- #1 Fear & Hunger
97% matchVery Positive94% of 21,050 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 29.3%, Lovecraftian 13.9%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, RPG 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The direct predecessor that establishes the brutal, unforgiving mechanics and dark lore of the series.
- #2 Pathologic 2
96% matchVery Positive92% of 11,869 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.7%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, CRPG 16.3%, RPG 14.6%, Atmospheric 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: An intensely oppressive survival experience where managing resources and time is as critical as the grim, psychological narrative.
- #3 Darkest Dungeon®
96% matchVery Positive92% of 158,223 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.9%, Dark Fantasy 21.6%, Dungeon Crawler 17.4%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Gothic 7.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: Features punishing turn-based combat and a stress system that perfectly mirrors the mental toll of exploration found in Termina.
- #4 WORLD OF HORROR
95% matchVery Positive90% of 9,731 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Lovecraftian 23.7%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian, turn-based horror game that emphasizes resource management and the inevitability of doom.
- #5 Darkwood
94% matchVery Positive95% of 23,842 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26%, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Multiple Endings 9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival horror game that relies on atmosphere and limited visibility to create a sense of constant, creeping dread.
- #6 SIGNALIS
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,986 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Survival Horror 41.6%, Lovecraftian 29.8%, Psychological Horror 22%, Atmospheric 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A masterfully crafted psychological survival horror game that emphasizes resource scarcity and cryptic, atmospheric storytelling.
- #7 LISA: The Painful
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 14,938 reviews2014
Dev: Dingaling ProductionsPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 25.2%, JRPG 23.5%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 12.8%, RPG 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, emotionally heavy RPG that forces players to make brutal choices with permanent consequences for their party.
- #8 OMORI
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,929 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.9%, Party-Based RPG 14.5%, JRPG 11.7%, Horror 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror RPG that uses its cutesy aesthetic to hide a deeply disturbing exploration of trauma and mental health.
- #9 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
92% matchMixed66% of 2,493 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.3%, RPG 16.3%, Horror 14.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Party-Based RPG 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that captures the nihilistic, Lovecraftian horror themes found in the Fear & Hunger universe.
- #10 FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,412 reviews2022
Dev: Airdorf GamesPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 24.1%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Lovecraftian 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a retro aesthetic to deliver deeply unsettling, psychological horror that feels both nostalgic and profoundly disturbing.
- #11 Lunacid
89% matchVery Positive91% of 10,657 reviews2023
Dev: KIRA LLC
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Dark Fantasy 32.8%, Dungeon Crawler 30.4%, Souls-like 14.4%, RPG 9.6%, Horror 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric dungeon crawler that captures the melancholic, dark-fantasy exploration found in the series.
- #12 Yume Nikki
90% matchVery Positive94% of 9,908 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 72.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.2%, Horror 30%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.7%, 2D 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, dream-like exploration game that focuses on psychological imagery and unsettling, abstract environments.
- #13 Dread Delusion
89% matchVery Positive90% of 4,890 reviews2024
Dev: Lovely HellplacePub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.0 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: Dark Fantasy 49.3%, RPG 22.3%, Souls-like 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world, retro-styled RPG that features a surreal, decaying world filled with dark fantasy elements.
- #14 Look Outside
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,497 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28%, Lovecraftian 24.4%, Horror 13.9%, RPG 12.7%, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival horror game that focuses on the dread of isolation and the mystery of a hostile environment.
- #15 Hylics 2
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,405 reviews2020
Dev: Mason Lindroth
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 28%, RPG 19.2%, Turn-Based Combat 18.9%, JRPG 16%, Dungeon Crawler 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, psychedelic turn-based RPG that shares the bizarre, unsettling visual identity of the genre.
- #16 Darkest Dungeon® II
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,172 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.9%, Dark Fantasy 18%, Gothic 14.2% ★, Dungeon Crawler 13.6%, Party-Based RPG 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Refines the tactical, stress-based combat of the original with a greater focus on character relationships and road-trip survival.
