Games Like Eclipse of The Shadow

A short atmospheric horror game from the multi-award-winning Blue Desert Studios. Navigate the shadows of Venus in a six-wheeled space exploration vehicle on a solo mission to investigate why the planet's climate is changing. Explore the mystery and avoid the pitfalls of the planet's dark secrets.

Why similar: Science 17.9%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 8.9%, Thriller 8.6%, Space 8.1%

Signal Lost: The Ping is a first-person atmospheric horror adventure set in a pitch-black underground facility. Use sonar-like PING pulses to reveal paths for a heartbeat, but each ping raises the Threat and draws the Sentinel closer.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Thriller 9.7%, Investigation 9.6%, Realistic 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

Veil of Sanity: Echoes of the Carnival (Chapter 1) combines psychological horror with intense gameplay. Keep your sanity intact as you explore a forsaken carnival. More chapters coming soon!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.1%, Horror 13.3%, Thriller 13.2%, Realistic 10.8%, First-Person 10.6%

GRANDFATHER is a first-person psychological horror game set in a two-room apartment. One evening, the mother brings home the long-lost father. With his return, the house is filled with oppressive anxiety and fear.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Realistic 13.7%, Thriller 10.7%

YouTuber Junho enters an abandoned factory at night to film his next video. The footage from that night is never uploaded. Explore the dark, three-story factory, complete the shoot, and uncover its secrets in this first-person psychological horror game.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 14.1%, First-Person 10.6%, Realistic 10%, Investigation 9.3%

Neurophobia is a personal first-person decryption exploration. In order to get rid of neurological symptoms, the protagonist woke up from a coma for unknown reasons and has come to the research institute. As one of the former researchers, he came to explore the true face of it.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.5%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Horror 16.6%, Investigation 14.2%, Exploration 10.8%

Psychological horror, which is part of the games CASE: Animatronics and CASE 2: Animatronics Survival.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 11.4%, Thriller 10.1%, Realistic 9.1%

A 60-minute first-person psychological horror game. Your new neighborhood hides a dark secret: previous residents either fled within weeks, or never left at all. Explore eight abandoned homes and discover their fate.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Thriller 18.6%, Horror 14.2%, Realistic 12.5%, First-Person 10%

A psychological narrative horror game where you explore an abandoned government lab while an AI imitating your father guides you.. Would you rather sit quite OR discover the truth with Noah!!!

Why similar: Science 19.3%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Horror 12.2%, Exploration 9.6%

Seven Days Until Morning is an atmospheric horror game that leaves you isolated on the dwarf planet of Pluto. You play as a survivor of the collapse of humanity. Escape the end and survive to see the morning.

Why similar: Science 22.7%, Psychological Horror 15%, Thriller 12.9%, Horror 11.1%, Space 10.2%

Christmas is a joyful time, but this time something dark is hiding behind the holiday decorations. Your actions will determine whether you and your girlfriend survive Christmas night.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 11%, Thriller 10.5%, Realistic 8.7%

Enter the minds of people who never let anyone win. Break their defenses, expose protected truths, and decide which memories the Source is allowed to keep in this sci-fi psychological horror game.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.8%, Horror 15%, First-Person 11.3%, Thriller 8.8%, Investigation 8.4%

Arrive in Alaska to solve a case involving a macabre discovery. Interview witnesses, gather clues in the night woods, and uncover the dark secret of Silver Falls. Try to maintain your sanity in this chilling psychological VHS horror.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19%, Thriller 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 11.2%, Exploration 7.4%

In this asymmetrical multiplayer co-op puzzle game, brave the treacherous unknown and endeavour on a deadly, desolate planet. Be the eyes from above or the scout on the ground and work together with a friend to uncover the mysteries and escape from the planet Xanahspati.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.2%, Science 23%, Space 10.8%, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 10.6%

A short story-driven horror game with a worn VHS finish. Move into the last house on Sycamore Street, unpack, meet the neighbor, and find out why the dog won't go near the attic. After dark, hide in the wardrobe, watch through the slats, and try to get a phone signal.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 18.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Realistic 9.6%, Story Rich 9.6%

Epsilon Eridana is a story-driven sci-fi survival horror with a heavy focus on exploration. Your goal is to investigate what happened to the crew of abandoned space base and unravel the terryfying secrets of the first extraterrestrial contact.

