- #1 Endoparasitic 2
97% matchVery Positive87% of 667 reviews2024
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16.9%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Space 9.8%, Zombies 8.1%, Horror 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Direct sequel carrying forward the unique dragging mechanic, gross-out body horror, and frantic top-down survival gameplay.
- #2 EMPTY SHELL
96% matchVery Positive88% of 861 reviews2023
Dev: CC ARTSPub: Hyperstrange
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Top-Down 22.1%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Dark 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a dark, top-down industrial setting where you must cautiously survive and shoot through creepy mutated horrors.
- #3 Nightmare of Decay
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,443 reviews2022
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.4%, Zombies 29.1%, Horror 21.9%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Action 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Embraces the same gritty, low-budget retro survival horror charm and zombie-killing action found in Endoparasitic.
- #4 EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
95% matchVery Positive94% of 1,410 reviews2023
Dev: CC ARTSPub: Hyperstrange
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 40%
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Why similar: Horror 25.8%, Top-Down 25%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Action-Adventure 17.5%, Action 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A standalone slice of top-down industrial survival action matching the grim, claustrophobic atmosphere.
- #5 SIGNALIS
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,748 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Survival Horror 37.6%, Lovecraftian 33%, Dark 11%, Puzzle 5.8%, Action-Adventure 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the oppressive, low-fi sci-fi survival horror aesthetic and desperate resource management of a doomed mission.
- #6 You Will Die Here Tonight
94% matchVery Positive91% of 678 reviews2023
Dev: Spiral Bound Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.
Why similar: Zombies 27.2%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Dark 14.2%, Horror 10.8%, Top-Down 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the classic survival horror tension, puzzle-solving, and harrowing combat against relentless zombie threats.
- #7 Dead of Darkness
93% matchVery Positive87% of 225 reviews2025
Dev: Retrofiction Games
Windows
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.7%, Survival Horror 22%, Horror 12%, Top-Down 8.5%, Action-Adventure 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a top-down, atmospheric survival horror experience full of dark corridors and lurking monsters.
- #8 Stay Out of the House
92% matchVery Positive94% of 1,893 reviews2022
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
Why similar: Survival Horror 37%, Stealth 27.6%, Horror 19.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Action 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A tense, retro-styled survival horror game where you must evade terrifying threats with limited mobility and high stakes.
- #9 Heaven Dust 2
91% matchVery Positive90% of 861 reviews2022
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.
Why similar: Zombies 33.3%, Survival Horror 25.9%, Horror 17.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Action-Adventure 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers tight, puzzle-box survival horror gameplay centered around surviving a sinister research facility outbreak.
- #10 ROUTINE
89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,522 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar SoftwarePub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.8%, Stealth 19.9%, Space 14%, Horror 12.9%, Dark 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, sci-fi horror experience that captures the helpless feeling of being hunted in an isolated retro-future base.
- #11 Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
91% matchVery Positive85% of 1,306 reviews2012
Dev: Jasper ByrnePub: Superflat Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.1%, Horror 26.1%, Zombies 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Dark 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a bleak psychological atmosphere with desperate survival horror elements in a twisted setting.
- #12 Starless
90% matchVery Positive92% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: MouseDeer
Windows
In Starless, navigate a space Ark infested with terrifying monsters in this stealth-action game inspired by classic sci-fi. Can you help the colonists survive, or will they be doomed to roam the endless void of space forever?
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.6%, Stealth 19.1%, Space 11.9%, Horror 11.6%, Top-Down 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A bleak, sci-fi horror game focusing on survival, stealth, and managing desperate conditions in deep space.
- #13 Kohate
89% matchVery Positive85% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
Why similar: Stealth 24.2%, Survival Horror 19.8%, Horror 15.8%, Space 11.1%, Dark 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Puts players in a high-tension, claustrophobic environment relying heavily on stealth and evasion to survive.
