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Explore a sealed hospital where staff and patients vanished overnight. Uncover dark secrets through puzzles and survive sudden scares—some brief, others leading to relentless chases. Dive into a single-player psychological horror experience and uncover a secret no one was meant to find.

Why similar: Escape Room 48% ★, Horror 12.2%, First-Person 7.3%, Puzzle 6.5%, Dark 4.5%

Sphenoid is a first-person horror escape game set in a dark, oppressive prison. Explore, uncover clues, solve challenging puzzles, and survive the terrifying secrets that lurk around every corner.

Why similar: Escape Room 43.4% ★, Horror 10.9%, Dark 8.1%, Psychological Horror 7.6%, Puzzle 7%

Scholar's Mate is an immersive first-person horror Escape Room experience that puts you in the shoes of Judith, a young woman who wakes up in the gloomy facilities of a psychiatric hospital.

Why similar: Escape Room 42.6% ★, Horror 9.2%, Dark 7.9%, Puzzle 6.8%, First-Person 6%

Explore this mysterious cabin and solve how to escape from that place.

Why similar: Escape Room 58.5% ★, Puzzle 9%, First-Person 5.6%, Psychological Horror 5.1%, Horror 4.4%

Black Omens: House of Crimson Silk is a first-person, single-player, escape room puzzle horror game set in a fictional Edo Japan. Assume the role of Idate Chiyo, a paranormal investigator, tasked with investigating an abandoned mansion and unveiling a family's dark and horrifying secret.

Why similar: Escape Room 51.5% ★, Horror 9.1%, Psychological Horror 7.3%, Story Rich 7%, Puzzle 6.4%

You’re the sole employee at the Kharnym Isle post office, stamping, sorting, and delivering mail. But the job hides secrets, and the office itself holds mysteries you must uncover. This will be the only job you’ll ever need to work… unless you can escape.

Why similar: Escape Room 35.4% ★, Lovecraftian 17.7%, Horror 10.4%, Dark 8.7%, Story Rich 6.7%

Enter the twisted world of Forgotten Hill in a new third dimension

Why similar: Escape Room 51% ★, Horror 10.9%, Surreal 7.6%, First-Person 6.2%, Puzzle 5.9%

You're locked in a dream and you need to wake up. Unravel the mysteries of this surreal exploration game and immerse yourself in a dreamlike, strange and solitary universe.

Why similar: Escape Room 42.5% ★, Lovecraftian 14.4%, Surreal 10.4%, Puzzle 6.6%, Dark 5.3%

Did you really believe a wardrobe is just a piece of furniture? Not in Forgotten Hill! Uncover the evil within the 5 twisted chapters of this new point-and-click adventure. Will you survive?

Why similar: Escape Room 37.9% ★, Lovecraftian 20.4%, Horror 9%, Puzzle 8.1%, First-Person 5.5%

Embark on a surreal journey through a world of living paintings in this first-person puzzle game. Draw symbols on canvases to uncover secrets and solve challenging puzzles. Use your wit and creativity to progress!

Why similar: Escape Room 41% ★, Surreal 14.4%, Puzzle 10.3%, First-Person 10%, Mystery 5.7%

A group of mediums is trapped in a cursed apartment. Explore the environment, find your comrades, and solve logic puzzles. Lift the curse, and escape before it’s too late.

Why similar: Escape Room 60.5% ★, Puzzle 8.8%, Dark 6.8%, Story Rich 6.8%, First-Person 5%

Trapped on the roof of a deserted building, you must solve puzzles on each floor to escape. With every locked door, new secrets unfold. Can you figure out what you must do to descend, or will you be trapped forever?

Why similar: Escape Room 49.7% ★, Horror 11.6%, Puzzle 9%, Psychological Horror 8.1%, First-Person 7.5%

There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.

Why similar: Escape Room 33.7% ★, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Psychological Horror 8%, Horror 7.5%, First-Person 5.6%

You're locked in a dream and you need to wake up. Unravel the mysteries of this surreal exploration series and immerse yourself in a dreamlike, strange and solitary universe.

Why similar: Escape Room 50.5% ★, Puzzle 8.1%, Surreal 6.9%, First-Person 6.9%, Dark 6.8%

The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

Why similar: Escape Room 33.2% ★, Lovecraftian 17.9%, Puzzle 16.3%, Mystery 6.8%, Horror 6.3%

An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!

