- #1 BABBDI
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,377 reviews2022
Dev: Sirius LemaitrePub: Lemaitre Bros
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Surreal 23.9%, Atmospheric 13%, Horror 8.7%, First-Person 8.6%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the same sense of lonely, surreal exploration in a desolate, strange environment.
- #2 Paratopic
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,142 reviews2018
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Surreal 25.9%, Retro 18%, Horror 12.6%, Indie 11.4%, Adventure 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the low-poly, surreal, and fragmented narrative style that makes Fatum Betula so unsettling.
- #3 No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
96% matchVery Positive87% of 2,448 reviews2020
Dev: Marevo Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
Why similar: Surreal 14.9%, Retro 14.9%, Horror 13.7%, Indie 11.8%, Adventure 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar retro-horror aesthetic and a heavy, oppressive atmosphere that rewards careful observation.
- #4 Interior Worlds
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 600 reviews2023
Dev: sodaraptorPub: Raptorsoft Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.
Why similar: Retro 19.1%, Horror 13.8%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Casual 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the liminal, lonely, and eerie feeling of exploring empty spaces, much like the quiet world of the seed game.
- #5 OK/NORMAL
95% matchVery Positive81% of 602 reviews2018
Dev: 98DEMAKE
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Remember a good diet, take your medicine, and you should be fine!
Why similar: Surreal 26.1%, Retro 21.8%, Adventure 15.8%, Indie 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply surreal and abstract adventure that, like Fatum Betula, prioritizes atmosphere and weirdness over traditional gameplay.
- #6 Dreamcore
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,820 reviews2025
Dev: MontraluzPub: Tlön Industries
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Experience backrooms like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
Why similar: Surreal 25.7%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 11.7%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a dreamlike, liminal aesthetic to create a sense of psychological unease that feels very close to the experience of Fatum Betula.
- #7 Cruelty Squad
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,218 reviews2021
Dev: Consumer Softproducts
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Why similar: Surreal 50.4%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Retro 17.2%, First-Person 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, its grotesque, surreal, and intentionally ugly aesthetic resonates with the same 'off-putting' charm.
- #8 Dread Delusion
92% matchVery Positive90% of 5,114 reviews2024
Dev: Lovely HellplacePub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.
Why similar: Open World 33.1%, Adventure 30%, First-Person 25.1%, Exploration 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a retro-styled, open-world fantasy setting that is just as strange, melancholic, and surreal as the world of the ancient plant.
- #9 Eclipsium
91% matchVery Positive91% of 3,227 reviews2025
Dev: HousefirePub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
Why similar: Surreal 23%, Retro 16.8%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 9.8%, Adventure 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal walking simulator with pixel graphics that leans heavily into the same psychological-horror vibes.
- #10 Lost in Vivo
91% matchVery Positive91% of 3,941 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
Why similar: Surreal 19.1%, Retro 18.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 15.1%, Atmospheric 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in PS1-style psychological horror that captures the same claustrophobic and surreal dread.
- #11 Within the Backrooms
90% matchVery Positive94% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Display
Windows
You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.
Why similar: Surreal 25.3%, Retro 21.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: Exploits the surreal, liminal, and retro-aesthetic horror tropes that fans of Fatum Betula will find familiar.
- #12 THRESHOLD
89% matchVery Positive85% of 1,295 reviews2024
Dev: Julien EveilléPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Why similar: Surreal 19.9%, Retro 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a dark, atmospheric, and psychological experience that fits well with the more horror-leaning aspects of the seed game.
- #13 Lunacid
88% matchVery Positive91% of 11,206 reviews2023
Dev: KIRA LLC
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Cast into the Great Well, unwanted by the world above. You delve the dark in search of the Old One, your last salvation. Lunacid is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by Shadow Tower and King’s Field.
Why similar: Retro 34.6%, First-Person 22.7%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Horror 11.7%, Indie 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired dungeon crawler that excels at building a melancholic, surreal, and atmospheric world.
