
A dark forest. A missing path. Something that watches from between the trees. Find your way out of Nightroot — if the roots let you. A first-person horror game about a forest that doesn't want to let you leave.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, First-Person, Puzzle, Horror.

A dark forest. A missing path. Something that watches from between the trees. Find your way out of Nightroot — if the roots let you. A first-person horror game about a forest that doesn't want to let you leave.

The Crosley Tower Horror
An Urban exploration horror puzzle, you must navigate a building heavily inspired by the real life Crosley Tower to reach the mysterious 16th floor all while avoiding the asbestos filled dangers within.

The Green Room Experiment (Episode 1) VR
You're locked in a dream and you need to wake up. This game is designed on an escape game structure, you must solve a puzzle to move on to the next table. You will be transported to a dreamlike, strange universe, mixing exploration, mystery and poetry.
An Urban exploration horror puzzle, you must navigate a building heavily inspired by the real life Crosley Tower to reach the mysterious 16th floor all while avoiding the asbestos filled dangers within.
Why similar: Strategy 30.5%, Puzzle 15.8%, Exploration 15.5%, First-Person 11.1%, Horror 8.7%
You're locked in a dream and you need to wake up. This game is designed on an escape game structure, you must solve a puzzle to move on to the next table. You will be transported to a dreamlike, strange universe, mixing exploration, mystery and poetry.
Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Realistic 13%, First-Person 11.9%, Logic 9.8%
An Empty Void is a short horror game that blends puzzle-solving with adventure. Trapped in an ancient temple, surrounded by darkness, you must use the magic of a mystical amulet to reveal what's hidden, uncover the truth and escape.
Why similar: Strategy 34.7%, Puzzle 15.1%, Exploration 12.2%, Horror 11%, Survival Horror 10.7%
Explore Past your Guilt and Denial. This Psychological Puzzle Horror will have you Explore your Psyche, 1 Minute before you Die! Are you Ready to Dig into the Darkness, Unearthing your Deepest, most Shameful Secrets?
Why similar: Strategy 23.6%, Puzzle 12.5%, Survival Horror 12%, Horror 11.5%, First-Person 10.1%
Trapped inside an abandoned hotel, you must restore power, keep the power alive, solve its mysteries, and survive a hunter that responds to your actions. Manage the lights, find a way out, and make it through the night.
Why similar: Strategy 23.1%, Puzzle 14.5%, Realistic 12.8%, Exploration 12%, First-Person 11.6%
Backrooms Untold is an atmospheric horror experience where you’re lost in an endless, infinite maze of fluorescent lit corridors, stained carpet, and humming lights. The deeper you go, the more it feels wrong—familiar spaces twisting into something hostile and unknowable. 8 total levels on launch.
Why similar: Realistic 18.3%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Horror 14%, Exploration 13.1%, Strategy 12.4%
You've found yourself alone in the darkness lost and afraid. There are boobie traps and human remains all around you, echoing through the ruins you hear scuttling and grunts from a creature you've never heard before. The only way out is to travel deeper into the maze and hope it doesn't hear you
Why similar: Survival Horror 20%, Realistic 13.9%, Strategy 13%, Horror 10.8%, Dark 9.9%
Find the 5 keys and survive to escape the house.
Why similar: Survival Horror 24.2%, Logic 16%, Puzzle 15.5%, Strategy 12.5%, First-Person 11.3%
A childhood friend has been missing for as long as you can remember. You decide to investigate the abandoned town in which he used to live only to find something truly unexpected and even more so unexplainable. Have you got what it takes to find out what happened to Chris Williams?
Why similar: Survival Horror 22%, Strategy 20.5%, Horror 12.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Exploration 8.7%
Family man Philip Oakes wakes up with a piercing headache, unable to remember his past. Dazed, he explores an old home, receiving guidance from a caller on the phone. As Philip walks through the familiar rooms, he uncovers a reality better left forgotten.
Why similar: Strategy 26.9%, Puzzle 14.3%, Horror 13.3%, Realistic 12.2%, First-Person 12.1%
He thought the past was forgotten. Now every face he hurt returns in his dreams. In these nightmares there's no salvation — only reflection of his own actions. Live through the torments of suffering. Find a way out... if it even exists.
Why similar: Strategy 25.2%, Puzzle 14%, Exploration 13.7%, Realistic 11.2%, First-Person 10.5%
Poofie Plays God is an Indie Open world Puzzle game where you'll have to lower the curse binding you in the forest and escape before he or the others kill you.
Why similar: Survival Horror 13.8%, Realistic 13.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Puzzle 12.4%, Horror 10.9%
You get a call to go to your friend's house, but then things start to take a horrible turn....
