- #1 Liminal Horror
97% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: dayme200
Windows
You wake up trapped in a strange swimming pool. A 20-minute psychological horror experience where familiar spaces transform into alien nightmares. There are no monsters. Only you, an endless maze of water, and your slowly dissolving grip on reality.
Why similar: Pool 41.9% ★, Walking Simulator 14%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Mystery 8.2%
- #2 Liminalcore
96% matchVery Positive83% of 652 reviews2024
Dev: Shadow Owl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
Why similar: Pool 35.5% ★, Walking Simulator 22%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Underwater 9.3% ★, Mystery 8.1%
- #3 The Transitions
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unfathomable Studio
Windows
The Transitions is a psychological horror game set in the eerie Backrooms universe. Explore unsettling liminal spaces, solve mind-bending puzzles, and evade the horrors lurking within. As you delve deeper, reality begins to blur—will you escape, or lose yourself forever?
Why similar: Pool 43.6% ★, Walking Simulator 24%, First-Person 9.5%, Adventure 9%, Atmospheric 6.9%
- #4 Drift Halls
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoxLoafEnd
Windows
Explore liminal spaces and control world lighting in real-time with the press of a button. Secrets can be revealed by the light or the dark. Search for signs of life and use your radio to catch any stray broadcasts. Learn the secrets of the Drift Halls, or simply take in the sights.
Why similar: Pool 46.7% ★, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Horror 9.3%, Mystery 5%
- #5 The Wetrooms: Liminal Pools
94% matchMostly Negative20% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Ammonite Design Studios Ltd
Windows
The Wetrooms is a surreal liminal space pools horror game.
Why similar: Pool 30.6% ★, Walking Simulator 28.2%, Horror 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Adventure 6%
- #6 The Lighthouse Whispers
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HEADWINDS
Windows
In this atmospheric, slow-burn horror, you must unravel the mystery of the disappearance of your fellow light keepers. Traverse the island's rugged terrain, discover clues, and make your way through the eerie lighthouse to reveal the dark truth.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.6%, Horror 19.3%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Atmospheric 9.5%
- #7 Trapped
93% matchVery Positive83% of 156 reviews2019
Dev: N4bA
Windows
You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Horror 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Adventure 12.2%, Mystery 11.8%
- #8 Fox Pines
91% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Smuttheir Studios
Windows
A short horror-experience made by a solo developer. Explore the abandoned Fox Pines park in search of your missing brother—but something is out here with you. Follow the trail he left behind, and track him down...if you can survive.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Mystery 13.4%, First-Person 11.7%
- #9 The Park®
92% matchMixed70% of 3,168 reviews2015
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.8%, Horror 19.5%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, First-Person 11.2%, Mystery 8%
- #10 The Backrooms: Liminal Reality
91% matchMixed58% of 26 reviews2023
Dev: CoffeeCupz Games
Windows · Linux
Explore the backrooms and liminal spaces while trying to find your way out while you fight with the feeling like you are in a dream, or if you have just entered one of your own.