- #14 Mundaun
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,472 reviews2021
Dev: Hidden FieldsPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Why similar: Surreal 22.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 12.7%, Adventure 11.7%, Walking Simulator 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its unique hand-penciled art style and surreal, folk-horror atmosphere provide a similarly distinct and haunting experience.
- #15 SIGNALIS
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 33,267 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.5%, Atmospheric 29.8%, Adventure 18.6%, Puzzle 12%
Why You'll Like It: While a survival-horror game, its retro-futuristic, surreal, and deeply psychological narrative hits many of the same thematic notes.
- #16 Greenhouse
86% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: 7D Games Studio
Windows
A psychological horror game where you enter the Greenhouse at your own risk to uncover the truth behind the friendly façade. Change the environment and weather to progress, hoping to get out. Switch off the entities to enjoy eerie serenity.
Why similar: Surreal 18.6%, Horror 16.3%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Walking Simulator 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on psychological horror and atmospheric exploration makes it a strong thematic companion to the plant-tending mechanics of the seed game.
- #17 Effugium
87% 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: Atmospheric 19.7%, Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, First-Person 12.5%, Walking Simulator 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a consistent, atmospheric, and first-person horror experience that keeps the player in a state of constant unease.
- #18 Iron Lung
85% matchVery Positive92% of 10,973 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Horror 19.5%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Indie 11.3%, Adventure 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A short, intense experience that relies on atmosphere and the fear of the unknown, much like the most tense moments in Fatum Betula.
- #19 Museum of Monoliths
84% matchVery Positive92% of 95 reviews2023
Dev: Podoba InteractivePub: Marevo Collective
Windows
A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.
Why similar: Surreal 28.4%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Walking Simulator 9.4%, Indie 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A walking simulator that excels at creating a surreal, atmospheric, and sci-fi-tinged sense of isolation.
- #20 Northern Journey
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,628 reviews2021
Dev: Slid Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A norwegian happysad game set in a northern land! Adventure through a beautiful and very varied wilderness. Dive, fly, use ziplines and find different weapons to aid your journey to reach the cold mountains and below. Encounter over 50 unique bosses and enemy types!
Why similar: Retro 31.7%, Atmospheric 18.7%, Adventure 16.1%, Horror 13.8%, First-Person 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, atmospheric, and surreal indie adventure that feels like a fever dream from start to finish.
- #21 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,869 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.2%, Horror 22.7%, Retro 18.7%, Adventure 16.1%, Surreal 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A short, experimental, and deeply psychological game that mirrors the surreal, internal focus of the seed game.
- #22 Rooten
84% matchVery Positive80% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Amortiz Games
Windows
There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you. You can explore the Forest, try to get out, or even do nothing at all. The forest has always been here, and always will be. You won't change it no matter what.
Why similar: Surreal 18.1%, Horror 18%, Atmospheric 14.9%, Indie 14.1%, Open World 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, indie walking simulator that captures the same feeling of being lost in a strange, decaying world.
- #23 Home_0
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Mike Ten
Windows
You are trapped in a memory of your past. Observe your surrounding carefully to end your nightmare.
Why similar: Surreal 22.3%, Retro 16.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.5%, Atmospheric 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Uses surrealism and psychological horror to create a disorienting experience that feels very similar to the seed game's tone.
- #24 The Cursed Forest
81% matchVery Positive89% of 883 reviews2019
Dev: KPy3OPub: Grable Team
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.
Why similar: Surreal 29.2%, Adventure 15.5%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Horror 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric adventure that focuses on exploration and the creeping dread of a mysterious, nature-based environment.
- #25 Luto
79% matchVery Positive85% of 1,290 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Bird Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Adventure 15.7%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Walking Simulator 13%, First-Person 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A story-rich, dark, and cinematic psychological horror game that explores themes of loss and the surreal.
- #26 Mango
81% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Mask PartyPub: NILWARE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
Why similar: Surreal 27.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Adventure 10.8%, First-Person 9.3%, Indie 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person, surreal, and psychedelic adventure that prioritizes weirdness and atmosphere over traditional progression.
