- #1 Afterdream
97% matchVery Positive93% of 349 reviews2023
Dev: Jesse MakkonenPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.5%, Surreal 19.5%, Horror 19.1%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #2 Fran Bow
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,182 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.4%, Point & Click 20.2%, Horror 12.8%, Surreal 9.5%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #3 Moving Houses
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 254 reviews2024
Dev: Gordon Little
Windows
A silly little physics-based game about moving on... or is it? Be neat, be careful, or be a chaos goblin. The choice is yours. But be warned, not all is as it seems in this quiet little house.
Why similar: Surreal 16.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Dark Humor 14.4%
- #4 No Ghost in Sky Elevator
95% matchVery Positive99% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Midori Games / みどりげーむず
Windows
It is a strange high-rise elevator. The objects that appear and the people you board are all strange. Depending on your actions, you will face a variety of consequences.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Hidden Object 16.3%, Point & Click 16.1%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #5 No Ghost in Stay Home
94% matchVery Positive93% of 121 reviews2021
Dev: Midori Games / みどりげーむず
Windows
A dimly lit room, her first time stay home.... Do you gently watch over little Anna? Or....
Why similar: Point & Click 17.5%, Hidden Object 17.5%, Psychological Horror 17%, Surreal 15.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
- #6 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
93% matchVery Positive88% of 3,358 reviews2023
Dev: silver978Pub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
- #7 My Head On Your Body
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Creepy Pop
Windows · Mac · Linux
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Horror 18.8%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Female Protagonist 7.5%
- #8 Castle of Secrets
92% matchMixed62% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Serene Questworks StudiosPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Castle of Secrets is a dark psychological adventure with horror elements. Uncover the mystery behind your family's murder as you journey through the world of the dead, meet strange beings, solve puzzles, and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Hidden Object 17.4%, Point & Click 14%, Surreal 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
- #9 I'll Do It Tomorrow
91% matchVery Positive96% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: Luca Morotti
Windows
It's Sara's first day of work. However, when she takes the elevator to go to the office, she suddenly finds herself on a mysterious floor. What truth lies behind these weird rooms? Will you be able to move on? Or rather... will you want to move on?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Surreal 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #10 Little Misfortune
91% matchVery Positive92% of 13,710 reviews2019
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Point & Click 18%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Horror 10.8%
- #11 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
89% matchVery Positive88% of 5,930 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Point & Click 10%, Horror 10%
- #12 Haunted Property
90% matchVery Positive93% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: Yamoto
Windows
A new life begins in a low-cost apartment. Strange occurrences at night and the suspicious behavior of neighbors gradually push the protagonist to the edge.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 30.5%, Psychological Horror 20%, Horror 19.5%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Casual 8.2%
- #13 A House Inside Me
89% matchVery Positive86% of 95 reviews2026
Dev: Ctrl HorrorPub: Skull Queens Games
Windows
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Surreal 24%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Stylized 7.4%
- #14 Graces: Posthumous Wish
88% matchVery Positive97% of 191 reviews2024
Dev: TomoToro
Windows
Aki is haunted by a curse. In search of salvation, she travels into the memories of a dead classmate, where she must witness three eerie mystical stories and figure out how to break the shackles of misfortune.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
- #15 Decollate Decoration
86% matchVery Positive93% of 314 reviews2026
Dev: KANEKODOPub: KEMCO
Windows
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Horror 27.9%, Point & Click 27.7%, Story Rich 6.2%, Casual 5.9%
- #16 The Winter Mind
86% matchMixed66% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store. Our task is to help her buy groceries.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Surreal 18.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #17 Nightmare Shift
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: Binary Lunar
Windows
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29%, Horror 19.6%, Immersive Sim 17.9%, Story Rich 12.4%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
- #18 Ib
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,122 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Surreal 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #19 The House in Fata Morgana
84% matchVery Positive95% of 6,235 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
- #20 The Method of Hiding a Body
84% matchVery Positive92% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Sea of Ghosts
Windows
A story-driven horror puzzle game where the player takes on the role of a resentful ghost, possessing others in order to search for her own corpse.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.6%, Multiple Endings 25.1%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Story Rich 16.8%, Female Protagonist 2.6%
- #21 CLeM
82% matchVery Positive92% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Mango ProtocolPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Horror 10.3%
- #22 MINE MEMORY
82% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Surreal 24.8%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #23 The Haunting of Joni Evers
81% matchVery Positive91% of 162 reviews2025
Dev: Causeway Studios
Windows · Mac
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.9%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Exploration 13.1%, Story Rich 11.9%
- #24 MONOPHOBIA
80% matchVery Positive98% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Z-xian
Windows
Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life. This game was made entirely out of scanned traditional watercolor art.
