
Go Home 1986 is a retro first-person maze game focused on navigation, time pressure, and atmosphere. Navigate abstract labyrinths, manage limited tools, and reach the exit before time runs out.
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Go Home 1986 is a retro first-person maze game focused on navigation, time pressure, and atmosphere. Navigate abstract labyrinths, manage limited tools, and reach the exit before time runs out.

終末生徒 The Last Student:Showa Era Radio Room
A Showa-era school, a radio room at night. In a building where you are not alone, you repeat broadcasts. Strange responses return. Records change, unknown logs grow. Reality begins to erode, and the story twists through your choices. Ten endings await.

宿直日誌 Night Duty Log:A Showa School Record
A short psychological horror set in a Japanese school during the Shōwa era. At night in the school, you begin to realize that you are not alone. As you investigate classrooms and hallways, you notice strange occurrences. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple endings.
A Showa-era school, a radio room at night. In a building where you are not alone, you repeat broadcasts. Strange responses return. Records change, unknown logs grow. Reality begins to erode, and the story twists through your choices. Ten endings await.
Why similar: 1980s 40.6%, Psychological 37.5%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Retro 8.4%, Indie 2.3%
A short psychological horror set in a Japanese school during the Shōwa era. At night in the school, you begin to realize that you are not alone. As you investigate classrooms and hallways, you notice strange occurrences. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: 1980s 40.4%, Psychological 38.2%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Retro 8.7%, Indie 1.2%
Midnight Reading is a short horror adventure set in a Showa-era Japanese school. As a library committee member, search for overdue books. Read, return, and make choices as the story branches into three routes and a True Route.
Why similar: 1980s 39.5%, Psychological 38.3%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Retro 8.3%, Indie 2.6%
Bright Lights of Svetlov is a short, story-focused first person quest about a Soviet family facing harsh trials. Set in a fictional provincial town, it carefuly recreates the atmosphere and vibe of mid 1980s.
Why similar: 1980s 47.6%, Exploration 14.8%, Linear 13.4%, Atmospheric 11.6%, First-Person 8.3%
Explore an infinite seeded overworld, cross thresholds into 47 impossible realms, and direct walking machines that salvage objects and bring down megastructures. Recover materials, expand a mobile industrial network, and navigate by memory through the fog.
Why similar: Psychological 40.8%, Futuristic 20.9%, Exploration 12.3%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
As a technician working for a local electrical company, you are tasked to restore power to an old animation studio which used to produce the state-wide cartoon Sunnytime Friends. Use your flashlight, Go through obstacles, And, most importantly, Don't. Get. Caught.
Why similar: 1980s 63.1%, Exploration 20.2%, First-Person 10.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%, Indie 3%
Captain Edelmann has gone crazy and killed everyone except you. Escape the station and catch up with him before he leaves you behind forever on Naxos-4. Explore, solve puzzles, decide the captain's fate, and remember that none of this is real.
Why similar: 1980s 25.1%, Futuristic 23.7%, Psychological 22.2%, Exploration 14.5%, Atmospheric 8.1%
Indie anomaly-detection game set in a bleak Eastern-European stairwell. 11 floors, 40+ anomalies, minimal horror, maximal tension.
Why similar: Psychological 33.2%, 1980s 32.1%, Exploration 13.9%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Linear 5.7%
Nitrogen Narcosis is a thalassophobes deep diving nightmare, set in sinking and sunk abandoned facilities. You and up to 7 other employees wearing the cheapest deep-dive suit money can buy are sent in to recover old materials from these facilities and return it to your captains submarine!
Why similar: 1980s 39%, Psychological 23.4%, Exploration 19.6%, Atmospheric 8.9%, First-Person 8.1%
A short atmospheric horror experience inspired by urban exploration. Explore a cursed abandoned location, gather a few clues, and escape while something stalks you. Playtime: 20–30 minutes. Focus on exploration and atmosphere. Playtime: 20–30 minutes Developed by a solo developer (first project)
Why similar: 1980s 51.3%, Psychological 24.6%, Exploration 14.5%, Linear 4.7%, First-Person 2.7%
A sci-fi escape room with a job simulator twist.
