
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, Horror, Adventure, Atmospheric.

Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.

You Shouldn't Be Here
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.

Sanity Loops
Caught in a strange series of events, you find yourself stuck in a job you never expected. What started as a simple way to earn money for a gift soon spirals into something much darker. As you navigate your new reality, the boundaries between what’s real and what’s not become harder to distinguish.
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Philosophical 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Surreal 9.7%
Caught in a strange series of events, you find yourself stuck in a job you never expected. What started as a simple way to earn money for a gift soon spirals into something much darker. As you navigate your new reality, the boundaries between what’s real and what’s not become harder to distinguish.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.3%, Horror 25%, Dark 17.3%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Adventure 7.9%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18%, Visual Novel 15%, Dark 13.4%, Horror 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Why similar: Surreal 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 12.7%, Dark 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%
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: Psychological Horror 25.1%, Perma Death 22.4%, Adventure 20.8%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Atmospheric 12%
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!
Why similar: Philosophical 20.5%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dark 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Horror 15.7%, Dark 14.2%, Multiple Endings 14.2%
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: Surreal 26.2%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 16.9%, Dark 16.5%, Atmospheric 7.6%
You are trapped at home in an endless loop. Remember your surroundings and watch out for anomalies, if you ever want to leave.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Choices Matter 23.5%, Horror 18%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Atmospheric 10.2%
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: Text-Based 19.4%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Horror 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
"You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.5%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Horror 16%, Surreal 15.2%
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.2%, Dark 25.1%, Horror 21.2%, Atmospheric 14%, Adventure 7.5%
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 17.5%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
You are trapped in an endless hallway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach your destiny.
Why similar: Surreal 32%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 20.7%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Adventure 5.7%
You arrive at a deserted street that feels familiar yet is filled with unease. Pick up your camera, capture the hidden anomalies, and break this endless loop.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.3%, Surreal 32.5%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Horror 10.4%, Adventure 8.8%
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: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 18.8%, Dark 13.7%, Point & Click 11%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?
Why similar: Surreal 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 14%, Dark 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
We Went Back is a time-looping horror game in which you wake up in an abandoned space station utterly alone. The exit door is locked and you must find a way to escape what lurks within. Find clues, experience dynamically changing environments and confront terror in order to find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 60.8%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Adventure 9%, Atmospheric 7.5%, Singleplayer 4.8%
You are trapped in an endless stairway with no end in sight. Solve twisted puzzles and maybe you will escape your fate.
Why similar: Surreal 25.4%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 17.2%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Atmospheric 10.4%
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Dark 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.8%, Horror 28.5%, Multiple Endings 21.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, Adventure 5.1%
Alone at night, working at a petrol station deep in the American wheat belt. Something feels off... are you sure you're alone? A short 10-15 minute horror game with multiple endings.
Why similar: Horror 35%, Psychological Horror 28.6%, Atmospheric 21.3%, Adventure 15.1%
Welcome to your new summer job. Arthur Brooks, a 22 year old, starts a night job at Moon Gas Station. As he settles in, he experiences strange events that unsettle him. The urban legends about the gas station seem to come to life. Dealing with customers at night is deeply unsettling.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.2%, Horror 30.4%, Atmospheric 16.4%, Adventure 9%, Story Rich 6.7%
Enter the abandoned arcade after your car has crashed, and the shelter you were looking for is trying to eat you alive in this dark mystery-horror adventure. Solve mysteries, keep JANITOR satisfied, and always be aware of what's behind your back.
Why similar: Surreal 24.1%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 14.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Dark 11%
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 27.5%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Story Rich 8.3%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Point & Click 11.6%
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: Surreal 25.5%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Horror 11.4%, Atmospheric 10.4%
Backroom Loop is a first-person psychological horror (entertainment) game. You are trapped in a familiar-feeling space, exploring and escaping… only to return to the start. Can you break free from the loop?
Why similar: Horror 36.8%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, Multiple Endings 25.4%, Adventure 6.6%, Singleplayer 4%
Trapped in a hallucinatory, liminal-space style underground passageway, explore and unravel the endless "dead-end" paths to find a way forward. "Dead Path is a short ambient horror puzzle game that references Exit 8, but with a completely different core mechanic.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.1%, Horror 24.3%, Surreal 21.2%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 6.4%
You can’t run from your dreams in this unsettling classic point-and-click horror game from award-winning indie developer scriptwelder. To find a way out, you’ll have to go even deeper into your nightmares.
Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Point & Click 26.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Adventure 14.3%, Atmospheric 7%
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Point & Click 12.7%, Horror 11.7%
In a final attempt to guarantee your place on the nice list, you decide to try and do some chores before midnight. Will Krampus take you? Take the test and find out.
Why similar: Philosophical 20%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Dark 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%
You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Horror 21.8%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Atmospheric 8.4%
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Point & Click 10%
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.6%, Dark 27.1%, Story Rich 15.1%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Adventure 6.9%
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Conversation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Horror 11.6%, Dark 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%
A broke young man takes on the night shift at a roadside diner. In the glow of the blood moon, routine tasks turn into a fight for survival. First-person horror based on a dark creepypasta with a set of rescue rules.
Why similar: Dark 32.6%, Horror 31.6%, Atmospheric 16.4%, Adventure 6.9%, Singleplayer 6.3%
You're trapped in an endless loop within a liminal dimension, where each loop leads to increasingly unsettling places. Will you find the way out of this psychological horror? The game offers a unique déjà vu experience that blurs the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.7%, Surreal 23.3%, Horror 19.8%, Dark 16%, Adventure 9.1%
A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Surreal 34.4%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Dark 16.6%, Point & Click 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.3%, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Dark 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
You wake in a surreal carnival, where a woman cries out to you before leaping to her death. Can either of you be saved? The denizens and devices of Strangeland answer with riddles, puzzles, and warnings of a Dark Thing lurking at the park’s peak. A new adventure from the creators of Primordia.
Why similar: Surreal 17.7%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Conversation 12.5%, Point & Click 12.3%, Horror 9.2%
Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 14%, Dark 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
Why similar: Conversation 22.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11%
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: Psychological Horror 22.9%, Horror 19.2%, Dark 17.8%, Surreal 14.9%, Atmospheric 8.4%
You’re torn between a girl who is obsessed with you and a creature. Whose words can lead you out of this endless loop? Trust the right person in the right cycle to get closer to the exit, or be misled by facades, complicating your next loop.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.5%, Horror 21.3%, Dark 19%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10%
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: Surreal 27.1%, Psychological Horror 26.3%, Horror 21.7%, Story Rich 9.8%, Atmospheric 7.1%
A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery. Manage a remote lighthouse, handle limited resources, and confront eerie occurrences as isolation erodes your sanity. Multiple endings await based on your choices and actions. How long can you last?
Why similar: Horror 28.5%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Dark 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Story Rich 15.5%
You are locked inside a cinema. Your only way to escape is to follow the instructions of your task: Watch the same film clip repeatedly and search for flaws to break free. But this may sound easier than it is, every wrong decision or death will set you back. So be careful!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.1%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Dark 17.7%, Horror 16.2%, Atmospheric 11.7%
While trying to find a payphone during a powerful storm, Mitch instead finds himself in a library filled with horrors and traps all laid out to end his life. Guide him to sanctuary or his demise in this horror adventure game found on a strange cartridge.
Why similar: Surreal 17.4%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Point & Click 12.1%
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Conversation 10.6%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
A bone-chilling body-horror game with escape room gameplay. Bad decisions have brought Matthew to this terrifying motel. Now it’s up to you to decide how to escape - will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 21.5%, Dark 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Atmospheric 11%
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Conversation 19.6%, Choices Matter 16%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Story Rich 9.5%
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.3%, Surreal 21.2%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Conversation 19.4%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Surreal 18.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 14.8%, Dark 10.7%
Trapped in total darkness, you’re a helpless kid, alone and hunted by something lurking in the shadows. Solve puzzles, navigate shifting rooms, and uncover creepy secrets. Your worst nightmares are real. Can you make it through the night?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.7%, Horror 23.7%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Perma Death 11.4%, Story Rich 11.4%
First Person Psychological Horror. Addicted to virtual ecstasy, trapped in digital hell. Navigate glitchy dreamscapes and a city that never sleeps. Every mission brings you closer to your next dose, but will you follow your protective AI, or the man behind a liberating new drug?
Why similar: Surreal 23%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 17.2%, Dark 14.2%, Story Rich 9.5%
A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.
Why similar: Surreal 28.4%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 17.2%, Dark 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
Why similar: Conversation 27.5%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Horror 16.9%, Story Rich 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Step into an uncanny building trapped in endless loops. Use the elevator, uncover unsettling anomalies, and evade the Entity lurking behind you. Liminal Exit is an immersive game inspired by liminal spaces and Exit 8. Explore 3 liminal space floors and track anomalies to escape, but watch your back!
Why similar: Perma Death 21.9%, Surreal 21.6%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Horror 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12.8%