- #1 The Last Job
97% matchMixed66% of 388 reviews2022
Dev: DefinitelyNotScaryGames
Windows
What seemed like an easy job, descends into something horrifying. Explore mysterious house, that holds dark secrets, in this first person horror experience.
Why similar: Horror 51.9%, Psychological Horror 29.8%, First-Person 9.5%, Adventure 6.7%, Singleplayer 2%
- #2 Aunt Fatima - خالة فاطمة
96% matchVery Positive88% of 203 reviews2024
Dev: Abdulla Al Hamad (DRTH)
Windows
Aunt Fatima's House: Solve puzzles, find items, and unlock doors while avoiding Aunt Fatima in this scary horror game.Can you escape the deadly house?
Why similar: Horror 48.1%, Dark 19.6%, Adventure 15.6%, Exploration 14.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #3 NightGhast
96% matchVery Positive91% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
NIGHTGHAST is a first-person horror game about wicked witches and sinister widows...
Why similar: Horror 45.1%, Psychological Horror 29%, Adventure 16.9%, First-Person 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #4 Witching Hour
95% matchMixed68% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Vincent Lade
Windows
Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.
Why similar: Horror 39.9%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Dark 18.1%, Exploration 13.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #5 LYSA HORA: The Haunted Hill
94% matchVery Positive81% of 130 reviews2026
Dev: DENYS RUDYI GAMES
Windows
A dark sci-fi horror where ancient rituals intertwine with secret Soviet experiments. Explore atmospheric tunnels, hidden laboratories, and abandoned shrines inspired by real locations—and survive by solving intricate, mind-bending puzzles.
Why similar: Horror 35.2%, Dark 22.8%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 7.5%
- #6 Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife
94% matchMixed63% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: Fast Travel Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You died in a mysterious seance and have become a Wraith, one of the restless undead. In this VR horror game, use your supernatural abilities to solve the mystery behind your death. But beware of the sinister Spectres lurking in the shadows...
Why similar: Horror 64.5%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Adventure 11.8%, Exploration 5.7%, First-Person 5.2%
- #7 DON'T LOOK AT GRANDMA
93% matchVery Positive94% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Danger Sauce LLC
Windows
Grandma hasn’t been the same since Grandpa passed. A night in her house spirals into a battle with the Devil. Recover family heirlooms and perform the ritual to save her soul. But whatever you do… DON’T LOOK AT GRANDMA.
Why similar: Horror 29%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Dark 17.5%, Exploration 15.7%, First-Person 12.8%
- #8 Veneficium
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Quarter Moon GamesPub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
Windows
𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵. 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯. 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵, 𝘙𝘶𝘯. Play as Abigail in her quest to find her grandmother in a cursed forest. Use your spellcasting abilities to hide from various dangers. Will you survive the night?
Why similar: Horror 56.2%, Dark 13.5%, Exploration 10.9%, First-Person 10.1%, Adventure 4.4%
- #9 Kach
91% matchVery Positive81% of 292 reviews2022
Dev: Bhargav ModhaPub: BYGames
Windows · Mac
On a task to find your sister, you find yourself exploring an old abandoned house. But you soon find out that things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Horror 40.2%, Dark 15.9%, Adventure 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Exploration 9.3%
- #10 Left By Angels
91% matchVery Positive87% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: Street Art Studios
Windows
Based on the real Left By Angels Mansion! After your wife vanishes, a strange sighting draws you to an abandoned mansion. Trapped inside, haunted by the past, and hunted by truth, you must survive a looping nightmare where light is your only ally. She’s here—and she remembers everything.
Why similar: Horror 37.6%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Dark 11.3%, First-Person 8.6%
- #11 Mists of Aiden
89% matchVery Positive91% of 1,140 reviews2020
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
Why similar: Horror 44.5%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Dark 6.8%, First-Person 6.7%
- #12 The Mortuary Assistant
88% matchVery Positive92% of 8,546 reviews2022
Dev: DarkStone DigitalPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Why similar: Horror 66%, Dark 11.7%, First-Person 7.7%, Exploration 6.5%, Adventure 6.4%
- #13 Last Days of Lazarus
89% matchVery Positive88% of 183 reviews2022
Dev: Darkania WorksPub: GrimTalin
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.
Why similar: Horror 33.2%, Dark 24.9%, Exploration 15.3%, Adventure 13.4%, First-Person 11.6%
- #14 Joana's Life
90% matchMostly Negative31% of 231 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: Horror 46.9%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Adventure 19.1%, First-Person 10.9%
- #15 My Grandparents' Christmas Mystery
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 69 reviews2022
Dev: Korvinrular
Windows
Grandma never showed up and Grandpa's tragic passing 3 days later left me in anger, confusion and sadness. I couldn't just let this go like it never happened, so I decided to go and find out what happened on my own. Will you survive a first-person psychological horror game and uncover the mystery?