Why similar: Psychological 30.7%, Futuristic 30.2%, Exploration 16.7%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Procedural Generation 6.4%
Beyond The Frame is a first-person linear narrative experience about exploring dreams shaped by childhood anxiety. Journey through eerie, liminal spaces where the familiar becomes distorted by dream logic, and uncover your story through the metaphors within them.
Why similar: Psychological 47.7%, Exploration 17.9%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Linear 9.9%, First-Person 5.9%
Explore derelict ship. find out why there is a missing crew. And be careful of things that could be lurking in the shadows.
Why similar: 1980s 34.6%, Futuristic 24.2%, Exploration 18.4%, Atmospheric 8%, Retro 6.4%
80's horror inspired FPS, a nightmarish scene taking place at an abandoned orphanage.
Why similar: 1980s 38.7%, Psychological 22.5%, Exploration 18.5%, Atmospheric 8.4%, First-Person 7.5%
An unsettling rogue-lite survival horror adventure. Iconic levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.
Why similar: 1980s 30.7%, Psychological 24.8%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Exploration 14.8%, Atmospheric 8.3%
A short horror game about wandering through vaguely familiar memories while something endlessly follows you. It moves when you do, and you need to get out before it catches up.
Why similar: Exploration 26.1%, Psychological 25.1%, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Linear 14.5%, First-Person 9.4%
Tishgorod, 1996. Four friends reunite at a gravesite to face a past they share and a man they lost. Among them, a young woman carries a Blue Book he left behind. Experience firsthand the life of this man and the decisions he made that changed them forever.
Why similar: Psychological 37.2%, 1980s 33.2%, Exploration 15.8%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Indie 1.5%
Awaken aboard a silent orbital research station. Solve environmental puzzles, uncover the crew's fate, and survive the growing influence of ARGUS, the station's ever-watchful AI.
Why similar: Psychological 26.6%, Futuristic 23.2%, Exploration 19.5%, Atmospheric 15%, First-Person 7.7%
Something crawled up the kitchen sink drain. Now it is your responsibility. Make choices that will affect its growth in this short disturbing first-person psychological horror walking simulator.
Why similar: 1980s 35.4%, Psychological 31.4%, Exploration 11.2%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Retro 7.9%
Exit the museum is a game highly inspired by "Exit 8". You are the security guard of a museum and have to go through nine appearingly similar rooms. There is a ~30% chance of nothing beeing wrong in comparison to the first "Showroom".
Why similar: Psychological 49%, Linear 28%, First-Person 16.4%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Indie 2.8%
Will.exe, a game whose character no longer wants to be played. Not anymore.
Why similar: 1980s 42.1%, Psychological 39.1%, Atmospheric 8.6%, First-Person 5.8%, Indie 2.6%
A psychological horror game where you ride an elevator, spot anomalies, and try to escape Apartment 10. Miss something, and you’re sent back to the beginning
Why similar: Psychological 52.8%, Exploration 19.5%, Atmospheric 13.3%, First-Person 10.7%, Indie 1.9%
Your thirst for solitude has taken you to the farthest reaches of the universe. Will your wish be granted?
Why similar: 1980s 52.7%, Futuristic 18.2%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%
Decomposition is a psychological horror and survival game in which you will face a deadly cult, solve challenging puzzles and explore claustrophobic environments as you fight to save your life and stop the Decomposition of the world.
Why similar: 1980s 33.2%, Psychological 32%, Exploration 13.8%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Retro 6.8%
wandering into the uncanny concept of liminality, captured in DV tape format you explore what seems to be another dimension, lost in an endless space that looks human-made but isn't.
Why similar: Psychological 53.3%, Atmospheric 17.2%, First-Person 13.3%, Exploration 13%, Indie 3.2%
90s EGA Point and Click adventure
Why similar: 1980s 48.4%, Psychological 23.1%, Exploration 14%, Atmospheric 8.1%, First-Person 5.3%
YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. An FBI intern leaked special investigation tapes before suddenly disappearing. The first tape of the series contains found footage from O'Brien State Park revealing the true events that were covered up in the 1980s.
