- #1 Children of Silentown: Prologue
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,048 reviews2020
Dev: Elf GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #2 Darkness Ahead
96% matchMixed52% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Useless MachinesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.
Why similar: Adventure 51.9%, Indie 48.1%
- #3 Coma: Mortuary
95% matchMixed57% of 1,010 reviews2014
Dev: Naga Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Coma:Mortuary is the introduction part of a trilogy about events in the world of the dead. The game`s genre is Adventure-Ambient with Horror-quest element.
Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #4 Dap: Prologue
94% matchVery Positive96% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Melting Parrot
Windows
Dap: Prologue is a short dive into the eerie world of Dap, the upcoming horror-action-adventure about protecting a pack of fragile creatures against the creeping corruption tainting the woods and its inhabitants. Lead, scavenge, and fight, in a race for survival against otherwordly horrors.
Why similar: Adventure 61%, Indie 39%
- #5 The Inevitability
94% matchMixed58% of 117 reviews2017
Dev: VaNyuHa
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 99%
The main hero of the game was alone. All of his family died. He continued to cling to the life... but Death... seems trying to pick him up... Throughout the game something have been chasing and wants to send you to the other world to meet his family... and as if you were trying to hide it finds you...
Why similar: Adventure 59.1%, Indie 40.9%
- #6 The Frosts: First Ones
92% matchVery Positive89% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: Ivan Sukhanov
Windows
An adventure about searching for a missing hunter and meeting with alien beings! Explore wild nature, climb on a rock, lure out a boar, meet a wolf, survive in a rockfall. Heal a deer and trick a creature! Meet the Unknown and find mystery!
Why similar: Adventure 61.6%, Indie 38.4%
- #7 ALONE?
93% matchMixed42% of 190 reviews2016
Dev: Deceptive Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore and experience this horror story, as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.
Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #8 Motherland
91% matchMixed60% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: Andreev WorldsPub: My Way Games
Windows
Motherland (A sad fairytale for adults) is an indie-game that allows you to immerse in the atmosphere of a provincial town during the epidemic.
Why similar: Adventure 87.2%, Indie 12.8%
- #9 The Mildew Children: Chapter 1
90% matchVery Positive86% of 324 reviews2023
Dev: The Growing StonesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #10 Sands
91% matchMixed52% of 314 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Hutkouski
Windows
"The sands have no pity." The inhabitants of Zetta-115 often say that. The same they instill in their children from an early age. And this is what they whisper about, sitting in their dilapidated shacks, waiting for the impending storm...
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #11 Uncanny Tales: 1992
88% matchVery Positive84% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: VYASTUDIO
Windows
Autumn, 1992. Anton, a 14-year-old boy, moves with his parents to a small town and is left alone in his grandmother's apartment. Meanwhile, children are disappearing across the town — the police are powerless, and no one knows who's behind it…
Why similar: Adventure 63.3%, Indie 36.7%
- #12 HORROR TALES: The Wine
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 470 reviews2021
Dev: Carlos Coronado
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
Why similar: Adventure 57.7%, Indie 42.3%
- #13 The Renovator: Origins
87% matchVery Positive86% of 235 reviews2024
Dev: Peace_Studio
Windows
You play as the son of a restorer, a museum worker who died tragically. While searching for the memorabilia, the door suddenly closes and strange things begin to happen. The hero is waiting for immersion in the world of art and the paranormal.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #14 Liveza: Death of the Earth
89% matchMixed55% of 171 reviews2016
Dev: Nikita NefedovPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A global catastrophe has literally torn our planet apart, breaking Earth into many pieces. You are the survivor that explores the remains of our planet and investigates the anomalies that have settled upon it. You start out with only a single item: a broken weapon that also functions as a flashlight.
Why similar: Adventure 76.2%, Indie 23.8%
- #15 Missing Hiker
86% matchVery Positive85% of 3,592 reviews2023
Dev: Gemezl
Windows
Missing Hiker is a short indie horror game, where your brother Ethan went missing while hiking and you need to find him.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #16 Welcome to Kowloon
86% matchVery Positive82% of 1,836 reviews2023
Dev: a1esskaPub: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
Why similar: Adventure 61.4%, Indie 38.6%
- #17 Numbra
84% matchVery Positive85% of 409 reviews2025
Dev: DigiPen Europe-BilbaoPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
In a desolate and ominous world, a young girl faces dark creatures that lurk in every shadow. With each step, the danger grows. But there is only one rule: stay awake.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #18 Frightence
85% matchVery Positive82% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Frightence is a short, intense first-person horror experience.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #19 9 Childs Street
82% matchVery Positive91% of 759 reviews2023
Dev: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
This is a first-person indie horror game. In 9 Childs Street you will find the terrifying atmosphere of a recently abandoned house, and its captive inhabitants, through the eyes of a curious little boy in a red cap.
