- #1 Cold House
97% matchMixed56% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: Menge Studio
Windows
The protagonist gets into a car accident and is forced to take shelter from the cold in an abandoned house, waiting for warmer temperatures, where it will soon turn out that he is not alone at all..
Why similar: Survival 61.4%, Action 22.3%, Adventure 16.3%
- #2 Storm VR
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 108 reviews2017
Dev: TeamStormVR
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Storm is an atmospheric survival game. This is the first, short introduction to a series of episodes of Storm. You wake up in an intense snowstorm. As you look around for ways to get out of the biting cold, to somehow find shelter, your body gets colder, your hands freeze up, and the storm intensifies.
Why similar: Simulation 59.2%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 16%
- #3 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
96% matchMixed54% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Survival 33.6%, Simulation 28.9%, Adventure 14%, Action 12.6%, Indie 5.7%
- #4 Estranged: The Departure
95% matchVery Positive86% of 2,337 reviews2020
Dev: Alan Edwardes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.
Why similar: Adventure 39.1%, Action 33.8%, Indie 24.6%, Multiplayer 2.6%
- #5 Arctic Anxiety
94% matchMixed55% of 290 reviews2020
Dev: Arctic Studio
Windows
Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water. To survive, the player will have to search for a cargo washed up on the shore.
Why similar: Simulation 45.5%, Survival 38.7%, Adventure 15.8%
- #6 Winter Survival
93% matchMixed63% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Survival 56.3%, Adventure 26.6%, Action 17.2%
- #7 How to Fish
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 72,328 reviews2026
Dev: Dazed Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Why similar: Multiplayer 29.6%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 23.9%, Action 19.5%
- #8 Near Death
92% matchVery Positive91% of 1,072 reviews2016
Dev: Orthogonal Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
Why similar: Survival 32%, Simulation 31.6%, Adventure 13.9%, Action 12.2%, Indie 10.4%
- #9 Ice World
91% matchMixed60% of 1,265 reviews2024
Dev: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
A blizzard brought a long winter, Humanity on the brink of extinction. you had to face ferocious beasts, mine ice and snow to build a base, and survive in the cold apocalypse.
Why similar: Survival 64.3%, Adventure 35.7%
- #10 TRAPPED
91% matchMostly Negative36% of 461 reviews2025
Dev: Cheap Fun GamesPub: Forthright Indie Games Division
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...
Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Action 20.2%, Adventure 19.7%, Violent 19.5%, Indie 13.4%
- #11 GONE Fishing
86% matchVery Positive91% of 3,657 reviews2025
Dev: GONE Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
GONE Fishing is a 1-8 player survival horror game where you and your friends must work together to stay alive, by fishing. The only way to survive is to keep feeding the lake’s insatiable hunger before it feeds on you. Can you satisfy the hunger... or will you become the next offering?
Why similar: Adventure 35.8%, Action 34.4%, Multiplayer 18%, Indie 11.8%
- #12 Trapped
89% matchVery Positive82% of 169 reviews2019
Dev: N4bA
Windows
You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible
Why similar: Adventure 58.8%, Indie 41.2%
- #13 Arctic alive
89% matchMixed55% of 91 reviews2016
Dev: TortPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Arctic alive - a simulator with elements of survival horror. The action takes place in Siberia on the research station "Arctic". There was something in what is necessary to understand the player. The world is open for exploration.
Why similar: Simulation 43.8%, Survival 20.3%, Adventure 13.6%, Action 12.7%, Indie 9.6%
- #14 Wyoming Winter
87% matchMixed67% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: ValleyHound Games
Windows
A group of employees find themselves snowed in to the Wyoming department of defence building as a blizzard covers the state. You'll soon find out your group is not the only thing trapped in the building.
Why similar: Action 61.1%, Multiplayer 38.9%
- #15 Fishing Vacation
85% matchVery Positive95% of 289 reviews2022
Dev: Teebowah Games
Windows
A Game Boy styled fishing horror adventure
Why similar: Simulation 45.1%, Adventure 40.2%, Indie 14.7%
- #16 Alone K.W.
