Games Like FOGBOUND

The dead linger in the CRT glow, their wails rippling through the screen like disembodied echoes. And now… you’re drifting with them...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31%, Horror 26.4%, Story Rich 14.7%, Retro 13.1%, Atmospheric 11.4%

FoMO is an experimental first-person horror with unpredictable mazes, a suffocating atmosphere, and a decaying retro look. No weapons, only escape, paranoia, and choices that accelerate the horror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Dystopian 13.6%, Retro 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Horror 8%

Noah had run from his past, from his sins. But they had other plans for him. The mind always harbors its deepest dread, and when the time comes, you must face it. For Noah, that time has come.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 17.3%, Story Rich 11.4%, Dark 9.7%, Retro 8.9%

A short horror game where you dig through the flesh of a giant whale

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Dystopian 20.2%, Horror 17.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Dark 6.5%

A short interpretive narrative about building a fire hot enough to reduce her bones to ash. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.2%, Retro 22.1%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Horror 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 8%

A sick mother and her young son move into the home of a lonely old woman. A tragic story inspired by the dark puppet animations of the 80s and 90s.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.2%, Horror 20.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, Dark 7.7%, Walking Simulator 7.5%

Evaluate a cold case by living it. A delivery rider works nights to support his new family, until one last order changes everything. Inspired by a real report. When the shift ends, you decide: archive the case, or leave it open.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 17.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Walking Simulator 8.2%, Dark 7.8%

You are a woman exploring liminal spaces as if wandering through a dream, searching for those you lost. Uncover the mystery connecting these ever-shifting realities. No jumpscares or chases. Inspired by Dreamcore and the Backrooms.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.3%, Story Rich 12.1%, Retro 11.9%, Horror 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Unfound Footage is a short, atmospheric psychological horror game where you must survive inside a mysterious mansion after a strange disappearance.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Horror 22.8%, Retro 15.4%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Walking Simulator 6.1%

Backrooms: Reminiscence is a single-player horror game where you experience something unexpected, and now you're left all alone in the cold world of The Backrooms.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26%, Horror 21.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Walking Simulator 8.9%, Dystopian 8.4%

Constitución, CABA. 3 AM. You leave a party, feeling defeated because the girl you liked didn't even look at you. You go to wait for the last "39" bus of that night. You try to stop it, but it goes straight away. Tomorrow you have the exam that defines whether you graduate or not. Good luck.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Retro 18.3%, Horror 18.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Walking Simulator 6.6%

A psychological horror adventure set in the frozen aftermath of a dead sun. Explore buried memories, search your lost daughter, and descend into a world where guilt speaks louder than truth.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.8%, Horror 20.4%, Dystopian 14.3%, Emotional 5.8%, Lore-Rich 5%

Hide and Sink series is a retro horror anthology chronicling short stories of uncanny childhood events. Part 2: Hide and Sink is a first-person psychological horror game. What starts as an innocent game of after-school hide-and-seek quickly unravels into an uncanny terror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Horror 25.3%, Retro 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Story Rich 10.2%

A first-person psychological horror game set in a childhood home. Explore, uncover four days of missing memory, and survive something that has been listening since you arrived.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.5%, Horror 16.1%, Walking Simulator 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.1%, Horror 22.4%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Retro 9.1%, Atmospheric 4.9%

A first-person psychological horror game. You were sent into an abandoned facility to retrieve something — but it's not as empty as you were told. No combat. No rescue. Just what's waiting inside.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.8%, Horror 25.9%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Story Rich 7.8%, Dark 7.7%

In this atmospheric, slow-burn horror, you must unravel the mystery of the disappearance of your fellow light keepers. Traverse the island's rugged terrain, discover clues, and make your way through the eerie lighthouse to reveal the dark truth.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.9%, Horror 23.2%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Dark 6.6%

You've been hired by a real estate agency to photograph their listings at night, giving them a unique look online. Grab your camera, explore dark, quiet homes, and capture every required shot before the property notices you. Uncover the truth: why do these listings need to be photographed at night?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 18%, Retro 16.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Walking Simulator 7.8%

Fading father is a man consumed by addiction and memories

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.9%, Horror 23.3%, Retro 16.7%, Dark 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.8%

You take over as the new ranger overseeing the infamous Timber Trail, a trail known for mysterious disappearances and the Timber Trail Murders.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.2%, Horror 18.8%, Retro 13.3%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Atmospheric 9.2%

