- #1 Cryptic Tales - Crossroads
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Innervation Bros
Windows
Jon’s dreams were filled with music and a love life he once had. Now they’ve curdled into nightmares, weaving between memories and unknown realms. Set in the '90s, this immersive first-person psychological walking simulator follows Jon as he realizes… something is stalking him.
Why similar: Narrative 25.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Conspiracy 15.2% ★, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Horror 8.6%
- #2 Dagger Woods VR
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paracosm Studio
Windows
Relive a traumatizing true story in a psychological thriller escape room. As a mother looking for her missing children, you must escape her endless misery in the snow-covered Dagger Woods. Explore the unsolved case of Mary-Ellen MacDonald and the fires of Nova Scotia in 1922. Who is truly to blame?!
Why similar: Narrative 31.2% ★, Conspiracy 15.3% ★, Psychedelic 13.8%, America 13.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.8%
- #3 They Can Hear Us
96% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: VS Entertaiment
Windows
"They Can Hear Us," the first episode, narrates horror stories that interact with you through the microphone, playing on the fear of whoever is listening.
Why similar: Narrative 42.3% ★, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Psychedelic 15.2%, Horror 9%, Psychological Horror 9%
- #4 The Dream Machine - The Definitive Edition
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cockroach Inc.Pub: The Sleeping Machine
Windows · Mac · Linux
An award-winning point & click adventure about exploring other people’s dreams. Uncover dark secrets in a strange apartment building and wander through a surreal, hand-crafted dreamscape built from clay, cardboard & broccoli.
Why similar: Narrative 28.2% ★, Psychedelic 19.1%, Cinematic 17.7%, Point & Click 15.7%, Horror 5.9%
- #5 Sayonara Okaasan
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Slimomo
Windows · Mac
Sayonara Okaasan is an interactive abstract poem about saying goodbye to a mother and exploring life and death.
Why similar: Narrative 44.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Point & Click 18.7%, Psychedelic 12.9%, Atmospheric 1.8%
- #6 DREADCORE : Locked Unit
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladislav LukyantsevPub: MonkeyFactory Media
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, puzzle-solving, and environmental storytelling. Discover the tragic story of Unit 199, where a fragmented consciousness still haunts the place.
Why similar: Narrative 19% ★, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Cinematic 13.3%, Psychedelic 13%
- #7 BlueSuburbia
93% matchPositive79% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: alienmelon
Windows
BlueSuburbia is a haunted world where you explore poems through immersive environments. Seek out dark secrets, confront your demons, and delve deeper into a dream that dances between beautiful and terrible. Explore forgotten dreamscapes and open worlds on your quest to find hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Cinematic 16.1%, Point & Click 15.6%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Psychedelic 15.4%
- #8 Gion Corridor
92% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Burg Game StudioPub: burg
Windows
Set against the backdrop of a Japanese-style townscape reminiscent of Gion, this exploration-based horror game involves searching for “anomalies” and offering prayers. A work dedicated to those who feel bored with their daily lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Psychedelic 18.6%, Cinematic 14.1%, Adventure 8%
- #9 Choose Your Own Alternative
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: F(r)ictions Ludiques
Windows
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Narrative 24.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Point & Click 13%, CRPG 9.7%
- #10 The Outer Frame
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sapucai Games
Windows
Choose how to cover up a messy event before the truth reaches the masses and pandemonium ensues! Whatever happens to witnesses and evidence is up to you in this manage-your-own-adventure mystery.
Why similar: Narrative 31% ★, Conspiracy 21.7% ★, Point & Click 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #11 CH13: Rest Stop
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yellow Smile
Windows
Rest Stop is a short narrative-driven psychological horror game set in early 2000s Poland. What begins as a calm drive through the woods turns into something you weren’t prepared for.
Why similar: Narrative 38.9% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Cinematic 14%, Horror 10%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #12 Taguan
89% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Murushii Studios
Windows
David Lagani is an ordinary Filipino worker whose quiet life turns to dread when a mysterious figure begins breaking into homes and making people disappear. Each night feels longer, every sound closer, and all he can do is pray the footsteps don’t reach his door.
