- #1 Labyrinth: Veins of the Machine
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beyond Illusion Studios
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game. You were sent into an abandoned facility to retrieve something — but it's not as empty as you were told. No combat. No rescue. Just what's waiting inside.
Why similar: Horror 28.4%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, First-Person 14.4%, Dark 8.6%, Adventure 6.4%
- #2 TheMemory
96% matchPositive80% of 35 reviews2019
Dev: TeamNPC
Windows
Find the lost memories and escape from Mor's Asylum.
Why similar: Horror 31.4%, Psychological Horror 24.9%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, First-Person 13.2%, Adventure 12.7%
- #3 Astray
96% matchMixed69% of 230 reviews2015
Dev: Aegon Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Astray is a first-person horror/puzzle game set in an abandoned museum based on unusual cultures, legends, and supernatural themes. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface..
Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Puzzle 12.6%, First-Person 12.6%, Lovecraftian 12.4%
- #4 Relight The Dark
95% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: TaleHammer
Windows
Dive deep into a chilling and emotionally charged short horror experience that tells a story about a girl living with her abusive mother.
Why similar: Horror 27.9%, Psychological Horror 26.8%, Female Protagonist 17.5%, First-Person 9.7%, Dark 9.2%
- #5 Last Half of Darkness
94% matchVery Positive91% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: WRF Studios
Windows
Your aunt sure was a strange one. She was some sort of witch or something. A good witch though, practicing only good spells and magic. In fact, she was working on a potion just before she was killed. Now the secret will go to the grave with her... unless you can find the missing ingredients.
Why similar: Horror 37.3%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Dark 11.6%, Adventure 10.9%, First-Person 9.5%
- #6 Circustime
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: moncage
Windows
"CircusTime" combines circus nostalgia with horror. As Olive, explore eerie levels and puzzles to uncover dark secrets in a haunting, immersive journey.
Why similar: Horror 30%, Psychological Horror 28.8%, Dark 15.7%, Puzzle 12.3%, Adventure 9.7%
- #7 Engraving
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Raffaele Picca
Windows · Linux
In this horror adventure, your only weapons are ink, paper, and will. Explore shifting paths, chart them by hand, and uncover ancient secrets buried beneath root and stone. Every step takes its toll.
Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Psychological Horror 23%, First-Person 12.3%, Adventure 10.5%, Dark 8.5%
- #8 Beguiled Egress
92% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Gregory Montoya
Windows
Beguiled Egress is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and puzzle solving.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.4%, Horror 26.3%, First-Person 15.3%, Puzzle 12.2%, Exploration 5.9%
- #9 Harfa
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Everness Games
Windows
A first-person psychological horror experience set in a forgotten Saudi village beneath the mysterious mountain of Harfa. Explore abandoned homes, uncover chilling secrets, solve puzzles, and face the darkness lurking within the mountain.
Why similar: Horror 33.4%, Psychological Horror 31.8%, Puzzle 14.7%, First-Person 14%, Indie 3.6%
- #10 ENKI
91% matchMixed61% of 168 reviews2015
Dev: Storm in a Teacup
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
ENKI is a repeatable horror experience about escaping, featuring multiple endings that will ensure you that every playthrough will be a bit different from the previous one. In only 30 minutes find your way to freedom through occult symbolism, mysteries and discoverable secrets... Survive or die!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Horror 23.9%, Puzzle 16.8%, First-Person 16%, Adventure 10.9%
- #11 Knock
89% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: shanethehippoPub: Shanethehippo Productions
Windows
A short story psychological horror game about answering visitors at the door while being home alone after your brother goes out to buy pizza. During a time of a record-breaking number of serial home break-ins, you must decide whether or not to answer the knock at the door.
Why similar: Horror 31.9%, Psychological Horror 30.4%, First-Person 16.6%, Adventure 9.6%, Puzzle 6.6%
- #12 Strange Night
90% matchMixed60% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: LaboryPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
As an employee of a night security firm, your first night on the job might be your last, as strange events push your sanity to the limit.
Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Psychological Horror 29.3%, First-Person 15.5%, Dark 14.6%, Indie 5.1%
- #13 THANATOS
89% matchVery Positive83% 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 22.7%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Puzzle 16.6%, Adventure 16.5%, First-Person 15.7%
- #14 The Railroad Crossing
88% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Garu
Windows
The railroad crossing I walk by every day… something’s off.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.8%, Horror 28.6%, Dark 15.9%, First-Person 10.3%, Adventure 9.8%
- #15 Domovoy
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Babrov StudioPub: Babrov Interactive
Windows
Domovoy is a psychological horror game from the first person, the game takes place in a Soviet apartment in the late 80s. Are you ready to meet the Domovoy?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.4%, Horror 31.7%, First-Person 17.9%, Adventure 9%, Puzzle 5.1%
- #16 Penumbra Overture
87% matchVery Positive90% of 4,186 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Why similar: Horror 35.9%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, First-Person 12%, Lovecraftian 11.1%, Dark 7.7%
- #17 Deep in the Fields
84% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Del Campo Studio
Windows
With no other option, you take a job as a farmhand on a remote ranch in the interior of Buenos Aires. But as time passes, you begin to uncover the dark secrets buried deep in the fields.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.1%, Horror 27.9%, Dark 15.8%, Adventure 7.3%, Puzzle 6.9%
- #18 Haemu Station: The Last Announcement
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NION
Windows
A first-person horror puzzle game set in an abandoned Korean railway station. Follow your lost sister’s voice, examine forgotten belongings and operate strange devices. Hide when footsteps draw near. In the dark, the voice guiding you may be the one you should fear.
Why similar: Horror 25.9%, Psychological Horror 25%, First-Person 12.4%, Puzzle 11.6%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
- #19 Incoming Evil
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: CodelessMan
Windows
A first-person horror game Incoming Evil, you will explore an unsolved event about 3 missing people. Nobody knows what happened to them, the police could not solve the case. You are an experienced detective; the case handed over to you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Horror 24.4%, First-Person 15.8%, Dark 11.7%, Puzzle 10.9%
- #20 Last Presence
84% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: DUS
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game where you explore your childhood home, solve symbolic puzzles, and uncover a family curse that slowly takes control of your actions.
Why similar: Horror 28%, Psychological Horror 20%, Puzzle 14.3%, First-Person 13.9%, Dark 11%
- #21 Celestials Door
83% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Breakbound Studios
Windows
Celestial's Door is a psychological horror game where you, as a desperate husband, search for your missing wife, Dee.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 16.8%, Puzzle 14.5%, Adventure 14.3%, First-Person 14.2%
- #22 Unsealed: Vigil
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamhalla
Windows
Stuck in a wheelchair with a bell in your hand. They watch you in the dark and move closer when you're not looking. Find them. Ring the bell. Escape the nightmare. Wake up.
Why similar: Horror 32.1%, Psychological Horror 28%, First-Person 17.4%, Dark 10.9%, Adventure 9.4%
- #23 Unanswered
80% matchVery Positive95% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: WhiteRoot Studio
Windows
You wake up in a strange place, not knowing who you are, where you are, or how you got here. Trapped in an environment that twists to break your sanity, your only way out is to delve into the unknown and face the horrors of a past your mind is trying to hide.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29%, Horror 24.5%, First-Person 14.5%, Adventure 8.1%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #24 OBSERVE
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chris Alvey
Windows
A first-person psychological horror set in a Japanese train station after the last departure. The station knows your name. Something is watching. What is seen cannot be unseen. 終電後の日本の駅を舞台にした、一人称視点のサイコロジカルホラー。駅は、あなたの名前を知っている。何かが、見ている。一度見たものは、二度と見なかったことにはできない。
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.1%, Horror 24.7%, First-Person 14.4%, Puzzle 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.4%
- #25 Shadows of Absence
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark Harbor Studio
Windows
After years of missing out on life, the journeys, the friendships, the experiences, you are prescribed an experimental medication to help you reclaim your life. The side effects were supposed to be minor, but as you drift off to sleep, you wake up in your childhood home.
Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Psychological Horror 29.3%, Dark 14.6%, First-Person 12.9%, Adventure 9.5%
- #26 Strange Night ll
82% matchMixed44% of 87 reviews2018
Dev: LaboryPub: SA Industry
Windows
Strange Night II takes you to a mysterious hostel where your sanity will be put to the test.
Why similar: Horror 26.2%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Dark 15.7%, First-Person 14%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #27 Night Gig
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Saucy Steel Games
Windows
Working night shift in a dim room, the player uses a computer for routine tasks. The room has faint sounds and movements. They must look up, check anomalies, and balance work with vigilance until done.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.9%, Horror 27.6%, First-Person 19.2%, Adventure 11%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #28 Vorozhey
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Babrov StudioPub: Babrov Interactive
Windows
Vorozhey is a psychological horror inspired by Slavic mythology. It tells the story of an artist haunted by terrifying visions and ancient forces.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.4%, Horror 28.1%, First-Person 16.3%, Puzzle 12.3%, Adventure 6%
- #29 Santa's Shadow
78% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Dillan VictoryPub: Raydillanv
Windows
A Christmas Indie Horror Game
Why similar: Horror 31.6%, Psychological Horror 28.1%, First-Person 13.5%, Puzzle 12.9%, Dark 9.6%
- #30 NEVER TURN BACK
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: REMAAL GAMES Pub: REMAAL GAMES
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game about escaping a seemingly endless tunnel where something is always watching from the darkness.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Horror 22.7%, Dark 14.7%, Adventure 14.3%, First-Person 14.3%
- #31 Mukmil
75% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: MishMish Studios
Windows
Mukmil is a first-person psychological horror game about Sa’ad, a student trapped inside a nightmare after failing history class. Explore a haunted school, solve symbolic puzzles, uncover buried memories, and survive the evil hunting you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, Horror 22.5%, First-Person 15.4%, Puzzle 14.5%, Adventure 14.4%
- #32 Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
79% matchVery Positive94% of 2,991 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Why similar: Horror 31.8%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, First-Person 12.6%, Lovecraftian 12%, Adventure 7.1%
- #33 NOXEN
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XOTOX
Windows
Enter an unsettling house where every room hides new secrets. Explore, solve puzzles, inspect objects, use tools to progress, and survive terrifying paranormal events in this first-person psychological horror experience.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.7%, Horror 23.4%, Dark 14.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, First-Person 9%
- #34 Left By Angels
73% matchVery Positive85% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: Street Art Studios
Windows
Based on the real Left By Angels Mansion! After your wife vanishes, a strange sighting draws you to an abandoned mansion. Trapped inside, haunted by the past, and hunted by truth, you must survive a looping nightmare where light is your only ally. She’s here—and she remembers everything.
Why similar: Horror 29%, Psychological Horror 26.9%, First-Person 13%, Dark 9.8%, Adventure 9%
- #35 APARTMENT 001
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pythonidae Studio
Windows
You awaken inside an unknown facility and must explore its mysterious spaces in order to recover your lost memories. Gather clues, follow the records and procedures left behind by the Bureau, and overcome the threatening anomalies that stand in your way.
Why similar: Horror 25.8%, Psychological Horror 25%, Dark 13.8%, Puzzle 10%, First-Person 8.9%
- #36 Oniwaki Village -Horror game-
74% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: GoodLuck3 Inc.
Windows
"Oniwaki Village" is a first-person Japanese horror adventure game set in a Japanese village that has been abandoned due to an incident. Players endure horror as they explore the village and pursue the mystery of the incident....
