- #1 We Were Here
97% matchVery Positive90% of 32,003 reviews2017
Dev: Total Mayhem Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?
Why similar: Escape Room 28.9% ★, Multiplayer 20.3%, Horror 14.3%, Investigation 10.8%, Puzzle 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A foundational co-op puzzle game that relies heavily on communication to solve asymmetric challenges in a mysterious, snowy environment.
- #2 Escape Simulator
96% matchVery Positive94% of 18,887 reviews2021
Dev: Pine Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
Why similar: Escape Room 35.8% ★, Multiplayer 28.9%, Puzzle 18.3%, Investigation 8.2%, First-Person 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly polished, physics-based escape room experience with robust co-op support and endless community-made levels.
- #3 Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories
96% matchVery Positive84% of 5,897 reviews2022
Dev: 0 Deer Soft
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
"Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories" is a series of co-operative escape-room style puzzle scenarios. Each one is sure to test your wits as you try to overcome the challenges that stand in the way of your escape.
Why similar: Escape Room 29.6% ★, Multiplayer 22.8%, Investigation 10.1%, Puzzle 10%, Horror 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play escape room experience that captures the same investigative spirit and puzzle-solving flow as the seed game.
- #4 Escape the Backrooms
94% matchVery Positive91% of 134,540 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Multiplayer 35.5%, Horror 29.2%, Escape Room 19.4% ★, Psychological Horror 7.9%, First-Person 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive exploration-based horror game that tasks players with solving puzzles to escape various unsettling levels.
- #5 Inside the Backrooms
95% matchVery Positive81% of 45,968 reviews2022
Dev: MrFatcat
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Why similar: Multiplayer 40.5%, Horror 29.3%, Puzzle 11.7%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, First-Person 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines the claustrophobic horror of the Backrooms with multiplayer puzzle-solving and survival elements.
- #6 FOREWARNED
94% matchVery Positive90% of 6,596 reviews2024
Dev: Dreambyte Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
FOREWARNED is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror. Delve deep into ancient Egyptian ruins with your team of fellow archaeologists. Investigate phenomena, collect treasure, discover lore, survive danger, and banish the evil that lurks within.
Why similar: Horror 39.3%, Multiplayer 38.3%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, First-Person 4%, Atmospheric 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival horror game that focuses on archaeology and investigation, requiring players to identify spirits while solving tomb puzzles.
- #7 Unsolved Case
93% matchVery Positive88% of 6,321 reviews2022
Dev: Eleven Puzzles
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
A new lead turns up old doubts about an 'Unsolved Case'. A trap, or a copycat killer? In this co-op puzzle game prequel to the award-winning Cryptic Killer series, put on your detective badges as you collaborate and communicate to crack the codes, solve the riddles, and catch the Cryptic Killer.
Why similar: Escape Room 28.8% ★, Multiplayer 16.9%, Investigation 13.7%, Puzzle 12%, Detective 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play prequel to the We Were Here series that perfectly captures the cooperative puzzle-solving dynamic.
- #8 Pacify
91% matchVery Positive86% of 42,392 reviews2019
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
There is reportedly an evil inside that house. Something about an old funeral parlor offering a last chance to talk to their dead loved ones. Plus something about lights, laughter, a girl, missing people, etc... You know the same stuff everyone claims. Take a team, and check the place out.
Why similar: Multiplayer 43.2%, Horror 39.9%, Psychological Horror 10%, First-Person 2.5%, Exploration 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A tense co-op horror game where players must complete specific tasks and puzzles to neutralize a supernatural threat.
- #9 Escape First
92% matchMixed66% of 441 reviews2018
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
"Escape First" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.
Why similar: Multiplayer 27.6%, Horror 17.3%, Investigation 17%, Puzzle 14.4%, Psychological Horror 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A classic multiplayer escape room title that provides a variety of themed rooms with distinct puzzle mechanics.
- #10 Demonologist
90% matchVery Positive85% of 23,523 reviews2023
Dev: Clock Wizard Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.
Why similar: Multiplayer 29%, Investigation 22.2%, Horror 21.5%, Detective 12.4%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A high-fidelity co-op horror investigation game where players must use equipment to identify entities while navigating terrifying environments.
- #11 Escape First 2
91% matchMixed54% of 293 reviews2019
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"Escape First 2" is the second installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.
Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Horror 17.5%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Puzzle 13.6%, Logic 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Continues the series' focus on cooperative puzzle-solving with improved graphics and more complex room designs.
