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The Final Stay - Chapter 1 is a psychological horror experience that immerses players in a dark and unsettling world filled with mystery and fear. You arrive at an abandoned hotel, but something is wrong. The deeper you explore, the more the environment begins to change.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Cinematic 10.6%, Realistic 8.9%, Action 8.8%, Exploration 8.3%

You must complete a lunar mission only with the other person on the radio. When you realize that you were not sufficiently informed about the place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Horror 14.3%, Realistic 9%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Exploration 8.2%

"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you..."

Why similar: Realistic 15.2%, Horror 14.2%, RPG 11.1%, Exploration 11%, Cinematic 10.9%

You are trapped in an abandoned asylum with no end. Every corner hides something strange. Capture the anomalies with your camera before the loop traps you.

Why similar: Horror 16.2%, Cinematic 15.6%, First-Person 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Exploration 10.3%

A psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. Here, you will uncover a dark conspiracy where you are to receive a terrible fate.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Cinematic 12.9%, Realistic 11.5%, Exploration 9.3%, First-Person 8.6%

Backrooms: A Way Out is a 1-6 online multiplayer co-op horror game. Explore eerie and liminal levels, all inspired by the Backrooms, whilst avoiding dangerous hazards and entities. Will you find a way out of the backrooms, or will you find that you are trapped with no way out?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Realistic 11%, Psychological 9.6%, Horror 9.3%, Exploration 8.4%

A hyper-realistic bodycam survival horror experience. Navigate through eerie, abandoned locations where the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Built on Unreal Engine, every sound, shadow, and step immerses you deeper into a world of terror. Will you survive what lies behind the veil?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Cinematic 15.7%, Horror 12.5%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 11.1%

First-person psychological horror set in an abandoned school. Explore eerie environments, collect keys and hidden clues to piece together your past and uncover the truth behind the ghost that haunts you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Horror 20.8%, First-Person 12.6%, Realistic 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

The Hike is a first person horror/survival game in which you must survive the horrors that start while investigating a mysterious emergency message in a simple hike through the Red River National Park. Your chance of making it back to society relies entirely on your legs, you're no fighter.

Why similar: Horror 18.8%, Immersive 16.4% ★, Realistic 15.9%, First-Person 12.5%, Action 11.6%

When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?

Why similar: Horror 17.4%, Realistic 16.5%, Exploration 12.3%, Cinematic 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9%

A cinematic psychological horror game where you explore a haunting dream world, investigate mysterious environments, solve surreal puzzles, and face unknown entities. Experience a deeply atmospheric journey where sound, fear, and instinct guide you through the darkness.

Why similar: Horror 16.1%, First-Person 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Immersive 10.8% ★, Psychological 9.4%

A psychological survival horror game where a forgotten forest hides a towering nightmare. Explore abandoned locations, uncover the truth behind mysterious radio transmissions, and survive the relentless hunt of Siren Head.

Why similar: Exploration 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Realistic 12.3%, Action 10.3%, First-Person 9.6%

You can’t fight what hunts you. Build makeshift hideouts to evade the cursed monsters of Radu Castle. As Dorinela, a survivor returning to face her abuser’s curse, rely on your wits, courage, and determination to stay alive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Horror 12.9%, First-Person 10.2%, Realistic 9.6%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

Welcome to Level 37, commonly known as the Poolrooms, a psychological horror experience that immerses players in an eerie, otherworldly environment.

Why similar: Immersive 18.1% ★, Realistic 16.1%, First-Person 12%, Horror 11.5%, Exploration 9.5%

Explore non-linear paths and evade lurking monsters as you uncover the mysteries of this eerie maze. Beware of the sinister entities that inhabit the shadows, ready to drag you deeper into the unknown.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Realistic 11.7%, Exploration 9.9%, First-Person 9.6%, Horror 8.4%

Lunatix is a funny First Person Horror game where you do work for your horrible boss and solve puzzles in a world that fades into dreams... or dreams that fade into reality?

Why similar: Horror 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological 12.9%, First-Person 11.9%, Psychological Horror 9.8%

An old cabin in the woods holds secrets. Explore the environment, search for objects and find a way out in a first-person horror.

Why similar: Cinematic 17.8%, Realistic 14.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Horror 10.3%, Action-Adventure 9.1%

Once a celebrated opera singer, Rachel returns to the stage where she lost her son. As she works through the night, routine tasks unravel into hallucinations and memories as a restless presence awakens.

Why similar: Cinematic 14.1%, Realistic 12%, Exploration 11.8%, Simulation 10.5%, First-Person 9.2%

After a long and harrowing day, you have come to the beach to unwind. Something is different about tonight though. It's just the beach, there's nothing out there. Right?

