Games Like Lost August

Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, 1990's 9.9%, First-Person 9.3%, Horror 9.1%

Anna, an 18-year-old university freshman in a different city. Together with her friend, she rented a small apartment in the station district. They had no idea what would happen during their very first week in the new place.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, 1990's 11.3%, First-Person 10.8%, Exploration 9.8%

Backrooms - 2005 is a chapter-based Backrooms exploration game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, 1990's 12.7%, Realistic 11.3%, Exploration 10.4%, First-Person 9.8%

A short horror experience taking place in a dream or a memory.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Cinematic 17.7%, Horror 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Exploration 9.6%

The Gap is a short first-person horror experience taking place in a ghostly abandoned house on a lonely street corner.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Cinematic 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, 1990's 10.8%, Exploration 9.2%

Atmospheric and calm horror, set in an disturbing Italian condominium. A story-driven adventure into the past traumas of Cesare. No hiding or running from monsters! Follow the dreamy shadows of your childhood trough the liminal spaces of your grandma's apartment.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.4%, 1990's 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Realistic 11.9%, First-Person 10%

The following is a series of tapes recovered near the Overlook National Park where four people were recently reported missing- a family of three and one motorist.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Cinematic 11.9%, 1990's 10.8%, Exploration 10.7%

Backrooms: Reminiscence is a single-player horror game where you experience something unexpected, and now you're left all alone in the cold world of The Backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Cinematic 10.7%, Horror 10.1%, Adventure 8.7%

Motherland (A sad fairytale for adults) is an indie-game that allows you to immerse in the atmosphere of a provincial town during the epidemic.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Open World 15.3%, Realistic 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, First-Person 9.2%

Don’t Blink is a first-person psychological horror game. Navigate an abandoned asylum where blinking reshapes your surroundings - sometimes helping you, sometimes unleashing terror. The game blends slow-burn tension, stealth and psychological horror.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Psychological Horror 17%, First-Person 9.7%, Exploration 8.9%, 1990's 8.1%

FINAL AGE is a first person single player psychological horror game . The player takes on the role of a curious investigator who is drawn to a cottage which was previously owned by an army man Samuel, who mysteriously disappeared during a war. Contains tricky puzzles. Needs good observation skills.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, 1990's 10.5%, Cinematic 9.5%, Exploration 7.8%

50 binary questions. Infinite consequences. Observe every detail... the environment could change. Fail to notice an anomaly, and you fail the test. The further you progress, the more rooms you have to remember. Permadeath.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.6%, Exploration 12%, First-Person 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Adventure 8.1%

INVARIANT is a first-person psychological horror game. Step into the shattered mind of a mathematician. Rely on your destructive addiction to bend reality, explore ever-changing environments, and hide from the terrifying manifestations of your grief. Truth and lies are a sip apart.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Realistic 9.6%, Cinematic 9.1%, First-Person 7.2%

A cinematic horror experience based on exploration.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Cinematic 18.1%, Exploration 11.4%, 1990's 9.1%, Realistic 7.9%

2012. The Arctic research station "Persei" loses contact with the outside world. You are Ethan Miller, a technician sent to the facility to fix the issues. But something here has clearly gone out of control.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, First-Person 10.1%, Adventure 8.6%, Realistic 8.4%

After crashing in the winter wilderness, you wake up in the middle of a blizzard. The forest is dead, the roads are gone, communication is lost. The only chance of salvation is a village hidden in the snow.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.4%, Realistic 12.7%, Exploration 11.4%, Adventure 10.8%, First-Person 10.7%

Mountain's Memory is a walking simulator horror game where players explore a mountain at night, armed only with a lamp. Inspired by the chilling style of Japanese horror, this game delivers an atmosphere of fear and mystery. Feel the terror unfold in the quiet, desolate mountain.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.7%, Realistic 12.7%, First-Person 11.9%, Cinematic 11.1%, Horror 11%

Your dog Marla got lost in the most terrifying forest in New Jersey while on a walk, and now it's up to you to find her. Search the area, clean up Marla's poop, and avoid the creatures that may be lurking in the darkness.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.2%, Walking Simulator 21.6%, First-Person 15.8%, Exploration 9.5%, Realistic 8.2%