Why similar: Pool 49% ★, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Horror 8.8%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, First-Person 6.9%
- #11 AKAZU Off limits
90% matchMixed66% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: STUDIO DYD
Windows
I found myself lying in a strange place. I had no idea where I was or why I had come here. The only thing I knew was that I had come looking for something.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.1%, Horror 22.7%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, First-Person 12.2%, Adventure 8.8%
- #12 The Forest Watches
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RanSio
Windows
You are the newest member of a forest cult. Complete assigned rituals, obey their rules, and uncover the forest’s unsettling secrets. Every step is watched.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 16.1%, Adventure 11%, Mystery 9.4%
- #13 SIGNAL
89% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: RPavel
Windows
A game in the genre of horror that tells you the story of the main character named John who works on the space station Atlant. You will find a leisurely gameplay with elements of small puzzles and story narration through the onboard crew records. Welcome to the space station Atlant!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.7%, Horror 19.4%, First-Person 14.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Adventure 9.9%
- #14 Effugium
88% matchMixed60% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Souporno GhoshPub: Team Glasses
Windows
Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.3%, Horror 19.1%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12%, First-Person 11.2%
- #15 The Void Below
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EXP Interactive
Windows
Capture footage in the abyssal depths of the ocean. The sub offers safety. The open water does not.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Underwater 21.6% ★, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Mystery 10%
- #16 Death Motel
86% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Death Motel is a short, intense first-person horror experience about the paranormal events occurring at abandoned Crimson Motel.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.6%, Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, First-Person 12.8%, Adventure 11.7%
- #17 PLAYOVER
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: .HOLOMANstudio
Windows
PLAYOVER is a first-person psychological horror game set in an underground drilling facility. You are sent to investigate missing workers and continue the operation
Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Mystery 17.4%, First-Person 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%
- #18 House of Saturn
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XCATHEDRA Games
Windows
Exorcize the demonic in this psychological horror game set in early 1900s England. Navigate a haunted university by solving light puzzles, fueling your lantern, and hiding from a demon that can phase through walls. The gates of hell shall not prevail.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Mystery 10%, Atmospheric 8.9%
- #19 ❌ M A N D A T O R Y ✅
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows
- - - - - - - Your participation is NOT OPTIONAL ❌🔒 Productivity is key. 💻 🌣 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - COMPLIANCE is required. 📝 ✅
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.2%, Horror 15.2%, Adventure 13.4%, First-Person 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
- #20 Unwilling Host
81% matchPositive97% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: HeZhiQiang
Windows
This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.4%, Horror 20.7%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Adventure 9%, First-Person 7%
- #21 Engraving
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Raffaele Picca
Windows · Linux
In this horror adventure, your only weapons are ink, paper, and will. Explore shifting paths, chart them by hand, and uncover ancient secrets buried beneath root and stone. Every step takes its toll.
Why similar: Horror 27%, Walking Simulator 16%, Psychological Horror 16%, First-Person 11.6%, Adventure 10%
- #22 Putridum Horror
84% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: RedLightsStudio
Windows
Putridum - Psychological dark horror in which the player will have to explore a large dark hous with only a weak flashlight, look for the right things, not be caught and find a way to escape from there.
Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, First-Person 14.2%, Atmospheric 13.3%
- #23 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
85% matchMixed70% of 11,878 reviews2013
Dev: The Chinese RoomPub: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 43.2%, Horror 23.7%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Mystery 7.1%, First-Person 5.6%
- #24 Timber trail
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Diotoons
Windows
An immersive horror set in a forest feared for its disappearances and the Timber Trail murders. Uncover the truth behind your grandfather’s fate.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Horror 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, First-Person 11.8%, Mystery 9.8%
- #25 LiDAR Exploration Program
79% matchVery Positive91% of 265 reviews2025
Dev: KenForest
Windows
LiDAR Exploration Program is a relaxing atmospheric game with light horror elements, where you explore in complete darkness using a scanner to reveal the world around you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Horror 18%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Atmospheric 11.3%, First-Person 10.9%
- #26 Caution Ahead: Part 3
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ionic Relay
Windows
Descend into darkness as John, a search and rescue officer reaching the final destination of the journey. Explore claustrophobic mines in this horror experience that blends atmospheric exploration with stealth-based survival.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.4%, Adventure 12.9%, First-Person 12.5%, Horror 12.1%, Mystery 11.1%
- #27 INFRA
81% matchVery Positive88% of 3,554 reviews2016
Dev: Loiste Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Mystery 13.2%, First-Person 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Horror 9.8%
- #28 Possession
77% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Taleon
Windows
The story begins as the protagonist receives a cursed doll and starts suffering from recurring nightmares. Players explore dark environments and face fear through various horror elements. The game offers two different endings and delivers a short but intense horror experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.2%, First-Person 11.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Horror 11.1%, Mystery 10.3%
- #29 DREAM LOGIC
78% matchVery Positive90% of 382 reviews2022
Dev: Teleopsia Games
Windows
DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 14.7%, Mystery 13.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #30 Unfound Footage
76% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Frixxy Games
Windows
Unfound Footage is a short, atmospheric psychological horror game where you must survive inside a mysterious mansion after a strange disappearance.