- #27 Seybul Tech
79% matchVery Positive91% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: Seybul Tech
Windows
Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.
Why similar: Surreal 26.4%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Horror 11.2%, Indie 9.8%, Walking Simulator 9%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, indie, and surreal psychological horror game that fits the niche of the seed game well.
- #28 While We Wait Here
78% matchVery Positive89% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.6%, Horror 22.3%, Casual 14%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, First-Person 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy, psychological horror game that forces you to live with the consequences of your decisions.
- #29 the static speaks my name
80% matchVery Positive82% of 5,768 reviews2015
Dev: the whale husband
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 7%
A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, Horror 18.7%, Indie 14.7%, Adventure 11.4%, First-Person 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal, and deeply unsettling indie game that focuses on the mundane turned into the horrific.
- #30 Eternal Afternoon
76% matchVery Positive95% of 409 reviews2026
Dev: Alex Klexber
Windows · Mac · Linux
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
Why similar: Surreal 26%, Retro 19.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Open World 11.7%, Adventure 10.6%
- #31 Forgot
76% matchVery Positive92% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Maxwell Whitebaker
Windows
You are trapped at home in an endless loop. Remember your surroundings and watch out for anomalies, if you ever want to leave.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 16.4%, Atmospheric 15%, Casual 13.1%, Walking Simulator 11.5%
- #32 Anomaly Loop
77% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: DidOne
Windows
You woke up and found yourself in an anomalous endless place from which it is not so easy to get out. Carefully observe your surroundings to find a way out of this place.
Why similar: Adventure 34.6%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, First-Person 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #33 Unwilling Host
75% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: HeZhiQiang
Windows
This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.
Why similar: Adventure 18.2%, Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Retro 13%, Walking Simulator 9.9%
- #34 Trapped
77% matchVery Positive82% of 165 reviews2019
Dev: N4bA
Windows
You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible
Why similar: Adventure 24.5%, Indie 19.7%, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Atmospheric 10.1%
- #35 Unanswered
73% matchVery Positive95% of 74 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 19.4%, Horror 17.4%, Adventure 17.1%, Indie 16.3%, First-Person 13.7%
- #36 Deep Sorrow
78% matchMixed50% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: QuickSavePub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.
Why similar: Adventure 27.5%, Indie 20.8%, Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, First-Person 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A short, first-person indie horror game that captures the same sense of melancholy and dread found in the seed game.
- #37 Devious Path
74% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: AAD Games
Windows
You are trapped in an endless astral world. Keep a close eye on your surroundings to get out of the astral world.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 51.5%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, Adventure 11.2%, Casual 9.1%, Indie 8.7%
- #38 PAGER
73% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: bilge
Windows
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Why similar: Surreal 24.6%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 12.6%, First-Person 10.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%
- #39 Finnish Cottage 8
73% matchVery Positive95% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Savukivi Games
Windows
You've been trapped in a looping Finnish summer cottage. Use your observation and memory to find anomalies and make the right choice to escape the Finnish Cottage 8.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 16.9%, First-Person 14.9%, Adventure 14.7%, Walking Simulator 11.7%
- #40 Hollow Cocoon
72% matchVery Positive93% of 911 reviews2023
Dev: NAYUTA STUDIO
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.
Why similar: Surreal 17.3%, Retro 12.9%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Adventure 11.3%
- #41 A Lonely Cabin Trip
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Korvinrular
Windows
You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?
Why similar: Surreal 23.2%, Horror 14.1%, Psychological Horror 14%, Adventure 12.8%, Atmospheric 11.9%
- #42 The Heilwald Loophole
71% matchVery Positive98% of 364 reviews2022
Dev: Jan Malitschek
Windows
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
Why similar: Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, First-Person 14%, Adventure 12.8%, Atmospheric 11.1%
- #43 The Backrooms
75% matchMostly Negative24% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: WASABAE Studios
Windows
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
Why similar: Casual 12.6%, Indie 11.7%, Horror 11.7%, First-Person 11.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%
- #44 Bleeding Roots
69% matchVery Positive93% of 437 reviews2024
Dev: Mechanikoi
Windows
Bleeding Roots is a free fifteen minute horror game about a man taking care of his plants throughout the seasons.
