60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Dark, Psychological, Story Rich.
Descend into mind of detective Zara Moreland in this dark, moody, short, story emphasized adventure game with fixed camera angles. Talk with people from her past, solve old school puzzles and try to figure out what is happening.... or what has happened.
INDIKA
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
MINE MEMORY
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
Why similar: Psychological 20.6%, Surreal 13.6%, Cinematic 12.1%, Dark 10.2%, Mystery 9.4%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 36.5%, Mystery 17.7%, Surreal 9.5%, Cinematic 9.4%, Dark 8.1%
Step into a chilling mystery and peel back the ominous veil shrouding a peaceful southern Russian town.
Why similar: Psychological 27.3%, Noir 22.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Cinematic 13.4%, Dark 11.3%
Powerwash a murder scene with a bleach gun as layers of the story unfold in nonlinear fashion. Remember ... ITS NOT YOUR FAULT.
Why similar: Psychological 24.6%, Noir 18.8%, Cinematic 15.8%, Dark 11.2%, Mystery 8.7%
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Psychological 15.9%, Cinematic 12.8%, Dark 9.9%, Mystery 9.1%
Alone in the park as The Darkness rises, Zak begins his descent. The Fox, The Forest and The Darkness is a narrative based game centered on that moment in life when we begin to build our own reality. Zak is confused, scared and angry like most 14 year olds, but he's determined to make it count.
Why similar: Psychological 31%, Mystery 19.4%, Dark 15.9%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 7.5%
Night falls. Spirits rise. Some are friendly, and some are not. Journey into the Icelandic wilderness as Haru, a young girl searching for her lost sister. Play your harmonica to ward off ghosts looming over the forest. Experience a hauntingly beautiful story of trust, fear, and determination.
Why similar: Cinematic 18.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Surreal 12.9%, Mystery 12.1%, Walking Simulator 9.9%
Would you forgive yourself if you killed someone you love? Enter the traumatic memories of The Flower, experience death as the killer and the killed, and submerge yourself in a dark, interactive adventure of emotions, suffering, and regret - looking for a way to forget.
Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Cinematic 12.6%, Surreal 10.8%, Mystery 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10%
Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
Why similar: Psychological 22.9%, Mystery 16%, Dark 12.1%, Female Protagonist 12%, 1990's 9.3%
A first-person anti-utopian adventure blending puzzles and psychological horror. Explore a surreal Eastern European world where a train becomes a gateway to memories and distorted realities.
Why similar: Noir 18.3%, Psychological 18.1%, Cinematic 14%, Surreal 10.7%, Mystery 9.1%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: Noir 22.6%, Mystery 16.6%, Cinematic 14.1%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Crime 8.7%
BlockSouls is a surreal indie adventure set in a lonely brutalist city. Explore strange places, meet unsettling characters, face disturbing enemies, and uncover hidden paths in a dark, dreamlike world.
Why similar: Psychological 21.6%, Adventure 17.5%, Surreal 17.4%, Dark 15.4%, Mystery 15%
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
Why similar: Psychological 17.9%, Cinematic 15.9%, Mystery 14.6%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, 1990's 10.8%
You fell asleep in your own bed but woke up in a dark nightmare. Explore a shifting house haunted by paranormal activity, uncover disturbing secrets and uncover the truth behind your arrival.
Why similar: Psychological 43.9%, Adventure 13%, Cinematic 9.2%, Dark 5.9%, Crime 5.6%
Raw April Day is a hand-drawn Mystery Point-And-Click game where you solve enigmatic puzzles, engage in soul-searching branching dialogue with colorful characters and piece together the clues for why your husband went missing in a surreal and mystifying Victorian complex.
