- #1 Buddy Simulator 1984
97% matchVery Positive93% of 4,366 reviews2021
Dev: Not a Sailor Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.8%, Horror 19.8%, Retro 17.5%, Story Rich 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similarly deceptive and evolving text-based companion that slowly reveals a sinister nature.
- #2 SIMULACRA
96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,689 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.8%, Horror 17.9%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a realistic fictional phone interface to immerse players in a disturbing mystery involving missing persons.
- #3 Doki Doki Literature Club!
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 228,468 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 49.8%, Horror 20.8%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Story Rich 7%, Indie 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: Subverts an innocent-looking visual novel format into a psychological horror experience that breaks the fourth wall.
- #4 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
95% matchVery Positive94% of 58,305 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Psychological 11%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Involves managing a virtual companion's daily life through desktop applications while psychological horror lurks beneath.
- #5 Amanda the Adventurer
94% matchVery Positive94% of 7,298 reviews2023
Dev: MANGLEDmaw GamesPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Join Amanda and her pal Wooly on a series of adventures as they explore and learn about our wonderful world! With several NEW play-along, laugh-along, learn-along episodes there's always fun to be had! Just make sure to do everything Amanda says or she might get angry.
Why similar: Horror 32.8%, 1990's 25.3%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Story Rich 9.4%, Psychological 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends seemingly innocent retro children's media with dark, disturbing psychological horror elements.
- #6 MiSide
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 142,774 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 44%, Horror 22%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Story Rich 10.2%, 3D 3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a cute, seemingly friendly digital companion with unsettling, reality-bending psychological horror.
- #7 Pony Island
93% matchVery Positive95% of 18,152 reviews2016
Dev: Daniel Mullins Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.5%, Horror 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Indie 6.8%, Story Rich 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A deceptive puzzle game disguised as a retro arcade title that constantly manipulates the player's system and interface.
- #8 Winion Virus
91% matchVery Positive95% of 1,075 reviews2024
Dev: Dawntown Studio
Windows · Mac
Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.2%, Horror 21.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Employs a malicious retro virtual entity that interacts directly with your computer environment.
- #9 Welcome to the Game
92% matchVery Positive84% of 2,596 reviews2016
Dev: Reflect Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 45.5%, Horror 40.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses the player in a dark, desktop-based simulation where navigating retro internet interfaces triggers intense dread.
- #10 Tattletail
91% matchVery Positive95% of 5,065 reviews2016
Dev: Waygetter ElectronicsPub: Little Flag Software, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
It’s Christmas 1998. The world’s most annoying toy just came out, and yours won’t stay in his box. Can you stop Tattletail from getting you in trouble before the bloodthirsty Mama Tattletail hunts you down? Story-driven first person horror. New DLC Included!
Why similar: Horror 47.4%, 1990's 35.4%, Story Rich 7.6%, Indie 5.8%, Singleplayer 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a retro virtual pet toy that turns terrifyingly sinister as you care for it in the dark.
- #11 Yume Nikki
90% matchVery Positive94% of 10,656 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.7%, Horror 20.5%, Psychological 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, 2D 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Explores surreal, dark psychological dreamscapes with an isolating, unsettling indie atmosphere.
- #12 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,372 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.8%, Horror 18.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 15%, Retro 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a deeply atmospheric, abstract psychological horror experience through stylized text interactions.
- #13 The Exit 8
89% matchVery Positive93% of 11,657 reviews2023
Dev: KOTAKE CREATEPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.4%, Immersive Sim 21.7%, Horror 20.8%, Psychological 11.7%, Linear 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric anomaly-hunting walking simulator that plays with perception and psychological tension.
- #14 Inscryption
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 148,820 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 39.3%, Psychological 26.6%, Story Rich 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, 2D 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a meta-narrative card game framework to slowly unravel a deeply unsettling psychological mystery.