Why similar: Horror 31.8%, Atmospheric 24.9%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 10.6%
- #45 7 Days
69% matchVery Positive99% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: Daver The DavePub: IC Industries
Windows
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Surreal 40.9%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Indie 11.5%, Adventure 9%
- #46 One-Eyed Likho
67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,191 reviews2025
Dev: Morteshka
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.
Why similar: Horror 18.1%, Adventure 18%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Walking Simulator 11.2%
- #47 Everloop
70% matchVery Positive94% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: Infinity Green Game Studio
Windows
You are trapped in an endless hallway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach your destiny.
Why similar: Surreal 21.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 11.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.3%
- #48 White Room Protocol
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Lefto Studio
Windows
A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Atmospheric 15.5%, First-Person 11.8%, Walking Simulator 11.8%
- #49 Fingerbones
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,598 reviews2015
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16%, Horror 15.7%, Adventure 14.5%, First-Person 12.4%, Indie 11.9%
- #50 The Sorrowvirus
71% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: WATCHMAKERPub: Adam Sklar
Windows
Consumed by greed, Wyatt's parents subject him to a cycle of death without end, sending him into Purgatory each time to capitalise on the Catholicon, a cure-all they value more than their son, with the potential to reshape humanity. As he ebbs, Wyatt's only desire is to be free, forever.
Why similar: Adventure 28.3%, Casual 23.1%, Indie 22.4%, Horror 6%, First-Person 5.1%
- #51 Dreamcore: Rabbit Hole
68% matchMixed69% of 330 reviews2026
Dev: Ankoku
Windows
Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.
Why similar: Surreal 21.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, First-Person 11.7%, Walking Simulator 10.3%, Adventure 10.3%
- #52 Escape from Mutation Station
68% matchVery Positive97% of 101 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: Surreal 39.2%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Indie 10.8%, Puzzle 8.5%, Walking Simulator 7.5%
- #53 Project Liminal 2
67% matchVery Positive88% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, First-Person 12.4%, Puzzle 11.7%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Psychological Horror 7.5%
- #54 CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,666 reviews2025
Dev: Bastinus RexPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
Why similar: Surreal 26.1%, Horror 13.6%, Adventure 13.5%, Atmospheric 11.9%, First-Person 11%
- #55 Fortuito: Lost History
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 79 reviews2021
Dev: FabioPDJ
Windows
Fortuito: Lost History is an indie adventure first-person horror, face the unknown with classic fps mechanics, solve puzzles and immerse in this bad trip!
Why similar: Retro 21.6%, Adventure 20.3%, Surreal 20.2%, First-Person 13.3%, Horror 9.1%
- #56 Grunn
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,390 reviews2024
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
Why similar: Horror 23.1%, Adventure 17.1%, First-Person 13%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Casual 9.5%
- #57 Liminalcore
67% matchVery Positive83% of 730 reviews2024
Dev: Shadow Owl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
Why similar: Surreal 25.2%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Adventure 17%, Atmospheric 16.2%, Walking Simulator 13.1%
- #58 A SECOND BEFORE US
72% matchMixed57% 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 36%, Indie 25.9%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Exploration 8.6%
- #59 Water Delivery
67% matchVery Positive86% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: Frozen Lake Software
Windows
Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?
Why similar: Surreal 23.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Horror 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Atmospheric 11.8%
- #60 BETON BRUTAL
66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,288 reviews2023
Dev: Jan Malitschek
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Climb a massive overgrown concrete tower while constantly at risk of falling and losing precious progress. BETON BRUTAL offers a fluid and responsive first person parkour experience through tranquil brutalist architecture.
Why similar: Atmospheric 25.9%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Casual 20.4%, Indie 12%, Horror 11.3%