- #1 Life Gallery
97% matchVery Positive82% of 430 reviews2023
Dev: 751 Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.
Why similar: Puzzle 30.6%, Horror 27.9%, Indie 21.3%, Gore 20.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares a similar hand-drawn, surreal art style and focus on unsettling, cryptic puzzle-solving.
- #2 Detention
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,710 reviews2017
Dev: RedCandleGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Horror 37.8%, Gore 18.9%, Indie 17.6%, Puzzle 13.8%, Adventure 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A masterpiece of atmospheric, culturally-rooted horror that shares the surreal, dream-like dread found in Nether Gallery.
- #3 Paper Bride
96% matchVery Positive91% of 2,228 reviews2021
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 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: Horror 54.9%, Puzzle 35.2%, Adventure 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strong example of Chinese cultural horror that relies on intricate puzzles and a haunting, folklore-inspired atmosphere.
- #4 回门 Way Back Home
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 519 reviews2021
Dev: 漫森游戏工作室
Windows
"Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...
Why similar: Horror 39%, Puzzle 23.5%, Indie 23.5%, Adventure 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: Uses historical Chinese settings to build a tense, puzzle-heavy horror experience similar to the seed game.
- #5 夕生 Halflight
94% matchMixed64% of 130 reviews2020
Dev: MATCHBPub: FirePoint
Windows
Halflight is a 3D adventure game with classic puzzles. Players follow in the steps of the young boy Xi-sheng as he strays into an extraordinary phantom world -- a world where Memories intertwine with Nightmares, Hope casts its lot with Destiny, and any semblance of self-identity will be tested.
Why similar: Adventure 50.6%, Indie 49.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric adventure game that blends childhood wonder with dark, puzzle-driven horror elements.
- #6 Ib
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,122 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Indie 28.2%, Puzzle 26.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic surreal horror game where the environment shifts and distorts, requiring careful puzzle-solving to survive.
- #7 The Cat Lady
94% matchVery Positive94% of 6,142 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Horror 42.5%, Adventure 24%, Indie 20.6%, Puzzle 13%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply psychological and surreal horror game that explores dark, existential themes through a unique, gritty aesthetic.
- #8 Fran Bow
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,182 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Why similar: Gore 31.1%, Horror 24.4%, Puzzle 17.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a young protagonist navigating a surreal, nightmare-filled world through puzzle-solving and shifting realities.
- #9 YinYang Street Ultimate Edition
91% matchVery Positive80% of 110 reviews2023
Dev: 彼云工作室Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
YinYang Street is an indie horror game set in Yunnan, China. Our protagonist Minglai Li finds his beloved wife missing when he comes home. All mysteries lead to a place called YinYang Street...
Why similar: Adventure 35.5%, Puzzle 32.5%, Horror 31.9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that integrates Chinese folklore into its horror-filled, exploration-heavy gameplay.
- #10 DYING: Reborn
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 216 reviews2018
Dev: NEKCOM EntertainmentPub: Coconut Island Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
DYING: Reborn is a first-person Room Escape puzzle game in which players must tackle all kinds of puzzles in a series of dark and eerie environments. Gameplay revolves around collecting, discovering and putting together pieces of a twisted story that will make your hair stand on end...
Why similar: Adventure 29.3%, Indie 27.4%, Puzzle 24.1%, Horror 19.2%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-horror game that focuses on escaping claustrophobic, dark environments.
- #11 SIGNALIS
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,665 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Puzzle 56.7%, Adventure 43.3%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological, puzzle-heavy horror game that excels at creating an oppressive, surreal atmosphere.
- #12 Rusty Lake Hotel
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,215 reviews2016
Dev: Rusty Lake
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Why similar: Puzzle 25.9%, Horror 24%, Indie 17.6%, Gore 16.9%, Adventure 15.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a bizarre, grotesque, and highly surreal puzzle experience that mirrors the dream-logic of Nether Gallery.
