Games Like Mouthwashing

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 19.1%, Gore 13.5%, Horror 13.5%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Dark 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked Mouthwashing's hopeless cosmic isolation and disturbing ideas about human suffering, SOMA delivers a richer but similarly devastating sci-fi horror experience.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.1%, Horror 20.3%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Atmospheric 10%, Dark 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its cramped first-person descent into unseen horrors captures the same suffocating, doomed-voyage tension that makes Mouthwashing so effective.

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 48.8%, Dark 18.2%, Atmospheric 15.4%, Mystery 12.7%, Adventure 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs retro-styled sci-fi horror with isolation, psychological unraveling, and a deeply unsettling narrative in a way that strongly matches Mouthwashing's mood.

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 18.6%, Gore 14.8%, Walking Simulator 13%, Horror 12.1%, Narrative 10.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Another disaster-horror story about trapped workers, bodily horror, and panic in an inescapable industrial setting, just traded from space to sea.

Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!

Why similar: Narrative 16.4% ★, Psychological 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Surreal 13.7%, Walking Simulator 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Made by the same creators and set in a similarly grotesque, surreal space of bodily decay and existential dread, it feels like the closest possible companion piece to Mouthwashing.

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 16.5%, Horror 15.1%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Surreal 9.6%, Retro 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This similarly retro, atmospheric horror game slowly mutates from simple isolation into something psychologically and cosmically wrong.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.6%, Surreal 22.5%, Horror 20.3%, Story Rich 11%, First-Person 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Mouthwashing's fascination with damaged people, unnerving presentation, and a narrative that becomes more disturbing the more you understand it.

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 20.7%, Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Retro 13%, Walking Simulator 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its lo-fi audiovisual style, fractured storytelling, and intensely oppressive horror make it one of the best matches for Mouthwashing's ugly dream logic.

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 18.2%, Retro 13%, Gore 12.1%, Dark 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though mechanically different, it nails the same lo-fi horror intensity, religious dread, and deeply unsettling sense of corruption beneath simple visuals.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.4%, Horror 20.3%, Story Rich 14.4%, Dark Humor 12.3%, First-Person 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same kind of intimate psychological horror, unreliable reality, and spiraling character-focused dread in a more choice-driven format.

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 25%, Horror 22%, Retro 16.8%, Surreal 10.8%, Dark 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its cruel, nihilistic psychological horror and focus on trapped, broken people make it a strong thematic ancestor to Mouthwashing.

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 25.6%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Horror 13.8%, Dark 11.7%, Story Rich 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another story-rich psychological horror game centered on bodily violation, mental collapse, and striking surreal imagery that lingers.

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 27.7%, Horror 19.1%, Thriller 14.1%, Retro 11.2%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its retro interface design and layered psychological sci-fi storytelling scratch a very similar itch for players who loved Mouthwashing's tense narrative atmosphere.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.8%, Walking Simulator 18.7%, Horror 15%, Story Rich 9.3%, Thriller 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its character-driven dread and sense of impending catastrophe make it a good fit if your favorite part of Mouthwashing was watching people break under pressure.

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 25.3%, Psychological 17.4%, Horror 14.9%, Surreal 11%, Retro 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its grime-soaked first-person horror, oppressive sound design, and descent into personal nightmare match Mouthwashing's dirty, panic-stricken feel.

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 29.5%, Walking Simulator 23.1%, Surreal 15.8%, Atmospheric 9.6%, First-Person 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: While lighter on story, it channels the same hypnotic, unsettling walking-sim dread and fear of being trapped in a hostile unreal space.

"I need a Heart in order to open it"

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Horror 20%, Dark 9.9%, Surreal 9.2%, Retro 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It uses retro aesthetics, meta-horror, and sustained psychological discomfort to create the same feeling that the game itself is becoming hostile to you.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological 13.3%, Surreal 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its looping first-person anxiety and subtle environmental horror capture the same kind of tense, disorienting unease that Mouthwashing thrives on.

A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story 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: Psychological Horror 23.6%, Walking Simulator 22.5%, Horror 18.4%, Surreal 16.6%, Story Rich 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This cyberpunk horror thriller shares Mouthwashing's fixation on damaged minds, degraded bodies, and oppressive futuristic decay.

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 29.3%, Horror 18.7%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Dark 13.2%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its bizarre retro style and escalating psychological unease create a similarly uncanny, off-kilter horror experience.

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 16.7%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Thriller 10.6%, Surreal 10.3%, Horror 10%

Why You'll Like It: It combines slow exploration, heavy atmosphere, and deeply unsettling folk-horror imagery with the same commitment to distinctive visual texture.

Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.1%, Horror 20.9%, Dark Humor 17%, Story Rich 14.9%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Behind its different perspective is another bleak, darkly funny horror story about institutional rot, human cruelty, and surreal nightmare logic.

A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.

