- #1 Scarred
97% matchMixed57% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: KOEX studioPub: iterco
Windows
Scarred is a first-person atmospheric horror puzzle game where you must uncover the truth about one of your schoolmates before it’s too late. Traverse a world of nightmares inspired by nostalgic Singaporean architecture as you fight to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 22.4% ★, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 11.1%, Survival Horror 8.9%, Dark 7.5%
- #2 The Underground Press
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parfenov Aleksei
Windows
A first-person psychological indie horror with investigation elements. Explore the dark, abandoned subway, restore power to machinery, and solve puzzles. Gather clues to uncover the mystery of the closed stations. But remember: you are not alone in the tunnels, and the darkness does not forgive.
Why similar: Narrative 23.9% ★, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 11.3%, First-Person 7.9%, Exploration 7.1%
- #3 Unwashed
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Good Monkey
Windows
Explore the nightmarish, simulated world of Unwashed, a horror game that you must stay clean! Play as AA and uncover the truth behind Lumina, a government secret project, while racing against time to stop a secret mission that endangers countless millions of lives.
Why similar: Narrative 25.2% ★, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 10.4%, Survival Horror 9.1%, Exploration 6.5%
- #4 Dark Lessons
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tall Tide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trapped in your teacher's home, your only defense against the dark is a flickering candle. Unearth a family’s twisted history and solve puzzles in this Lovecraftian nightmare to find a way out. But be warned: Something else is lurking in the shadows ... and a voice is pleading for your help.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.7%, Narrative 15% ★, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 11.2%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #5 MOLDRISE
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Raffaele Picca
Windows · Linux
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: Narrative 28.4% ★, Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 9%, Exploration 7.7%, Survival Horror 7.5%
- #6 The Whisperer | Le murmureur
94% matchMixed67% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: Studio Chien d'Or
Windows · Mac
Investigate an abandoned trading post, explore its surroundings and solve the terrible mystery it holds. The Whisperer is a short story-driven point & click game set in Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.7%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, First-Person 7.3%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #7 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
93% matchMixed65% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
In the Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket, you find yourself trapped in a labyrinth of endless, flickering aisles. Unearth dark secrets behind every shelf while evading lurking apparitions and supernatural terrors. Can you survive the haunted corridors and escape before the nightmare consumes?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.3%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 12.4%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Dark 8.1%
- #8 Crathos Deep
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hitbox Games
Windows
Descend down the arctic depths in Crathos Deep, a cosmic horror narrative adventure. Explore the vast abyss with your submarine and utilize your expeditionary drone to reach the dark corners of the ocean. Investigate a lost research institute to unravel the unsettling mystery of its downfall.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.1%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Narrative 8.8% ★, Exploration 8.5%
- #9 Letters of Bernard Thorne
91% matchVery Positive98% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Korean Linguistics Lab
Windows
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Narrative 31.4% ★, Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 12.2%, Story Rich 7.3%, Puzzle 6.1%
- #10 The Sleep Experiment
91% matchMostly Negative26% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: ClawsDev
Windows · Mac
Experience the horrors of one of the most infamous experiments that ever took place. As a test subject in a top-secret Soviet research facility, you must endure days without sleep while facing unimaginable terrors that lurk in the shadow.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 13.3%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Dark 8.2%
- #11 Alone After Dark: Head Practitioner
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tachycardia Games
Windows
Attend to patients and fill out paperwork as 22-year-old Kimora Jackson on her first shift after graduating nursing school. Draw blood, administer medications, and try not to lose your head in the chilling hallways of Coldrock Medical Center.
Why similar: Narrative 31.6% ★, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 12.3%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #12 LYSA HORA: The Haunted Hill
89% matchVery Positive82% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: DENYS RUDYI GAMES
Windows
A dark sci-fi horror where ancient rituals intertwine with secret Soviet experiments. Explore atmospheric tunnels, hidden laboratories, and abandoned shrines inspired by real locations—and survive by solving intricate, mind-bending puzzles.
Why similar: Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Dark 12.6%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle 9.1%
- #13 ESCAPE: Orphanage
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brotherhood Studios
Windows
A psychological thriller set in Scarlet Orphanage, where every choice shapes the fate of the residents. Nothing is as it seems. Are you facing ghosts… or something far worse?