- #13 Gil's Lucid Dreams
90% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Oblion Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Gil's Lucid Dreams is a FPS horror game based on the story and exploration. Gil use lucid dreams to get away from his unsatisfacting life. He will lose the control of his dreams, becoming completely succubus of his nightmares. Will Gil be able to face his Alter Ego?
Why similar: Gore 45.1%, Adventure 19.2%, Indie 14.7%, Horror 12.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Directly explores the concept of lucid dreaming through a puzzle-adventure format with psychological undertones.
- #14 Little Nightmares
86% matchVery Positive95% of 115,868 reviews2017
Dev: Tarsier StudiosPub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
Why similar: Horror 45.8%, Adventure 22.3%, Puzzle 18.5%, Indie 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on navigating a grotesque, dream-like world with a heavy emphasis on environmental storytelling and puzzles.
- #15 Neverending Nightmares
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,996 reviews2014
Dev: Infinitap Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
Why similar: Gore 42.4%, Horror 34%, Indie 14.5%, Adventure 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply personal and psychological horror game that uses a haunting art style to depict the protagonist's mental struggles.
- #16 Fragile
87% matchMixed64% of 430 reviews2020
Dev: Beer Night Studio
Windows
Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!
Why similar: Gore 51.8%, Horror 13.8%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 12.9%, Puzzle 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An indie horror title that emphasizes gore and atmospheric exploration in a dark, puzzle-filled world.
- #17 Black Sheep
86% matchMixed53% of 785 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: Horror 41.2%, Adventure 28.8%, Indie 15.7%, Puzzle 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological thriller that uses a 2D perspective to explore mystery and horror in a school setting.
- #18 INHUMAN
85% matchMixed63% of 111 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: Horror 37.1%, Adventure 24.1%, Puzzle 22.3%, Indie 16.5%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that blends puzzle-solving with a tense, thriller-like narrative.
- #19 Who's Lila?
83% matchVery Positive95% of 3,610 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Horror 62.9%, Puzzle 37.1%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, psychological horror game with unique mechanics that force the player to confront the protagonist's fractured reality.
- #20 The Coma: Recut
84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,009 reviews2017
Dev: Dvora Studio Co., Ltd.Pub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
You are Youngho, a Korean high school student trapped and relentlessly pursued by a psychotic killer in the hellish corridors of Sehwa High. Run, hide, explore, and survive while piecing together the mystery The Coma in this remastered version of the Korean cult classic.
Why similar: Horror 42.9%, Adventure 30.4%, Indie 26.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling horror game that traps the player in a distorted, nightmare version of a familiar setting.
- #21 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,269 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 11%
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: Horror 58.6%, Adventure 27.5%, Indie 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: A short, intense, and highly surreal psychological experience that mirrors the internal anxiety of the seed game.
- #22 Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: FM Studio
Windows · Mac
Did you really believe a wardrobe is just a piece of furniture? Not in Forgotten Hill! Uncover the evil within the 5 twisted chapters of this new point-and-click adventure. Will you survive?
Why similar: Horror 32.8%, Adventure 27.8%, Puzzle 26.2%, Gore 10.1%, Indie 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: A series of surreal, grotesque puzzle games that share the same unsettling, dream-logic tone as the seed game.
- #23 Xi
80% 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: Horror 48.7%, Puzzle 41.4%, Adventure 5%, Indie 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that uses pixel art to convey an eerie, horror-filled story.
- #24 Fireflies
84% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2015
Dev: Phanom Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Adventure horror with many puzzles and an interesting story.
Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Indie 31%, Horror 20.6%, Puzzle 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy horror game that relies on atmospheric exploration to build tension.
- #25 Shutter
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 218 reviews2015
Dev: Cosmic Logic
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Re-live a dark and haunting tale in this fixed camera puzzle-horror game RE-miniscent of the first generation of survival horror games.