A first-person psychological horror set in a decaying hotel that does not want to let you leave. Explore a dark, interconnected environment where sound, lighting, and subtle details drive a slow, relentless sense of dread. You are moving forward, whether you want to or not.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.3%, Cinematic 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Horror 10.3%

Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Cinematic 14.4%, Realistic 10.1%, First-Person 9.6%

Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Cinematic 14.4%, 1990's 11.8%, Exploration 9.6%, Realistic 8.5%

Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, Cinematic 15.5%, Realistic 10.3%, Exploration 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

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: Walking Simulator 18.9%, Cinematic 11.1%, Exploration 9.4%, Horror 8.8%, Realistic 8.7%

BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is a VHS-style horror game where you explore eerie liminal spaces through a camcorder. BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is More than just a walking sim, it features intense levels that require you to hide, run, stay quite, and survive in a creepy, analog nightmare.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Realistic 13.3%, First-Person 10.1%, 1990's 10%

Backrooms: Found Footage is a single-player horror game where you are the main character trying to survive the Backrooms. Curiosity wins and you decide to explore this weird place that you got trapped in. What could go wrong?

Why similar: 1990's 13.7%, Realistic 13.1%, Exploration 12.4%, First-Person 11%, Adventure 10.1%

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 26.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Realistic 11.6%, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 10.5%

Nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.6%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 11.5%, 1990's 11.4%, First-Person 11.3%

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 30.4%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Horror 10%, Realistic 9.2%, First-Person 7%

A deadly search for a grandmother in the village. Can you escape the loop? Unpredictable horror.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.4%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 10.2%, First-Person 10.1%, Realistic 10.1%

It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Explore a haunted apartment. Monsters jumping towards at your screen.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.8%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, 1990's 10.7%, Horror 9.2%, First-Person 7.6%

You are here to listen to The Voice, do what he says. But don't listen to other voices...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18%, Cinematic 10.7%, Horror 10.7%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 8.6%

A VHS found-footage horror anthology where everyday chores become your worst nightmares. Experience a growing collection of bite-sized analog horror episodes, from a late-night trip to the laundromat to a terrifying walk home. Can you survive the mundane?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.8%, Exploration 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, First-Person 10.7%, Realistic 8.9%

It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Get chased by monsters. Monsters jumping towards at your screen.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.7%, 1990's 19%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 8.9%, Adventure 7.8%

Reality fractures within a house that feels hauntingly familiar. Ling House: Echoes Within is a first-person psychological horror. Navigate a shifting villa to uncover the tragedy hidden in the walls. In a place that defies logic, the greatest threat may be your own memory.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Cinematic 14.6%, First-Person 9%, Horror 8%

If you're not careful, you might noclip and enter a place called "The Backrooms". A place like never before seen with mind bending levels that makes you question if this is real. Try to leave the backrooms or get stuck in it.

Why similar: Exploration 16.3%, 1990's 15.8%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, First-Person 13.4%, Realistic 9.5%

Explore the world of backrooms from this solo developed game. explore creepy and eerie levels, and also calm and liminal levels, but be careful, you're not the only one there.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.4%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Realistic 14.4%, First-Person 10.9%, Horror 10.5%

"DISTURBING FEARS" is an episodic horror series inspired by real events that immerses players in disturbing stories.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.5%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, 1990's 13.8%, First-Person 10.4%, Horror 8.6%

"MINDFALL" is a tense first-person psychological horror game that explores the depths of the human mind and its struggle with the unknown.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Cinematic 13.3%, Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 9.4%

r/nosleep is a short horror game series with episodes inspired by and adapted from posts on the r/nosleep subreddit. Night Shift at Paradise Valley Pool episode is the story of a night shift pool maintenance worker and his bizarre experiences during his first day on the job.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, 1990's 14.1%, Realistic 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Exploration 8.8%

By all measures Isaac Llewellyn is a success in life. So why doesn't it feel like that? Something is horribly wrong. Join Isaac as he returns to his childhood home to try to make sense of what happened in his youth. To reconcile truth with memory, Isaac must explore a horrifying past.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.7%, 1990's 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Cinematic 11.1%, First-Person 8.6%