Why similar: Narrative 31.7% ★, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Horror 15%, Story Rich 8.4%, First-Person 6.2%
- #14 Abaddon
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nice to meet studios LTD
Windows
Abaddon is a story driven first person psychological horror game. Descend into a suffocating, nightmarish world as Jimmy searches for his missing brother, Georgie. With only a flickering flashlight, solve chilling puzzles, face your past, and struggle to survive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 11.4%, Survival Horror 10.1%, First-Person 7.9%
- #15 SOMA
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 51,711 reviews2015
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Lovecraftian 17.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 11.9%, Survival Horror 8.6%, Gore 6.6%
- #16 Underworld Dreams: The False King
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Drop of PixelPub: Drop Of Pixel
Windows
Underworld Dreams: The False King is the first game in the Underworld Dreams Anthology - the first-person horror series based in the Lovecraftian mythos. Inspired by the works of Lovecraft and Robert W Chambers and set in the 1980s, it sets the stage for the Underworld Dreams experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.7%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 17.1%, Narrative 13.9% ★, First-Person 8.5%
- #17 Fragments
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lazar VaragicPub: Tiny Cup Studios
Windows
Your mind is shattered. Step into a first-person psychological horror where you must relive your deepest trauma, uncover fragments of your past, piece them back together and face the tormentors that haunt your mind.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Horror 14.6%, Narrative 12.4% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #18 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
86% matchVery Positive95% of 35,496 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Lovecraftian 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Survival Horror 9.2%, Gore 7.4%
- #19 Don't Be Afraid 2
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 265 reviews2024
Dev: Eneida Games
Windows
Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 11.3%, Survival Horror 9%, First-Person 7.8%, Puzzle 7.5%
- #20 Labyrinth: Veins of the Machine
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beyond Illusion Studios
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game. You were sent into an abandoned facility to retrieve something — but it's not as empty as you were told. No combat. No rescue. Just what's waiting inside.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Horror 21.8%, First-Person 12.6%, Exploration 11%, Dark 7%
- #21 Dead of Darkness
82% matchVery Positive87% of 214 reviews2025
Dev: Retrofiction Games
Windows
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.7%, Narrative 16.1% ★, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 11.4%, Survival Horror 10.9%
- #22 Inner Voices
86% matchMixed53% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: Sigma GamesPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Inner Voices is a dark, non-linear adventure game with a pinch of horror, inspired by works of H. P. Lovecraft and E. A. Poe. Find your way through a procedurally generated maze of rooms and solve the mystery of your past.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 9.8%, Multiple Endings 6.7%, Dark 6.7%
- #23 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
82% matchVery Positive82% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: X1 Games
Windows
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: Lovecraftian 24.5%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 13.3%, Dark 8.2%, First-Person 6.2%
- #24 Ritual Tides
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vertpaint
Windows
Ritual Tides is a story rich, psychological horror game set on the dark, atmospheric, isolated British island of Hortus. Explore the island, uncover its dark past, loot food, ammunition and supplies, evade the cult of the Fallow Parish, as you fight for survival against Lovecraftian horrors.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.3%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 11.5%, First-Person 5.8%
- #25 Taguan
80% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2025
Dev: Murushii Studios
Windows
David Lagani is an ordinary Filipino worker whose quiet life turns to dread when a mysterious figure begins breaking into homes and making people disappear. Each night feels longer, every sound closer, and all he can do is pray the footsteps don’t reach his door.
Why similar: Narrative 31.3% ★, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Horror 15%, Exploration 7.3%, Atmospheric 6.3%
- #26 BLOK
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pyotr Vozniak
Windows
BLOK is an Orwellian psychological horror game set in post-communist Poland. You play as a political exile who fled during the communist regime. Years later, after the system’s collapse, a strange letter from your mother draws you back home. But something is deeply wrong.
Why similar: Narrative 24.8% ★, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 10.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Mystery 7.1%
- #27 Still Wakes the Deep
79% matchVery Positive88% of 12,360 reviews2024
Dev: The Chinese RoomPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Lovecraftian 20.7%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Narrative 14.6% ★, Horror 11.6%, Gore 7.8%
- #28 Deep in the Fields
77% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Del Campo Studio
Windows
With no other option, you take a job as a farmhand on a remote ranch in the interior of Buenos Aires. But as time passes, you begin to uncover the dark secrets buried deep in the fields.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 19.6%, Dark 11.9%, Exploration 11.1%, Puzzle 6.1%
- #29 PECADO
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Solid Neon SD
Windows
PECADO is a first-person folkloric horror experience set in the “España profunda”. Listen to the word of God.
Why similar: Narrative 28.5% ★, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 12.3%, Survival Horror 10.5%, First-Person 6.2%
- #30 Abject Abyss
77% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Anton Bezett
Windows
A short, atmospheric sci-fi horror experience. Explore an isolated research facility on the edge of charted space, and survive the horrors that lurk there.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.2%, Psychological Horror 18%, Horror 15.6%, First-Person 8.3%, Atmospheric 7%
- #31 Insanity Within
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derek LarsonPub: D Rock Games LLC
Windows
A psychological-horror puzzle game where after 16 years in prison for a murder you don't remember, you're back at your family's manor as schizophrenia distorts your reality. Manage, or harness, your mental hallucinations to uncover the truth. Will it vindicate you? Or confirm your darkest fears...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.4%, Puzzle 10.8%, First-Person 10.8%, Horror 10.6%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #32 Toy's Playground: The prologue
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zeyra Games
Windows
Toy's Playground hides dark secrets. Explore the factory and the play area. Solve puzzles. Avoid the creatures. Don’t get caught. Find a way out before it’s too late.
