- #1 Cry of Fear
97% matchVery Positive89% of 84,143 reviews2013
Dev: Team Psykskallar
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Why similar: Horror 56.1%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Psychological Horror 6.2%, Co-op 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: A seminal free-to-play psychological horror game that perfectly captures the feeling of navigating a nightmare-fueled urban landscape.
- #2 Kraven Manor
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 739 reviews2014
Dev: Demon Wagon Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and prepare yourself. Explore the depths of the immersive, atmospheric world of Kraven Manor. Uncover its secrets, solve its mystical puzzles, and face its growing threat. Face your fears and see if you have what it takes...the doors of Kraven Manor await you.
Why similar: Horror 71.5%, Multiplayer 12%, Adventure 6.1%, Action 4.3%, Indie 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic indie horror title that uses shifting architecture and atmospheric tension to keep players on edge.
- #3 Escape the Backrooms
94% matchVery Positive91% of 139,253 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Horror 52.2%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 5.8%, Online Co-Op 3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the surreal, liminal space aesthetic that makes modern nightmare-themed horror so effective.
- #4 Fractured Minds
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 488 reviews2019
Dev: EmilyMGamesPub: Wired Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 16%
Fractured Minds is an immersive artistic short game, exploring anxiety and mental health issues. Embark on a journey through the human psyche to experience the everyday challenges associated with these conditions.
Why similar: Indie 40.1%, Psychological Horror 23%, First-Person 19.7%, Adventure 17.1%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive indie title that directly tackles themes of mental health and anxiety through surreal, nightmare-like imagery.
- #5 Lost in Vivo
95% matchVery Positive92% of 3,903 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
Why similar: Horror 50.3%, Survival Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, First-Person 3.6%, Indie 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at creating claustrophobic, surreal environments that mirror the psychological descent found in Minds Eyes.
- #6 Visage
94% matchVery Positive84% of 10,723 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 59%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.8%, First-Person 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an intense, high-fidelity psychological horror experience that focuses on the terror of domestic spaces turned into nightmares.
- #7 Dark Deception
93% matchVery Positive89% of 23,549 reviews2018
Dev: Glowstick Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.
Why similar: Horror 59.8%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Psychological Horror 5.9%, First-Person 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines first-person exploration with arcade-style horror elements, creating a fast-paced nightmare experience.
- #8 Inside the Backrooms
92% matchVery Positive80% of 46,110 reviews2022
Dev: MrFatcat
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Why similar: Horror 49.5%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Psychological Horror 5.8%, Co-op 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a cooperative, surreal survival experience that leans heavily into the feeling of being trapped in an endless, hostile dream.
- #9 Layers of Fear
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,635 reviews2023
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.
Why similar: Horror 67.7%, Psychological Horror 15%, Adventure 6.5%, First-Person 6.3%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features constantly shifting environments that reflect a fractured psyche, much like the dream-logic of Minds Eyes.
- #10 Dungeon Nightmares II : The Memory
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 284 reviews2015
Dev: K Monkey
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Dungeon Nightmares II is a first-person psychological horror that takes you through a journey of discovering what nightmares are.The game is inspired by classic roguelike games which include 100% procedural-generated maps and permadeath.
Why similar: Horror 57.7%, Survival Horror 20.5%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Adventure 4.8%, Action 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Directly focuses on the concept of nightmares and memory, aligning perfectly with the core premise of the seed game.
- #11 Blameless
90% matchVery Positive84% of 5,090 reviews2016
Dev: Vaclav HudecPub: Blameless Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Blameless is a mysterious first-person adventure with primary focus on puzzle solving and short story. The player will appear in a role of an architect trying to investigate strange happenings, after discovering evidence of an act of violence.
Why similar: Horror 68%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Survival Horror 6%, Adventure 4.1%, First-Person 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: An indie mystery-horror title that emphasizes environmental storytelling and psychological tension in a confined space.
- #12 Fear Therapy
89% matchMixed67% of 4,733 reviews2021
Dev: Black Flag Studios
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.
Why similar: Horror 62.4%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Psychological Horror 5.9%, Survival Horror 4.8%, Co-op 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that utilizes multiplayer mechanics to heighten the tension of surviving a terrifying ordeal.
- #13 Ghost Watchers
86% matchVery Positive86% of 16,181 reviews2025
Dev: Renderise
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses
Why similar: Horror 57.4%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Co-op 5.5%, Adventure 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror game that focuses on the investigation of supernatural entities in atmospheric, spooky locations.
