- #1 WORLD OF HORROR
97% matchVery Positive90% of 9,764 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Horror 15.9%, Roguelite 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Roguelike 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A perfect match for pixel-art horror that utilizes roguelite mechanics and turn-based combat to deliver a Lovecraftian experience.
- #2 Fear & Hunger
96% matchVery Positive94% of 21,597 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.1 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 22.7%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Turn-Based Combat 20.8%, RPG 15.7%, Roguelike 10%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the brutal, unforgiving turn-based RPG combat and dark, surreal atmosphere found in NO-SKIN.
- #3 Inscryption
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,872 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 23.1%, Roguelite 22.6%, Surreal 22.3%, Roguelike 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines roguelite deckbuilding with a meta-narrative and unsettling psychological horror elements.
- #4 EMPTY SHELL
95% matchVery Positive88% of 804 reviews2023
Dev: CC ARTSPub: Hyperstrange
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Why similar: Roguelite 30.9%, Roguelike 25.3%, Horror 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Atmospheric 8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down horror roguelite that emphasizes tense, strategic combat and atmospheric exploration.
- #5 Darkest Dungeon®
94% matchVery Positive92% of 159,462 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 40.7%, Roguelike 23%, RPG 13%, Roguelite 9.2%, Horror 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for turn-based strategy and resource management within a gothic, psychological horror setting.
- #6 Void Stranger
94% matchVery Positive91% of 3,399 reviews2023
Dev: System Erasure
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Place your faith and embrace the Void.
Why similar: Mystery 50.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, 2D 11.2%, Psychological Horror 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in deep, cryptic mystery and puzzle-solving that rewards players for uncovering hidden layers.
- #7 Pathologic 2
93% matchVery Positive92% of 12,002 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Surreal 38.4%, Psychological Horror 28.2%, RPG 17.4%, Atmospheric 15.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep mystery and intense resource management in a surreal, oppressive world where every choice matters.
- #8 Withering Rooms
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,474 reviews2024
Dev: Moonless FormlessPub: Perp Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Withering Rooms is a challenging 2.5D horror RPG set in a procedurally generated Victorian mansion that changes each night. Explore Mostyn House to collect the perfect items for your build and face a huge cast of overgrown undead, invisible ghosts, devious witches, and more.
Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Mystery 23.1%, Procedural Generation 22.2%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, RPG 7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2.5D horror game that excels at mystery, exploration, and building a sense of dread.
- #9 LISA: The Painful
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 15,017 reviews2014
Dev: Dingaling ProductionsPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.1%, Horror 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, RPG 16.5%, Atmospheric 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, dark RPG that balances bizarre humor with profound psychological horror and difficult strategic decisions.
- #10 OMORI
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 86,619 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Horror 12.6%, RPG 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror RPG that uses a unique art style to explore deep, surreal trauma and mystery.
- #11 House
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,128 reviews2020
Dev: Bark Bark Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Surreal 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Psychological Horror 8%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art horror game that uses roguelite elements to create a tense, multi-ending experience.
- #12 Ib
89% 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: Surreal 18.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic pixel-art horror game that focuses on exploration and unsettling, surreal storytelling.
- #13 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: Psychological Horror 36.4%, Female Protagonist 26.1%, Mystery 23.4%, Atmospheric 14%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply atmospheric psychological horror experience with a distinct, stylized aesthetic.
- #14 Night Loops
88% matchVery Positive89% of 163 reviews2023
Dev: JiaquariumPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20%, Horror 15.7%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses pixel art to tell a surreal, story-rich mystery.
- #15 Cursed Mansion
87% matchVery Positive90% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Dragon Emperors
Windows
Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.9%, Mystery 15%, Horror 14.8%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Female Protagonist 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: An RPG Maker horror game that emphasizes multiple endings and meaningful choices.
- #16 Cultist Simulator
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,856 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Resource Management 24.7%, Roguelite 22.5%, Roguelike 20.9%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, RPG 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven resource management game that focuses on occult mystery and psychological dread.
- #17 Library Of Ruina
84% matchVery Positive94% of 42,198 reviews2021
Dev: ProjectMoon
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 31.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.4%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 12.8%, RPG 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game with a dark, complex narrative and deep tactical combat mechanics.