Why similar: Horror 21.9%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Adventure 10.9%
- #31 False Exit
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hassan SherifPub: Halal Games Studio
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game set in a looping hospital, where each cycle changes reality, escalates tension, and brings you closer to something that should not be there.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Horror 19.2%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, First-Person 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.6%
- #32 Narcosis
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,427 reviews2017
Dev: Honor Code, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
Why similar: Underwater 23.3% ★, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, First-Person 10.6%, Mystery 10.5%
- #33 Fragments of Self: Thoughts
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nothing
Windows
My life has changed drastically: a new country, university, dormitory, work. Drowsiness and fatigue have become a habit, just like the silhouettes I’ve started seeing in my peripheral vision.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Adventure 12.3%, First-Person 11.3%, Horror 10.5%, Mystery 9.7%
- #34 Black Room
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SadOwl Studio
Windows
Black Room is a first-person psychological horror game focused on story and experience. What starts as a night in a motel will pull you deep within the human psyche, leaving you grasping for an exit – and not only for yourself.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Mystery 11.8%, First-Person 10%
- #35 Homesick
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,436 reviews2015
Dev: Lucky Pause
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Horror 13.9%, Mystery 13.7%, Atmospheric 13.5%, First-Person 12.2%
- #36 The Observatory
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Universe 24
Windows
You are an astronomer in The Observatory, and it's your job to search for new planets. Explore space each night through a high-powered telescope. Name and document your discoveries and come to regret your profession in this short cosmic horror story.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 18.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Mystery 6.3%
- #37 WEB STORIES: Graveyard Protocol
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andes Interactive
Windows
The abandoned cemetery always intrigued you. Today you finally entered. While exploring, time distorted. It's midnight now. A chapel appears before you. Inside there's a manual: "Survival Protocol. Follow the rules until dawn or something worse than death awaits you."
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.2%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%
- #38 The Guest
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 945 reviews2016
Dev: Team GothamPub: 505 Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Mystery 18.7%, Walking Simulator 17.6%, First-Person 10.5%, Adventure 10%
- #39 SHE WAS 98
71% matchVery Positive85% of 364 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: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, First-Person 11.2%, Atmospheric 11.1%
- #40 Just a Stay at the Inn
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: 箱庭Prot
Windows
A horror-inspired game set in a Japanese inn, similar to Exit 8. Random anomalies occur as you explore, bringing new scares with each run. Simple controls make it easy to pick up and play.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.8%, Horror 17.8%, First-Person 14.8%, Adventure 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%
- #41 Kach
74% 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: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Horror 21.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Mystery 8.5%, First-Person 8.2%
- #42 The Stairwell
71% matchPositive94% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Hidden Palace
Windows
You've been hired to keep watch in a mysterious building with an infinite stairwell. Your task is simple: investigate each floor for strange phenomena. If you find an anomaly, be careful. Test your skills on the global leaderboard and in the weekly challenge event.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.4%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 19.9%, Atmospheric 8.3%, First-Person 7.9%
- #43 Darkness Inside
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CodelessMan
Windows
Darkness Inside is a first-person atmospheric horror game. The game takes place in an old house. You will be playing the game as James, who is a paranormal investigator.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Horror 21.5%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Atmospheric 12%, First-Person 11.7%
- #44 Strange Midnight
75% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Red Forest Games
Windows
The plot of the game will tell about the adventures of Alice, about her feelings for her grandfather.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.4%, Horror 17.8%, Adventure 13.7%, First-Person 12.4%, Atmospheric 7.7%
- #45 obakeyashiki
71% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Gattorocco
Windows
Find your way out of a haunted house like a maze. A first-person horror exploration adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 46.4%, Horror 20%, First-Person 12.5%, Adventure 12.2%, Exploration 5.4%
- #46 地禍駐車場 -The Cursed Underground Parking Lot-
70% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Diabonobbu Game
Windows
After finishing work, the protagonist heads to the underground parking lot to retrieve their car. For some reason, their car is nowhere to be found, and as they search, strange events unfold one after another...
