- #1 Fear & Hunger
97% matchVery Positive94% of 22,619 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.2 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 27.8%, Lovecraftian 13.1%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, RPG 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: The direct predecessor that establishes the series' signature blend of extreme difficulty, dark fantasy, and unforgiving survival mechanics.
- #2 Pathologic 2
96% matchVery Positive92% of 12,156 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 37.1%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, CRPG 16%, RPG 14.7%, Atmospheric 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: An intensely oppressive survival experience where time management and difficult moral choices are essential to surviving a plague-ridden town.
- #3 WORLD OF HORROR
96% matchVery Positive90% of 9,835 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.8 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 12.3%, Turn-Based Combat 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cosmic horror RPG that utilizes turn-based combat and resource management to create a sense of impending doom.
- #4 Darkest Dungeon®
95% matchVery Positive92% of 161,643 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 45.0 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 23%, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, Dungeon Crawler 17.4%, Turn-Based Combat 15.8%, RPG 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features punishing turn-based combat and a stress management system that perfectly captures the psychological toll of dungeon crawling.
- #5 LISA: The Painful
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 15,158 reviews2014
Dev: Dingaling ProductionsPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.8%, JRPG 24%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 12.8%, RPG 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, post-apocalyptic RPG that mirrors the seed game's commitment to permanent consequences and bleak, mature storytelling.
- #6 Darkwood
94% matchVery Positive95% of 24,850 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.7 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 26.3%, Dark Fantasy 21.2%, Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, RPG 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival horror game that relies on atmosphere and intense, claustrophobic encounters rather than jump scares.
- #7 SIGNALIS
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,140 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 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: Survival Horror 41.9%, Lovecraftian 29.7%, Psychological Horror 22%, Atmospheric 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A masterfully crafted survival horror game that excels at psychological dread and resource-constrained exploration.
- #8 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
92% matchMixed66% of 2,521 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 38.8%, RPG 16.4%, Horror 14.5%, Turn-Based Combat 12.8%, Party-Based RPG 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian turn-based RPG that emphasizes sanity and survival in a world where hope is rapidly fading.
- #9 FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
91% matchVery Positive95% of 8,858 reviews2022
Dev: Airdorf GamesPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 24.1%, Horror 24%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Lovecraftian 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 9%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled horror game that uses minimalist aesthetics to deliver a deeply disturbing and psychological experience.
- #10 Pathologic Classic HD
91% matchVery Positive87% of 4,606 reviews2015
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 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 35.5%, Horror 28.2%, Atmospheric 19.1%, RPG 17.2%
Why You'll Like It: The original survival-horror masterpiece that defined the genre's focus on scarcity, disease, and existential dread.
- #11 Kenshi
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 115,920 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 71.1 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: Party-Based RPG 73.5%, RPG 26.5%
Why You'll Like It: An unforgiving sandbox RPG where the world is indifferent to your survival, offering a similar level of brutal, emergent difficulty.
- #12 Hylics 2
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,555 reviews2020
Dev: Mason Lindroth
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 27.4%, RPG 19.6%, Turn-Based Combat 18.6%, JRPG 17.1%, Dungeon Crawler 11%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, psychedelic turn-based RPG that shares the bizarre and unsettling aesthetic found in the seed game.
- #13 Inscryption
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 148,054 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 16.4 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 78.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, 2D 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, meta-narrative roguelike that blends card-based combat with unsettling psychological horror.
- #14 Yume Nikki
89% matchVery Positive94% of 10,543 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 70.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.7%, Horror 30%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.5%, 2D 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, psychological exploration game that focuses on navigating abstract, unsettling dreamscapes.
- #15 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 33,680 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.6%, Horror 27.6%, CRPG 22.4%, RPG 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that relies on branching choices and unsettling narrative shifts to keep the player off-balance.
- #16 OFF
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,333 reviews2025
Dev: Mortis GhostPub: Fangamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
“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 26.6%, RPG 21.8%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, 2D 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: An abstract, unsettling RPG that challenges the player with its surreal world and dark, cryptic narrative.
- #17 SUNLESS SEA
86% matchVery Positive83% of 9,550 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 51.8%, Horror 13%, Gothic 12.7% ★, RPG 10.8%, Atmospheric 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A gothic, Lovecraftian exploration game where managing your resources and sanity is the only way to survive a hostile, dark world.
