Games Like Fear Equation

Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.4%

In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!

Why similar: Trains 40.8% ★, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Roguelike 9.8%, Strategy 6.7%

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.

Why similar: Horror 22.5%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Management 16.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 12.7%

Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 18.1%, Character Customization 18%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 12.2%

Turn-based strategy horror. Terror in a confined space. Manage your limited power and time to protect yourself from the oncoming enemies and survive until dawn.

Why similar: Horror 22.6%, Survival Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, Strategy 9.4%

Become the last conductor and rule over the final train society in a frozen world. Gather, expand, and forge your train while building powerful synergies with mighty artifacts. Your position—and the safety of your passengers—now rests in your hands.

Why similar: Trains 39.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Roguelike 16.1%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 5.7%

Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Turn-Based 20.3%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Roguelike 10.9%, Survival 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.7%, Character Customization 23.2%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Horror 16.4%, RPG 12.5%

A co-op extraction horror for 1-4 players where you survive nuclear wastelands on a train. Scavenge scrap for fuel and supplies, and use voice mechanics to stay alive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Horror 20.6%, Survival 16.3%, Atmospheric 12.8%

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.6%, Roguelike 22.6%, Management 22.4%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Simulation 13.5%

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Survival 13.3%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.8%

Behold the first-ever Tactical Extraction Looter where you pit your courage and leadership against fears made manifest: the Dreadweavers. Lead a band of scavenger roughnecks into a devastated boom town of the alternative 1900s. Get in, face the monsters, grab what you can carry and get out. Alive.

Why similar: Roguelike 33.5%, Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 24.2%, Strategy 15.8%

Scare, terrify and thrill guests as you build the haunted house of your nightmares. Design and customize your creations with incredible detail to scare your guests, or risk losing it all in this tower defense/management/tycoon hybrid.

Why similar: Building 24.4%, Management 22.5%, Horror 17.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 9.9%

Be the last train conductor roaming the postapocalyptic frozen world! Expand, strengthen, and build synergies on your train. The promised land beyond the toxic zone awaits you and your passengers.

Why similar: Trains 48.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Roguelike 14.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!

Why similar: Trains 48.3% ★, Survival Horror 11.7%, Roguelike 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Horror 7.8%

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Roguelike 20.1%, Horror 16.5%, Strategy 9.9%

Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries

Why similar: Roguelike 23.7%, Psychological Horror 22%, Horror 21.7%, RPG 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.4%

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Immersive Sim 14%, Building 12.9%, Management 10.8%, Roguelike 10.7%

Conduct, upgrade and repair your train through endless waves of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting. In this action management roguelike, the player decides to embark on a journey through the wasteland looking to fulfill the dream of seeing the remains of the outside world.

Why similar: Trains 47.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Roguelike 14.3%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 3.5%

It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Trains 28.5% ★, Horror 26.4%, Strategy 18.4%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Survival Horror 7.1%

A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.

Why similar: Horror 30.2%, Roguelike 27.2%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, RPG 12.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%

A turn-based horror RPG with retro 32-bit 3D graphics. Survive the horrors of the mansion that changes every time you enter.

Why similar: Roguelike 29%, Horror 27.2%, RPG 17.7%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Atmospheric 9.2%

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

Why similar: Survival Horror 27.3%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Survival 21.8%, Horror 20.1%, Simulation 7.2%

Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.5%, Survival 22.8%, Horror 21.1%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Survival Horror 21.2%, Survival 18.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Atmospheric 11%

A short one-room-horror which takes place on a livestock train in a dystopian Soviet state

Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Trains 17.1% ★, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Simulation 14%

Players will constantly experience their inner voice between the truth and fear from Ling's perspective, and face the most cruel fate hidden in the deepest darkness after the horizon is clear and swept by fear one after another...

Why similar: RPG 21.4%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 20.1%, Horror 17.1%, Female Protagonist 14.3%

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Trains 38.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 25.7%, Survival 19.2%, Horror 6.4%, Atmospheric 6%

Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.

Why similar: Survival Horror 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Horror 17.7%, Female Protagonist 17.3%, RPG 11.5%

In this exciting Card Building Roguelike game you create your cards from scratch adding different upgrades. Build your train, explore the Labyrinth and survive. Discover infinite synergies. How far will you go?

Why similar: Turn-Based 51.5%, Roguelike 21.9%, Strategy 14.8%, RPG 11.8%

Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.

Why similar: Turn-Based 36.7%, Roguelike 16.3%, RPG 15.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Frosty Nights is a First Person hybrid horror game that focuses on atmosphere and suspense.

