Games Like Moving Houses

In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.

Why similar: Simulation 25%, Physics 20.6%, First-Person 17.7%, Funny 13.4%, Horror 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines mundane, physics-based cleaning tasks with a dark, atmospheric setting that feels similarly unsettling.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Surreal 17.2%, Thriller 15%, Physics 10.7%, Puzzle Platformer 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features surreal, physics-based puzzle mechanics that challenge your perception of reality in a first-person perspective.

Become a paranormal renovator! Explore and renovate haunted locations as you deal with pesky spirits that have fun at your expense! Decide if you want to be mean or nice to banished entities, you can also adopt some! Restore old furniture and decorate the interiors as you see fit! Make a profit!

Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.3%, Horror 16.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, First-Person 13.1%, Simulation 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the simulation aspect of house maintenance while layering on supernatural horror elements.

A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.

Why similar: Thriller 20.6%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 18%, Simulation 18%, Exploration 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: Expertly blends a mundane service-industry simulation with a slow-burn, first-person horror experience.

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 23.6%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 18.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, First-Person 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive sim that relies heavily on physics-based interactions and environmental storytelling within a claustrophobic, dangerous space.

Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.

Why similar: Horror 16.9%, Surreal 16%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes physics-based sandbox mechanics and stealth to create tension within a mysterious, ever-changing house.

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 41.4%, Horror 26.3%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Stylized 7%, First-Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a surreal, low-poly, first-person experience that prioritizes atmosphere and psychological unease over traditional gameplay.

Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!

Why similar: Surreal 25%, Dark Humor 22.6%, Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 12.6%, Puzzle 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal, and indie-focused psychological horror game that feels like a fever dream.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Why similar: First-Person 29%, Exploration 25.5%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, Horror 12.1%, Puzzle 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the exploration of a strange, shifting home where every room tells a haunting, surreal story.

Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to "couch co-op"! Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician, you’ll take on moving jobs all across the busy town of Packmore.

Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Funny 14.7%, Physics 14.6%, Casual 14.5%, Puzzle 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the chaotic, physics-based nature of moving furniture, providing a lighter but mechanically similar foundation.

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Surreal 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Horror 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, first-person psychological horror game that emphasizes exploration and environmental storytelling.

You've got a new babysitting job, and things are taking a turn for the weird. Feed him, read him a bedtime story, and try not to fall into his dreams. How long can you stay in control?

Why similar: Surreal 20.8%, Dark Humor 18.5%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Physics 14.2%, Horror 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Uses physics-based puzzle mechanics to create a high-tension, supernatural horror experience.

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Why similar: First-Person 30.4%, Funny 23.4%, Surreal 21.8%, Exploration 16.4%, Puzzle 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative, first-person exploration game that plays with player agency and surreal environmental design.

The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.3%, Horror 24.2%, Exploration 19.4%, Stylized 8.9%, 3D 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused game that uses a house-selling premise to deliver psychological mystery.

Closer To Home is a dialogue-focused surreal horror exploration game. Navigate connections between reality and dreams, look for weird stuff and make friends. There is no reason to fear death.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 40%, Horror 27.5%, Puzzle 14.6%, Stylized 14%, Casual 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich, psychological horror game that explores dark themes within a domestic setting.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.2%, Horror 29.8%, First-Person 13.3%, Surreal 10.6%, Exploration 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, first-person experience that uses limited visibility and environmental interaction to create profound dread.

You’re just trying to get home. It’s only a quarter mile. One street. What could go wrong.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.8%, First-Person 22.5%, 3D 10.4%, Casual 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror game that emphasizes the weight of player decisions in a walking simulator format.

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

Why similar: Surreal 24.2%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 16.7%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological, surreal experience that forces players to interact with a strange world through unconventional mechanics.

Handyman needed—ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation. Tackle the chaos, uncover dark secrets, and finish everything before dawn.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 31.1%, Horror 28.3%, First-Person 19.8%, Simulation 18.9%, 3D 2%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy horror game that focuses on the eerie nature of maintaining a property.

It’s a humorous project about a young parent's difficult weekdays. If you feel worried, irritated, you don’t understand what’s going on and what you must do next, so don’t worry. We want to give you exactly these feelings in our game.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.2%, Simulation 16.2%, First-Person 12.4%, Funny 11%, Cute 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person simulation game that turns the mundane task of caretaking into a chaotic and stressful horror experience.