- #14 PATHOGEN X
87% matchVery Positive81% of 308 reviews2024
Dev: BraveCat'Studios
Windows
An immersive, first-person survival shooter where you step into the boots of Special Agent Aiden Clark. Dive deep into a hazardous underground laboratory, tasked with the perilous mission of neutralizing a biological menace and securing a pathogen sample.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.7%, Zombies 30.9%, Horror 17.1%, Dark 8.6%, Action 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on fighting off grotesque viral outbreaks and zombies within confined, dangerous quarters.
- #15 Syndrome
88% matchMixed64% of 373 reviews2016
Dev: Camel 101
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.6%, Stealth 24.7%, Space 15.5%, Horror 15.5%, Dark 8%
Why You'll Like It: Traps you on a desolate sci-fi research vessel crawling with terrifying mutants that demand stealth and scarce ammo.
- #16 project BLARI
86% matchVery Positive87% of 166 reviews2020
Dev: MaxEstLa
Windows
Try to survive in this semi open horror game inspired by the ps1 graphic era.
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.5%, Zombies 18.2%, Lovecraftian 16.9%, Horror 13.2%, Stylized 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival horror game that emphasizes desperate resource gathering and evasion against hostile terrors.
- #17 ZERO PROTOCOL
85% matchVery Positive83% of 635 reviews2024
Dev: R_Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this immersive sci-fi thriller, you will experience the atmosphere of classic 3D games as you solve puzzles, follow an intriguing non-linear storyline, and engage in battles with monsters.
Why similar: Survival Horror 41.9%, Stylized 15.2%, Horror 14.2%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features tight survival horror mechanics and psychological dread set inside a dark, atmospheric sci-fi facility.
- #18 The Consuming Shadow
86% matchVery Positive95% of 430 reviews2015
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.9%, Survival Horror 25.9%, Horror 10.7%, Dark 5.6%, 2D 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends Lovecraftian dread and survival mechanics in a desperate race to stay alive against eldritch horrors.
- #19 Ad Infernum
84% matchVery Positive95% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Glass Knuckle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.8%, Lovecraftian 22%, Stealth 15.8%, Horror 10.5%, Dark 10%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive survival horror experience that challenges players with oppressive dread and dangerous monster encounters.
- #20 Iron Blight
81% matchVery Positive93% of 868 reviews2026
Dev: Ronesans InteractivePub: Rock Paper Publisher
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Iron Blight is a survival horror game set in a cold, rainy Eastern Bloc town. You are trapped in a room as abominations claw at your door, with nowhere to run. You must survive the feverish night, uncover the horrors lurking in the shadows, and above all, find your wife, Valeria.
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.8%, Zombies 17.1%, Horror 13%, Dark 9.9%, Stylized 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled survival horror game that demands meticulous inventory management and tactical combat against horrors.
- #21 Synthesis of Corruption
82% matchVery Positive85% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: VidyGames
Windows
Emergency Protocol activated: Dark Energy Particle Synthesis failed. Now you – late and alone – must navigate a facility where science and sanity have collapsed. Face entities born from the corruption of dark energy in this atmospheric FPS-horror hybrid, where human ambition meets primal terror.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.3%, Zombies 22.6%, Horror 21.7%, Puzzle 7.8%, Exploration 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty sci-fi survival horror title packed with hostile mutations and claustrophobic corridors.
- #22 GUTTED: Infested Crypts
82% matchVery Positive88% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: SLAM AWAY GAMES
Windows
Descend into infested crypts beneath a cursed cemetery in this visceral action-horror FPS. Fight through rotting horrors with heavy gunplay, brutal dismemberment, and only a dying flashlight between you and the darkness.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.5%, Zombies 29.1%, Horror 19.2%, Dark 14.8%, Action 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers brutal, dark survival horror gameplay with a heavy focus on grotesque monster combat.
- #23 The Tower on the Borderland
83% matchVery Positive86% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: DascuMaru
Windows
A horror game inspired by Super Metroid and The House on the Borderland. Explore, survive and escape from a mysterious tower, inhabited by ghouls and monsters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.5%, Survival Horror 21.4%, Zombies 18.9%, Horror 8.5%, Stylized 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines Lovecraftian horror themes with grueling survival combat and dark, oppressive exploration.
