- #1 That's not my Neighbor
97% matchVery Positive89% of 4,759 reviews2025
Dev: Nachosama Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.9%, Horror 20.4%, Thriller 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It most directly mirrors the seed’s central tension by having you scrutinize visitors’ identities and decide who may enter while impostors hide among ordinary people.
- #2 Who's at the door?
96% matchVery Positive90% of 1,646 reviews2025
Dev: SKONEC Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.
Why similar: Horror 19.7%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Thriller 12.9%, Mystery 9.8%, First-Person 9%
Why You'll Like It: This horror game similarly builds dread around encounters at your door, uncertain identities, and the risk of making the wrong judgment.
- #3 Static Dread: The Lighthouse
96% matchVery Positive91% of 1,533 reviews2025
Dev: solarsuit.gamesPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
Why similar: Psychological 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Psychedelic 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This bleak, choice-driven horror game puts you in an isolated post where strange communications and desperate visitors demand careful, unnerving decisions.
- #4 The Cabin Factory
95% matchVery Positive91% of 3,821 reviews2024
Dev: International Cat StudiosPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Horror 25.1%, Choices Matter 19%, First-Person 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its anomaly-inspection loop asks you to notice subtle wrongness in ordinary spaces, closely matching the seed’s suspicious pattern-recognition tension.
- #5 Home Safety Hotline
94% matchVery Positive91% of 2,959 reviews2024
Dev: Night Signal Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
Why similar: Horror 32.4%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Mystery 13%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: You use a surreal consumer-help hotline database to identify dangerous household phenomena, creating the same procedural paranoia and fear of bad advice.
- #6 Papers, Please
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 80,633 reviews2013
Dev: Lucas PopePub: 3909
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 24.2%, Indie 14.8%, Story Rich 13.1%, Simulation 12.2%, Retro 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its document-inspection gameplay and morally costly admission decisions make every small visual inconsistency feel consequential.
- #7 Mouthwashing
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,851 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological 11.1%, Narrative 10.4% ★, Gore 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an intensely oppressive psychological-horror narrative about isolation, guilt, and distrust among a trapped crew.
- #8 Not Tonight
93% matchVery Positive82% of 2,794 reviews2018
Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.
Why similar: Simulation 30.8%, Multiple Endings 24.6%, Story Rich 16.2%, Retro 11.6%, Indie 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Working as a bouncer requires checking guests against increasingly oppressive rules, offering a grounded dystopian version of deciding who gets through the door.
- #9 While We Wait Here
91% matchVery Positive89% of 2,471 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Horror 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Mystery 8%
Why You'll Like It: A contained end-of-the-world horror story where conversations and player choices shape outcomes, with escalating dread beneath ordinary hospitality work.
- #10 Shift 87
91% matchVery Positive86% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: PixelsplitPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Your task today: Memorize your environment and report any anomalies. Good luck with your shift! "Shift 87" is an observation horror game with subtle anomalies and unsettling occurrences.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Thriller 18.1%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 9.9%, Mystery 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: You repeatedly patrol and inspect an office for tiny reality-breaking anomalies, delivering concentrated observation-based unease.
- #11 I'm on Observation Duty
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,258 reviews2019
Dev: Notovia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39%, Horror 36.9%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Monitoring surveillance feeds for unsettling changes captures the same pressure of spotting an inhuman or impossible detail before it is too late.
- #12 Stay Out of the House
89% matchVery Positive94% of 1,893 reviews2022
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
Why similar: Horror 32.3%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Retro 17.2%, First-Person 11%, Atmospheric 11%
Why You'll Like It: This tense immersive survival-horror game emphasizes hiding, escaping, and feeling vulnerable inside a hostile domestic setting.
- #13 Not For Broadcast
88% matchVery Positive94% of 12,711 reviews2022
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Why similar: Choices Matter 26.4%, Multiple Endings 22.4%, Story Rich 14.3%, Atmospheric 11%, First-Person 11%
Why You'll Like It: Operating a live propaganda broadcast forces fast decisions about what information and people the public is allowed to see during a collapsing political crisis.
- #14 Beholder
89% matchVery Positive92% of 31,198 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Choices Matter 24.9%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Dark 17.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, Atmospheric 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: As a landlord in a totalitarian state, you spy on tenants, investigate suspicious behavior, and make harsh choices with personal consequences.