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Dark 16.2%, Exploration 9.7%, Adventure 9.3%
- #16 Last Will
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 390 reviews2016
Dev: LizardFactory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Your deranged and mysterious Grandfather is dead, and in his last will and testament, he gave his entire fortune and mansion to you. But on one condition. You have to visit his mansion and collect the riches for yourself. But once the door shuts behind you, you realize that this is no easy task.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #17 The Gravedigger
84% matchVery Positive85% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Authogin
Windows
You're hired to dig up graves at a local church, looting valuables while demonic activity escalates. You must find and return all the burnt bones to stop the demonic activity. Each night you will dig for valuables to find bones, fend off growing corruption, and survive to solve the mystery.
Why similar: Horror 36.4%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Dark 17.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Exploration 10.7%
- #18 Unusual Tales: Deep Below
83% matchVery Positive97% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Jall
Windows
You, a normal working Joe, decide to try to solve the mystery of the missing girl... Will you make it out alive? A horror game filled with mystery!
Why similar: Horror 39.2%, Psychological Horror 27%, Adventure 14.2%, First-Person 10.7%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
- #19 Thekku Island
82% matchVery Positive87% of 136 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 28.5%, Exploration 18.9%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Adventure 13.9%, First-Person 9.4%
- #20 The Lost Crown
85% matchVery Positive83% of 520 reviews2014
Dev: Darkling Room
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Embark on an eerie ghost-hunting adventure, featuring real evidence of paranormal activity, to solve the mystery of the Lost Crown. Be warned, to seek advice from the dead can have bitter consequences.
Why similar: Horror 41.5%, Adventure 29.9%, Psychological Horror 28.6%
- #21 Last Report
81% matchVery Positive89% of 2,212 reviews2025
Dev: Monopixel Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Last Report is a dark horror game where you play as a night shift park ranger. While monitoring the camera footage, you start noticing strange events. Uncover the terrifying secret of the National Park. Something moved in the window, but don’t worry it’s probably just another deer, right?
Why similar: Horror 40.4%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Dark 16.2%, Action-Adventure 7.3%, Adventure 6.6%
- #22 Obscuritas
86% matchMixed62% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
When Sarah inherits her great-uncle's old country home, she has no idea about the dark secret she has stumbled upon, and the obscure world it will take her to.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #23 Last Lesson
84% matchMixed67% of 164 reviews2023
Dev: REVVALUTION Studio
Windows
It's your first night as the caretaker of a scary quest. The last visitors have gone home. You need to turn off the lights, check the equipment and not die of horror, because someone or something suddenly starts a nightmarish game. With you in the lead.
Why similar: Horror 31.3%, Dark 26.4%, Exploration 24.4%, First-Person 16.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #24 Obsessed : Night Shift
82% matchVery Positive90% of 145 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: Horror 46.4%, Psychological Horror 26.7%, Adventure 11%, First-Person 7.2%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #25 Water Boiling Simulator
81% matchVery Positive95% of 61 reviews2026
Dev: wolfyer
Windows · Linux
It's 2016. Explore through your house in the middle of the night and complete your chores before the water you put on the stove starts boiling. Sounds easy, right? If only you hadn't seen things you were not supposed to see.
Why similar: Horror 39.8%, Psychological Horror 26%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 10.9%, Dark 10.5%
- #26 The Haunting of Joni Evers
80% matchVery Positive91% of 162 reviews2025
Dev: Causeway Studios
Windows · Mac
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.5%, Exploration 21.3%, Adventure 18%, First-Person 17.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #27 Lost Luminosity
79% matchVery Positive86% of 232 reviews2025
Dev: Ember Wing Games
Windows
The inheritance following his mother’s death turns into a series of mysterious events for Sam. Neighbors are complaining about strange noises and unexplained phenomena in the empty apartment. Intrigued, he decides to investigate what’s going on there himself.
Why similar: Horror 31.9%, Psychological Horror 27.3%, Exploration 20.1%, First-Person 15.2%, Adventure 4.6%
- #28 Prognostic
78% matchVery Positive94% of 490 reviews2022
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
An orphan returns to the house of the deceased fortune-teller to uncover the secret of his family's death. He must accept his legacy and become a prognostic before supernatural madness engulfs people of his town.
Why similar: Horror 38.5%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Adventure 12.4%, First-Person 11.4%, Dark 11.1%
- #29 The Last Elixir
75% matchVery Positive90% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Luke Frisbee
Windows
You are a journeyman alchemist: experiment to learn the secrets of the alchemical sciences, and leverage them to produce a diverse menu of potions for a procession of weird and spooky customers in this compact narrative puzzle experience.
