Games Like MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Surreal 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Point & Click 13.1%, Horror 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Employs unique dialogue mechanics and a surreal, unsettling atmosphere that mirrors the mystery of the seed game.

A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Horror 18.2%, Emotional 14.9%, Surreal 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Explores fragile mental states through surreal, dialogue-heavy interactions.

A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

Why similar: Psychedelic 34.8%, Psychological Horror 26.8%, Surreal 11%, Female Protagonist 5.7%, Horror 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the deeply personal and surreal psychological journey of its predecessor.

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.5%, Point & Click 18%, Horror 11.4%, Dark 11.4%, Surreal 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, surreal point-and-click adventure that explores trauma through a child's perspective.

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: Surreal 38.8%, Horror 19.5%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Dark 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar low-poly, surreal aesthetic that creates a sense of constant, dreamlike unease.

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: Psychological Horror 28.9%, Female Protagonist 23.1%, Cyberpunk 19.4%, Dark 16.3%, Atmospheric 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in psychological horror with a strong female protagonist and a deeply surreal, cryptic narrative.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, 1980s 22.3%, Horror 18.4%, Point & Click 16%, Atmospheric 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses interactive fiction and retro-tech to build a claustrophobic, narrative-driven horror experience.

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: Psychological Horror 31.2%, Surreal 23.6%, Horror 19.3%, Atmospheric 13.3%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on claustrophobic, surreal environments that mirror the internal mental struggle of the protagonist.

Set over the course of roughly a week, you play as a young girl who has been living in a shelter all her life. The outside world is infected with a deadly disease. Society is in chaos. Fortunately, your papa is protecting you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Emotional 15.8%, Dark 12.8%, Horror 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven horror game that uses a unique perspective to challenge the player's perception of reality.

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.9%, Dark 22.9%, Horror 19.8%, Surreal 10%, First-Person 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, impactful experience that captures the same bizarre, dreamlike dread found in the seed game.

MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.9%, Dark 24.3%, Horror 21%, First-Person 12.5%, Story Rich 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same focus on domestic horror and unsettling, surreal character interactions.

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: Psychedelic 33.2%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Female Protagonist 8.6%, Surreal 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological visual novel that leans heavily into surreal, dreamlike imagery and emotional storytelling.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.7%, Dark 20.4%, Horror 19.4%, Story Rich 7.8%, First-Person 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Uses meta-narrative elements and psychological manipulation to subvert player expectations in a way similar to the seed game's AI themes.

A.I.L.A is a first-person horror game set in a near-future filled with immersive technology. Play as the sole game tester for a revolutionary new fictional AI. Survive intense horror experiences that prey on your deepest fears as the lines between virtual and reality begin to blur…

Why similar: Surreal 24.9%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Horror 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.6%, First-Person 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the dangers of artificial intelligence in a cinematic, psychological horror setting.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Surreal 24.3%, Dark 21.4%, Horror 20.3%, Point & Click 12.4%, Story Rich 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends meta-horror with surreal card-based gameplay to create a deeply unsettling and unpredictable atmosphere.

Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.1%, Horror 29%, Point & Click 26.8%, Atmospheric 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cosmic horror with a surreal, retro aesthetic that feels deeply unsettling.

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: Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 13%, Surreal 12.9%, Point & Click 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, emotional psychological horror game that deals with themes of death and mental health.

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: Immersive 18.7% ★, Psychedelic 16.4%, Narrative 11.6% ★, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Emotional 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror game that uses shifting environments to represent a fractured mind.

The Sixth Sorrow is a short, narrative-driven horror game where your choices impact the story. To what lengths can a mother's love drive her?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Horror 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Atmospheric 9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy horror game that emphasizes player choices and multiple endings within a surreal setting.

Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.5%, Horror 21%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Story Rich 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive psychological horror experience, focusing on personal trauma and surreal, symbolic environments.

A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Cyberpunk 22.2%, Female Protagonist 17.6%, Dark 11.2%, Horror 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that captures a sense of isolation and decay in a surreal, post-apocalyptic setting.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Surreal 26.1%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Dark 13.6%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a heavy, surreal, and oppressive atmosphere where every choice feels significant and psychologically taxing.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 29.6%, Horror 20.7%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Female Protagonist 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in the role of an AI, offering a unique perspective on a sci-fi horror mystery.

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Horror 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, interactive fiction experience that explores complex family dynamics through a psychological lens.

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Surreal 18.1%, Emotional 16.5%, Horror 13.8%, Female Protagonist 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D psychological horror game that blurs the lines between reality and dreams through atmospheric exploration.

BrokenLore: UNFOLLOW is a first-person psychological horror game that explores the impact social media has on mental health through the story of Anne, a victim of bullying trapped in a surreal nightmare where she must solve a dark mystery and confront sinister creatures.

Why similar: Psychedelic 30.6%, Surreal 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Dark 11.3%, Horror 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic, atmospheric horror game that prioritizes surreal imagery and psychological tension.

BrokenLore: FOLLOW is a psychological first-person horror game that immerses players in the haunting narrative of Anne, as she grapples with issues of self-acceptance, bullying, and worthlessness while encountering metaphorical surreal creatures that heighten the terror of her journey.

Why similar: Surreal 21.5%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Dark 10.7%, Horror 10.3%

"Hariti" is a first-person psychological horror game. You will play as a mother searching for her missing daughter in a crisis-ridden hospital. Experience an atmosphere of extreme dread within the halls of this abandoned Chinese-style medical facility.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.6%, Horror 28.4%, Psychedelic 19.8%, 3D 8.5%, Female Protagonist 7.8%

Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.

