- #1 Distorted Reality
97% matchMostly Negative21% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: Berdochan
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 16%
Distorted Reality is a first-person survival horror, which takes place in the hospital of Alexandria. For mysterious reasons, the usual laws of physics in the hospital completely stopped working.
Why similar: Adventure 41%, Horror 32.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #2 EBOLA
96% matchMixed41% of 233 reviews2019
Dev: indie_games_studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Your main task is to find out who is involved in the spread and experiment on the "E" virus - Ebola, you need to stop the spread of the virus, and at the same time survive yourself! Millions of people may die.
Why similar: Horror 72.5%, Adventure 27.5%
- #3 Pestis
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 109 reviews2018
Dev: DIEDEMOR STUDIO GAMESPub: Laush Studio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
A young Plague Doctor, only to learn that the Academy sent to a small village, which, like the whole country is gripped by plague
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #4 Endure Island
95% matchMixed45% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Izanabit
Windows
On a deserted island, a recurring phenomenon of large numbers of infected individuals appearing and disappearing continued. It was discovered that the cause was a virus, and efforts to uncover the virus and eradicate it have begun.
- #5 Terror Lab
94% matchMixed55% of 99 reviews2016
Dev: Nicolas BernardPub: M.INDIE
Windows · Mac · Linux
You have just awoken without knowing who or where you are. You can't remember anything but it is clear you are not alone.
Why similar: Horror 37.5%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 28.1%
- #6 The Inevitability
94% 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: Adventure 40%, Horror 35.3%, Indie 24.7%
- #7 Self-Isolation
92% matchVery Positive86% of 491 reviews2020
Dev: Dymchick1
Windows
This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.
Why similar: Horror 50.1%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 21.6%
- #8 Alone K.W.
93% 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 56.8%, Horror 25.4%, Indie 17.8%
- #9 Disease -Hidden Object-
91% matchMixed61% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: OperaHouse CorporationPub: D3PUBLISHER
Windows
This is a horror adventure game where the player go back and forth in between the real world and the hallucination world. The purpose of this game is to search items and collect scattered documents while solving mysteries and finding out the truth of the abolished hospital.
Why similar: Horror 55.7%, Adventure 44.3%
- #10 Fariwalk: The Prelude
91% matchMixed65% of 71 reviews2017
Dev: AIHASTOPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
The world where humanity is almost gone. A few remaining people search for each other amongst monsters, common inhabitants of the Earth. However, this story is about a child who is going to obtain something very important. Fariwalk: The Prelude is a short prologue to The Fariwalk game.
Why similar: Adventure 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #11 Mask of the Plague Doctor
90% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stop a deadly plague in a medieval fantasy tale of swords and surgery! Unearth medical knowledge, prevent the town’s purge, or plot your own escape.
Why similar: Adventure 38%, Horror 35.4%, Indie 26.6%
- #12 THE WELL
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Creeps LTD.
Windows
Isolation. Hopelessness. Starvation. By the will of an unknown force, you find yourself isolated from the outside world. Now you are doomed to starve to death. No one will come to your aid. No one will hear your prayers.
Why similar: Adventure 45%, Horror 41.2%, Indie 13.8%
- #13 Remoteness
87% matchMixed56% of 111 reviews2022
Dev: KR Games
Windows
New York, 2034: you wake up after what seemed to be a terrible nightmare, while it is not. The district has been evacuated and isolated overnight by the army, after an electrical meteor shower hit the Earth. Fight, explore, survive, and try to escape from this hell!
Why similar: Horror 57.3%, Adventure 42.7%
- #14 Bad Dream: Fever
86% matchVery Positive82% of 1,325 reviews2018
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, loneliness and suffering.
Why similar: Horror 43.7%, Adventure 30.7%, Indie 25.6%
- #15 Cry Of Monster
85% matchMixed55% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: MindBreak
Windows
Everything fell apart. People started getting sick… not in a normal way. Now the city is desolate, and the only thing that matters is finding out if your best friend is still alive. You'll have to explore, run, hide, and face the contamination.
Why similar: Adventure 50.7%, Horror 37.6%, Indie 11.6%
- #16 10 Years After
88% matchVery Negative11% of 129 reviews2015
Dev: Rock Paper Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
“10 Years After” Is a survival based horror (Open World) Single Player Adventure ..........After the government rolled out a injection to the general public to stem the violence and quell the human emotion's things were going well ….....
Why similar: Adventure 60.8%, Indie 39.2%
- #17 The Inn-Sanity
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,607 reviews2025
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
Why similar: Horror 66%, Adventure 34%
- #18 Joana's Life
86% matchMostly Negative31% of 232 reviews2016
Dev: Old Shack StudioPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In a peaceful part of the town, a series of deaths occur, seemingly random at first, but gruesome in their nature. One day, you find an object that doesn't belong in your house. An old, worn-out, stained mirror. You'll come to discover that the simple mirror isn't the only thing that is out of place.
