloween Horror in PC or VR. You go out with your friends, trick or treating, entering haunted attractions, as you make your way to the big party, but this year's holiday of the afterlife brings something sinister.

Why similar: Horror 36.7%, VR 15.4%, Atmospheric 11%, FPS 10.8%, First-Person 9.6%

You, a simple dog named Mr Peanut, find yourself in a weird cabin full of secrets... Will you be able to warn the family of the dangers? A horror game filled with mystery!

Why similar: Horror 47.1%, Psychological Horror 26.7%, First-Person 13.1%, Funny 6.1%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Play minigames and discover the hidden truth in this retro-style horror game

Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Psychological Horror 25.4%, 1980s 14.9%, Casual 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Paranormal VHS is a horror game that features a VHS tape-inspired aesthetic. The game's story revolves around a popular vlogger who spends a night in haunted locations in search of paranormal activity. Brace for intense jumpscares.

Why similar: Horror 37.1%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Psychological 12.9%, Indie 12.9%, First-Person 9.8%

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

Why similar: Horror 58.2%, First-Person 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.1%, Psychological 8%, Atmospheric 6.2%

The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.

Why similar: Horror 42.3%, Psychological Horror 25.5%, Atmospheric 11.9%, First-Person 11.3%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 21.1%, 1980s 19.3%, Psychological 15.9%, Atmospheric 10.9%

Noah Baker, an 18 year old highschooler experiences unsettling occurrences while house-sitting for a media personality, little did he know what was about to unfold that night.

Why similar: Horror 45.1%, Psychological Horror 30.1%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Casual 4.9%, First-Person 4.4%

Sub Terra is a first person psychological horror game set deep underground. As a maintenance worker, your job is to fix a broken water line at the end of tunnel 04-R. Enter the tunnel, repair the pipe, and get out.

Why similar: Horror 43.8%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, First-Person 11.5%, Psychological 8%, Casual 7.8%

A first-person, PSX-style horror game about living with a monster. Do as you're told... or don't. Just be ready for the consequences.

Why similar: Horror 28.9%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, First-Person 11.9%, Psychological 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%

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 38.9%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, FPS 12.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%, First-Person 9.4%

You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?

Why similar: Horror 39.5%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, First-Person 12.3%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.

Why similar: Horror 35.2%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Psychological 14.5%, First-Person 10.1%, Atmospheric 9.4%

The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.

Why similar: Horror 52%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Psychological 8.9%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Indie 5.5%

You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!

Why similar: Casual 43.3%, Indie 30%, Funny 14.4%, Singleplayer 12.3%

Blair Witch: VR Edition is a story-driven psychological horror game from the creative minds behind the critically acclaimed The Medium. Experience first-hand the toll that fear can take on the mind in an original story inspired by the cinematic lore of Blair Witch, designed for Virtual Reality.

Why similar: Horror 36.3%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, First-Person 15.6%, Atmospheric 12.3%, VR 9.9%

God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Why similar: Horror 37.1%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Psychological 14.7%, First-Person 10.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%

A Game Boy styled fishing horror adventure

Why similar: Horror 59.8%, Casual 18%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Indie 9.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%

A genre-defying phenomenon that will take you on a journey to stop a rubber duck from taking over the developer's game!

Why similar: FPS 40.2%, Psychological Horror 30.3%, Funny 16.7%, First-Person 12.8%

A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Why similar: Horror 27.1%, Multiple Endings 22.3%, Indie 20.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Casual 8.6%

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 35.9%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

DISTURBING FEARS is an episodic psychological horror game based on true events that immerses players in haunting narratives.

Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Psychological 14.2%, First-Person 10.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Full tilt surveillance horror. Keep your eyes locked on security cameras for an outrageous collection of horrific anomalies, suspicious movement, and the occasional T-Rex. Observe, detect, survive!

Why similar: Horror 37.9%, Psychological Horror 27.3%, Psychological 12.2%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Casual 6%