- #1 白昼梦 · 心象病院
97% matchVery Positive84% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: 林檎树Pub: Eternal Dream
Windows
This is a pixel style puzzle game, including a certain micro-horror elements. Truth is blind love. Retrieve your memory and escape from this horrible hospital.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.7%, Puzzle 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, RPG 13%, Story Rich 12.8%
- #2 Myths of Rules
96% matchVery Positive88% of 1,041 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.1%, Puzzle 22.1%, Story Rich 15%, 2D 6.5%, Casual 6.2%
- #3 Minds Beneath Us
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,061 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.6%, RPG 18.8%, Story Rich 14.7%, Puzzle 13.9%, Sci-fi 12.8%
- #4 This is Interesting
94% matchVery Positive99% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Scott Jund
Windows
This is Interesting is a psychological horror mystery based game with roguelite elements. You are being watched, and you aren't really sure why. Delve through the depths of memory to uncover the mystery behind the gray purgatory you find yourself in.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, RPG 16%, Puzzle 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #5 Inmates
95% matchMixed60% of 330 reviews2017
Dev: Davit AndreasyanPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Inmates is a story-driven, atmospheric psychological horror game. Featuring interactive exploration in a suffocating location, mind-bending puzzles and disturbing imagery. You wake up in a run-down prison cell and have no clue how you got there. You’ve convinced yourself this is all just a nightmare...
Why similar: Adventure 52.8%, Story Rich 40%, Indie 7.2%
- #6 INHUMAN
94% matchMixed63% of 112 reviews2023
Dev: 秋太虚工作室Pub: QutosoGame
Windows
"INHUMAN" is an independent horror game. The story takes place in the conspiracy of an ancient clan, and the protagonist is in a psychedelic state and can't even distinguish herself. With further exploration and confrontation with all kinds of ghosts, the puzzle will be solved step by step...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 43.7%, Puzzle 25.7%, Story Rich 19.2%, Adventure 9.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #7 Paper Bride
93% matchVery Positive91% of 2,278 reviews2021
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Paper Bride is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game. You will play as the groom to search for the truth and have bizarre encounters, gradually learning about the dark mystic custom in the bride's home village and a story from the past...
Why similar: Puzzle 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, RPG 13.3%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #8 TOUQI
92% matchVery Positive90% of 468 reviews2025
Dev: 橙光游戏Pub: Paleo
Windows
《頭七》(头七怪谈)是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员,你需要根据主编的要求,整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联,并在必要时与同伴实地探索,以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, RPG 18%, Story Rich 11.3%, Drama 8.5%
- #9 贝如塔医院 Beta Hospital
91% matchVery Positive84% of 380 reviews2025
Dev: 逃跑灵羊工作室
Windows
《贝如塔医院》是一款以荒废医院为主题的恐怖游戏,你将以第一人称视角,前往贝如塔医院寻找自己失踪的妻子——伊纳,但在医院中却遇到一些不太寻常的事件...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36.9%, Psychological Horror 26.6%, Puzzle 14.5%, RPG 11.6%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #10 Kanna Maze
91% matchVery Positive89% of 385 reviews2024
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, RPG 19.3%, Puzzle 14.6%, 2D 7.8%
- #11 Snowfall's Mystery
89% matchVery Positive86% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Story Rich 11%, 2D 9.4%
- #12 Vessels
90% matchVery Positive95% of 125 reviews2020
Dev: Local Space Survey CorpsPub: Local Space Survey Corps, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Sci-fi 32.7%, Puzzle 29.9%, Story Rich 18.3%, Adventure 16.3%, Indie 2.3%
- #13 Xi
89% matchVery Positive91% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: HHGame
Windows
"Xi" is a horror puzzle game set in the context of modern Chinese folklore. The story takes place in an long-abandoned mountain mansion. This immersive escape room experience feels a bit too real, with eerie and strange elements everywhere—an empty banquet, an endless corridor.