Why similar: 1980s 42.6%, Psychological 18.6%, Linear 16.4%, Exploration 7.4%, Atmospheric 7.2%
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 28.6%, Exploration 27.9%, Linear 16%, First-Person 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: 1980s 38.7%, Psychological 29.3%, Exploration 14.8%, Atmospheric 10.5%, First-Person 5.6%
Welcome to a retro-futuristic '80s world of supercars, neon-lit cities, and synthwave beats. Neon Highways is a minimalist casual arcade racer where you cruise through vibrant cityscapes and endless highways, all set to an iconic synthwave soundtrack.
Why similar: 1980s 45.8%, Futuristic 23.8%, Linear 10.6%, Retro 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.8%
A minimalist grid-based survival game where every move costs energy. Collect stones to defeat enemies, gather food to stay alive, and survive as many days as possible.
Why similar: 1980s 71.7%, Exploration 23.4%, Indie 2.7%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Inmersive HORROR sci-fi game. Your exploration module has been damage by a meteor near the Saturn orbit where its an old abandoned spacecraft. Get power back on, explore space and search a replacement for the core of your spaceship
Why similar: 1980s 39.5%, Futuristic 25.4%, Exploration 21.7%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Indie 0.9%
It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Take care of a cat and a house. Monsters jumping towards at your screen.
Why similar: Psychological 46.3%, 1980s 45.9%, First-Person 6.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
A psychological and atmospheric 2D puzzle-platform adventure. Solve puzzles, explore shifting environments, and follow the traces of your own story among forgotten memories.
Why similar: Psychological 55.8%, Exploration 18.5%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Linear 8.5%, Indie 1.7%
Follow Betty as she explores the abandoned ruins of Comical Entertainment in search of answers. Solve puzzles, uncover forgotten secrets, and survive the dangers hidden within a once-beloved entertainment center concealing a dark mystery below. Nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: 1980s 43.5%, Psychological 24.4%, First-Person 10.4%, Retro 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%
An experimental found footage horror game set in 2017.
Why similar: 1980s 27.1%, Psychological 26.8%, Exploration 21.9%, Atmospheric 10.7%, First-Person 9.3%
A timid real estate agent is sent to the abandoned Okugafuchi Shopping District to perform a mysterious ritual for redevelopment. But a wandering female ghost and the town’s cursed past stand in the way. As he uncovers old documents and legends, a buried truth begins to surface.
Why similar: 1980s 63.7%, Exploration 22%, First-Person 7.5%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%
There are many places to go! And there is an eye watching you. Travel around in this adventure game overcoming obstacles such as monsters and puzzles!
Why similar: 1980s 31.1%, Psychological 21.1%, Exploration 17%, Retro 13.9%, Atmospheric 6.9%
A PSX retro horror game made by a sixth grader. Your car runs out of gas on your way to an abandoned carnival now infested with danger at every corner.
Why similar: 1980s 63%, Exploration 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.1%, First-Person 7.2%, Indie 5.5%
First-person psychological sci-fi horror set on an abandoned space station. Left alone, you explore and piece together what happened. Something is moving in the dark, and the closer you get to the truth, the closer it gets to you.
Why similar: Psychological 35.4%, Futuristic 31.3%, Exploration 16.9%, First-Person 7.5%, Linear 7.1%
Hidden Folks in America is a cozy adventure Builder and hidden-object adventure where you build and explore handcrafted lands, discover secrets, and find cleverly hidden items at your own pace in America.
Why similar: Psychological 51.7%, Exploration 29.6%, First-Person 12.9%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Do you like cars? Driving at high speed? Metal World is a racing game of the endless runner genre, where the player drives flying vehicles in a retrofuturistic world! Test your reflexes and show your skills at high speed!
Why similar: 1980s 29%, Futuristic 27.8%, Exploration 11.4%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.5%
Retro-futuristic VR game were you hit energy balls with glowing sabers. Inspired by Beat Saber and Pinball.
Why similar: 1980s 55.7%, Futuristic 31.9%, Retro 8.4%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Experience the psychological horror of being kidnapped by a serial killer. Driven to escape, explore everything around you, use your wits, uncover secrets, and face the unimaginable dread of being in the victim’s place. Inspired by a true story.
