- #1 Forest Horror
96% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Neki4 Electronics
Windows
You have to explore the mysterious forest and complete many tasks to get out of there alive.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #2 Neverending Nightmares
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,989 reviews2014
Dev: Infinitap Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
Why similar: Horror 54.9%, Indie 20%, Adventure 16.3%, Action 8.8%
- #3 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
95% matchVery Positive95% of 35,239 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 67.7%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 10.2%, Action 8.3%
- #4 Forest Asylum 2
94% matchVery Positive98% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Michal Piotrowski
Windows
Forest Asylum 2 - An Indie Psychological Horror Game and the sequel to the well-received first part. Embark on a Therapy that will change your life!
Why similar: Adventure 52.9%, Horror 47.1%
- #5 Misery Mansion
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 93 reviews2021
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Misery Mansion is a first-person survival horror game. After your car broke down you find yourself helpless in a forest. All alone you will search for help in the dark. You will discover and explore a mysterious old mansion. But soon all you want is to escape the horrors within.
Why similar: Horror 56.4%, Adventure 25.5%, Action 18.1%
- #6 Familiar Stranger
92% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Duanyang WangPub: Horror engine games
Windows
The Familiar Stranger is a 3D psychological horror game where twisted memories and nightmares blur. Uncover dark secrets while evading a relentless entity that watches from the shadows. Can you escape the horrors of the past, or will they consume you?
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Indie 23.9%, Adventure 21%, Action 20.4%
- #7 Roots of Insanity
93% matchMixed67% of 439 reviews2017
Dev: Crania Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
As Dr. Riley McClein, you have to figure out what is real and what is not as you try to uncover the mysterious happenings at the hospital, while also trying to deal with your epileptic attacks that have haunted you all your life.
Why similar: Horror 35.4%, Action 25.4%, Adventure 22.4%, Indie 16.8%
- #8 Tales From Hoia Baciu Forest
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Street Art Studios
Windows
Stranded in the depths of an eerie forest after your car breaks down, you set out in search of help. But as you navigate the darkness, an unseen presence stalks you—until it finally strikes. The adventure begins. First-person horror that will introduce you to Hoia Baciu lore.
Why similar: Adventure 47.9%, Horror 45.7%, Indie 6.4%
- #9 Midnight: Submersion - Nightmare Horror Story
91% matchVery Positive84% of 139 reviews2021
Dev: Midnight Games
Windows
Nightmare Horror Story an adventure game from the first face in a horror genre provides you to take a trip in a huge and dark city full of dummies. You would have a possibility to figure out in a weird atmosphere when alive people are missed and everything that had remained is the dummies.
Why similar: Horror 42.1%, Adventure 31.5%, Action 26.4%
- #10 Madness inside
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 87 reviews2024
Dev: ZV GAMES
Windows
"Madness Inside"" immerses you in the dark depths of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, where horrifying experiments were once conducted. Police Lieutenant Vic Voight, in pursuit of a dangerous criminal, unexpectedly finds himself trapped in this nightmarish place.
Why similar: Horror 39.4%, Adventure 31.3%, Indie 29.3%
- #11 Unspoken
88% matchVery Positive88% of 802 reviews2024
Dev: Weeping studioPub: Weeping Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
You find yourself in the center of inexplicable nightmare. Make your way through the horror, come face to face with terrible events. Immerse yourself in the dark mystery of the events in which you found yourself an unwitting participant.
Why similar: Horror 41.6%, Adventure 22.9%, Action 21.5%, Indie 14%
- #12 Horror inside the forest
89% matchVery Positive91% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Erik García Díaz
Windows
Plunge into the captivating realm of "Horror Inside the Forest," an exhilarating game that tests your bravery. Explore a mysterious forest, confront supernatural forces, uncover secrets, survive the darkness, and escape its shadowy embrace in this immersive horror experience.
Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 22.9%, Action 20.1%
- #13 Descent - Silence of Mind
89% matchMixed57% of 106 reviews2017
Dev: LaboryPub: SA Industry
Windows
Hypnosis, memories, delusions and a disturbing secret revolve around silence of mind.
Why similar: Indie 37.4%, Adventure 34.3%, Horror 28.2%
- #14 Pyromaniac
86% matchVery Positive90% of 158 reviews2026
Dev: Dominik BraunPub: tayoDEV
Windows
Play as Nikolas, a 20-year-old guy who found himself lost in an abandoned city... or so he thought it was at first. Explore the city, defend yourself from monsters, and find answers to what is really going on.
Why similar: Adventure 27.9%, Action 25.9%, Indie 25%, Horror 21.2%
- #15 MIND CORRIDORS: Paroniria
86% matchVery Positive96% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Heartbyte Studios
Windows
A fever-dream-like puzzle horror game. Descend to the depths of a sleeping curse, survive every floor and find your way out of the never ending nightmare.
