- #1 Ode to a Moon
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Colorfiction
Windows
≫∦𝕲∭∄∂⋥ ⊶≋⧉ ⨇⩈𝕸 𝛙ℵ⪌⟁ ⟆⦆⌘𝛴⦻⎈
Why similar: Surreal 21.3%, Psychedelic 20.2%, Horror 13.1%, Thriller 11.2%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #2 Family of Choice
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ecevilgames
Windows
Witness a little girl’s distorted memories of the past and her fantasies of a future that never happened. All she wants is a family… this time, of her own choice.
Why similar: Surreal 24%, Horror 21.3%, Thriller 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Atmospheric 8.9%
- #3 ALLON3
96% matchMixed50% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
A phychological horror experience of voices and screams.
Why similar: Surreal 22.4%, Horror 15.2%, Psychedelic 14.9%, Thriller 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
- #4 NOX TIMORE REMAKE
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 188 reviews2022
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Official remake of the original Nox Timore, that was released in 2014. A nightmare, that you come back to every night. Mannequins. Darkness. Horror.
Why similar: Surreal 27.2%, Horror 17.6%, Thriller 14.2%, Psychedelic 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #5 Backrooms: Rogue 0
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NextPhase Studios
Windows
A routine expedition into the Backrooms goes silent. You are the last call. Now trapped in endless corridors that loop into themselves, you’ll soon realize you are not alone. Something moves heremany things—and none of them can be fought. Your only hope is to stay unseen. Never trust what you see.
Why similar: Surreal 20.1%, Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 12%, Thriller 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.9%
- #6 Dap: Prologue
94% matchVery Positive96% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Melting Parrot
Windows
Dap: Prologue is a short dive into the eerie world of Dap, the upcoming horror-action-adventure about protecting a pack of fragile creatures against the creeping corruption tainting the woods and its inhabitants. Lead, scavenge, and fight, in a race for survival against otherwordly horrors.
Why similar: Surreal 29.4%, Horror 20.9%, Psychedelic 19.3%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Dark 10%
- #7 In The Liminality
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sucre AmygdalumPub: Consorts of the Reverend-Queen
Windows
A psychological-cosmic horror experience, unique in story, art, and heart. Bear witness to a tale of girl's love, rage, hurt, and healing. Only you can bring it an end. Only you can bring World Revolution.
Why similar: Psychedelic 20.6%, Horror 20%, Surreal 19.4%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Stylized 6.6%
- #8 Violent Horror Stories: anthology
92% matchVery Positive83% of 607 reviews2024
Dev: IndikatorPub: Trioskaz
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Horror 19.3%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Surreal 14%, Simulation 13.2%, Atmospheric 10.9%
- #9 Deprived
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Burning Minds
Windows
“Trapped in a loop, you must capture anomalies and find the red door to escape the house. But beware... something else lurks within these walls. Can you break the cycle?”
Why similar: Surreal 36.7%, Horror 28.4%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Action 8%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #10 The New Apartment
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Paul Thomas Games
Windows
A man living in his new apartment finds himself in the center of something much more sinister.
Why similar: Surreal 32.6%, Horror 28.3%, Puzzle 8.3%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Dark 6.6%
- #11 Life Gallery
90% matchVery Positive82% of 421 reviews2023
Dev: 751 Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.
Why similar: Surreal 28.1%, Psychedelic 18.7%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 10.1%, Thriller 9.7%
- #12 Locks
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: Carel
Windows
Locks is a horror puzzle-platformer set in a puppet show. The game features a new type of puzzle, and the evil doesn't chase the puppet, as it usually does in platformers, it chases you.
Why similar: Surreal 19%, Horror 17.3%, Psychedelic 15.9%, Thriller 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
- #13 Stay Still
89% matchMixed44% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Stay Still is a first-person horror adventure based on Vietnamese culture. The gameplay is focused on storytelling, puzzles and avoiding dangerous threats & spirits hunting you. Solve various puzzles, watch your surroundings, and of course survive.
Why similar: Surreal 21.7%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Horror 14.4%, Thriller 11.1%, Psychological Horror 11%
- #14 Queen Anne's Lace
88% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Pennywhistle Studios
Windows
An anomaly horror game with a big twist: YOU hide the anomalies. As the Night Auditor for the Queen Anne's Lace hotel, your job is to keep your guests checked in. Forever.
Why similar: Surreal 24.7%, Horror 16.5%, Psychedelic 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14%, Abstract 6.2%
- #15 Victim Complex
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 5ive Bullet Games
Windows
You’re in over your head… try not to lose it. In Victim Complex, you're a fraud - a ghost-hunter who pretends to be able to commune with the dead. For the first time, you seem to have encountered the real deal– a nightmarish entity haunting an apartment complex. Can your fake tools help you survive?