- #18 Deadnaut: Signal Lost
85% matchVery Positive87% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Linux
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.9%, Roguelike 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Horror 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactics roguelike that captures the feeling of isolation and resource management in a hostile environment.
- #19 Dungeon No Dungeon
86% matchMixed58% of 505 reviews2021
Dev: 302 StudioPub: 302 GAMES INC
Windows · Mac
Dungeon No Dungeon is a turn-based roguelike game with a unique hand-drawn art style, with a strategy system based around body parts that you've likely never encountered before.
Why similar: Roguelite 28.3%, Turn-Based Combat 24.7%, Roguelike 23.4%, RPG 14.1%, Atmospheric 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic RPG that incorporates roguelite elements and dark fantasy themes.
- #20 Inkshade
82% matchVery Positive88% of 612 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Vezelle
Windows
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Roguelite 20.1%, Roguelike 15.3%, Turn-Based Combat 14.6%, Horror 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactics roguelite that focuses on atmospheric board-game style mechanics.
- #21 ZERO PROTOCOL
83% matchVery Positive84% of 597 reviews2024
Dev: R_Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this immersive sci-fi thriller, you will experience the atmosphere of classic 3D games as you solve puzzles, follow an intriguing non-linear storyline, and engage in battles with monsters.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, Mystery 18.3%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Horror 12.2%, Stylized 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that focuses on atmospheric exploration and psychological tension.
- #22 SUNLESS SEA
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,506 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Why similar: Roguelike 24.6%, Horror 20.6%, Roguelite 18.4%, RPG 17.4%, Atmospheric 14.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features complex resource management and a haunting, surreal mystery set in a dark, atmospheric world.
- #23 Endless Dark
81% matchVery Positive99% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: Little Light Studios, LLC
Windows · Linux
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.
Why similar: Roguelite 24.2%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Roguelike 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror roguelite that balances dark humor with a tense, atmospheric narrative.
- #24 SHINONOME : Rainy Night Manor
82% matchVery Positive95% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: WODAN, Inc.
Windows · Mac
A haunted house where ghosts and vengeful spirits lurk around every corner. Your courage and wit will be put to the test in order to survive. Use trails and sounds as clues to progress in this exciting new roguelike escape game.
Why similar: Roguelite 34.3%, Horror 25%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Procedural Generation 9%, 2D 8%
Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelite that blends puzzle-solving with survival horror elements.
- #25 At Home Alone Final
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,988 reviews2021
Dev: 阿正不经Pub: Peanut Bear Studio
Windows
A casual healing rpg that takes players on a journey around the house from the perspective of a young girl, what does she do when she's home alone? What strange things will you come across in the process, and while exploring, perhaps... What other strange secrets might you discover?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 17.4%, Mystery 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art RPG that leans heavily into psychological horror and surreal themes.
- #26 Barotrauma
78% matchVery Positive94% of 86,224 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Why similar: Horror 61.4%, 2D 21.4%, Psychological Horror 17.2%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes resource management game that thrives on the psychological horror of isolation and survival.
- #27 Hylics 2
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,455 reviews2020
Dev: Mason Lindroth
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.
Why similar: Surreal 41%, Turn-Based Combat 25.9%, RPG 17.8%, Stylized 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 5%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, claymation-style RPG that shares the experimental art and offbeat tone of NO-SKIN.
- #28 Without a Dawn
77% matchVery Positive93% of 757 reviews2025
Dev: Jesse Makkonen
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Mystery 18.5%, Horror 15.4%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #29 Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 562 reviews2025
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.2%, Surreal 15%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 8.9%, Female Protagonist 8%
- #30 Mundaun
78% matchVery Positive93% of 1,446 reviews2021
Dev: Hidden FieldsPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Why similar: Surreal 23.8%, Psychological Horror 21%, Mystery 18%, Horror 17.3%, Stylized 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-penciled horror game that offers a surreal, unsettling mystery set in a unique, isolated location.
- #31 This is Interesting
76% matchVery Positive99% of 80 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: Roguelite 22.1%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Mystery 16.6%, Horror 11.6%, RPG 11.2%
- #32 Noir Syndrome
81% matchMixed67% of 183 reviews2014
Dev: Glass Knuckle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir.