"Stories to Tell" Is a psychological horror game series developed by a 15 year old kid were each installment is based on a dream/nightmare me the developer has had. This is a game you wouldn't want to miss...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, 1990's 14.5%, Realistic 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Exploration 10%

An atmospheric first-person adventure about a reporter investigating a mysterious disappearance, which leads to chilling secrets of hidden government projects and a close encounter with visitors from beyond. Inspired by classic thrillers about aliens and unexplained phenomena.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.6%, 1990's 13.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Realistic 10.3%, First-Person 9.5%

An unknown disease, a dark past and a little girl named Katya, what the outcome will be depends on you, because sooner or later we all have to make a choice and live with it. Are you ready to do your own to achieve the goal at any cost, regardless of the consequences?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.1%, Psychological Horror 13%, Cinematic 11.8%, Realistic 9.9%, First-Person 9.4%

A short walking simulator with a horror feel that recreates actual found footage, which can be related to Liminal Space and Backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.1%, Exploration 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, First-Person 11.8%, Realistic 8.5%

What hides in the depths of the forest?!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Cinematic 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Realistic 10.3%, Exploration 8.7%

“Where the Road Fades” is a short psychological indie horror game. After an accident, you find yourself lost in the woods and seek help in a house but something isn’t right there. Explore, make decisions, and face the darkness. Can you find your way out?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, 1990's 15.6%, First-Person 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Exploration 9.5%

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 25.3%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Adventure 11%, Horror 9.1%, First-Person 8.8%

Dive into the harrowing experience of DROWSE. One evening, one call. In this indie psychological horror game, step back into the 90s. Wander through the various rooms and places you’ll uncover. Observe, you only have a few copies to print, after all. Strange. Was that object really there before?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, 1990's 21.4%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Realistic 10%, Horror 8.6%

A missing friend. Her last known location on your phone. A fence you probably shouldn’t cross. Enter the eerie woods, uncover her story, and face the kult that waits in the dark.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, 1990's 19.2%, Adventure 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Exploration 7.5%

The Butcher's Village is a psychological slasher horror game that provides a horrifying experience. Explore unsettling environments, solve intricate puzzles, and struggle to survive in a village that is at once eerily familiar and terrifyingly real.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Cinematic 12.4%, Exploration 8.1%, Realistic 7.9%

Vadim, a maintenance worker in a decaying post-Soviet apartment, leaves town to care for his sick mother, asking his wife to take over his duties. As she settles into the routine, the building begins to feel off quiet in all the wrong ways.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, 1990's 14%, First-Person 8.3%, Horror 7.9%

Find a way out before you become a permanent part of the game. Your childhood nightmares have found you. Trapped in the endless, eerie playrooms of the Backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.4%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Exploration 13.7%, First-Person 12%, Realistic 7.2%

A horror game about escaping from a mysterious place after a chilling encounter in the woods. Explore, stay quiet, and make tough choices as you search for a way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.9%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Cinematic 12.4%, Exploration 9.6%, Realistic 8.7%

Japan, September 12, 1999, at 8:00 p.m., Ms. Keiko Haraeda collapsed in her room and was found dead. Although the police have ruled that there is no case and closed the investigation, many puzzling points remain, and the family is still calling for information.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, 1990's 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 10.6%, Dark 8.8%

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 35.9%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Realistic 13.8%, Horror 9%, Adventure 7.9%

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Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.9%, Exploration 13.2%, Adventure 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, First-Person 12.3%

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: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Horror 14.8%, First-Person 11.1%, Exploration 10.1%

The Falling Skies is a dark psychological horror walking simulator with survival elements. You play as a forest ranger patrolling a cursed forest where a village mysteriously destroyed itself in a single night. Explore abandoned paths and uncover the echoes of a tragic past.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Cinematic 16.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Realistic 10%

Wander through dreamscapes woven from memories of the millennium. Use your camera to freeze tender fragments of days gone by, collecting lost shards of childhood. In an atmosphere where Chinese Dreamcore and Liminal Space intertwine, savor a warmth that feels both familiar and strange.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, 1990's 15.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Cinematic 11.4%, Exploration 8.7%