The Vanishing Train | ワンマン列車 is a psychological horror game where you work as a train driver on a rural Japanese railway line.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.4%, Horror 23.6%, Retro 10.3%, Walking Simulator 9.2%, Atmospheric 5.7%

The family lives in isolation, following the strict rules of the father. But the attempt to escape evil turns into a horror that grows from within.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 14.8%, Retro 13.5%, Story Rich 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Embark on a surreal journey to find answers hidden within a broken home. Explore shifting realities in this low-poly horror game where the truth is the ultimate price. A meta-horror experience that knows its player.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32%, Horror 20.4%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Story Rich 8.3%

A SCP inspired horror game with psychological horror. Set in an non-official Foundation research facility where you are hired as a junior lab researcher. A company called OakRidge Research has started doing questionable and risky research on a top secret object unknown to the public

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.2%, Horror 17.6%, Story Rich 14.5%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Emotional 9.1%

DECEIVED is a psychological horror game where you find yourself trapped in the endlessly looping left wing of your home. Uncover hidden clues and experience the horror as you peel back the curtain of what truly happened that night at the Walker residence.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 18.1%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Story Rich 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%

In the Salesman, you play as a recently laid-off employee trying to survive the grind of job applications, debt, and dwindling hope. Trade your belongings for ad-supported replacements as you slowly sell away your life in this psychological horror game

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Horror 20.7%, Retro 15.7%, Story Rich 6.8%, Atmospheric 6.4%

It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Only half of the rooms are safe. When you enter an unsafe room, you must leave immediately. Ghosts can be dispelled with a flute or a guitar.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.5%, Horror 22%, Dark 13%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Walking Simulator 8.2%

The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in the attic with your cat companion, armed only with a camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 14.3%, Retro 11.1%, Story Rich 9.7%, Walking Simulator 9.6%

Tisis is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and sanity management as you navigate the thin boundary between light, darkness, and madness.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Horror 12%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Walking Simulator 11%, Story Rich 9%

A first-person psychological horror game about a boy traveling between a peaceful secret base and a home that slowly begins to change.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.3%, Retro 20.5%, Horror 13.9%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Exploration 6.5%

A psychological horror you never see — you read it. Blind and deaf, you sense an arctic station through a neural implant: text, smell, touch. Quarantine rules say only one person may leave their cabin at a time. You are out. Five bodies are found by morning.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.1%, Horror 14.5%, Retro 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Story Rich 8.6%

The Sixth Sorrow is a short, narrative-driven horror game where your choices impact the story. To what lengths can a mother's love drive her?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 15.3%, Walking Simulator 8.9%, Lore-Rich 8.7%, Story Rich 8.6%

A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a house that feels like it knows you. Uncover dark secrets buried within its walls. Something is watching. Something has been waiting a very long time.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Horror 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Walking Simulator 9%

This is a psychological horror game where you (the player) explore a hospital that appears in your dreams, collecting fragments of memories and experiencing what happened to you. Enjoy the various changes that occur within the recurring dreams.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.7%, Horror 26.8%, Story Rich 13.8%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Psychological 5.3%

A first-person psychological horror game in which a trip for easy money turns into a fight for survival deep underground.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 16%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Story Rich 8.3%

Darkness Inside is a first-person atmospheric horror game. The game takes place in an old house. You will be playing the game as James, who is a paranormal investigator.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 23.2%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Dark 12.6%, Walking Simulator 10.9%

Enter the depths of a silent facility as a D-Class subject. Test the limits of SCP-294, a machine that can produce any liquid imaginable. But remember: in this low-poly PS1-style nightmare, every cup has a price. A short, narrative-driven psychological horror experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.7%, Horror 17%, Retro 15.6%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Atmospheric 9.1%

INVARIANT is a first-person psychological horror game. Step into the shattered mind of a mathematician. Rely on your destructive addiction to bend reality, explore ever-changing environments, and hide from the terrifying manifestations of your grief. Truth and lies are a sip apart.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.3%, Horror 15%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%

She was sent to the abandoned house in Yeongdeok as part of a viewer punishment challenge. But the joke ended the moment the door slammed shut.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Horror 23.6%, Story Rich 13.3%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Exploration 6.7%

