Games Like HERESIS

Matthew Nate, a middle-aged man plagued with mental health problems whose home has become a site of unexplainable paranormal activity and a malevolent female entity is pursuing him to his death.

Why similar: Thriller 16.2%, Mystery 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark 9.5%, Horror 8.7%

The Unrested is a story-driven first-person horror game. A spirit from your past traps you in an abandoned boarding school. A shadow watching your every step will test you with puzzles while forcing you to confront your fears.

Why similar: Thriller 19.1%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Horror 13.8%, Mystery 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.

Why similar: Thriller 18.6%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Mystery 11.6%, Horror 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

Our protagonist Luke finds himself in a hallway with a gun on the floor, not knowing how he got there. He has no idea how and why he ended up here. The writing on the walls tells him to move through the corridors and find anomalies.

Why similar: Thriller 16%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Dark 9.8%, Mystery 9.6%, Horror 9.1%

Sarah is returning home from work, She will face her worst nightmaress, strange things start to happen to her, will she escape alive or declared dead?

Why similar: Thriller 13.4%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Horror 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Dark 9.9%

In this first-person horror game, sanity changes everything and can turn nights into a living nightmare. Survive at Tamixa School whilst carrying out various tasks, keeping your cool and avoiding Julio and his friends.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.4%, Thriller 14.5%, Horror 11.4%, Dark 9.6%, Survival 9.4%

Lightout is a first-person psychological horror game with puzzles, Which takes place in an abandoned apartment.

Why similar: Thriller 16.1%, Horror 11.1%, Mystery 9.7%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Dark 9.3%

Lightout 2 is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an Abandoned hospital.

Why similar: Thriller 17.8%, Horror 11.7%, Dark 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Mystery 9.7%

Dave Wilson, a 20 year old adult who loves to go camping. Little did he know what would happen once he explored the forest of Harmony Hus Lake.

Why similar: Horror 11.5%, Thriller 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10%, Survival 9.4%, Dark 9.3%

The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.

Why similar: Thriller 17.2%, Survival Horror 16%, Horror 13.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12%

You can’t fight what hunts you. Build makeshift hideouts to evade the cursed monsters of Radu Castle. As Dorinela, a survivor returning to face her abuser’s curse, rely on your wits, courage, and determination to stay alive.

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 17.7%, Survival Horror 15%, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, First-Person 7.8%

Monster In The Dark is a single player first-person game, you will plunge into a world of fear and hopelessness when there is no way out and nowhere to run. The player must find a way out of the dense forest when chased by a monster. The player's task: to run and not stop, exploring this world.

Why similar: Thriller 12.7%, 3D Platformer 12.6%, Survival 11%, Dark 9.7%, Mystery 8.9%

Sleepwalk is an indie survival horror game, the story begins with the player waking up in an unknown and dark place, trying to escape and discover hidden secrets with no memory of their arrival.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.4%, Thriller 14%, Survival 14%, Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Trapped in a condemned building, you must escape before the earthquakes and collapses bring a tragic end. Survive the tremors, find essential items, and flee! Each tremor is a new challenge in this fight for survival. Time is running out... Can you escape?

Why similar: Survival Horror 16%, Survival 13.4%, Horror 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Dark 12%

A psychological horror game set in an abandoned hospital. A sound-sensitive creature hunts you. Stay silent, hide, and escape before it hears you.

Why similar: Horror 18.7%, Dark 14.7%, Thriller 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Exploration 11.3%

A first-person psychological survival horror set in an abandoned subway station. Monitor cameras, manage your sanity, and survive the night shift while something moves through the tunnels.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.5%, Horror 14.5%, Thriller 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Dark 9.5%

In this game, you will find yourself in a hostel in the middle of a mysterious forest. You will discover terrifying and mysterious things, from murders to challenging puzzles. Use your skills to uncover the hidden secrets in the hostel. Get ready for an exciting and hair-raising experience!

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.3%, Thriller 14.2%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

Siren Head: Awakening is a first-person horror game based on Trevor Henderson's artwork. You're stuck with your car in the middle of a dark forest with nothing but your flashlight. Seek escape by finding items necessary to survive while a terrifying monster lurks the shadows.

Why similar: Horror 14.7%, Thriller 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Dark 10.2%, Survival 9.4%

You are trapped in a nightmare shaped by your inner darkness. To escape and awaken, you must solve puzzles and confront deep-seated traumas. Explore twisted versions of daily life—convenience stores, trains, stations, hometowns, endless tunnels. Face your fears and reclaim yourself.

Why similar: Thriller 19.8%, Horror 14.1%, Survival Horror 12.2%, 3D Platformer 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

Your car breaks down on a forest road. A tiny cabin with smoke in its chimney offers shelter. The moment you step inside, the door is gone and you find yourself in an endless manor. The only way out is to uncover what the house is hiding.

Why similar: Thriller 20.2%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Mystery 6.6%

Forbidden art is a VR room escape puzzle game where you escape from the killer’s secret hideout. Use all your abilities to escape the dangerous and terrifying hideout created by a psychopathic killer who thinks killing is an art, without being discovered by the killer.