- #18 The Count Lucanor
85% matchVery Positive93% of 2,976 reviews2016
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.1%, Dark Fantasy 18.5%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, pixelated horror game that focuses on puzzle-solving and survival within a sinister, atmospheric castle.
- #19 Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
84% matchVery Positive93% of 130,397 reviews2019
Dev: ZA/UM
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Why similar: RPG 47.8%, CRPG 37.4%, Atmospheric 14.8%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, psychological RPG that explores dark themes and failure through a complex, choice-driven narrative.
- #20 Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion
84% matchVery Positive83% of 82 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: JRPG 26.9%, Lovecraftian 26.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.5%, Horror 12.9%, RPG 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, narrative-heavy JRPG that explores trauma and psychological horror through turn-based combat.
- #21 Caves of Qud
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,599 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 35.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 38.9%, CRPG 26.2%, RPG 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A complex, brutal, and weird-fiction roguelike that rewards deep knowledge and careful survival strategies.
- #22 Osteoblasts
82% matchVery Positive85% of 174 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 17.2% ★, JRPG 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Dungeon Crawler 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dungeon-crawling RPG with a unique skeletal aesthetic and a focus on challenging, turn-based combat.
- #23 The Void
83% matchVery Positive80% of 1,196 reviews2009
Dev: Ice-Pick Lodge
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 45.8%, Multiple Endings 35.4%, Atmospheric 18.8%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game where color and resources are tied to life itself, creating a uniquely oppressive and surreal experience.
- #24 UnderRail
82% matchVery Positive86% of 7,229 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 34.6%, CRPG 30.9%, Turn-Based Combat 23.7%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, tactical RPG that emphasizes survival and exploration in a dangerous, claustrophobic underground world.
- #25 Project Zomboid
81% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Survival Horror 69.6%, RPG 24.4%, 2D 6%
Why You'll Like It: A relentless survival simulator where the smallest mistake leads to permanent death, mirroring the high-stakes tension of the seed game.
- #26 Barotrauma
79% matchVery Positive94% of 89,315 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 56.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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%, Psychological Horror 7.8%, 2D 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A high-pressure, claustrophobic survival game that requires intense resource management and teamwork to survive.
- #27 Look Outside
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,361 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.4 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 27.1%, Lovecraftian 25.3%, Horror 13.7%, RPG 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%
- #28 Mundaun
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,499 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 46.1%, Horror 40.7%, Atmospheric 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-penciled folk horror game that creates a uniquely oppressive and eerie sense of place.
- #29 BLACK SOULS II
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,286 reviews2025
Dev: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?Pub: OTAKU Plan
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 15.9%, Lovecraftian 15.8%, JRPG 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.2%
- #30 OMORI
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 88,316 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 25.6 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 28.1%, Party-Based RPG 14.3%, JRPG 11.9%, Horror 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #31 Cry of Fear
78% matchVery Positive89% of 86,798 reviews2013
Dev: Team Psykskallar
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.8 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 38.7%, Survival Horror 35.3%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Atmospheric 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty, psychological survival horror game that focuses on isolation and intense, terrifying encounters.
- #32 Darkest Dungeon® II
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,731 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 34.9 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 21.3%, Dark Fantasy 17.8%, Gothic 14.1% ★, Dungeon Crawler 13.6%, Party-Based RPG 12.9%
- #33 Horripilant
75% matchVery Positive92% of 2,914 reviews2026
Dev: Alexandre Declos Pub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows · Linux
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 26.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 22.9%, Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 18%, Dark Fantasy 15%, RPG 9.2%
- #34 Pathologic 3
76% matchVery Positive80% of 2,770 reviews2026
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.5 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 25.5%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Horror 19.3%, Lovecraftian 19.1%, RPG 8.2%
- #35 Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
80% matchMixed66% of 4,763 reviews2013
Dev: Rising Star Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 65.5%, Psychological Horror 12%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: An investigative horror game known for its bizarre, psychological atmosphere and unsettling narrative.