Why similar: Surreal 21.5%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Hand-drawn 16%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Horror 10.4%
- #25 YOUR HOUSE
81% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Detective 31.5%, Point & Click 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Female Protagonist 12%
- #26 Without a Dawn
78% matchVery Positive93% of 757 reviews2025
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Female Protagonist 17%, Horror 14.6%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #27 Dread Weight
79% matchVery Positive87% of 178 reviews2024
Dev: Deer Dream Studios
Windows · Mac
Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 13.3%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #28 Bad Faith
79% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: Mado
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.9%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Horror 19.2%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #29 Poltergeist Watcher
78% matchVery Positive95% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: DuckGod
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you survive the night watching the haunted house?
Why similar: Hidden Object 38.2%, Psychological Horror 27.4%, Horror 26.3%, Casual 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #30 Loretta
77% matchVery Positive93% of 421 reviews2023
Dev: BonereadersPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Point & Click 17.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
- #31 outside the door
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 619 reviews2024
Dev: basandaika games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Surreal 17.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
- #32 Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
74% matchVery Positive94% of 3,023 reviews2024
Dev: SimogoPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.
Why similar: Horror 27.3%, Exploration 21.6%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Stylized 14.1%, Story Rich 11.3%
- #33 Bad Omens: 8th Apartment
76% matchVery Positive89% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: Neon Flamingo Games
Windows
You play as a student named Lisa, who has just moved in with her university friend. But instead of a carefree student life, Lisa faces events full of despair and fear when she is left alone in her apartment number 8...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.3%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Horror 15.8%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #34 The Witch's House MV
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,920 reviews2018
Dev: FummyPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.
Why similar: Horror 50.2%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Story Rich 7.7%, Indie 3.6%
- #35 Witching Hour
77% matchMixed68% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Vincent Lade
Windows
Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.
Why similar: Surreal 21.6%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 15.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Exploration 10%
- #36 Hazy Mind
74% matchVery Positive86% of 331 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Visual Novel 17%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Horror 9.2%
- #37 My Sleeping Girlfriend
72% matchVery Positive95% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Dog Games
Windows
Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.8%, Horror 26.8%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Exploration 12.2%
- #38 Guilty Me
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: HKGamesStudio
Windows
In Guilty Me, take the role of Lucy on a scary nighttime journey home from the coffee shop. Face psychological terror, explore a dark environment, and uncover hidden secrets. Survive the chase and immerse yourself in a gripping walk simulator of suspense.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.1%, Female Protagonist 17.6%, Horror 14.3%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #39 Dread Neighbor
70% matchVery Positive85% of 442 reviews2026
Dev: GhostcasePub: Erabit
Windows
Dread Neighbor is a first-person, multi-perspective psychological horror game. Play as a young woman living alone in an unusually cheap apartment. As the days pass, combat the overwhelming sense of unease, malice, and the unshakable feeling that you’re being watched from every crack in the room.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.2%, Surreal 18.5%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Horror 18.1%, Story Rich 10%
- #40 Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel
70% matchVery Positive94% of 186 reviews2026
Dev: Night Shift Team Pub: Red Limb Studio
Windows
An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here. A blend of cozy simulation, horror, and psychological depth, wrapped in a dark, noir-tinged atmosphere.
Why similar: Horror 19.7%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Female Protagonist 17.9%, Detective 16.7%, Immersive Sim 13.2%
- #41 The Room Syndrome
73% matchVery Positive95% of 362 reviews2019
Dev: Jesse CarradinePub: Jesse Carradine?