Why similar: Horror 68.2%, Adventure 31.8%
- #16 Fear of Dark
87% matchMixed51% of 124 reviews2020
Dev: Perfect games
Windows
Can you survive and kill the monster in the night forest? Or fall in a fight with this dangerous creature
Why similar: Action 28.9%, Adventure 27.1%, Horror 23.1%, Indie 20.9%
- #17 In Nightmare
85% matchVery Positive82% of 94 reviews2022
Dev: Magic Fish Games
Windows
In Nightmare is a narrative-driven horror adventure game combining sneak action with diverse puzzles. It follows a young boy in search for the last hope of love who is working out his own salvation by navigating through his fear.
Why similar: Strategy 55.8%, Adventure 35%, Horror 6.4%, Indie 2.8%
- #18 While Sleeping
83% matchVery Positive81% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Sangwoon JinPub: FLUXJIN
Windows
A first-person horror game dealing with sleep paralysis. You are lying in bed, unable to move, experiencing creepy phenomena and having to survive until morning from ghosts.
Why similar: Horror 52.8%, Indie 25.5%, Adventure 11%, Action 10.7%
- #19 123 Slaughter Me Street 2
84% matchVery Positive83% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: Nate SandersPub: Impulse Game Studios, LLC.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 31%
In this exciting prequel to the hit game "123 Slaughter Me Street", we find out the deep dark secrets that lead up to the madness of this series. You find yourself confused with blood on your hands in a dark house with only a flashlight to guide you.
Why similar: Strategy 33%, Horror 28.4%, Action 19.9%, Adventure 18.8%
- #20 Despair
84% matchMostly Negative35% of 1,837 reviews2015
Dev: AGC
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.
Why similar: Indie 43.6%, Horror 26.5%, Action 16.4%, Adventure 13.6%
- #21 Try To Fall Asleep
81% matchVery Positive90% of 193 reviews2019
Dev: AmberDrop
Windows
John Herrin survived a horrible accident, damaging his brain and memory. Through falling asleep, he can rediscover his unfortunate past in his dreams, but due to his brain damage he'll start to see visions and hallucinations, and falling asleep won't be as easy as it seems at first...
Why similar: Horror 46.2%, Adventure 32.3%, Action 21.6%
- #22 Typical Nightmare
82% matchMostly Negative33% of 111 reviews2018
Dev: ELECTROSTALIN ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
Typical Nightmare is a narrative adventure horror game based on real cases from psychological practice. It tells the story of an ordinary guy named John that is trapped in his nightmares. Find out what force keeps him there and do everything to rescue John from his Typical Nightmare!
Why similar: Horror 41.8%, Indie 24.7%, Adventure 17.4%, Action 16%
- #23 Nyctophobia
82% matchMixed45% of 607 reviews2015
Dev: Lightning Man MediaPub: Lightning Man Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Your truck is wrecked, your flashlight is dimming and darkness surrounds you. Your fears come alive. Get to the generator and bring back the light before “The Keeper” finds you.
Why similar: Indie 35.7%, Adventure 33.7%, Horror 30.7%
- #24 MITE - Terror in the forest
79% matchVery Positive81% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Kanashi StudioPub: Carlos Julian Lopez Garcia
Windows
MITE is a horror game, with some difficulty, in which you play a hiker who has lost his family in a cursed forest... find your family and escape, while strange creatures from Japanese folklore chase you, orient yourself .
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #25 Ad Infernum
77% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Glass Knuckle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.
Why similar: Horror 38.2%, Adventure 30.9%, Action 30.9%
- #26 Under: Depths of Fear
79% matchMixed68% of 299 reviews2020
Dev: Globiss InteractivePub: Rogue Games, Inc.
Windows
Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.
Why similar: Horror 26.7%, Action 19.8%, Adventure 19.7%, Strategy 19.3%, Indie 14.5%
- #27 Strange Night ll
81% matchMixed46% of 80 reviews2018
Dev: LaboryPub: SA Industry
Windows
Strange Night II takes you to a mysterious hostel where your sanity will be put to the test.
Why similar: Indie 57.8%, Horror 42.2%
- #28 Blackbay Asylum
80% matchMixed57% of 552 reviews2014
Dev: TAD Productions ABPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Blackbay Asylum, you take on the role of a confused psychopath who finds himself able to leave his cell one day. Explore the hospital grounds, solve mind shattering puzzles, survive relentless horrors and follow the story of Doug Dunheiw as he tries to find some clarity in what goes on at Blackbay Asylum.