Why similar: Escape Room 45.5% ★, Horror 10.5%, Dark 8.1%, First-Person 7.5%, Puzzle 7.4%

You're locked in a dream and you need to wake up. Unravel the mysteries of this surreal exploration game and immerse yourself in a dreamlike, strange and solitary universe.

Why similar: Escape Room 50% ★, Surreal 10.5%, Puzzle 8%, Dark 7.1%, First-Person 5.5%

First-person Philosophical Horror. Explore, solve puzzles, escape enemies, and uncover 5 unique endings. Satan's Dungeon is a place where you can no longer hide your guilt. Can you escape?

Why similar: Escape Room 40% ★, Horror 7.1%, Dark 7.1%, Surreal 6.7%, Psychological Horror 6.5%

You have woken up inside of an escape room, however, you are not by yourself in here, for a demon lies inside of these rooms waiting for your arrival. Can you escape? 5 rooms, 1 escape.

Why similar: Escape Room 52% ★, Horror 12.7%, Puzzle 8.3%, First-Person 8%, Dark 5.4%

Welcome to one of the scariest old-school horror games. Here, you're not the predator, but the prey. Any mistake will cost you your life. Hide, solve puzzles, explore, and embrace the inevitable terror. The Ancient horror lurks, awaiting you. Based on true events.

Why similar: Escape Room 29.6% ★, Lovecraftian 15.7%, Horror 11.4%, First-Person 8.6%, Puzzle 7.9%

OPEN PLAYTEST READY TO PLAY "The Patient - can you escape?" is an escape game in ego perspective where you find yourself in a German Sanatorium in the 1930s. Explore the mysterious location with subtile horror elements and solve cunning Puzzles. But stay alert, you are not alone!

Why similar: Escape Room 57.5% ★, Horror 13.5%, Puzzle 11%, First-Person 7.9%, Exploration 4.3%

Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.7%, Horror 12.5%, Dark 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Surreal 6.8%

A woman killed herself. Uncover her motive in 3 surreal, hexagon rooms. Set in the aftermath of a tragic incident, Trance, Trauma is a point-and-click puzzle game where you play as the soul of the victim.

Why similar: Escape Room 44.5% ★, Surreal 10.4%, Horror 7.9%, Psychological Horror 6.1%, Dark 6%

The Night Is Long is a short first-person horror game where a grieving man follows a ghostly vision into an abandoned mansion. Uncover dark secrets, survive atmospheric horrors, and face your past through exploration, puzzles, and subtle scares.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.7%, Horror 12.1%, Surreal 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Puzzle 8.1%

Ajar is a point-and-click escape room, where every puzzle tells a story. Crawling with psychological horror and hand-drawn art, you’ll play as an ill-fated girl haunted by death, determined to find your missing brother - even if it kills you.

Why similar: Escape Room 48.1% ★, Surreal 8.9%, Horror 8.4%, Psychological Horror 7.6%, Puzzle 6.8%

TALESCAPE - ONOOW is an escape room game for single player. Explore in the story-rich tales and find out what the truth hidden in the mysterious story. Get items and use or combine them for escape from the story!

Why similar: Escape Room 64% ★, Puzzle 8.3%, Adventure 7%, Horror 6.1%, Mystery 6.1%

《静府: 刺眼》是一款以女性为主视角的明式密室逃脱解谜游戏。身为女警，莫名魂穿到了一座诡秘府院之中。静寂悚然的小院，身形可怖的尸体，格格不入的物什，似曾相识的怨灵……冥冥中似乎有一股天意让人无法后退。推开院门，剖解迷局，逃脱此地，或许，还会了解到更为幽远的秘事，一切才刚刚开始。

Why similar: Escape Room 47.1% ★, Surreal 10.6%, Horror 9.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Psychological Horror 7%

As the latest prey of a deranged serial killer, you must use your wits and resources to survive in this atmospheric first-person escape room-style horror game. Explore, uncover secrets, and plan your escape... but be quiet, or you'll be his next victim. Inspired by true events.

Why similar: Escape Room 43.1% ★, Horror 9.2%, Dark 8%, First-Person 6.5%, Puzzle 6%

Don't trust your eyes. As a journalist, explore the unstable reality of a secret bunker in Anomaly 404 — a first-person spot-the-difference horror. Find and photograph the anomalies to expose the horrifying truth behind "Project 404".