Why similar: Adventure 31.6%, Indie 30.8%, Horror 24.5%, Puzzle 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric horror game that uses photography and puzzle-solving to uncover hidden, terrifying truths.
- #26 Revengeful Ghost
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Akumu Yuko/RegistaPub: Regista
Windows
This title is a horror adventure game. The story unfolds mainly through line messages on smartphones. Just like real time, the in-game time is also ticking away, and messages arrive in real time. The player must use mysterious videos and messages as clues to unravel the mystery of the incidents.
Why similar: Gore 40.4%, Horror 26.5%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A walking-simulator style psychological horror game that focuses on exploring a haunted, surreal environment.
- #27 Dead Dreams
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Aiaz Marx
Windows
"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...
Why similar: Gore 45.3%, Horror 26.3%, Puzzle 16.8%, Adventure 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D RPG-maker style horror game that focuses on the surreal, dream-like nature of its narrative.
- #28 Twisted Gallery 异馆
77% matchVery Positive86% of 375 reviews2025
Dev: FH Create Inc
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.
Why similar: Horror 42.1%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 16.3%, Puzzle 13.9%
- #29 Dread Flats
75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,518 reviews2025
Dev: Ghostcase
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..
Why similar: Horror 51.3%, Adventure 26.3%, Puzzle 22.4%
- #30 Deteriorate.1
76% matchVery Positive92% of 131 reviews2024
Dev: 狐狸精Zhuki
Windows
《化鬼 Deteriorate》是一款动物主角题材的横版解谜恐怖游戏,你需要根据关卡提示解开谜题,并在追逐战中躲避反派的追杀,在【死亡交易】中存活下来。
Why similar: Horror 38.3%, Puzzle 24.6%, Adventure 18.5%, Gore 11.6%, Indie 7%
- #31 FILTHY US
78% matchMixed68% of 474 reviews2021
Dev: Game Logic Studio
Windows
《残秽的我们》是一款本土手绘写实风格的恐怖冒险游戏,以真实事件为蓝本改编。在游戏中,玩家将跟随女主“无者”的脚步,深入由亡者怨念而产生的“怨秽地”,利用“刻印”的力量,探究隐藏其中的一段真实往事。
Why similar: Horror 37.7%, Indie 25%, Puzzle 19.3%, Adventure 18%
- #32 灵童
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Taolizhixia Studio
Windows
Ling Tong "is a new Chinese style horror suspense puzzle game that combines click to solve puzzles and storyline adventure.
Why similar: Horror 41.1%, Puzzle 31.6%, Indie 17.6%, Adventure 9.6%
- #33 Nightmare (Incubo)
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 227 reviews2019
Dev: inngamezstudio
Windows
INCUBO is a side scrolling platform game with a semi-horror theme. We present many ghost from around the world in our game as enemy and bosses. You played as a child in his nightmare and discover the truth about his story.
Why similar: Gore 43%, Horror 16.9%, Indie 16%, Adventure 13.9%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #34 港詭實錄ParanormalHK
74% matchVery Positive90% of 20,146 reviews2020
Dev: Ghostpie Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Paranormal HK is a first person horror game about Urban legends of Hong Kong, China. The story is about a crew of online supernatural channel“Beyond the Invisible” went to Kowloon Walled City to film a short movie for their latest episode and encountered something out of their expectations.
Why similar: Horror 61.3%, Adventure 15.4%, Puzzle 13.3%, Indie 10.1%
- #35 Seduction
77% matchMixed56% of 66 reviews2021
Dev: KOEX studioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
《Seduction》is a 2d horror adventure puzzle game. Lee has to survive in the dark realm and to save Mei's soul from being use for the great summoning. Facing with mysteries, he has to figure out the truth in order to end it.
