- #1 King's Lair
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JarthGames
Windows
King's Lair is a stealth based folk-horror game with puzzle elements. There is no combat and you must rely on your wit and composure to prevail.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #2 Afterdays
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nathaniel Peter Яentrow
Windows
Formerly AfterMath - a post-apoc text-based game: A week has past since the Doomsday apocalypse reeked hell upon earth on December 21, 2012. You finally have awoken in your underground bomb shelter to learn of what remains of the world around you.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #3 Dead Man's Trail
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pie for Breakfast Studios
Windows · Mac
A survival horror adventure game about running for your life, looting, morality, and zombies.
Why similar: Gore 43.8%, Violent 39.8%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 6.9%
- #4 It Will Find You
95% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Mega Sloth StudiosPub: MegaSloth
Windows
It Will Find You is a first person narrative driven horror experience, with a focus on environmental interaction and progressive narrative through game-play. It Will Find You aims to provide an immersive experience where a dark, twisting narrative evolves in tandem with your decisions.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #5 Mostly Scared of Spiders
94% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: HeroHead studios
Windows · Mac
Exploring in the Australian outback, you become separated from your party. Can you survive and safely make your way out? "Mostly Scared of Spiders" is an exciting journey into the Australian outback.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #6 Only After
92% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: GuraShop
Windows
After a teenage girl goes missing, psychiatrist Judy Williams and detective Michael Grady try to piece together the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Their only clue is David, Julie's boyfriend, who's been found in a nearby forest.
Why similar: Gore 40.7%, Violent 37%, Adventure 13%, Indie 9.4%
- #7 The Frost
93% matchMostly Negative32% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Tephra CompanyPub: Tephra
Windows
You are completely alone among the snow and mountains. You have to get out of this place, surrounded by snow and fear. In extreme сonditions, against the cold and creatures that live in those places, you must survive, and escape from this accursed place.
Why similar: Gore 44.3%, Violent 40.3%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 6.9%
- #8 Gulag
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EJRGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you manage to escape from the most dreadful place on Earth? The Soviet Gulag is just the beginning. Face the wilderness, as well as the vastness of Siberia, Mongolia, and Tibet. Deceive the enemy and find resources that are vital for survival.
Why similar: Gore 43.8%, Violent 39.8%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 6.9%
- #9 A Ghostly Tale
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Renee Beaulieu
Windows
Play as a butler and explore a haunted mansion. Discover mysteries and solve problems in this Point and Click Adventure game.
Why similar: Gore 40.7%, Violent 37%, Adventure 13%, Indie 9.4%
- #10 Kemonomichi-White Moment-
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: MBF FILMsPub: SouthWorks
Windows
Adventure novel game. (English subtitles) Story synopsis: Large sword in hand, a man plans his escape from the organization. Running from his pursuers, he is forced to wander. Then, before his eyes… a girl appears. In the silver-haired girl’s hand, a long sword that seems otherworldly.
Why similar: Gore 47.2%, Violent 42.9%, Adventure 9.9%
- #11 Hot Mars 69
90% matchMixed42% of 85 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
You play for the commander of the special forces group - Elon, and you need to kill all the devil-mutants in the colony on Mars to avenge for the dead comrades, and to escape.
Why similar: Gore 44.2%, Violent 40.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 6.9%
- #12 The Apartment
89% matchMixed55% of 38 reviews2018
Dev: Shattered Mirror
Windows
The Apartment is a small psychological thriller. Interesting mix of first person detective adventure game, puzzle solving, psychological horror and FPS action, all tied together with dark and heavy story where lines between reality and nightmare have no meaning anymore.
Why similar: Gore 45.1%, Violent 39.2%, Adventure 9%, Indie 6.8%
- #13 YARBAY
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roar Game StudiosPub: Roar Entertainment
Windows
Yarbay is a psychological dramatic FPS game that tells the story of a warplane pilot. His plane shot down in the middle of the desert, in Middle East by terrorists and he has to take care of himself. Yarbay means "lieutenant colonel" in Turkish. And this "yarbay" Cihangir, must return to Turkey in one piece.
Why similar: Gore 44.2%, Violent 40.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 6.9%
- #14 Reborn
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Knife Entertainment
Windows
Horror in which you no longer need to hide from the invulnerable enemy.