- #15 Lost in Vivo
88% matchVery Positive91% of 4,007 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.3%, Horror 23.4%, Psychological 16.2%, Retro 14.3%, Multiple Endings 5%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled indie horror game that uses claustrophobic urban spaces to evoke intense psychological terror.
- #16 Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike
87% matchVery Positive87% of 3,435 reviews2022
Dev: Rayll
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Holly Gardner, a 19 year old on an interstate drive experiences unusual happenings that leads to an unplanned stay at a motel, little did she know what was transpiring down in Norwood Valley.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.8%, Horror 21.4%, Retro 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Psychological 8%
Why You'll Like It: Builds intense psychological dread using realistic episodic framing and everyday interactive scenarios.
- #17 Killer Frequency
86% matchVery Positive93% of 6,238 reviews2023
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
Why similar: Horror 34.2%, 1990's 22.2%, Multiple Endings 19.8%, Story Rich 13.1%, Simulation 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Puts you behind the desk of a late-night radio station operating interactive interfaces to save callers from a killer.
- #18 Endacopia
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 7,578 reviews2026
Dev: Andyland
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.4%, Horror 20.3%, Retro 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, point-and-click horror adventure featuring creepy retro graphics and a haunting atmosphere.
- #19 Shipwrecked 64
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,738 reviews2024
Dev: Squeaks D'CorgehPub: Cogware Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A recovered copy of a lost game from the late 1990s about a Beaver named Bucky and his friends trying to escape from an island they crashed upon.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.7%, Horror 25.8%, 1990's 18.8%, Story Rich 8%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines nostalgic, low-poly educational media aesthetics with dark analog horror and puzzle-solving.
- #20 Kiosk
84% matchVery Positive88% of 2,914 reviews2025
Dev: Vivi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 20.2%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, 1990's 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines simulation mechanics with psychological horror elements in a strange, isolated pixel-art environment.
- #21 ENA: Dream BBQ
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 37,394 reviews2025
Dev: ENA TeamPub: Joel G
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Why similar: Retro 29.6%, Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 12.2%, Linear 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in a bizarre, surreal, and deeply stylized digital world filled with unsettling characters.
- #22 Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered
82% matchVery Positive92% of 17,728 reviews2022
Dev: Basically GamesPub: Basically Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Escape Baldi's schoolhouse again in this new remastered version of Baldi's Basics Classic! Use stealth and strategy to collect all 7 notebooks and win! Featuring three games in one, gameplay improvements, a more authentic art style, accessibility improvements, and brand new ways to play!
Why similar: Horror 35.6%, Retro 24.1%, 1990's 20%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Indie 5%
Why You'll Like It: Wraps a deceptively simple educational game format in retro horror and frantic stealth mechanics.
- #23 [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
83% matchVery Positive82% of 3,323 reviews2020
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
Why similar: Horror 40%, Psychological Horror 32.8%, Psychological 12%, Indie 5.2%, Story Rich 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: A Chilla's Art horror title that turns mundane convenience store work into a terrifying psychological ordeal.
- #24 The Complex: Found Footage
81% matchVery Positive93% of 9,931 reviews2022
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38%, Horror 31.5%, 1990's 15.9%, Story Rich 5.1%, Multiple Endings 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Leverages eerie found-footage aesthetics to build an immersive and terrifying psychological atmosphere.
- #25 Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
81% matchVery Positive86% of 70,116 reviews2021
Dev: Steel Wool StudiosPub: ScottGames
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, play as Gregory, a young boy who’s been trapped overnight inside of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. With the help of Freddy himself, Gregory must uncover the secrets of the Pizzaplex, learn the truth, and survive until dawn.
Why similar: Horror 37%, Artificial Intelligence 22.8%, Multiple Endings 21.4%, Story Rich 7.8%, 3D 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Involves navigating a sprawling facility while evading rogue animatronic systems.