Why similar: Gore 42%, Horror 19.1%, Adventure 13.4%, Puzzle 12.7%, Indie 12.7%
- #36 Ghost Feed
74% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Hulu WorldPub: CE-Asia
Windows
这是一款由制作者真实人生经历和感悟衍生而来的游戏。主角来到一座古旧小镇,在阴森大宅中遭遇了古怪的灵异事件。最终发现,自己和宅子的人事物,有很深的联系……
Why similar: Horror 31.1%, Indie 23.3%, Adventure 22.8%, Puzzle 22.7%
- #37 Afterdream
72% matchVery Positive93% of 349 reviews2023
Dev: Jesse MakkonenPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Why similar: Horror 52.4%, Adventure 32.1%, Indie 15.5%
- #38 Back
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows · Mac
《Back》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy !!!! The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
Why similar: Horror 32.8%, Gore 30.2%, Adventure 15.9%, Puzzle 12.5%, Indie 8.6%
- #39 Locked Fears
75% matchMixed67% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: dekoga.d
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Locked Fears is a first person puzzle/horror game with platforming elements and creepy atmosphere. You play as Samuel Custer, a late worker at UNIVERS HORIZONS, when things at the office start to drift into a dreadful situation. With the help of an unknown Individual you try to survive and escape this nightmare.
Why similar: Gore 49.6%, Horror 20%, Adventure 15.8%, Indie 14.7%
- #40 Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horror
73% matchVery Positive84% of 668 reviews2018
Dev: Storytale
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 117.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A narrative horror game set in the daily lives of Indonesian society. Interact with various mystical objects as you explore haunted places, unravel their lingering mysteries, and experience how Indonesian myth, taboo and culture, combined with your choices, shape the course of your nights.
Why similar: Indie 34.9%, Adventure 34%, Horror 31.1%
- #41 告死天使的审判 Death Angel Trial
73% matchVery Positive84% of 101 reviews2020
Dev: 我妻寒十
Windows
This is a game about online violence, all of which are based on the personal experience of the producer and shared with netizens. As far as possible to reduce the reality of one after another bloody cruel phenomenon. Today's victims may only be a little-known person, and the next It could be you.
Why similar: Gore 64.9%, Adventure 18.6%, Puzzle 16.4%
- #42 Room 404
68% matchVery Positive91% of 189 reviews2025
Dev: Multimedium
Windows
Room 404 is a first-person Chinese horror game.Players must discern anomalies within an endlessly looping corridor, make decisions,and attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding themselves and the four floors of the apartment.
Why similar: Horror 41%, Adventure 37.5%, Indie 21.5%
- #43 YinYang Street: Separate Ways
70% matchVery Positive84% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: 彼云工作室Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
Street Li Fang Zhuan is a Chinese micro horror game set in 1980s China, combining the story of understanding puzzles and text adventures. In the game, the scroll scene that can be moved by four axes is applied to bring different game experience to the player.
Why similar: Adventure 36.4%, Puzzle 32.9%, Horror 30.7%
- #44 镇邪
69% matchVery Positive87% of 2,960 reviews2022
Dev: 灵煦工作室Pub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
《镇邪》是一款单机国风道士题材游戏,根据大量的民间故事改编。玩家将扮演道门弟子前往神秘村庄调查身世之谜,不想却无意中卷入一场巨大的阴谋。摸金寻宝,驱邪镇灵,开坛做法,画符炼尸...空前绝后的人鬼较量,灵异邪祟的无尽纠缠。二十载宿命,难抵一生夙愿。
Why similar: Horror 37.6%, Adventure 27.7%, Puzzle 21.3%, Indie 13.3%
- #45 Blackbay Asylum
73% matchMixed57% of 552 reviews2014
Dev: TAD Productions ABPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 2.7 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: Gore 51.5%, Adventure 19.8%, Horror 13.7%, Indie 10.7%, Puzzle 4.3%
- #46 梦乡 The Dreamcatcher
71% matchVery Positive85% of 119 reviews2020
Dev: Huanlin Games
Windows
The Dreamcatcher is a single player first person psychological adventure set in the modern times. You play as a young man who has just started his life in a big city. You will adventure into different dream worlds, overcome obstacles in the dreams with the help from outside the dreams.