Why similar: Narrative 42.2% ★, Cinematic 13%, Walking Simulator 12%, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #13 Broad Daylight
88% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Vagus Truman
Windows
The day awaits. Whether it ends with you going to visit family, taking a breath in the park, or hiding inside your apartment, it all can be taken away without you having a say in the matter. Regardless of all the chances that life might provide, one truth persists: carpe diem.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, CRPG 15.7%, RPG 11.6%
- #14 Heaven's Vault
89% matchVery Positive84% of 2,386 reviews2019
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Why similar: Narrative 43.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Point & Click 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Adventure 4.4%
- #15 Limerence
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Salix Games Ltd
Windows
LIMERENCE is an immersive, branching narrative game that explores the concepts of love - What is it, where does it come from, and most importantly, can you experience it with an AI? Are you ready to meet your perfect LiAIson?
Why similar: Narrative 35.8% ★, Conspiracy 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Point & Click 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
- #16 BANNED TAPES
86% matchPositive94% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: NickNickolas
Windows
VHS found footage horror experience. You have purchased a box of VHS tapes and now you have to select those tapes on which horrifying, violent, shocking events take place.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.6%, Point & Click 16%, Psychedelic 14.4%, Cinematic 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%
- #17 Little JttW: The Birth
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: T·HELL
Windows
This game series tells the stories from the ancient Chinese book Journey to the West. This is the first part of the first chapter of the stories. Suitable for juveniles.
Why similar: Narrative 62.5% ★, Walking Simulator 20.3%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 4.5%
- #18 The Shade
84% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Nonsense Games
Windows
A first-person psychological horror set in rural Finland, where isolation and unsettling encounters slowly turn your housekeeping job into something far more disturbing.
Why similar: Narrative 34% ★, Cinematic 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Walking Simulator 10.3%, Horror 9%
- #19 MINDFALL
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TrueGames
Windows
"MINDFALL" is a tense first-person psychological horror game that explores the depths of the human mind and its struggle with the unknown.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Cinematic 19.1%, Psychedelic 18.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Simulation 9.5%
- #20 Star Trek: Resurgence
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: Dramatic LabsPub: Bruner House
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?
Why similar: Narrative 24.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Point & Click 16.4%, Cinematic 14.5%
- #21 Imaginary Friend Asylum
83% matchVery Positive100% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Emporium
Windows
A psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. Here, you will uncover a dark conspiracy where you are to receive a terrible fate.
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.3% ★, Cinematic 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Walking Simulator 6.2%, Horror 6%
- #22 Letters of Bernard Thorne
82% matchVery Positive98% of 177 reviews2025
Dev: Korean Linguistics Lab
Windows
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Narrative 47.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 9.9%, Adventure 4.7%
- #23 Farewell, Lucia
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CirilXD
Windows · Linux
[Data Expunged], Eastern Bloc, September ██th, 19██A narrative discovery walking game. Slow paced and might get scary at times. (Cozy horror, if you will...) Walk through a soviet hotel. Knock at every door. Hold staring contests with paintings. But don't ever look into a mirror for too long...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.5%, Narrative 22.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 9.1%
- #24 Blind Memory
80% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: OliveRoots StudioPub: OliveRoots Publisher
Windows
Dive into a haunting mystery where you wake up half-blind and amnesiac, trapped in a time-looping nightmare. Uncover the truth through shifting 3D and 2D perspectives, where every revelation twists reality further.
Why similar: Narrative 40.8% ★, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Cinematic 16.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Adventure 4.8%
- #25 Monari Station
79% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monar Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Point & Click 14.2%, Cinematic 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
- #26 Forgotten Fields
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Frostwood InteractivePub: Dino Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.
Why similar: Narrative 40.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Cinematic 16.8%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Adventure 3.8%
- #27 OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
79% matchVery Positive88% of 2,044 reviews2023
Dev: Night School StudioPub: Netflix
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
Why similar: Narrative 28.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, Point & Click 12.3%
- #28 Tribute
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Titanzzz
Windows
A narrative-driven exploration game where your choices shape the outcome as you traverse an ancient temple and confront the fate of an Old God's eternal slumber.