Why similar: Gore 44.3%, Violent 40.2%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 6.9%
- #15 Russian Gangsta In HELL
88% matchMixed51% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 11%
You play as a gangster who got into Hell for your business, and you need to kill all demon devils demons, because there's nothing else to do in Hell
Why similar: Gore 43.2%, Violent 41%, Adventure 9%, Indie 6.8%
- #16 The River
89% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Josh Redmon
Windows
The River is a Psychological horror game based on P.T.S.D. You are a soldier who just came back from war and while you where sleeping one night you had a flashback and murdered your family. Now, you are stuck in limbo and you must relive every thing and try to collect all of the memories you can find.
Why similar: Gore 43.2%, Violent 41.1%, Adventure 9%, Indie 6.8%
- #17 The Dark Wish
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitRay Studio
Windows
The Dark Wish is adventure horror game. Are you brave enough to discover true?
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #18 Infernales: Circles of Hell
86% matchMostly Negative26% of 31 reviews2018
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Just shoot ....
Why similar: Gore 43.7%, Violent 39.7%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 7.4%
- #19 Biotoxin: The Dark Days
86% matchMixed60% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Fivesyounger Development
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Biotoxin: The Dark Days is a horror platformer where you must fight your way through the remenants of the world. Loot weapons and ammo to improve your arsenal in order take on hordes of infected in an unforgiving future.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #20 Russian Prisoner VS Nazi Zombies
85% matchMixed53% of 87 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
You are prisoner Artyomich, and you need to kill all the devils of the SS from Hell in order to save Russia from the apocalypse.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #21 Mental House
84% matchMixed48% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: Occult Games
Windows · Mac
Mental House is a psychological first-person horror game. Puzzles, Unexpected moments, Depressing atmosphere and more. Explore the research center and try to survive, revealing the terrible secret of this place.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #22 Unsacrifice
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unreal SpiritPub: Daniel Muñoz Michán
Windows
Unsacrifice is a classic survival horror game compile in a solo campaign. You will play as a priest apprendice, lost in a world full of mysteries, hidden dangers and deformed creatures that the player has to escape from.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #23 Chernobyl: Road of Death
82% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2019
Dev: diedemor studio
Windows
Chernobyl: Road of Death - 2d shooter with elements of survival and rogue-like. The game takes place on the territory of Chernobyl after the explosion of the nuclear power plant. In addition to monsters and military - you have to face a more dangerous and invisible enemy-radiation.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 40%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 7.2%
- #24 Demon Blade VR
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Monkeys Crowd Entertainment
Windows
In Demon Blade VR, you wield dual swords inherited from a legendary demon slayer "Kolipkaza" in a dire moment while an volcanic demon lord "Ifritus" erupted by mysterious reasons is attempting to immolate our precious world , you as the only descendant left has to stop him.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #25 SAS VS Zombies
83% matchMostly Negative30% of 27 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
This is an shooter from the 3rd person with elements of survival, where you need to beat the waves of zombie-mannequins
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #26 Marrow
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 54 reviews2016
Dev: Fever Dream Gameworks
Windows
Marrow is a 2D, Cosmic-Horror themed, action-adventure game emphasizing challenge, puzzles, platforming, combat and navigation. Leap, crawl, slash and blast your way through the cavernous bowels of a menacing mountain in a quest to find your lost friends.
Why similar: Gore 43.7%, Violent 39.7%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 7.8%
- #27 The Devil's Garden
79% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: Lorenzo Entertainment
Windows
Can you escape The Devil's Garden?
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #28 Forest of Evil
78% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Brown Studios
Windows
A knight of the crusades embarks upon a long journey home after the wars. Little does he know, that he is about to stumble upon a deep darkness. Will he have the strength to survive the Night and tear through the veil of evil to bring forth the light of a new dawn? Or will he succumb to the darkness?
Why similar: Gore 44.2%, Violent 40.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 6.9%
- #29 Nightmare at the lighthouse
80% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: LsgStudioPub: Bill Lazos
Windows
Nightmare at the lighthouse,the game starts with our hero working,then someone came, and this is where everything started.He have a mission, and until he complete his mission, he goes through danger's and horror, but before he discover what is happening in that lighthouse,everything is possible!
Why similar: Gore 42.8%, Violent 40.8%, Adventure 9.4%, Indie 7%
- #30 Freedom: A Time to Reckon
79% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Displacement Studios
Windows
You assume the character of Carlos Romero, a former soldier in a Venezuelan village. One day the local guerrilla faction decides to loot and pillage your village, and kill anyone who tries to stand in their way.
