- #1 Afterlife Empire
97% matchMixed49% of 83 reviews2015
Dev: AutobotikaPub: The Fine Young Capitalists
Windows · Mac
Hey, you just died. But don't worry! All the major religions were wrong! Instead of ascending to a new plane of existence, you are now self-employed in the Afterlife with your own haunted house to run. Keep people just scared enough to keep believing in you, but not enough to alert the local authorities.
Why similar: Strategy 48.9%, Casual 29.7%, Indie 21.4%
- #2 Scream Collector
96% matchVery Positive88% of 841 reviews2017
Dev: PuzzleRoo
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 98.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build up a haunted house in this Halloween themed Idle Clicker game!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #3 Seek Or Die
96% matchMixed67% of 175 reviews2018
Dev: FlashynuravPub: FLNStudios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
You are an investigator hired to find evidence about the missing children in the manor off the road. Once you enter, the door locks behind you, and you can hear something, lurking...
Why similar: Indie 50.2%, Casual 49.8%
- #4 Ghost Keeper
94% matchVery Positive86% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Quest CraftPub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Become a Ghost Keeper and lead your fearsome minions against the living. Use diverse scare tactics, manage demonic creatures and harness dozens of skills. Oh, and don’t let the Brotherhood catch you! The ultimate scaring experience begins…
Why similar: Strategy 66.8%, Casual 33.2%
- #5 Boo! Greedy Kid
94% matchVery Positive86% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: Flying Oak Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 33%
In "Boo! Greedy Kid", you play as a small brat who's so into soda that he doesn't blink an eye before wreaking havoc to get his favorite drink. Go frighten people with your own voice! (or a controller, that's fine too)
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #6 Ghost Master: Resurrection
91% matchVery Positive83% of 407 reviews2026
Dev: Mechano Story StudioPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Command an army of specters, unleash terror on the town of Gravenville, and solve puzzles to unlock mysteries in this strategic adventure game of resource management and supernatural mayhem.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #7 Hide and Shriek
92% matchVery Positive82% of 5,327 reviews2017
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!
Why similar: Strategy 87.8%, Indie 12.2%
- #8 Summer Nightmare
93% matchMixed55% of 554 reviews2017
Dev: Team Summer NightmarePub: Elkibe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 30%
If one’s imagined world of nightmare and the real world unite…. The hide-and-seek game of death in the world of nightmare begins. Discover hints and save yourself from the nightmare!
Why similar: Casual 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #9 Haunt the House: Terrortown
91% matchVery Positive87% of 2,372 reviews2014
Dev: SFB Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Haunt your way through town in the dead of night! Possess objects to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over? A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts!
Why similar: Casual 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #10 Horror Tycoon
89% matchMixed62% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Smidge Games LLC
Windows
Scare, terrify and thrill guests as you build the haunted house of your nightmares. Design and customize your creations with incredible detail to scare your guests, or risk losing it all in this tower defense/management/tycoon hybrid.
Why similar: Strategy 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #11 The Great Jitters: Pudding Panic
90% matchMixed65% of 72 reviews2014
Dev: Mad About PandasPub: kunst-stoff GmbH
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 12%
Puzzle a shivering jello through 48 levels of a haunted house. But beware! Scary monsters are waiting in the dark! Your only chance of survival is to scare the monsters back before the jello quivers, shivers and faints from fear. Fight evil witches, rattling skeletons and rusty knights with an arsenal of crazy weapons!
Why similar: Strategy 47.8%, Casual 29.4%, Indie 22.8%
- #12 FAREWELL SEN
88% matchVery Positive94% of 171 reviews2022
Dev: amoxy
Windows
MAKE FRIENDS WITH GHOSTS
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #13 Score the Fear
86% matchVery Positive98% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: AquaEternity
Windows
The little ghost that appeared before your eyes seems to want to become a proper evil spirit. He'll scare you in a variety of ways, so rate him on whether he was scary or not.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #14 Untitled Ghost Game
87% matchVery Positive91% of 510 reviews2023
Dev: Dubscr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Free multiplayer 2D ghost hunting game that you can play with friends created by a small game dev team.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #15 SYNCH
89% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2017
Dev: Travis ForknerPub: Baylor University Game Studios
Windows
SYNCH is a free, turn-based strategy game. Choose your perfect team of bots to take down the evil boss bot and his floating flunkies!
