Games Like Mouthwashing

1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Gore 13.8%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Horror 11.8%, Narrative 9.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: It similarly traps a small crew in a catastrophic industrial setting and turns interpersonal tension into visceral first-person horror.

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: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 13.8%, Gore 13.4%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Dark 9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a story-heavy existential horror game about identity, guilt, and survival in an isolated futuristic facility.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Horror 20.8%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Dark 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive low-fi presentation and solitary journey through an impossible alien environment capture Mouthwashing's suffocating space horror.

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 50.2%, Dark 17.5%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Mystery 12.3%, Adventure 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its retro-styled sci-fi setting, isolated protagonist, grotesque imagery, and fragmented psychological narrative make it an especially close tonal match.

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Thriller 12%, Horror 10.5%, Dark 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person sci-fi horror game emphasizes tense exploration of an abandoned lunar facility and a sustained sense of isolation.

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological 11.1%, Narrative 10.4% ★, Gore 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its paranoia-driven horror centers on reading distressed people and making dreadful decisions under an increasingly surreal threat.

The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.9%, Horror 21.7%, Retro 16.4%, Surreal 10.4%, Story Rich 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cruel sci-fi premise and focus on damaged people confronting guilt, trauma, and dehumanization echo Mouthwashing's darkest themes.

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: Psychological Horror 16.9%, Walking Simulator 13%, Horror 10.8%, Surreal 9.7%, Thriller 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A bleak, minimalist first-person horror experience where an absurd workplace routine steadily becomes physically and psychologically unbearable.

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: Space 16.8%, Horror 16%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Indie 9.8%, Thriller 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: You investigate a disaster aboard a space station through surveillance systems, uncovering an unnerving story of isolation and unreliable perception.

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 20.5%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Psychological 14.3%, Thriller 10.3%, Dark 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a first-person psychological horror game built around grief, looping spaces, unsettling domestic imagery, and a heavy narrative focus.

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 20.2%, Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Retro 13.4%, Walking Simulator 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its short, disorienting PS1-style horror story uses fragmented scenes and nightmarish imagery to create a similarly oppressive mood.

Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Surreal 12.9%, Thriller 11.1%, Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal first-person walking simulator leans into psychedelic dread, strange architecture, and an intentionally disorienting retro aesthetic.

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 28.2%, Horror 19.6%, Thriller 13.5%, Retro 11.4%, Atmospheric 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This anthology combines retro interfaces, contained spaces, and escalating psychological horror with strong narrative twists.

Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.

Why similar: Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Space 12.2%, Walking Simulator 10.2%, Psychological 10%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs a lonely Mars-base setting with cosmic horror and an increasingly unstable protagonist's perspective.

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.6%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Horror 14.2%, Psychological 12.7%, Surreal 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist loop through an underground passage turns careful observation and tiny anomalies into sustained psychological tension.

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: Psychological Horror 13%, Psychological 10.2%, Gore 8.3%, Walking Simulator 8.1%, Narrative 7.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a compact, story-focused psychological horror experience with retro visuals and a mounting sense that something is deeply wrong.

Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.8%, Horror 23.2%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Walking Simulator 8.6%, Mystery 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its slow, claustrophobic survival horror beneath the ocean delivers the same feeling of being stranded somewhere hostile and inescapable.

The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Space 17.9%, Story Rich 17.5%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring an abandoned space station and reconstructing what happened to its crew makes this a strong sci-fi mystery companion.

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.3%, Horror 20.4%, Story Rich 14.8%, Dark Humor 11.7%, First-Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: While presented as a choice-driven visual novel, it shares Mouthwashing's focus on unreliable perspectives, damaged relationships, and horrifying narrative turns.

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 25.8%, Psychological 16.9%, Horror 15.2%, Surreal 10.8%, Retro 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive first-person exploration, disturbing sound design, and deliberately ugly retro horror aesthetic create relentless dread.

Psychopomp is BACK. The catacombs stretch down farther than ever before. Your entire life has been a lie. Delve into the depths, and discover the horrors that lie below. More realms, more modes, more secrets. An ancient voice calls to you from the center of the earth. Will you answer it?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.3%, Surreal 21.2%, Psychological 19.8%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its chaotic low-poly nightmare spaces and grotesque imagery make it ideal for players who enjoyed Mouthwashing's surreal ugliness.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Space 30.5%, Atmospheric 22.8%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Indie 7.5%, Story Rich 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely space setting and philosophical story about copies, consciousness, and sacrifice complement Mouthwashing's existential unease.

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Psychological 21.6%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Space 12.1%, Story Rich 11.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative space-station mystery builds tension through isolation, environmental storytelling, and an uneasy relationship with a shipboard AI.

What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Horror 18.3%, Gore 13%, Retro 12.9%, Dark 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its deliberately primitive retro look conceals intense demonic horror, bleak storytelling, and a remarkably oppressive atmosphere.

"I need a Heart in order to open it"

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Horror 20.4%, Dark 9.5%, Surreal 9%, Retro 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This meta-horror game weaponizes corrupted-looking visuals, unreliable rules, and direct player discomfort in a way that feels intensely personal.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.4%, Surreal 22%, Horror 20.5%, Story Rich 11%, First-Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its uncanny facial-expression mechanics and increasingly surreal mystery make every interaction feel unstable and threatening.

The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.9%, Horror 19.1%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Dark 12.7%, First-Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: This stylized narrative horror game uses a fractured institutional setting, unsettling dialogue, and surreal escalation to create discomfort.

