
A minimalist game about digging through a deep, surreal tunnel. Upgrade your gear to go further, and uncover the dark secret of why no one returns from the depths. But move carefully—some cubes should remain buried.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include First-Person, Atmospheric, 3D, Exploration.

A minimalist game about digging through a deep, surreal tunnel. Upgrade your gear to go further, and uncover the dark secret of why no one returns from the depths. But move carefully—some cubes should remain buried.

GRINDWORM
A horror game where you're buried alive in a collapsed underground mine, and your only hope for survival is an old mining machine. Workplace safety rules no longer apply. Just remember: DON'T. STOP. DIGGING.

A Mountain Called Hope
Explore a hauntingly abandoned late 1800s mountain coal mining town afflicted by a violent winter storm.
A horror game where you're buried alive in a collapsed underground mine, and your only hope for survival is an old mining machine. Workplace safety rules no longer apply. Just remember: DON'T. STOP. DIGGING.
Why similar: Mining 32.8% ★, Underground 18.6% ★, Surreal 9.7%, Horror 8.8%, Psychological Horror 6.7%
Explore a hauntingly abandoned late 1800s mountain coal mining town afflicted by a violent winter storm.
Why similar: Mining 46.5% ★, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Exploration 7.7%, Horror 6.8%, Linear 5.7%
You must discover the differences between what you see through the camera and with your own eyes to distinguish real floors from fake ones and escape. It is said that ghosts behave the opposite of humans, and taking the elevator is no exception.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Surreal 13.3%, Exploration 10%, Horror 9.2%, First-Person 8.9%
Every floor looks normal… until it isn't. Go up if everything is fine, down if something is wrong. One mistake sends you back. The deeper you go, the less the corridor obeys its own rules.
Why similar: Surreal 14.4%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Horror 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Dark 8.9%
a Train has been infected with mysterious anomalies. G.O.A.B has secretly hired you to inspect the train. It's your job to find the anomalies and terminate them.
Why similar: Underground 17.4% ★, Surreal 13.8%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Horror 8.4%, Exploration 7.6%
Awakening was only the beginning. RDS is real… consuming anyone who ventures too close.
Why similar: Underground 18.1% ★, Surreal 15.7%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Minimalist 8.6%, Horror 8.5%
Explore a looping corridor filled with anomalies. Walk through the fluorescent-lit backrooms environment, examine your surroundings, and spot subtle changes in reality.
Why similar: Underground 16.9% ★, Surreal 14.7%, Walking Simulator 10.8%, Minimalist 8.4%, Horror 7.7%
project_Structure_01 is first-person exploration game focusing on atmosphere and exploration of surreal liminal spaces that feature brutalist architecture.
Why similar: Surreal 20.7%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 9.3%
Dignaut is a chill sci-fi space adventure where you drill into alien terrain to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore a mysterious planet with multiple biomes, upgrade your gear, and uncover the secrets of an ancient, buried alien civilization.
Why similar: Mining 40.2% ★, Underground 19.9% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Exploration 7.6%, Mystery 6.7%
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
Why similar: Underground 19.9% ★, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Surreal 11.8%, Horror 8.9%, Psychological Horror 8%
Dig, collect resources, upgrade your drill and multitool, go deep underground and find a powerful shiny object.
Why similar: Mining 37.2% ★, Underground 14% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Exploration 6.9%, Horror 6.6%
Navigate the never-ending hallway of the Hudson: A hotel that doesn’t want its guests to leave. Observe your surroundings, spot irregularities, and choose the correct path to escape.
Why similar: Surreal 15.9%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Exploration 9.1%, Horror 8.4%
Spot anomalies in a looping complex of empty poolrooms. Choose the correct exit and find the way out.
Why similar: Underground 18.9% ★, Surreal 14.2%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Horror 8.9%, Exploration 7.7%
A late-90s retro 3D horror where you feed the Biomass Core to escape. No keys. No doors.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.4%, Horror 13.3%, Underground 12.9% ★, Atmospheric 9.2%, First-Person 8.2%
17 Horror rooms simulating common phobias. Are you afraid of spiders, cockroaches, snakes, heights, fire, being buried alive? Enter the black doors and conquer your fears!
Why similar: Surreal 18%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Horror 10%, Exploration 9.4%, Minimalist 9%
Enslaved you're forced underground to mine to buy your freedom. Manage stamina, weight, and torchlight as you dig for valuable ore. Sell when prices are high, upgrade your gear and shelter. Every swing of your pickaxe gets you closer to freedom. Right?
Why similar: Mining 44.8% ★, Underground 19% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Exploration 7.4%, Minimalist 5.1%
Use a remote-controlled robot to find the treasure lost under the bed.
Why similar: Underground 17.7% ★, Surreal 14.1%, Horror 9.2%, Minimalist 8.1%, Dark 7.6%
Explore the halls of the underground cult of The Open Hand. Experience the test rooms setup for your initiation in this psychological horror exploration game. Never forget....they are always watching.