Why similar: Indie 52.8%, Adventure 47.2%
- #20 Almost My Floor: Prologue
83% matchVery Positive91% of 163 reviews2020
Dev: Potata Company
Windows · Linux
A Prologue to Almost My Floor, an upcoming horror-themed point'n'click adventure. Alex is a real fan of creepy stuff and horror movies, but he never expected to experience it himself just by taking the elevator back home! Can he avoid the madness and deal with the evil he's up against?
Why similar: Adventure 66.6%, Indie 33.4%
- #21 Investigator
84% matchMixed69% of 1,025 reviews2016
Dev: AdroVGames
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
Why similar: Adventure 57.7%, Indie 42.3%
- #22 The Inn-Sanity
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,530 reviews2025
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #23 The Moon Sliver
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,146 reviews2014
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...
Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #24 It Lurks in the Woods
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 reviews2017
Dev: Olivier Leclair
Windows
It Lurks in the Woods is a short first-person horror game based on French Canadian folklore.
Why similar: Indie 53.2%, Adventure 46.8%
- #25 Year Walk
79% matchVery Positive90% of 2,014 reviews2014
Dev: Simogo
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.
Why similar: Adventure 64.3%, Indie 35.7%
- #26 Alone in the Dark Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,636 reviews2023
Dev: Pieces InteractivePub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 36 min≥1hr: 6%
This stand-alone prologue puts you in the tiny shoes of Grace Saunders – an 11-year-old girl delivering a letter, when things go horribly wrong… Experience the unique 1920s horror atmosphere of Alone in the Dark and prepare for the terror that awaits in Derceto Manor
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #27 A SECOND BEFORE US
81% matchMixed58% of 106 reviews2017
Dev: DimleTeam
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
They have no names, only serial numbers. They have no freedom, no memories from the past. You are one of them. Explore the last center of civilization on a shattered Earth to understand what is really going on.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #28 Skinwalkers Valley
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Fireplay Studio
Windows
The protagonist, Ethan, heads into the forest with his dog, Ranger, for a simple hunting trip. At first, nothing seems out of the ordinary—but as the time goes on, the hunt slowly turns into a nightmare. Something strange and unexplainable lurks deep within the woods...
Why similar: Adventure 75.7%, Indie 24.3%
- #29 Stay Out Of The Farm: Prologue
78% matchMixed58% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Yasha
Windows
Free Prologue to Stay Out Of The Farm, a ps1 styled horror game where you try to escape from a serial killer.
Why similar: Adventure 80.3%, Indie 19.7%
- #30 BUDDY
80% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Hoshko
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
BUDDY is a horror adventure based on a little girl Mary’s story nightmare. Will you able to distinguish the real story from the girl's fantasy?
Why similar: Indie 54.6%, Adventure 45.4%
- #31 Prognostic
76% matchVery Positive94% of 487 reviews2022
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
An orphan returns to the house of the deceased fortune-teller to uncover the secret of his family's death. He must accept his legacy and become a prognostic before supernatural madness engulfs people of his town.
Why similar: Adventure 60%, Indie 40%
- #32 You Deserve
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 272 reviews2016
Dev: TGA Company LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
"You Deserve" is an horror indie game in which you will experience a bullying story about revenge, starring a teenager called Amy who is lost in a world that she doesn’t know and her only objective is to escape from it without getting murdered.
Why similar: Adventure 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #33 Chasing Static
75% matchVery Positive87% of 501 reviews2021
Dev: Headware Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #34 Monsters of Little Haven
76% matchVery Positive88% of 436 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Adventure 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #35 Mist
74% matchVery Positive81% of 180 reviews2024
Dev: 43N34SPub: Nota Art
Windows
Short atmospheric first person horror game with elements of quest and shooter about being lost in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by weird mist.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 East Wood Carnival
73% matchVery Positive80% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Elam Isaacs
Windows
A PSX retro horror game made by a sixth grader. Your car runs out of gas on your way to an abandoned carnival now infested with danger at every corner.
Why similar: Indie 51.9%, Adventure 48.1%
- #37 Araha : Curse of Yieun Island
75% matchMixed61% of 370 reviews2020
Dev: Palmsoft
Windows
Araha: Curse of Yieun Island is a survival horror game. You will explore the hospital on an island as 'the Boy' who is looking for his sister. Starting from the abandoned hospital, You will journey through the cursed island covering the Sharman's sanctum, Cemetary in the mountainside and more.