Why similar: Immersive 19.5% ★, Horror 13.1%, Realistic 12.6%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 10.3%

A masked killer hunts you in the dark. Manage noise and light, hide quickly, and survive this intense first-person stealth horror experience inspired by classic 80s slasher films.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Cinematic 14.6%, Exploration 11.3%, Realistic 11.2%, First-Person 8.6%

Navigate a nightmarish labyrinth, avoid eerie entities, and uncover dark secrets in this liminality based horror game. Explore realistic levels, unravel secrets, and figure out life or death puzzles. Will you escape the madness? Brought to you by a solo 13 year old dev.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Cinematic 13.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Exploration 11.6%, Realistic 10.8%

A new home owner begins to experience and capture unsettling occurrences around his property.

Why similar: Realistic 16.9%, Exploration 14.1%, First-Person 13.3%, RPG 12.8%, Horror 11.7%

The Forsaken Anthology: Obsession, a psychological horror game that explores the dark side of human desire and the lengths one might go to fulfill it

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Cinematic 12.5%, Realistic 11.3%, Exploration 9%, First-Person 8.4%

A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a house that feels like it knows you. Uncover dark secrets buried within its walls. Something is watching. Something has been waiting a very long time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Realistic 9.7%, Adventure 8.8%

This is a new type of ADV game that uses both 2D and 3D. It is important to clear the various stages prepared by the programmer for each stage.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Realistic 10.7%, Cinematic 10.4%, Exploration 9.6%, First-Person 8.2%

Dive into a dystopian future where players navigate a high-tech, corrupt city. As a rogue hacker, they unravel a conspiracy that spans mega-corporations, government agencies, and underground factions, all while making impactful moral choices.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Horror 15%, RPG 13.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Exploration 10.7%

ONLY FACES REMAIN is a short psychological horror game focused on exploration and atmosphere. You play as Marlene, a backpacker traveling alone who rents a cheap room to spend the night. What starts as a cheap place to sleep soon turns into a dangerous situation.

Why similar: Horror 15.9%, Psychological 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, First-Person 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

You wake up in a silent white room with no exit—just a voice that follows you through five strange spaces, growing more unsettling as the world twists around you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, RPG 12%, Realistic 10.3%, Exploration 8.9%, First-Person 7.9%

The Death Deliriant is a first-person survival horror game that blends cosmic horror with realistic mechanics. Find items to escape while evading enemies, replace the car battery, jack up the car, and perform other mechanical tasks while facing terror. Once you’re ready, drive the car out of there.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, First-Person 11.4%, Cinematic 9.9%, Psychological 9.6%, Realistic 7.9%

A psychological horror adventure where you explore shifting dream worlds, solve immersive environmental puzzles, and unravel the mysteries of your fractured mind inside a surreal facility.

Why similar: Horror 17.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, First-Person 11.6%, Realistic 10.6%

On Halloween night, an 8-year-old boy sneaks onto an elderly woman's property to find her secret homemade treats. Soon he will discover some macabre events that will be repeated in his head forever.

Why similar: Immersive 26.1% ★, Horror 17.6%, Exploration 13%, Realistic 11.7%, Mystery 10%

You play as two different people in the same creepy motel, and everything you think you know keeps changing. One moment you're Allison, running from something in her past, and the next you're Emma doing a late-night cleaning shift. You see the same events from totally different angles. You're JUDGE!

Why similar: Realistic 17.5%, Horror 15.3%, Psychological 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, First-Person 10.3%

You arrive home and notice that something very bad has happened to your wife.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Horror 14.4%, Realistic 10%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Exploration 8.3%

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: Horror 15.9%, Realistic 13.5%, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 12.9%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

Asylum of the Forsaken is a gripping horror survival game. Play as Nathan Scott, an investigative journalist exploring the abandoned Ravenwood Asylum. Search for clues, solve dark puzzles, and avoid a relentless entity. Uncover the asylum's terrifying secrets and survive the horrors in the shadows.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, RPG 12.5%, Realistic 12.2%, Exploration 9.7%, First-Person 9.2%

(Currently being REMADE/Remastered) A 1st-person survival horror game. Explore and find your way through horrific environments. Find clues and solve puzzles to advance. Running might be the best way to stay alive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Horror 12%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 10.1%, Realistic 10%

Tapes of Entities is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Exploration 14.4%, Horror 10.9%, Realistic 9.4%, First-Person 9.3%

Inescaped Paranoia is a psychological horror game where paranoia is your worst enemy. As a building inspector sent to assess an abandoned farmhouse, your routine job quickly turns into a descent into fear and uncertainty.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Realistic 12.3%, Horror 9.7%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 9%

Narrative-driven psychological horror set in a confined apartment. Explore, interact with everyday objects, and notice increasingly unsettling changes around you. Your small, everyday choices will shape your future and define your ending. A debut title created by a solo developer.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Action 10.9%, Realistic 10.8%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Exploration 9.4%

Sanguis Luna is a first person Horror video game that catapults you into a frightening Mansion. Your main objective is to escape the infested Mansion, finding objects and challenging riddles while exploring incredible scenarios.

