Games Like In Waiting

Explore a surreal dream world built from one man’s memories in this remastered story-rich first-person mystery/adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Adventure 7.6%

Investigate an abandoned server frozen in time. Explore liminal, blocky spaces, uncover strange anomalies, and piece together what went wrong. The deeper you go, the more the world shifts, watching and reacting to your presence.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Puzzle 8.3%

Narrative-driven psychological horror set in a confined apartment. Explore, interact with everyday objects, and notice increasingly unsettling changes around you. Your small, everyday choices will shape your future and define your ending. A debut title created by a solo developer.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Adventure 13.6%, Exploration 5.6%

Talk is cheap. Trust is earned. You are stuck on The Destin, a forsaken starship on the brink of oblivion that is controlled by Novah, a sentient AI who holds the key to your survival. Befriend, manipulate, deceive, and persuade your way to freedom in this sci-fi narrative adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Emotional 8.1%

Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Casual 12%, Puzzle 10.3%

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 25.9%, Walking Simulator 20%, Adventure 14.5%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Puzzle 9.7%

A first-person psychological horror experience focused on atmosphere, tension, and clever environmental puzzles. Explore the abandoned Morwain Mansion, solve occult mysteries, and uncover a dark truth that relentlessly hunts you in the shadows.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Adventure 12.6%, Psychological 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Puzzle 10.9%

You investigate a secluded rural home of an old friend that's gone missing, abandoned under mysterious circumstances. You begin to uncover a haunting trail left behind by a man consumed by paranoia, isolation, and something far more disturbing.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Walking Simulator 22.4%, Immersive Sim 16.1%, Casual 10.5%, First-Person 6.7%

Play as three guests of the rundown Motel Styx, overseen by the charming yet guarded Charon (and their cat). Explore your surroundings to uncover Charon's past and forever alter the future of the motel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Walking Simulator 16%, Immersive Sim 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Puzzle 8.8%

IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! and nobody came to celebrate with you… Hell of a Birthday is a First-Person comedic horror game where you play as the Birthday Boy trying to survive your special day. From the maker of Bite Night and Invasion of the Halloween Fiends comes another unique adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Adventure 14.8%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Casual 12%

Discover the depth of your personality while journeying along the path of initiation as the young Viking Olaf. Every choice will impact your environment, and contribute to a map of your archetypal psychology. Embrace your inner warrior, lover, chieftain, and druid - and change the world!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Casual 9%

7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Walking Simulator 18.5%, Puzzle 10%, Exploration 8.1%, Adventure 7.5%

A small "horror" narrative game about isolation and depression.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Adventure 11.6%, Casual 8.8%, Psychological 7.9%

THOHH is a first-person narrative game in which you play a food delivery guy. Through a series of vignettes, you cross paths with the residents of a beautiful house on Holland Hill road, where you make frequent deliveries. In the wake of tragedy, something ominous looms behind their front door.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Casual 8%, Emotional 7.5%

The Letter is a narrative-driven psychological adventure set in a forgotten town. Explore abandoned streets, follow scattered notes and hidden messages, and uncover fragments of a story inspired by real events as you piece together a mystery buried in the past.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Adventure 13.3%, Casual 11.2%

Tapes of Entities is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Puzzle 10.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Casual 7.8%

A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a house that feels like it knows you. Uncover dark secrets buried within its walls. Something is watching. Something has been waiting a very long time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Adventure 15.5%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Horror 7%

Not My Floor is a horror game set in the grim stairwell of a Soviet-era apartment block on the outskirts of Kyiv in the early 1990s. After a long shift at the factory, all you want is to get home—but the elevator and the entire building have their own sinister plans, driven by a mysterious entity.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Puzzle 11.4%, Adventure 11.2%

Memory has weight. The departed are not gone. Step into a village drowned by flood and memory, and search for the final answer about guardianship and farewell among the shattered past.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Puzzle 9.1%, Exploration 7.2%

A new life begins in a low-cost apartment. Strange occurrences at night and the suspicious behavior of neighbors gradually push the protagonist to the edge.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Casual 13.5%, Horror 6.3%

Dreams Of A Visionary is a first-person exploration adventure set in a mysterious Victorian mansion. Explore richly detailed rooms, solve challenging puzzles, and gradually uncover the hidden secrets of this surreal dream.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Puzzle 10.8%, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 8.3%

As a father, you explore the empty home of your estranged daughter, Amy, after her death. Piece together the life you missed…one memory at a time. Follow the journey of regret and reconciliation as you try to comprehend the world she built without you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Exploration 7.2%, Emotional 6.9%