- #24 Antarctica 88
84% matchVery Positive87% of 277 reviews2020
Dev: Euphoria Games
Windows
Uncover the chilling secrets beneath the Antarctic ice in this survival horror FPS. Shoot unimaginable creatures, solve cryptic puzzles, and fight for your life in the frozen wastelands.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.2%, Horror 16.9%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Dark 12.9%, Action-Adventure 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A freezing, monster-infested horror adventure revolving around survival, puzzle solving, and combating grotesque creatures.
- #25 Decarnation
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,131 reviews2023
Dev: Atelier QDBPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.2%, Survival Horror 18%, Horror 11.9%, Dark 9.5%, Puzzle 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Explores surreal psychological horror and body-horror themes with a deeply unsettling narrative.
- #26 DOCTOR VISCERA
79% matchVery Positive94% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: Liminal RoadPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Trapped in an abandoned asylum, survive by exploring, solving puzzles, and escaping the terrifying Doctor Viscera. Hide, fight back with limited resources, and uncover documents that reveal the way out before you become the next victim of his gruesome experiments.
Why similar: Survival Horror 31.3%, Stealth 27.2%, Horror 14.5%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Puzzle 8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival horror and stealth mechanics in a tense, isolated environment.
- #27 Look Outside
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,918 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.2%, Survival Horror 29.1%, Horror 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Dark 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, lo-fi survival horror game dripping with cosmic dread and eerie atmosphere.
- #28 Parasitic Evil
79% matchVery Positive91% of 717 reviews2023
Dev: R'sPub: Playmeow
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Amidst a catastrophe, the protagonists find themselves trapped inside a hospital that has been conducting mysterious research. While they manage to survive the initial disaster, they are soon confronted with insane mutations—and the struggle to escape the hospital which leaves both their sanity and physical forms under siege.
Why similar: Exploration 27.2%, Puzzle 26.9%, Action 15.8%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Action-Adventure 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Involves battling hostile parasitic entities in a dark, atmospheric shooter setting.
- #29 Wrought Flesh
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 816 reviews2021
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Rip out organs and equip them in your own body. Fight biopunk monsters and drugged-up space bandits. You are a Gajeshian Cultist: A near-mythological being built from the bodies of long-dead saints.
Why similar: Horror 44.7%, Exploration 20.5%, Action 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features extreme body horror themes where harvesting enemy flesh is key to surviving a hostile environment.
- #30 RATUZ
78% matchVery Positive88% of 375 reviews2022
Dev: Bad Coffee Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
After a science experiment gets out of control, you need to survive and escape this dark prison that hides weird secrets. The game is a cinematic platform of terror and stealth, inspired by INSIDE, Another World, Blackthorne and Prince of Persia.
Why similar: Horror 39.9%, Action-Adventure 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, 2D 11%, Action 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, indie horror experience that challenges players to survive punishing and claustrophobic trials.
- #31 House
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,237 reviews2020
Dev: Bark Bark Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
Why similar: Horror 51.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Action 10.1%, 2D 9.7%, Puzzle 6.1%
- #32 SCP – Containment Breach
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,971 reviews2026
Dev: Undertow GamesPub: SCP-CB Community Preservation Project
Windows
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.5%, Horror 23.8%, Dark 10.1%, Stylized 9.2%, Exploration 8.7%
- #33 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
77% matchMixed60% of 348 reviews2024
Dev: Bazura GamesPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Zombies 27.7%, Survival Horror 27.1%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Exploration 6.4%
- #34 Deformed
75% matchVery Positive95% of 176 reviews2024
Dev: Deformed Studios
Windows
Single player horror game set in an underground lab. Kill monsters and escape.