- #36 Trench Face
75% matchVery Positive94% of 747 reviews2025
Dev: Pulse Blue
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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%, Horror 16.6%, RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #37 House of Necrosis
74% matchVery Positive95% of 600 reviews2025
Dev: Warkus
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Survival Horror 24.2%, JRPG 18.6%, Horror 14.2%, Dungeon Crawler 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%
- #38 NO-SKIN
73% matchVery Positive95% of 1,379 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 20.4%, Horror 20.1%, Turn-Based Combat 17.1%, RPG 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #39 Psychopomp GOLD
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,350 reviews2024
Dev: Fading Club
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.3 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 26.2%, Dungeon Crawler 25.1%, Survival Horror 22.3%, Horror 11.7%, Atmospheric 7.9%
- #40 BLACK SOULS
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,588 reviews2025
Dev: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?Pub: OTAKU Plan
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 17.2%, Dark Fantasy 15.7%, Lovecraftian 15.1%, JRPG 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
- #41 Hylics
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,033 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 36.2%, RPG 32.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #42 Lunacid
72% matchVery Positive91% of 11,455 reviews2023
Dev: KIRA LLC
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 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 32.4%, Dungeon Crawler 30.5%, Souls-like 14.4%, RPG 9.7%, Horror 8.6%
- #43 No, I'm not a Human
70% matchVery Positive93% of 30,435 reviews2025
Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Psychological Horror 35.9%, Horror 35.6%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Atmospheric 10%
- #44 No Delivery
73% matchVery Positive97% of 75 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 22.6%, JRPG 17.9%, Horror 12.1%, Souls-like 11.9%, CRPG 10.4%
- #45 THYSIASTERY
71% matchVery Positive82% of 318 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: JRPG 17.9%, Party-Based RPG 17.9%, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Dungeon Crawler 16.1%, Turn-Based Combat 7.5%
- #46 Felvidek
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 6,007 reviews2024
Dev: Jozef PavelkaPub: Tutto Passa
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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%, JRPG 26.6%, RPG 13.2%, Turn-Based Combat 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
- #47 Cruelty Squad
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,836 reviews2021
Dev: Consumer Softproducts
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Why similar: Psychological Horror 100%
- #48 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
70% matchVery Positive89% of 172 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 21.5%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Party-Based RPG 16.1%, Dungeon Crawler 13.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%
- #49 Labyrinth Of The Demon King
69% matchVery Positive92% of 2,224 reviews2025
Dev: J. R. HudepohlPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.1 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 26.3%, Dark Fantasy 20.8%, Dungeon Crawler 18.7%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
- #50 ENA: Dream BBQ
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 36,958 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 53.3%, Atmospheric 46.7%
- #51 Mad Father
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,736 reviews2016
Dev: senPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.
Why similar: Horror 20.1%, Survival Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Gothic 17% ★, Anime 7.2%
- #52 In Stars And Time
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,764 reviews2023
Dev: insertdisc5Pub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 33.1%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, RPG 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
- #53 Remnants Of Isolation
72% matchVery Positive80% of 126 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 20%, Party-Based RPG 17.9%, Lovecraftian 14.1%, Dungeon Crawler 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
- #54 Hope Deferred
67% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Tell All
Windows
Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.
Why similar: Survival Horror 24%, Dungeon Crawler 17.1%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Horror 12.8%
- #55 Mouthwashing
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,381 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 51.5%, Horror 36.5%, Atmospheric 12%
- #56 Peripeteia
65% matchVery Positive86% of 3,395 reviews2025
Dev: Ninth Exodus
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 44.1%, RPG 35.8%, Atmospheric 20.1%
- #57 DELTARUNE
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 132,484 reviews2025
Dev: tobyfox
Windows · Mac
Median: 23.1 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 1-5 are available now, with more planned as free updates!
Why similar: JRPG 35.2%, RPG 32.2%, Pixel Graphics 23.1%, 2D 9.5%
- #58 Death end re;Quest 2
69% matchMixed69% of 507 reviews2020
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In collaboration with Corpse Party scenario writer Makoto Kedouin, this horror RPG follows Mai Toyama’s search for her sister in a quiet lakeside town. She’ll unravel clues to the town’s past by day, and battle Shadow Matter by night. Can you uncover the truth before reality is consumed by darkness?
Why similar: JRPG 25.9%, Dark Fantasy 17.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 12%
- #59 Cradle of Nightmare : Flowers to you
64% matchVery Positive93% of 721 reviews2025
Dev: 红锈雨
Windows
Cradle of Nightmare: Flowers to You is an adventure game featuring a turn-based ATB system. Step into the shoes of Yue Qing, an ordinary high schooler thrust into a world of darkness as an otherworldly force tears reality asunder. Navigate a ruined world and end the filth festering within humanity.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 28.4%, JRPG 23.8%, Turn-Based Combat 18.6%, RPG 13.1%, Top-Down 4.3%