Why similar: Narrative 24.7% ★, Psychological Horror 16%, Horror 14.9%, First-Person 12.7%, Puzzle 11.3%
- #33 Snooze: A Choice
75% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Meat
Windows
Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Feed the demon? Go to work. Daily life might be getting to you, but your medication is taking care of that, right? Or maybe it's making things worse. Rise and grind or choose to snooze?
Why similar: Narrative 32.5% ★, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 13.2%, Dark 9.5%, First-Person 7.2%
- #34 Penumbra Overture
79% matchVery Positive91% of 4,128 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Survival Horror 10.6%, First-Person 9.7%
- #35 One-Time Trigger
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ruren studio
Windows
Observe seven patients. Identify the one anomaly. Shoot to survive. You have only one bullet and no room for error.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.8%, Horror 20.1%, Puzzle 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Story Rich 5.6%
- #36 Partum Artifex
75% matchVery Positive97% of 156 reviews2023
Dev: DalaKoala Games
Windows
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: Narration 18.6%, Horror 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Puzzle 10.2%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #37 Expired Meds
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Cinema Studios
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game where you play as a female protagonist, traversing creepy & atmospheric liminal spaces, solving mind-bending puzzles and ever shifting maze environments to uncover the truth about who you are and how you came to be here
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.8%, Horror 20.4%, Lovecraftian 15.2%, First-Person 11.7%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #38 The Repairing Mantis
76% matchVery Positive96% of 142 reviews2021
Dev: Erupting Avocado
Windows
The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.
Why similar: Narrative 24.1% ★, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 13.5%, Exploration 9.3%, First-Person 7.3%
- #39 [Southern Fjords] Veil of Pestilence
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Southern Fjords Games
Windows
In a remote village ravaged by the Black Death, a young man uses his late mentor's knowledge of medicinal herbs to help a desperate community, facing more than just the plague.
Why similar: Narrative 34.4% ★, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Horror 13.8%, Exploration 7.8%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #40 HINGE
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spheroom
Windows
HINGE is a psychological horror game that draws inspiration from Lovecraft and Bioshock. Delve into atmospheric environments, uncover clues, navigate the chilling nightmare, and find a way out of the time loop.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.6%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 12.2%, First-Person 8%, Dark 7.9%
- #41 Blackboard Darkness
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artyz Games
Windows
In Blackboard Darkness, light is your only ally. Use it to fight your way through a subterranean nightmare of petrified creatures.
Why similar: Narrative 34.3% ★, Survival Horror 15.9%, Horror 14.5%, Dark 10.5%, Exploration 9.4%
- #42 Last Chance Market
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark Premonition Games
Windows
When a grocery list becomes a struggle to survive against cosmic horrors, will you make it through the door? Stay alive, solve the mystery and make your offerings - or end up on a missing person poster in this first-person, non-linear nightmare. But you'd better hurry, the store's closing soon.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.4%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.3%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #43 Abandoned Hospital
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ashdev Studio
Windows
Control an RC car in an abandoned hospital. Capture eerie anomalies, avoid making noise, and uncover a chilling mystery—before something finds you first.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 18.3%, Narration 11.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Survival Horror 8%
- #44 Homecoming
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Edgar Rubio
Windows
It is an indie psychological horror game in which you must solve the mystery behind the Dewey family while various entities try to hunt you down and torment you. Will you be able to survive and escape this infinite loop?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Dark 9.1%, Exploration 8.5%
- #45 Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: RVL Games
Windows
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah is a first-person, micro-adventure game that tells the story of P.I. Jim Morrison's encounters with the occult and the extraordinary. Explore your surroundings and solve puzzles in order to uncover the harrowing story of your friend's descent into insanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.8%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 10.4%, First-Person 7.4%, Dark 7.2%
- #46 CLOWNROT -Kyoukan-
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gilutaz
Windows
A psychological survival horror set in an underground parking garage. Trapped in an inescapable otherworld, survive until 5 AM while obeying absurd rules and fleeing a relentless clown. Each attack eats away at your mind, drawing you closer to becoming one. Can you survive the night as a human?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 18.5%, Survival Horror 12%, First-Person 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #47 The Night Is Long
69% matchPositive84% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: TheGamerUrso
Windows
The Night Is Long is a short first-person horror game where a grieving man follows a ghostly vision into an abandoned mansion. Uncover dark secrets, survive atmospheric horrors, and face your past through exploration, puzzles, and subtle scares.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.1%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 13.3%, Exploration 9.7%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #48 Escape the Exomoon
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LoLight Games
Windows
ESCAPE THE EXOMOON is a narrative driven cyberpunk sci-fi horror game. Hack, hide, and fight your way across an abandoned space colony. Will you sacrifice your sanity for survival?