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: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Gore 12.6%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Horror 10.2%, Thriller 8.4%

Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Thriller 10.3%, Surreal 10.2%, Horror 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its hand-drawn visual style and folklore-driven horror create a slow, oppressive descent into a deeply strange rural nightmare.

Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…

Why similar: Surreal 25.3%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 14.1%, Dark 11.3%, Story Rich 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative horror game explores trauma and exploitation through disturbing surreal sequences and emotionally brutal imagery.

The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Gore 11.8%, Horror 10.4%, Walking Simulator 9.2%, Retro 8.6%

Pilot the MOLE, a monstrous post-war drilling machine built to descend deep below the Slavic soil. Fix failing systems, follow voices of the dead, and pray you can survive whatever is sharing your coffin. Will the vessel or your mind break first?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Horror 17.6%, Retro 13.7%, Surreal 11.4%, Dark 9%

Dire Echo is a psychological horror walking simulator that immerses players in the eerie and oppressive atmosphere of abandoned deep space.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Thriller 15.7%, Horror 9.7%, Space 9.1%

A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Horror 15.6%, Walking Simulator 10.2%, Surreal 9.3%, Retro 9%

A short horror game where you control a decaying spacecraft exploring distant star systems.

Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Space 25.4%, Retro 24.7%, Exploration 7.4%, Dark 6.2%

Stranded in the desert, your only hope of escaping rests in a strange Catman. His one request: hunt down surreal creatures, skin them, and chop them up so he can keep them as trophies.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16%, Psychological 12.9%, Gore 11.2%, Horror 9.4%, Surreal 9%

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Psychological 14.8%, Surreal 12.9%, Horror 11.7%

It started in your foot. Now it’s in your head. All that remains is the command: GO UP. Meet strange neighbors. Make bad trades. Every ascent teaches you what you should have done differently.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.8%, Narrative 15.2% ★, Horror 12.2%, Retro 10.6%, Dark Humor 9.3%

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 40.9%, Dark Humor 19.6%, Story Rich 17.5%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Space 8.5%

Isolation. Hopelessness. Starvation. By the will of an unknown force, you find yourself isolated from the outside world. Now you are doomed to starve to death. No one will come to your aid. No one will hear your prayers.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.7%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Gore 14.6%, Horror 12.4%, Exploration 6.8%

First-person psychological horror where the elevator is the only safe place. Each floor is a new reality. Each floor has a new inhabitant. Find it to continue your descent downward.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Gore 15.6%, Horror 12.1%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Thriller 7.4%

God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Psychological 12.3%, Horror 11.1%, Dark 8.3%

"Psalm 5:9-13" is a first-person psychological horror game with VHS effect. Be careful and attentive, there is something hiding in these rooms, something is watching from the darkness.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.5%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Gore 11.2%, Horror 10.1%, Thriller 10%

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 20.5%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Horror 13.2%, Dark 9.8%, Psychological 8.7%

"The Last Visit: 98th" is a psychological indie horror from the first person, in the genre of a walking simulator, in the setting of the post-Soviet winter space. The main focus is on the atmosphere of horror, which is emphasized by realistic 3D graphics.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Walking Simulator 14%, Horror 13.3%, Gore 10.4%, Thriller 8.7%

Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 18.8%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Space 9.3%

Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.

Why similar: Narrative 29% ★, Psychological 22.3%, Mystery 9.6%, Space 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Descend into Lovecraftian horror aboard a claustrophobic military submarine. Assign tasks as a captain’s right hand, analyze sonar signals, make hard decisions, and keep the crew from madness. Dark horrors lurk both within… and beyond the hull.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 10.7%, Retro 9.1%, Surreal 8.2%, Thriller 7.5%

Stranded on a desolate island with Earth's remaining researchers, you investigate a strange celestial body. The day before departure, your only means of transportation gets mysteriously damaged, leaving you stranded. Is someone sabotaging the team, or is there something more sinister going on…

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Surreal 14.6%, Thriller 14.2%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 10.8%

You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological 9.8%, Thriller 8.9%

Eggs: perfection in two parts. The simple whites. The sublime yolk. Each the lesser without its partner. Chorus and verse. A symphony of flavor. The catchy tune reminding us of warm baths and late-night movies. The elevator music to whatever lies beyond.

Why similar: Surreal 33.4%, Horror 18.3%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, First-Person 11.5%

CoRoT is a first-person psychological meta-horror game. Search for cassettes in a transforming house, unraveling its macabre past. A sinister atmosphere surrounds you as you try to understand what's happening and where you really are. Can you discover the truth hidden in its walls?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.4%, Surreal 13.5%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Horror 10.4%, Thriller 9.7%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Horror 15.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Thriller 7.8%

Omitted is a first-person psychological horror game. Experience being left alone in an old hospital, discover its secrets and try to survive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.4%, Psychological 16.5%, Thriller 12%, Horror 11%, Gore 10.1%

In the end, everybody gets what they deserve. The sins of the past always manifest within the minds of the sinners. An eternity of suffering awaits, welcome to The Survey.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Walking Simulator 14%, Horror 12.4%, Dark 9.3%, Psychological 8.5%

Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Gore 15.6%, Horror 14.5%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Surreal 8%

A short, single-sitting VHS-style psychological horror game. Work the night shift at a remote gas station, return home to uncover disturbing clues, and reach one of three endings.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Thriller 12.1%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 8%

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.1%, Walking Simulator 22.4%, Surreal 15.3%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Dark 6.1%

Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Surreal 13.3%, Psychological 12.4%, Horror 10.1%

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.7%, Walking Simulator 22.3%, Horror 11%, Dark 8.7%, Surreal 7%