Uncover the mystery of an arctic cargo outpost's lost crew in this horror game. Take in the frozen sea and delve into the depths of the facility, finding items and uncovering new paths with each one to learn what really happened here. But be careful, because something else might be here with you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 21.2%, Atmospheric 10%, Walking Simulator 9.5%, Dystopian 7.3%

Step inside a circus performer's quiet home, but don't stop at the surface. In this short-form descent into dread, follow a hidden labyrinth deep beneath the floorboards and watch a simple investigation spiral into a claustrophobic nightmare.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 17.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Dark 9%, Lore-Rich 8.7%

Purefire Life Stream is a first-person psychological horror game. In recent years, livestreaming daily life has become a worldwide phenomenon. Explore a slow-paced world beginning with a livestreamed penthouse tour expanding into unsettling realism and terror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.1%, Horror 19.7%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Dark 10.4%, Story Rich 6.5%

Mourning Ritual for a Haunted Boarding Room. Uncover the mystery behind the ghost through exploration, puzzles, and a psychological horror narrative.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 17.2%, Retro 12.8%, Story Rich 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%

A short story-driven horror game with a worn VHS finish. Move into the last house on Sycamore Street, unpack, meet the neighbor, and find out why the dog won't go near the attic. After dark, hide in the wardrobe, watch through the slats, and try to get a phone signal.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Horror 22.5%, Story Rich 12.4%, Retro 8.7%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Ethan returns to his cousin's old family house, deep in the forest, a place he hasn't set foot in for five years, ever since the family who lived there vanished without a trace.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.8%, Horror 20%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Walking Simulator 7.7%

Survive the graveyard shift as a pizza delivery driver in decaying suburban America. Step out of the safety of your car, serve unpredictable customers, and try to ignore the things watching you from the dark. Your rent is due.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 16.1%, Walking Simulator 9%, Retro 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.4%

COLD CALL is a first-person retro horror game based on a dying Earth full of unexplained mysteries. Escape Northbridge's research facility as you explore and uncover the truth behind a dying world.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 17.5%, Story Rich 9.2%, Exploration 7.5%, Retro 7.3%

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to become an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile? A psychological horror experience focusing on immersion, storytelling and audiovisual torment.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 12.7%, Dystopian 12.4%, Retro 12.2%, Story Rich 9%

Something has been waiting for you. Explore a forgotten place buried beneath the earth, solve twisted puzzles, and piece together a dark story one clue at a time. But the deeper you go, the more it wakes. Survive what hunts you, or become part of Ashworth's story.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 21.5%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Story Rich 9%, Walking Simulator 7.9%

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 26.1%, Horror 14.8%, Retro 12.3%, Story Rich 10.1%, Walking Simulator 7.9%

Rumors of a serial killer stalking your local town are all over the news, and you have a meeting with your counselor in an hour. The problem is, the walk there is long and dark.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Horror 22.4%, Retro 15.2%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Dark 7.8%

Animas is a first-person psychological horror experience that plunges you into the dark secrets of the Blanco family. Explore a cursed house in the Venezuelan mountains, where time unravels to reveal decades of sectarian rituals and familial tragedies.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Horror 14.3%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 10%, Walking Simulator 9.9%

A psychological horror game disguised as a 2D platformer. The game shifts between genres, dimensions, and camera angles to create a nightmare that knows you a bit too well.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Horror 14.9%, Story Rich 10.9%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.6%

The Night Archive is an episodic first-person horror series where each episode tells a story pulled from the darkest corners of true crime. These are the stories of those who lived to tell about it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Story Rich 9.3%

You shouldn't be awake. After watching a late-night show about urban legends, paranoia takes hold: has your favorite toy, Mr. Zippy, come to life? Explore the house and survive this tense narrative-driven mascot horror experience featuring puzzle mechanics.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Horror 19.6%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Retro 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 16.7%, Retro 13.2%, Story Rich 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Atmospheric first-person horror game where you carry an old Polaroid camera. Take the right picture and a way forward emerges.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.8%, Horror 17.9%, Retro 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Walking Simulator 7.1%

A horror game about an elevator repair technician who, as he ascends, discovers what became of those who never made it back down.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Horror 17%, Story Rich 9.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Dystopian 8.8%

Your first assignment alone. An island where no one has lived for thirty years. A lighthouse that stopped shining. The job was only supposed to take a few hours.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27%, Horror 22.5%, Atmospheric 11%, Dark 8.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%