Why similar: Surreal 17.2%, Emotional 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Dark 10%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, stylized visual novel that creates a sense of unease through its unique narrative structure.

Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame

Why similar: Horror 29.4%, Psychological Horror 29.1%, Female Protagonist 23.7%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Dark 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a tense, stalker-based horror experience with a strong narrative focus and a female protagonist.

A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.6%, Horror 25.8%, Multiple Endings 14%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Choices Matter 8%

Dread Neighbor is a first-person, multi-perspective psychological horror game. Play as a young woman living alone in an unusually cheap apartment. As the days pass, combat the overwhelming sense of unease, malice, and the unshakable feeling that you’re being watched from every crack in the room.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Female Protagonist 21.4%, Horror 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, First-Person 10.3%

Play as a grieving mother whose child went missing in a playland one year ago. Use your trusty flashlight to navigate through the dark, solve replayable puzzles to progress forward, and hide from the unstable killer mascots! Investigate the mysteries and find out the truth...

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32%, Horror 28.3%, First-Person 14.5%, Atmospheric 14%, 3D 11.2%

A pleasantly anticipated trip back home for the holidays becomes a nightmare for Catherine as a tragic accident leaves her unconscious. After coming to her senses, she realizes that something is dreadfully wrong. She must escape the doll factory she awoke in before it's too late.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Dark 19.5%, Horror 18.5%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Atmospheric 9%

Why You'll Like It: An indie horror game that uses a classic RPG style to deliver a dark, atmospheric mystery.

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Point & Click 18.8%, Horror 15.7%, Dark 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%

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: Psychological Horror 29%, Horror 16.8%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Atmospheric 11.6%, First-Person 10.3%

Okaeri is a VHS Japanese psychological horror game about a middle school girl and her mother who recently moved to a new house.

Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Psychological Horror 23%, Surreal 18.7%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Atmospheric 9.1%

BrokenLore: DON'T LIE is a Japanese psychological horror game exploring trauma, isolation, and a fractured reality where perception becomes increasingly unreliable.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.8%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Surreal 17%, Psychedelic 16.2%, Horror 9.7%

This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store. Our task is to help her buy groceries.

Why similar: Psychedelic 19.4%, Psychological Horror 19%, Surreal 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Multiple Endings 5.9%

Holly Gardner, a 19 year old on an interstate drive experiences unusual happenings that leads to an unplanned stay at a motel, little did she know what was transpiring down in Norwood Valley.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.9%, Horror 21.7%, Dark 19.1%, Atmospheric 14%, Story Rich 8.3%

You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Emotional 17.9%, Horror 12.5%, Dark 10.4%

It Happened At Night is a short horror game where the player must complete basic objectives to advance the story and immerse themselves through the eyes of the protagonist.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 17.5%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Horror 16.6%, Emotional 13.8%, Atmospheric 12.2%

Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…

Why similar: Surreal 24.7%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Female Protagonist 17.6%, Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.2%

Use light to survive a nightmare: each creature reacts differently to it. Explore, solve puzzles, and evade the horrors in the dark. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Emotional 17.1%, Point & Click 14.1%, Female Protagonist 14%, Dark 13.3%

A story-driven horror puzzle game where the player takes on the role of a resentful ghost, possessing others in order to search for her own corpse.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.1%, Multiple Endings 20.4%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Story Rich 16%, Female Protagonist 3.4%

A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

Why similar: Surreal 22%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Horror 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Audrey is a young woman returning to her childhood home. Upon arriving, however, she begins to notice strange happenings around the house. Is this a dream or reality? Whatever it is, it seems so oddly… familiar. Explore with Audrey as she tries to work out the mysteries of her missing memories.

Why similar: Horror 27.5%, Dark 23.9%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Story Rich 7.3%

TRAFFIC is an Atmospheric First-Person Psychological Horror game about a troubled child in a home where he must deal with both internal and external stresses. You will communicate with your parents, do your chores, and stay out of the way.

Why similar: Surreal 19.8%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Dark 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Horror 12.2%

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: Narrative 16.9% ★, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Surreal 16.6%, Cyberpunk 11.3%, Dark 10.6%

Burnhouse Lane tells a story of Angie Weather, a one foot in the grave agency nurse attempting to complete five impossible tasks in order to win her life back. Solve puzzles, make friends and enemies, run, hide and fight in this dark adventure that'll take you on a trip to another world and back...

Why similar: Psychedelic 27.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Dark 11.3%, Surreal 10.9%, Female Protagonist 8.5%

The ER: Patient Typhon is an atmosphere and exploration horror game where you are a young woman who has lost her arms. You have to use your wits, hide and run to survive this tale of deadly monsters and disturbing, environmental puzzles.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.9%, Dark 16.9%, Surreal 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Horror 14.1%

A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world.

Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Atmospheric 20.7%, Dark 12.3%, First-Person 7.3%

"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.8%, Surreal 16.4%, Dark 14%, 1980s 13.2%, Horror 12.5%

A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.

Why similar: Point & Click 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Narrative 13.9% ★, Emotional 13%, Horror 11%

Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.

Why similar: Surreal 20.6%, Emotional 17%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Dark 11.6%

1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother with unnatural powers. Step into a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era monitor peering into the astral realm and beyond. Find out what happened to you and uncover the conspiracy they tried to bury.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Point & Click 15.5%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%

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 28.2%, Dark 20.5%, Emotional 19.6%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Story Rich 8.7%

A mother, searching for her lost daughter, stumbles into a strange cult village. "Incantation" is a first-person horror game. It reveals the chilling story behind the "Chen Family Village". What are the consequences of crossing dark boundaries?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, Horror 21.6%, Female Protagonist 18.8%, First-Person 12.7%, Story Rich 8.6%