- #12 We Were Here Forever
88% matchVery Positive91% of 17,912 reviews2022
Dev: Total Mayhem Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You both awaken imprisoned inside the sinister Castle Rock - were you betrayed, or simply not that clever? Find out in the greatest co-op puzzle adventure in the We Were Here Series! Do you and your partner have what it takes to face the dark forces of this realm or will you be trapped… forever?
Why similar: Escape Room 34% ★, Multiplayer 19.3%, Puzzle 12.4%, Detective 9.2%, Horror 9%
Why You'll Like It: The largest entry in the series, offering expansive, intricate puzzles that require constant communication between partners.
- #13 Escape First 3
89% matchMixed63% of 214 reviews2020
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"Escape First 3" is the third installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.
Why similar: Multiplayer 27.3%, Puzzle 13.8%, Horror 13.7%, Investigation 11.6%, Detective 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Adds more variety to the escape room formula with unique themes and challenging logic-based puzzles.
- #14 We Were Here Too
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 10,790 reviews2018
Dev: Total Mayhem Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As your final hour approaches, a large structure looms up in the distance, towering above the relentless storm. Discover the truth behind this dark castle in a communication-based, cooperative puzzle adventure.
Why similar: Escape Room 27.7% ★, Multiplayer 16.7%, Investigation 16.6%, Horror 12.8%, Puzzle 10%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original with more complex puzzles and a deeper focus on atmospheric storytelling.
- #15 DEVOUR
87% matchVery Positive91% of 86,959 reviews2021
Dev: Straight Back Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
Why similar: Horror 45.9%, Multiplayer 41.3%, Psychological Horror 5.4%, Puzzle 3.8%, First-Person 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced co-op horror game that requires players to perform rituals and solve environmental puzzles while being hunted.
- #16 In Sink: A Co-Op Escape Prologue
86% matchVery Positive90% of 5,866 reviews2023
Dev: Clock Out GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Play an early version of the first level for free! Work together to solve the puzzles and escape a desert island in this multiplayer co-op adventure. Success requires more than just you and your partner thinking alike - you'll have to communicate and stay In Sink to overcome the challenges ahead.
Why similar: Escape Room 39.8% ★, Multiplayer 29.2%, Puzzle 15.5%, Logic 6.1%, First-Person 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A short, focused co-op experience that emphasizes communication and synchronization to solve puzzles.
- #17 First Class Escape: The Train of Thought
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 493 reviews2021
Dev: 0 Deer Soft
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
"First Class Escape: The Train of Thought" is a co-operative atmospheric escape room puzzle game, set in a beautifully realized vintage train. Do you think you have what it takes to solve the puzzles and escape the train?
Why similar: Escape Room 26.7% ★, Multiplayer 17.4%, Investigation 17.3%, Detective 9.6%, Puzzle 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique escape room setting on a train with a focus on logical deduction and cooperative interaction.
- #18 Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist
84% matchVery Positive86% of 520 reviews2022
Dev: 0 Deer Soft
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
"Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.
Why similar: Escape Room 28.3% ★, Multiplayer 19%, Investigation 14.1%, Detective 10.5%, Puzzle 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a large-scale mansion setting with complex puzzles that require teamwork to uncover secrets.
- #19 Escape Memoirs: Safe House
82% matchVery Positive90% of 289 reviews2024
Dev: 0 Deer Soft
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
"Escape Memoirs: Safe House" is a co-operative reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a member of a criminal organization who must break into one of their own safe houses to fetch some important tools. Do you think you have what it takes to overcome the puzzles that stand in your way?
Why similar: Escape Room 27.3% ★, Multiplayer 18.8%, Investigation 18%, Logic 10%, Puzzle 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logic and investigation within a contained environment, mirroring the investigative feel of the seed game.
- #20 First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds
84% matchVery Positive81% of 269 reviews2022
Dev: 0 Deer Soft
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
"First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds" is a co-operative atmospheric escape-room-style puzzle game, set in a beautiful luxury airship. Do you think you have what it takes to overcome the challenges that await you on the airship?
Why similar: Escape Room 27.8% ★, Multiplayer 18.2%, Investigation 17.2%, Puzzle 9.7%, Detective 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sequel that builds on the train-based escape concept with more elaborate puzzles and a polished aesthetic.
- #21 The Experiment: Escape Room
85% matchMixed54% of 269 reviews2018
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
"The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?