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Casual 27.9%, Indie 20.8%
- #16 Necromancer Accountant
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 80 reviews2017
Dev: Artyom LaletinPub: Artyom Design
Windows
Necromancer accountant. Undead scourge tycoon simulation game.
Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Casual 27.9%, Indie 20.8%
- #17 Monster Castle
84% matchMixed63% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Lemix game
Windows
Simulating castle, Set up a monster army, Defend the evil empire
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Casual 36.9%
- #18 Trick & Treat
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,407 reviews2016
Dev: Rabbiton
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Why similar: Casual 50.9%, Indie 49.1%
- #19 School Grounds
84% matchMixed42% of 84 reviews2018
Dev: JubleLemonSeed
Windows
Strange mannequins silently stalk visitors to the school grounds as they piece together the mystery of what is happening at the school.
Why similar: Casual 54%, Indie 46%
- #20 Five Nights At Monkeys: Flat Mode
79% matchVery Positive84% of 50 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 85%, Indie 15%
- #21 Mist of the Dark
83% matchMixed46% of 138 reviews2018
Dev: Visualistic Studios, LLC.Pub: Visualistic Studios, LLC.
Windows
Mist of the Dark challenges your ability to survive. Can you face your fears? Play as a monster and scare your friends. Play as the soldier and use tactics to hunt the monster(s) down. Scare the players. Stick with your team and discover objects and level advantages to take down the monster.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
80% matchVery Positive93% of 1,850 reviews2019
Dev: Moonbit
Windows
Every kid has that one toy that scares them, imagine if it came to life. You play as Ruby, a young girl who has a fear of her handmade toy called Mr. Hopp. Things take a dark turn when Ruby sees that Mr. Hopp, who usually sits motionless in the corner of her room, is gone.
Why similar: Strategy 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #23 Deck of Haunts
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,372 reviews2025
Dev: MantisPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #24 Monster Clicker : Idle Halloween Strategy
82% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2018
Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
Windows
Fight Halloween Monsters in this Idle Clicker! Upgrade your Skills! Defeat Evil!
Why similar: Strategy 48.7%, Casual 29.4%, Indie 21.9%
- #25 Fright Light
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Chris Antoni
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 42.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Experience an intense, strategy dependent game disguised as a cheesy parody of all those jump scare "games" we love to laugh at. Master the art of tracking up to four intruders at once along with timing your flashlight reloads for maximum protection from your enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 70.1%, Indie 29.9%
- #26 Project H
79% matchVery Positive88% of 446 reviews2021
Dev: HollowPixels
Windows
Project H is a horror escape room game. Solve various puzzles while being haunted by a spirit that would prefer you not to leave.
Why similar: Casual 58.6%, Indie 41.4%
- #27 REALITY
81% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Grey Reality Studios
Windows
REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Light Bearers
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,202 reviews2018
Dev: FAT BOMB STUDIOS, LLC
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Light Bearers is a multiplayer asymmetrical hide and seek game that pits a sinister shadow against cute light bears!
Why similar: Casual 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #29 One Room Nightmare
76% matchVery Positive82% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: RenKon
Windows
Turn-based strategy horror. Terror in a confined space. Manage your limited power and time to protect yourself from the oncoming enemies and survive until dawn.
Why similar: Strategy 72.5%, Indie 27.5%
- #30 Yes, No, Goodbye
75% matchVery Positive85% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Threeclipse Inc
Windows
Yes, No, Goodbye is a haunting word game where you play as an exorcist attempting to send off a spirit clinging to their old apartment. Unscramble the truth and seek out solace for the dead.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #31 Bella Wants Blood
74% matchVery Positive97% of 149 reviews2024
Dev: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Entertain the god-like Bella’s thirst for blood in this absurd bite-sized roguelike terror defense game.