Why similar: Dark 57.4%, First-Person 35.1%, Singleplayer 7.5%
- #30 Hidden Shelter
79% matchMixed56% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: White Vortex Games
Windows
Death lurks in every corner of this journey filled with tension and despair. The brave may not be the smartest here and those who know the time to retreat are more likely to make it out alive in the end ... Find your lost friend in a house that holds unimaginable secrets.
Why similar: Horror 39.4%, Psychological Horror 27.6%, Exploration 9.2%, First-Person 9.1%, Adventure 7.6%
- #31 My Sleeping Girlfriend
74% matchVery Positive95% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Dog Games
Windows
Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.
Why similar: Horror 36.3%, Psychological Horror 25.4%, Dark 11.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Exploration 8.7%
- #32 Our Secret Below
77% matchVery Positive87% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
Why similar: Horror 45.1%, Dark 20.2%, Adventure 12.4%, Exploration 11.2%, First-Person 10.1%
- #33 The Séance of Blake Manor
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,226 reviews2025
Dev: Spooky DoorwayPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Linux
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
Why similar: Horror 28.5%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Dark 16.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Adventure 10.8%
- #34 Dead of Night: Supermarket
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: SilverMoon Studios
Windows
Experience the dread of a midnight shift in a quiet supermarket. As mundane tasks blur with eerie events, discover that the darkness hides more than just silence.
Why similar: Horror 43.8%, Psychological Horror 31.1%, Adventure 13.1%, First-Person 11%, Singleplayer 1%
- #35 Reflection
73% matchVery Positive84% of 247 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 38.1%, Psychological Horror 27.4%, Dark 18.1%, Adventure 7.7%, First-Person 5.2%
- #36 Confabulation
75% matchVery Positive91% of 103 reviews2023
Dev: Authogin
Windows
Your memory is fading. Things around your home keep changing; they are not what they appear to be. Find what is wrong, take pictures to restore your memory. Try to remember. Learn what you have forgotten, learn what has happened. It is not what it seems to be.
Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Dark 16.7%, First-Person 10.2%, Exploration 7.2%
- #37 Family curse
74% matchVery Positive91% of 236 reviews2023
Dev: Stork Game
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Family curse is a mystical horror from the first person with a frightening atmosphere. Immerse yourself in the intricate history of the Crouse family and find out the terrible secret of the people who died in the cursed house.
Why similar: Horror 39.5%, Psychological Horror 27.8%, Exploration 13.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Adventure 7.3%
- #38 Darkness Ahead
78% matchMixed52% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: Useless MachinesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.
Why similar: Horror 39.6%, Adventure 23.8%, Dark 16.2%, Exploration 9.7%, First-Person 9%
- #39 Strange Night
77% matchMixed60% of 474 reviews2016
Dev: LaboryPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
As an employee of a night security firm, your first night on the job might be your last, as strange events push your sanity to the limit.
Why similar: Horror 43.7%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, Dark 17.4%, First-Person 10.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #40 ALONE?
76% matchMixed42% 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 53.7%, Adventure 23.9%, Psychological Horror 22.4%
- #41 Black Rose
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 982 reviews2016
Dev: Sir Bedlam Productions
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Equipped with a flashlight, investigate an abandoned funeral home that's said to be haunted. Find out what really happened to the people who once worked there, and hope that this dark, eerie building doesn't become your final resting place.
Why similar: Horror 75.8%, Adventure 9.6%, First-Person 7.7%, Psychological Horror 5.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #42 Darkness Under My Bed
72% matchVery Positive91% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows
Wander through intricate maze under the bed, and discover the secrets hidden in the long, dark tunnels. Document the existence of monsters. Retrieve the stolen treasures and memories.
Why similar: Horror 32.5%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Dark 14.3%, Exploration 11.1%, First-Person 9.6%
- #43 Twilight Tales ∣ hollow's store
71% matchMixed57% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: roiten
Windows
While trying to avoid the dangers of working the night shift at a store deep in the forest, you'll also make decisions that shape the fate of the story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.7%, Horror 25.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Adventure 9.6%
- #44 Whitehaven
73% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Somnambulist Games
Windows
Uncover the mysteries of Whitehaven Orphanage in this first-person psychological horror game. Explore the place, collect clues and put the pieces together to find out what happened years ago as you delve deep into your mind.
Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Dark 17.7%, First-Person 9.7%, Exploration 9.2%
- #45 The motel
69% matchVery Positive85% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Aura studios
Windows
Work the late-night shift at The Motel, an old roadside stop near Oakhill Grove. Complete simple tasks until a news broadcast reveals a dangerous killer is nearby. Can you survive the night?
Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Exploration 13.2%, Adventure 12.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Dark 10.7%
- #46 Unholy
70% matchMixed64% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Duality GamesPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Open the doors between your everyday reality and a dark unholy world to unveil the mystery of the disappearance of your child. Explore both worlds to find clues, solve puzzles, decide whether you infiltrate or fight brutal enemies and stand up to an aberrant establishment.