Why similar: Escape Room 40.2% ★, Multiplayer 29.1%, Puzzle 11.4%, Horror 11.4%, Adventure 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: An indie escape room title that captures the feeling of being trapped in a mysterious, scientific facility.
- #22 Mad Experiments: Escape Room
83% matchMixed67% of 412 reviews2020
Dev: PlayTogether Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Award-nominated escape game. Alone or with up to 5 players, explore 3 unique rooms, solve mind-bending puzzles, and unravel the dark secrets of the Professor Cheshire and his experiments.
Why similar: Multiplayer 23.4%, Escape Room 23% ★, Investigation 15.9%, Detective 8.9%, Logic 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven escape room game that emphasizes exploration and uncovering the story behind the experiments.
- #23 Emissary Zero
79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,800 reviews2025
Dev: Rone Vine
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
Why similar: Multiplayer 29.5%, Escape Room 24.3% ★, Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Puzzle 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that utilizes co-op mechanics to build tension and solve environmental mysteries.
- #24 Escape the Clinic
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 414 reviews2020
Dev: JubleLemonSeed
Windows
A first-person puzzle horror game. Solve clues, find hints, discover keys, and use passwords to navigate the haunted Clinic and find a way out.
Why similar: Multiplayer 38.6%, Horror 34.2%, Puzzle 27.3%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the medical-horror theme of the seed game while providing a straightforward escape room experience.
- #25 Escape From School
81% matchMixed61% of 1,617 reviews2021
Dev: Tudor Sandru
Windows
Confused, you wake up sucked into an empty classroom. You have to try to escape from school by solving puzzles and discovering secrets.
Why similar: Multiplayer 30.4%, Escape Room 27.3% ★, Horror 18.1%, Puzzle 15.4%, First-Person 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror-puzzle game that tasks players with escaping a school environment filled with secrets.
- #26 Escape from Kyoto House
81% matchVery Positive93% of 162 reviews2020
Dev: Taichi Games
Windows
Your party finds themselves trapped in a Japanese-themed room. Solve puzzles, crack riddles and discover hidden secrets in your adventure to Escape from Kyoto House!
Why similar: Escape Room 44% ★, Multiplayer 23.9%, Puzzle 13.5%, Horror 12%, Adventure 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized escape room game with a unique atmosphere and challenging puzzles that require careful observation.
- #27 Phasmophobia
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 815,266 reviews2020
Dev: Kinetic Games
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Multiplayer 30.6%, Investigation 15.8%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Detective 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for investigative horror, requiring players to work together to identify ghosts using specialized equipment.
- #28 Malum Escape
80% matchMixed41% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: MalumGames
Windows
Experience a short co-op Escape Room set in the Malum universe. Trapped in an atmospheric horror house, you and your team must solve puzzles to escape. Will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Escape Room 45.5% ★, Horror 16%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A horror-themed escape room that incorporates dungeon-like exploration and puzzle-solving elements.
- #29 The Hidden Room
79% matchMixed70% of 327 reviews2021
Dev: Mario AmatoPub: Emanuele Avallone
Windows
The Hidden Room is an escape room containing various puzzles. Several popular rumors speak of a hidden treasure somewhere in the home of Tom Barkley, an American archaeologist who moved to Germany.
Why similar: Escape Room 34.4% ★, Investigation 18.8%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Puzzle 11.6%, Logic 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hidden object mechanics and 3D exploration to solve puzzles in a confined space.
- #30 Samsara Room
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,865 reviews2020
Dev: Rusty Lake
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Why similar: Escape Room 35.1% ★, Puzzle 27%, Horror 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
- #31 Backrooms: Found Footage
75% matchVery Positive84% of 280 reviews2024
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
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: Multiplayer 32.8%, Investigation 16.6%, Horror 16.5%, First-Person 6.7%, Psychological Horror 6.5%
- #32 Fears to Fathom - Home Alone
76% matchVery Positive90% of 10,232 reviews2021
Dev: Rayll
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 14%
Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.
Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Multiplayer 32%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Crime 6.5%, First-Person 5.7%
- #33 Fear in Hospital
78% matchMixed48% of 504 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Fear in Hospital is a short survivor horror in hospital where you should find a occult path to escape alive!
Why similar: Horror 33.7%, Puzzle 20.7%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Realistic 7%, First-Person 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play horror title that emphasizes the psychological dread of being trapped in a medical facility.