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 19.6%, Thriller 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Mystery 9.7%, Dark 8.9%

A first-person horror adventure that combines environmental exploration, combat, strategic puzzles, and intense encounters in a fog-covered town that refuses to let you escape. Can you find a way out? Estimated playtime: 4–7 hours

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.7%, Horror 15.8%, Thriller 14%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Mystery 10.9%

Uncle Chuck Incorporated is a short animatronic survival horror game. Step into a funplex shrouded in mystery and suspense as you unravel the secrets behind the downfall of the legendary robotics entertainment company, Uncle Chuck Inc.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.9%, Thriller 12.1%, Horror 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

Haunted Memories: The Return is a psychological horror in which you assume the role of yourself. You decide which path you will take and what will happen in Green Park this time. But the question remains - will you ever be able to leave?

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Thriller 14.4%, Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Mystery 10.9%

Uncover the mysteries of Whitehaven Orphanage in this first-person psychological horror game. Explore the place, collect clues and put the pieces together to find out what happened years ago as you delve deep into your mind.

Why similar: Thriller 16.3%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Horror 12.1%, Dark 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

Three friends known as The Ghost Hunters are documenting abandoned locations. What begins as a normal episode suddenly turns into a nightmare inside The Holloway Mansion. Something terrifying happens, leaving Jack to survive alone in the mansion and face the horrors.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.4%, Horror 15.2%, Mystery 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, First-Person 8.9%

Another's Memories is a first-person psychological horror video game located in Argentina. Explore a sinister country house, solve puzzles, and survive ruthless enemies in an immersive experience where every shadow hides a disturbing story.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.7%, Horror 14.8%, Thriller 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Dark 12.1%

In this first-person adventure/horror game, step into a forest where no one ever returns. Explore its haunted paths, uncover dark secrets, and gather the items you’ll need to survive. But beware—the more you discover, the more the forest will learn about you.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.2%, Thriller 15.1%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Dark 9.9%

In this first person psychological horror game your concept of what is real will be questioned over and over again while you venture in this old apparently abandoned apartment. Be careful at every corner and every shadow, things may not be what they seem.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.6%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Dark 10.2%

Survive deadly creatures across tense, level-based challenges. Use unique mechanics, manage limited resources, and don’t get caught.

Why similar: Thriller 18.7%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Survival 9.3%

Step into the enigmatic world of Gummy Nightmares as a little boy who wakes up in a mysterious amusement park with no memory. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover lost memories while evading sinister plushie robots. Use weapons, set traps, and find hideouts to survive and reveal the truth.

Why similar: Thriller 20%, Horror 16.1%, Mystery 15.7%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

SANRI is a first-person psychological horror game where you play a schizophrenic character whose wife disappeared during camp. Face the delusions, solve the mystery and try to find her despite your constantly distorted perception of time-space.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Thriller 15%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Dark 11.3%

In this SCP story, you will become Liam, a broken test subject trapped within the Foundation. Every corridor hides a piece of your past, and every memory you recover brings you closer to madness.

Why similar: Thriller 15.8%, Survival 13.8%, Horror 13.6%, Survival Horror 10.7%, First-Person 9.5%

You have been invited, but not by your own will, rescue your best friend before HE finds you... Delve into this first-person single-player puzzle game and experience horror segments mixed with challenging gameplay!

Why similar: Thriller 24.5%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Horror 13.1%, Dark 12%, Mystery 6.9%

While Jonathan is driving, his car suddenly stops. His cell phone doesn't work either. Jonathan doesn't know where he is. He sees a farm nearby. He goes to the farm in hopes of finding someone to ask for help.

Why similar: Thriller 26.1%, Horror 17.8%, Mystery 11.7%, Dark 9.8%, Exploration 8.5%

The witch’s ominous chanting echoes through the corn field, a rogues' gallery of deranged monsters is out for your blood, an eerie mist rolls in from worlds unknown... and you don’t even remember how you got here. Can you escape the Terror in the Corn?

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.9%, Thriller 16.4%, Horror 14.4%, Dark 12.3%, Mystery 12.1%

Demon is a first-person psychological horror game. How much can a game affect your real life? Enjoy a realistic home environment and terrifying moments of being immersed in a real-life story.

Why similar: Thriller 14.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 10.9%, God Game 10.7% ★, Survival Horror 9.5%

Project Faceless is a 4-player online co-op psychological horror game built with Unreal Engine 5. Players locate papers while being hunted by a faceless creature. Use flashlights and teamwork to navigate, with escalating difficulty enhancing the immersive horror experience.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.9%, Dark 12%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Mystery 8.5%

You are a patient. You should avoid treatment at the old hospital. The crazy doctor's strange methods raise doubts. The treatment may not go as you imagine.

Why similar: Thriller 14.1%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Survival 10.1%, Horror 9.6%, Dark 9.2%

A moderate horror game set in the FunPlay School where you will have to try to escape from all that nightmare, crossing rooms with puzzles from the easiest to the most difficult. Will you do it?