Why similar: Horror 19.6%, Surreal 18.7%, Thriller 15%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%
- #16 Doll's House
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gao JiuShi
Windows
Doll’s House is a horror game mixing psychological tension, narrative exploration, and intense chase encounters.Explore clues inside a shifting house while being hunted by dolls with unique personalities and mechanics.Each chase ties into the story, and how you survive shapes your view of the family
Why similar: Surreal 26.9%, Horror 19.6%, Thriller 17.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Dark 5.8%
- #17 REVEIL
85% matchVery Positive87% of 895 reviews2024
Dev: PixelsplitPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
Why similar: Surreal 22.9%, Psychedelic 19.5%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Atmospheric 7.8%
- #18 Timore Redo
86% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Timore Redo is a psychological horror game about sadness.
Why similar: Surreal 27.4%, Horror 17.6%, Thriller 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #19 There Was the Moon
84% matchPositive94% of 33 reviews2020
Dev: Ben LapidPub: Bunso
Windows
Atmospheric walking sim set in an eerie sci fi world with some puzzles. The moon hasn't set in ages. Under the eternal night humanity is forced to choose one of its own to restore natural order. Step into this beautiful nightmare, walk its luminous halls, and take part in the ceremony of a lifetime.
Why similar: Surreal 25.7%, Psychedelic 21%, Horror 13.4%, Thriller 13.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #20 The Fridge is Red
84% matchMixed56% of 229 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: Surreal 21%, Psychedelic 18.2%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Atmospheric 7.9%
- #21 Parasomnia Verum
83% matchPositive86% of 42 reviews2021
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Parasomnia Verum is an atmospheric horror game about a recurring dream.
Why similar: Surreal 34.5%, Horror 26.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Dark 6.1%
- #22 Lobotrypo
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skaar Game Productions
Windows
Rumors of a serial killer stalking your local town are all over the news, and you have a meeting with your counselor in an hour. The problem is, the walk there is long and dark.
Why similar: Horror 25.1%, Surreal 17.7%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Atmospheric 12%
- #23 Perfect Vermin
82% matchVery Positive93% of 3,803 reviews2020
Dev: Talia bob MairPub: ItsTheTalia
Windows
Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.
Why similar: Surreal 31.5%, Horror 20.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Dark 9.7%, Atmospheric 7.1%
- #24 Bulb Boy 2: Jar of Despair
81% matchPositive92% of 48 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbware
Windows · Mac
The NIGHTMARE was over but this is only the beginning of Bulb Boy’s dark adventures! And this time, it all starts with an empty jam jar...
Why similar: Surreal 25%, Cartoon 18.7%, Psychedelic 18.6%, Horror 11.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%
- #25 BrokenLore: FOLLOW
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Serafini Productions
Windows
BrokenLore: FOLLOW is a psychological first-person horror game that immerses players in the haunting narrative of Anne, as she grapples with issues of self-acceptance, bullying, and worthlessness while encountering metaphorical surreal creatures that heighten the terror of her journey.
Why similar: Surreal 28.1%, Horror 16.4%, Thriller 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Atmospheric 9.3%
- #26 EarWorm
79% matchVery Positive96% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: TOR2
Windows
You are an Earworm. You are an underworld contractor who hacks memories for a living. Dive into the memories of your victims in order to unlock the security questions to their bank account.
Why similar: Surreal 26.5%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 12.3%, Thriller 11.1%
- #27 The Lecture: Classroom 1.09
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Goat Tower Games
Windows
You are trying to reach classroom 1.09. Nobody is around, and the atmosphere feels wrong. Trapped in looping corridors, your only way out is to observe carefully, spot anomalies, and choose the right door… or remain trapped.
Why similar: Surreal 21.7%, Horror 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17%, Thriller 7%, Atmospheric 6.6%
- #28 Black Shadow
79% matchNo user reviews80% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: OrangeBearGames
Windows
Black Shadow is a first-person survival horror game built with Unreal Engine 5. Players take on the role of investigator Eric Stone, venturing deep into a core area filled with dark matter. In the dark underground, you must explore, move stealthily, evade unknown threats, and uncover the secrets.
Why similar: Surreal 26.4%, Horror 22.6%, Thriller 20%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Action 5.2%
- #29 Villa Nocturne
77% matchMostly Positive68% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Lunafrost StudioPub: Wanderia Entertainment
Windows
In a mansion shrouded in mist, face the ghosts of the past. With puzzles, exploration, and moments of sheer terror, Villa Nocturne awaits.