- #34 Evil Inside - Prologue
76% matchMixed68% of 1,036 reviews2021
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
Why similar: Multiplayer 43.7%, Horror 33.2%, Psychological Horror 7.6%, First-Person 5.1%, Realistic 4.2%
- #35 Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room
73% matchVery Positive82% of 202 reviews2025
Dev: Biri Biri
Windows
Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths. In this mysterious Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to find the hidden vault with the treasure. But you will find much more...
Why similar: Escape Room 34.8% ★, Investigation 21.8%, Puzzle 11.4%, Detective 10%, Logic 9.9%
- #36 Im Bann Der Dunklen Jagd
73% matchMixed69% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: smi.
Windows
Dive into an immersive co-op horror experience with a friend. As detectives, you’ll search for clues in a sinister area and must survive the horrors lurking within. Work together to find all the objects and escape before doom catches up with you.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Multiplayer 21.5%, Detective 10.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Crime 7.8%
- #37 Tales of Escape
77% matchMixed60% of 2,173 reviews2017
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
"Tales of Escape" is a series of 6 person multiplayer escape room adventures for virtual reality or desktop pc! Gather your friends and choose a story to play!
Why similar: Multiplayer 34%, Puzzle 20.1%, Horror 20.1%, Investigation 16.3%, First-Person 4.4%
- #38 No Way Out
75% matchMixed55% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: JKDL
Windows
"No Way Out" is an intense and thrilling survival horror game where players take on the role of a volunteer trapped in a panic-stricken hospital. Players must bravely face their fears, explore various areas of the hospital, and search for a way to escape while uncovering the truth behind the events.
Why similar: Multiplayer 27.4%, Horror 23.7%, Investigation 14.4%, Puzzle 12.9%, Detective 9.8%
- #39 50 Floors: The Paranormal Investigators Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 457 reviews2024
Dev: Arsonist Studio
Windows
Find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 28.3%, Multiplayer 27.6%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, First-Person 9.1%, Realistic 7.8%
- #40 holo8
71% matchVery Positive90% of 162 reviews2025
Dev: frog blendPub: holo Indie
Windows
Escape from the looping office. Observe the office carefully and look for any anomaly to reach the main entrance.
Why similar: Escape Room 51% ★, Horror 17.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Investigation 10.8%, First-Person 3.5%
- #41 Night at the Office
72% matchVery Positive83% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
You work late at the office not long after the death of a colleague. Throughout the night, all sorts of phenomenon begin to terrorize you, slowly uncovering the death of a fellow colleague. Who killed Joseph Anadam and why must you go through this trial to find out?
Why similar: Horror 36.6%, Crime 20.9%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Realistic 7.1%
- #42 Blameless
74% matchVery Positive84% of 5,079 reviews2016
Dev: Vaclav HudecPub: Blameless Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Blameless is a mysterious first-person adventure with primary focus on puzzle solving and short story. The player will appear in a role of an architect trying to investigate strange happenings, after discovering evidence of an act of violence.
Why similar: Horror 38%, Multiplayer 31%, Puzzle 14.8%, First-Person 5.1%, Detective 4.5%
- #43 Escape from Mutation Station
70% matchVery Positive97% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: Jay Marksman
Windows
A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Escape Room 41% ★, Puzzle 14.4%, Detective 12.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Investigation 8.8%
- #44 Seek Or Die
74% matchMixed67% of 174 reviews2018
Dev: FlashynuravPub: FLNStudios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
You are an investigator hired to find evidence about the missing children in the manor off the road. Once you enter, the door locks behind you, and you can hear something, lurking...
Why similar: Multiplayer 50.6%, Horror 45.7%, Casual 3.6%
- #45 The Last Job
72% matchMixed66% of 386 reviews2022
Dev: DefinitelyNotScaryGames
Windows
What seemed like an easy job, descends into something horrifying. Explore mysterious house, that holds dark secrets, in this first person horror experience.
Why similar: Multiplayer 33%, Horror 31.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Puzzle 13.2%, First-Person 6.2%
- #46 異ノ故リ-Isolated Hours-
69% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Byking RooKIESPub: Byking Inc.
Windows
A 3D horror game where your only goal is to finish your work… and survive the night. Unnatural anomalies creep into the office as you complete your tasks. Can you make it to the end of your shift alive.
