- #1 Neverending Nightmares
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,035 reviews2014
Dev: Infinitap Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 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 54.8%, Indie 19.5%, Adventure 16.7%, Action 9%
- #2 Forest Horror
96% matchMixed55% of 55 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%
- #3 Pyromaniac
94% matchVery Positive86% of 964 reviews2026
Dev: Dominik BraunPub: tayoDEV
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
It's 2009. A 20-year-old Nikolas Rendl wakes up on a bench near a bus stop in an unfamiliar city, without any previous knowledge of what happened. Nikolas has to wander around the cold streets of the city and defend himself from scorched monsters with only one goal: Find answers to all of this.
Why similar: Adventure 27.1%, Action 26.5%, Indie 25.2%, Horror 21.2%
- #4 Misery Mansion
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 96 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 55.9%, Adventure 25.8%, Action 18.3%
- #5 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 53.5%, Horror 46.5%
- #6 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
92% matchVery Positive95% of 35,628 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 67.5%, Adventure 14%, Indie 10%, Action 8.5%
- #7 Roots of Insanity
93% matchMixed67% of 443 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 35.1%, Action 25.8%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 16.3%
- #8 Unspoken
91% matchVery Positive88% of 836 reviews2024
Dev: Weeping studioPub: Weeping Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 41.8%, Adventure 23.1%, Action 21.7%, Indie 13.5%
- #9 Familiar Stranger
91% 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 34.5%, Indie 23.3%, Adventure 21.3%, Action 20.8%
- #10 Five Nights At Monkeys: Flat Mode
90% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Gameboy_Alex
Windows · Mac
Five Nights At Monkeys: Flat Mode is a flat screen horror experience where every night is different. Survive roaming monsters, manage tricky power systems, and face sudden jumpscares across forests, canyons, cities, and dark mines.
Why similar: Strategy 61.9%, Horror 27%, Indie 11%
- #11 Midnight: Submersion - Nightmare Horror Story
89% 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 41.5%, Adventure 31.8%, Action 26.7%
- #12 Madness inside
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 93 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 31.9%, Indie 28.7%
- #13 Descent - Silence of Mind
89% matchMixed57% of 107 reviews2017
Dev: LaboryPub: SA Industry
Windows
Hypnosis, memories, delusions and a disturbing secret revolve around silence of mind.
Why similar: Indie 36.7%, Adventure 35.1%, Horror 28.2%
- #14 Echoes of Dread
86% matchVery Positive86% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Reaper GSPub: Kazakov Studios
Windows
Wake up inside an abandoned mansion. Uncover the dark fate of a missing family. Survive the presence that stalks you within these walls.
Why similar: Horror 44.6%, Action 24.5%, Indie 15.6%, Adventure 15.3%
- #15 The Land of Pain
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 769 reviews2017
Dev: Alessandro Guzzo
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.
Why similar: Horror 59.1%, Adventure 40.9%
- #16 Tales From Hoia Baciu Forest
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 155 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 48.4%, Horror 45.5%, Indie 6.1%
- #17 Horror inside the forest
85% matchVery Positive91% of 90 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 57.6%, Indie 22.1%, Action 20.3%
- #18 MIND CORRIDORS: Paroniria
84% matchVery Positive95% of 74 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 67.8%, Adventure 32.2%
- #19 In Nightmare
83% matchVery Positive82% of 96 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 54.9%, Adventure 35.9%, Horror 6.4%, Indie 2.8%
- #20 Fear of Dark
84% matchMixed51% of 127 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 29.4%, Adventure 27.4%, Horror 22.9%, Indie 20.3%
- #21 Try To Fall Asleep
82% matchVery Positive90% of 194 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 40.2%, Adventure 28.7%, Action 19.2%, Indie 11.9%
- #22 123 Slaughter Me Street 2
81% matchVery Positive83% of 217 reviews2016
Dev: Nate SandersPub: Impulse Game Studios, LLC.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.2 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 32.2%, Horror 28.3%, Action 20.3%, Adventure 19.1%
- #23 While Sleeping
79% matchVery Positive81% of 95 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%, Adventure 11.2%, Action 11%
- #24 Under: Depths of Fear
81% matchMixed68% of 303 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 26.6%, Action 20.3%, Adventure 20.1%, Strategy 18.9%, Indie 14.2%
- #25 Despair
82% 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 42.8%, Horror 26.5%, Action 16.8%, Adventure 13.9%
- #26 Project Nightmares Case 36: Henrietta Kedward
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 402 reviews2021
Dev: NC Studio
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 44.3%, Action 32.5%, Indie 23.2%
- #27 Ad Infernum
77% matchVery Positive94% of 89 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 37.7%, Action 31.2%, Adventure 31.1%
- #28 Typical Nightmare
80% matchMostly Negative34% of 112 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 41.7%, Indie 24.1%, Adventure 17.8%, Action 16.4%
- #29 Whispering Fog
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: Dark Snow Games
Windows
Whispering Fog is a first person psychological horror game set in an ever-changing forest shrouded in fog. A quiet getaway becomes a sinister nightmare as the illusion of safety and solitude slowly crumbles around you.