Why similar: Strategy 65.4%, Casual 34.6%
- #32 Nick
77% matchVery Positive81% of 91 reviews2017
Dev: Firstborn Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 666.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Nick is a free wave defense survival game—all in virtual reality. Built in Unreal engine, this first-person, room-scale VR experience lets users take control of a variety of weapons and tools to fight off endless waves of evil robotic elves.
Why similar: Strategy 68.5%, Indie 31.5%
- #33 Quatro!
74% matchVery Positive86% of 274 reviews2024
Dev: CyberDoesStuff
Windows
Make regrets and lose the rest of your friends in this terrifying card game
Why similar: Strategy 52%, Casual 48%
- #34 Midnight Ghost Hunt
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 7,536 reviews2024
Dev: Vaulted Sky GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The chaotic multiplayer hide-and-seek game. Possess seemingly harmless objects as Ghosts or chase them down as Hunters before the clock strikes midnight!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Poltergeist Watcher
73% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: DuckGod
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you survive the night watching the haunted house?
Why similar: Casual 75.1%, Indie 24.9%
- #36 One Night Two Crazies
76% matchVery Positive81% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: chris_antoni
Windows
Enjoy a simple, fun, and occasionally frightening simulation. Fun for all ages provided you can handle the scares. No gore, no violence. Just girlish yells followed immediately by nervous laughter.
Why similar: Strategy 70.1%, Indie 29.9%
- #37 Gloom: Digital Edition
77% matchMostly Negative35% of 186 reviews2018
Dev: Sky Ship Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
The game of inauspicious incidents and grave consequences. In this award winning card game, make your family as miserable as possible while making your rival's family as happy as you can! Push your family members down the stairs, make them be stabbed or eaten by bears before the grand finale: spoiler alert, everybody dies!
Why similar: Strategy 52.4%, Casual 27.7%, Indie 20%
- #38 Deadly Contact
75% matchVery Positive84% of 56 reviews2017
Dev: kbukusog
Windows
A wave-based zombie survival game
Why similar: Casual 58%, Indie 42%
- #39 Banshee
71% matchMixed53% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: ChronoX
Windows
The game is about escaping from a house where “Banshee”, a frightening looking fairy, wanders around, exploring the surroundings and using the items found to escape.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Phobies
71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,456 reviews2022
Dev: Phobies Holdings Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Phobies is a tactical card collecting strategy game where players battle one another in the surreal realm of the subconscious, where fears manifest. Use devious tactics and unleash a dazzling array of attacks and abilities to achieve victory!
Why similar: Strategy 80.1%, Indie 19.9%
- #41 異ノ故リ-Isolated Hours-
69% matchVery Positive90% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Byking RooKIESPub: Byking Inc.
Windows
A 3D horror game where your only goal is to finish your work… and survive the night. Unnatural anomalies creep into the office as you complete your tasks. Can you make it to the end of your shift alive.
- #42 Polterguys: Possession Party
69% matchVery Positive95% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Madorium LtdPub: Amplified Games
Windows · Linux
Supernatural multiplayer madness where 8 players use sneaky sabotage to get opponents caught by a raging monster! Play as mischievous ghosts who possess everyday objects to gain special powers and show off! Battle in spooky maps full of traps and use wacky powerups to sacrifice your friends!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #43 Boogeyman
73% matchVery Positive80% of 668 reviews2015
Dev: Clockwork Wolf
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Live your childhood nightmare and try to survive against the Boogeyman. Equipped with only your flashlight, survive each night until the morning light.
Why similar: Strategy 66.1%, Indie 33.9%
- #44 Depths of Madness
73% matchMixed43% of 56 reviews2019
Dev: Slap KrakenPub: SAU Game Lab
Windows
An atmospheric underwater horror game, can you evade and survive?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Escape from Hornhead
69% matchVery Positive97% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Escape from Horn head is 3D horror game. You need to find the keys and potions before he catches up with you. Explore the rooms, look for objects and avoid the pursuer. Try to find the best way, remember the movement of the Horned-headed demon chasing its victim, that is, you.