Why similar: Adventure 49.1%, Horror 30.5%, Indie 20.4%
- #29 THE DEVIL HAUNTS ME
78% matchVery Positive92% of 226 reviews2019
Dev: games by lum
Windows · Mac · Linux
Survive, explore and discover the secrets of the woods. But be careful, there's something else in these woods...
Why similar: Adventure 53.7%, Horror 46.3%
- #30 Circus of Pain
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: ZV GAMES
Windows
Immerse yourself in the terrifying world of Circus of Pain, where you become the main participant in a deadly circus show. Solve dangerous puzzles to survive.
Why similar: Horror 29.6%, Strategy 26.2%, Adventure 19.7%, Action 14.8%, Indie 9.7%
- #31 Dark Fracture: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive83% of 1,356 reviews2020
Dev: Twisted II Studio
Windows
Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.
Why similar: Horror 38.6%, Adventure 24.5%, Action 19.3%, Indie 17.6%
- #32 Nightmare Of Melanie
78% matchMixed60% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: 不公开Pub: 0Cube
Windows
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: Strategy 42.2%, Adventure 23%, Indie 18%, Horror 16.8%
- #33 Somewhere in the Shadow
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 728 reviews2021
Dev: Aydy
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...
Why similar: Horror 60.5%, Adventure 29.6%, Indie 10%
- #34 Minds Eyes
75% matchMixed70% of 1,826 reviews2016
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?
Why similar: Horror 63.9%, Adventure 13.7%, Action 13.2%, Indie 9.2%
- #35 Gil's Lucid Dreams
77% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Oblion Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Gil's Lucid Dreams is a FPS horror game based on the story and exploration. Gil use lucid dreams to get away from his unsatisfacting life. He will lose the control of his dreams, becoming completely succubus of his nightmares. Will Gil be able to face his Alter Ego?
Why similar: Adventure 45.8%, Horror 27.3%, Indie 27%
- #36 Face of Another
71% matchVery Positive97% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: MadBug Studio
Windows
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: Horror 100%
- #37 AUTO-CRISIS
72% matchVery Positive88% of 84 reviews2025
Dev: The Otherworldly Studios
Windows
You're driving away on a forest road, late at night, under a heavy storm. Your car breaks down. Luckily, there might be a gas station nearby. But a misfortune never comes alone. The storm has brought something else, something otherworldly that oddly smells of spilled diesel oil.
Why similar: Horror 49.1%, Adventure 32.3%, Indie 18.7%
- #38 Bigfoot Forest
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 181 reviews2021
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Bigfoot Forest - a first-person indie horror game. While traveling in your car, you run out of gas and find yourself far away from any civilized locations at night, with only woods and a small town nearby.
Why similar: Adventure 34.1%, Action 31.3%, Horror 26.7%, Indie 7.9%
- #39 Creepy Shift: Roadside Diner
70% matchVery Positive91% of 240 reviews2024
Dev: Night Shift TeamPub: Red Limb Studio
Windows
A broke young man takes on the night shift at a roadside diner. In the glow of the blood moon, routine tasks turn into a fight for survival. First-person horror based on a dark creepypasta with a set of rescue rules.
Why similar: Horror 38%, Action 25.6%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 17.4%
- #40 Descending The Woods
72% matchMixed52% of 126 reviews2024
Dev: AIONWARE LTD
Windows
By day, tend to your farm, care for your pets, and explore the mysteries of the haunted woods. By nightfall, They will come from the woods, Beware of ghosts and demons of the haunted woods. Hide, Survive, Build, Fight and Explore in this eerie Survival Horror alone or with friends.
Why similar: Horror 54.4%, Action 30.1%, Adventure 15.5%
- #41 AMOK
75% matchMixed43% of 207 reviews2016
Dev: Asset Flip Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Protagonist of the game is investigating the disappearance of people. The investigation leads him into an old house, and then it becomes a party to the strange and dangerous events.
Why similar: Horror 33.2%, Action 24.3%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 18.3%
- #42 DYSTHANASIA
68% matchVery Positive90% of 301 reviews2025
Dev: Madowaku KoboPub: Eroge Japan
Windows
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
Why similar: Horror 57.7%, Action 21.9%, Adventure 20.4%
- #43 Reflection
69% matchVery Positive84% of 230 reviews2025
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
Why similar: Horror 65.5%, Adventure 29.9%, Indie 4.6%
- #44 Dementium II HD
73% matchMixed50% of 1,263 reviews2013
Dev: Memetic GamesPub: Missing Link Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The visage of doctors and patients alike fade in and out of these nightmarish visions of tortured memories. This eggshell reality is fractured by experiments conducted in the ward. Blood, flesh and screams surround as you put together the pieces of your story and make your escape from the Bright Dawn Treatment Center while the dark...
