Games Like Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

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 28.1%, Lovecraftian 13.4%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, RPG 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it shares the same core DNA of punishing difficulty, dark fantasy themes, and unforgiving turn-based combat.

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 36.8%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, CRPG 16.3%, RPG 14.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same feeling of desperate survival and societal collapse where every choice carries a heavy, often tragic, consequence.

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 17.5%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Gothic 7.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: The focus on stress management, permadeath, and turn-based tactical combat in a Lovecraftian setting mirrors the tension found in Prehevil.

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 15.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly encapsulates the Lovecraftian, pixelated aesthetic and the feeling of impending doom found in the Termina cycle.

The miserable journey of a broken man...

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 25.1%, JRPG 23.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 12.9%, RPG 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This RPG masterfully balances dark humor with a bleak, post-apocalyptic world where permanent character loss is a constant threat.

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 26.1%, Dark Fantasy 21.4%, Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival horror game that excels at creating a sense of dread and claustrophobia through its oppressive atmosphere and limited vision.

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: It provides a masterclass in psychological horror, resource management, and atmospheric storytelling that feels deeply connected to the genre's roots.

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 28%, Party-Based RPG 14.4%, JRPG 11.9%, Horror 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: While visually distinct, it explores dark psychological themes and trauma through a surreal RPG lens that resonates with the tone of Termina.

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 24.2%, Horror 24%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Lovecraftian 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The retro aesthetic masks a deeply disturbing and psychological horror experience that relies on atmosphere and dread rather than jump scares.

A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 28%, RPG 19.1%, Turn-Based Combat 18.9%, JRPG 16.2%, Dungeon Crawler 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal, psychedelic art style and unique turn-based combat offer an abstract experience that mirrors the unsettling nature of the seed game.

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 32.5%, Dungeon Crawler 30.4%, Souls-like 14.5%, RPG 9.6%, Horror 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person dungeon crawler that emphasizes exploration and discovery in a dark, atmospheric fantasy world reminiscent of classic retro titles.

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 38.5%, RPG 16.1%, Horror 14.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Party-Based RPG 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that leans heavily into Lovecraftian themes, sanity mechanics, and the hopelessness of a dying world.

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.2%, Horror 30.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Atmospheric 10.6%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational surreal horror exploration game that rewards players for wandering into the unknown and deciphering cryptic, dream-like environments.

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 17.8%, Gothic 14.2% ★, Dungeon Crawler 13.6%, Party-Based RPG 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite follow-up that refines the turn-based combat and stress mechanics of the original with a focus on a grueling, linear journey.

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 35.6%, Horror 16.7%, RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, strategy-focused RPG that blends survival horror elements with a bleak, war-torn setting.

Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Why similar: Souls-like 31.5%, Dark Fantasy 30.3%, Gothic 17.4% ★, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Horror 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a brutal, gothic dark fantasy world with punishing combat and deep, cryptic lore that feels right at home with the seed game.

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 12.9%, 2D 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, meta-narrative roguelike that constantly subverts player expectations and forces difficult sacrifices to progress.

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: An open-world survival RPG where the world is actively hostile and the player is just another fragile inhabitant trying to survive against the odds.

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 25.4%, Survival Horror 22.5%, Horror 11.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal dungeon crawler that emphasizes psychological horror and atmospheric exploration in a way that mirrors the seed game's design.

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 45.9%, Horror 40.9%, Atmospheric 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hand-penciled horror game that relies on a unique, unsettling aesthetic to tell a dark, folk-horror story.

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 17.8%, Horror 12.2%, Souls-like 12%, CRPG 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival horror game that forces the player to manage resources while navigating a hostile, nightmarish environment.

Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.

Why similar: Horror 45.7%, Multiple Endings 35.4%, Atmospheric 18.9%

Why You'll Like It: A highly atmospheric and surreal survival game where resource management is tied to the very essence of life and death.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival Horror 56.1%, Horror 29.1%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, 2D 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tense, cooperative survival game set in a hostile alien ocean where resource management and environmental hazards create constant pressure.

A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

Why similar: RPG 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, JRPG 15%, Turn-Based Combat 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short but impactful RPG that deals with themes of death and the afterlife through a somber, atmospheric lens.