- #26 No, I'm not a Human
78% matchVery Positive93% of 31,055 reviews2025
Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Horror 20.8%, Psychological 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Retro 9.6%
- #27 Iron Lung
80% matchVery Positive92% of 11,291 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.1%, Horror 36.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Indie 5.7%, 3D 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers maximum psychological dread through claustrophobic isolation and cryptic terminal interfaces.
- #28 The Boba Teashop
78% matchVery Positive94% of 1,400 reviews2025
Dev: Mike Ten
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A cozy horror game where you own and manage a boba tea shop. Prepare boba teas, serve customers, and expand your menu to grow your business.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.9%, Horror 21.3%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Psychological 9.2%
- #29 Superliminal
79% matchVery Positive95% of 34,206 reviews2020
Dev: Pillow Castle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.2%, Psychological 31%, Horror 17%, Story Rich 12.3%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Explores mind-bending perspective puzzles that constantly manipulate reality and player expectations.
- #30 The Stanley Parable
79% matchVery Positive92% of 45,837 reviews2013
Dev: Galactic Cafe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Why similar: Psychological 40.6%, Multiple Endings 24.4%, Indie 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative masterpiece that constantly plays with the fourth wall and player agency.
- #31 Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,982 reviews2024
Dev: Mega Cat Studios
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.
Why similar: Horror 50.6%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, 2D 7.7%, 1990's 7.5%
- #32 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,405 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8%, Horror 7.9%
- #33 [Chilla's Art] Parasocial | パラソーシャル
77% matchVery Positive94% of 1,717 reviews2023
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Parasocial | パラソーシャル is a Japanese horror game about a live streamer.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.3%, Horror 30.4%, Immersive Sim 14%, 1990's 6.4%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
- #34 DELTARUNE
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 137,742 reviews2025
Dev: tobyfox
Windows · Mac
Median: 23.2 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-5 are available now, with more planned as free updates!
Why similar: Story Rich 31.6%, Pixel Graphics 29%, Retro 19.4%, 2D 13.7%, Singleplayer 6.3%
- #35 FEED IT
75% matchVery Positive84% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: Games On A ChairPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac
A first-person, PSX-style horror game about living with a monster. Do as you're told... or don't. Just be ready for the consequences.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.6%, Horror 18%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Retro 13.5%, Psychological 12.3%
- #36 s.p.l.i.t
74% matchVery Positive93% of 4,075 reviews2025
Dev: Mike Klubnika
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.5%, Horror 21.7%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Linear 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #37 Momotype
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 799 reviews2021
Dev: RimatoadPub: Rimatoad
Windows · Mac · Linux
An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!
Why similar: Psychological 18.4%, Artificial Intelligence 16%, Horror 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Linear 12.1%
- #38 Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic
73% matchVery Positive86% of 11,618 reviews2025
Dev: Steel Wool StudiosPub: ScottGames
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter the abandoned workshop of Murray’s Costume Manor and unravel the mystery left behind by the reclusive inventor. In Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic, you’ll step into a world where every dark corner holds a secret and every flicker of light hints at an ever-present threat.
Why similar: Horror 48.6%, Artificial Intelligence 30.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, 3D 5.1%, Story Rich 3.8%
- #39 FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,159 reviews2019
Dev: Steel Wool StudiosPub: ScottGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.
Why similar: Horror 54.3%, Psychological Horror 34.3%, Story Rich 4.3%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Indie 1.7%
- #40 Baldi's Basics Plus
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,752 reviews2020
Dev: Basically GamesPub: Basically Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Baldi's Basics® Plus is an active stealth roguelike that parodies cheap '90s edutainment with a subtle horror twist! Play Hide & Seek with Baldi as he chases you through procedurally generated levels while using your surroundings, items, and game knowledge to shift chaos in your favor.
Why similar: Horror 33%, 1990's 27.1%, Retro 26.2%, Indie 6.2%, 3D 4.6%
- #41 OMORI
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 88,824 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.7%, Horror 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
- #42 Obsessed : Night Shift
72% matchVery Positive90% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: arydkPub: Akhir Hayat Studio
Windows
A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.7%, Horror 28.8%, Retro 17.1%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Indie 2.8%
- #43 Fears to Fathom - Home Alone
73% matchVery Positive90% of 11,163 reviews2021
Dev: Rayll
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 14%
Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.