Why similar: Horror 30.2%, Investigation 21.2%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, First-Person 5.1%
- #47 Scholar's Mate - First Move
71% matchMixed57% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Scholar's Mate First Move is a first-person horror experience in a psychiatric hospital. Use your wits to escape from this sinister place.
Why similar: Escape Room 48% ★, Investigation 22%, Horror 9.5%, Puzzle 8.4%, Psychological Horror 5%
- #48 Dark Hours: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive88% of 5,427 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
Why similar: Multiplayer 45%, Horror 35.2%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Exploration 3.6%, Atmospheric 3.1%
- #49 Stockwrk7
71% matchMixed69% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: GudeAndi
Windows
A short FREE First Person Horror-Adventure on a single Floor. Explore the Floor and try to solve the riddles. But don't get too deep into it. You don't know what you'll find. There are only englisch subtitles. Sorry.
Why similar: Multiplayer 26.9%, Horror 23.2%, Puzzle 19.5%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, First-Person 6.6%
- #50 Exit Together
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Çınar's Art
Windows
ANOMALY LOOP ADVENTURE Play solo or with up to 6 players. Spot anomalies, solve puzzles, and escape the loop. Will you reach Room 9 or stay trapped forever?
Why similar: Multiplayer 24.7%, Horror 20.7%, Puzzle 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, First-Person 6.9%
- #51 The Room Syndrome
70% matchVery Positive95% of 362 reviews2019
Dev: Jesse CarradinePub: Jesse Carradine?
Windows
Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.
Why similar: Puzzle 44.4%, Psychological Horror 32.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Casual 10.9%
- #52 TELEFORUM
67% matchVery Positive92% of 3,393 reviews2023
Dev: Monumental CollabPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?
Why similar: Horror 31.5%, Multiplayer 25.9%, Puzzle 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #53 Hide and Shriek
70% matchVery Positive82% of 5,323 reviews2017
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!
Why similar: Multiplayer 58.9%, Horror 30.7%, Psychological Horror 4.4%, First-Person 4.2%, Atmospheric 1.6%
- #54 Escape From Mystwood Mansion
66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,229 reviews2023
Dev: Lost Sock Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In this first-person puzzle escape room game, you are trapped in the mysterious Mystwood mansion. Explore the mansion and find hidden compartments while solving puzzles and deciphering codes to find a way out. Will you escape or linger to uncover the mansion's final secret?
Why similar: Escape Room 36.1% ★, Investigation 12.8%, Puzzle 12.4%, Detective 12.3%, Logic 10.3%
- #55 Serene Asylum
69% matchMixed57% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: MPlant Games
Windows
Serene Asylum is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game. Solve puzzles as you uncover the dark history of the insane asylum and try to escape before you are stuck in game forever. But don't be scared, it's just a game after all, right? Now... if you can read this, you need to wake up!
Why similar: Multiplayer 37.7%, Puzzle 29%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Exploration 8.8%, Casual 3.4%
- #56 Effugium
68% matchMixed60% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Souporno GhoshPub: Team Glasses
Windows
Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.
Why similar: Horror 48.1%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, First-Person 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Exploration 8%
- #57 Fear Therapy
68% matchMixed67% of 4,728 reviews2021
Dev: Black Flag Studios
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.
Why similar: Multiplayer 46.7%, Horror 36.9%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Investigation 4.8%, First-Person 1.8%
- #58 THANATOS
66% matchVery Positive85% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Angela NguyenPub: WahooCat Productions
Windows · Mac
THANATOS is a first-person psychological horror mystery game that involves finding clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets to prevent a friend from taking their own life.
Why similar: Horror 29.5%, Puzzle 28.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, Adventure 11.8%, First-Person 11%
- #59 Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? Preface
65% matchVery Positive98% of 209 reviews2024
Dev: Stately Snail
Windows
This is a small free prequel to the Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?. An old cabin deep in the dense forest, a strange computer, and a game that's trying to kill you!
Why similar: Escape Room 34.1% ★, Investigation 20.1%, Horror 16.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Logic 8%
- #60 Anomaly Exit
64% matchVery Positive91% of 1,158 reviews2024
Dev: ExamlGuy
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
On your way home on the train, you weren't paying attention. Until you realised the train had been stopping at the same station over, and over again. Watch out for anomalies, and avoid the Anomaly Exit! Made for singleplayer and 2-6 co-operative multiplayer.
Why similar: Multiplayer 31.2%, Horror 24.7%, Puzzle 18.3%, Psychological Horror 14%, Exploration 3.1%