Why similar: Horror 32.4%, Psychological Horror 28.3%, Dark 17.8%, Adventure 17%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #37 Hektor
77% matchMixed62% of 972 reviews2015
Dev: Rubycone
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Experience terrors only madness can conjure in HEKTOR, a psychological horror game set in a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn.
Why similar: Horror 44%, Psychological Horror 27.6%, First-Person 15.8%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 3.4%
- #38 Loop Room
76% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: OOPs.K
Windows
The loop room is a horror game from the first person point of view, and the goal is to operate 5 panels in 100 repeated rooms and escape to the emergency exit. Run away from the endless room through various equipment and items.
Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Psychological Horror 28.6%, Dark 18.4%, First-Person 15.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #39 The Host's deadly games
72% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: DaV Studios
Windows
The Host's deadly games is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore a mysterious house, uncover its dark past, and solve puzzles to survive.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.4%, Horror 24.9%, First-Person 14.5%, Dark 10.2%, Adventure 8%
- #40 AonTheVoid Nevaeh
73% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: AonTheVoid
Windows
Investigate the case. Understand the Noise. Find the truth.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Horror 21.7%, First-Person 12.5%, Puzzle 11.3%, Female Protagonist 9%
- #41 Wake Up: Liminal
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheVladORPub: TheVladOR GDS
Windows
How far are you willing to go?
Why similar: Horror 27.3%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Dark 14.3%, Adventure 10%, First-Person 8%
- #42 Anna - Extended Edition
75% matchMixed60% of 1,622 reviews2013
Dev: DreampaintersPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Anna - Extended Edition has been given an overhaul based on the feedback of the thousands of players of the original Anna.
Why similar: Horror 46.7%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Adventure 11.3%, Puzzle 11.2%, First-Person 8.8%
- #43 Night at the lake: Silent Watcher
70% matchMixed56% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: N0tVen0s
Windows
A night shift at a remote lake turns into something unsettling. Explore the area, log data, and uncover what lurks in the darkness.
Why similar: Horror 35.3%, Psychological Horror 35.2%, Adventure 9.3%, First-Person 8%, Dark 7%
- #44 Notes To Myself
72% matchPositive87% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Spy On The Wall
Windows · Linux
The horror began when you wrote your first note.
Why similar: Horror 34.8%, Psychological Horror 32.1%, First-Person 16.9%, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 1.9%
- #45 OPEN UP, MICHAEL!
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LetsAdventurePlay
Windows
Balance strange offerings on a door handle, remember its unsettling note sequences, and find out who Michael really is. A short first-person comedy-horror game about five rituals, readable puzzles, two endings, and one suspiciously well-balanced cheese wedge.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.4%, Horror 20.6%, First-Person 14%, Puzzle 13.1%, Adventure 6.1%
- #46 Toy's Playground: The prologue
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zeyra Games
Windows
Toy's Playground hides dark secrets. Explore the factory and the play area. Solve puzzles. Avoid the creatures. Don’t get caught. Find a way out before it’s too late.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.2%, Horror 21.9%, First-Person 16%, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 10.1%
- #47 INSOMNIC
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quickly Games Studio
Windows
Insomnia is a prison built by your own mind. Set in the early 2000s within the walls of a decaying apartment, you struggle to hide from a killer terrorizing the city. But as sleep fades, reality turns into a nightmare, and the line between victim and predator begins to blur.
Why similar: Horror 29.6%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, First-Person 17.3%, Dark 15.4%, Puzzle 13.9%
- #48 Grinny’s Playhouse
70% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Abnormal Studios
Windows
Enter Grinny’s Playhouse, a once‑lively children’s fun centre now abandoned after its mysterious shutdown. Explore the dark party rooms and uncover what happened here. But be careful… the mascot who once entertained families hasn’t fully powered down.
