Games Like Grunn

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Mystery 16.3%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Grunn, this game pairs a relaxing, task-oriented simulation loop with a dark, unfolding mystery that requires careful investigation.

Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.

Why similar: Horror 19.2%, Mystery 16.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, First-Person 9.5%, Exploration 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its unique hand-drawn aesthetic and focus on atmospheric exploration in a secluded setting provide a similar sense of dread and discovery.

Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.

Why similar: Horror 36.8%, First-Person 18.2%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Atmospheric 13%, 3D 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at turning a mundane service-industry job into a high-stakes horror experience through environmental storytelling.

Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

Why similar: Horror 40.7%, Mystery 18.2%, First-Person 7.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of performing a mundane, repetitive job while being surrounded by an increasingly terrifying and mysterious atmosphere.

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

Why similar: Mystery 22.2%, Horror 19%, Exploration 16.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines a peaceful fishing simulation with eldritch horror and exploration, mirroring the unsettling contrast found in Grunn.

Discover your sinister purpose in this horror farming game. Your idyllic farm life can't be trusted. Keep up with the façade as you give your crops to the gods. Explore the ominous island and question everything. You must fake your blissful farming days. Your life depends on it.

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.4%, Horror 16.1%, Mystery 14.6%, Exploration 7.6%, Psychological Horror 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends a cozy farming simulation with dark, story-rich horror elements that reward players for exploring the island's secrets.

You were on the brink of becoming homeless, but that's when you found a sewer job application, you got accepted. What seemed like a chill work at first turned quickly in to an unsettling experience.

Why similar: Horror 16.4%, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of a simple, dirty maintenance task that spirals into a dark and atmospheric horror experience.

Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.

Why similar: Horror 42.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, First-Person 11.4%, Exploration 6.3%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the tension of being alone in a domestic space, emphasizing the vulnerability of the player during everyday activities.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Exploration 14.9%, First-Person 13.7%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The core loop of maintaining and upgrading your vehicle while exploring a mysterious, anomalous environment mirrors the maintenance-focused gameplay of Grunn.

Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.

Why similar: Horror 15.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Mystery 11.5%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation-horror hybrid forces players to balance their work duties with the need to explore and survive in a hostile environment.

A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.

Why similar: Horror 21.8%, Simulation 18.1%, Action-Adventure 15%, Exploration 13.8%, Dark 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title perfectly encapsulates the horror of a mundane, late-night shift where the environment slowly turns against the player.

Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation. Tackle the chaos, uncover dark secrets, and finish everything before dawn.

Why similar: Horror 31%, Mystery 17.8%, Simulation 17.1%, First-Person 15.3%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the eerie nature of performing maintenance in an empty, potentially haunted house, much like the premise of Grunn.

You're an ordinary factory worker, whiling away your dreary life in a nondescript small town. You had a stable job, your own apartment, mortgaged at just 89% interest, and everything was going well, until one gloomy evening, an uninvited guest knocked on your door...

Why similar: Horror 21.5%, Choices Matter 18%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends simulation and horror, forcing the player to navigate a stressful, bureaucratic environment with dire consequences.

A psychological horror game where you enter the Greenhouse at your own risk to uncover the truth behind the friendly façade. Change the environment and weather to progress, hoping to get out. Switch off the entities to enjoy eerie serenity.

Why similar: Horror 27.4%, Mystery 21.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Exploration 12.6%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric exploration game emphasizes the quiet, unsettling nature of working within a confined, plant-filled space.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Horror 22%, Multiple Endings 20.3%, Choices Matter 16%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Exploration 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This mystery game features complex investigation mechanics and multiple endings that rely on player choices and observation.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Psychological Horror 13%, Mystery 10.7%, Atmospheric 10.3%, First-Person 10%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a claustrophobic, first-person experience where the player must manage a vehicle while uncovering a terrifying mystery in isolation.

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, First-Person 9.7%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes immersive-sim elements and choices to drive a psychological horror narrative within a secluded, industrial setting.

The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.

Why similar: Horror 40.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Mystery 10.6%, Simulation 7.6%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential mundane-job horror game that uses atmosphere and environmental cues to build tension in a familiar setting.

Night Security | 夜間警備 is a Japanese psychological horror game about night security.