Why similar: 1980s 30%, Psychological 28.2%, Exploration 20.1%, Atmospheric 11.8%, First-Person 8.5%
You find yourself lost in a place that shouldn’t exist. Everything feels off — the silence, the looping spaces, the emptiness around you. Instinctively, you begin documenting it all. Liminal State is the beginning of something larger, something unknown — and it all starts here.
Why similar: Psychological 40.5%, 1980s 30.5%, Exploration 11.2%, Atmospheric 7.2%, First-Person 7.1%
Corrupted Minds is a mind bending single player psychological/Cosmic-adjacent horror game where you must travel through the fragments of a broken man's psyche and make it out whole...
Why similar: 1980s 50.5%, Exploration 25.4%, Linear 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!
Why similar: 1980s 36.9%, Futuristic 28.2%, Exploration 14.9%, Retro 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.8%
The year is 2101, in a near future where the line between man and machine is fading. Through counseling, the film unravels the disease of inoperability caused by 21g, which has suddenly increased in some androids. It is a PC-98 respect command-click ADV with FM sound music and 20 color dots.
Why similar: Psychological 33.3%, 1980s 31%, Futuristic 17.7%, Retro 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.5%
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
Why similar: Psychological 46.2%, Exploration 19.5%, Linear 13%, Atmospheric 12.6%, First-Person 6%
Welcome to The Backrooms. The hardest part isn't trying to escape. It's resisting the part of yourself that is starting to prefer it here.
Why similar: Psychological 51.8%, Exploration 21.1%, Atmospheric 17.3%, First-Person 6.9%, Indie 1.8%
A refreshing twist on an old classic, mixing arcade gameplay with the roguelike genre. Test your skill, break bricks, make combos, turns balls aflame and electrify bosses in this frenetic experience!
Why similar: 1980s 52%, Futuristic 18.6%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Retro 12.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
A Sci-Fi First Person Horror Indie Game where you explore an abandoned Space Station //
Why similar: Psychological 28%, Futuristic 23.4%, Exploration 17.9%, Linear 14.3%, Atmospheric 8.8%
Restore the ancient network. Harvest valuable crystals, collect loot, upgrade your ship and explore a mysterious world of floating islands. A handcrafted indie game by a solo developer
Why similar: Exploration 41.8%, Futuristic 34.1%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Indie 8.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Trapped inside a scientific anomaly, solve puzzles with evolving teleportation tech and uncover the fate of the vanished “keepers”. Built alongside our community, props we made for Project Lighthouse are free for other game developers.
Why similar: 1980s 34.1%, Atmospheric 19%, Exploration 18.5%, Linear 13.3%, First-Person 12.8%
Jump and spin the level in this dangerous and rhythmic platformer!
Why similar: 1980s 48.9%, Exploration 24.1%, Linear 15.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Through a strange coincidence, the protagonist 'I' stumbles into the childhood bedroom they once inhabited. It is a world where hazy memories of childhood vividly regain their original form. Will 'I' be able to return to the real world from this labyrinth of memories?
Why similar: 1980s 42%, Exploration 23.8%, Psychological 20.2%, First-Person 10.2%, Indie 2%
A small horror story in the style of old video films, telling about the terrible events that the main character of the game faced, who got a part-time job in a diner.
Why similar: 1980s 36.3%, Psychological 24.8%, Exploration 17.2%, Atmospheric 8.2%, First-Person 7.4%
BLOK is an Orwellian psychological horror game set in post-communist Poland. You play as a political exile who fled during the communist regime. Years later, after the system’s collapse, a strange letter from your mother draws you back home. But something is deeply wrong.
Why similar: 1980s 32.3%, Exploration 21.3%, Psychological 15.2%, Atmospheric 13.6%, First-Person 7.2%
Welcome to CHEYNE escape game series, this is the first work, of course, this is only the first chapter, the follow-up will soon update the second and third chapters, Please look forward to it.
Why similar: Psychological 53.1%, Exploration 22.8%, Linear 13.5%, First-Person 7.3%, Indie 2%