Why similar: Drama 25.4%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, RPG 18.1%, Puzzle 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%
- #14 Until Then
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 18,515 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Story Rich 15.1%, 2D 7.2%
- #15 SELF
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 278 reviews2020
Dev: doBellPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.7%, Adventure 26.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.1%, Story Rich 17%, Indie 3.9%
- #16 异化之恶〇Abnormal Treatment
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,606 reviews2019
Dev: Eternal Dream
Windows
Strange events occur at a sanatorium for those with unusual abilities. Follow clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth. What will be released when all secrets are revealed? Goodness? Or… pure ”EVIL”?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.3%, RPG 19.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Story Rich 12.3%
- #17 Saihate Station
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,880 reviews2025
Dev: びぶ/viv
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 44.9%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, RPG 8.6%, Story Rich 6.5%, 2D 6.1%
- #18 Recall: Empty Wishes
85% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Puff Hook StudioPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Recall: Empty Wishes is a psychological thriller set in Taiwan during the 2010s. Follow Yonny, a sister determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of her brother, Tommy. As she delves deeper, she confronts unsettling secrets, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Drama 12.9%, RPG 12.8%, Story Rich 12.6%
- #19 我有一座冒险屋 I have an adventure house
86% matchMixed56% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: 知音动漫
Windows
The boss couple of house of terror of amusement park of jiujiang city of new century is suddenly in some abandoned hospital is missing mysteriously, the relic that police can find has an old Rag Doll and a mysterious black mobile phone only
Why similar: RPG 29.9%, Drama 21%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Puzzle 16%, Adventure 10%
- #20 Lunar Mirror
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,104 reviews2023
Dev: DSGame
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
"Lunar Mirror" It is a horror suspense decryption game with the theme of Cthulhu in the research institute. Nishimura Qiren's girlfriend mysteriously disappeared on campus. As the investigation deepened, strange events happened one after another
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Puzzle 19.8%, RPG 19.6%, Story Rich 17.1%, Adventure 7.3%
- #21 Hazy Mind
82% matchVery Positive87% of 340 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 51.5%, Story Rich 21.8%, 2D 11.2%, Adventure 9.7%, Text-Based 4.9%
- #22 Desktop Explorer
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,349 reviews2026
Dev: Recurring Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Puzzle 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, 2D 7.4%
- #23 Lunar Mirror:The Pavilion of Desire
82% matchVery Positive81% of 1,348 reviews2023
Dev: TUTGamePub: DSGame
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a side-scrolling exploration and puzzle game with the background of the horror story of Cthulhu. You can move the character through A and D, talk to the character in the scene, press the F key to interact with the props in the scene, and complete the puzzle by collecting clues.
Why similar: Drama 27.1%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, RPG 19.6%, Puzzle 11.1%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #24 Anamnesia - part 1: am i my body?
81% matchVery Positive95% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: Simon Herbig
Windows · Mac
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, 2D 5.3%
- #25 梦魇:无归 Nightmare without return
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 627 reviews2022
Dev: 青衣工作室
Windows
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the ever-changing nightmare world appear in front of you Everything starts from here
Why similar: Drama 38.6%, RPG 26.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Adventure 7.2%
- #26 骸心 Mainbody
80% matchVery Positive93% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: 土豆火锅Pub: Cosmic Train
Windows
A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 52.2%, Story Rich 24.3%, RPG 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 5%, Adventure 2%
- #27 STASIS
79% matchVery Positive82% of 2,363 reviews2015
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.