- #17 OFF
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,817 reviews2025
Dev: Mortis GhostPub: Fangamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
Why similar: JRPG 27.7%, RPG 22.4%, Psychological Horror 22%, Pixel Graphics 10%, 2D 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: An avant-garde RPG with a minimalist, unsettling aesthetic and a narrative that challenges the player's perception of reality.
- #18 Kenshi
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: RPG 100%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal, unforgiving sandbox survival game where the world is indifferent to your survival and death is a constant companion.
- #19 BLACK SOULS
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,938 reviews2025
Dev: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?Pub: OTAKU Plan
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Long, long ago, there existed a kingdom shrouded in dense mist: the Lost Empire. This mist twisted humans into terrifying beasts, plunging the world into despair. War raged endlessly. Heroes rose, seeking fame and glory. It is in this place you awaken—a nameless undead.
Why similar: Souls-like 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 15.6%, JRPG 14.9%, Lovecraftian 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, souls-like RPG that weaves twisted fairy tale themes into a brutal, choice-driven narrative.
- #20 Inscryption
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,157 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 78.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, 2D 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A meta-horror game that blends roguelike card mechanics with an increasingly tense and disturbing narrative.
- #21 Psychopomp GOLD
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,810 reviews2024
Dev: Fading Club
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Psychopomp is BACK. The catacombs stretch down farther than ever before. Your entire life has been a lie. Delve into the depths, and discover the horrors that lie below. More realms, more modes, more secrets. An ancient voice calls to you from the center of the earth. Will you answer it?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.8%, Dungeon Crawler 25.5%, Survival Horror 22.5%, Horror 11.4%, Atmospheric 8%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, atmospheric dungeon crawler that leans heavily into psychological horror and dark, abstract themes.
- #22 UnderRail
83% matchVery Positive86% of 7,028 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Why similar: RPG 34%, CRPG 31.2%, Turn-Based Combat 23.9%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based RPG that emphasizes tactical combat and survival in a hostile, claustrophobic environment.
- #23 No Delivery
81% matchVery Positive98% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: oates
Windows
No Delivery is a procedurally generated CRPG, pizzeria simulator where you are the newest in a long line of employees for a local decrepit pizza parlor. Despite the rumors and shady history, you sign up for the night shift… Luckily, it’ll just be a boring job in an empty pizzeria… right?
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.5%, JRPG 17.6%, Horror 12.1%, Souls-like 12%, CRPG 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A horror-themed RPG that utilizes roguelike elements to create a tense, pixelated survival experience.
- #24 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
79% matchVery Positive90% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Schmidt Workshops
Windows
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.5%, Party-Based RPG 16.2%, Dungeon Crawler 13.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian dungeon crawler that focuses on turn-based combat and the exploration of dark, ancient secrets.
- #25 The Age of Decadence
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,941 reviews2015
Dev: Iron Tower Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
Why similar: CRPG 22.8%, Turn-Based Combat 20.7%, Dark Fantasy 19.8%, Nonlinear 14.3%, RPG 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy, brutal RPG where combat is lethal and the world is defined by its harsh, unforgiving nature.
- #26 Mundaun
80% matchVery Positive93% of 1,419 reviews2021
Dev: Hidden FieldsPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.5 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: Psychological Horror 45.8%, Horror 40.8%, Atmospheric 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-penciled horror game that relies on a heavy, oppressive atmosphere to tell its dark, folk-horror story.
- #27 BLACK SOULS II
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,523 reviews2025
Dev: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?Pub: OTAKU Plan
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 24.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Despair. Fear, Madness, once again. An original work based on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." Dark Fairy Tale Fantasy x Psychological Horror RPG focusing on the themes of "Exploration of a Mad World" and "Life or Death Combat against Demonbeasts".
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Souls-like 16.1%, Lovecraftian 15.7%, JRPG 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%
- #28 Osteoblasts
81% matchVery Positive85% of 168 reviews2021
Dev: Moonana
Windows
Osteoblasts is a dungeon crawler skeletal RPG about skeletons, by skeletons and for skeletons. If you are not undead leave this page immediately else you'll face the law of Skulls and Bones.