86% matchMostly Negative33% of 79 reviews2016
Dev: TeamWaterFlyPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dr. Kevin White, a drug manufacturing manager in the same company was sent to a conference in Greenland. In turn, the ship was caught in the ice and crashed. The main character was thrown by an unknown island. Seeing the house, Kevin went there.
Why similar: Adventure 76.7%, Indie 23.3%
- #17 There's Something In The Ice
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 186 reviews2024
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
Why similar: Simulation 67%, Adventure 33%
- #18 FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate
84% matchVery Positive86% of 530 reviews2018
Dev: Alex Olinkiewicz
Windows
Survive the arctic research base simply known as Base 75, or die from the freezing cold or by the horrors that lurk within the halls?
Why similar: Violent 28.3%, Survival 24.5%, Adventure 19.6%, Action 16.6%, Indie 11.1%
- #19 AUTO-CRISIS
81% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: The Otherworldly Studios
Windows
You're driving away on a forest road, late at night, under a heavy storm. Your car breaks down. Luckily, there might be a gas station nearby. But a misfortune never comes alone. The storm has brought something else, something otherworldly that oddly smells of spilled diesel oil.
Why similar: Adventure 32.8%, Violent 28.5%, Gore 21.5%, Indie 17.2%
- #20 Snowed Under | 雪葬
81% matchMixed62% of 219 reviews2026
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Snowed Under is a first-person game about shoveling snow in the mountains.
Why similar: Simulation 72.9%, Adventure 27.1%
- #21 The Black Ice
80% matchVery Positive82% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: RED CRAB GAMESPub: Antelus Games
Windows
A survival horror game where every breath could be your last. Explore a sinister Antarctic complex, unravel its mysteries, and try to survive before the darkness consumes you.
Why similar: Survival 50.4%, Adventure 26.4%, Action 23.2%
- #22 Ice Lakes
82% matchVery Positive86% of 1,649 reviews2016
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ice Lakes is a modern ice fishing simulator with different single and multiplayer game modes and sandbox approach to wintertime fishing. Use and customize wide selection of fishing gear and learn how changing season, bottom topology, time of day and weather conditions affects fish behavior.
Why similar: Simulation 72.7%, Indie 17.3%, Multiplayer 10%
- #23 Before Nightfall
82% matchMixed62% of 94 reviews2018
Dev: Pickle Drugs
Windows
It’s a small survival game, in which you will be tested for speed and prudence. Challenge the deadly cold
Why similar: Simulation 45.8%, Survival 24.3%, Adventure 18.1%, Indie 11.8%
- #24 The Long Dark
78% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Survival 60.5%, Simulation 19.5%, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 4.4%, Action 3%
- #25 The Pale Mimic
76% matchVery Positive87% of 395 reviews2026
Dev: Dark Snow Games
Windows
The Pale Mimic is an atmospheric horror set in the untamed Alaskan wilderness. As a high profile fugitive on the run, it’s just you and your dog surviving in the chilling forests, until something else shows up uninvited.
Why similar: Survival 43.7%, Action 21.9%, Adventure 18.9%, Violent 15.5%
- #26 Death On Holly Ridge
77% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: MixoNat
Windows
Christmas Eve, a delivery driver turns onto Holly Ridge & becomes trapped inside a decaying house of death. Reality fractures as something hunts her through rooms that shouldn’t exist. Survive the night, uncover the truth behind the house, & escape the snowy nightmare, if escape is even possible.
Why similar: Simulation 91.6%, Indie 8.4%
- #27 Fat Dude Simulator
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 141 reviews2019
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Fat Dude Simulator is a third-person indie horror. The main character is a guy called Jack. He really likes eating a lot and is constantly eating something. This time he came to a forest to spend a couple of days far away from the city, out in the open air.
Why similar: Simulation 38.8%, Survival 17.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Action 15.1%, Indie 12.3%
- #28 Lumberjacked
75% matchVery Positive83% of 701 reviews2025
Dev: Inner Realm StudiosPub: Dumb Duck Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Simulation 60%, Adventure 40%
- #29 Buried
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 417 reviews2023
Dev: Authogin
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 54 min≥1hr: 12%
You wake up buried alive. You are running out of oxygen and you can't remember how you got here. There must be a way out, can you figure it out in time?