Why similar: Strategy 25.9%, Puzzle 17%, Horror 17%, First-Person 13.3%, Mystery 12.8%
The city begins to fold! Find the key items that will help you escape before it's too late!
Why similar: Strategy 35.6%, Puzzle 15.8%, Exploration 12.8%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Horror 8.8%
A short horror game where you sort shipping containers in a warehouse.
Why similar: Strategy 48.6%, Puzzle 20.1%, First-Person 16.9%, Horror 13.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
This game is made my students from De Montfort University over approximately 7 weeks. You have been invited, but not by your own will, rescue your best friend before HE finds you. Delve into this first-person single-player puzzle game and experience horror segments mixed with challenging gameplay!
Why similar: Strategy 21.2%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Horror 11.8%, Puzzle 11.2%, Dark 8.8%
The Silence After is a first-person atmospheric horror game where you play as a blind sole survivor following a distress signal through an apocalyptic reality, interacting with the environment and using your synesthetic ability to perceive sound as color to progress and avoid death.
Why similar: Strategy 49.5%, Exploration 18.2%, Horror 15.6%, First-Person 15.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Void Protocol is a single-player horror adventure game set in the eerie future. Solve interesting puzzles, while hiding from insidious horrors waiting for you in the shadows.
Why similar: Strategy 19.8%, Realistic 13.9%, Puzzle 12.6%, Exploration 10.9%, First-Person 10.3%
A short game about untangling puzzles
Why similar: Strategy 32.2%, Puzzle 19.6%, Logic 19.3%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 9.8%
This is a mildly scary puzzle escape game. You are trapped in a strange space and the message on the wall is your only clue to escape. Pressing the wrong button will loop, can you solve the button puzzle to escape?
Why similar: Strategy 38.9%, Puzzle 16.9%, Exploration 13.8%, First-Person 12.2%, Logic 8.2%
Days after your daughter vanishes, an anonymous note says she’s trapped in an abandoned indoor playground. You break in. It’s dark, rotten, silent. As you search the ruins, something watches you. You’re not alone and it knows you’re there.
Why similar: Puzzle 14.3%, Survival Horror 14%, Strategy 13.6%, Horror 11.7%, Dark 11.7%
A horror adventure game following Rosanna, a thief tasked with breaking into Ravens Rest state park and retrieving and experiment. Things quickly take a turn however, as she discovers what the true nature of the experiment had in store.
Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, Puzzle 14.5%, Realistic 12.9%, Exploration 11.9%, Survival Horror 10%
You're trapped in the dark with a killer psychopath. You must escape by solving clues, unlocking doors and completing puzzles. You only have 5 lives! NEW story mode added!
Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, Puzzle 15.6%, Realistic 13.3%, First-Person 11.4%, Survival Horror 9.6%
"Toast" is a game where players must use problem-solving skills to escape a randomly generated maze while being chased by a deadly humanoid piece of toast. The game features challenging puzzles, randomly generated levels, and endless hours of excitement.
Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Puzzle 15.3%, Realistic 12.6%, First-Person 11%, Survival Horror 10.5%
As a firefighter, your mission is to put out a fire in a house. However, the debris from the fire blocks your path. You'll need to make full use of the room's mechanisms and the items you pick up to reach the fire source and successfully extinguish it.
Why similar: Strategy 34.8%, Puzzle 15.6%, Exploration 12.7%, Horror 11.5%, Survival Horror 10.7%
Welcome to IDeal, a 3D horror game where you have to escape from a school with unknown anomalies. Follow the peculiar guidelines and rules of conduct, and never forget to approach everything with caution.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.7%, Horror 15.1%, Dark 13.9%, Mystery 12.9%, First-Person 10.2%
Five Nights At Monkeys: Flat Mode is a flat screen horror experience where every night is different. Survive roaming monsters, manage tricky power systems, and face sudden jumpscares across forests, canyons, cities, and dark mines.
Why similar: Strategy 51.7%, Survival Horror 25.9%, Horror 17.9%, Indie 2.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Cory wakes up several years into the future, everything has changed and his friends are missing. Complete puzzles, hide from monsters, explore the world around you and try to find what happened and where your friends are.
Why similar: Puzzle 19.3%, Exploration 15.7%, Realistic 15.7%, First-Person 13.8%, Survival Horror 13%
Escape The Buildings is a tense escape game where you search rooms for hidden keys, crack color and number codes, and solve clever puzzles to break free. Every door hides a new challenge—can you escape before it’s too late?