Why similar: Horror 24%, First-Person 18.5%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Dark 14.4%, Puzzle 14.2%
- #49 The Rite Holds
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: PV Development
Windows
In this concise first person horror experience, you are trapped in an infinite corridor with nothing but a flashlight. Explore this liminal space, survive the entities that lurk in the dark and complete the ritual to break the cycle.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.4%, Horror 22.3%, Dark 12.7%, First-Person 11.5%, Lovecraftian 10.8%
- #50 The Final Exhibit
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jo Gaming
Windows
Explore a mysterious museum, restore corrupted works of art and uncover the truth behind the presence lurking within in this psychological horror game.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.7%, Horror 23.6%, First-Person 16%, Adventure 11.1%, Puzzle 11%
- #51 Underworld Dreams: The False King
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Drop of PixelPub: Drop Of Pixel
Windows
Underworld Dreams: The False King is the first game in the Underworld Dreams Anthology - the first-person horror series based in the Lovecraftian mythos. Inspired by the works of Lovecraft and Robert W Chambers and set in the 1980s, it sets the stage for the Underworld Dreams experience.
Why similar: Horror 26%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Lovecraftian 23.4%, First-Person 11.4%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #52 Static
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Suraj M.
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game built around attention, perception, and fear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.5%, Horror 26.2%, First-Person 23.1%, Adventure 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #53 Mara
67% matchMixed69% of 84 reviews2025
Dev: Nick Abrams
Windows
You’re a thief! You’ve received a job from a dealer, and now you must steal several artifacts from an ancient tomb recently discovered by archaeologists!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.5%, Horror 24.2%, Dark 14.2%, First-Person 12.6%, Puzzle 10.6%
- #54 While Sleeping
68% matchVery Positive81% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Sangwoon JinPub: FLUXJIN
Windows
A first-person horror game dealing with sleep paralysis. You are lying in bed, unable to move, experiencing creepy phenomena and having to survive until morning from ghosts.
Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Psychological Horror 33.2%, Dark 20.5%, Indie 3.7%, Adventure 3.5%
- #55 Squawky
67% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Spark Labs Gaming
Windows
A mascot horror game where a rubber chicken is your flashlight. Enhance it with strange energies to progress, survive twisted enemies, and whatever you do, don’t let Squawky catch you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 26.1%, First-Person 17.1%, Puzzle 16%, Dark 6.7%
- #56 6 Floors
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Ghoul World
Windows
You find yourself in a strange place and the only way out is within. Navigate liminal corridors and rooms filled with psychological terrors as you traverse all six floors of this mysterious place in order to save your soul.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Horror 23%, Lovecraftian 19.5%, First-Person 16.2%, Adventure 8%
- #57 Backrooms:The Exit
68% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: XXE Games studio
Windows
Backrooms: The Exit is a single-player adventure game based on theme of backrooms.Inside the game you will need to avoid all threatening entities and find the cutscenes (exits) for each level, and perhaps many unexpected ways out of a level.
Why similar: Horror 31.2%, Psychological Horror 29.4%, Adventure 11.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Puzzle 7.5%
- #58 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
69% matchVery Positive95% of 35,783 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 38%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Lovecraftian 12.6%, First-Person 9.3%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #59 Once In Sakartvelo: Out Of Service
65% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews
Dev: ArbiDev
Windows
A short first-person horror game set in Tbilisi. A late-night walk to the metro turns tense as a slow-moving car tracks your every step. When you find the station closed, a desperate fight to escape begins.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35%, Horror 27.9%, First-Person 16.3%, Dark 7.3%, Exploration 5.2%
- #60 The Last Tape: Before The Mine
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stealth StudiosPub: Stealth Studios UE
Windows
Mia Jane disappeared in 1990 during a camping trip. Years later, Gabriel finds her recording while searching for a cure for her infection at the Lurmont facility. Explore two timelines, uncover the hidden truth, and survive the presence that lurks in the shadows of Black Wood.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.7%, Horror 31.5%, First-Person 17.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Exploration 6.2%