Why similar: Horror 36.1%, Psychological Horror 34.7%, Psychological 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%, Indie 3.6%
- #44 Mouthwashing
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,851 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.7%, Horror 19.6%, Psychological 14.7%, Retro 14.7%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #45 Home Safety Hotline
71% matchVery Positive91% of 2,959 reviews2024
Dev: Night Signal Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
Why similar: 1990's 32.8%, Horror 31.1%, Psychological Horror 24%, Multiple Endings 6.2%, Simulation 5.9%
- #46 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
71% matchVery Positive94% of 36,219 reviews2022
Dev: Crows Crows Crows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.1%, Multiple Endings 32.3%, Horror 10.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, 3D 3.8%
- #47 Subliminal
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,794 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, Horror 19.6%, Immersive Sim 18.7%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Story Rich 8%
- #48 SIMULACRA 2
71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,691 reviews2020
Dev: Kaigan GamesPub: Soft Source
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 14.1%, Immersive Sim 14%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%
- #49 Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout
68% matchVery Positive92% of 6,451 reviews2023
Dev: Rayll Studios
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Jack Nelson, a 24-year-old fire lookout, transferred to a new outpost. As he settled into his new home, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was off, little did he know what was transpiring down in Ironbark State Park.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 43.1%, Horror 33.7%, Psychological 7.7%, Dialogue Heavy 6.6%, Story Rich 6.3%
- #50 WEBFISHING
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 70,475 reviews2024
Dev: lamedeveloper
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Why similar: Indie 37.3%, Casual 24.7%, 3D 24.6%, Singleplayer 13.5%
- #51 a pet shop after dark
69% matchVery Positive89% of 407 reviews2022
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 25.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Psychological 11.7%
- #52 Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face
67% matchVery Positive86% of 3,101 reviews2024
Dev: 2OO2
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 54 min≥1hr: 16%
Mr. Red Face, a fictional character created by adults to teach their children, suddenly becomes real..
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31%, Horror 25.2%, 1990's 21.8%, Retro 9.4%, Story Rich 3.4%
- #53 ELEVATOR: AVICI
66% matchVery Positive92% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross
Windows
"ELEVATOR: AVICI" is a 1st-person psychological horror with a retro, HK lo-fi aesthetic. Trapped in a decaying apartment elevator, your only link to the outside is a strange voice on the intercom claiming to be a repairman. Will you follow his commands, or find your own escape from the darkness?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.3%, Horror 23.5%, Retro 18.6%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
- #54 Garten of Banban
70% matchMixed54% of 13,519 reviews2023
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…
Why similar: Psychological Horror 45.4%, Horror 33%, Story Rich 10.7%, 3D 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #55 It Steals
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,409 reviews2020
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
AROUND EVERY CORNER. Face against stealthy antagonists that will take advantage of your expectations.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37%, Horror 30.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Psychological 8.1%, Retro 6.5%
- #56 Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
68% matchVery Positive94% of 33,357 reviews2017
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Why similar: Horror 42.4%, Psychological Horror 23%, Retro 7.6%, Story Rich 7.2%, Simulation 6.2%
- #57 Lost Diskettes Vol.1
67% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Puko
Windows
This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Horror 20.2%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Retro 13.3%, 1990's 12%
- #58 IMSCARED
69% matchVery Positive95% of 3,993 reviews2016
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"I need a Heart in order to open it"
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.3%, Horror 29.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Retro 9.2%, Indie 5.2%
- #59 Backspace Backspace Backspace
66% matchVery Positive97% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Horror 17.6%, Psychological 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #60 Your amazing T-Gotchi!
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 751 reviews2020
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A cute game where you care about a green anime girl!
Why similar: Horror 26.3%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%