Why similar: Horror 42.9%, Action 21.8%, Adventure 21.2%, Indie 14.1%
- #45 Project Nightmares Case 36: Henrietta Kedward
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 393 reviews2021
Dev: NC Studio
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Project Nightmares is a survival horror game with a procedural structure, creating unique scares every time you play. A machine will induce you into a dream state, throwing you into a living nightmare firsthand in order to discover the story of Henrietta Kedward, an old woman with a dark past.
Why similar: Horror 44.4%, Action 31.9%, Indie 23.7%
- #46 Long Night
74% matchMixed45% of 85 reviews2014
Dev: Trickster Face
Windows
In this third person survival horror, play as David, a teenage boy during a summer night, who will have to escape his unconscious fears, taking many forms. In the same time, he will have to save his friends from their own scary projections.
Why similar: Horror 36.8%, Adventure 24.6%, Action 19.5%, Indie 19.1%
- #47 Necrophosis
66% matchVery Positive90% of 752 reviews2025
Dev: Dragonis AresPub: Dragonis Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.
Why similar: Horror 57.2%, Action 25.4%, Adventure 17.4%
- #48 Strange Night
71% matchMixed60% of 472 reviews2016
Dev: LaboryPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
As an employee of a night security firm, your first night on the job might be your last, as strange events push your sanity to the limit.
Why similar: Horror 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #49 Zardy's Maze
67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,570 reviews2021
Dev: Full Trek Media
Windows · Mac
Zardy's Maze is an extremely challenging horror game where you must enter a corn maze in the dead of night. Your goal? Cut down the giant plants that have started to grow there. Equipped with a flashlight and an axe, you must brave the unknown... And avoid what lurks in the darkness.
Why similar: Horror 38.9%, Strategy 31.9%, Action 21.3%, Indie 7.9%
- #50 Black Light Kills
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 84 reviews2025
Dev: Fatih Atacan PRODUCTIONSPub: TallGrass Tapes Interactive
Windows
Welcome to the darkness of the town; here, you walk a fine line between reality and dreams, questioning your sanity. Black Light Kills takes you deep into Aiden’s mind, where nightmares begin as reality fades.
Why similar: Horror 67.9%, Adventure 32.1%
- #51 COLINA: Legacy
69% matchVery Positive81% of 208 reviews2018
Dev: Chance6 Studios, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Alex wakes up at his grandmother’s, left alone in a silent house. Unsure where his family is, he begins to uncover a dark mystery in an attempt to escape. Facing his fear in an endless nightmare, Alex must survive the dead of night, a cursed forest, and paranormal activities before daylight arrives.
Why similar: Horror 42.3%, Adventure 29.2%, Action 20%, Indie 8.6%
- #52 Stairs
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 361 reviews2015
Dev: GreyLight EntertainmentPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
STAIRS is a first-person atmospheric psychological horror game, inspired by real-life events, that takes players through the stories of three missing people as seen through the eyes of journalist Christopher Adams. Start preparing yourself now, for to descend down these steps is to descend into madness...
Why similar: Horror 34%, Adventure 25.2%, Action 20.7%, Indie 20.1%
- #53 Frosty Nights
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 267 reviews2017
Dev: ClockWork WolfPub: ClockWorkWolf
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Frosty Nights is a First Person hybrid horror game that focuses on atmosphere and suspense.
Why similar: Strategy 38.5%, Horror 26.8%, Action 19.6%, Indie 15.1%
- #54 Horror Story: Hallowseed
67% matchMixed65% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: Jeff WinnerPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Horror Story: Hallowseed is a story-driven psychological horror game. An obscure event causes two of your friends to disappear while you were camping in the woods. Left alone and stranded in an unknown place, you need to seek the answers about what happened, face the horror and find your friends.
Why similar: Horror 66.8%, Indie 33.2%
- #55 Bear Haven Nights
68% matchVery Positive87% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: SunRay Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Bear Haven Nights is a great indie horror game where you have to survive scary nights.
Why similar: Strategy 39.9%, Horror 16.7%, Adventure 15.7%, Action 15.3%, Indie 12.5%
- #56 Wet Nightmares
64% matchVery Positive83% of 269 reviews2025
Dev: Demonheart StudiosPub: Kinky Fridays
Windows · Mac · Linux
As another woman joins the list of the missing, deep within a forest, a man living in solitude is visited by a pretty stranger. Wet Nightmares is an Erotic Horror Visual Novel exploring the psyche of a haunted man and his depraved past.
Why similar: Horror 76.6%, Adventure 23.4%
- #57 Who Knocks
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Daniele Doesn't MatterPub: Doesn't Matter Games
Windows
Who Knocks is a first person psychological horror game that will make your nightmares come true. You have just moved into a new home. Welcome the presences that will knock at your door. Solve puzzles, explore the environment and fight your nightmares.
Why similar: Horror 66.3%, Action 33.7%