Why similar: Escape Room 37.7% ★, Horror 10.7%, Surreal 9.5%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, First-Person 7.9%

Underground Blossom is a new adventure game by Rusty Lake. Fulfil various tasks at every station to find the metro that will take you through each important event from Laura Vanderboom's life.

Why similar: Escape Room 71.5% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Horror 4.8%, Adventure 4.5%, Mystery 3.9%

Shadow Tale is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure with escape the room mechanics. Solve puzzles, meet remarkable NPCs, escape multiple rooms and unwrap a story for eventually to know about mysterious disappearances in a world which is now filled with powerful forces and entities.

Why similar: Escape Room 59.4% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, Dark 8.2%, Adventure 6.1%, Story Rich 5%

As a failed experiment, you’re marked for disposal. That was the plan until the lab descended into chaos. Seize your chance and find a way out!

Why similar: Escape Room 64.9% ★, Puzzle 11.8%, Mystery 6.9%, 3D 5.9%, Exploration 4.3%

You're trapped in hell for all eternity - at least, that's what the paperwork says. Can you escape by snooping around the private office of The Devil himself? Or will you get caught by his watchful eye?

Why similar: Escape Room 45.9% ★, Lovecraftian 16.2%, Puzzle 8.1%, First-Person 7.4%, Dark 6.5%

Embark on an epic adventure to an ancient, mysterious island where your escape room puzzle skills will be put to the test. In Venari, uncover the secrets hidden on the island and discover the legendary Venari artefact.

Why similar: Escape Room 57.5% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, First-Person 7.7%, Mystery 5.8%, Atmospheric 5%

Experience the psychological horror of being kidnapped by a serial killer. Driven to escape, explore everything around you, use your wits, uncover secrets, and face the unimaginable dread of being in the victim’s place. Inspired by a true story.

Why similar: Escape Room 37.7% ★, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Horror 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%, First-Person 6%

Explore the mansion and escape in this 3D horror game. Solve the riddles and escape from the ghosts that roam the mansion!

Why similar: Escape Room 63.2% ★, Horror 16.3%, First-Person 8.7%, Exploration 4.5%, Adventure 4.3%

Escape game from a classic mansion

Why similar: Escape Room 62.4% ★, First-Person 8.4%, Horror 6.7%, Adventure 5.2%, Atmospheric 4.5%

You’re trapped in an endless nightmare, reliving the same haunted night over and over. Every time you escape your house, reality resets. Haunted by grief and stalked by a relentless presence, can you solve the twisted puzzles and face the truth to break the loop?

Why similar: Escape Room 35.9% ★, Horror 11.7%, Surreal 9.1%, First-Person 7.9%, Puzzle 7.1%

A point and click adventure in which you must find, combine and use various mysterious items to help you escape from the witch's house. You must learn magic spells from old books and study objects closely, paying attention to clues in order to proceed. You're going to need a wand!

Why similar: Escape Room 51.4% ★, First-Person 8.5%, Puzzle 8.5%, Dark 8.3%, Horror 7.2%

A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.4%, Horror 15.4%, Surreal 9.5%, Dark 7.9%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

Chroam is an Escape Room style adventure game, where you will be asked to try your hand at numerous and original puzzles. Explore the rooms, look for clues, solve the puzzles until you reach the flag at the top. It won't be easy!

Why similar: Escape Room 71.3% ★, Puzzle 10.3%, First-Person 6.5%, Adventure 5.6%, 3D 4.8%

“The Hallway - Escape Room” is a story-based single player puzzle adventure game that will take you on a mind-bending journey to uncover the mysteries of a long-forgotten civilisation and their gods discovered during an expedition. Will you face them?

Why similar: Escape Room 53.8% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Dark 7.6%, Story Rich 6%, First-Person 5.4%

The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

Why similar: Escape Room 38.9% ★, Puzzle 20.7%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Horror 8.1%, Mystery 5.1%

In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology you follow the path of Dale and Laura and other famous Rusty lake characters such as Mr. Crow and Mr. Owl. The series will be updated, preserved and bundled to survive the end of the Flash Games era.