Why similar: Sci-fi 21.2%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, 1980s 16.2%, Puzzle 11%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #28 Blackout Hospital
77% matchVery Positive97% of 182 reviews2023
Dev: arcadekitten
Windows
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: RPG 30.8%, Puzzle 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, 2D 13.5%, Adventure 9.4%
- #29 Imaginary Friend Asylum
76% matchVery Positive100% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Emporium
Windows
A psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. Here, you will uncover a dark conspiracy where you are to receive a terrible fate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44%, Psychological Horror 28.3%, Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 9.2%, Retro 8.1%
- #30 Tren0
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 283 reviews2018
Dev: BubblePub: INDIECN
Windows
A pixel game that contains some puzzles. It tells a story about five strangers who were trapped on a mysterious train.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.1%, RPG 19.4%, Puzzle 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #31 Black Sheep
78% matchMixed53% of 792 reviews2022
Dev: 完蛋了的国王Pub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Black Sheep" is a 2D story-driven adventure game, you will play a high school student who explores the flooded school ruins, trace the shadow of the past, and unveil the evil those buried in the bottom of the river to see the light of day.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 46%, Puzzle 17.5%, Story Rich 12.1%, Adventure 11.8%, 2D 11%
- #32 Decarnation
75% matchVery Positive87% of 1,104 reviews2023
Dev: Atelier QDBPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Psychological Horror 26.2%, Puzzle 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Story Rich 13%, 2D 8.9%
- #33 Free Will
74% matchVery Positive96% of 371 reviews2024
Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
Windows
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: RPG 33.9%, Puzzle 27.3%, Story Rich 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 9%, 2D 7.4%
- #34 Serene Asylum
77% matchMixed57% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: MPlant Games
Windows
Serene Asylum is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game. Solve puzzles as you uncover the dark history of the insane asylum and try to escape before you are stuck in game forever. But don't be scared, it's just a game after all, right? Now... if you can read this, you need to wake up!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.2%, Puzzle 27.2%, Story Rich 19.4%, Casual 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #35 The Inn-Sanity
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,626 reviews2025
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 54.7%, Story Rich 21.9%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Adventure 11.4%
- #36 Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 108 reviews2022
Dev: Gotcha Gotcha Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Cthulhu Mythos with this 2D visual novel game featuring a thrilling TRPG-based experience! Roll the dice and use your skills and luck to escape the abandoned hospital, while experiencing the cosmic terror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.9%, Story Rich 19.4%, RPG 14.5%, 2D 13.8%, Adventure 8.8%
- #37 Voyager-19
72% matchVery Positive88% of 1,011 reviews2024
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 54 min≥1hr: 30%
A short horror game where you control a decaying spacecraft exploring distant star systems.
Why similar: Sci-fi 27.2%, Puzzle 23.7%, Retro 15.1%, 2D 11.2%, Aliens 8.7%
- #38 _message:
73% matchVery Positive86% of 104 reviews2023
Dev: TEAM 217Pub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
_전언:(_message:)은 심리적 공포 요소가 포함된 텍스트 어드벤처 게임입니다. 달에 잔류하여 지구에 있는 본부와 통신을 하는 사이, 당신은 점점 이상한 낌새를 눈치채기 시작합니다...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Puzzle 17.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #39 侠隐行录:困境疑云Wuxia archive: Crisis escape
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 208 reviews2018
Dev: Adventurer's TavernPub: Gamera Game
Windows
Wuxia archive: Crisis escape is a text adventure puzzle game. The player will play a knight who is trapped in an unknown dungeon, get clues with other trapped characters, use the props in the scene to solve the puzzle and get out of danger.
Why similar: Puzzle 59.9%, Adventure 34.5%, Indie 5.6%
- #40 Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
73% matchVery Positive82% of 548 reviews2020
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?
Why similar: Puzzle 38.4%, Sci-fi 33.1%, Adventure 12.9%, Casual 7.6%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #41 A Random Maze 某个迷宫
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 538 reviews2021
Dev: 幻想博物馆(Utopia Museum)
Windows
一个忘记自己姓名与过去的人,在突然出现的神秘人物的帮助下,从一个空无一人的医院开始探索自己的过去。只有取回真实,才能从这里离开,即使……真相不像你所期待的那样,他也依然盼望着他的未来。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.7%, Adventure 25.3%, RPG 18.4%, Puzzle 15.4%, 2D 5.4%
- #42 If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,802 reviews2021
Dev: Dead Idle Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.3%, Pixel Graphics 23.2%, Story Rich 21%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Adventure 5.9%
- #43 墨心:波云诡船
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,395 reviews2020
Dev: 1001 Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主(你)从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆,发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异,恐怖致命的巨型怪物,你们能否成功逃脱?而这超自然的现象,似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......