Why similar: Adventure 55.9%, Indie 44.1%
- #38 The Mildew Children
71% matchVery Positive93% of 451 reviews2024
Dev: The Growing StonesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #39 MEGA
72% matchVery Positive82% of 104 reviews2022
Dev: Red Kraken studio
Windows
This is a short story about humanity's last attempt to resist nature. Cities lie in ruins, there are traces of huge claws everywhere - once disturbed by people, giants began to wreak havoc around the world. But is there a solution?...
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #40 Monster Stalker: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: 333Ba
Windows
Monster Stalker: Prologue is a free independent version of Monster Stalker, tells the early stage story of Monster Stalker. It combines card battle and RPG. Aliens invade earth and monsters are coming. You will build deck, fight various monsters and get teammates. Go fight and save earth!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Noch
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: Fair Games StudioPub: Sad Horse studio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Go alone (or with a friend) to find the girl who destroyed the world. An ominous surreal first-person adventure full of dangerous monsters and secrets of the deceased world
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #42 Like Clay
73% matchVery Positive88% of 124 reviews2017
Dev: free08Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Like Clay is a story driven adventure game with horror elements. Find out what happened to a friend of yours by reading messages and listening to audio files. Search for hidden doors and items, solve light puzzles and survive deadly foes and lethal traps.
Why similar: Indie 54.3%, Adventure 45.7%
- #43 Die Young: Prologue
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 430 reviews2019
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Die Young: Prologue narrates events that occurred a few hours before the main story of Die Young. You play as Nehir, a field agent on a mission to kill Brother No.1. The mission failed and now you have only one desperate attempt to reach the extraction point.
Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #44 Slender Threads: Prologue
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 516 reviews2021
Dev: Blyts
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #45 BlackShadows
74% matchVery Negative17% of 169 reviews2015
Dev: IceGames Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 16%
BlackShadows is a survival horror game where you'll assume the role of a young scientist who is fighting against her worst nightmare... You'll have to escape from a strange and creepy place in order to survive. You think it's easy? Be careful : Black Shadows are never friendly!
Why similar: Adventure 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #46 Into The Unknown
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: FYRE Games
Windows · Mac
There's nothing scarier than waking up in the middle of the forest alone... or so it seems. Taking control of Rachel in this short, story driven, exploration game, you must find out where you are, why you're there, and most importantly, how to get out. What will you uncover when you delve into the unknown?
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #47 Little Nightmares
65% matchVery Positive95% of 115,101 reviews2017
Dev: Tarsier StudiosPub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
Why similar: Adventure 67.7%, Indie 32.3%
- #48 BLINK: The Last Night
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 104 reviews2022
Dev: Abandoned House Studios
Windows
A vengeful entity comes to kidnap the girl you're babysitting. Guide your way through various psychological twists and turns as you begin to realize that not everything is as it seems. BLINK: The Last Night is a short first chapter of a four-chapter psychological horror story.
- #49 Seek Or Die
70% 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: Indie 100%
- #50 Evil Inside - Prologue
67% 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: Adventure 82.4%, Indie 17.6%
- #51 Fear in Hospital
69% 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: Adventure 66%, Indie 34%
- #52 Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
66% matchVery Positive89% of 8,096 reviews2014
Dev: Krillbite Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Why similar: Adventure 53.4%, Indie 46.6%
- #53 Despair
70% matchMostly Negative35% of 1,837 reviews2015
Dev: AGC
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.
Why similar: Indie 77%, Adventure 23%
- #54 This Child Of Mine
69% matchMixed62% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: BeetleFish Studios
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 18%
A short 2.5D adventure platformer developed over the course of 3 months by a 3 person team. Travel along with a woman and her child surviving during an alien invasion. Inspired by classic sci-fi, this quiet, melancholy journey will show the depths a mother will go to protect her child, if she can survive...
Why similar: Adventure 52.7%, Indie 47.3%
- #55 Demon Of The Dark
66% matchMixed61% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: Green Stream Studio
Windows
A 3D Survival Horror Game, in which the player has to investigate an abandoned medical research facility, while looking out for whatever danger that resides in the unknown darkness. An indie game made by a 14 year old student.
Why similar: Indie 67.6%, Adventure 32.4%
- #56 The Red Hood
67% matchMixed48% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: EgutidzePub: My Way Games
Windows
Game is about little lost girl, who tries to find right path to visit her grandmother
Why similar: Adventure 89.6%, Indie 10.4%
- #57 Fostering Apocalypse
66% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2021
Dev: Incisor Studios
Windows · Mac
The demon summoned to embark the second apocalypse is only a child, and a woman who has lost it all resolves to save her. A half-hour long narrative game with survival gameplay elements and two endings.
Why similar: Adventure 69%, Indie 31%