Why similar: RPG 34.3%, Procedural Generation 24.7%, Pixel Graphics 20.7%, Mystery 20.3%
Why You'll Like It: A detective-themed RPG that uses procedural generation to create unique mystery scenarios.
- #33 House of Necrosis
75% matchVery Positive95% of 555 reviews2025
Dev: Warkus
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A turn-based horror RPG with retro 32-bit 3D graphics. Survive the horrors of the mansion that changes every time you enter.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.8%, Horror 16.2%, Roguelike 15.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, RPG 11.3%
- #34 The last door
79% match6 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: AlekseyPub: AlekseyN
Windows
You control a combat robot. Your task is to go through the maze, destroy all the enemy robots and get to the finish line. The passages to the other rooms of the maze are littered with stones. You need to use bombs to free the passages.
Why similar: Hidden Object 85.9%, Atmospheric 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art horror game that excels at building a sense of mystery through its atmospheric, low-fidelity visuals.
- #35 The Rule Of SHE
76% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: HaiBin studio
Windows
A wandering soul mistakenly enters a world of strange tales and odd rules. Beware! This place is fraught with danger. To complete reincarnation, you must toe the line. Any soul that dares to go against the system will face correction. Will you comply—or defy?
Why similar: Surreal 16.1%, Horror 15.8%, Mystery 15.4%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #36 Out Of Hands
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,493 reviews2025
Dev: Game River
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Out of Hands is a bizarre card-based adventure game that blends video-collage graphics with gripping psychological horror. Will you seek the truth lurking in this wicked, warped world—and can you bear its weight? Misty memories threaten to tear you apart, contorting you into a being... Out of Hands.
Why similar: Surreal 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #37 Wicked Seed
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,001 reviews2026
Dev: Dead Right Games
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A modern-day horror RPG with tactical combat and survival horror roots. Customize your loadout, manage limited resources, and exploit enemy weaknesses in tense, strategic encounters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 28.9%, Female Protagonist 20.9%, Horror 17.2%, RPG 14.9%, Mystery 12.1%
- #38 Look Outside
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,602 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 15.1 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: Turn-Based Combat 25.4%, Horror 21.7%, RPG 20%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Mystery 7.2%
- #39 Sorry We're Open
75% matchVery Positive94% of 140 reviews2023
Dev: oates
Windows
Sorry, We're Open is a Supermarket Management Horror RPG. As the new Manager of your local supermarket, you'll need to make the hard decisions to keep the store running. Remember, your store's reputation and your employees' livelihoods are in your hands.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Roguelite 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Roguelike 12.5%, Horror 11.6%
- #40 Seek
74% matchVery Positive83% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: cloud_li
Windows
In this game, you play as Alice, an girl trapped in a twisted, ever-changing world. Survive a frozen orphanage filled with lurking horrors, eerie classical music, and unsolved mysteries. Scavenge, evade monsters, and uncover the truth. But can you face the brutal reality—or remain trapped forever?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.4%, Inventory Management 16.6%, Horror 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #41 You Are NOT Bunnygirl
73% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: (Just)JordanPub: Jordan Peloquin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Guide Bunnygirl through a lab of malfunctioning robots in this RPG about self-care! Learn how to weaponize her emotions in combat and meet unhinged robots who seem to know more about her than she does. Can you protect Bunnygirl? And...who is she, anyway??
Why similar: Surreal 20.7%, Turn-Based Combat 20.4%, Psychological Horror 16%, Horror 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #42 No Ghost in Sky Elevator
73% matchVery Positive99% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Midori Games / みどりげーむず
Windows
It is a strange high-rise elevator. The objects that appear and the people you board are all strange. Depending on your actions, you will face a variety of consequences.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Hidden Object 20.8%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Surreal 13.8%
- #43 SHINONOME ABYSS The Maiden Exorcist
71% matchVery Positive82% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: WODAN,Inc.Pub: KADOKAWA CORPORATION
Windows · Mac
Use your supply of items and traps to survive in a mansion haunted by yokai and vengeful spirits as shrine maiden Yono in this strategy roguelike horror action game!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 26.9%, Roguelike 26.8%, RPG 17%, Horror 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
- #44 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,607 reviews2022
Dev: Miro Haverinen
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
F&H 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 20.1%, Turn-Based Combat 17.3%, RPG 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #45 Encounter: The Lost Cards
71% matchVery Positive84% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Salvatore GrossoPub: Encounter GG
Windows · Linux
The unhinged roguelike for the tactically obsessed. Forget maps—your journey is a deck of Tarot cards you build on the fly. Manage a tight inventory, chain questionable combos, and watch your gear shatter. Got unlucky? The virtuous can resurrect; the sinful, however...