Why similar: Psychological 22.5%, Noir 17.8%, Mystery 13.1%, Cinematic 11.2%, Surreal 11.1%
Journey through a distorted theatre held together by the fragile mind of a grieving puppet master. With only a needle and thread, traverse through this world and evade twisted and terrifying creations. Shatter the delusion and unravel the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Psychological 27%, Cinematic 19%, Surreal 16%, Dark 11.9%, Adventure 7.1%
“Man Without organs” is a 2D detective adventure game. The player assumes control of “Man Without organs”, whose body is hollow inside, on his journey through a ruined Hong Kong.
Why similar: Noir 34.8%, Dark 15.7%, Psychological 14.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Mystery 11%
You are a sparrow trapped inside a mansion of unnatural horrors. Your babies have wandered into its walls and their cries have faded into darkness. Navigate vents, crawlspaces, and hidden rooms to uncover the mansion's secrets and find your children... before something else does.
Why similar: Psychological 18.4%, Cinematic 13.2%, Mystery 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Dark 11%
Parasomnia Verum is an atmospheric horror game about a recurring dream.
Why similar: Psychological 25.1%, Surreal 19.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Mystery 13%, Dark 10.4%
―――よい後悔を。 看守のあなたは死刑囚2名のカウンセリングを任される。 死刑までの一ヶ月、彼らと語らい信頼を深めよう。 彼らの死刑を少しでも有意義なものにするためにも。 live2Dで動く面会劇ビジュアルノベル。
Why similar: Psychological 36.5%, Noir 33.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Dark 8.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
The Binding Hour is a first-person psychological horror game set in a forgotten house lost deep in the woods. Explore shifting spaces, confront haunting echoes, and uncover a truth that refuses to stay buried. Every hour binds you tighter—will you break the loop, or become part of it?
Why similar: Psychological 22.7%, Mystery 20.5%, Cinematic 16.5%, Dark 15.1%, Atmospheric 6.6%
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
Why similar: Psychological 26.2%, Female Protagonist 16%, Surreal 13.2%, Dark 13%, Mystery 11.6%
A cinematic crime noir. A former assassin seeks vengeance in this hardboiled VN, scored by Yasunori Shiono (Lufia series). (Full story is free via the demo version. This paid edition supports Steam Achievements and the creators.)
Why similar: Noir 28.2%, Cinematic 15.1%, Mystery 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Dark 10.6%
A point-and-click mystery game. Search for the truth in 26 days, playing as two different characters, in a town during 1907.
Why similar: Noir 30.6%, Psychological 24.2%, Mystery 15.9%, Crime 8.9%, Adventure 6.2%
One cold case, four deathbed flashbacks. Every shift in perspective overturns the "truth" you believed. Story-driven, with exploration, deduction, puzzles, and combat. Ready for a mind-bending thrill ride with twists at every turn?
Why similar: Psychological 22.9%, Mystery 15.7%, Cinematic 10.9%, Crime 9.9%, 1990's 9.2%
Explore the guilt-ridden mind of a deeply deranged individual in this short first-person psychological horror walking simulator. Discover the unspeakable nature of their crimes in this dark, narrative-driven underground cult classic.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Psychological 20.1%, Dark 13.1%, Mystery 11.4%, Walking Simulator 10.4%
An interactive visual experience at the intersection of psychological horror and art installation. Explore fractured spaces, collect symbolic objects, and uncover a multi-layered truth. Episode 1 of a planned trilogy, built by a solo developer.
Why similar: Psychological 21.5%, Surreal 15.7%, Cinematic 15.6%, Mystery 12.9%, Dark 11.6%
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
Why similar: Psychological 37.5%, Female Protagonist 18%, Dark 12.5%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Adventure 6.5%
After Work is a short, atmospheric first-person exploration game. The workday is over and it's time to head home. But a familiar way out begins to lead somewhere unfamiliar, gradually taking you further from the ordinary.
Why similar: Psychological 25.9%, Mystery 18.8%, Surreal 12.2%, Walking Simulator 12%, Adventure 9.2%
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: Psychological 25.5%, Cinematic 18%, Dark 14.7%, Mystery 13.7%, Walking Simulator 9.9%
Shattered Dimensions is a psychological horror game where reality twists and reshapes around your fears. Trapped in a shifting nightmare, you must uncover the truth hidden within the darkness before it consumes you.