- #14 Welcome to Hanwell
89% matchMixed47% of 364 reviews2017
Dev: Steel Arts
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Open world horror set in a city in which your worst nightmares have become an everyday part of life. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with it's own story to tell. Strung together by the remenants of Hanwell.
Why similar: Horror 50.9%, Survival Horror 20.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Adventure 6.2%, Action 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world psychological horror game that captures the feeling of being hunted through a distorted, nightmarish city.
- #15 Paratopic
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,120 reviews2018
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Horror 65.8%, Experimental 10.9%, Psychological Horror 8%, Adventure 5.7%, Indie 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, low-poly horror game that relies on fragmented storytelling and unsettling atmosphere to convey its themes.
- #16 SIGNALIS
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,665 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Survival Horror 62.8%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 5.2%, Atmospheric 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in surreal, psychological horror that uses dream-like logic and atmospheric dread to tell a haunting story.
- #17 Dementium II HD
88% matchMixed50% of 1,276 reviews2013
Dev: Memetic GamesPub: Missing Link Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The visage of doctors and patients alike fade in and out of these nightmarish visions of tortured memories. This eggshell reality is fractured by experiments conducted in the ward. Blood, flesh and screams surround as you put together the pieces of your story and make your escape from the Bright Dawn Treatment Center while the dark...
Why similar: Horror 80.5%, Action 6%, Adventure 5.9%, Indie 3.5%, First-Person 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game that leans into grotesque, nightmare-inspired creature design and intense combat.
- #18 Hide and Shriek
86% matchVery Positive82% of 5,327 reviews2017
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!
Why similar: Horror 57%, Multiplayer 26.7%, Thriller 5.8%, Psychological Horror 3.3%, First-Person 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror game that focuses on jump scares and psychological trickery in a competitive setting.
- #19 Agonize
85% matchMixed62% of 145 reviews2022
Dev: Vault Interactive
Windows
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Thriller 9.9%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense survival-horror gameplay with a focus on cooperative psychological terror.
- #20 Lights Off!
83% matchVery Positive85% of 1,843 reviews2022
Dev: TheDollarGameStore
Windows
Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed.
Why similar: Horror 70.3%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Adventure 5.1%, FPS 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: A simple, effective indie horror game that focuses on the primal fear of darkness and the unknown.
- #21 Iron Lung
82% matchVery Positive92% of 10,709 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Horror 72.3%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Adventure 4.4%, First-Person 4.4%, Indie 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A short, claustrophobic experience that relies on extreme isolation and surreal horror to create a lasting impact.
- #22 Medusa's Labyrinth
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,112 reviews2016
Dev: Guru Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Medusa’s Labyrinth is a very short mythological first-person horror game set in ancient Greece. It takes myths and legends that have stayed with us for over 2000 years and mix them together with modern gameplay. The game let's you explore murky catacombs and follow along a classic, tragic story.
Why similar: Horror 72.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Adventure 4.4%, Action 3.8%, Indie 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play mythological horror game that uses atmospheric exploration to build a sense of dread.
- #23 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
82% matchVery Positive95% of 35,384 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 68.4%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 6%, First-Person 2.7%, Adventure 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential psychological horror game that defined the genre's focus on helplessness and atmospheric dread.
- #24 Who's Lila?
81% matchVery Positive95% of 3,610 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Horror 77.3%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, First-Person 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A unique, surreal psychological horror game that forces players to manipulate facial expressions to uncover a dark mystery.
- #25 SOMA
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 51,186 reviews2015
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Why similar: Horror 50.4%, Survival Horror 23.3%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Adventure 3.8%, First-Person 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Explores deep existential and psychological themes within a terrifying, isolated underwater facility.
- #26 Darkwood
80% matchVery Positive95% of 24,197 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Why similar: Horror 49.7%, Survival Horror 27.4%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Adventure 4.9%, Action 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down horror game that excels at creating a sense of psychological unease and survival-based tension.
- #27 >observer_
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,906 reviews2017
Dev: Bloober Team SAPub: Bloober Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Why similar: Horror 70%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, First-Person 4.3%, Adventure 4.3%, Atmospheric 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk psychological horror game that dives deep into the distorted minds of its characters.
- #28 The Cat Lady
79% matchVery Positive94% of 6,142 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Horror 73.6%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Adventure 6.9%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy psychological horror game that deals with depression and surreal, nightmarish imagery.
- #29 The Empty Eyes
77% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.