Why similar: Narrative 31.2% ★, Cinematic 22.4%, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, Walking Simulator 8.6%, Horror 7.3%
- #29 Qabara The Artist
81% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: Yoss IIIPub: KONOL Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An RPG adventure about the world's most anxious 9-year-old painter.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Psychedelic 17.1%, RPG 10.8%
- #30 Odiumfloreo
77% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: ApeHardware
Windows · Linux
A body horror, physics-based sit-n-survive. Prevent abstract threats from twisting your body. Endure nightmares and a reality gone mad. Dive into the kanvas.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Point & Click 19.6%, Psychedelic 18%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Simulation 8%
- #31 Fragments of Dread - Late Lines FM
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Domnaier
Windows
Late Lines FM is a first-person, story-driven psychological horror experience. Your night shift at 107.9 FM turns into a nightmare with the forbidden 99.9 frequency. When the cursed song plays, you should cover your ears but to find the radio, you must listen.
Why similar: Narrative 34.9% ★, Psychedelic 21%, Cinematic 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Horror 9%
- #32 8/8/88 Needle AL
77% matchVery Positive82% of 185 reviews2023
Dev: Moolion
Windows · Mac
On the ominous date of 8/8/1888, the entire population of Needle, Alabama seemingly vanished, leaving behind only a haunting silence and an eerie sense of dread. A first-person psychological-horror drama.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.1%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, America 17.3% ★, Cinematic 15.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #33 Project NexOS
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Centricode Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern-day narrative mystery where you explore a seemingly ordinary laptop to uncover hidden layers of conspiracy, surveillance, and stolen data, blending investigative gameplay with branching choices and a grounded tech-thriller tone.
Why similar: Narrative 36.9% ★, Conspiracy 22.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #34 ghostpia Season One
75% matchVery Positive94% of 923 reviews2023
Dev: ChosuidoPub: room6
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.
Why similar: Cinematic 16%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Point & Click 13.6%, Walking Simulator 12%
- #35 Centum
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 182 reviews2025
Dev: Hack The PublisherPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18.8%, Point & Click 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, RPG 8.3%
- #36 KaRu
76% matchPositive81% of 36 reviews2022
Dev: Mirror Studio
Windows · Linux
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Point & Click 20.4%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Horror 7.4%
- #37 San Fernando
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Makiling InterArts
Windows
Your assignment: a distant island town named San Fernando. As an anthropologist, you’re tasked to gather notes about the town’s culture, and to find out if there is more to this community than meets the eye. How much of this town’s secrets will you discover?
Why similar: Narrative 25% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Point & Click 9.1%
- #38 The Honours Project
73% matchPositive96% of 48 reviews2025
Dev: Scott CambellPub: ScottCambellAudio
Windows
The Honours Project is an autobiographical walking simulator. Enjoy a narrative experience, adventuring through dream-like levels, solving an occasional puzzle and listening to the dark and sometimes comical dialogue that acts as a commentary about being a student and game development.
Why similar: Narrative 48.1% ★, Walking Simulator 22.1%, Cinematic 17.3%, Simulation 4.9%, Adventure 4.6%
- #39 Upheaval
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Leone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 35.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Point & Click 12.3%, RPG 8.5%
- #40 The Empty House - A Dementia Interactive Experience
72% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Dimitri Kozma
Windows
A surreal interactive experience exploring dementia through FMV storytelling. Navigate a fading mind, make choices that shape reality, and uncover multiple endings in this emotional and psychological descent into memory loss.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Psychedelic 17.8%, Cinematic 17%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%
- #41 Queen of Moths
73% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Tesseract Games
Windows
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Point & Click 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological Horror 8%
- #42 Glitch
71% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbo Games
Windows
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Point & Click 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Psychedelic 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Horror 10.9%
- #43 Snooze: A Choice
71% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Meat
Windows
Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Feed the demon? Go to work. Daily life might be getting to you, but your medication is taking care of that, right? Or maybe it's making things worse. Rise and grind or choose to snooze?
Why similar: Narrative 47.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10.5%, Adventure 4.2%
- #44 Layers of Fear
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,582 reviews2023
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.