Why similar: Simulation 73.1%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 8%
- #30 Unanswered
75% matchVery Positive95% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: WhiteRoot Studio
Windows
You wake up in a strange place, not knowing who you are, where you are, or how you got here. Trapped in an environment that twists to break your sanity, your only way out is to delve into the unknown and face the horrors of a past your mind is trying to hide.
Why similar: Adventure 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #31 VERGE:Lost chapter
79% matchMixed53% of 3,175 reviews2015
Dev: GDNomaD
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Our hero decided to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city and get out into nature to relax in a cabin that was in the mountains.
Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Gore 16.3%, Indie 12.2%, Violent 9.4%
- #32 Missing Hiker
74% matchVery Positive85% of 3,775 reviews2023
Dev: Gemezl
Windows
Missing Hiker is a short indie horror game, where your brother Ethan went missing while hiking and you need to find him.
Why similar: Adventure 62.9%, Multiplayer 37.1%
- #33 Frost Survival VR
73% matchVery Positive89% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Why similar: Simulation 43.7%, Survival 38.4%, Adventure 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #34 Great Toilet Simulator
76% matchVery Positive81% of 552 reviews2019
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Great Toilet Simulator is a first-person indie horror telling you the story of a man who has his car broken on his way home, in the middle of a thick forest. What makes the situation even worse is that the main character is really in need of a toilet.
Why similar: Simulation 39.8%, Survival 18.3%, Adventure 15.7%, Action 14.1%, Indie 12.2%
- #35 Cannibal Abduction
73% matchVery Positive96% of 372 reviews2023
Dev: Tomás EsconjaureguyPub: selewi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The family is hungry and he must provide, VHS slasher survival horror.
Why similar: Gore 34.6%, Adventure 30.5%, Violent 19.5%, Indie 15.4%
- #36 Brine
78% matchMostly Negative26% of 383 reviews2016
Dev: BrineTeam
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Adventure 39.2%, Survival 35.8%, Indie 24.9%
- #37 The Last Ski Trip
71% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Fireplay Studio
Windows
The main character, travels to a remote snowy valley with his brother for a skiing trip. But soon after their arrival, strange events begin to unfold. What was meant to be a peaceful getaway quickly turns into a nightmare. Over time, he realizes that something terrible is live in the valley...
Why similar: Adventure 81.5%, Indie 18.5%
- #38 Penguin Lifter
70% matchVery Positive89% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Peace_Studio
Windows
Penguin Lifter is a game where you work as a penguin lifter. You'll work outdoors, far from civilization, surrounded by cute creatures - penguins. It's just you, the snow, and the penguins...
Why similar: Simulation 66.9%, Survival 21.1%, Gore 12%
- #39 While Sleeping
71% matchVery Positive81% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Sangwoon JinPub: FLUXJIN
Windows
A first-person horror game dealing with sleep paralysis. You are lying in bed, unable to move, experiencing creepy phenomena and having to survive until morning from ghosts.
Why similar: Indie 52.5%, Adventure 25%, Action 22.5%
- #40 Fishing Grind
70% matchVery Positive86% of 363 reviews2024
Dev: LAGI Games
Windows
Fishing Grind is a first person 1-6 player co-op fishing game with a twist. The place you are fishing may not always be safe...
Why similar: Simulation 29.3%, Gore 23.7%, Violent 21.4%, Indie 13.3%, Multiplayer 12.3%
- #41 Crabmeat
69% matchVery Positive87% of 209 reviews2026
Dev: Nicholas McDonnellPub: Searching Interactive
Windows
A short first-person point & click survival horror game where you're a prisoner tasked with crabbing for priceless Southern King Crabs to pay off your debt to the Feudostate. Navigate the harsh waters of the Antarctic and defend your ship from the threats that dwell under the icy waters.
Why similar: Adventure 44.8%, Violent 40.9%, Simulation 14.3%
- #42 Ice Age
70% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Sabertooth Studio
Windows
As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.