A new life begins in a low-cost apartment. Strange occurrences at night and the suspicious behavior of neighbors gradually push the protagonist to the edge.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 30%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 20.8%, First-Person 12.4%, 3D 8%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive-sim walking simulator that centers on the investigation of a haunted location.

Having collected information about the “unusual corpse” for your journalistic investigation, you return home from the morgue. Something is wrong... The house has changed and there is a creature wandering in it that is afraid of the camera flash. Solve puzzles to get out of the house and survive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.4%, Horror 19%, First-Person 12.3%, Exploration 11.5%, Puzzle 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines puzzle-solving and exploration with a heavy emphasis on psychological horror elements.

The doctor said today was my last appointment, I'm healthy. Time to go home, what could go wrong?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.4%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Surreal 15%, Horror 12.7%, First-Person 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person walking simulator that excels at building psychological tension through exploration.

In Lost in Anomaly, you wake up on the 9th floor of an unknown building. The only way out of here is to detect and mark anomalies. One wrong move and you could be trapped forever.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Horror 14.8%, Surreal 14.6%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that leans into the walking simulator genre to deliver a surreal experience.

PLEASE STOP CRYING is a lighthearted horror game about a father taking on housework and babysitting all at once.

Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Funny 21.6%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Simulation 9%, Stylized 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A horror game that blends dark comedy with multiple endings and surreal, first-person exploration.

A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.

Why similar: Surreal 27.4%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Thriller 16.6%, First-Person 9%, Horror 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, atmospheric walking simulator that focuses on environmental discovery and psychological themes.

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.

Why similar: Surreal 16.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Dark Humor 14.5%

Stay alive in this weird and peculiar horror experience. What begins as a game between friends turns into a race for your life. Take a breath and enter the house.

Why similar: Dark Humor 25.8%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 17.1%, Exploration 13.9%, First-Person 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy adventure that utilizes a walking simulator style to uncover hidden secrets.

A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.

Why similar: Sandbox 23.2%, First-Person 15%, Puzzle 14.9%, Cute 11.9%, Simulation 8.8%

A bite-sized (literally) comedic adventure where you relieve the stress of ordinary life by biting through walls. Therapy is expensive, but drywall is plentiful.

Why similar: Surreal 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Physics 10.8%, Horror 10.6%

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Horror 22.7%, Immersive Sim 22.7%, First-Person 11.7%, Simulation 8.5%

Simulator of lying on a bed. Or lying to a bed. Or maybe the bed is lying. Is your bed lying to you?

Why similar: Simulation 20.5%, Surreal 17.6%, Dark Humor 17.5%, Psychological Horror 17%, First-Person 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A bizarre simulation game that uses mundane actions to frame a psychological horror experience.

A horror game that tests your wits, courage and dark sense of humor. Solve puzzles to survive in a world full of dark secrets, but beware - there could be something waiting around every corner!

Why similar: Dark Humor 16.7%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Thriller 8.6%

As an Ethereal Estate agent, your job is to make a mess out of a mansion and its helpless inhabitants. Never before has a ghost unleashed such devastating chaos... until now!

Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Physics 22.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Funny 11.9%, First-Person 8.2%

Dive into the ultimate moving experience in Moving Simulator! Manage chaotic house moves, carefully pack belongings, load trucks, and navigate through hilarious disasters. Precision, speed, and creativity will make you a moving master!

Why similar: Physics 25.9%, Sandbox 25.1%, Immersive Sim 20.5%, Simulation 16.2%, First-Person 9%

Bad Cheese is a psychological horror inspired by the eerie charm of 1920s animation. Step into the tiny paws of a mouse spending the weekend at home with a dysfunctional Dad while Mom's away. Be on your best behavior and KEEP DADDY HAPPY.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Horror 21.8%, Surreal 15.8%, First-Person 15.4%, Thriller 10.9%

A lone clown explores a mysterious home. He meets strange inhabitants on his journey to discover why he exists. Join him, and you may discover a thing or two about yourself.

Why similar: Dark Humor 26.3%, Exploration 22.5%, Horror 22.5%, Puzzle 14.7%, Simulation 8.4%

Smash and thrash the mysterious Forever Chicken, a living ragdoll central to a frightful midnight carnival. Your Uncle Tontine assures "you can leave as soon as you desire" but despite their efforts no child has ever gone home... Will you be the first?