Why similar: Narrative 27.3% ★, Psychedelic 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #45 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
75% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Narrative 16.3% ★, Point & Click 15.7%, CRPG 10.7%
- #46 追曙
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 悄语灯
Windows
Officer Yang Fan receives a distorted radio distress call during his shift.The signal traces back to an abandoned apartment building—one linked to the records of a young girl's suicide years prior. As his investigation unfolds, he uncovers a dark secret buried so deep,no one dares speak of it.
Why similar: Narrative 42% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 11.4%, Horror 8.6%, Psychological Horror 8%
- #47 The Source
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dr. Puzzler
Windows · Mac
The Source is a unique modern take on the Text Adventure genre. An outsider to a foreign world, you must choose a kingdom to help gain an ancient power locked deep beneath a mysterious Well. Explore each kingdom, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery surrounding this shattered world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Point & Click 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Cinematic 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%
- #48 nothing_matters
70% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Ka Hin Yuen
Windows
A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.
Why similar: Narrative 35.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 15.4%, Cinematic 13.8%, Psychological Horror 6.6%
- #49 Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wil Alvarez
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this narrative-driven, sci-fi point and click adventure, unravel the secrets of a stolen spaceship and your enigmatic crew. A new future away from corporate tyranny awaits. As captain, your choices matter and forging your crew's connections, even more so. Flying free has a cost. Will you pay it?
Why similar: Narrative 43.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Point & Click 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Atmospheric 4.1%
- #50 Tails Noir
71% matchMixed67% of 3,357 reviews2021
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Why similar: Narrative 29.2% ★, Conspiracy 21.7% ★, Cinematic 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 12.8%
- #51 Viridian
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pneuma Games LLC
Windows
A journalist is trapped in a terrifying technological box of illusions where he is on a journey to discover the truth behind his family's darkest secrets.
Why similar: Conspiracy 29.4% ★, Point & Click 14.7%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
- #52 Before They Catch Us
67% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 37% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 15.4%, Horror 6.7%
- #53 Coincidences?
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FogTime
Windows
After a sudden rent hike, you move into a suspiciously cheap house deep in the woods. The price is absurdly low and there’s work nearby—it seems like a stroke of luck. But you soon realize something is seriously wrong with the place...
Why similar: Narrative 32.7% ★, Cinematic 18.5%, Horror 12.6%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
- #54 Death and Taxes
69% matchVery Positive86% of 8,138 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Narrative 34.6% ★, Point & Click 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Simulation 5.1%
- #55 Afterparty
69% matchMixed68% of 949 reviews2020
Dev: Night School Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
Why similar: Narrative 37.4% ★, Psychedelic 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Point & Click 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
- #56 Silent Wounds - The Doll
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lexip Games
Windows
Silent Wounds is an episodic psychological horror anthology. Each episode offers a compact and intense narrative experience. In this first episode, a man returns home and trades reality for the dangerous, silent obsession with a perfect doll.
Why similar: Narrative 34.6% ★, Walking Simulator 20.7%, Cinematic 13.8%, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
- #57 The Sleeping Sickness
67% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Paper Scrap LLC
Windows
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Narrative 39.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Cinematic 12.9%, Horror 8.6%
- #58 NoSleep: Nightmare Chronicles
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tupelo Labs
Windows
Embark on a an unforgettable narrative journey with NoSleep: Nightmare Chronicles, a chilling collection of interactive horror stories from the r/NoSleep subreddit. Explore immersive environments, face grotesque encounters, and fight to survive in this gripping anthology of terror.
Why similar: Cinematic 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological Horror 9%
- #59 Scarlet Manor: The Heir
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Astral Game Studio
Windows
Unravel the mystery of the Scarlet Manor! Embark on a 2D point and click horror journey, solving complex puzzles and uncovering the secrets hidden behind the walls of the mansion. The Manor awaits you.
Why similar: Narrative 27.6% ★, Point & Click 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 17.5%, Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #60 Alice Through the Fey Realm
65% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Mirrored CookiesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Alice Through the Fey Realm is an enchanting isometric narrative adventure that puts you into the shoes of Alice. A compelling adventure unfolds as you awaken in the mysterious Fey Realm and embark on a quest to discover the key to your journey home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Point & Click 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, CRPG 14.5%, RPG 11.3%