Why similar: Gore 43.8%, Violent 39.8%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 6.9%
- #31 D'LIRIUM: The Golden Rogue
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: B52 Development Team
Windows
An experimental satiric 2D-shooter game, a prequel for the original D'LIRIUM game. The Golden Rogue combines the mechanics of the original game, adding the new features, levels and enemies.
Why similar: Gore 40.3%, Violent 39.6%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 8.3%
- #32 Valerian Tales
77% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Color Core
Windows
Valerian Tales is a visual novel of episodic nature. Following the steps of a smuggler on his way to become a detective. But mystery, and danger are hidden and is up to you to find all clues to get the best outcome out of a foul situation.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #33 Paradise Lost: FPS Cosmic Horror Game
77% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: Juan Pedraza
Windows · Mac
An Spec Ops team was sent to a planet to investigate a disappearance of a research team. What lies beneath this god-forsaken planet?
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #34 Jungle Hostages
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daylights Games
Windows
A group of tourists are attacked by bandits and taken hostage in order to seize get organs for transplant. But five of them manage to escape. There are five playable characters in the game. To complete the game, you must save at least one of the characters.
Why similar: Gore 40.3%, Violent 38.4%, Adventure 12%, Indie 9.3%
- #35 Forbidden Forgiveness
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geeky Mouse
Windows
Forbidden Forgiveness is a new psychological horror game that aims to play with your mind.
Why similar: Gore 41%, Violent 37.2%, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 9.3%
- #36 The Stroke of Midnight
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Ace Of Spades StudiosPub: Ace of Spades Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rowan Cox wakes up in a barren room, alone with a mysterious girl he's never seen before. He quickly comes to realise that things are very much out of place. A full-length Mystery/Detective visual novel with an LGBT-inclusive cast.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #37 The Falling Nights ®
76% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Delusion Arts Entertainment, LLC
Windows
The player takes the role of Jake Lawrence, a father who will do anything to protect his daughter Rachel. Both are involved in an accident in which Rachel disappears mysteriously. Jake has to look for his daughter while strange events happen around him.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #38 Another Bad Day in the Future
58% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Alex SullivanPub: Wandering Research & Development
Windows
Another bad day in the future is an open world VR espionage game. Players undertake jobs for one of four political parties in a flying city. Players traverse the city using arm swing based locomotion, grablines, and can climb all the buildings.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #39 Purgation
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Arttu TuovinenPub: Michael Callaghan
Windows
You awake gradually. You are in a dark cell. You are drifting in and out of consciousness between bouts of violent hallucinations. You are physically weak and have no memory of who you are or why you are here. You are alone and you are scared, very scared. The voices in your head tell you that you should be.
Why similar: Gore 48.3%, Violent 43.8%, Indie 7.9%
- #40 Project Flesh
76% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Joe Simpson
Windows
Project Flesh is a 2D randomly generated dungeon crawler/ Rogue-like, set deep in the sewers under a nameless city, the goal is to survive and make it through all the floors, equipping yourself with the limbs of mutated creatures you kill.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #41 Doors Quest Demo
73% matchVery Positive85% of 172 reviews2018
Dev: Nick Page!
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Wow, it's Doors Quest Demo! You gotta go through the door if you wanna win the game!
Why similar: Gore 47.7%, Violent 43.4%, Indie 8.9%
- #42 UndercoVR
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StudioVR
Windows
Welcome to the world of UndercoVR! A cutting edge, gritty crime drama built from the ground up for room scale virtual reality. Engage in fierce arcade gunplay, melee combat and vehicular mayhem in a fight for survival and redemption for yourself as well as the city of Paradise.
Why similar: Gore 41%, Violent 37.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 9.5%
- #43 In your Shadow
73% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Zohar Neiger
Windows
"In your Shadow" is a Visual Novel that tells the story of three people: Lilly, Skyler, and Zachary. One night all of their lives change: Skyler is poisoned, Lilly is catfished, and Zachary gets a call that changes his life.
Why similar: Gore 47.4%, Violent 45.1%, Indie 7.4%
- #44 斩毒:黑与白(Narcotics Police:Black and White)
74% matchMixed59% of 153 reviews2017
Dev: LongWu
Windows
"Narcotics Police:Black and White" is a group of amateur production of the first person independent game, you will experience a drug trade caused by the hijacking case. Save the hostages, kill the criminal leader. And will be the police, undercover two perspectives to experience different experiences.