Why similar: Narrative 14.8% ★, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Horror 8.7%, Gore 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its short, focused first-person horror structure and emphasis on atmosphere and mystery make it a strong pick for Mouthwashing fans.

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Why similar: Retro 18.5%, Surreal 17%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal first-person horror game echoes Mouthwashing's dreamlike structure, retro stylization, and fascination with quiet existential dread.

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 15.8%, Psychological 11.4%, Narrative 10.8% ★, Horror 10.8%, Gore 9.1%

An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.5%, Narrative 18.1% ★, Surreal 16.8%, Horror 11.7%, Dark 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an intimate, uncanny, psychologically corrosive horror story full of domestic unease and steadily mounting wrongness.

Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.9%, Horror 21%, Story Rich 8.4%, Thriller 8.2%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is another story-rich psychological horror experience where trauma, guilt, and oppressive atmosphere matter more than combat or action.

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 19.6%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Thriller 12.4%, Dark 10.4%, Horror 10.1%

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 16.4%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Surreal 13%, Thriller 11.5%, Horror 9.4%

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 16.6%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Horror 10.5%, Surreal 9.8%, Thriller 9.4%

A first-person narrative adventure game about exploring a cult compound in the remote New Mexico desert. Discover the lives of the former inhabitants -- what brought them together, what they believed, and why they ended it all.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.9%, Gore 20.9%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Story Rich 10.3%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This quiet first-person exploration horror game similarly leans on bleak storytelling, isolation, and the aftermath of human monstrosity rather than jump scares.

The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.

Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Psychological 12%, Walking Simulator 8.9%, Surreal 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its low-fi first-person presentation and slow-burn discomfort make it a good match for Mouthwashing's grim, intimate style of horror.

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 33.1%, Horror 17.4%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Dark 13.8%, Surreal 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This brief, oppressive first-person descent into mental collapse captures the same ugly, lingering psychological impact on a smaller scale.

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Psychological 15.2%, Surreal 13%, Horror 11.4%

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 15.5%, Psychological 13.2%, Gore 11.2%, Horror 9.1%, Surreal 9.1%

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

Why similar: Horror 29.9%, Space 25.7%, Retro 24.4%, Exploration 7.8%, Dark 6.4%

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 40.1%, Dark Humor 20.2%, Story Rich 17.3%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Space 8.5%

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 12.6%, Psychological 10.4%, Gore 8.2%, Walking Simulator 8%, Narrative 7.8% ★

"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%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Gore 11.3%, Thriller 10.3%, Horror 9.8%

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 33.6%, Horror 17.9%, Atmospheric 15.4%, Story Rich 12.8%, First-Person 11.8%

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%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Horror 12.9%, Dark 10.1%, Psychological 8.9%

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 17.6%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Psychological 13.2%, Horror 11.3%, Dark 9%

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 23.4%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 18.4%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Space 9.4%

"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 18.7%, Walking Simulator 14%, Horror 12.9%, Gore 10.5%, Thriller 9%

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 19.7%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological 10%, Thriller 9.2%

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 29.2% ★, Psychological 22.4%, Mystery 9.7%, Space 9.1%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Horror 12.1%, Psychological 8.7%, Story Rich 7.5%

Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 52%, Story Rich 19.6%, Horror 14.2%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Indie 4.8%

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%, Surreal 13.6%, Walking Simulator 11.7%, Horror 10.1%, Thriller 10%

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 20.1%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Psychological 15.1%, Thriller 10.9%, Dark 9.7%

Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.

Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Gore 20.5%, Dark 13.1%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Mystery 6.4%

Singleplayer psychological horror game about bird watching. Explore the mountains, find and observe all the birds. Seek their help. Be honest. Be ruthless. They are watching.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Horror 12.5%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Dark 10.4%

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 17.9%, Psychological 16.8%, Thriller 12.3%, Horror 10.7%, Gore 10.1%

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 21.1%, Gore 15.6%, Horror 14.2%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, Surreal 8.2%

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 20.8%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Surreal 13.5%, Psychological 12.7%, Dark 10.1%

We Went Back is a time-looping horror game in which you wake up in an abandoned space station utterly alone. The exit door is locked and you must find a way to escape what lurks within. Find clues, experience dynamically changing environments and confront terror in order to find a way out.

Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Psychological Horror 13%, Space 9.1%, Psychological 8.7%, Thriller 8.3%

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Mystery 24.9%, Story Rich 19.6%, Atmospheric 15.4%, Retro 9.3%, Walking Simulator 7.9%

Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Surreal 13.9%, Horror 11.3%, Gore 10.9%, Retro 8.7%

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: Psychological Horror 46.9%, Psychological 18.6%, Surreal 11.4%, Story Rich 10.5%, Horror 8.8%

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 36.7%, Psychological 25%, Horror 18.1%, Retro 7.8%, Story Rich 5%