Games Like Joymaker

Mannequin House is a horror game where you collect paintings while running away from the Mannequins that come your way. Recommended for: people who want to be scared People who want to be surprised People who are tired of playing errand games A broadcaster with a reputation for good reactions

Why similar: Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Realistic 10%

A first-person psychological horror game about an ex-con working nights at a self-storage facility, where an old mirror reveals the spirits stalking him.

Why similar: Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Walking Simulator 11.9%, First-Person 9.4%, Realistic 9.4%

A found footage horror game about two sisters who often play hide and seek in their family home, recording everything with their mother's VHS camera. What begins innocently, soon turns disturbing, when it becomes clear that something is terribly wrong.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Exploration 9.4%

A short walking simulator with a horror feel that recreates actual found footage, which can be related to Liminal Space and Backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Exploration 12.3%, Simulation 10.7%

You are playing the role of a husband going to meet his wife, who is on a deserted island fighting for survival with others to obtain a powerful stone.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 19.6%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, First-Person 7.7%

FORSISTED is a horror game, a mission to find an object in an abandoned mansion that is known to be cursed.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 15.5%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Simulation 9.8%

The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Horror 12.9%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Realistic 9.7%

17 Horror rooms simulating common phobias. Are you afraid of spiders, cockroaches, snakes, heights, fire, being buried alive? Enter the black doors and conquer your fears!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Horror 12.8%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Exploration 9.7%

You've been hired to keep watch in a mysterious building with an infinite stairwell. Your task is simple: investigate each floor for strange phenomena. If you find an anomaly, be careful. Test your skills on the global leaderboard and in the weekly challenge event.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Horror 18.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Realistic 7.8%

Ocean Desolation is a Free Simple Linear horror game. After falling out of your boat during a thunderstorm you are left stranded in the South Pacific Ocean. Swim your way to different locations and find a way to call for help. But be careful, something lurks at the bottom.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 15.9%, Exploration 11.7%, Linear 11.1%

Play as Emily, drawn to a remote Mayan ruin after her brother insists it’s safe, amazing and beautiful. Explore an ancient Mayan site spanning jungle, temple, and catacombs as it becomes clear that he didn’t understand what he uncovered.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Simulation 16.5%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, Exploration 8.5%, Horror 8.4%

Veil of Sight is a first-person psychological horror game. After disturbing eye experiments, blinking is no longer natural. Explore an abandoned hospital, solve puzzles and survive the doctor who turned your body against you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.3%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Realistic 8.1%

The Vending Machine is a survival stealth horror where you must sneak, run, and escape from an anomalous vending machine.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 14.8%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Simulation 8.7%

The Guest is a first-person psychological horror game that focuses on creating fear and tension for the player.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.6%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 17.2%, Survival Horror 11.8%, First-Person 8.4%

Abyssal Trench is a first-person underwater horror game where you play as a lone explorer waking from cryo-sleep after a failed mission. With your pod out of fuel and your crew gone, a mysterious AI voice guides you to collect data from three abandoned drilling sites deep beneath the ocean.

Why similar: Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Survival Horror 16%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Simulation 10.5%

Take a temporary job as a forest ranger deep in the mountains. Complete daily tasks, maintain equipment, and enjoy the quiet, until strange things start to happen.

Why similar: Horror 17.6%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Linear 9%

Nightmare Within - Immerse yourself in the dark and unsettling atmosphere of psychological horror. Explore shifting locations, uncover fragments of memories, and reveal a story where reality fractures under the weight of guilt.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.9%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Horror 15.4%, Realistic 8.7%, First-Person 7.9%

"Dream Prison" is a 3D horror escape game similar to Exit 8. Find the anomalous rooms and escape the cult church.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 17.3%, Simulation 11.9%, First-Person 10.3%

Enter the mind of the patient. Seek anomalies and uncover the truth. Step into the patient’s mind, explore the mental space, and search for anomalies and memory fragments. Every choice could send you back to the start—can you reach the eighth floor?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 20.3%, First-Person 12.9%, Exploration 9.3%

ENTWINE is a terrifying first-person narrative psychological horror game. Explore horrifically detailed environments in a hand-crafted story-driven campaign as you uncover the story of Lucas Hale. Run. Hide. But try not to scream, it might hear you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Horror 14.9%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Linear 8.9%