Why similar: Gore 48.6%, Violent 44.1%, Indie 7.2%
- #45 Zombie school-丧尸学院
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 33 reviews2018
Dev: Populus
Windows
Use virtual reality to enter a fictional open comic world, freely experience a horrible time with black and white comics, explore the story of each character and their respective destiny and ending
Why similar: Gore 51.7%, Violent 41.7%, Indie 6.6%
- #46 Robohazard 2077
71% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
You play as Meep, who woke up in the post-apocalyptic future, and you have no choice but to destroy all the robots, and also try to find traces of the former civilization...
Why similar: Gore 43.5%, Violent 39.5%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 7.5%
- #47 Dark Shores
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: LABS GamesPub: LABS
Windows
Explore and survive in Dark Shores, an experimental survival horror game that explores concepts of perma-death, branching storylines, and unscripted fear. A luxury cruise containing five young tourists crashes on a remote island, deep within the South Pacific.
Why similar: Gore 49.5%, Violent 43.1%, Indie 7.4%
- #48 Blockiverse: Camouflage
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxicity Game StudiosPub: Boxicity Publishing
Windows
Blockiverse: Camouflage combines all the great features of modern hero shooters, mixes in a lot of characters, and add a ton of environmental interaction to create an over-the-top, fun experience.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #49 Amelia's Curse
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Immosis
Windows
Amelia's Curse is an action-horror survival game built from the ground up for Virtual Reality. Experience hordes of demonic creatures as you descend into an increasingly decrepit and sinister castle to uncover the mystery behind Amelia's Curse.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #50 Repentant
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 92 reviews2018
Dev: Anate Studio
Windows · Mac
The game is a dramatic point&click adventure about a criminal who is trying to atone for the sins of his past.
Why similar: Gore 38.2%, Violent 38.2%, Adventure 14%, Indie 9.6%
- #51 Endure
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Killa Bee Software
Windows
Endure is a 1st person shooter where you encounter endless waves of zombies. Do you have what it takes to Endure?
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Violent 44%, Indie 7.6%
- #52 Aylin: The Story of Tom
54% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: SkorBartStudioPub: SkorBartInteractive
Windows
A psychological horror adventure where you explore an abandoned hospital, solve environmental puzzles, and escape deadly supernatural forces to save your daughter.
Why similar: Gore 54.9%, Violent 32.2%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 5.5%
- #53 Locked In VR
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 39 reviews2016
Dev: Immersion
Windows
Locked In VR is an escape room type experience. The player must use his wits and senses to find his way out of the basement and uncover the terrible truth about his imprisonment.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Violent 39.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.9%
- #54 Kama Bullet Heritage
71% matchMixed58% of 98 reviews2017
Dev: Narko Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 30%
You play for Kama the younger, the son of Kama Bullet. Your father was killed by the Magician Lezgin, you must find and take revenge on Lezgin, your awaits an incredible journey.
Why similar: Gore 43.8%, Violent 39.8%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 6.9%
- #55 SLG Remix
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 47 reviews2016
Dev: 1812 Productions (PC Port)Pub: 1812 Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
SLG Remix is an alternate kinetic version of the brand new 16-bit horror visual novel/adventure Mega Drive game Sacred Line Genesis. A surreal, twisted kinetic novel tribute to obscure visual novel / adventure games of 90s.
Why similar: Gore 43.2%, Violent 39.3%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 7.1%
- #56 GLOWCOMA: chapter 1
66% matchVery Positive85% of 226 reviews2019
Dev: Tsvetomir Georgiev
Windows
GLOWCOMA: chapter 1 is a Sci-Fi FPS survivor horror game.
Why similar: Gore 41.7%, Violent 37.9%, Adventure 11.6%, Indie 8.7%
- #57 Little Kite
69% matchVery Positive84% of 176 reviews2017
Dev: Anate Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The game about one tragic evening for a struggling family, when emotions and tensions are simply too high to manage.
Why similar: Gore 40.8%, Violent 38.8%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 7%
- #58 Die In The Dark
69% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: Side B Gaming
Windows · Mac
Die in the Dark is a first-person exploration and adventure game inspired by real life events! Trapped in the subway with zombies, vicious dogs, and a slew of other monsters. Can you escape the puzzles and survive the monsters of Plum Island?
Why similar: Gore 44.9%, Violent 39%, Adventure 9.4%, Indie 6.7%
- #59 Octave
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 167 reviews2016
Dev: Anate Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Octave is a point 'n click horror-adventure game with elements of action. Dark woods, monsters, paranormal activity, nice puzzles - all this is present in the game.
Why similar: Gore 39.9%, Violent 34.5%, Indie 15.8%, Adventure 9.9%