Why similar: Surreal 16.2%, Walking Simulator 15%, Horror 10.4%, Exploration 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8%
The Door in the Basement is an atmospheric pixelated horror game set in a mysterious subterranean world.
Why similar: Underground 18.3% ★, Surreal 12.8%, Horror 10.1%, Dark 9.6%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
Embark on a procedural liminal journey filled with eerie, unfriendly faces. Walk, explore, and descend to the first floor to escape. No monsters will chase you, but they can watch and appear when you aren't looking. This can evoke a fear of an endless labyrinth and create a sense of anxiety.
Why similar: Surreal 19.9%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Minimalist 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.1%
Crawl, run, and shimmy your way through this caving experience to survive the horrors lurking through the underground, and discover what would drive a man to go so deep into the bowels of the earth.
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Underground 16.3% ★, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Horror 10%, Linear 7.8%
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
Why similar: Mining 32.9% ★, Underground 15.2% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Horror 7.4%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
What lies beyond The 4th Wall?
Why similar: Surreal 28.5%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Horror 16.1%, Exploration 9.2%, Minimalist 8.7%
Minor Miner is a claustrophobic narrative horror game. Explore Camp 47 and the deadly caves below. Mine precious minerals, manage your resources, and uncover the truth behind a program that sends children underground. You are not here for the mineral. You are here for your brother.
Why similar: Mining 39.1% ★, Underground 21.9% ★, Horror 10.8%, Walking Simulator 7.3%, First-Person 5.9%
A psychological horror where reality fractures around musician John Hale. Explore a non‑linear story, haunting memories, and immersive sound as you slip between truth, delusion, and the darkness of your own mind.
Why similar: Surreal 21.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 11.3%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Dark 9.6%
A small game about a demon shattering his way out of an icy prison. Break apart statues, upgrade your demonic tools, and piece together the story of an ancient friendship.
Why similar: Mining 41.9% ★, Underground 16.1% ★, Exploration 7.9%, Procedural Generation 7.2%, Atmospheric 7.1%
"Glimpse" is a single-player atmospheric horror game. Get a glimpse of the struggles and fears of a person affected by Alzheimer's Disease.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.9%, Surreal 13.5%, Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Linear 10.6%
Mine your way through a vast cave system that watches as you dig deeper each day. Explore diverse biomes, collect valuable resources and craft increasingly powerful tools and upgrades until you are strong enough to reach the end before it all comes down.
Why similar: Mining 50.7% ★, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Exploration 8.3%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Dark 4.3%
A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.
Why similar: Surreal 17.1%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Minimalist 8.2%
You wake up. Everything seems normal. Click. Is something wrong? One anomaly. One chance. One mistake, and it all begins again. A horror experience woven from paranoia, where your attention to detail is the only thing that can save you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.6%, Surreal 13.8%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Minimalist 7.4%
Buy geodes, crack their weak points, find rare crystals and artifacts, and build an automated processing line in this 2D incremental game.
Why similar: Mining 43.4% ★, Underground 14.8% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Casual 5.5%
You are trapped in a corridor suspended above the clouds. Each time you open the door at the end of the corridor, explore the environment that awaits you, find anomalies, use the alarm, and break the loop.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.8%, Surreal 15%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 9.4%, Exploration 8.3%
Time only moves when you do. Every step advances monsters, spreads lava and closes danger in. Plan your route, manage your light and choose when to take risks. One wrong move and it all catches up.
Why similar: Mining 49.6% ★, Dark 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Casual 7.4%, Minimalist 7%
POOLIMINAL is an atmospheric liminal space horror game set in endless, procedurally generated poolrooms. A Backrooms-inspired descent into thalassophobia, where the real terror lies in the dark water below.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.5%, Surreal 16.9%, Exploration 9.8%, First-Person 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%
Rockfall is a 2D mining adventure where you descend into dangerous depths to gather resources, upgrade your gear, and survive hidden dungeons filled with traps, treasure, and danger. Dig deep, explore wisely… and don’t stay underground too long.
Why similar: Mining 51.9% ★, Underground 16.5% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Exploration 8.4%, Atmospheric 4.6%
Dig to China Simulator, is a simple game about digging a hole in your back yard, until you get to China. Find ores in the holes you dig, sell them, upgrade your equipment to dig faster. No Monsters, No Fall Damage, 500 meters of pure digging.
Why similar: Mining 29.4% ★, Underground 9.7% ★, Atmospheric 8.3%, Horror 7.5%, Sandbox 6.4%
Eerie Excavation is a first person light horror game. Explore mines, collect and refine resources in them, exchange them for new items and kit upgrades and buy access to bigger, more profitable mines! But don't forget: you are not alone in this mine
Why similar: Mining 29.4% ★, Underground 11.2% ★, Horror 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Surreal 24%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Exploration 12.1%, Atmospheric 12%, Horror 9.2%
With a sack over your head, four strangers take you to an old dirt-filled well. You don't know who they are, where you are, or what's buried below. All you do know is that you're here for one thing...