Why similar: Horror 47.9%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 24.7%
- #47 鬼打墙(剧情版)
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: KX GAMES
Windows
This is a horror game adapted from the Chinese folklore. Players need to decrypt and collect key items in different stages. Ultimately find a way to escape the foggy forest. While searching for an exit, players will be disturbed by ghosts, players need to avoid the ghosts and evade their attacks.
Why similar: Adventure 39%, Horror 27.7%, Puzzle 22.7%, Indie 10.6%
- #48 Decarnation
68% matchVery Positive88% of 1,071 reviews2023
Dev: Atelier QDBPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Horror 31.8%, Puzzle 29.8%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 18.6%
- #49 Disease -Hidden Object-
71% matchMixed61% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: OperaHouse CorporationPub: D3PUBLISHER
Windows
This is a horror adventure game where the player go back and forth in between the real world and the hallucination world. The purpose of this game is to search items and collect scattered documents while solving mysteries and finding out the truth of the abolished hospital.
Why similar: Adventure 34.1%, Horror 33.9%, Gore 32.1%
- #50 记忆重构/Memories
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 248 reviews2019
Dev: 百恩互娱
Windows · Mac
Memories is a suspense movie game of live-action escape room, which presents a multitude of mind-twisting missions. By solving the puzzles with the clue of the plot, players will explore the vein of the whole story and accomplish the missions with the progress of the game.
Why similar: Adventure 50.6%, Indie 49.4%
- #51 Sinister Entity
68% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2023
Dev: Spooky Hand Games
Windows
Third-Person horror game . The game contains many puzzles and mysteries. The game contain escaping and hiding from evil entity.
Why similar: Gore 37.7%, Horror 26.1%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 11.7%
- #52 白昼梦 · 心象病院
67% matchVery Positive85% of 235 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: Horror 32.3%, Puzzle 25.2%, Adventure 21.1%, Gore 16.6%, Indie 4.9%
- #53 Scarred
67% matchMixed58% of 123 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: Horror 40.1%, Adventure 28.3%, Puzzle 21.9%, Indie 5.6%, Gore 4%
- #54 见诡录:阴魂街 Haunting Record: Phantom Street
66% matchVery Positive84% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Gameloop
Windows
You step into a street both strange and familiar, where eerie events unfold one after another. The air is thick with lingering spirits and overwhelming resentment, as if something in the shadows is waiting to drag you into the abyss…
Why similar: Horror 47.7%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 16.1%
- #55 Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
66% matchVery Positive93% of 958 reviews2022
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team. This time the story takes place in Moshui Village, which is near Zangling Village, and Fulu City, a small town nearby.
Why similar: Horror 58.4%, Puzzle 41.6%
- #56 Winter Clothing
65% matchVery Positive84% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: 坤舆科技
Windows
This is a horror plot puzzle game with Chinese folk themes. There is an unwritten rule in Tianhe Town: on the day of the Winter Clothing Festival, no villager is allowed to approach the back mountain. Is there really a ghost on the mountain? Perhaps there is something more terrifying than ghosts.
Why similar: Horror 54.4%, Puzzle 35.1%, Adventure 10.5%
- #57 Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 681 reviews2025
Dev: SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol is a first-person survival horror game inspired by Junji Ito's psychological horror and eerie aesthetics. This work centers on the twisted potential of human nature and fear of the unknown, taking you on a journey of survival where memory and mystery intertwine.
Why similar: Horror 42.8%, Gore 21.2%, Adventure 20.6%, Puzzle 15.4%
- #58 FURRY GIRL PUZZLE
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 727 reviews2019
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
FURRY GIRL PUZZLE - a logical game in which your task is to collect puzzles and open the pictures with furry girls.
Why similar: Indie 41%, Adventure 34.4%, Puzzle 24.7%