Why similar: Simulation 34.4%, Survival 27.3%, Adventure 17.8%, Action 15.4%, Multiplayer 5.1%
- #43 Reflection
69% matchVery Positive84% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
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: Adventure 59.7%, Simulation 32%, Indie 8.3%
- #44 12 HOURS
74% matchMixed53% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: Second Reality
Windows
The protagonist was in a very nightmarish and realistic lucid dream, he needed to find a way to wake up, avoiding the creepy creature that was chasing him. Find a way to wake up, each time the level is generated randomly.
Why similar: Simulation 43.8%, Violent 24.5%, Action 17.4%, Indie 14.3%
- #45 Lost Sea
73% matchMixed62% of 71 reviews2016
Dev: Eastasiasoft Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?
Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Action 34.7%, Indie 25.1%
- #46 Frozen State
72% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Why similar: Survival 64.5%, Action 16.4%, Adventure 9.8%, Indie 9.4%
- #47 ICY: Frostbite Edition
71% matchVery Positive86% of 403 reviews2017
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.
Why similar: Survival 64%, Violent 21.7%, Indie 14.3%
- #48 MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
65% matchVery Positive83% of 704 reviews2026
Dev: Absam Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In this survival horror, you're surrounded by sea and a towering gate ahead. Walk into the maze, hunt, gather, and run to survive, alone or with friends. Remember: You're not the only one starving...
Why similar: Survival 36.3%, Simulation 20.9%, Adventure 13.2%, Action 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #49 The Forest
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 51.4%, Simulation 14.1%, Adventure 12.7%, Gore 10.6%, Action 7.7%
- #50 Suspicious Downpour
68% matchVery Positive95% of 590 reviews2021
Dev: Sugoi Yellow
Windows
Suspicious Downpour is a very short single-player comedy horror experience about getting stuck in a storm while out camping. Sit in your tent with your trusty flashlight in the calm rain and just relax. Just be warned If you look for trouble you might find it.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #51 Insomnia: Chapter One
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: Melon PolygonsPub: MonkeyFactory Media
Windows
2012. The Arctic research station "Persei" loses contact with the outside world. You are Ethan Miller, a technician sent to the facility to fix the issues. But something here has clearly gone out of control.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #52 The Inevitability
72% matchMixed58% of 117 reviews2017
Dev: VaNyuHa
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 99%
The main hero of the game was alone. All of his family died. He continued to cling to the life... but Death... seems trying to pick him up... Throughout the game something have been chasing and wants to send you to the other world to meet his family... and as if you were trying to hide it finds you...
Why similar: Gore 49.1%, Adventure 31.8%, Indie 19.1%
- #53 Arctic Awakening
65% matchVery Positive85% of 372 reviews2025
Dev: GoldFire Studios
Windows · Mac
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.
Why similar: Survival 53%, Adventure 28.8%, Indie 18.3%
- #54 Christmas Mutilator
67% matchMixed63% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Inspired by 80s slasher films, Christmas Mutilator™ is an immersive horror and home invasion game. Your husband and children are trapped in the storm, you are stuck in a cabin for the holidays. Use every tactic you can to stay alive and get out of your house as a vicious psychopath breaks in.
Why similar: Gore 30.3%, Violent 28.2%, Adventure 16.1%, Action 14.5%, Indie 10.9%
- #55 Madness inside
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: ZV GAMES
Windows
"Madness Inside"" immerses you in the dark depths of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, where horrifying experiments were once conducted. Police Lieutenant Vic Voight, in pursuit of a dangerous criminal, unexpectedly finds himself trapped in this nightmarish place.
Why similar: Simulation 59.2%, Violent 21.3%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 9%
- #56 Bigfoot Forest
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 187 reviews2021
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Bigfoot Forest - a first-person indie horror game. While traveling in your car, you run out of gas and find yourself far away from any civilized locations at night, with only woods and a small town nearby.
Why similar: Survival 32.4%, Adventure 30.5%, Action 25.5%, Indie 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.2%
- #57 Absum
64% matchVery Positive94% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: MixoNat
Windows
Ethan Cross hasn’t heard from his mother in weeks. He decides to check on her at the family home but what he finds is silence, locked doors, and rooms that feel wrong. Trapped in a decaying house bound to a cursed clock. Explore, survive, and uncover what time has forgotten.
Why similar: Simulation 89.9%, Indie 10.1%