Why similar: Science 20.7%, Space 12.1%, Thriller 12%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Horror 10.4%

Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.

Why similar: Horror 18.9%, Realistic 16.5%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, First-Person 13.2%, Story Rich 9.6%

Investigate a second-hand laptop in this first-person psychological horror experience, uncovering files, messages, and anomalies that don’t match reality.

Why similar: Thriller 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Realistic 12.2%, Horror 12.1%, Investigation 11.6%

In this first-person psychological horror game, visit your ex-girlfriend during a mental breakdown at her childhood home. Uncover the truth behind her crisis by searching for clues, talking to unsettling characters and solving puzzles. Just be ready to run and hide when her nightmares come alive.

Why similar: Thriller 17.8%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 13.7%, Realistic 13.3%, First-Person 9.1%

A first-person psychological horror game where you stay with your grandfather for a few days after he starts acting strangely. Help him with everyday tasks, follow his unusual rules, and experience unsettling events around the house as the story unfolds.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Thriller 19.4%, Horror 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, First-Person 9.9%

Everything is for Humanity is a story-driven, exploration and puzzle-solving based science fiction horror game which sets in a massive science facility in 2020. You will discover tons of things and find out about the blood-chilling truths with its first-person experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 12.7%, Thriller 10.6%, Realistic 9.9%

Ethan returns to his cousin's old family house, deep in the forest, a place he hasn't set foot in for five years, ever since the family who lived there vanished without a trace.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Horror 16.6%, First-Person 12.4%, Thriller 11.5%, Story Rich 8.9%

A horror game about escaping from a mysterious place after a chilling encounter in the woods. Explore, stay quiet, and make tough choices as you search for a way out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Thriller 16.1%, Horror 14.5%, Realistic 9.6%, Exploration 9.3%

A childhood you don't remember arrives on an old film reel. Step into the Dawn Sanatorium — a first-person psychological horror where a projector rewrites reality, a horned figure watches from the dark, and the truth about who you are waits at the very bottom.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Thriller 16.8%, Horror 14.7%, First-Person 11%, Realistic 9.7%

THE LAST PORTRAIT is a haunting adventure that leads you into the abandoned Ashwood Manor. You are a lawyer who has inherited the house from a client and wants to uncover its secrets. Solve tricky puzzles and escape the spirit that guards the estate!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 17.1%, Realistic 14.4%, Thriller 12.6%, First-Person 11.9%

A missing father, a mysterious murder, paintings depicting missing children. A Short horror game in which the protagonist, who has lost his memory, is forced to get to a horrific truth. Who in the world are you?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 18.1%, Realistic 14.9%, Thriller 11.4%, First-Person 7.6%

The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.

Why similar: Thriller 17.1%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 13.2%, Realistic 9.8%, Investigation 9.5%

You find yourself in an abandoned military town, from which all its inhabitants have disappeared due to unexplained circumstances. You will need to find out what happened, but unexplained phenomena will occur during the investigation. This journey will change the main character forever.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.2%, Realistic 12.1%, Exploration 9.7%, First-Person 9.2%, Thriller 9.2%

Project Diaspora: Planet Exploration is a game set in a virtual jungle planet called Diaspora, which is a dangerous unknown planet. Do the mission given by exploring planets and ruins, and check out the story that happens to the main character.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Exploration 14.5%, Horror 10.4%, First-Person 9.4%