Why similar: Sandbox 18.2%, Physics 17.8%, Surreal 15.9%, Horror 15.5%, Dark Humor 15.1%

Haunt your way through town in the dead of night! Possess objects to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over? A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Sandbox 16.6%, Cute 15.6%, Funny 15.5%, Puzzle 12.6%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.8%, Immersive Sim 18.5%, Surreal 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 9.8%

You are a monster under someone's house.

Why similar: Horror 29.9%, Psychological Horror 24.7%, Exploration 19.5%, First-Person 15.1%, 3D 8.2%

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: Surreal 22.8%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Thriller 17.2%, Horror 12.9%, Puzzle 8.5%

Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!

Why similar: Thriller 25.9%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 17.7%, Puzzle 10.2%, First-Person 9.1%

Regular Human Workshop is a 2D physics simulation sandbox. There are no predefined goals or objectives. Simply throw objects into the world and interact with them in various ways.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Dark Humor 18.4%, Physics 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 12.6%

It was another night shift at your job in a warehouse, when a madman with a box on his head, took control over the complex. Now you are under his control, to get out of here you have to solve his wicked riddles and smash through his weird cardboard structures by using anything you find in the boxes.

Why similar: Thriller 17.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Physics 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Puzzle Platformer 12.7%

Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?

Why similar: Surreal 21.2%, Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 16.7%, First-Person 11.4%, Simulation 9.4%

A collection of scenes for demonstrating VR presence to new users. Not a horror game, and has no jump scares.

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Horror 14.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Physics 9.6%

Radical Relocation is an absurd physics-based puzzle game that turns a sleepy neighbourhood into an insane obstacle course! You’ll need flawless planning and nerves of steel to get your belongings from A to B – while they’re stacked and balanced on the roof of your moving vehicle!

Why similar: Physics 20.6%, Sandbox 19.6%, Funny 13%, Puzzle 11.8%, Simulation 10.3%

The little ghost that appeared before your eyes seems to want to become a proper evil spirit. He'll scare you in a variety of ways, so rate him on whether he was scary or not.

Why similar: Horror 68.5%, Exploration 20%, 3D 11.5%

MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.4%, Surreal 20.5%, Horror 17.1%, Immersive Sim 15%, First-Person 10.8%

Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.

Why similar: Horror 25%, First-Person 17.7%, Funny 17.6%, Exploration 16.2%, Puzzle 15.5%

Whisper of the House is a cozy game about organizing and decorating. You'll take on various tasks from the townspeople—helping them move, organize, and clean their spaces. In the process, your gentle touch might make a difference in their lives, and perhaps uncover some hidden stories...

Why similar: Immersive Sim 25.5%, Puzzle 17.1%, Exploration 16.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Cute 13.6%

A survival horror puzzle game about exploring an abandoned children's toy, stalked by the shambling husks of scrapped concepts that pursue you endlessly throughout the environment as you try to solve the cryptic puzzles left behind by the developers and keep your pet alive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.6%, Horror 22.7%, Cute 13.7%, Exploration 13.6%, Puzzle 13.5%

Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.

Why similar: Surreal 22.7%, Psychological Horror 22%, Horror 14.2%, First-Person 11.4%, Funny 9.5%

You open your eyes in a dark, unfamiliar room; each door drags you into a new chamber filled with absurd surprises and dark comedy. Will you manage to escape, or will you continue to star in this black comedy?

Why similar: Dark Humor 36.5%, Horror 29.5%, Funny 20%, First-Person 10.2%, Casual 3.8%

Can you endure until morning Monitor Japan's stigmatized properties and report any paranormal activity If you miss a report or make repeated mistakes——

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Immersive Sim 21.2%, Thriller 19.9%, Surreal 15.5%, Horror 8.5%

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 35.7%, Surreal 30.8%, First-Person 15.1%, Exploration 14%, 3D 4.4%

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 36.7%, Psychological Horror 36.1%, First-Person 10%, Surreal 9.8%, Exploration 4.8%

Tall Poppy is a fun-house horror experience where you must find your wife's purse and a way off the church property before the prankster ghost gets you!

Why similar: First-Person 19.6%, Exploration 18.9%, Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dark Humor 10.9%

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 55.2%, Horror 41.1%, Casual 3.7%