Why similar: Indie 44.6%, Horror 33.2%, Adventure 22.2%
- #19 Mortal Decay
84% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2020
Dev: Roger Kaffer
Windows
You are a veteran, in a post World War 3 apocalyptic world. Starving and alone, you fight to keep your sanity in the hell that this world has decayed into. In a desperate attempt to find food, you stumble your way into an abandoned prison, but you find out it is not as abandoned as you believed...
Why similar: Horror 78.1%, Adventure 21.9%
- #20 Despair
84% matchMostly Negative35% of 1,837 reviews2015
Dev: AGC
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.
Why similar: Indie 44.9%, Horror 40.1%, Adventure 15%
- #21 Insomnia: Chapter One
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 134 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: Horror 50.1%, Adventure 49.9%
- #22 Backrooms: Exploration
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.
Why similar: Horror 67.1%, Adventure 32.9%
- #23 A Lonely Cabin Trip
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Korvinrular
Windows
You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?
Why similar: Horror 63%, Adventure 30.5%, Indie 6.5%
- #24 Just Alone
83% matchMostly Negative38% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Evergreen
Windows
"Just Alone" is a survival game set in a hostile world inhabited by the mutated creatures. Game begins when Bill Yesterday's ship crashes into the earth. As the only survivor he has to try survive in destroyed by atomic bomb, nasty world.
Why similar: Adventure 57.7%, Indie 42.3%
- #25 PANIC STATION
82% matchMixed42% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Forest Games
Windows
After exploring the new planet, the space crew became infected with an unknown virus. After a long epidemic, the space station plunged into chaos. Various mutations took place with the crew of the ship, which clouded their minds. Make your way to the rescue shuttle through the mysterious danger.
Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Adventure 31.5%, Indie 23.2%
- #26 The Heilwald Loophole
77% matchVery Positive98% of 364 reviews2022
Dev: Jan Malitschek
Windows
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
Why similar: Horror 69.4%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 3.3%
- #27 Unanswered
76% matchVery Positive95% of 74 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: Horror 50.8%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 22.6%
- #28 Trapped
78% matchVery Positive82% of 165 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: Horror 37.8%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 26.1%
- #29 Ghost Stories
79% matchMixed69% of 85 reviews2019
Dev: AK Studio
Windows
You find yourself in a deserted territory of a country house, and when you try to get out, understand that it's impossible. One on one with ghosts and your task is to survive and only then to figure out what happened here...
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Horror 34.9%, Indie 26.3%
- #30 Omen Exitio: Plague
78% matchVery Positive85% of 631 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Indie 50.6%, Adventure 49.4%
- #31 Captivity
79% matchMixed54% of 138 reviews2016
Dev: TraumaPub: New Worlds Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
You wake up to the smell of rotting flesh in what can only be described as someone's basement. Your memory is blank and your vision impaired, you have no idea where you are. The floors and walls are dirty, it appears there may be other people here as there are dirty sheets on the floor.
Why similar: Indie 43.2%, Horror 31.8%, Adventure 25%
- #32 Outbreak Island
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,017 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Horror 77.1%, Adventure 22.9%
- #33 Pathologic 2
75% matchVery Positive92% of 12,076 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Adventure 58.8%, Indie 41.2%
- #34 The Lightkeeper
73% matchVery Positive82% of 1,043 reviews2025
Dev: Darkphobia Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
Why similar: Horror 66.4%, Adventure 33.6%
- #35 Unplagued
74% matchMostly Negative32% of 4,950 reviews2024
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Play as plague doctors with your friends in this multiplayer co-op medieval horror! Purge the plague. Create the cure. Escape the mutated creatures. Make the queen proud.
Why similar: Horror 72.3%, Adventure 27.7%
- #36 Reflection
72% matchVery Positive84% of 255 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: Horror 72.5%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 3.4%
- #37 Dark Night
77% matchMostly Negative38% of 64 reviews2016
Dev: NighthoodGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Welcome home Amelia, familiar eyes are watching you, and they want to play. Home alone you can feel them. You can hear their footsteps. You need to move. You have limited visibility. Light a matchstick to see in the dark. Close your eyes. Start begging for your life.
Why similar: Horror 36.3%, Adventure 32.5%, Indie 31.3%
- #38 Diastone: Memories
75% matchMixed70% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: Souluted GamesPub: My Way Games
Windows
Discover a world unknown to you, becoming the figure before whom the universe itself shudders, the one unacquainted with the confines of time and space, experiencing the lives of different individuals. Transform into someone who fears only one thing: the creature trailing closely behind.
Why similar: Horror 39.8%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 25.5%
- #39 Infliction
73% matchVery Positive81% of 954 reviews2018
Dev: Caustic Reality
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Why similar: Horror 59.7%, Adventure 24.2%, Indie 16.1%
- #40 The Plague Doctor of Wippra
71% matchVery Positive89% of 385 reviews2022
Dev: ElectrocosmosPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac · Linux
The plague spreads agony and fear in the small town of Wippra. As a plague doctor, you bring healing and relief wherever you can. But ignorance, superstition, and religious zeal make for a deadly threat in this retro medieval medical adventure!
