Games Like Knock Harder

In this new chapter of "Suicide Guy" you'll be challenged with even more insane puzzles, generated by the surreal dreams of the Guy. You'll encounter the weirdest of the living beings as you go deeper and deeper into his subconscious. This time to wake him up you'll need all your skills.

Why similar: Indie 22.3%, Action 20.8%, Comedy 19.8%, Atmospheric 18.8%, Adventure 18.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core mechanic of needing to die within a dream to wake up and progress.

There is an unusual cabin deep in the woods. It had served as a laboratory and a dwelling for three generations of Lodgers.But as of late the latest Lodger has been noticing weird changes in familiar surroundings; things are missing, noises and rattle heard. Something odd is coming out of the woods.

Why similar: Difficult 19.1%, Horror 14.8%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Survival 13.3%, Mystery 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar unsettling, surreal atmosphere where the player must survive the night in a shifting, dream-like environment.

By night, delve deep into your subconscious and discover powerful artifacts to conquer your nightmares. By day, explore the city of Redhaven and build relationships to unlock the power of your dreams. DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.

Why similar: RPG 22.8%, Action 22.7%, Indie 16.8%, Difficult 14.4%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends action-roguelike gameplay with a deep focus on exploring the protagonist's subconscious and dream world.

Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.

Why similar: Horror 35.5%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Indie 14.4%, Adventure 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title masterfully explores the psychological horror of being trapped in a cycle of recurring, inescapable nightmares.

Who Knocks is a first person psychological horror game that will make your nightmares come true. You have just moved into a new home. Welcome the presences that will knock at your door. Solve puzzles, explore the environment and fight your nightmares.

Why similar: Horror 65.8%, Action 34.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar thematic focus on psychological horror and the feeling of being hunted within a confined space.

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: Adventure 68.1%, Singleplayer 31.9%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle game focuses on perception-bending dream logic that challenges the player's understanding of reality.

John Herrin survived a horrible accident, damaging his brain and memory. Through falling asleep, he can rediscover his unfortunate past in his dreams, but due to his brain damage he'll start to see visions and hallucinations, and falling asleep won't be as easy as it seems at first...

Why similar: Horror 20%, Mystery 18.6%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Simulation 16.6%, Adventure 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly addresses the struggle of navigating a nightmare-filled sleep cycle.

Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.

Why similar: Zombies 40.3%, Horror 13.6%, RPG 11.8%, Top-Down 11.3%, Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the inevitability of death and the high-stakes tension of survival in a hostile environment.

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Why similar: Experimental 39.3% ★, Horror 15.3%, Indie 11.5%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic surreal exploration game that focuses entirely on wandering through bizarre, abstract dreamscapes.

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Horror 36.8%, Atmospheric 23.4%, Adventure 18.1%, Indie 10.2%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an oppressive, surreal, and atmospheric experience that feels like a dark, interactive dream.

You have a strange dream where you meet a creature named Glitch Daddy, telling you that the world is ending very soon. Then, you wake up and go to unravel the truth through a wild, abstract psychedelic journey.

Why similar: Atmospheric 30.6%, Adventure 24.6%, Indie 20.2%, Casual 15.9%, Singleplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly experimental and surreal experience that mirrors the disorienting, atmospheric nature of dream-based games.

After waking from a terrifying dream of your own untimely death, you attempt to make your way to the Finnigan Brothers' Fun Park for its last day then back home again. It's like playing Russian roulette with five chambers loaded, but more frustrating.

Why similar: Comedy 20.7%, Hand-drawn 19.5%, Horror 17.7%, Adventure 14.7%, Survival 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into the dark humor of death-based mechanics, requiring players to find creative ways to expire.

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Horror 29.5%, Adventure 16.9%, Indie 14.8%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Hand-drawn 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror adventure that frequently shifts between reality and a dark, surreal alternate dimension.

Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.

Why similar: Zombies 51.8%, RPG 16.2%, Indie 11.5%, Casual 8.3%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dark fantasy setting with death-loop mechanics that force the player to learn from their failures.

The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...

Why similar: Horror 36.1%, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 16.6%, Atmospheric 15.9%, 2D 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a dark, mature narrative that delves into psychological trauma and surreal, otherworldly encounters.

"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...

Why similar: Mystery 28.7%, Horror 25.8%, Atmospheric 18.6%, Adventure 11.6%, 2D 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven horror game that explores the dark themes of dreams and psychological instability.

When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.

Why similar: RPG 22.1%, Action 19.2%, Indie 17.2%, Adventure 17.2%, Zombies 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that provides a similar indie-focused, atmospheric exploration experience.

Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!