Why similar: Strategy 43.2%, Puzzle 18.5%, First-Person 13.1%, Logic 12.7%, Horror 10%
Discover the mystery behind Marcus Circus, the world's first circus with infinite energy generated by a mysterious crystal. You will have to try to survive by hiding, exploring, and solving puzzles.
Why similar: Survival Horror 27.5%, Puzzle 16.2%, Horror 15.2%, First-Person 13.7%, Realistic 11.2%
You are kidnapped and locked up in Jail. Can you escape? Well, it's not gonna be easy when the Evil Officer is roaming around!
Why similar: Survival Horror 20%, Realistic 17.2%, Strategy 14.3%, First-Person 12.5%, Horror 12.2%
ターボババア | Turbo Granny is a survival horror game based on an urban legend about a high-speed old woman. Escape the mysterious mansion while being chased by the terrifyingly fast Turbo Granny.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.7%, Strategy 21.2%, Horror 19.9%, First-Person 16.4%, Puzzle 12.5%
The Secret of Whispering is a psychological horror puzzle game. The player is lured into an abandoned house by mysterious calls. As he explores the eerie property, he uncovers dark secrets and is drawn into a maelstrom of puzzles and gruesome revelations.
Why similar: Realistic 20.1%, Puzzle 20.1%, Exploration 16.4%, First-Person 15.7%, Dark 8.6%
A survival horror that takes place in a supermarket. Collect all the items on your shopping list and make it out alive.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30%, Strategy 28.8%, Horror 16.4%, Dark 12.7%, First-Person 10.4%
In this game, players will play the role of Afdal, a person whose fate is the opposite of Rahmad's, so one night Rahmad asks Afdal to help look after the house, but unfortunately, everything is not fine, because of the terror that Afdal is experiencing.
Why similar: Strategy 17.4%, Realistic 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, Exploration 9.4%
Trailkeeper is a hand-authored collection of four classic logic puzzles — Slitherlink, Masyu, Yajilin, and Hashi — set to the rhythm of a quiet woodland trail. Solve at your own pace, return for a new daily trail, and trace your way through every grid in the bank.
Why similar: Strategy 54.5%, Puzzle 22.1%, Logic 21.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
It Reaches is a first person horror game, captured through the lens of a police officer’s body cam. Trapped inside the facilities of an abandoned hospital, find a way to escape the horrors lurking underground. Uncover a dark mystery left behind and don't get caught! They will reach for you…
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.6%, Realistic 18.8%, Horror 15.7%, Mystery 10.3%, Dark 10%
Phantom Watcher is a chilling horror-strategy game. Survive the haunted hospital’s mysteries, navigating ghostly behaviors in a unique CRT aesthetic. Each playthrough is a new eerie challenge. Dare to uncover the secrets?
Why similar: Strategy 28.1%, Realistic 21%, Horror 17.9%, First-Person 13.9%, Logic 10.9%
Aboard Skyway Airlines above the Bermuda Triangle, the cabin is caught in an endless loop. Each time you walk the aisle, reality changes—small details twisting into something deeply wrong. Spot the difference just got more....DISTURBING!
Why similar: Strategy 27.7%, Puzzle 18%, Exploration 15.2%, First-Person 10.2%, Horror 9.3%
Trapped in a house that changes with every chapter. Solve puzzles, escape from your captor and uncover a psychological horror story full of unexpected twists.
Why similar: Strategy 22.8%, Puzzle 15.4%, Realistic 12.8%, Exploration 12.7%, First-Person 9.7%
Indie Horror puzzle game
Why similar: Strategy 26.1%, Survival Horror 22.6%, Horror 17.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, Dark 10.2%
Aka Manto (赤マント Red Cloak), aka Red Cape or Red Mantle, is a Japanese urban legend about a masked spirit who wears a red cloak, and who appears to people using public or school restrooms.
Why similar: Horror 20.9%, Strategy 15%, Survival Horror 14.9%, First-Person 8.7%, Exploration 8.2%
"Redemption": A spine-chilling Stealth-Puzzle in a graveyard. Navigate as a skeleton, facing rats, zombies, and gargoyles. Use bone-throwing, parrying, hover jumping. Evolve abilities by consuming foes. Can you find redemption among the undead?
Why similar: Strategy 24.7%, Puzzle 13.9%, Logic 12%, First-Person 11.6%, Horror 9%
9 Days brings a psychological horror experience where you play as a father. One time, someone kidnaps your child, and The kidnapper asks for money if he wants his child safe. In the end, you must find a way to make money as fast as possible and try to survive by hiding from them.