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 22.8%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Mystery 8.7%, Horror 8.6%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

Trapped in a dead town cut off from the world. With your sanity slipping, you’re forced to explore the ruins and the catacombs beneath solving puzzles, scavenging what you can, Hide from inhuman creatures, fight when you have to. Every step could lead to your escape… or your end.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.5%, Horror 14.7%, Survival 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Thriller 9.2%

Trapped in a nightmare, every death pulls you back into the same dark cycle. Test your spirit and courage as you escape the depths of a sinister mansion.

Why similar: Thriller 17.5%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Horror 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Works of art are attacking people, turning an exhibition into a bloodbath in a single night. At the same time, you – a phantom thief – happen to be there to steal a valuable masterpiece.

Why similar: Survival Horror 14%, Horror 13.3%, 3D Platformer 12.1%, Realistic 9.9%, Survival 9%

Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.

Why similar: Survival Horror 14.9%, Thriller 14%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Mystery 10.4%

Escape the lab and survive through dangerous monsters and military personnel

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.7%, Horror 13.3%, Thriller 12.8%, Dark 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.1%

Survive the night shift at an abandoned school. Complete your cleaning tasks before 5 AM, manage your flashlight battery, and avoid the darkness that hunts you. Can you last 5 nights?

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.8%, Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Exploration 9.9%, First-Person 9.6%

The next victim is you. Mother Ghoul is a horror and thriller game in which you try to survive against a cursed ghost to whom you are offered as a sacrifice. To escape the curse, you must find and destroy her stillborn children through a ritual. This is the only way...

Why similar: Thriller 21.2%, Survival Horror 19.8%, Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Dark 9.8%

THE LAST PORTRAIT is a haunting adventure that leads you into the abandoned Ashwood Manor. You are a lawyer who has inherited the house from a client and wants to uncover its secrets. Solve tricky puzzles and escape the spirit that guards the estate!

Why similar: Horror 16.1%, Thriller 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dark 12.9%, First-Person 10.4%

The Last Frame is a psychological horror game about a father who disappeared. As you walk through the locations he documented, you discover that watching and recording them changed the place itself — and not for the better.

Why similar: Thriller 14.3%, Mystery 14%, Horror 13.9%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

Don't Look is a horror game where you are being hunted by things that can only move when you see them. With no explanation or recollection of where you came from your only objective is to survive and make it out of that hell and hopefully uncover some secrets on the way.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.3%, Horror 18.4%, Survival 16.1%, Thriller 14.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Abaddon is a story driven first person psychological horror game. Descend into a suffocating, nightmarish world as Jimmy searches for his missing brother, Georgie. With only a flickering flashlight, solve chilling puzzles, face your past, and struggle to survive.

Why similar: Thriller 15.7%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Dark 10.1%

It Reaches is a first person horror game, captured through the lens of a police officer’s body cam. Trapped inside the facilities of an abandoned hospital, find a way to escape the horrors lurking underground. Uncover a dark mystery left behind and don't get caught! They will reach for you…

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.5%, Horror 16.6%, Mystery 13.3%, Dark 13.1%, Thriller 12.1%

An immersive horror-adventure game. Betrayed by a trusted friend, Baxter finds himself trapped in an abandoned gold mine. Set traps, gather creature samples, and make life-or-death decisions to survive. Can you face the horrors lurking in the darkness of the night?

Why similar: Thriller 20.1%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Mystery 12.1%

THE ILLUSION NIGHTMARE Is a horror game made by professional crew In the art of horror. You will have the opportunity to experience one of the most powerful types of psychological horror Based on an environment designed in every detail to be a real hell that makes you terrified.

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 18.7%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Dark 7.3%

Explore an abandoned and decaying village in this immersive first-person psychological horror experience, search forgotten houses and shadowed paths, piece together disturbing clues, and uncover the truth that waits within the suffocating darkness.

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.6%, Thriller 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 12.5%, Mystery 10%

A short narrative horror experience, in which you find yourself in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm without knowing what has happened to the driver or the other passengers in the vehicle, you just know that there is something out there lurking.

Why similar: Thriller 14.6%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Survival 11.6%, Horror 10.5%, Mystery 10.4%

THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion is a survival horror game. Contains Fear, Stealth, Exploration/Puzzle solving, Item management. Moreover "Multiple First-Person Views" provides a new level of fear, immersion, strategy. Steal the vision of "something" lurking in the abandoned house and try to survive.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19%, Horror 12.7%, 3D Platformer 12.6%, Thriller 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

"Toast" is a game where players must use problem-solving skills to escape a randomly generated maze while being chased by a deadly humanoid piece of toast. The game features challenging puzzles, randomly generated levels, and endless hours of excitement.

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 30.6%, Thriller 11%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Dark 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%

Watch the surroundings of the outpost through cameras, keep creatures away by using lights, and protect yourself by locking doors in case of danger. Welcome to the five nights at Backrooms.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.4%, Horror 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11%, Thriller 10.7%

Sevyal is a single-player horror game set in an underground hospital. Something has gone wrong and as a government official, you must visit the location, repair the electricity, survive, establish communication with the military, and escape.

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.4%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Thriller 13.9%, Mystery 8.8%