Why similar: Puzzle 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Story Rich 18.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #44 Backspace Backspace Backspace
70% matchVery Positive97% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Story Rich 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Text-Based 8.2%
- #45 Second Thoughts
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: Gestmorph Games
Windows · Mac
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Story Rich 8.3%, 2D 6.6%
- #46 缄默咖啡厅
70% matchVery Positive82% of 229 reviews2022
Dev: plasmafall
Windows
Silence Coffee Shop is a JRPG game inspired by SCP and 规则类怪谈(creepy rule).In this game,you'll act as a regular customer,unveil the truth of Silence Coffee Shop behind it conflicting rules.Of cause,you are not the only one attracted by this abnormal shop...
Why similar: RPG 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Psychological Horror 22%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, 2D 7.9%
- #47 Blackbay Asylum
74% matchMixed57% of 552 reviews2014
Dev: TAD Productions ABPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Blackbay Asylum, you take on the role of a confused psychopath who finds himself able to leave his cell one day. Explore the hospital grounds, solve mind shattering puzzles, survive relentless horrors and follow the story of Doug Dunheiw as he tries to find some clarity in what goes on at Blackbay Asylum.
Why similar: Adventure 57.8%, Puzzle 37.4%, Indie 4.8%
- #48 Have a Nice Dream
69% matchVery Positive93% of 4,916 reviews2021
Dev: 榭季生
Windows
A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.8%, RPG 21.8%, Drama 21.3%, Puzzle 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%
- #49 Your Future Self
72% matchVery Positive81% of 97 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Casual 12%, Adventure 9.1%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #50 Letters of Bernard Thorne
67% matchVery Positive98% of 195 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: Psychological Horror 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Story Rich 15.3%, Puzzle 14.1%, Text-Based 7.9%
- #51 GNOSIA
68% matchVery Positive94% of 5,037 reviews2022
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36.1%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Story Rich 13.2%, RPG 6.5%
- #52 HOMESICKNESS
66% matchVery Positive95% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: jnity
Windows
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.9%, Story Rich 27.4%, Retro 5.4%, Adventure 5.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #53 Psychroma
67% matchVery Positive90% of 201 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket AdriftPub: Gamma Space Collaborative Studio
Windows · Linux
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.2%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #54 Madness inside
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: ZV GAMES
Windows
"Madness Inside"" immerses you in the dark depths of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, where horrifying experiments were once conducted. Police Lieutenant Vic Voight, in pursuit of a dangerous criminal, unexpectedly finds himself trapped in this nightmarish place.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.2%, Story Rich 30.8%, Adventure 17%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #55 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
69% matchVery Positive82% of 161 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Basically the story goes as visual novel form. Sometimes, the system switches into dot part, and you can control the character to continue the story.
Why similar: RPG 35.1%, Psychological Horror 35.1%, Puzzle 17%, Adventure 11.2%, Indie 1.7%
- #56 Homicipher
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,234 reviews2024
Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 64.8%, Text-Based 20.5%, Adventure 12.7%, Singleplayer 2%
- #57 Aimi
68% matchVery Positive81% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: Toasty
Windows · Mac
Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Puzzle 18.9%, RPG 16.9%, Story Rich 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%
- #58 Paranormal Night Shift
65% matchVery Positive97% of 197 reviews2025
Dev: Wheeler Whale Games
Windows
Paranormal Night Shift is an observation and spot the anomaly game set in a haunted house in the 1980s.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, 1980s 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Puzzle 18.3%, Story Rich 5.4%
- #59 Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
66% matchVery Positive95% of 9,400 reviews2019
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 30%, Puzzle 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Story Rich 14%, 2D 9.7%