Jim and his three friends head to an abandoned house in the forest, hoping to escape the pressure of upcoming exams and break free from their mundane routine. But none of them realizes that this night will prove to be fateful.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Thriller 16%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 11.7%, Realistic 9.6%

Collect soil on Venus. Photograph the surface. Mark every rock. Log any unusual rock as HARVESTER. Do not keep looking at it

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 16.8%, Space 13.1%, Science 10.1%, Investigation 9%

ASPIS is an atmospheric mystical thriller set in an alternative USSR of the late 80s. You play as a scientist who has lost his family and is involved in a dangerous experiment to create a reality simulation. Explore the cybernetics institute, travel between worlds and encounter a distorted reality

Why similar: Science 18.7%, Thriller 15.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%

You're a horror content creator, venturing into frightening locations to captivate your audience. You're attempting to attract more viewers by recording paranormal events. However, these horror-filled adventures will one day come back to haunt you, at a high cost.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Thriller 21.3%, Horror 17.7%, Realistic 15.5%, First-Person 7.2%

Four victims brutally murdered by an unknown killers. Using an experimental device, you enter the minds of the dead to relive the harrowing, agonizing final minutes of their lives.

Why similar: Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Thriller 14.4%, First-Person 12.3%, 3D 8.6%

A detective is interviewing a survivor about a night that doesn't add up. Step into their fading memory, swap between survivor and detective to find what doesn't match the evidence, and help them remember what really happened. Something is keeping the night buried, and it knows you're looking.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Investigation 14.8%, Horror 14.6%, Realistic 10.1%, Story Rich 8.4%

Just another night in your apartment soon transforms into a tense game of choices. Answer the door, trust no one, and survive the night. Every choice changes the outcome.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 13.5%, Thriller 13.3%, Exploration 8.7%

Train 113 is a first-person horror game in which you play a passenger who wakes up aboard a seemingly empty subway train. As you move around the train, trying to get from car to car, you'll begin to sense that things around you are not what they appear to be.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 20.4%, Realistic 17.8%, First-Person 9.7%, Exploration 8%

A first-person psychological horror thriller where an ordinary night takes an unsettling turn. Face unexpected guests, strange encounters, and unpredictable events as you try to make it through the night.

Why similar: Thriller 19.8%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Exploration 9.3%, Horror 8.3%

You are an engineer maintaining a residential complex on Mars as contact with Earth slowly fades away. But before long, one thing becomes clear: you are not alone in the Martian wasteland. Something familiar - bound to you by unseen ties - already knows how to find you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 15.3%, Thriller 13.6%, Space 10.7%, Exploration 8.4%

A first-person psychological horror set in rural Finland, where isolation and unsettling encounters slowly turn your housekeeping job into something far more disturbing.

Why similar: Thriller 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Horror 12.3%, Investigation 9.3%

You've been hired by an outfit known as SMS Group to retrieve an artifact lost somewhere inside the abandoned Folcroft Monastery. Locals say the place is haunted by restless spirits, but the pay was too good to pass up. You asked little questions. Find the artifact requested and get out alive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 14.8%, First-Person 11.2%, Realistic 11%, Exploration 9.4%

Step into the mind of a grieving father who lost his daughter in a tragic car crash. Trapped in a terrifying loop within an abandoned hospital created by his own dementia-riddled subconscious, you must face your deepest fears. Broken Drive is a first-person psychological horror game.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Thriller 13.9%, Horror 12.8%, First-Person 9.8%, Investigation 8.2%

The Schism is a sci-fy horror game. There has been a paranormal split, colliding realities and causing all manner of dangerous lifeforms to scatter across the globe. With the world in chaos, it seems like it's down to you to get to the bottom of it.