Why similar: Resource Management 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Roguelike 13.3%, Roguelite 13%, Inventory Management 11.4%
- #46 Subversive Memories
70% matchVery Positive97% of 104 reviews2026
Dev: Southward Studio
Windows
Subversive Memories is a story driven survival horror set in Brazil during the last military dictatorship. Explore the backrooms of an oppressive regime, escape ominous presences and scavenge every corner of this land in search of your ██████.
Why similar: Resource Management 18.9%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Mystery 16.1%, Horror 13.8%, Female Protagonist 13.6%
- #47 No Delivery
72% matchVery Positive99% of 69 reviews2023
Dev: oates
Windows
No Delivery is a procedurally generated CRPG, pizzeria simulator where you are the newest in a long line of employees for a local decrepit pizza parlor. Despite the rumors and shady history, you sign up for the night shift… Luckily, it’ll just be a boring job in an empty pizzeria… right?
Why similar: Roguelike 17%, Horror 16%, Roguelite 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, RPG 9.8%
- #48 Red Line
71% matchVery Positive97% of 185 reviews2023
Dev: Rolling Cat StudioPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world. A thrilling adventure taking place across multiple timelines ensues.
Why similar: Mystery 19.1%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Hidden Object 15.1%, RPG 12.9%, Horror 12.9%
- #49 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
68% matchVery Positive94% of 3,517 reviews2024
Dev: High North Studios ASPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 41.4%, Horror 29.4%, Atmospheric 15.8%, RPG 13.3%
- #50 THE SPIRIT LIFT
68% matchVery Positive94% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: prettysmart games
Windows
A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 17.4%, Roguelite 16.8%, Roguelike 15.2%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Horror 12.5%
- #51 Afterdream
69% 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: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Surreal 16.1%, Horror 15.2%, Mystery 12.1%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
- #52 Draft of Darkness
68% matchVery Positive93% of 358 reviews2023
Dev: Crawly Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Procedural Generation 21.6%, Roguelike 15.4%, Resource Management 15%, Horror 14.2%
- #53 The Room Syndrome
69% matchVery Positive95% of 362 reviews2019
Dev: Jesse CarradinePub: Jesse Carradine?
Windows
Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.6%, Multiple Endings 22.1%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Stylized 11.2%
- #54 THYSIASTERY
66% matchVery Positive81% of 266 reviews2026
Dev: DIRGA
Windows · Linux
THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrinth in hope of finding a way out, and its secrets will be revealed as you delve deeper.
Why similar: Roguelite 16.8%, Roguelike 16.5%, Turn-Based Combat 15.3%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, RPG 10.2%
- #55 Violated Princess
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: Entropy Digital Entertainment
Windows
Violated Princess is an intense, mature-themed roguelike survivor game where waves of relentless enemies threaten to consume both body and soul
Why similar: Roguelike 38.5%, Female Protagonist 26.2%, RPG 22.3%, 2D 7.4%, Atmospheric 5.6%
- #56 Subway Exorcist Girl
67% matchVery Positive83% of 307 reviews2025
Dev: 纤指游戏Pub: Delicate Fingers
Windows
A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.
Why similar: Roguelite 22.4%, Horror 18.8%, Mystery 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Roguelike 15.1%
- #57 Our Elusive Suffering
69% matchMixed66% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: 👁️Pub: ⚰️
Windows
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Why similar: Surreal 35.5%, Horror 25.3%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Stylized 13.6%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #58 Tren0
70% 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: Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Surreal 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, RPG 11.2%
- #59 Free Will
65% matchVery Positive97% of 344 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 31.1%, Horror 20.5%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Mystery 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%
- #60 Entity Researchers: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: Roguelite 16.4%, Surreal 15.8%, Roguelike 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Procedural Generation 12.7%