- #1 Pink Noise
97% matchVery Positive90% of 117 reviews2026
Dev: Somber GamesPub: Caspianborn Publishing
Windows
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?
Why similar: Horror 39.4%, Psychological Horror 21%, Mystery 19.4%, Adventure 11%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #2 NiGHT SIGNAL
96% matchVery Positive80% of 102 reviews2022
Dev: Night Signal Entertainment
Windows
NiGHT SIGNAL is a short first-person horror experience that sees you breaking in a new television set, only to find that it picks up strange signals after dark. Hand crafted from flesh and clay.
Why similar: Horror 30%, Cold War 24% ★, Mystery 15.5%, Indie 9.5%, Atmospheric 8.9%
- #3 PROZE: Enlightenment
96% matchMixed69% of 121 reviews2019
Dev: SignSine
Windows
PROZE is a VR puzzle adventure set in both past and present. It’s a story of friendship and duty, fear and dignity of the people facing the Soviet government and its echoes. Explore a Cold-War era military research facility, deal with the anomalies, solve the puzzles, and find out the answers.
Why similar: VR 26%, Horror 18.1%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 10.3%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
- #4 Red Matter
94% matchVery Positive90% of 1,169 reviews2018
Dev: Vertical Robot
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.
Why similar: Cold War 29.8% ★, VR 17.4%, Horror 13.9%, Mystery 8.9%, Adventure 7.1%
- #5 1953 - KGB Unleashed
95% matchMixed58% of 653 reviews2013
Pub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Developed by Phantomery Interactive, 1953 – KGB Unleashed is a tense and atmospheric First Person Adventure set deep within the bowels of a Soviet bunker during the Cold War. Players must uncover the dark and horrifc secrets buried within, fighting their own paranoia along the way as well as the possibility of all-too-real terrors within...
Why similar: Cold War 35.6% ★, Horror 20.9%, Adventure 12.7%, First-Person 7.1%, Indie 6.5%
- #6 Trapped
94% matchVery Positive83% of 160 reviews2019
Dev: N4bA
Windows
You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible
Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 14.7%, Mystery 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #7 Killer Frequency
91% matchVery Positive93% of 5,882 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 36%, Comedy 15.8%, Adventure 15.6%, First-Person 11.7%, Puzzle 10.9%
- #8 Signal Simulator
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,027 reviews2018
Dev: Blagovest Penev
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signal .Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive control in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. Manage and Maintain an electrical system to improve your systems and make it more efficient.
Why similar: Horror 39.8%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, Indie 23.1%, Atmospheric 5.7%, First-Person 5.1%
- #9 In Fear I Trust
93% matchMixed50% of 60 reviews2016
Dev: Black Wing FoundationPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 47%
In Fear I Trust is a critically acclaimed first-person horror adventure. Explore eerie locations, solve puzzles and unravel the dark truth behind a secret soviet experiment in this story-driven psychological thriller.
Why similar: Cold War 28.5% ★, Horror 21.9%, VR 15.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #10 HINGE VR
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 202 reviews2020
Dev: Arcadia
Windows
HINGE is a psychological horror VR adventure. You suddenly find yourself in an abandoned skyscraper, devoid of all your senses and memories. The laws of physics are distorted, and time has collapsed. The only way out is to step into the terrifying unknown and piece together the fragmented clues
Why similar: VR 21.4%, Horror 21.4%, Mystery 11.7%, Surreal 11.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
- #11 Interference: Dead Air
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Fear of CornPub: V Publishing
Windows
All hell's breaking loose in a mysterious research facility and the only person who can save the day is the night shift security guard in the booth outside. Remotely control systems, guide scientists to safety or just… goof off? You’re not in danger. Yet.
Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Mystery 19.5%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Sci-fi 12.2%, First-Person 10.8%
- #12 Sector 404
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Empty Studio
Windows
Sector 404 is a first-person anomaly horror game set in a crumbling Soviet housing block. After taking your medicine, your world begins to fracture. Climb from floor to floor, uncovering distorted anomalies and your own unraveling mind. Miss too much, and reality resets. Will you ever make it home?
Why similar: Horror 31.9%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Mystery 12.1%, First-Person 10.6%, Adventure 9.7%
- #13 Void Whispers
89% matchVery Positive92% of 418 reviews2024
Dev: Eduardo Scarpato
Windows
Assume the role of a broadcast engineer in a tranquil city. All seems peaceful until the sky above starts to reveal something deeply unsettling.