Windows
Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.9%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Female Protagonist 16%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Casual 7.5%
- #42 Clink
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Beshbarmak games
Windows
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.4%, Exploration 33.3%, Horror 17.5%, Story Rich 7.5%, Indie 1.2%
- #43 Children of Silentown
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,521 reviews2023
Dev: Elf GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Children of Silentown is a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a girl growing up in a village deep in a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon here, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
Why similar: Point & Click 16.3%, Surreal 14.9%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #44 Goetia
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 782 reviews2016
Dev: SusheePub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.
Why similar: Point & Click 48.6%, Female Protagonist 20.7%, Horror 15%, Indie 8.5%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #45 SIMULACRA
71% matchVery Positive90% of 4,633 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Point & Click 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #46 Faded Grey
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 166 reviews2021
Dev: Derek Golliher
Windows
A short find it game that helps you make sense of a tragic accident as you uncover a piece of the story with each item found.
Why similar: Hidden Object 26.2%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Horror 13.3%, Story Rich 12%
- #47 Sophie's Curse
73% matchVery Positive82% of 504 reviews2016
Dev: TrerPlayPub: Edco Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.3%, Point & Click 20.9%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Horror 16.7%, Surreal 7.3%
- #48 Abandoned Stories: Inherited Silence
68% matchVery Positive96% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: _atfs
Windows
A new home. A new family. A nightmare waiting inside. Adopted into a new family, Maria soon realizes she was never meant to feel safe there.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 23.1%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #49 Japan Stigmatized Property -日本事故物件監視協会-
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: 日本事故物件監視協会
Windows · Mac
Can you endure until morning Monitor Japan's stigmatized properties and report any paranormal activity If you miss a report or make repeated mistakes——
Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.1%, Psychological Horror 19%, Point & Click 17.7%, Surreal 13.3%, Hidden Object 12.5%
- #50 Cursed Mansion
70% matchVery Positive90% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Dragon Emperors
Windows
Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 15.7%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%
- #51 Asleep: Act 1
67% matchVery Positive94% of 557 reviews2024
Dev: Black Hole GamesPub: CriticalLeap
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Immersed in her nightmares, in a chaotic reality, confused and all alone. The only safe place is her room, but not forever... She wanders through an empty city and strange places while fleeing from creatures lurking in the darkness to find out what's going on. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Point & Click 20.6%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Horror 16.2%, Exploration 10.2%
- #52 Matsuro Palette
69% matchVery Positive99% of 335 reviews2020
Dev: SleepingMuseumPub: KEMCO
Windows
Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?
Why similar: Hidden Object 15.9%, Point & Click 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Horror 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #53 a pet shop after dark
69% matchVery Positive89% of 405 reviews2022
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.2%, Horror 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Hidden Object 13.2%
- #54 Lost in the Woods
67% matchVery Positive96% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: delulu girl
Windows
'One last try' Violet is determined to save her broken marriage - at any cost!Wandering through a dark forest in search of lost mementos, she finds the world around her shifting with every step.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.2%, Point & Click 13.1%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
- #55 Once Upon A Mind - A Little Too Friendly
66% matchVery Positive91% of 240 reviews2025
Dev: ZealPub: Cardiora Studio
Windows
A story-rich psychological horror inspired by real-life experiences. Follow Emily, 23, as she moves to Brooklyn for a fresh start, but finds herself drawn into a slow spiral of obsession and control. Featuring voice acting, this atmospheric and grounded experience is deeply unsettling.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 19.9%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Exploration 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
- #56 MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME
67% matchVery Positive93% of 413 reviews2021
Dev: ENIGMA STUDIO
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.
Why similar: Surreal 21.4%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Point & Click 14.5%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Horror 11.6%
- #57 Dear Brother
69% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: NGS Studios
Windows
Audrey is a young woman returning to her childhood home. Upon arriving, however, she begins to notice strange happenings around the house. Is this a dream or reality? Whatever it is, it seems so oddly… familiar. Explore with Audrey as she tries to work out the mysteries of her missing memories.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, Indie 8.1%
- #58 The Rainman
66% matchVery Positive98% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: Copperbolt
Windows
Watch your back in the small peaceful town of Crystalpine Grove, as it is haunted by The Infamous Rainman.
Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Female Protagonist 13.4%
- #59 Bad Dream: Coma
67% matchVery Positive91% of 2,208 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Point & Click 14.8%, Surreal 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Hidden Object 10.9%, Horror 10.5%