- #15 Killer Frequency
87% matchVery Positive93% of 6,238 reviews2023
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Choices Matter 19%, Multiple Endings 16%, Story Rich 11.4%, First-Person 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: You must assess callers and give potentially life-or-death instructions during a nighttime slasher scenario, making limited information feel terrifyingly consequential.
- #16 DEAD LETTER DEPT.
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,864 reviews2025
Dev: Mike MonroePub: Belief Engine
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 20%, Mystery 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Dark 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Deciphering increasingly disturbing undeliverable mail turns routine clerical work into a slow-burn horror mystery about hidden threats.
- #17 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,471 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.7%, Choices Matter 26.9%, Horror 19.3%, Story Rich 11.3%, First-Person 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its branching psychological horror repeatedly asks whether you can trust a stranger, yourself, or the narrative framing your choices.
- #18 The Mortuary Assistant
85% matchVery Positive92% of 8,787 reviews2022
Dev: DarkStone DigitalPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Why similar: Horror 40.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Thriller 11.3%, Dark 9.8%, Atmospheric 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its mortuary procedures conceal demonic ambiguity, requiring you to search bodies and your surroundings for signs of the entity threatening you.
- #19 THRESHOLD
84% matchVery Positive85% of 1,354 reviews2024
Dev: Julien EveilléPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 13.4%, Thriller 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Dark 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its surreal first-person horror uses an isolating workplace and oppressive rules to create a similarly disorienting, dangerous atmosphere.
- #20 Tiny Bunny
82% matchVery Positive83% of 30,684 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Why similar: Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Dark 13.4%, Gore 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: This dark branching horror visual novel combines rural dread, ambiguous supernatural threats, and choices that affect multiple outcomes.
- #21 Who's Lila?
83% matchVery Positive94% of 3,836 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: Psychological Horror 25.1%, Horror 21.6%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal horror mystery makes conversation itself a puzzle, requiring you to manipulate facial expressions and parse unreliable people to uncover the truth.
- #22 Kiosk
82% matchVery Positive88% of 2,914 reviews2025
Dev: Vivi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.
Why similar: Horror 25.8%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, First-Person 8.8%, Mystery 8.5%, Dark 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its ordinary food-service routine is steadily corrupted by unsettling customers and psychological horror, making everyday interactions feel unsafe.
- #23 Look Outside
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,918 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Horror 41.3%, Gore 20.7%, Dark 13.2%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Mystery 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal survival horror RPG traps you in an apartment building during a grotesque catastrophe, where venturing outside and trusting others are both dangerous.
- #24 The Shapeshifting Detective
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,715 reviews2018
Dev: D'Avekki Studios LtdPub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Shapeshifting Detective is a supernatural murder mystery FMV game where you play as a detective who can shapeshift into other characters, allowing you to unlock secret conversations and private encounters.
Why similar: Choices Matter 41.7%, Mystery 21.7%, Story Rich 13.7%, Indie 12.2%, Horror 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This supernatural detective story centers on interrogating suspects and identifying a shapeshifter, making distrust and reading people its core appeal.
- #25 The Exit 8
81% matchVery Positive93% of 11,657 reviews2023
Dev: KOTAKE CREATEPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 23.2%, Psychological 17.1%, First-Person 11.6%, Mystery 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A mundane underground passage becomes an anxiety-inducing anomaly hunt where survival depends on noticing the smallest impossible detail.
- #26 Darkwood
81% matchVery Positive95% of 25,035 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 18.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14%, Dark 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive survival horror and nighttime home defense evoke the seed’s fear of shelter becoming fragile against an unknowable outside threat.
- #27 Don't Play This
77% matchVery Positive84% of 1,106 reviews2026
Dev: AdmiaPub: Notex
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Gore 14.3%, Horror 13.9%, Thriller 11%, Mystery 9.1%
- #28 [Bober Bros] No Means Nothing
77% matchVery Positive95% of 432 reviews2025
Dev: BOBER BROS
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Thriller 7.9%
- #29 The Closing Shift
79% matchMixed66% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Bird Box Games
Windows
A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.
Why similar: Psychological 21.3%, Horror 18.8%, Psychological Horror 17%, Dark 15.1%, Thriller 14.5%
Why You'll Like It: A lonely late-night job gradually becomes a stalking nightmare, capturing the seed’s escalating suspicion of seemingly normal strangers.