Why similar: Comedy 37.5%, Simulation 25.5%, Casual 17.4%, 2D 13%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that treats death as a bureaucratic, arcade-like experience with a dark sense of humor.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Mystery 32.5%, Atmospheric 15.8%, Horror 14.8%, Adventure 14%, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, it shares the core loop of a time-sensitive mystery where death is a necessary tool for discovery.

Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 29.4%, Top-Down 14.8%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Indie 11.5%, RPG 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy game that deals with death, surrealism, and choices that impact the protagonist's fate.

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: Experimental 53.2% ★, Horror 34.2%, Adventure 6.7%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative horror game that constantly shifts its own reality and challenges the player's perception of the game world.

Lucid Dream is Point and Click horror game. The girl dream of being trapped in a weird place even though you fell asleep as always. Collect the item and Find clues! Escape and wake up from the dream!

Why similar: Horror 31.4%, Mystery 27.2%, Adventure 22.2%, Indie 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that focuses on navigating through a colorful yet surreal and dangerous dream world.

“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!

Why similar: Zombies 22.6%, Survival 18.4%, Simulation 11.1%, RPG 10.5%, Action 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features survival and exploration in a mysterious, anomalous zone that feels disconnected from the real world.

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: Comedy 40.5%, Mystery 17.7%, Adventure 10.8%, Horror 9.5%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at breaking the fourth wall and questioning the nature of reality and player agency.

The protagonist was in a very nightmarish and realistic lucid dream, he needed to find a way to wake up, avoiding the creepy creature that was chasing him. Find a way to wake up, each time the level is generated randomly.

Why similar: Simulation 23.2%, Horror 23%, Action 21.9%, Indie 20.1%, Comedy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror simulation that focuses on the tension of surviving a limited, high-stakes timeframe.

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: Difficult 25.2%, Survival 22.7%, Atmospheric 16.1%, RPG 15.9%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly oppressive and surreal atmosphere where survival is difficult and reality feels constantly under threat.

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: Horror 61.2%, Indie 14.3%, Singleplayer 10.6%, Casual 7.5%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses meta-narrative elements to distort the player's sense of reality.

DR LIVESEY: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, gentlemen, from now on, rom and death means the same thing for you.

Why similar: Difficult 22.6%, Hand-drawn 22.3%, Action 13.5%, Comedy 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Simulation 34.5%, Mystery 21.8%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Indie 12.8%, Adventure 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation game captures the strange, nostalgic, and dream-like aesthetic of early internet culture.

A pixel-graphics open world survival craft RPG, where player is locked in a deep dream world, survive in this elusive world, forage, hunt, mine, and build up shelters. Find a way to escape.

Why similar: Difficult 31.7%, Mystery 21.7%, Top-Down 15.7%, RPG 10.2%, 2D 7.6%

The only way to wake up is to die. The player must decide for himself whether he is inside a dream or is in reality.

Why similar: Addictive 19.1% ★, Experimental 14.1% ★, Zombies 10.6%, Survival 6.7%, Hand-drawn 6.3%

How would you like to know that an uninvited guest, about whom you know absolutely nothing, will come to you at night? One thing is clear, he is unlikely to come in peace. What will you do? Prepare for his visit? Will you take a knife or hide in the closet? It's up to you.

Why similar: Action 35.9%, Horror 23.3%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Indie 10.6%, 2D 10%

They have launched an active invasion on our lands in late September this year, so let us break free of the slavic hand that held us by our balls for many ages! Rally all of our reptile militia, we will end this all together! LIZARDS, WE WILL NEVER BE SLAVES BUT WE WILL BE CONQUERORS!

Why similar: Hand-drawn 26.3%, RPG 18.4%, Indie 16.8%, Top-Down 14.2%, 2D 12.1%

Step into the shoes of Agent Kim, drawn into a chilling mystery deep in the wilderness. Find hidden clues, solve intricate puzzles, and outsmart the relentless zombies that roam the estate. Will you make it out alive, or will you too vanish without a trace?

Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Mystery 19.3%, Zombies 18.8%, RPG 15%, Atmospheric 11.5%

Оne day your life changes dramatically and you become a hostage of your own home. Your task is to survive but to do this you need to get outside.

Why similar: Action 23.7%, Adventure 21.4%, Indie 20.3%, Survival 9%, Difficult 9%

Discover all the secrets of two completely different worlds.

Why similar: Difficult 31.3%, Top-Down 17.1%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 10.1%, 2D 8.8%

Sequel to the amazing adventures of two Russian pop-culture legends: Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his fellow aide Petka who fearlessly beat off the alien invasion in a first franchise installment.