Why similar: Horror 77.8%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 9.3%
- #30 Nyctophobia
79% 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 34.9%, Adventure 34.4%, Horror 30.7%
- #31 Strange Night ll
78% matchMixed44% of 86 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 57.3%, Horror 42.7%
- #32 Circus of Pain
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 79 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 29.5%, Strategy 25.7%, Adventure 20.1%, Action 15.2%, Indie 9.5%
- #33 MITE - Terror in the forest
76% matchVery Positive80% of 60 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%
- #34 Blackbay Asylum
77% matchMixed57% of 552 reviews2014
Dev: TAD Productions ABPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 2.8 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 49.9%, Horror 30.3%, Indie 19.8%
- #35 Touch of Madness
73% matchVery Positive100% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: NLT Productions
Windows
In this 2D Survival-Horror, you switch between two protagonists as you advance through the story: Neo, a man lost in his own mind, trying to survive an endless nightmare, and Lavina, a loyal friend who will do anything to try to save him.
Why similar: Horror 32.2%, Adventure 25.7%, Indie 21.1%, Action 21%
- #36 THE DEVIL HAUNTS ME
75% matchVery Positive93% of 229 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 54.2%, Horror 45.8%
- #37 Creepy Shift: Roadside Diner
72% matchVery Positive88% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Night Shift TeamPub: Red Limb Studio
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 37.8%, Action 26.1%, Adventure 19.2%, Indie 17%
- #38 Necrophosis
70% matchVery Positive90% of 875 reviews2025
Dev: Dragonis AresPub: Dragonis Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 2.8 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 56.8%, Action 25.7%, Adventure 17.6%
- #39 Bigfoot Forest
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 187 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 34.5%, Action 31.3%, Horror 26.5%, Indie 7.7%
- #40 Somewhere in the Shadow
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 733 reviews2021
Dev: Aydy
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 60.2%, Adventure 30.1%, Indie 9.7%
- #41 Face of Another
69% matchVery Positive96% of 157 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%
- #42 Gil's Lucid Dreams
74% 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 46.6%, Horror 27.2%, Indie 26.3%
- #43 AUTO-CRISIS
69% matchVery Positive88% of 94 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 48.9%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 18.2%
- #44 Long Night
73% 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 36.5%, Adventure 25%, Action 19.9%, Indie 18.6%
- #45 Haze of Lucidity (Halu) - The Fracture
68% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: HwayePub: Hwaye Studio
Windows
A psychological horror game about Ryan, a man living alone in his apartment. As disturbing events blur the line between reality and illusion, explore, survive, and uncover the nightmare hidden within his fractured mind.
Why similar: Horror 51.3%, Indie 22.6%, Adventure 13.2%, Action 12.9%
- #46 AMOK
72% 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%, Action 24.7%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 17.8%
- #47 Bear Haven Nights
70% matchVery Positive87% of 106 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 38.9%, Horror 17.3%, Adventure 16%, Action 15.6%, Indie 12.2%
- #48 Zardy's Maze
67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,590 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 39%, Strategy 31.3%, Action 21.9%, Indie 7.8%
- #49 Dementium II HD
71% matchMixed50% of 1,282 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 42.4%, Action 22%, Adventure 22%, Indie 13.6%
- #50 Reflection
66% matchVery Positive83% of 260 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 65.2%, Adventure 30.4%, Indie 4.4%
- #51 Strange Night
70% matchMixed60% of 477 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 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #52 DYSTHANASIA
64% matchVery Positive89% of 358 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 57.2%, Action 22%, Adventure 20.7%
- #53 Depths Of Horror: Mushroom Day
67% matchMixed55% of 1,997 reviews2021
Dev: TakeThem.GamesPub: TakeThem.Games (Creative)
Windows
This is a 3D first-person adventure and horror game that lets you plunge deep into your fears. A unique cave system, enemies and screamers. While picking mushrooms in a clearing, you stumble upon an abandoned hut. Exploring it, you find yourself in a cave full of unexpected inhabitants and surprises
Why similar: Horror 59.4%, Action 21.9%, Indie 18.6%
- #54 Black Light Kills
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: Fatih Atacan PRODUCTIONS
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 67.4%, Adventure 32.6%
- #55 Frosty Nights
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 275 reviews2017
Dev: ClockWork WolfPub: ClockWorkWolf
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Frosty Nights is a First Person hybrid horror game that focuses on atmosphere and suspense.
Why similar: Strategy 38.6%, Horror 26.4%, Action 19.8%, Indie 15.2%
- #56 Stairs
68% matchMixed70% of 363 reviews2015
Dev: GreyLight EntertainmentPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.2 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 33.8%, Adventure 25.6%, Action 21.1%, Indie 19.5%
- #57 Dark Fracture: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive84% of 1,377 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 38.4%, Adventure 24.8%, Action 19.7%, Indie 17.2%