Why similar: Casual 63.4%, Indie 36.6%
- #46 Ghost Master®
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,942 reviews2006
Dev: Sick PuppiesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Grim spectres, howling banshees, and sly gremlins are yours to command as you unleash ghastly spirits on the town of Gravenville and scare the wits out of its citizens. In the world of the Ghost Master, spooks do your bidding, as you solve puzzles and unlock mysteries in a challenge that combines the best of strategy, adventure, and...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Forbidden Terror: Board Game
65% matchVery Positive92% of 171 reviews2025
Dev: Elite Lords Studios
Windows
A psychological horror game where you take the role of Jonah, an 18 year old trying out a new board game, The Ouija Board, with his friend Emily. Little did they know, it was far from a simple board game.
Why similar: Casual 68.2%, Indie 31.8%
- #48 Hide and Seek
72% matchMostly Negative40% of 382 reviews2017
Dev: Llama Software
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Hide and Seek follows the traditional 1 Seeker vs many Hiders model of hide and seek that everyone is familiar with. Seeker counts, Hiders hide, Seeker seeks, Hiders come back to base! Hide and Seek was developed by a single developer!
Why similar: Casual 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #49 Jack Is Missing
71% matchMixed47% of 167 reviews2018
Dev: Kevin Yang GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Jack Is Missing is a prototype for one room based horror game.
Why similar: Strategy 45.1%, Casual 31.4%, Indie 23.4%
- #50 The Dweller
68% matchVery Positive94% of 754 reviews2016
Dev: Villainous GamesPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The Dweller is a puzzle game where you play as the MONSTER! It's time to get rid of all those pesky archaeologists snooping around in your lair. SCARE them, CRUSH them, DEVOUR them! ELIMINATE THE INTRUDERS!
Why similar: Strategy 44.7%, Casual 30.9%, Indie 24.4%
- #51 SCARY MAGIC ZOMBIE
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: OP37K
Windows
EVIL SCIENTISTS have created a SCARY MAGIC ZOMBIE! Play as a top secret spy, who enters the zombie facility, and collects information about the zombie. But be cautious! The zombie is very dangerous!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 The End o,,,o
70% matchMixed63% of 273 reviews2017
Dev: xrrawva
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Face the grim reaper at 3 frames per second.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Greetings
68% matchVery Positive84% of 641 reviews2018
Dev: Charlie Behan
Windows
Explore what is around every corner in hopes for answers to where you're going and why.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 Warren The Warlock
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: David Owens
Windows
Get ready to venture out as Warren, the ominous-looking warlock. Hurl your magic orb, invert gravity for yourself, and phase shift through walls. Fight your way to the leader of the invading horde in hopes of liberating your realm.
Why similar: Casual 58%, Indie 42%
- #55 Devilry
70% matchMixed68% of 66 reviews2015
Dev: New State
Windows
Survive the night in your rural home as a sinister apparition wreaks havoc in the stately manor. Protect your family from the ghost using a variety of tools and weapons found around the estate.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Insanity Clicker
67% matchMixed67% of 3,043 reviews2016
Dev: PlayFlock
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 121.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Been looking for the thrill? Then you've come to the right place! Insanity Clicker is a time-killer game full of horror and fear that will make you tremble in a couple of minutes!
Why similar: Strategy 44.1%, Casual 34.2%, Indie 21.7%
- #57 Countless Army
64% matchMostly Positive75% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: Dos Estrellas
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the villain and raise an army of undead in this real-time reverse tower defense strategy game. Send waves of monsters to battle and aid them with your evil magic until they break your enemies’ defenses. It’s time for you to rule over the continent with an iron fist as its Dark Lord!
Why similar: Strategy 56.8%, Casual 25.5%, Indie 17.7%
- #58 KEEP LOOKING
63% matchVery Positive92% of 160 reviews2024
Dev: Solshade Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is a nerve-wracking horror game that puts you in a dark, claustrophobic cave with a relentless creature. Survive by flashing your dying flashlight at the right moments, too soon or too late, and it’s over. You must keep an eye on the creature, but beware: staring too long is just as deadly.
Why similar: Casual 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