Why similar: Mining 42.2% ★, Underground 15.5% ★, Psychological Horror 6.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Dweller is a psychological walking sim horror game where you're trapped in a rotting sewer system with something watching your every move. You're low on resources, high on tension, and the only voice you hear might be trying to help... or mess with your head. Trust no one. Stay quiet. Stay alive.
Why similar: Underground 16.9% ★, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Surreal 14.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.4%
TAMAGORUDO - Floor 0 - is an atmospheric psychological horror game. You will find yourself stuck in a parallel floor of the Backrooms, trying to break out of the loop of a chicken-or-the-egg paradox. Will you find the answer to this endless question ?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.3%, Surreal 20.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Exploration 9.6%
You find yourself alone in a place that feels familiar… but not quite right. Wander aimlessly or with purpose, it won’t matter. Is there an end? Has anyone been here before you? Time feels slow. Or maybe it's frozen. Or maybe… you’re not meant to leave.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.3%, Surreal 14.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Dark 9%, Atmospheric 8.9%
Trapped in a short endless hall of a pharaonic tomb. Watch every change, then choose to step forward or turn back. Each decision shapes six cursed seals: edge closer to freedom or lose them all in a suffocating psychological horror.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.7%, Underground 13.4% ★, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 11.3%, Exploration 8%
Make pizzas and deliver them. The hardest part of running the shop alone is that the delivery destinations are "liminal spaces." A story-driven 3D horror game. There is a kind of worst possible outcome that can only be born in infinite space. Once you understand it, it is already too late.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22%, Surreal 14.7%, Exploration 11.1%, Dark 9.6%, First-Person 9.1%
A surrealist exploration of the mind of a man trapped in a room. Part game, part short film, part disaster, Flat 207 is a cursed video game with no traditional game mechanics that takes roughly 40 minutes to finish.
Why similar: Surreal 23.3%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Mystery 11%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
A computer engineer arrives in a remote mountain village, where tech failures and missing residents put him face to face with an unsettling force lurking behind the screen.
Why similar: Surreal 17.1%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 10.8%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Spot the anomalies. Escape the loop. Akeno’s Veil is a psychological horror game where spotting anomalies is your only escape—from the relentless demon determined to pull you back.
Why similar: Surreal 17.1%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Exploration 7.7%
A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.
Why similar: Mining 36.1% ★, Underground 18.4% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Procedural Generation 7.8%, Exploration 6.6%
The Hotel is a psychological horror thriller in which the player will have to face the evil living within the walls of a lonely hotel. But more importantly, the player will have to decide what this evil is to him. Maybe the nature of this evil is deeper than it seems at first glance.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.3%, Surreal 14.1%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Dark 8.5%
Feed and raise your little baby. Watch it grow and feed on every and anything. In Full Bloom is a Tamagotchi inspired Katamari-like about a creature with never-ending hunger for the world around it. There is only one way.
Why similar: Surreal 28.7%, Horror 13.6%, Exploration 11.5%, Dark 10.1%, Atmospheric 9.6%
Parasomnia Verum is an atmospheric horror game about a recurring dream.
Why similar: Surreal 27.1%, Horror 16.5%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10%, Walking Simulator 7.7%
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 13.5%, Horror 11.4%, Surreal 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Mystery 9.3%
Melancholia Maze is a brief atmospheric horror adventure in a twisted version of home. Complete everyday tasks while avoiding lurking demons, collect clues to piece together a lifeline, and find your way out of the darkness. Escape is just a call away.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.6%, Surreal 16.9%, Exploration 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 9%
Do not forget. It remembers more than it should. What begins as a simple task slowly unravels into something deeply unsettling. Explore the mall's deepest secrets, uncover fragments of forgotten stories, and question reality itself.
Why similar: Surreal 17.4%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Exploration 9.8%, Horror 9.4%
You watch a news program in the middle of the night featuring an unsettling reporter. As you watch, the world around you begins to warp and become unrecognizable. This is one broadcast you won't soon forget.
Why similar: Surreal 25.9%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Horror 14.5%, Dark 8.2%, Exploration 7.8%
You’ve stucked into a loop in the mysterious hotel. Find anomalies to escape the hotel’s loop.
Why similar: Surreal 17.8%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 11.2%, Linear 8%
A casual treasure hunt on a tropical island. Follow your metal detector, dig some treasures, and upgrade your tools! All on a nice sunny day at the beach.
Why similar: Mining 49.5% ★, Exploration 9.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, First-Person 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%
DIRUS Software's lost 1999 cult-classic is back! Explore its confusing and stygian world for yourself in this newly remastered edition, and uncover the mystery of its warped labyrinths and crossroads. Find hidden secrets unknown even to the original developers.
Why similar: Surreal 18%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Horror 11.2%, Exploration 9.8%, Minimalist 9.1%
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 16.6%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Dark 8.9%
An interactive visual experience at the intersection of psychological horror and art installation. Explore fractured spaces, collect symbolic objects, and uncover a multi-layered truth. Episode 1 of a planned trilogy, built by a solo developer.
Why similar: Surreal 21.3%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.5%