Why similar: Adventure 81.7%, Indie 18.3%
- #41 Meridian 157: Chapter 1
72% matchVery Positive94% of 359 reviews2020
Dev: NovaSoft Interactive Ltd.
Windows · Mac
While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it? Why was it left abandoned? Explore the uninhabited complex you now find yourself trapped in, but be warned: you might not be as alone as you think...
Why similar: Adventure 56.3%, Horror 30.8%, Indie 12.9%
- #42 It Reaches
70% matchNo user reviews78% of 126 reviews2026
Dev: Emberflight Games
Windows
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: Horror 87.9%, Indie 12.1%
- #43 The Last Plague: Blight
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,423 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
- #44 Escape From Monster
71% matchMixed67% of 276 reviews2022
Dev: Thunder Games
Windows
You woke up in a dusty room, in an unknown place, with no memory of how you got here. Your pockets are empty, and there is something outside the door producing frightening sounds.
Why similar: Horror 70.4%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 8.3%
- #45 Plastomorphosis
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: VidyGames
Windows
Evacuated from their hometown due to dangerous bursts of dark energy, the ordinary citizen is trying to overcome and survive a series of events in a new reality where living as a human is no longer possible as it once was. 3rd-person horror with fixed camera angles and retro-styled graphics.
Why similar: Horror 72.4%, Adventure 27.6%
- #46 ALONE?
73% matchMixed41% of 190 reviews2016
Dev: Deceptive Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore and experience this horror story, as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.
Why similar: Horror 44.7%, Adventure 32.5%, Indie 22.8%
- #47 DOCTOR VISCERA
68% matchVery Positive93% of 107 reviews2025
Dev: Liminal RoadPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Trapped in an abandoned asylum, survive by exploring, solving puzzles, and escaping the terrifying Doctor Viscera. Hide, fight back with limited resources, and uncover documents that reveal the way out before you become the next victim of his gruesome experiments.
Why similar: Horror 66.9%, Adventure 33.1%
- #48 Radiation Island
70% matchVery Positive81% of 632 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Adventure 47.5%, Horror 26.6%, Indie 25.9%
- #49 Fear in Hospital
71% matchMixed48% of 517 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Fear in Hospital is a short survivor horror in hospital where you should find a occult path to escape alive!
Why similar: Horror 58.3%, Adventure 28.5%, Indie 13.1%
- #50 Madness inside
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 89 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: Horror 48.1%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 24.2%
- #51 廃病院探索
67% matchVery Positive80% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: カニお@VtuberPub: vkanio_game
Windows
This is a horror game that asks a friend to find out what happened in an abandoned hospital.
Why similar: Horror 87.1%, Indie 12.9%
- #52 Forsaken Quartet
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: AVANTGARDEPub: Kagura Games
Windows
The world has been ravaged by a horrible disease. You and three others are the only people left alive on the small island on which you reside.
Why similar: Adventure 58.8%, Indie 41.2%
- #53 Thekku Island
65% matchVery Positive87% of 145 reviews2026
Dev: Ales Devs Games
Windows
A chilling psychological horror set in 1980s Kerala. After weeks of silence, you arrive on a remote island to search for your missing wife. Explore an abandoned house, uncover local folklore, survive haunting encounters, and unravel the island’s buried secrets.
Why similar: Horror 55.7%, Adventure 44.3%
- #54 Hillbilly Apocalypse
69% matchMixed64% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: Uncle Frost TeamPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Once upon a time when all planet was in great danger the unknown enemy turned everyone into zombies. Chaos came. The rest of people are had to survive. It seems that everything has come to an end...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Quadrant
69% matchMixed66% of 127 reviews2015
Dev: HKFiftyOne GamesPub: Three Brothers Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The year is 1979. A secret, final lunar mission has retrieved hundreds of moon rocks for study at Aether Research Facility. Overtaken by curiosity, researchers delve deeper and deeper into the unknown. Only to find a sinister and unperceivable
Why similar: Horror 61%, Indie 39%
- #56 Plagueworld
68% matchMixed58% of 66 reviews2019
Dev: Free Initiative Games
Windows
Adveture game based on medieval times, where you take the role of a hero that needs to fight and destroy the plague that invaded world.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #57 Dementium II HD
68% matchMixed50% of 1,279 reviews2013
Dev: Memetic GamesPub: Missing Link Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The visage of doctors and patients alike fade in and out of these nightmarish visions of tortured memories. This eggshell reality is fractured by experiments conducted in the ward. Blood, flesh and screams surround as you put together the pieces of your story and make your escape from the Bright Dawn Treatment Center while the dark...
Why similar: Horror 63.3%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 14.1%
- #58 CHEMISTS: Area of infection
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: RPAXPub: GAMEPORTAL.CO
Windows
A year after the global catastrophe, you woke up in a hospital and don't remember anything. You have to not only find out what happened, but also try to survive in this harsh dangerous world.
Why similar: Adventure 100%