Why similar: Horror 43.1%, Survival Horror 21.1%, Thriller 16.5%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Indie 2.9%
- #30 Dead Blue Rose
78% matchMostly Negative33% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: ColdBones
Windows
A multiplayer horror where you escape a laboratory at the cost of others.
Why similar: Horror 40%, Survival Horror 21.7%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, Co-op 3.7%
- #31 Black Rose
78% 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 66.6%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Adventure 2.9%, Indie 2.1%
- #32 Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,883 reviews2021
Dev: Dream Toaster Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 23%
A 2-Player Networked Horror Co-Op game. Explore the deepest recesses of your mind to put yourself back together. Work together to defend yourself from its denizens.
Why similar: Horror 48.3%, Survival Horror 24.8%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Co-op 5.3%, Adventure 3.9%
- #33 Doorways: Old Prototype
76% matchVery Positive86% of 670 reviews2016
Dev: Saibot Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 23%
An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga
Why similar: Horror 66%, Psychological Horror 6.3%, Multiplayer 5.2%, Experimental 4.8%, Adventure 4.8%
- #34 REALITY
77% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Grey Reality Studios
Windows
REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.
Why similar: Horror 86%, Adventure 8.1%, Indie 5.8%
- #35 Evil Inside - Prologue
76% matchMixed67% of 1,044 reviews2021
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
Why similar: Horror 47.4%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Experimental 6.2%, Psychological Horror 4.4%
- #36 Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,926 reviews2020
Dev: Glowstick Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is a multiplayer horror party game with multiple modes where players take on the role of monsters or mortals from Dark Deception's universe (and other universes) and fight for soul shards in nightmarish mazes!
Why similar: Horror 49.3%, Survival Horror 20.2%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Indie 4.2%, Action 4.1%
- #37 SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer
72% matchVery Positive83% of 28,196 reviews2021
Dev: Fusion Creators Studio
Windows
Multiplayer survival horror game based on stories from the SCP Foundation. The game is about a facility containing anomalous entities known as SCPs. When a catastrophic containment breach occurs at one of the facilities, it is your main goal to escape the facility. Try to escape with your friends!
Why similar: Horror 50.9%, Multiplayer 15%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 4.6%, Co-op 3.2%
- #38 Passing Pineview Forest
75% matchMixed65% of 1,697 reviews2014
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...
Why similar: Horror 69.8%, Survival Horror 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Adventure 2.5%, Psychological Horror 2.4%
- #39 Eyes: The Horror Game
71% matchVery Positive90% of 828 reviews2024
Dev: Fearless GamesPub: QubicGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
You break into the mansion at night. It’s huge and built like a maze. You're trying to escape, but the monster is after you! The chase begins. RUN!!
Why similar: Horror 51.8%, Survival Horror 28.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Adventure 5.9%, First-Person 2.8%
- #40 Face The Abyss
73% matchMostly Negative38% of 373 reviews2024
Dev: Team KGD
Windows
The experiment has failed. The facility that was supposed to control the monster has stopped working, and now your only hope is to escape the facility before the monster hunts you down.
Why similar: Horror 47.4%, Survival Horror 22.5%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Action 4.2%, Co-op 3.8%
- #41 Nyctophilia
73% matchMixed64% of 307 reviews2015
Dev: Cat In A Jar Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Nyctophilia is 2D psychological thriller about bad things in your head.
Why similar: Horror 69.7%, Thriller 12.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 7.1%
- #42 Terror Lab
74% matchMixed55% of 97 reviews2016
Dev: Nicolas BernardPub: M.INDIE
Windows · Mac · Linux
You have just awoken without knowing who or where you are. You can't remember anything but it is clear you are not alone.
Why similar: Horror 42.7%, Survival Horror 20.5%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Adventure 8%
- #43 Last Year
71% matchMixed62% of 9,756 reviews2019
Dev: Undaunted Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Enter the nightmarish world of Last Year, where you and four other classmates try to survive, fight back and ultimately escape a horrifying Fiend in this unique horror asymmetric game.
Why similar: Horror 47.9%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Action 5.5%, Co-op 4.9%
- #44 Somewhere in the Shadow
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 728 reviews2021
Dev: Aydy
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...
Why similar: Horror 52.8%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Co-op 4.3%, Online Co-Op 4.2%
- #45 Stay Close
72% matchMixed62% of 1,912 reviews2016
Dev: Blind Bird
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?