Why similar: Exploration 100%
- #35 HYPERVIOLENT
75% matchMixed58% of 529 reviews2025
Dev: nfoPRINCEPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An ancient evil has awoken in the depths of a remote mining asteroid, stirred from its slumber by man's lust for power. Unaware, you answer a distress call and become stranded, surrounded by monstrous foes. Unravel the mystery of this madness and stop its spread in this horror retro shooter!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.8%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Space 12.2%, Horror 11.1%, Dark 9.1%
- #36 GARAGE: Bad Trip
76% matchMixed67% of 818 reviews2018
Dev: Zombie DynamicsPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Drug dealer Butch slays hordes of living dead to save a girl. Garage is a bloody topdown shooter inspired by VHS era B-movies.
Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Top-Down 12.8%, Horror 11.9%
- #37 HELL OF FEAR: Mind Breach
72% matchVery Positive86% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: Abyss AssemblyPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Step into the boots of Major Axel Vex in this survival horror descent into deep space. You embark on a mission to investigate a distress signal coming from Cengona Base. What starts off as a simple mission quickly turns into a terrifying, action-packed fight for survival.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.9%, Space 21%, Horror 19.6%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Zombies 8.6%
- #38 Zombie Shooter
76% matchVery Positive83% of 1,346 reviews2009
Dev: Sigma Team Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 50%
The human race is in danger again. This time scientists could not cope the imminent threat and became monsters themselves. Crowds of zombie people filled the secret research base. The dreadful contagion is about to spread earth wide. Use the last chance to save the humanity from total annihilation!
Why similar: Zombies 44.5%, Top-Down Shooter 18.4%, Horror 17.3%, Top-Down 7.6%, Action 7.1%
- #39 The Lacerator
71% matchVery Positive99% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: Games From The AbyssPub: DreadXP
Windows
Lose a limb? You’ll adapt in THE LACERATOR! A titillating mix of survival horror and trashy 80’s film.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.9%, Horror 20.3%, Dark 13.6%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Exploration 8.1%
- #40 Hidden Deep
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,101 reviews2022
Dev: Cogwheel SoftwarePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…
Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Dark 20.4%, Action-Adventure 15.9%, Puzzle 11.2%, 2D 9.6%
- #41 The Tribulation Entanglement
74% matchVery Positive81% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Anxious Neck Games
Windows
You are the Entangled One, a malformed entity. Traverse the flesh wastes under the eye of an eternal eclipse. Delve deep into the planet's guts. Uncover a fleshy ecosystem. Engage in deliberate, challenging combat, using your whiplike arms and collectible sub attacks to augment your combat style!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 46.3%, Horror 17.4%, Dark 14.2%, Action-Adventure 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%
- #42 DYSTHANASIA
70% matchVery Positive89% of 362 reviews2025
Dev: Madowaku KoboPub: Eroge Japan
Windows
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: Survival Horror 28.5%, Stealth 24.5%, Horror 16.5%, Dark 12.9%, Puzzle 6.9%
- #43 SENARA: The Sacrament
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Influsion Inc.
Windows
A claustrophobic ocean liner, relentless cultists, and horrific monstrosities. Inspired by classic survival horror like Resident Evil, gather clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth. Where fanaticism and salvation collide, you must make choices beyond mere survival.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.3%, Survival Horror 22.7%, Zombies 17.8%, Horror 13.3%, Dark 9.8%
- #44 OVERWRITE
72% matchVery Positive98% of 85 reviews2023
Dev: ツノウサギの家
Windows
Overwrite each other. A story-driven exploration adventure shaped by tragedy. ― I woke up in a research facility. And... someone was already inside me. (I initiated the experiment at this research facility.) (My first—and final—experiment for my sake. I staked everything on it.)
Why similar: Horror 50.6%, 2D 26.5%, Pixel Graphics 22.9%
- #45 It Steals
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,409 reviews2020
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
AROUND EVERY CORNER. Face against stealthy antagonists that will take advantage of your expectations.
Why similar: Survival Horror 42.5%, Horror 22.1%, Stealth 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Action 5.4%
- #46 Subterrain
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,399 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Zombies 24.8%, Survival Horror 22.6%, Top-Down 19.3%, Horror 9%, Dark 7.7%
- #47 Dark Matter
74% matchMixed45% of 265 reviews2013
Dev: InterWave StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...