Why similar: Horror 25.1%, Mystery 19.2%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, First-Person 11.2%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the isolation of a night shift job, forcing the player to investigate strange occurrences in a quiet environment.

The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.

Why similar: Farming Sim 44.1%, Horror 20%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Exploration 9.4%, Dark 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game integrates farming and management mechanics with horror elements, creating a unique, albeit stressful, simulation experience.

Alibaba, the caretaker of the Medieval Grow your Business Game notices a Glitch or Virus of some sort called Snafu has infiltrated the game files. NPCs begin to act strangely, textures look off, and I think - I think something is trying to hunt me down?

Why similar: Horror 20.8%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Exploration 8.5%, Dark 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a dark, adventure-heavy experience that relies on psychological horror and exploration to tell its story.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Horror 29.1%, Adventure 22.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Indie 11.4%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It puts the player in the role of an AI managing a space station, blending simulation-like tasks with a deep, unfolding mystery.

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: Investigation 20.1%, Mystery 17.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines atmospheric exploration with immersive-sim mechanics, centering on the mystery of an workplace gone wrong.

Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

Why similar: Mystery 18.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Cinematic 11.1%, Exploration 10.2%, Dark 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the exploration of a domestic space, using psychological horror to build a sense of unease and mystery.

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: Horror 34.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Adventure 10.4%, Cinematic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This dialogue-heavy adventure game focuses on uncovering secrets through investigation and careful observation of the environment.

You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.

Why similar: Investigation 17.8%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Horror 15.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Exploration 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features multiple endings and hidden-object mechanics that reward players for investigating their surroundings in a surreal environment.

Brian Lewis buys an old house, hoping for a quiet and orderly life. But on the very first night, the house begins to behave strangely... What starts as a harmless incident slowly turns into something far more terrifying... What if someone else is inside?

Why similar: Horror 20.5%, Investigation 15.2%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a walking-simulator structure to explore a psychological horror narrative within a domestic setting.

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: Horror 22.4%, Mystery 20%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a retro-inspired mystery experience that emphasizes exploration and atmospheric storytelling.

A slow-burn folk farming horror. You bought an isolated farm to start a new life. Your peaceful routine is shattered when the former owner's terrible secrets rise from beneath the ground.

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.2%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Horror 15.4%, Mystery 9.9%, First-Person 6.8%

A juicy first-person incremental game about growing berries and tossing them down an ominous hole. Earn money and upgrades. Make new friends with sentient berry pals. Grow and control the hole as you unearth why nobody leaves this accursed garden. Bury it all, Berry everything.

Why similar: Farming Sim 37.3%, First-Person 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, 3D 8.9%, Horror 7.1%

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, First-Person 12%, Psychological Horror 12%, Exploration 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person horror game focuses on exploration and the slow discovery of a mystery within a confined, isolated location.

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Horror 17.5%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Mystery 11.7%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

A short, single-sitting VHS-style psychological horror game. Work the night shift at a remote gas station, return home to uncover disturbing clues, and reach one of three endings.

Why similar: Investigation 16.1%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Mystery 12.6%, Horror 11%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Why similar: Horror 32.7%, Simulation 15%, Dark 11.6%, Atmospheric 10%, Adventure 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This adventure-horror title uses a unique visual style to guide players through a mysterious, simulation-like journey.

A psychological first-person horror about a house that hides a disturbing truth beneath its walls. Explore, uncover fragments of the past, and decide whether to confront what lies below… or leave it buried forever.

Why similar: Horror 17.2%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Mystery 13.6%, Psychological Horror 9%, First-Person 8.6%

Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?

Why similar: Horror 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Mystery 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%, First-Person 7%

You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 17.3%, Horror 15.7%, Choices Matter 14%, First-Person 8.1%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?

Why similar: Multiple Endings 20%, Mystery 18.1%, Horror 17.5%, Exploration 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

You're hired to dig up graves at a local church, looting valuables while demonic activity escalates. You must find and return all the burnt bones to stop the demonic activity. Each night you will dig for valuables to find bones, fend off growing corruption, and survive to solve the mystery.

Why similar: Horror 21.9%, Mystery 19.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, First-Person 11.3%, Exploration 8.4%

Steve Jackson, a 19-year-old guy, is looking after a friends house and encounters eerie events in a small town. Dive into the dark mystery of the events you unwittingly became a part of. Will you be able to uncover the truth?

Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Investigation 20.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Story Rich 6.1%

<3 Bond with your Family, but there's something wrong going on in this house........

Why similar: Horror 24%, Mystery 22.4%, Simulation 18.9%, Multiple Endings 17%, Psychological Horror 9.8%

A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Why similar: Mystery 16.5%, Horror 16.4%, Choices Matter 14.5%, First-Person 8.2%, Exploration 8.2%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 20%, Horror 18%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Mystery 13.5%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 16.5%, Horror 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.9%, First-Person 8.1%, Exploration 7.8%

Unravel the mystery of The Stoevi Curse, a first-person survival horror game set in rural post-Communist Bulgaria. Protect your farm, save your family.

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.9%, Horror 15%, Mystery 8.7%, First-Person 8.3%, Psychological Horror 7%

Unmourned is a first-person psychological horror game where Jason moves into a new house only to be haunted by escalating paranormal events. Driven by fear, he must uncover the truth behind the previous owners' disappearance. Can he solve the mystery before it's too late?

Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Mystery 18.4%, Psychological Horror 12%, Exploration 11.3%, Action-Adventure 10.6%

Holly Gardner, a 19 year old on an interstate drive experiences unusual happenings that leads to an unplanned stay at a motel, little did she know what was transpiring down in Norwood Valley.

Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Investigation 10.8%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Exploration 9.2%

Pilot the MOLE, a monstrous post-war drilling machine built to descend deep below the Slavic soil. Fix failing systems, follow voices of the dead, and pray you can survive whatever is sharing your coffin. Will the vessel or your mind break first?

Why similar: Horror 24.1%, Simulation 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, First-Person 10%, Exploration 9.1%

You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...

Why similar: Horror 24.2%, Mystery 18.1%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Cinematic 10.2%, Atmospheric 8.7%

You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...

Why similar: Horror 26.9%, Mystery 18%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Dark 9%

Noah Baker, an 18 year old highschooler experiences unsettling occurrences while house-sitting for a media personality, little did he know what was about to unfold that night.

Why similar: Horror 28.8%, Mystery 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Exploration 9.8%

Survive 5 nights in the heart of northeastern Argentina as a local farmer and reveal the truth behind the haunting tales of the Pombero in a world where folklore meets terror.

Why similar: Horror 18.3%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Mystery 13.8%, First-Person 8.6%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

A claustrophobic first-person horror game about crawling through a dark, winding cave system in search of three missing divers.

Why similar: Horror 23.1%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Investigation 13%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Exploration 9.2%

Enjoy quiet, countryside living in a Japanese village in this brand new farming sim! Just make sure you follow the rules—or else!

Why similar: Farming Sim 46.9%, Horror 22%, Simulation 14.1%, Adventure 8.7%, Exploration 7.7%

In Newspaper Day, you take on the role of a newspaper delivery person in a seemingly quiet neighborhood. Every morning, you carry out your job, delivering the day's news to your neighbors' doors. However, you soon realize that things are not what they seem.

Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 9.7%

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: Horror 28%, Psychological Horror 18%, Exploration 14.2%, Atmospheric 11.7%, First-Person 10.3%

You wake up in a strange cabin deep in a mysterious forest, axe in hand, with only one way forward—through. Chop trees, sell logs, purchase and upgrade gear, and uncover the secrets hidden deep in the forest.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 27.3%, First-Person 15.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Adventure 9.5%

You’re the sole employee at the Kharnym Isle post office, stamping, sorting, and delivering mail. But the job hides secrets, and the office itself holds mysteries you must uncover. This will be the only job you’ll ever need to work… unless you can escape.

Why similar: Mystery 22%, Horror 20.5%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Dark 7.7%, Simulation 7.7%

Grandma never showed up and Grandpa's tragic passing 3 days later left me in anger, confusion and sadness. I couldn't just let this go like it never happened, so I decided to go and find out what happened on my own. Will you survive a first-person psychological horror game and uncover the mystery?

Why similar: Horror 19.7%, Mystery 15.9%, Investigation 15.8%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Atmospheric 7.2%

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Adventure 17.1%, Atmospheric 13%, First-Person 13%, Psychological Horror 9.7%