Below the Underworld is a story-driven, artistic walking simulator where you play as Jing, a boy shaped by childhood bullying and trauma. Guided by light, you explore surreal dreamscapes, confront symbolic inner shadows, on a journey of fear, memory, and healing.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Adventure 15.2%, Casual 12.3%, Exploration 7%

A single player exploration game, with audio-reactive elements set to the music of MYRNE's Circles EP

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Walking Simulator 19.6%, Adventure 14.9%, Casual 12%, Exploration 10.4%

M. Webb, the I.S.C. requests your immediate presence. Our previous keeper has vanished without explanation. A replacement is needed at once for the offshore lighthouse under our care. Report to the local office of the company as soon as possible. Do not be late.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Adventure 13.6%, Puzzle 10.3%

Lying Souls is an atmospheric, mysterious single player story horror game. You'll dive into a story in which nothing is as it seems. Find out the reasons behind what happened to your family back then. Your decisions will guide the course of the story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Puzzle 9.8%, Adventure 8.8%, Dark 6.5%

Alex Carter, part of The Abducted UFO group, acts on a tip about nighttime sightings. Unknowingly, he wanders into a top-secret military base, triggering a suspenseful journey.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Emotional 10.9%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Casual 6.3%

Trapped in a mysterious place, you must uncover the truth. “Outsanity” offers a blend of stealth, puzzle-solving, and exploration. Tread lightly and solve the sparse enigmas to escape, but beware the monsters hear everything. Can you outwit these lurking creatures?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 9%

This game is not normal. It has no traditional gameplay loop or world format. In the game, you walk through a room. Each one is just as different as the last. You learn about the people who inhabit the world, known as Meeples, and you learn about the dark secret behind the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Adventure 10%, Casual 9.5%

Inner Ashes is a first person, narrative, puzzle adventure, where the player puts himself in Henry's shoes, a forest guard diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. He has to travel through his mind to discover why his only daughter Enid disappeared from his life.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Emotional 9.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 8.6%

You had a pretty rough fall. Trying to regain your composure you try to look around before realizing you can't see anything. Hope that your other senses will serve you better.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.6%, Adventure 18.9%, Casual 15.2%, Puzzle 13.8%, Exploration 8.4%

An atmospheric walking simulator with lowkey horror elements, in which you are dammed to walk the ever-same rooms. However, if your eyes are keen and you look out for strange things, anomalies, you might still have a chance to escape.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Casual 17.1%, Puzzle 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Dark 8.7%

Please make your way to the top floor. Bob is waiting for you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Adventure 17.1%, Casual 13.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 7.9%

You are trapped in a never-ending street loop. Observe your surroundings carefully and identify anomalies. Make the right choice at the end of each street and try to escape the loop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Immersive Sim 16%, Puzzle 11.9%, Adventure 11.6%, Exploration 8.2%

Play, no game. Put on your headphones, listen and imagine what exists in the dark. Did Lovecraft expose the most insidious Outer in his last story? Plunge into the Dormitory of Horror for answers. Oh, not sure if it's a one-way path…

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Walking Simulator 23.3%, Adventure 12.7%, Horror 10.7%, Atmospheric 7.8%

A first-person psychological horror game set in a childhood home. Explore, uncover four days of missing memory, and survive something that has been listening since you arrived.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Walking Simulator 20%, Adventure 8.3%, Emotional 8.3%, Dark 7.1%

Journalist David, whose career is not going well, takes on the most dangerous assignment he can after receiving a warning from his editor. As time passes, it becomes clear that what is happening is far from simple.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Adventure 11.5%, Emotional 8%

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Visual Novel 10%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Puzzle 8.6%

Some things are better left forgotten.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Adventure 12%, Puzzle 10.8%, Casual 8.7%

Zemblanity is an atmospheric first-person horror game. What seemed like a little creepy invitation over from an old childhood friend turns into disturbing uncovering of mysterious forces ruling in the mansion. Will you find a way out?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Walking Simulator 10.5%, Puzzle 9.6%, Emotional 9.3%, Dark 9.1%

Drive through the world as a famous author in this upcoming free narrative game. Manage your fuel (coffee) and figure out how to navigate with no GPS and a broken radio. Meet a host of interesting characters and don’t forget to LOOK BEHIND YOU.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Adventure 11.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Horror 6.6%