Why similar: Gothic 17.4% ★, JRPG 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Dungeon Crawler 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based dungeon crawler with a unique skeletal aesthetic that emphasizes exploration and tactical combat.
- #29 Pathologic 3
77% matchVery Positive82% of 2,382 reviews2026
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.4%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Horror 19.4%, Lovecraftian 19.2%, RPG 8.2%
- #30 Trench Face
76% matchVery Positive95% of 531 reviews2025
Dev: Pulse Blue
Windows
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 36.3%, Horror 16.9%, RPG 13.2%, Turn-Based Combat 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #31 House of Necrosis
76% matchVery Positive94% of 536 reviews2025
Dev: Warkus
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: JRPG 22.2%, Horror 19.9%, Dungeon Crawler 16.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.8%, RPG 13.5%
- #32 Sanitarium
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,302 reviews2014
Dev: DotemuPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Originally released in 1998 on PC, and awarded as the Adventure Game of the Year, The timeless horror point-and-click, Sanitarium, is returning to frighten the bravest adventure game fans.
Why similar: Horror 47.4%, Psychological Horror 41.7%, Atmospheric 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic psychological horror game that explores the fractured mind through surreal, disturbing point-and-click scenarios.
- #33 Cry of Fear
78% matchVery Positive89% of 82,586 reviews2013
Dev: Team Psykskallar
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Why similar: Horror 38.9%, Survival Horror 35.3%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Atmospheric 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: An intense, psychological survival horror experience that forces players to manage limited resources while navigating a nightmare.
- #34 Horripilant
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,655 reviews2026
Dev: Alexandre Declos Pub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows · Linux
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 23.5%, Horror 19.7%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%, RPG 9.1%
- #35 NO-SKIN
75% matchVery Positive95% of 1,266 reviews2025
Dev: NoEye-Soft
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Horror 21.3%, Turn-Based Combat 17%, RPG 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #36 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
78% matchVery Positive85% of 10,424 reviews2018
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Why similar: CRPG 45.4%, Turn-Based Combat 24.2%, RPG 23.9%, Atmospheric 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based survival RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world where every encounter is a potential death sentence.
- #37 THYSIASTERY
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 219 reviews2026
Dev: DIRGA
Windows · Linux
THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrinth in hope of finding a way out, and its secrets will be revealed as you delve deeper.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 18%, JRPG 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 17.5%, Dungeon Crawler 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 7.6%
- #38 Felvidek
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,355 reviews2024
Dev: Jozef PavelkaPub: Tutto Passa
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
In Felvidek, a JRPG set in 15th century Slovakia, you embrace the role of an alcoholic knight Pavol. Meet diverse and interesting characters to help you drive out the Hussites and Ottomans who blight this land.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 27.5%, JRPG 26.4%, Turn-Based Combat 12.6%, RPG 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
- #39 No, I'm not a Human
71% matchVery Positive93% of 26,830 reviews2025
Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Why similar: Horror 35.7%, Psychological Horror 35.1%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Atmospheric 10.4%
- #40 Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion
74% matchVery Positive86% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: SezhesPub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion is an old-school JRPG with a deep and mysterious storyline placed in a fictional dark city of Gris. Explore the story of four troubled souls and kill the abominations that threaten the existence of reality itself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.8%, JRPG 27.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Horror 13.6%, RPG 7.6%
- #41 Cruelty Squad
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,134 reviews2021
Dev: Consumer Softproducts
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Why similar: Psychological Horror 100%
- #42 Pathologic Classic HD
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,457 reviews2015
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.9%, Horror 28.5%, Atmospheric 19.5%, RPG 17.2%
- #43 Labyrinth Of The Demon King
69% matchVery Positive92% of 1,958 reviews2025
Dev: J. R. HudepohlPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Venture through the Labyrinth Of The Demon King, solving puzzles and fighting fearsome monsters in an epic quest to track down the demon who betrayed your lord and end its life.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26%, Dark Fantasy 21.1%, Dungeon Crawler 18.9%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
- #44 Remnants Of Isolation
74% matchVery Positive81% of 124 reviews2015
Dev: Team IsolationPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight horrific enemies and utilize powerful spell fusions to overcome the cruel fate of mages and see the light of freedom.