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.9%, Survival 19.2%, Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Strategy 12.4%

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Immersive Sim 26.4%, Horror 18.4%, Simulation 17.2%, Atmospheric 4.5%

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Management 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, RPG 10.4%, Strategy 10.1%

Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.3%, Horror 20.1%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Roguelike 15.1%, Survival 12.5%

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.7%, Survival 23%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Roguelike 14.9%, RPG 7.1%

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

Why similar: Survival Horror 28%, Roguelike 19.7%, Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Simulation 6.9%

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Roguelike 19%, Turn-Based 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Horror 10%

Neurodeck is a psychological deckbuilding card game to challenge your fears. Build your deck & capacities by answering personality tests, visiting rooms or meditating. Face your phobia and defeat them through the power of life-inspired cards.

Why similar: Turn-Based 41.1%, Roguelike 23.6%, Strategy 10.8%, RPG 10%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Re:Turn - One Way Trip is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure horror game. Trapped in a ghostly train, Saki must search the past and present to find and save her friends. More importantly, Saki must use her wits if she is to survive against an unspeakable evil hellbent on avenging unrequited love.

Why similar: Trains 51.7% ★, Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Female Protagonist 12%, RPG 8.1%

Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

Why similar: Building 25.8%, Roguelike 19.4%, Horror 17.2%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Strategy 12.8%

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: Psychological Horror 29.7%, Horror 27.8%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Indie 3.4%

Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Why similar: Survival 40.3%, Survival Horror 24.6%, Roguelike 16%, Horror 12%, Indie 4.2%

A cozy horror game where you own and manage a boba tea shop. Prepare boba teas, serve customers, and expand your menu to grow your business.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 18.9%, Management 17.1%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Atmospheric 9%

Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.5%, Horror 36.8%, Atmospheric 19.9%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Horror 20.9%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Atmospheric 11%

Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.

Why similar: Horror 33.9%, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Indie 7.7%

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26%, Management 13.5%, Building 11.1%, Strategy 7.3%

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival for a second time. Assemble your strike team and manage your convoy. It's up to you to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Survival Horror 22.9%, Horror 17.7%, Strategy 15.2%, Character Customization 11.9%

Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.

Why similar: Survival Horror 32.3%, Horror 19.9%, RPG 15%, Strategy 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.8%

A short, unique survival-farming-base-building-tycoon-horror game where you must survive through washing dishes. Explore mysterious depths, manage resources, and unravel a cryptic narrative. In DWS, a chore becomes a journey to freedom.

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.7%, Building 18.8%, Immersive Sim 16.4%, Management 14.5%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

CRUSH DEPTH is first-person sci-fi horror game set at the bottom of the ocean. A salvage operation that would set you up for life goes sideways when you realize you're not alone down there. You'll solve puzzles and run from danger as you uncover the mysterious fate of Eclipse Station.

Why similar: Horror 36.2%, Female Protagonist 28.8%, Simulation 16.2%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Indie 4.1%

In this dystopic sci-fi Tactical RPG, save your patients from themselves. Craft your skills among millions of combinations, heal the mind and face ever growing nightmares in 10mn runs. Will you overcome the insidious being chasing you across minds?

Why similar: Turn-Based 43%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, RPG 11.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.8%

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 8.1%

Velaria awakens from a nightmare in an abandoned orphanage. As childhood fears resurface, she must piece together fragmented memories and uncover a dark past. Explore, solve puzzles, and survive this twisted place to reach her true ending.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.8%, Horror 24.1%, Female Protagonist 20.9%, RPG 18.2%, Simulation 12%

Anant Express is set aboard a haunted sleeper-class indian train. You board the train as an ordinary traveler, but as the journey progresses, strange events begin to unfold. Mysterious passengers. Shifting compartments. Whispers in the dark. Nothing is as it seems.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.7%, Immersive Sim 22.9%, Horror 18.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Indie 6%

Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.7%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Horror 21.6%, Strategy 14.6%, Atmospheric 13.2%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Turn-Based 22.2%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Management 12.9%, Roguelike 11.9%, Survival 11.5%

A modern-day horror RPG with tactical combat and survival horror roots. Customize your loadout, manage limited resources, and exploit enemy weaknesses in tense, strategic encounters.

Why similar: Turn-Based 29.6%, Survival Horror 22%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Horror 13.4%, RPG 10.7%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Trains 37.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Building 20.2%, Survival 16.8%, Atmospheric 4.4%