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 35.2%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Atmospheric 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, psychological survival horror experience that focuses on the protagonist's mental state as much as the physical threats they face.

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 28.1%, Lovecraftian 24.7%, Horror 14.1%, RPG 12.4%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%

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 17.2%, Lovecraftian 16.1%, Souls-like 15.8%, JRPG 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Horror 40.1%, Psychological Horror 36%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in claustrophobic, oppressive horror where the environment itself is the primary antagonist.

KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 23.1%, Horror 19.9%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%, RPG 9.1%

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 47.8%, Psychological Horror 41.5%, Atmospheric 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic psychological horror point-and-click game that delves into the fractured mind of its protagonist in a surreal, disturbing world.

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 22.5%, Horror 19.5%, Lovecraftian 19.2%, RPG 8.1%

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Why similar: RPG 37.5%, Gothic 31.8% ★, Horror 22.6%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric RPG that features deep world-building and a sense of encroaching dread within an urban setting.

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 22.7%, Horror 19.9%, Dungeon Crawler 16.8%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, RPG 13.4%

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 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 15.6%, JRPG 15.1%, Lovecraftian 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.4%

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 20.1%, Turn-Based Combat 17.3%, RPG 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

Play as special agent Francis York Morgan in this open-world action-adventure as you solve the case of the Red Seed Murders and survive in a small, quirky American mountain town where supernatural creatures and a mysterious raincoat-clad, axe-wielding killer seek to end his investigation for good.

Why similar: Horror 65.8%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a bizarre, surreal, and psychological experience that feels like a fever dream, much like the exploration of Prehevil.

“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 27.4%, RPG 22.3%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, 2D 5.5%

Hylics is a recreational program with light JRPG elements.

Why similar: JRPG 36.5%, RPG 32.6%, Turn-Based Combat 11.4%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

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 35.8%, Psychological Horror 35.3%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%

An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world

Why similar: Psychological Horror 100%

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 35.2%, Horror 28.6%, Atmospheric 19.3%, RPG 16.9%

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: JRPG 26.8%, Lovecraftian 26.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.7%, Horror 12.9%, RPG 7.2%

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 18.1%, JRPG 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Dungeon Crawler 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 7.5%

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 26.1%, Dark Fantasy 20.9%, Dungeon Crawler 18.8%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

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 27.6%, JRPG 26.5%, RPG 12.7%, Turn-Based Combat 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.8%, Dark Fantasy 18.5%, Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

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 21.3%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Party-Based RPG 16.2%, Dungeon Crawler 13.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%

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 17.3% ★, JRPG 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Dungeon Crawler 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10.4%

Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 53.2%, Atmospheric 46.8%

Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.

Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Survival Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Gothic 17.7% ★, Anime 7.3%

"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 29%, Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 18.2%, RPG 11.7%, Anime 8.5%

Fight horrific enemies and utilize powerful spell fusions to overcome the cruel fate of mages and see the light of freedom.

Why similar: JRPG 19.8%, Party-Based RPG 18.1%, Lovecraftian 14%, Dungeon Crawler 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%

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 51.3%, Horror 36.6%, Atmospheric 12.2%

Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!

Why similar: JRPG 35.1%, RPG 31.9%, Pixel Graphics 23.3%, 2D 9.7%

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 20.5%, Horror 18.7%, RPG 15.5%, Atmospheric 4.7%

You are Marie, a cyborg mercenary dropped into the rot of a post-Soviet city of corruption and opportunity. Shoot, sneak, hack, climb or talk your way through alt-history cyberpunk Poland in an immersive sim where every problem has multiple solutions and every rooftop is reachable.

Why similar: Horror 44.8%, RPG 35.3%, Atmospheric 20%

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 30%, Horror 16.2%, CRPG 15.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, RPG 11.4%

A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.1%, Horror 22.1%, RPG 14.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Anime 8.5%

Kill cosmic gods and their fascist sycophants in a post-entropy future. Become Violence. Become Romantic.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 21.1%, Dungeon Crawler 14.8%, Party-Based RPG 12.8%, Horror 12.6%, JRPG 11.6%