Why similar: Horror 56.8%, Survival Horror 17%, Multiplayer 11%, Co-op 6%, Psychological Horror 4.4%
- #46 Bloodwood Reload
73% matchMixed40% of 429 reviews2015
Dev: Luminy Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
In a small village in central Europe something is happening, the forest growing around has something different. Its wood is red color, unique in the world. This does not pass unnoticed to the world's largest logging company, the White Wood Company
Why similar: Horror 68.8%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Survival Horror 8.3%, Adventure 4.7%, Indie 2.9%
- #47 CantEscapeTheBackrooms
69% matchMixed60% of 239 reviews2023
Dev: BlackArtStudios
Windows
CantEscapeTheBackrooms is a single player horror game. Explore numerous treacherous and dangerous levels, avoid contact with evil entities, and do whatever it takes to find your way out!
Why similar: Horror 45.9%, Multiplayer 19%, Survival Horror 16.8%, First-Person 4.2%, Action 3.5%
- #48 Silent dream
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 209 reviews2021
Dev: GeuktePub: Dreamforest Entertainment
Windows
In the dark corridor as wide as a labyrinth, avoiding numerous pursuers who are aiming for their lives. Will you be able to save the missing person and escape safely!?
Why similar: Horror 53.2%, Survival Horror 26%, Psychological Horror 10%, FPS 2.5%, First-Person 2.3%
- #49 Creepy Vision
70% matchVery Positive85% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Orange Valley
Windows
Creepy Vision is an atmospheric indie horror with puzzles and dynamic levels. Explore a distorted dimension, avoid deadly traps, and find a way out while reality itself keeps changing around you.
Why similar: Horror 62.3%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Action 7.4%, Adventure 7.2%, First-Person 6%
- #50 School 666
66% matchVery Positive84% of 632 reviews2025
Dev: Lokin
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.
Why similar: Horror 51.9%, Thriller 17.4%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Adventure 4.8%, Online Co-Op 4.7%
- #51 The Lodge
71% matchMostly Negative38% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: Mad Mountain StudiosPub: Cogswell University
Windows
A first-person, psychological horror game, The Lodge takes players on a journey into the horrors of a twisted mind.
Why similar: Horror 56.3%, Action 9.8%, Adventure 9.2%, Thriller 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #52 DYSTHANASIA
65% matchVery Positive90% of 322 reviews2025
Dev: Madowaku KoboPub: Eroge Japan
Windows
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
Why similar: Horror 51.8%, Survival Horror 30.2%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Action 2.9%, Adventure 2.7%
- #53 Chased by Darkness
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 412 reviews2021
Dev: South Blue Moon
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.
Why similar: Horror 40.8%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Thriller 10.7%, Psychological Horror 5.1%
- #54 Silent Rain
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 220 reviews2024
Dev: 2Brains&CoffeePub: Seedlers Interactive
Windows
Silent Rain is a challenging and immersive co-op horror game, for 1 to 4 players. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, and gather information while trying to survive the threats lurking in the dark. How many tries will it take you to master your fear?
Why similar: Horror 39.2%, Survival Horror 21%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Psychological Horror 6.3%, First-Person 3.7%
- #55 Dark Fracture: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,364 reviews2020
Dev: Twisted II Studio
Windows
Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.
Why similar: Horror 49.4%, Survival Horror 25.1%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Adventure 4.7%, First-Person 4.4%
- #56 Psychoscopy
65% matchVery Positive93% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: CrowNest Games
Windows
Psychoscopy is a 5 player co-op horror game that you try to gather evidences about paranormal activities in large areas. Make a team with your 4 friends, take your equipments and hunt down paranormal activities.
Why similar: Horror 41.8%, Thriller 24.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Action 5.6%, First-Person 5%
- #57 BACKROOMS NO RETURN: Prologue
68% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,210 reviews2024
Dev: FriedGPU
Windows
Explore the poolrooms in a inmersive cooperative horror game. Immerse yourself in the story of scientists who are exploring the depths of the poolrooms and end up encountering various obstacles in order to find a way back to reality.
Why similar: Horror 40.5%, Survival Horror 20.1%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, First-Person 4.1%
- #58 In Passing
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.
Why similar: Adventure 39%, Action 35.4%, Indie 25.7%
- #59 EVIL POSSESSION
69% matchMixed57% of 161 reviews2017
Dev: 2DragonsGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
SURVIVAL HORROR in first person. We incarnate an investigator of paranormal events that only with the help of a paranormal activity detector (EMF DETECTOR) and a small oil lamp, we will try to perform an EXORCISM.
Why similar: Horror 42.3%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Adventure 6.4%, Action 5.8%