Why similar: Surreal 22.5%, Horror 20.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Thriller 14.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #30 The Door Before
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StormBrew
Windows
Step into a haunted hotel that will test your resolve. Run, hide, and use your resources to survive the dangers that lurk. Every attempt brings you closer to uncovering the way out, but beware as the monsters that hunt you grow more bold. Do you have what it takes to escape this nightmare?
Why similar: Horror 24.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Surreal 14%, Thriller 12.4%, Atmospheric 11.1%
- #31 Flower Shop
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Bile
Windows
It is a hermetic horror that pretends to be your friend. The game begins at a flower shop. At first, it looks like a naive florist simulator. Gradually, the game pulls you into the abyss of madness.
Why similar: Surreal 19.1%, Psychedelic 17.4%, Horror 14.2%, Thriller 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
- #32 Hulzuyot: Horror Game
77% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Holitass
Windows
You are a salary man who will experience terrifying situations due to a special illness, all while carrying out household chores.
Why similar: Horror 18.6%, Thriller 16.7%, Psychedelic 16.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Atmospheric 9.9%
- #33 Death Frame
75% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: EpiXR Games UG
Windows
Explore a haunted mansion, uncover a killers madness, and enter surreal paintings to relive the twisted mind of a killer. Danger and mystery are lurking behind the screaming walls of this fascinating and frightening horror adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 20.1%, Psychedelic 16.4%, Horror 13.1%, Thriller 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #34 Deprivation
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nocture DDN
Windows
A tragic story in the genre of domestic horror about loss, and life after loss. A walking, cooking, and driving simulator. There is a place where she will always be near.
Why similar: Surreal 30.3%, Psychedelic 23.2%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark 9.1%
- #35 Family Manners
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ronney
Windows
Light caresses every corner of the home, and the clock marks the first heartbeats of the morning. It’s just another typical day in the wonderful life of the Evans family… right?
Why similar: Cartoon 22.6%, Horror 18.6%, Thriller 16%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Atmospheric 10%
- #36 CoRoT
73% matchMixed67% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Azteck Game Studios
Windows
CoRoT is a first-person psychological meta-horror game. Search for cassettes in a transforming house, unraveling its macabre past. A sinister atmosphere surrounds you as you try to understand what's happening and where you really are. Can you discover the truth hidden in its walls?
Why similar: Surreal 28.3%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Thriller 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%
- #37 Gates of Despair
74% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: CN Entertainment
Windows
Gates of Despair is a captivating single-player survival horror game with multiple chapters. Experience randomized gameplay, creepy jumpscares and terrifying enemies. Uncover the captivating story through cutscenes and master a variety of challenges. Are you brave enough?
Why similar: Surreal 22.5%, Psychedelic 20.8%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Thriller 9%
- #38 LIGHT CRY
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dragon Landing
Windows
It was the worst day of his life. The car hit Damon. Damon, in a coma, was on the thin line between life and death. To wake up from his coma, Damon had to win the battle with himself.
Why similar: Psychedelic 25%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Surreal 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #39 Albino Lullaby: Episode 1
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 382 reviews2015
Dev: Ape Law
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Albino Lullaby is a horror adventure game that doesn't rely on jump scares or gore. Escape from a surreal psychological nightmare as the world dynamically twists and contorts around you.
Why similar: Surreal 33%, Horror 30.5%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Action 7.4%
- #40 Blind Sound
73% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: LunarDream GamesPub: Grey Dev
Windows
Blind Sound is a Game about, Exploration and Puzzle-solving. This is a Linear Story Based horror game which sets in a science facility. You will discover tons of thing and find about the Creepy history of this facility with Full of Creatures That extremely Dangerous.
Why similar: Surreal 21.8%, Horror 19.3%, Thriller 15%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Dark 9.7%
- #41 Island Getaway - DEMO
72% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Alex Craig
Windows
What was supposed to be a relaxing weekend at an island resort turns into a fight for your life, and now you’ll have to outsmart and outrun the powerful forces battling over the island’s fate
Why similar: Surreal 26.7%, Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Thriller 13.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%
- #42 The Charity Shop
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Figglewatts
Windows · Linux
The Charity Shop is an atmospheric, surreal, first-person puzzle game where you use your camera to capture the essence of a life lived. To this end, you have been delivered to The Charity Shop, the place where people donate unwanted belongings—each carrying an imprint of the time they once shared.
Why similar: Surreal 47%, Horror 21.6%, Atmospheric 13%, Puzzle 9.4%, Adventure 3.1%
- #43 TRAFFIC
73% matchVery Positive83% of 150 reviews2022
Dev: Laud GamesPub: Laud Publishing
Windows
TRAFFIC is an Atmospheric First-Person Psychological Horror game about a troubled child in a home where he must deal with both internal and external stresses. You will communicate with your parents, do your chores, and stay out of the way.