Why similar: Adventure 31.3%, Hand-drawn 20.5%, Comedy 17.9%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Casual 5.8%

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: RPG 22.3%, Indie 17.6%, Simulation 16.8%, Adventure 14.5%, Casual 11.6%

In order to save the world once again Pete and Vasily Ivanovich will have to get through fire, water and through… some other stuff and then again and again. They will get really close to the worst criminals on Las-Vegas streets, enlist in the commandos and complete several missions for the USA government - to get rid of drug dealer's...

Why similar: Adventure 28.8%, Hand-drawn 26.2%, Comedy 22.4%, Atmospheric 11.2%, 2D 6.3%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 35.7%, Survival 17.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Action 9.7%, Adventure 9.2%

Run through huge multi-level locations, avoiding spikes, falling platforms, and flying blades, use double jumps, and choose your route to reach the Heart before the lights go out.

Why similar: Adventure 29%, Casual 19.3%, Top-Down 15.1%, Indie 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.6%

You wake up and find yourself trapped in a dream. Only thing in your mind is to wake up. The key to wake up lies within 3 Dream Stones which are awaiting at the end of puzzles you encounter through the game in different dream chapters.

Why similar: Adventure 28.9%, Indie 20.7%, Difficult 15.2%, Mystery 14.4%, Simulation 9.6%

When you sleep, you are dreaming. Some dreams are beautiful and vivid, the others are strange, and the rest of them are horrible... We've having them all the night, and then wake up and forget them. But what if one day your "awakening" would be a difficult task? Could you find a way out of the dreams and wake up?

Why similar: Casual 46.8%, Indie 26.8%, Adventure 26.4%

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Indie 25.2%, Simulation 23.7%, Comedy 22.5%, Casual 16.7%, 2D 8.2%

Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his fellow aide Petka realize that someone has stolen the Red banner from the HQ. Although it's not the end of the story yet! Somewhere on the moon, legions of alien invaders prepare to conquer Earth. But could such a little thing really give a scare to the Red Army heroes?

Why similar: Comedy 40.1%, Adventure 22.5%, Atmospheric 22%, 2D 10%, Singleplayer 5.3%

A utility worker earns for a ticket to leave the endless Siberian city of panel houses. Permafrost, day/night cycle, dynamic weather and open world. Feel the atmosphere of the northern city, having been in the role of a handyman. Now with multiplayer!

Why similar: Atmospheric 43.5%, Simulation 37.4%, Adventure 19.2%

Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.

Why similar: Mystery 29%, Horror 26.9%, Atmospheric 19.4%, Adventure 15.6%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Who looks out dreams? Who looks inside awakens?

Why similar: Indie 42.9%, Adventure 33.2%, Casual 23.9%

You woke up and found yourself in an anomalous endless place from which it is not so easy to get out. Carefully observe your surroundings to find a way out of this place.

Why similar: Simulation 39.1%, Adventure 34.5%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Indie 9.6%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics

Why similar: Mystery 56%, Adventure 27.5%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Indie 4.5%

The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.

Why similar: Difficult 38.7%, Atmospheric 22.6%, RPG 17.1%, Action 14.4%, Singleplayer 7.2%

"Neon Hardcore" - this is a game that makes you freak out the player after each death of the player character. You need to manage the green cube and get to another green reference point. But it is very difficult, as the player interfere with the rotating saws and others obstacles red color.

Why similar: Action 26.5%, Indie 24.2%, Difficult 19.9%, Atmospheric 11.1%, 2D 7.5%

You wake up in a strange cabin deep in a mysterious forest, axe in hand, with only one way forward—through. Chop trees, sell logs, purchase and upgrade gear, and uncover the secrets hidden deep in the forest.

Why similar: Adventure 29.3%, Atmospheric 26.7%, Simulation 22.4%, Casual 13.9%, Singleplayer 7.7%

Survival Is Not Enough is an open world first person zombie survival game. You wake up in a mysterious island and find out that you're infected. To survive you need to: build a shelter; protect yourself from dangers of this island; kill animals for food; kill zombies for underblood to cure yourself from zombie virus; The better you're...

Why similar: Action 37.5%, RPG 36.2%, Adventure 26.3%

You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.

Why similar: Experimental 35.1% ★, Horror 14.9%, Mystery 14.8%, Indie 13.9%, Adventure 13.3%

Closer To Home is a dialogue-focused surreal horror exploration game. Navigate connections between reality and dreams, look for weird stuff and make friends. There is no reason to fear death.

Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Comedy 25%, Top-Down 18.4%, Casual 10.3%, 2D 10%

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Why similar: Difficult 42.5%, Indie 18.6%, Adventure 13%, Action 11.4%, 2D 7.1%

Top-down open world single player / survival / RPG game with zombies and wildlife.

Why similar: Zombies 27.7%, Survival 23.8%, RPG 16.6%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 11.8%

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Survival 24.7%, Zombies 19%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 8.2%, RPG 7.7%