Why similar: Horror 40.8%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Adventure 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #14 Summer of '58
88% matchVery Positive89% of 4,888 reviews2021
Dev: EMIKA_GAMES
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.
Why similar: Horror 43.2%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Mystery 12%, Atmospheric 11.1%, First-Person 10.4%
- #15 In My Head
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 141 reviews2024
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!
Why similar: Horror 34.8%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Adventure 16.4%, First-Person 10.9%, Mystery 10.1%
- #16 Liquidators
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,204 reviews2020
Dev: Gray Unit
Windows
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Why similar: Cold War 40.4% ★, Horror 20.8%, Surreal 16.3%, Adventure 8.4%, First-Person 7.4%
- #17 Overtime Anomaly
85% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: Horror 17.2%, Mystery 16.8%, Surreal 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Adventure 12.8%
- #18 Diastone: Memories
87% matchMixed70% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: Souluted GamesPub: My Way Games
Windows
Discover a world unknown to you, becoming the figure before whom the universe itself shudders, the one unacquainted with the confines of time and space, experiencing the lives of different individuals. Transform into someone who fears only one thing: the creature trailing closely behind.
Why similar: Horror 39.4%, Adventure 28.6%, Indie 21.5%, Atmospheric 10.4%
- #19 MATRESHKA
83% matchVery Positive86% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
MATRESHKA is a first-person psychological horror experience, you need find a way to escape from a maze of old soviet building. If you die...
Why similar: Horror 29.4%, Mystery 15.7%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Atmospheric 8.2%
- #20 Chernobyl: Origins
84% matchVery Positive85% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Nelset
Windows · Linux
"Chernobyl: Origins" - is a quest game with psychological horror elements. You have to solve a lot of puzzles to find out the terrible secret of the catastrophe at the nuclear power plant. The game will take you to 1986, to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Why similar: Horror 35.1%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Mystery 14.7%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #21 S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored
84% matchMixed68% of 73 reviews2021
Dev: VolframePub: Art Games Studio S.A.
Windows
S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored is a science fiction FPS puzzle horror game, which takes place a few months after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster. Experience a tale about an unexplored area within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone - The S.W.A.N. Institute.
Why similar: Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Mystery 13.5%, Surreal 11.5%, Adventure 10.9%
- #22 The Derailed
82% matchVery Positive83% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: Deformed Dreams Studio
Windows
The Derailed is a first-person psychological horror game. Beneath the dusty arches of a nearly forgotten depot, shadows of the past tremble. Whether you want to or not, you will have to uncover the dark secrets of this place.
Why similar: Horror 49.1%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 8.1%
- #23 Exit From
81% matchVery Positive85% of 548 reviews2021
Dev: White Box
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Exit From - is a first-person horror-stealth game with quest and procedural generation elements where you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every new game.
Why similar: Horror 28.1%, Mystery 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Physics 11.6%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #24 Layers of Fear VR
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 273 reviews2019
Dev: Incuvo S.A.Pub: Bloober Team SA
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Enter a tangibly horrifying Virtual Reality and explore a mansion of horror as an artist falling into the depths of insanity. Will you find the muse for your masterpiece... or madness?
Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Indie 25.9%, Horror 14.1%, VR 13.2%, Psychological Horror 5.3%
- #25 Chasing Static
81% matchVery Positive87% of 504 reviews2021
Dev: Headware Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.
Why similar: Horror 31.8%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Mystery 14.3%, Adventure 10.2%, First-Person 10.2%
- #26 Vesnith Tapes
80% matchVery Positive80% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: KY XEPub: Darks Zone
Windows
A psychological horror game where a police officer investigates a cold case in a decaying house, uncovering a strange and haunting tape recorder that reveals a terrible secret.
Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Adventure 19.7%, Mystery 13.9%, First-Person 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
- #27 The Inn-Sanity
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,572 reviews2025
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
Why similar: Horror 39.6%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Adventure 17%, First-Person 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #28 SILENT BREATH
79% matchMixed69% of 1,189 reviews2024
Dev: EXODIAC STUDIOS
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 46.7%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Mystery 10.9%, First-Person 10.4%, Adventure 6.2%
- #29 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
77% matchVery Positive83% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: X1 Games
Windows
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Surreal 10.7%, Adventure 8%
- #30 Anomalies Detective
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: ChenGame
Windows
A psychological horror game with a chapter-based plot, thriller and unusual elements! You are a novice paranormal detective, exploring secrets and finding ways to escape in an infinite loop of scenes. Many unusual things happen during this process, as if some strange force wants to devour you...