Why similar: Horror 24.5%, Walking Simulator 24.4%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, First-Person 15%, Adventure 11.7%
- #47 Brews & Blood: Origin
70% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: 12Minus
Windows
Brews & Blood is a Atmospheric Horror game where you manage your uncle's liquor shop for one night in a remote Indian village.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33%, Horror 19.5%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, First-Person 10.3%, Adventure 6.7%
- #48 Opening Up
73% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: SM
Windows
A short story about explaining the unexplainable.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.8%, Adventure 21.2%, Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, First-Person 13.6%
- #49 LoopSpace
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XUZHIHAO
Windows
Enter the mind of the patient. Seek anomalies and uncover the truth. Step into the patient’s mind, explore the mental space, and search for anomalies and memory fragments. Every choice could send you back to the start—can you reach the eighth floor?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.7%, Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, First-Person 18.1%, Exploration 4%
- #50 Parasite Tunnel
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: TAYUTA CREATE
Windows
A creepy tunnel inhabited by a gigantic creature. You are trapped inside this tunnel. Escape the giant creature, search for the tunnel's exit, and make your escape. This is a short horror game that envelops the player in a sense of unease and tension.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.6%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Horror 17.4%, Adventure 8.6%, First-Person 7.5%
- #51 Haunted Property
69% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Markus Korda
Windows
It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Explore a haunted apartment. Monsters jumping towards at your screen.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.9%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 18.2%, First-Person 8.6%, Adventure 7.1%
- #52 Arctic Grave
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Palerite
Windows · Linux
Uncover the mystery of an arctic cargo outpost's lost crew in this horror game. Take in the frozen sea and delve into the depths of the facility, finding items and uncovering new paths with each one to learn what really happened here. But be careful, because something else might be here with you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, First-Person 11.1%, Mystery 9.8%
- #53 The Maid
66% matchVery Positive82% of 165 reviews2025
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.7%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, First-Person 12%, Mystery 8.9%
- #54 Mayfly
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Backyard Zoo
Windows
A story-rich quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Follow Caroline Miller's descent into an increasingly twisted reality as she searches for her missing husband
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Mystery 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, First-Person 11.7%, Horror 11%
- #55 All Alone
68% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: sur
Windows
A missing father, a mysterious murder, paintings depicting missing children. A Short horror game in which the protagonist, who has lost his memory, is forced to get to a horrific truth. Who in the world are you?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.3%, Horror 20.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Atmospheric 10.2%, First-Person 8.2%
- #56 御祝呪 -oshukuju-
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: TENJO GAMES
Windows
This is the story of curse and blessing hidden under a bloodline. Tamako wakes up to see an unfamiliar ceiling. She seeks an escape from the mansion, through traces of distorted feelings. “Novel-to-Experience” Adventure Horror.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.2%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 19.1%, Adventure 9.1%, Exploration 4%
- #57 Selling Souls
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Taiga
Windows
Something is wrong with this store
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.1%, Horror 27%, First-Person 17.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 3.9%
- #58 Evac Bay 09
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Agustín Balmer
Windows · Linux
You're trapped in the seemingly endless corridors of a space station, desperately searching for the evacuation bay 09. But the station is not as empty as it seems; you must observe for subtle, unsettling occurrences and log them if you want to move forward. Can you break the loop and escape?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.2%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Horror 16.3%, First-Person 11.5%, Mystery 6.8%
- #59 Dream Prison
66% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Budai
Windows · Linux
"Dream Prison" is a 3D horror escape game similar to Exit 8. Find the anomalous rooms and escape the cult church.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.2%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Horror 18%, First-Person 14.6%, Adventure 6.5%