Why similar: Horror 28.4%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Dark 18%, Adventure 11.1%, First-Person 10.3%
- #47 Charon's Staircase
71% matchMixed63% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Indigo Studios - Interactive StoriesPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
In this first-person horror mystery game, you set out to bury the horrible past of a tyrannical government. Retrieve and destroy the documents that unravel the secrets that lie beneath Oack Grove. Will you discover the terrifying truth and find your way out?
Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Dark 19.9%, Exploration 15.2%, Adventure 13.9%
- #48 Grandma, Is That You?
68% matchVery Positive81% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: Montee Games
Windows
“Grandma, Is That You?” is a psychological horror game. As we visit our elderly and ill grandmother to help her, the old mansion reveals buried memories and dark secrets. The line between reality and illusion begins to blur.
Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Exploration 17.1%, Adventure 15.8%, Dark 14.3%, Psychological Horror 14.3%
- #49 Dead Secret
71% matchVery Positive82% of 591 reviews2016
Dev: Robot Invader
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .
Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Psychological Horror 26%, Dark 13.6%, Adventure 13.1%, Exploration 7.5%
- #50 SHE WAS 98
66% matchVery Positive85% of 420 reviews2026
Dev: N4bAPub: Notex
Windows
“SHE WAS 98” - you play as a grandson who returns to his elderly grandmother's home to care for her.....
Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Psychological Horror 27.5%, Dark 15.4%, First-Person 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #51 It Happened At Night
69% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Davidcrosdev
Windows
It Happened At Night is a short horror game where the player must complete basic objectives to advance the story and immerse themselves through the eyes of the protagonist.
Why similar: Horror 42.9%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Exploration 15.3%, First-Person 11%, Adventure 5.6%
- #52 Familiar Stranger
68% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Duanyang WangPub: Horror engine games
Windows
The Familiar Stranger is a 3D psychological horror game where twisted memories and nightmares blur. Uncover dark secrets while evading a relentless entity that watches from the shadows. Can you escape the horrors of the past, or will they consume you?
Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Exploration 18.4%, Action-Adventure 18.3%, Adventure 8.2%
- #53 The Mildew Children: Chapter 1
67% matchVery Positive86% of 324 reviews2023
Dev: The Growing StonesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.6%, Exploration 21.6%, Adventure 20%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Dark 9.5%
- #54 COLINA: Legacy
70% matchVery Positive81% of 209 reviews2018
Dev: Chance6 Studios, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Alex wakes up at his grandmother’s, left alone in a silent house. Unsure where his family is, he begins to uncover a dark mystery in an attempt to escape. Facing his fear in an endless nightmare, Alex must survive the dead of night, a cursed forest, and paranormal activities before daylight arrives.
Why similar: Horror 36%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Dark 18.8%, Adventure 11%, Exploration 10.3%
- #55 The Last Letter
66% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
The Last Letter is a short VHS-style horror game about a film student who receives mysterious letters containing coordinates that lead to a house deep in the forest, where the truth about his past awaits.
Why similar: Horror 39.8%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Dark 11.5%, Exploration 9.5%, Adventure 8.8%
- #56 Incoming Evil
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: CodelessMan
Windows
A first-person horror game Incoming Evil, you will explore an unsolved event about 3 missing people. Nobody knows what happened to them, the police could not solve the case. You are an experienced detective; the case handed over to you.
Why similar: Horror 35.9%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Dark 15.3%, First-Person 11.9%, Adventure 10.3%
- #57 The Last Case of John Morley
65% matchVery Positive84% of 289 reviews2025
Dev: Indigo Studios - Interactive StoriesPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.7%, Dark 22.2%, Exploration 18.2%, Adventure 17.1%, First-Person 14.3%
- #58 Forest Horror
69% matchMixed54% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Neki4 Electronics
Windows
You have to explore the mysterious forest and complete many tasks to get out of there alive.
Why similar: Dark 52.7%, Exploration 30.1%, First-Person 14.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #59 KAMLA
66% matchVery Positive91% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: Mad-Mantra Games
Windows · Mac
Find a way out of an old mansion as a priest, you have been tasked to exorcise a woman who has been possessed. Solve puzzles and complete objectives to cure her demonic possession in this SURVIVAL HORROR experience.
Why similar: Horror 47.7%, Dark 16.6%, First-Person 14.8%, Action-Adventure 14.4%, Adventure 3.9%
- #60 The Method of Hiding a Body
66% matchVery Positive92% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Sea of Ghosts
Windows
A story-driven horror puzzle game where the player takes on the role of a resentful ghost, possessing others in order to search for her own corpse.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 56%, Choices Matter 29.7%, Adventure 8%, Exploration 3%, First-Person 2.6%