Why similar: Strategy 35.9%, First-Person 18.8%, Horror 17.3%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Dark 6.9%
Is a first-person perspective horror game, adapted from the producer's personal experiences and real-life events, with the story set in Tainan in 2005. Through the gaming experience, it aims to help players who have never experienced ghost pressing bed understand the fear associated with it.
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.7%, Realistic 20.6%, Horror 17%, Puzzle 13.8%, First-Person 10.5%
Horror Maze is back and even scarier than before
Why similar: Strategy 38.3%, Realistic 13.7%, Exploration 13.6%, First-Person 12%, Survival Horror 11.5%
Killer Karnival is a first-person survival horror stealth game where players are trapped in an abandoned carnival and hunted by killer clowns, each with unique senses. The player must escape by solving puzzles while remaining hidden to avoid becoming the carnival's next victim.
Why similar: Strategy 23.7%, Realistic 14.7%, Puzzle 14.2%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Exploration 11.7%
The House Dreams Along With Them is a first person puzzle adventure with an emphasis on interactivity and logic. Sleep and dream in the rooms of a mysterious house. Solve the puzzles to make the dreams real and take a step towards the enigmatic reification of night.
Why similar: Puzzle 17.6%, Realistic 14.6%, Exploration 14.5%, Logic 14.5%, Mystery 12.5%
Three friends known as The Ghost Hunters are documenting abandoned locations. What begins as a normal episode suddenly turns into a nightmare inside The Holloway Mansion. Something terrifying happens, leaving Jack to survive alone in the mansion and face the horrors.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.7%, Horror 15.3%, First-Person 12.8%, Mystery 10.6%, Puzzle 10%
Mr. Scientist is a single player horror game. You are a hostage of a mad scientist and now you need to escape from his house.
Why similar: Strategy 40.4%, Puzzle 17.5%, First-Person 14.6%, Survival Horror 7.6%, Adventure 7.1%
You're a regular employee of department 14. One day, after falling asleep at your desk, you wake up and notice that all the other workers have left early and you are alone in the department.
Why similar: Logic 16.4%, Realistic 15.5%, Puzzle 14.7%, Horror 13.1%, First-Person 12.9%
A first person detective game inspired by return of obra dinn where you have to interact with various items inside a house and unlock old memories to rebuild your Family Tree.
Why similar: Strategy 25.1%, Puzzle 16.8%, Exploration 15.2%, Realistic 13.1%, First-Person 13%
Trapped in a condemned building, you must escape before the earthquakes and collapses bring a tragic end. Survive the tremors, find essential items, and flee! Each tremor is a new challenge in this fight for survival. Time is running out... Can you escape?
Why similar: Realistic 19.5%, Survival Horror 18.8%, First-Person 16.1%, Strategy 16%, Horror 14.1%
Discover the truth about winderfield, the ghost town and solve the mysteries.
Why similar: Strategy 32%, Horror 16.9%, Puzzle 13.8%, Logic 10%, First-Person 9.8%
You must survive a monster infested zoo while searching for key shards that unlock the truth to its origin. Collect all the key shards by solving puzzles throughout the grounds and put a stop to the monster mayhem.
Why similar: Realistic 18.1%, Puzzle 16.7%, Exploration 15.7%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 13.6%
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.7%, Realistic 13.7%, Horror 12.8%, First-Person 12.1%, Puzzle 11.1%
Angelica's Chaotic Hardcore School is an Indie Horror Game inspired by Baldi's Basics in Education & Learning, featuring a young girl named Emily in a Chaotic School with 5 different floors. From Solving Math Problems to discovering new Science Experiments. Different Knowledge is Required!
Why similar: Strategy 25.3%, Puzzle 15.1%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 11.1%
It's 2016. Explore through your house in the middle of the night and complete your chores before the water you put on the stove starts boiling. Sounds easy, right? If only you hadn't said things you would soon regret.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.1%, Strategy 20.2%, Horror 17.2%, First-Person 15.3%, Exploration 14.1%
While urban exploring a long-forgotten bakery, the floor collapses beneath you and traps you underground. Now you must find a way out — as it seems something else has been trapped down there all this time.
Why similar: Strategy 24%, Puzzle 14.9%, Exploration 12.5%, First-Person 11.8%, Survival Horror 9.9%
The Visit puts you in control of Terry Mason, a strong minded tradesman who is vigorously a non believer when it comes to anything spiritual, after he agrees to a bet for $1,000 to stay in a haunted Manor House for 1 night, he sets off on a life changing event.
Why similar: Strategy 18.7%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Realistic 12.4%, Puzzle 11.9%, Horror 11.9%