Why similar: JRPG 19.5%, Party-Based RPG 18.1%, Lovecraftian 14%, Dungeon Crawler 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
- #45 Hylics
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,474 reviews2015
Dev: Mason Lindroth
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.
Why similar: JRPG 35.4%, RPG 33.3%, Turn-Based Combat 11.6%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #46 ENA: Dream BBQ
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 34,987 reviews2025
Dev: ENA TeamPub: Joel G
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 53.2%, Atmospheric 46.8%
- #47 Library Of Ruina
70% matchVery Positive94% of 41,062 reviews2021
Dev: ProjectMoon
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 53.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 28.7%, Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 18.3%, RPG 11.8%, Anime 8.6%
- #48 Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,273 reviews2016
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.9%, Horror 22.1%, RPG 14.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Anime 8.6%
- #49 Mouthwashing
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,133 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 50.9%, Horror 36.7%, Atmospheric 12.4%
- #50 Wooden Ocean
70% matchVery Positive97% of 226 reviews2020
Dev: Leif Ian AndersonPub: Self
Windows
Kill cosmic gods and their fascist sycophants in a post-entropy future. Become Violence. Become Romantic.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 21.2%, Dungeon Crawler 14.9%, Party-Based RPG 12.8%, Horror 12.5%, JRPG 11.4%
- #51 You Will Die Here Tonight
68% matchVery Positive91% of 630 reviews2023
Dev: Spiral Bound Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, Horror 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, RPG 9.4%
- #52 Sorry We're Open
68% matchVery Positive94% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: oates
Windows
Sorry, We're Open is a Supermarket Management Horror RPG. As the new Manager of your local supermarket, you'll need to make the hard decisions to keep the store running. Remember, your store's reputation and your employees' livelihoods are in your hands.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.9%, Horror 16.1%, CRPG 15.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, RPG 11.5%
- #53 Peripeteia
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,638 reviews2025
Dev: Ninth Exodus
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Peripeteia is a first-and-third-person role-playing stealth game taking place in alt-history cyberpunk Poland. Inspired by immersive sims from Ion Storm and Looking Glass Studios, Peripeteia expands on the formula with new ideas and an original setting.
Why similar: Horror 51.7%, RPG 28.1%, Atmospheric 20.2%
- #54 An Outcry
69% matchVery Positive93% of 120 reviews2022
Dev: Quinn K.
Windows
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.1%, JRPG 16.7%, RPG 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Horror 9.5%
- #55 Wicked Seed
65% matchVery Positive94% of 818 reviews2026
Dev: Dead Right Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Survival Horror 40.5%, Turn-Based Combat 20.6%, Horror 18.6%, RPG 15.5%, Atmospheric 4.7%
- #56 Cradle of Nightmare : Flowers to you
66% matchVery Positive93% of 616 reviews2025
Dev: 红锈雨
Windows
Cradle of Nightmares: Flowers for You is an ATB turn-based game based on combat adventures made by RPGMaker. Players will take on the role of a high school student named Yue Qing, who will fall into the dark and gloomy "second world" and embark on a journey to end the filthy fate of mankind.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 29.4%, JRPG 23.9%, Turn-Based Combat 19.2%, RPG 13.1%, Top-Down 4.5%
- #57 Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity
70% matchVery Positive81% of 524 reviews2016
Dev: Steve GalPub: Pugware
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.
Why similar: Souls-like 25.6%, Lovecraftian 20.6%, Gothic 10.7% ★, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%
- #58 Life Eater
67% matchVery Positive84% of 339 reviews2024
Dev: Strange Scaffold
Windows
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.4%, Horror 24%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #59 Dark Fear
69% matchVery Positive94% of 232 reviews2016
Dev: Arif Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Dark Fear is a pixel horror game with RPG and adventure game elements. Explore a diverse landscape filled with forests, mountains, lakes and deserts. Make allies in the local village, upgrade your weapon and armor, go hunting/fishing and fight your way to the truth by slaying your foes, solving puzzles and helping people with their...
Why similar: RPG 47.9%, Horror 41%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%