Why similar: Science 23.4%, Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Realistic 9.5%

INVARIANT is a first-person psychological horror game. Step into the shattered mind of a mathematician. Rely on your destructive addiction to bend reality, explore ever-changing environments, and hide from the terrifying manifestations of your grief. Truth and lies are a sip apart.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 12.8%, Realistic 11.6%, Thriller 9.6%, Story Rich 9.2%

A psychological survival horror set in an underground parking garage. Trapped in an inescapable otherworld, survive until 5 AM while obeying absurd rules and fleeing a relentless clown. Each attack eats away at your mind, drawing you closer to becoming one. Can you survive the night as a human?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 19%, Thriller 12.8%, First-Person 12.5%, Investigation 7%

Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Thriller 14.8%, Horror 14.6%, Realistic 12.2%, First-Person 11.9%

You are an impostor inhabiting the body of a dead crew member. Blend in and live out your days on the ship without raising suspicion. Complete seven daily tasks, even as a strange atmosphere begins to take hold. Can you survive all seven days without being exposed?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Space 17.9%, Horror 17.1%, Atmospheric 6.5%

You play as a traveler stranded on a cold, stormy night after your car runs out of gas. With no signal and nowhere else to go, you follow your dying GPS to a small roadside motel— but what seems like a safe place quickly turns into something far more sinister.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Thriller 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 10.6%, Realistic 10.3%

Every floor is a new world. A first-person psychological horror where every floor is a new nightmare. Travel through chilling environments, unravel disturbing stories as the elevator takes you deeper and deeper into the unknown. Can you make it to the last floor?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.1%, Thriller 11.9%, Horror 11.1%, Realistic 10.3%, First-Person 9.8%

A first-person psychological horror game of hiding, solving, and surviving inside a haunted moon base

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 12.5%, Space 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Thriller 10.3%

An unknown disease, a dark past and a little girl named Katya, what the outcome will be depends on you, because sooner or later we all have to make a choice and live with it. Are you ready to do your own to achieve the goal at any cost, regardless of the consequences?

Why similar: Thriller 15.6%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 11.4%, Realistic 11.3%, First-Person 10%

The Backrooms Origins is a first person exploration and psychological horror game about famous creepypasta the backrooms. Explore levels of backrooms and try to keep your sanity.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Thriller 13.7%, Horror 11.5%, Realistic 10.7%, Investigation 9.4%

Uncover your grandfather's sinister experiments in "Shattered Reflections." Dive into a twisted Mirror Realm, face every-minute terrors, collect Soul Essence, and shape your fate. Are you ready for a psychological descent into darkness?

Why similar: Thriller 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 12.6%, Realistic 11.3%, First-Person 8.3%

Backrooms: Found Footage is a single-player horror game where you are the main character trying to survive the Backrooms. Curiosity wins and you decide to explore this weird place that you got trapped in. What could go wrong?

Why similar: Realistic 15.3%, Horror 13.7%, Exploration 13%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, First-Person 11.7%

Explore dark corridors, snap photos, and survive hostile entities hunting you. Use your camera's flash to reveal the way, but beware - each flash draws unwanted attention.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 12.4%, Exploration 11%, Investigation 11%, Realistic 10.6%

Rococo, who was rejected for confessing in reality, discovered a game where she could kill people at will. After setting her favorite boy as a game character, she fell into endless demands and venting.

Why similar: Thriller 19.5%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Horror 12.2%, First-Person 11.5%

A forgotten asylum. A missing daughter. A man with nothing left to lose. In Asylum 1966, descend into a decaying institution where reality bends and shadows whisper secrets. What you uncover will test your sanity and your choices will shape your fate.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.4%, Thriller 14.3%, Horror 13.9%, Investigation 13.7%, Exploration 9.5%

A first-person investigation inside a rebuilt memory. You are not a man in a room — you are the scan of one. Reconstruct what happened to him object by object, link the evidence, and learn to spot the parts the machine invented to fill its gaps.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.1%, Exploration 13.9%, First-Person 11.6%, Investigation 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Beneath the dead, ashen surface of the moon lies a secret beyond mortal comprehension.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Space 16.7%, Horror 14.4%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Exploration 9.8%