Why similar: Escape Room 34.4% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 7.9%, Mystery 6.7%

Begin your new job as a servant at the mysterious Vanderboom estate. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake, a new upcoming single-player point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series.

Why similar: Escape Room 51.3% ★, Puzzle 11.3%, Atmospheric 7.5%, Mystery 6.7%, Surreal 5.9%

You fall through a sinkhole into a nightmarish Japanese mansion with a lingering, sinister presence and terrifying threats… and the only way out is deeper in. Malice is a two-player, compulsory co-op survival horror that forces you to make unforgiving choices and rely on your wits to survive.

Why similar: Escape Room 39.9% ★, Surreal 8.8%, Horror 8.6%, Dark 7.1%, Puzzle 6.5%

Who are you...and what happened at the Hawthorne Estate? Escape the room to find the answers in this psychological horror adventure.

Why similar: Escape Room 50.1% ★, First-Person 7.6%, Puzzle 7.5%, Dark 7.1%, Story Rich 5.6%

Heralded by a comet, seen as a harbinger of doom, the Black Death arrived in Florence in 1348. Wander through the woods to escape the plague, face various riddles and encounter mysterious creatures.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.2%, Horror 11.9%, Dark 10.7%, Puzzle 8.6%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.

Why similar: Escape Room 45.6% ★, Horror 9.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, First-Person 7.3%, Story Rich 5.8%

A psychological horror experience about fear, loss, and the darkest corners of the human mind. As David, confront your past—and what waits in the shadows.

Why similar: Escape Room 32.6% ★, Horror 9.6%, Puzzle 8.7%, First-Person 8.4%, Dark 7.4%

Atramentum is a horror puzzle game with different locations where you have to solve tasks. In a creepy atmosphere some tricky mysteries are waiting for you....

Why similar: Escape Room 67.2% ★, Horror 16.6%, Puzzle 13.5%, Indie 2.7%

Shroud of Gloom is a point-and-click horror adventure. Investigate an old manor, gather items and clues to solve environmental puzzles and discover dark secrets. Can you uncover the mystery… and make it out alive?

Why similar: Escape Room 40.7% ★, Horror 10.1%, Puzzle 8.1%, Dark 7.4%, Psychological Horror 7.4%

It was supposed to be just a funny escape room experience... until you realize the incredible truth. In this tense horror puzzle-adventure, solve complex mechanisms, navigate deadly corridors and evade terrifying entities lurking in the dark, while trying to find the true exit.

Why similar: Escape Room 29.6% ★, Horror 13.2%, Dark 9.5%, First-Person 9.2%, Puzzle 9%

This is the sequel to Mountain's Memory. Mountain's Secret is an adventure game where you must escape from mysterious ruins while evading enigmatic dolls. Uncover the secrets left unresolved in the previous story, and reveal the true nature of the mountain.

Why similar: Escape Room 51% ★, Horror 12.3%, Story Rich 7.4%, First-Person 6.9%, 3D 4.2%

This is a small free prequel to the Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?. An old cabin deep in the dense forest, a strange computer, and a game that's trying to kill you!

Why similar: Escape Room 48.8% ★, Horror 10.4%, Dark 8.1%, Puzzle 6.5%, First-Person 6.3%

year 2123. The earth is filled with corrosive gases, the atmosphere is spoiled. Humans have created habitable conditions on the moon. To become an inhabitant of the New Earth (not everyone can do this), you need to pass tests, a number of quests.

Why similar: Escape Room 51.1% ★, Puzzle 16.7%, First-Person 13.8%, 3D 8.7%, Horror 5.7%

You're driving away on a forest road, late at night, under a heavy storm. Your car breaks down. Luckily, there might be a gas station nearby. But a misfortune never comes alone. The storm has brought something else, something otherworldly that oddly smells of spilled diesel oil.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.1%, Surreal 13.4%, Horror 12.4%, Dark 10.5%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

A first-person atmospheric survival horror game set in Old Japan. Explore the claustrophobic labyrinth of Yuki-Onna's home, stay warm, scavenge for items and avoid her ten ghost children. Puzzle solutions and haunting scares shift, making every playthrough unique. Can you endure the relentless cold?

Why similar: Escape Room 40.4% ★, Horror 9.5%, Surreal 9.4%, Dark 7.8%, Psychological Horror 6.9%