- #30 Welcome to the Game II
79% matchVery Positive84% of 3,536 reviews2018
Dev: Reflect Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Welcome to the Game II is an atmospheric horror / strategy / puzzle game that takes you into the world of the deep web in search of the shadow web. Play as an investigative reporter trying to solve a case of a mysterious woman broadcasting for help as masked men are on the hunt to kill her.
Why similar: Horror 36.2%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Dark 8%, First-Person 7.1%, Gore 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its surveillance-heavy investigation and invasive home-threat premise create sustained paranoia about being watched, tracked, and discovered.
- #31 Mycopsychosys: Remastered
75% matchVery Positive98% of 250 reviews2025
Dev: DeltaCat Studio Pub: DeltaCat Studio
Windows
🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?
Why similar: Horror 26.3%, Psychedelic 24.1%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, First-Person 11.9%, Atmospheric 11.2%
- #32 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
78% matchVery Positive90% of 15,585 reviews2016
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Why similar: Choices Matter 67.1%, Simulation 18.2%, Mystery 4%, Story Rich 3.7%, Multiple Endings 3%
Why You'll Like It: Its surveillance-driven investigation asks you to infer dangerous truths about people from fragments of data while weighing the harm of each judgment.
- #33 Psalm 5:9-13
76% matchVery Positive84% of 2,048 reviews2024
Dev: N4bA
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 19%
"Psalm 5:9-13" is a first-person psychological horror game with VHS effect. Be careful and attentive, there is something hiding in these rooms, something is watching from the darkness.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 14.6%, Thriller 13.9%, Gore 13.5%, Mystery 9.2%
- #34 Stories Untold
78% matchVery Positive87% of 5,533 reviews2017
Dev: Screen BurnPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.5%, Horror 23.7%, Thriller 15.8%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Retro 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This anthology uses confined spaces, unreliable information, and creeping psychological dread to make simple investigative tasks deeply unsettling.
- #35 FEED IT
74% matchVery Positive84% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: Games On A ChairPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac
A first-person, PSX-style horror game about living with a monster. Do as you're told... or don't. Just be ready for the consequences.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Psychedelic 12%, Horror 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #36 SILENT BREATH
74% matchMixed68% of 1,268 reviews2026
Dev: EXODIAC STUDIOS
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness
Why similar: Horror 20.9%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Thriller 18.5%, Dark 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #37 No, I'm not a Femboy
76% matchMixed49% of 1,113 reviews2025
Dev: Pine Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 16%
The game takes place in a world on the brink of destruction. You experience all the horrors of the apocalypse in your own cozy house on the outskirts of a small town. People may knock on your door in need of your help. Will you be able to save them?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Outbreak Sim 10.4% ★, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #38 Violent Horror Stories: anthology
75% matchVery Positive82% of 620 reviews2024
Dev: IndikatorPub: Trioskaz
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
4 short horror games from different authors and in different genres. Each game is an author's vision on the theme of 'pursuit'.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.5%, Horror 22.9%, Dark 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Simulation 9.2%
- #39 Empty Gauge
72% matchNo user reviews96% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: BENTCUBE
Windows
A short, single-sitting VHS-style psychological horror game. Work the night shift at a remote gas station, return home to uncover disturbing clues, and reach one of three endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.6%, Multiple Endings 12%, Thriller 11.5%, Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #40 MiSide
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 142,774 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.5%, Horror 20.2%, Thriller 14.1%, Story Rich 11.8%, First-Person 9.8%
- #41 The Floor Above
71% matchVery Positive90% of 271 reviews2026
Dev: Swytapp Games
Windows
A claustrophobic anomaly-horror game where you can only turn, blink, and decide: is it real or not? Survive five endings and uncover Mike’s story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 12.5%, Thriller 11.1%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #42 Psalm 2
71% matchVery Positive88% of 723 reviews2026
Dev: NotexPub: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
First-person psychological horror where the elevator is the only safe place. Each floor is a new reality. Each floor has a new inhabitant. Find it to continue your descent downward.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.3%, Gore 18.1%, Horror 16.8%, Thriller 9.9%, Mystery 9.7%
- #43 Unwilling Host
72% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: HeZhiQiang
Windows
This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.5%, Horror 26.6%, Thriller 12.3%, Dark 7.2%, Retro 6.4%
- #44 No, I'm not a Voenkom
73% matchMixed46% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Pine Games
Windows
You're an ordinary factory worker, whiling away your dreary life in a nondescript small town. You had a stable job, your own apartment, mortgaged at just 89% interest, and everything was going well, until one gloomy evening, an uninvited guest knocked on your door...