Why similar: Survival Horror 41.6%, Action 30.8%, Horror 27.6%
- #48 Lost in Vivo
70% matchVery Positive91% of 4,007 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Survival Horror 33.3%, Lovecraftian 32.9%, Horror 21.4%, Stylized 7.7%, Atmospheric 4.7%
- #49 Project Liminal 2
68% matchMostly Positive82% of 70 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: Minimalist 26.4%, Action 14.7%, Puzzle 14.2%, Stylized 12.8%, Exploration 10.3%
- #50 Ex Vitro
68% matchVery Positive94% of 154 reviews2024
Dev: Evolver Dynamics
Windows
EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Exploration 18.7%, Dark 15.9%, 2D 14.2%, Action 10.6%
- #51 JANITOR BLEEDS
69% matchVery Positive86% of 276 reviews2022
Dev: KorpusPub: Bonus Stage Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Enter the abandoned arcade after your car has crashed, and the shelter you were looking for is trying to eat you alive in this dark mystery-horror adventure. Solve mysteries, keep JANITOR satisfied, and always be aware of what's behind your back.
Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Dark 19.2%, Puzzle 14.8%, Exploration 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
- #52 CULTIC
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,749 reviews2022
Dev: Jasozz GamesPub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
Why similar: Horror 31.2%, Lovecraftian 18.7%, Dark 17.4%, Stylized 13.8%, Action 12.5%
- #53 Voyager-19
66% matchVery Positive88% of 1,023 reviews2024
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 54 min≥1hr: 30%
A short horror game where you control a decaying spacecraft exploring distant star systems.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.3%, Space 24.9%, Horror 23%, Puzzle 7.9%, Exploration 7.6%
- #54 Never Forgotten
67% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: Cody Hodge
Windows
A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.5%, Horror 13.6%, Minimalist 11.2%, Dark 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9.4%
- #55 Idols of Ash
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,529 reviews2026
Dev: Leafy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Grapple, clamber and fall thousands of meters down into a dark and ancient place in this first-person horror climbing game. You are being hunted.
Why similar: Horror 45.4%, Dark 25.7%, Exploration 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Action 7.7%
- #56 Super Lone Survivor
67% matchVery Positive93% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: SuperflatPub: Superflat Games
Windows
The masked protagonist must escape the city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary. Use stealth to scavenge food, or kill everything in your path. Nurture your mental health or descend into madness. How you survive is up to you.
Why similar: Survival Horror 27.5%, Stealth 23.4%, Horror 14.1%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Exploration 6.3%
- #57 Tunnels of Despair
70% matchMixed62% of 74 reviews2018
Dev: BearFighterDev
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Survival Horror 28.6%, Zombies 21.8%, Stealth 17.2%, Horror 16.9%, Dark 6.3%
- #58 Infectious
69% matchMixed66% of 83 reviews2020
Dev: Ziggy Makes Games
Windows
Play as a lethal virus infecting various organs in your host's body while trying to outsmart the immune cells that seek to eliminate you and your kind. Generate clones and watch them propagate, infecting cells and taking down bosses.
Why similar: Survival Horror 46.9%, Stealth 38.7%, Action 5.9%, Atmospheric 5.1%, 2D 3.4%
- #59 Operator8
66% matchVery Positive80% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Aligned Games
Windows
An unparalleled alien invasion has overwhelmed the Mining Block Facility on the moon Triton, leaving only death and horror in its wake. You are a mercenary known as Operator8 and you alone have been called in to bring a stop to this fierce attack. Destroy the hive mind at all costs!
Why similar: Survival Horror 36%, Space 21.6%, Horror 17.3%, Noir 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
- #60 The Heilwald Loophole
66% matchVery Positive97% of 373 reviews2022
Dev: Jan Malitschek
Windows
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
Why similar: Survival Horror 27.9%, Stealth 24.5%, Horror 17.5%, Dark 11.6%, Exploration 5.8%