A creepy tunnel inhabited by a gigantic creature. You are trapped inside this tunnel. Escape the giant creature, search for the tunnel's exit, and make your escape. This is a short horror game that envelops the player in a sense of unease and tension.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 16.9%, Realistic 11.8%, Simulation 11.5%

Insider Threat is a first-person survival horror game that focuses on creating fear and tension for the player.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 16.5%, Survival Horror 12.4%, First-Person 8%

A teenager's quiet night home alone turns into a fight for survival in this psychological survival horror. Scavenge for tools, outsmart a relentless stalker, and make life-or-death choices in a chilling race to escape. Every decision matters—can you survive the night?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 19.3%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Walking Simulator 9.3%, Linear 9.2%

You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 15%, Simulation 8.6%, Exploration 8.5%

Checkout is a psychological horror walking simulator where players attempt to escape from endlessly looping hotel corridors. The game delivers an intense immersion with its tension-building soundtrack and realistic graphics. Unravel the hidden stories and find your way out of the hotel.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Simulation 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 16.9%, First-Person 9.5%

In this first-person story-driven horror game, you take a job as a janitor to access a run-down island summer camp that got shut down, after the dissapearence of your younger brother, which was only one of many incidents. It’s up to you to uncover the island’s buried secrets.

Why similar: Horror 15.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Exploration 12.8%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Linear 9.4%

With so many missing persons cases revolving the Shepherd's Hill forest, why is yours any different?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 13.9%, Realistic 12.6%, First-Person 10.1%, Survival Horror 9.9%

"Office 8" is a psychological walking simulator exploring the unsettling nature of liminal office spaces. Pay close attention — your sanity depends on it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 15.1%, Simulation 8.1%, First-Person 7.9%

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: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Simulation 19.3%, Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Exploration 11.2%

Anji【Implication】-Stimulation that gives the mind, unconsciously, certain notions. This game is a first-person walking simulator where you just keep going down the stairs.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 17.4%, Realistic 11.5%, Linear 8%

Your dog Marla got lost in the most terrifying forest in New Jersey while on a walk, and now it's up to you to find her. Search the area, clean up Marla's poop, and avoid the creatures that may be lurking in the darkness.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.4%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, First-Person 13.2%, Horror 10.5%, Exploration 8.8%

Survive an intense horror inspired by Indonesian folklore. Evade the cunning Tuyul and other astral beings, explore eerie, haunted environments, and uncover sinister secrets hidden within the supernatural darkness.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Exploration 11.9%, Horror 11.6%, Action-Adventure 10.4%

Step into the shoes of a Father and Son as they navigate the challenges of taking care of one another in 'I REMEMBER', a psychological horror game. Traverse through decaying environments as you hide from terrors that threaten to consume you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Horror 12.5%, First-Person 8.5%

Diving into Abyss is a cave diving horror game with Photorealistic graphics. It's not just a diving simulation. It's a deep-sea survival horror that needs to survive suffocating closure fears and unidentified beings.

Why similar: Horror 20.8%, Survival Horror 20.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Walking Simulator 8.9%, Realistic 8.6%

Bleakmoor House is a psychological horror game where you navigate a shifting maze of dark rooms, solve puzzles, and uncover the mansion’s secrets. Face terrifying encounters and unravel the twisted history to survive the deadly traps within.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.5%, Horror 19.1%, Walking Simulator 18.5%, Simulation 11%, Exploration 10.1%

Room 404 is a first-person Chinese horror game.Players must discern anomalies within an endlessly looping corridor, make decisions,and attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding themselves and the four floors of the apartment.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Walking Simulator 20.8%, Exploration 10.8%, Horror 9.1%, Action-Adventure 8.9%

A rainy night, unfamiliar figures outside your mobile home and the growing feeling that something is terribly wrong.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.5%, Simulation 20.2%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Exploration 11.4%

THE EXPERIMENT: 49 is a first-person horror game that immerses you in the depths of fear A dangerous experiment that escaped from HelixGen Labs has reached a family home deep in the forest. Your mission is to uncover the secrets hidden within the house, survive, and find a way to end this nightmare.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 11.3%, Action-Adventure 10.6%

Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 13%, Realistic 10.2%

Backrooms Untold is an atmospheric horror experience where you’re lost in an endless, infinite maze of fluorescent lit corridors, stained carpet, and humming lights. The deeper you go, the more it feels wrong—familiar spaces twisting into something hostile and unknowable.

Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Realistic 13.4%, Exploration 11.1%

A Psychological Horror Game Set in Everyday Life

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 16.6%, Simulation 12.5%, First-Person 11.1%

You’ve stepped into an office building haunted by an unsolved murder. The elevator traps you in endlessly repeating floors — each one slightly different from the last. Discover all 31 subtle anomalies, avoid deadly supernatural events, and reach the final EXIT to uncover the true ending.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 20.4%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Simulation 14.5%, Exploration 9.5%

Imprisoned by a fanatical cult in a nightmarish dungeon! Confront eldritch forces and solve twisted puzzles. Will you break free from the strings of fear or yield to the supernatural puppetry? Face your deepest fears in this immersive first-person horror experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 14.9%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Realistic 9%

You are a broken ex–police officer haunted by your partner’s disappearance. A mysterious clue drags you into decaying places infected by a devilish presence, breathing, waiting, watching from the dark. Solve cryptic puzzles, face buried guilt, and uncover a truth that was never meant to surface.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 15.1%, Exploration 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%

«Echoes in the White» is a psychological horror from the first person. Return to the apartment of your childhood to uncover the dark secret of the family. The action takes place 10 years later. A creepy and tense atmosphere, a deep plot and riddles - all this awaits you in this game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Simulation 16%, Horror 10.2%, Exploration 9.9%, Realistic 8.9%

Forest Asylum 2 - An Indie Psychological Horror Game and the sequel to the well-received first part. Embark on a Therapy that will change your life!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Horror 15.1%, Walking Simulator 14%, Action-Adventure 9.1%

Backrooms Santa is a singleplayer horror game. Bring back the kids gifts and escape a massive Backrooms maze — while holiday horrors hunt you every step of the way. How fast can you save the kids christmas?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Realistic 9.8%

Skull Hotel is a horror game where you clean hotel rooms while creatures hide, waiting to kill you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Realistic 7.8%

It’s 1999. As a detective, you've discovered a set of eerie VHS tapes at a gruesome crime scene. Play as the urban explorer recorded on the tapes, reliving their terrifying journey through abandoned places. Investigate, uncover the truth, and survive the horrors captured on film.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 16.4%, Linear 9.6%, Exploration 9.1%

"Unknown Memoirs" is a short horror game series focusing on distressing tales of horror. "The Rental" centers on the main character moving into a rental that they found online. Little do they know of the horrors that await them.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Exploration 12.8%, Simulation 10.8%

You've been trapped in a looping Finnish summer cottage. Use your observation and memory to find anomalies and make the right choice to escape the Finnish Cottage 8.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Horror 14.5%, Linear 9.3%, First-Person 8.4%

A haunted projectionist’s room. A shelf of cursed films. Each reel plays a terrifying short story you must live through. Explore twisted worlds from the safety of the projection booth, or so you think...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Exploration 12.3%, First-Person 8.9%

You get a strange job. Your job is to patrol a 13th-floor apartment, look for anomalies...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Exploration 14.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Horror 10.6%

Lurking in Tenebris is a psychological horror game where you participate in a mysterious drug experiment, forced to escape mazes that intensify with every pill you take.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 16.8%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Realistic 8.7%

You must walk through dark alleys, lightless fields, and pitch-black forests. There are no monsters chasing you. But never look back. A psychological horror experienced only with the mouse and W, A, S, D.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Horror 19.7%, First-Person 11.9%, Linear 11.1%, Psychological Horror 11%

Immerse yourself in the foreboding atmosphere of Enspire School of Digital Art, brought to life with realistic graphics. Solve intricate puzzles and face psychological challenges to progress through the nightmarish school environment. FACE YOUR FEAR and ESCAPE THE NIGHT.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 16.2%, Walking Simulator 14%, Realistic 11.5%, Survival Horror 9.9%

Foster: Ghost Child provides an atmospheric horror that incorporates East Asian elements rarely used in games. The game makes use of Chinese traditional elements to convey a distinct and frightful storyline that incorporates Taoism, Buddhism, and Chinese mythology.

Why similar: Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Exploration 8.7%

Identify anomalies and dangers in a mysterious office complex and make the right decisions to escape using the elevator.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 11.9%, First-Person 10.1%

Pack toys. Ship orders. Finish the shift. And repeat. Twisted Toy is a psychological horror game where your nightly routine reveals you’re not alone.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Horror 22.1%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Simulation 14.2%, 3D 8%