Why similar: Narrative 23.7% ★, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 9.5%, Exploration 7.4%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #49 Tisis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dimitris Risis
Windows
Tisis is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and sanity management as you navigate the thin boundary between light, darkness, and madness.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Lovecraftian 17.3%, First-Person 10.9%, Horror 10.1%, Exploration 9.6%
- #50 The Shade
68% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Nonsense Games
Windows
A first-person psychological horror set in rural Finland, where isolation and unsettling encounters slowly turn your housekeeping job into something far more disturbing.
Why similar: Narrative 24.8% ★, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 12.1%, Exploration 6.9%, Survival Horror 6.8%
- #51 The Coma 3: Bloodlines
66% matchVery Positive86% of 371 reviews2026
Dev: Dvora Studio Co., Ltd.Pub: Headup
Windows
Welcome to the world of The Coma 3: Bloodlines. In this realm of shadows rumors and urban legends become reality, and danger lurks around every corner. If a living intruder dies here, their body will be severed from their spirit and never wake again ...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.6%, Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Survival Horror 13%, Adventure 5.1%
- #52 Tales from My Ass: Slice of Death
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hastily Assembled
Windows · Linux
My retro-3D first-person horror adventure about the night I delivered a pizza to a haunted manor full of deadly traps, knife-wielding cultists, and lots of gore. This all actually happened to me. How it all ended will shock you the most!
Why similar: Narrative 24.6% ★, Lovecraftian 13.5%, Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, First-Person 8.5%
- #53 Overlast
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Zakarian Creation
Windows
Crash land in a haunted forest, stalked by a relentless monster. Explore eerie ruins, solve dark puzzles, and gather mysterious artifacts to escape the nightmare that lurks amongst the forest
Why similar: Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Puzzle 14.9%, First-Person 11.5%, Exploration 10.1%
- #54 Aghori
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tenjiku Productions
Windows
Aghori is a psychological horror game set in the Himalayan foothills. Unravel dark rituals, cursed forests, and forgotten villages as Rudra searches for his missing friends in a narrative-rich journey through fear, mysticism, and the unknown
Why similar: Narration 22.4%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 15.3%, First-Person 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #55 nan
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amar SkPub: Candoria Studio
Windows
It's 1998. Play as Nolan, a student trapped in an eerie neighborhood where nothing is as it seems. Unravel a psychological horror story of grief, obsession, and love. Solve puzzles, meet neighbors, and make choices to break the loop. Survive in a dynamic world not made for you.
Why similar: Narrative 19.4% ★, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 12.3%, First-Person 8.5%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #56 Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
71% matchVery Positive94% of 2,949 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Why similar: Horror 22.3%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Lovecraftian 14.6%, First-Person 10%, Survival Horror 7.8%
- #57 Ignis Dei
66% matchPositive96% of 48 reviews2025
Dev: Jam Bell Games
Windows
Heralded by a comet, seen as a harbinger of doom, the Black Death arrived in Florence in 1348. Wander through the woods to escape the plague, face various riddles and encounter mysterious creatures.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Horror 12.8%, Dark 8.7%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #58 InVein
65% matchPositive98% of 43 reviews2026
Dev: SlowDrip StudiosPub: Student Game Developer Association
Windows
Traverse this never-ending hospital as you discover clues of where and who you are. As each day passes by, the world around you decays, and you can’t help but wonder what is real. Utilize your time and resources as you roam these collapsing halls, but be careful; you may not be alone after all...
Why similar: Narrative 19.8% ★, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 12%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Exploration 6.8%
- #59 Black Annis
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Man the Barricades Ltd
Windows
Work the night shift and uncover what haunts Lone Oak College in this short horror exploration game inspired by British folklore. Survive the horror, solve challenging puzzles, and search for your missing friend before it’s too late.
Why similar: Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 12%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 9%, Dark 8.6%
- #60 Please Duology
69% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: Somewhat Software
Windows
A compilation of two slow-paced, cosmic horror walking simulators, to be completed in under an hour. Please makes you maintain a power station and ignore the noises from the main engine, while Please Follow has you explore the trenches of a losing war, exposing your mind to visions of another world.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.8%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 11%, First-Person 9.4%, Exploration 9.1%