Why similar: Surreal 23.5%, Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Thriller 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #44 Sorrow Asylum 3
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Sorrow Asylum 3 is a looping horror game, a mix of an abandoned asylum and your mind's prison.
Why similar: Surreal 23.3%, Horror 15.2%, Psychedelic 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Thriller 10.4%
- #45 MIND CORRIDORS: Paroniria
71% matchVery Positive96% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Heartbyte Studios
Windows
A fever-dream-like puzzle horror game. Descend to the depths of a sleeping curse, survive every floor and find your way out of the never ending nightmare.
Why similar: Surreal 23.2%, Horror 18.4%, Psychedelic 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Atmospheric 9.1%
- #46 The Eerie Surroundings
71% matchPositive81% of 31 reviews2024
Dev: SURPRISED HOTDOG LIMITED
Windows
Observe your surrounding and be confident there is or is not a anomaly to progress.
Why similar: Surreal 24.1%, Horror 16%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Thriller 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.3%
- #47 Delirium
69% matchVery Positive88% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Delirium is a psychological horror game set in a suburban house. After a mysterious explosion, reality begins to unravel.
Why similar: Psychedelic 19.5%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Surreal 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.7%
- #48 Sorrow Asylum
70% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Sorrow Asylum is a looping horror game, a mix of an abandoned asylum and your mind's prison.
Why similar: Surreal 22.1%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Psychedelic 11.7%, Thriller 11.4%
- #49 Umbra Halloween
70% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Umbra Halloween is a surreal psychological horror game about the dead ones returning to life on a Halloween night.
Why similar: Surreal 25.3%, Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Psychedelic 11.1%, Thriller 8.5%
- #50 Mirrored Phantoms
68% matchMixed68% of 212 reviews2025
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows · Linux
Trapped in a nightmarish mannequin factory where reality itself is shattered, unravel the secrets of Mirrored Phantoms. Explore a deeply atmospheric world, solve the mystery of the mirror shards, and survive the terrors that await in this slow-burning, first-person horror experience.
Why similar: Horror 29.8%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Surreal 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Dark 8.9%
- #51 In Full Bloom
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: obleak games
Windows · Mac
Feed and raise your little baby. Watch it grow and feed on every and anything. In Full Bloom is a Tamagotchi inspired Katamari-like about a creature with never-ending hunger for anything around it. There is only one way.
Why similar: Surreal 37.9%, Horror 22.4%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Dark 8.4%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
- #52 Kevurah Horror Tale
68% matchMixed45% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Holitass
Windows
You must organize a funeral in a remote location while witnessing strange events.
Why similar: Horror 18.7%, Thriller 17.6%, Psychedelic 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Atmospheric 10.1%
- #53 Lisle Engle Heavy Distance
69% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: TFK Studios
Windows
Heavy Distance is the ground breaking interactive single from Lisle Engle.
Why similar: Psychedelic 30.4%, Surreal 30.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Atmospheric 9%, Abstract 8.4%
- #54 The Void
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alexander RushPub: Pint Point Game Studio
Windows
The Void - a psychological horror game A surreal dimension called the Void is filled with eerie dreams that have become reality.
Why similar: Surreal 22.2%, Psychedelic 21.9%, Horror 14.9%, Thriller 12.6%, Dark 7.5%
- #55 Let's Pray
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beshbarmak games
Windows
Let's Pray — an atmospheric horror game with a unique mechanic. Pray into your microphone in any language to save lost souls and banish evil, so that God may light your path… Experience the faith of a young nun in a dark forest filled with spirits, temptations, and her own sins.
Why similar: Horror 23%, Psychedelic 20.1%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Dark 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.9%
- #56 Happy Game
67% matchVery Positive90% of 3,400 reviews2021
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Why similar: Psychedelic 27%, Horror 25.2%, Surreal 21.9%, Dark 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.7%
- #57 Withered Haven
65% matchPositive80% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: Dark Snow Games
Windows
Withered Haven is a first-person psychological horror game. After the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, a broken man struggles to endure a collapsing reality. Familiar apparitions drift closer, echoing memories that mask a darkness beyond comprehension.
Why similar: Horror 21.5%, Surreal 21%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Dark 10.4%
- #58 Sunday School
65% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Artur Latkovsky
Windows
You are trapped in a Sunday School, plagued by eerie childlike hallucinations. Observe your surroundings carefully to spot anomalies, and descend deeper only when you’re certain it’s safe.
Why similar: Surreal 24.2%, Horror 17.2%, Psychedelic 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Thriller 10.8%