Why similar: Psychological 22%, Noir 19.7%, Mystery 13.2%, Cinematic 11.6%, Dark 10.8%
StillAsleep is a first-person psychological horror game where you are trapped inside your dreams that slowly begin to break, shifting and distorting as you try to find a way out.
Why similar: Psychological 32.7%, Dark 16.8%, Mystery 11.5%, Adventure 9.4%, Surreal 8.9%
When a washed-up actor hangs himself on location, a spotlight is cast on the backwater Florida town of Cypress Knee. Your screen becomes a stage on which you investigate this mysterious death as three distinct characters.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Mystery 20.2%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Adventure 10.8%, Dark 9%
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: Psychological 21.2%, Surreal 13.2%, Mystery 12.8%, Dark 10.4%, Walking Simulator 10%
An atmospheric narrative puzzle-adventure set on a surreal Nordic island. Guide young Sam and his companion Kira through two shifting realities - switching between a world of terrifying shadows and a world of light to solve puzzles and reignite the broken lighthouse
Why similar: Psychological 25.3%, Surreal 14.9%, Mystery 14.8%, Dark 13.8%, Cinematic 8.6%
A cinematic Hong Kong Noir visual novel. In 2007, an assassin defies orders to kill her savior and becomes a fugitive. Explore her fate through 1,000+ visual cuts and 6 branching routes.(Full story is free via the demo version. This paid edition supports Steam Achievements and the creators.)
Why similar: Noir 29.1%, Cinematic 14.8%, Crime 11%, Mystery 11%, Dark 10.4%
Funeral is a first-person horror game that creates a terrifying atmosphere and powerful tension. Solve mild puzzles, explore different worlds, and escape from the demon's trap.
Why similar: Psychological 24.4%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Dark 14.6%, Mystery 13%, Surreal 11.4%
Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
Why similar: Noir 26.7%, Psychological 17.5%, Mystery 16%, Cinematic 14.2%, Dark 6.2%
Play as police officer Nathan Mercer in a story-driven psychological horror game. Explore a quiet home, uncover disturbing clues, piece together the events of the night, and unravel the mystery before the past closes in.
Why similar: Cinematic 19.4%, Adventure 15.9%, Psychological 13.2%, 1990's 11.5%, Dark 9.9%
After years apart, you visit an old friend for what should’ve been a quiet evening. But you soon realize you’re not alone and a dark betrayal awaits .The game is a first-person, linear PSX-style experience focused on exploration and uncovering secrets.”
Why similar: Psychological 34.5%, Mystery 19.2%, Adventure 18.5%, Dark 15.1%, Atmospheric 6.7%
Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.
Why similar: Psychological 26.4%, Mystery 14.3%, Cinematic 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Surreal 10.1%
17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.
Why similar: Noir 23%, Psychological 22.3%, Cinematic 13.8%, Mystery 13.4%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
Rattle Spring is a surreal, eerie, point-and-click puzzle game inspired by Rusty Lake. When your cousin vanishes from her family’s desert health resort, you must adventure into unsettling spaces, cryptic characters, and generational trauma to solve the interconnected puzzles and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Psychological 38.1%, Mystery 14.4%, Adventure 14.2%, Surreal 13.8%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
"The fire remembers what you forgot." Reclaim your name in this Taisho Gothic abyss, featuring an EDM Requiem crafted from the developer's raw voice. A psychological horror where emotion meets AI. Let the author's voice pull you into the depths. What is the truth at the end?
Why similar: Psychological 23.4%, Noir 22.5%, Cinematic 12.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Dark 11.1%
Wander in the Threshold, where your memories are the key. Can you face what still lingers ? An emotional story-driven exploration game in eerie liminal spaces.
Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Mystery 17.8%, Dark 12.6%, Surreal 12.4%, Adventure 10%
Step into the shoes of an experienced detective and uncover dark secrets while solving criminal cases. In this thrilling detective world, you'll face stressful decision-making moments, reconstruct crime scenes, and utilize cutting-edge technology for evidence analysis.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Cinematic 18.5%, Dark 12.9%, Mystery 11.9%, Crime 11.8%
A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.
Why similar: Psychological 22.5%, Dark 20.5%, Mystery 19.3%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Adventure 7.7%
A first-person psychological horror set in an abandoned hospital. Explore dark corridors, face unpredictable jump scares, and uncover the origin of a deadly infection—before you become its next victim.
Why similar: Psychological 25.5%, Adventure 20.6%, Mystery 15.5%, Dark 14.4%, Walking Simulator 13.2%
A cinematic point-and-click experience following a girl's struggles with schizophrenia. Your choices dynamically affect not only the way others perceive her, but the way she perceives the world as well. Maintain her trauma and psychosis, or don't and suffer from progressively violent hallucinations.
Why similar: Noir 38.4%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Cinematic 12.2%, Dark 10.6%, Third Person 6.3%
Trapped inside a shifting labyrinth formed from memory and fear, you must follow haunting whispers through corridors that never stay the same. Some voices guide you. Some lie. And the Maze remembers everything.
Why similar: Psychological 25.2%, Mystery 15.2%, Dark 15%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Adventure 9.8%
The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in the attic with your cat companion, armed only with a camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.
Why similar: Psychological 27.5%, Cinematic 15.7%, Dark 13.8%, Surreal 9.6%, Walking Simulator 9.5%
Your real smartphone is your only weapon... Sync your phone with the game and pray it doesn't ring while you're hiding in the closet.
Why similar: Psychological 20.8%, Noir 20.3%, Cinematic 10.8%, Mystery 10.6%, Crime 10.5%
*A remastered version of this game with enhanced graphics has been released. * "Red Spider" is a Hong Kong Noir-themed Visual Novel. There are 6 story routes with the different characters(approximately 105,000 words in total).
Why similar: Noir 31.9%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Cinematic 14.9%, Crime 10.4%, Dark 6.9%
Implements of Hell is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore the mysteries, unlock the secrets, and change the outcome in a slow-paced atmospheric, and extremely horrifying experience.
Why similar: Psychological 27.9%, Mystery 15.2%, Cinematic 13.9%, Dark 13%, Walking Simulator 10.4%
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: Psychological 17.6%, Dark 15.8%, Surreal 15.8%, Cinematic 12%, Mystery 11.3%
You're trapped in a small six-room hotel. The only way to escape is to observe your surroundings and follow the family's rules.
Why similar: Psychological 27.7%, Mystery 15.1%, Surreal 13%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Walking Simulator 10.2%
The Void - a psychological horror game A surreal dimension called the Void is filled with eerie dreams that have become reality.
Why similar: Noir 26.4%, Psychological 25.1%, Surreal 13.2%, Dark 13.1%, Adventure 8%
A Psychological Horror Backrooms Found Footage Game
Why similar: Psychological 35.6%, Mystery 19.6%, Dark 10.7%, Adventure 10.4%, Walking Simulator 8.8%
Survive the graveyard shift as a pizza delivery driver in decaying suburban America. Step out of the safety of your car, serve unpredictable customers, and try to ignore the things watching you from the dark. Your rent is due.
Why similar: Psychological 26.4%, Cinematic 13.8%, Mystery 13.1%, Dark 12.4%, 1990's 9.8%
Explore a haunted mansion, uncover a killers madness, and enter surreal paintings to relive the twisted mind of a killer. Danger and mystery are lurking behind the screaming walls of this fascinating and frightening horror adventure.
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Psychological 19.2%, Surreal 12.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Adventure 11.1%