Why similar: Horror 37.1%, Psychological Horror 23%, Adventure 15%, First-Person 14.8%, Indie 10.1%
- #31 Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 108 reviews2018
Dev: Gattai Games
Windows · Mac
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
Why similar: Horror 25.1%, VR 21.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Indie 8.8%
- #32 The Strange Lights
74% matchVery Positive87% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
Why similar: Horror 38.4%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Mystery 17.1%, Atmospheric 11.2%, First-Person 8.3%
- #33 Into the Radius VR
74% matchVery Positive94% of 11,206 reviews2020
Dev: CM IMMERSIVE
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.
Why similar: VR 33.8%, Horror 23.8%, Surreal 19.7%, Atmospheric 6.2%, Psychological Horror 6.1%
- #34 Mental Hospital VR
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Igor MigunPub: AGaming+
Windows
Mental Hospital VR is a truly scary first-person stealth horror game. Discover heart-thumping terror, chase and scary creatures in this atmospheric horror game.
Why similar: VR 26.7%, Horror 25.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Indie 6.2%
- #35 Shhh!
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 365 reviews2023
Dev: 616 GAMES
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)
Why similar: Horror 32.6%, Adventure 25.4%, First-Person 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.6%
- #36 MUZY
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 229 reviews2024
Dev: Andrew RybisPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Explore the mystery behind a once-loved and hugely popular children's toy, also known as MUZY, in this terrifying horror adventure game. Several reports detail frightening incidents connected to accidents. Your job is to solve the puzzles and find the cause of these unsettling occurrences.
Why similar: Horror 25%, Adventure 18%, Indie 13.3%, Surreal 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #37 Lost in Anomaly
72% matchMixed64% of 1,146 reviews2024
Dev: Aximus Games
Windows
In Lost in Anomaly, you wake up on the 9th floor of an unknown building. The only way out of here is to detect and mark anomalies. One wrong move and you could be trapped forever.
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Surreal 15.6%, Mystery 9.6%, First-Person 9.1%
- #38 AMOK
76% matchMixed43% of 207 reviews2016
Dev: Asset Flip Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Protagonist of the game is investigating the disappearance of people. The investigation leads him into an old house, and then it becomes a party to the strange and dangerous events.
Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Zombies 15.3%, Surreal 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10%, Adventure 9.3%
- #39 Brutalism22
73% matchMixed65% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Marginal act
Windows
This is a retro horror game about the war in Ukraine and brutalist architecture in Eastern Europe
Why similar: Horror 36.5%, First-Person 14.7%, Surreal 12.1%, Adventure 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #40 Synthesis of Corruption
70% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: VidyGames
Windows
Emergency Protocol activated: Dark Energy Particle Synthesis failed. Now you – late and alone – must navigate a facility where science and sanity have collapsed. Face entities born from the corruption of dark energy in this atmospheric FPS-horror hybrid, where human ambition meets primal terror.
Why similar: Horror 36%, Zombies 16%, First-Person 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #41 Dissonance
71% matchVery Positive93% of 187 reviews2022
Dev: Resonance StudioPub: FAFO Studio
Windows
Dissonance is a top-down 3rd person adventure game. Players will encounter supernatural anomalies and creatures. Find and use specialized gadgets to aid you in your journey. Explore the abandoned research facility and reveal the secret of the organization that sent you here.
Why similar: Surreal 26.1%, Mystery 15.7%, Adventure 15.7%, Horror 15.3%, Sci-fi 11%
- #42 Paranormal place
71% matchMixed65% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: ASK_GAMES
Windows
Alex is a blogger who explores places with paranormal phenomena. At the request of his subscribers, he goes to an abandoned place where, according to rumors, some creepy things were noticed. What is happening there? You have to find it out.
Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Zombies 14.4%, Adventure 13.4%, Atmospheric 10.4%
- #43 A.A.U. Black Site
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 117 reviews2026
Dev: Raspberry StudioPub: IZilla Games
Windows
As an agent of the secret special forces A.A.U., your covert mission in Serbia goes wrong fast. Framed, intercepted, and stranded in the abandoned territory of Uzovnica, you’ll need every skill to survive, especially when everything around you is not what it seems.