Why similar: Horror 18%, Choices Matter 16%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Thriller 6.9%
- #45 DON'T SCREAM
73% matchMixed65% of 4,873 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Cybercherries
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
If you scream, you restart. A jumpscare horror simulator where you walk through a pitch black forest and escape by reaching 8:00 AM.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.2%, Horror 24.1%, Dark 12.7%, Mystery 11.5%, First-Person 9.1%
- #46 CloverPit
69% matchVery Positive90% of 26,165 reviews2025
Dev: Panik ArcadePub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Psychological 18.2%, Horror 15.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Dark 11.4%
- #47 HELLMART
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,129 reviews2026
Dev: GAZE IN GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.
Why similar: Horror 16%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Dark 11.1%
- #48 Locked in my Darkness
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Blusagi TeamPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A tense, atmospheric descent into psychological horror—trapped in a place where reality fades and fear takes hold.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Horror 18.4%, Gore 13.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Thriller 10.7%
- #49 Subliminal
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,794 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
Why similar: Thriller 17.4%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Horror 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Mystery 10.6%
- #50 Dispatch
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 184,614 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Why similar: Choices Matter 58.7%, Story Rich 28.4%, Singleplayer 5.6%, Atmospheric 4.6%, Indie 2.7%
- #51 ROUTINE
68% matchVery Positive92% of 8,522 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar SoftwarePub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22%, Thriller 17.8%, Horror 16.1%, Dark 14.9%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #52 Obey the Voice™
67% matchVery Positive86% of 777 reviews2026
Dev: svklmrtPub: Patchwork Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You are here to listen to The Voice. Do what he says. But don't listen to other voices... Obey the Voice is a pressure-driven psychological horror experience built on constant threats and rule-based challenges, where survival depends on attention, timing, and decision-making under extreme stress.
Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Dark 13.4%, Psychological 10%, Thriller 8.5%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #53 Can I Come In?
67% matchVery Positive87% of 143 reviews2026
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
Your parents have left, and you're home alone. What begins as an ordinary evening after school slowly turns into a living nightmare, where every little sound makes your heart race. Remember the most important rule: don't open the door for anyone.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.1%, Horror 24.1%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Psychological 8.2%, Dark 8%
- #54 Sally Face - Episode One
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 29,849 reviews2016
Dev: Portable Moose
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An unsettling adventure following a boy with a prosthetic face. After a string of mysterious murders, Sal and his three friends discover something truly sinister casting shadows over their small town.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Narrative 18.8% ★, Horror 15%, Dark 11.5%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #55 Horror
69% matchMixed65% of 100 reviews2026
Dev: STuNT
Windows
HORROR is a test of your logic in the face of primal fear. You are unarmed. You are vulnerable. All you have is a flashlight with a dying battery and your intellect.
Why similar: Horror 26.4%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Psychological 10.3%, First-Person 8.6%, Psychedelic 8.5%
- #56 I'm Still Here
68% matchVery Positive91% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: AIO_Games
Windows
I'M STILL HERE - is a realistic horror game with an interesting plot and horrific screamers.
Why similar: Psychological 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Thriller 15.7%, Horror 15.3%, Psychedelic 9.8%
- #57 INHUMAN
70% matchMixed63% of 113 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 16.2%, Thriller 16.1%, Horror 14.5%, Psychedelic 12.6%, Psychological 9.8%
- #58 Jumpscare Simulator: System Breach
67% matchVery Positive90% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Durultay Games
Windows
Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Horror 21%, Thriller 20.7%, Dark 15.8%, First-Person 7.4%
- #59 PAGER
66% matchVery Positive89% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: bilge
Windows
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Psychological 20.4%, Horror 19.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, First-Person 10%
- #60 Fear & Hunger
68% matchVery Positive94% of 22,918 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 26.3%, Gore 24.8%, Dark 13.1%, Atmospheric 5.5%