Why similar: Realistic 16.1%, Exploration 13.3%, First-Person 12.5%, Horror 12%, Psychological 9.8%

A first-person psychological horror game set in a childhood home. Explore, uncover four days of missing memory, and survive something that has been listening since you arrived.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Psychological 9.7%, Cinematic 7.4%

Take full control of a busy international airport. Manage passengers, baggage, aircraft servicing, and flight schedules while operating real ground equipment. Balance efficiency, safety, and satisfaction in a fast-paced aviation experience. ✈️

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, RPG 20.9%, Exploration 11.3%, Realistic 11.2%, Simulation 10.3%

A first-person psychological horror where a harmless camp ritual awakens The Dame: a presence bound to mirrors and silence. Break the mirrors before she reaches you.

Why similar: Cinematic 17.6%, Exploration 13.8%, Realistic 13.1%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, First-Person 10.1%

Your first assignment alone. An island where no one has lived for thirty years. A lighthouse that stopped shining. The job was only supposed to take a few hours.

Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Exploration 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, First-Person 11.4%

Embark on a an unforgettable narrative journey with NoSleep: Nightmare Chronicles, a chilling collection of interactive horror stories from the r/NoSleep subreddit. Explore immersive environments, face grotesque encounters, and fight to survive in this gripping anthology of terror.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Horror 12%, Realistic 11.5%, Cinematic 11.4%, First-Person 9.5%

BrokenLore: ASCEND is a first-person psychological horror with climbing and stealth mechanics. Follow Ren and Yui, two rooftop climbers facing a cursed tower and the terrifying Rokurokubi. The higher they climb, the closer they get to madness—and to the truth about themselves.

Why similar: Horror 17.9%, Exploration 16.7%, First-Person 15.2%, Realistic 13.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%

This is Interesting is a psychological horror mystery based game with roguelite elements. You are being watched, and you aren't really sure why. Delve through the depths of memory to uncover the mystery behind the gray purgatory you find yourself in.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Exploration 12.3%, RPG 12.3%, Horror 10%, Psychological Horror 9%

Survive the longest night of your life in a haunted 18th-century orphanage where Christmas becomes a living nightmare. Krampus is hunting you, and only the power of sacred holy gloves will keep you alive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Horror 13.3%, Cinematic 9.4%, Realistic 8.4%, Exploration 8.1%

The Last Departure is an atmospheric horror game set aboard the final run of a closing train line. Find your way out or loop forever.

Why similar: Horror 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Realistic 15.4%, Exploration 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11%

"Clandestine: The Hidden Truth" is a first-person psychological horror game. Investigate a family homicide, manipulate reality with polaroids, and solve puzzles to unveil chilling secrets hidden within this enigmatic home of horrors. Will you come back unscathed?

Why similar: Psychological 14.3%, Horror 14%, Cinematic 10.4%, Exploration 8.9%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

A first-person psychological horror game about an ex-con working nights at a self-storage facility, where an old mirror reveals the spirits stalking him.

Why similar: Horror 20.9%, Realistic 15.6%, First-Person 15.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Exploration 8.5%

Alex Miller, a writer seeking inspiration, rented a remote cabin in the woods. It was supposed to be the perfect retreat: peace, nature, no distractions. But soon he notices strange things - objects move, mysterious notes appear. Someone seems to be sharing his presence without him knowing it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Horror 15%, First-Person 13.1%, Realistic 11%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is a VHS-style horror game where you explore eerie liminal spaces through a camcorder. BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is More than just a walking sim, it features intense levels that require you to hide, run, stay quite, and survive in a creepy, analog nightmare.

Why similar: Realistic 17.7%, Horror 16.6%, First-Person 12.1%, Exploration 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

Uncover the mystery of the MIMIC through a psychological horror experience with puzzles along the way.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Realistic 14%, Action 12.7%, First-Person 12.3%, Horror 11.5%

A philosophical horror experience in the Alps: As Friedrich Nietzsche confronts his own shadow, he becomes lost between layers of reality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Cinematic 13.6%, Realistic 12.2%, Exploration 11.7%, First-Person 9.8%

The Night Archive is an episodic first-person horror series where each episode tells a story pulled from the darkest corners of true crime. These are the stories of those who lived to tell about it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Exploration 13.6%, Horror 13%, First-Person 11.4%, Psychological 8.5%

A calm horror and exploration game from Backroom Dreamcore. Walk, look around, and listen to the sounds. There are no monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen in the game. You may find that they seem to have appeared in your dreams or childhood memories while exploring the game scenes.

Why similar: RPG 21%, Realistic 13.4%, Cinematic 13.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Psychological 9.5%

Roy Harker is a washed-up journalist at a dying paper when a mysterious informant points him to the infamous Wunderhause Studio. Follow the twisted path to truth in the narrative driven & blood-soaked nightmare of Wunderhause.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Realistic 15.3%, First-Person 12.1%, Horror 10.4%, Action 10.1%

Backrooms: Insane is a single-player psychological horror game with a found footage aesthetic. Explore disturbing levels, solve puzzles, find key items, and escape while timers, unpredictable events, and deadly entity hunts turn every objective into a fight for survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Action 11.9%, Realistic 10.5%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Exploration 9.5%