Take care of your ailing father while facing a disturbing presence that distorts reality around you in this short psychological horror experience. Your choices matter, and opening the wrong door might be your last.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Adventure 17%, Puzzle 12.2%, Dark 7.4%, First-Person 7.2%

Young Saif loved going for walks with his dad in the forests of Bangladesh. On one of these walks, however, they became separated and Saif was left alone. What he encountered that day would reveal secrets about his home that, sooner or later, would need to be confronted.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Adventure 17.9%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Casual 14.9%, Horror 9.5%

Explore the ancient and mysterious dreamland of “Once Upon A Time In Morocco”, traveling through the golden sands, discovering their secrets and their ruins, and collecting the Lost Tablets of Self Acceptance.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Adventure 8.7%

Your neighbor invites you on a double date, setting you up with the new girl from out of town. After sneaking into an abandoned house, your neighbor suggests everyone play a game, 67 Minutes in Heaven.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Adventure 16%, Casual 9.3%, Exploration 6.5%

Confined to a wheelchair, explore a hospital pulled into a distorted world beneath reality. A slow psychological horror focused on exploration, tension, and the unsettling atmosphere of this strange place.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.3%, Immersive Sim 16.5%, Adventure 16.2%, Exploration 8.6%, First-Person 7%

You wake up in a silent white room with no exit—just a voice that follows you through five strange spaces, growing more unsettling as the world twists around you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Adventure 9.2%, Puzzle 9%

You wake up in an unfamiliar building. You have to get out of here. You go down the stairs and go down the corridor to reach the same stairs again. The world repeats itself over and over, but each time it repeats itself, something changes. Eternal return. Can you escape from this looping world?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36%, Immersive Sim 19.8%, Adventure 14.8%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 6.7%

A failed experiment has unleashed the Overblooming, threatening to consume the world. Explore abandoned ruins overtaken by nature, uncover the fate of those who lived here, and push forward to stop the spreading disaster.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Walking Simulator 23.5%, Adventure 17.1%, Casual 13.8%, Exploration 7.6%

Recurring Dream is a short, atmospheric walking simulator where you revisit a cold, majestic mountain lost in memory and longing. Explore the surreal, dreamlike landscapes as you search for a loved one, unravelling a deeply emotional story.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, Adventure 18.9%, Casual 15.2%, Emotional 9.2%, Exploration 9.1%

First person escape room style game with multiple puzzles to solve and a mystery to unravel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Adventure 18.6%, Casual 14.9%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Puzzle 12%

My life has changed drastically: a new country, university, dormitory, work. Drowsiness and fatigue have become a habit, just like the silhouettes I’ve started seeing in my peripheral vision.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Adventure 18.7%, Exploration 9.5%, Emotional 9.4%, First-Person 7.5%

In Our Parlor is a short, horror walking simulator. The player must make their way through a mysterious manor to unfold the story, find the parlor, and escape this nightmare. Navigate a series of dark set pieces and follow the music to discover the path forward.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Immersive Sim 18.7%, First-Person 9.1%, Casual 7.9%

Alpa is a narrative adventure game blending atmospheric exploration, emotional storytelling, and puzzle-solving across the journey of three intertwined souls.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Adventure 10%, Exploration 7.8%

Of Dead Earth is a third-person survival horror game set in Australian Outback.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Walking Simulator 22%, Adventure 11.4%, Emotional 8.2%, Exploration 8.1%

A narrative driven-platformer that puts the player in the shoes of an AI that is becoming more and more sentient.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Adventure 16.7%, Puzzle 16.3%, Emotional 12.2%, Exploration 8.8%

MISKA is a narrative-driven adventure game with a strong focus on Australian flora and fauna. Rekindle your connection to family and nature through acts of restoration.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Casual 9.1%

In 7 NIGHTS KEEPER, take a job to watch over a mansion for 7 nights and uncover a horrifying secret: the elderly occupant is possessed by a demon. Survive the escalating terror and keep the darkness at bay, or become its next victim.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Walking Simulator 20.6%, Adventure 10.2%, Casual 8.8%, Exploration 7.1%

Slip into the silence of the suburbs - break into houses, outsmart wary residents, and find unconventional paths to your objectives.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Adventure 17.8%, Puzzle 11.8%, Casual 9.9%

You wake up in an endless hallway with no memory of anything. A voice calls out to you and explains that after your death, your mind was placed into a computer simulation. Unfortunately, bugs are starting to appear, and you’ll have to report them to fix the simulation.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.1%, Puzzle 14.7%, Adventure 14%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Casual 9.7%