Why similar: Horror 33.9%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Adventure 14.7%, Mystery 12.9%, First-Person 9.7%
- #44 Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting [Enhanced Edition]
73% matchMixed68% of 266 reviews2015
Dev: Viperante
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Horror adventure awaits as you step into a place nobody knew existed and hunt for clues around every dark corner and in every scribbled notebook. With a twisted past, and a terrible secret just waiting to be revealed, Cold Winter Farm will leave you questioning whether what you know, is really what you know.
Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Adventure 23.4%, Mystery 16.5%, Indie 16.3%, First-Person 10%
- #45 ALONE?
75% matchMixed42% of 190 reviews2016
Dev: Deceptive Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore and experience this horror story, as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 15.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Action 7.1%
- #46 The Fridge is Red
72% matchMixed56% of 230 reviews2022
Dev: 5WORD TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
What is inside the Red Fridge? Collection of six episodes of psychological analog horror. Tour through liminal spaces filled with surreal events and uncanny strangers. Inspired by retro horrors of the PSX era.
Why similar: Horror 22.5%, Surreal 14.5%, Mystery 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Adventure 10.1%
- #47 Sonar Shock
70% matchVery Positive81% of 232 reviews2024
Dev: Raphael Bossniak
Windows · Linux
Submarine’s haunted! Hunt and be hunted in this horror dungeon crawler inspired by the decay of the Soviet Union (and immersive RPGs from the 90s).
Why similar: Cold War 39.1% ★, Horror 23.5%, Adventure 13.5%, First-Person 8%, Atmospheric 6.8%
- #48 THRESHOLD
67% matchVery Positive85% of 1,261 reviews2024
Dev: Julien EveilléPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.9 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: Horror 29.4%, Surreal 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15%, Mystery 11.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #49 The Anomalous Hour
69% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Gambir Studio
Windows
You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 36.6%, Mystery 15.4%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Adventure 10.5%, First-Person 10.4%
- #50 From The Darkness
67% matchVery Positive89% of 3,460 reviews2021
Dev: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.
Why similar: Horror 47.8%, Psychological Horror 18%, Indie 8%, First-Person 7.5%, Adventure 7.1%
- #51 ColdSide
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 526 reviews2020
Dev: AdroVGames
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.
Why similar: Horror 29.2%, Adventure 23.4%, Indie 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, First-Person 9.3%
- #52 Nightmares to be
70% matchMixed67% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: WolfAndOthers
Windows
A scientific research and development facility based in Norilsk, Flow Crop. is attempting to investigate crimes through people's nightmares. The player gets to walk into a virtual world, and investigate the reason for such nightmares. solve puzzles and face enemies.
Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Adventure 21.7%, Puzzle 14.7%, First-Person 14.2%
- #53 Ghost Frequency
67% matchMixed68% of 154 reviews2025
Dev: PIT GAMES
Windows
In Ghost Frequency, you are a ghost hunter from PIT - Paranormal Investigation Team. Your mission is to locate a sinister spirit using the EMF Ghost Detector to track paranormal activity, the IR Thermal Camera to reveal hidden entities, and the EVP Digital Recorder to capture eerie voices.
Why similar: Horror 37%, Surreal 23.8%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, First-Person 9.6%, Atmospheric 5%
- #54 NOCLIP
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: DELIRIUM Labs
Windows
Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.
Why similar: Horror 36.4%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Mystery 15.4%, First-Person 13.8%, Adventure 9.3%
- #55 Silence Channel
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 163 reviews2021
Dev: Lexip Games
Windows
A bad incident is like a tangled knot, It sits there, waiting for someone or something to untie it, but until then… scars may be left behind … are you ready for a First person Psychological Horror game based on a true story?!
Why similar: Horror 27.3%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Mystery 14%, Adventure 11.4%, First-Person 9%
- #56 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
64% matchVery Positive85% of 801 reviews2025
Dev: Steelkrill Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.7%, Adventure 27.7%, Puzzle 13.1%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Action 9.5%
- #57 NEDRA
66% matchMixed66% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Davit AndreasyanPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
NEDRA is a story-driven, atmospheric action-adventure blending survival horror with cosmic terror. Set in a Soviet-era Antarctic station, all the explorers have vanished without a trace, leaving you to uncover the chilling truth.
Why similar: Horror 39%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Adventure 16.2%, First-Person 10.4%, Atmospheric 10.3%
- #58 PAGER
65% matchVery Positive87% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: bilge
Windows
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Surreal 19.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, First-Person 10.1%, Adventure 9.7%