Games Like One-Time Trigger

The Final Shift is a psychological horror game where you work as a night janitor in a quiet corporate building haunted by its own history.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 16.3%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Mystery 12.3%

A twisted pixel-art horror thriller about death, ancient gods, and a persistent waiter. Explore The Willow’s Embrace hotel, solve puzzles, and gather paranormal evidence. Challenge the madness to find a way out and avoid becoming part of an eternal nightmare.

Why similar: Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Gore 13.5%, Mystery 6.6%, Atmospheric 6.5%

Play as a detective investigating his wife's disappearance. Suspecting the asylum she was researching, he infiltrates it, only to uncover a realm of horror. Solve puzzles, maintain sanity, and confront monsters as you unravel the asylum's secrets.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 14%, Gore 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

On April Fool’s Day, the protagonist is caught in eerie supernatural events! As you investigate, uncover the truth behind a past tragedy. Explore chilling scenes, solve mysteries, and face unknown fears—can you survive?

Why similar: Horror 23.3%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Mystery 12.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Atmospheric 7.5%

A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a house that feels like it knows you. Uncover dark secrets buried within its walls. Something is watching. Something has been waiting a very long time.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.3%, Horror 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Apartment 203: HongKong is a first-person horror adventure game set in the urban landscape of Hong Kong. The story follows a young man who returns from abroad to investigate his sister's mysterious disappearance by moving into her former residence in an old tenement building.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.2%, Horror 22.5%, Mystery 13.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.8%

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile... This is the first title in the series known as The Strange Man, developed by Uri Games. Experience the myriad horrors awaiting David as he moves into his new house.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 17.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Mystery 9.9%, Story Rich 7.9%

You wake up in your familiar home, only to find yourself completely locked inside. Search for clues, evade an unknown presence, and piece together forgotten memories... In this confined space, the real terror is only just beginning. A intense 30-minute psychological horror experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 22%, Mystery 11.5%, Puzzle 10.6%, Adventure 8.4%

You came to explore an old castle with your friends. But you ended up trapped inside alone. In this horror game, you must explore the shadows, hide from paranormal creatures, and solve strange puzzles as you search for your friends. Unravel the castle’s sinister past and escape…before it’s too late.

Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Puzzle 10.2%, Gore 10.1%

Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 13.7%, Gore 10.9%, Mystery 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

Immerse yourself in the bone-chilling world of Clausum. With no means to defend yourself, solve puzzles, explore and uncover the true horrors that lurk within the house. Will you survive, or succumb to the malevolent forces that await you? Face your fears in this immersive psychological horror game.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.8%, Horror 22%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Mystery 9.6%, Puzzle 9.5%

It's 2010. While urban exploring an abandoned building with your friends, you lose sight of them. Suddenly, you end up in a strange place consisting only of abnormal spaces and places that seem... strangely familiar. Is this all there is? Or most importantly... are you truly alone?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 17.8%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Gore 12.6%, Atmospheric 10.3%

As the clock strikes midnight, you find yourself trapped within the oppressive confines of a desolate office. Your task seems straightforward: Keep putting the correct paper in the correct place and you might find yourself entitled to overtime pay. And will you?

Why similar: Horror 24.1%, Psychological Horror 21%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Puzzle 11.8%, Gore 10.1%

It is an indie psychological horror game in which you must solve the mystery behind the Dewey family while various entities try to hunt you down and torment you. Will you be able to survive and escape this infinite loop?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20%, Horror 17.5%, Gore 10.4%, Story Rich 8.7%, Atmospheric 8%

A first-person psychological horror set in a Japanese train station after the last departure. The station knows your name. Something is watching. What is seen cannot be unseen. 終電後の日本の駅を舞台にした、一人称視点のサイコロジカルホラー。駅は、あなたの名前を知っている。何かが、見ている。一度見たものは、二度と見なかったことにはできない。

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.2%, Horror 20.9%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Puzzle 9.9%

In Don’t Remember, some things are better left forgotten. Fight your amnesia in this atmospheric, first person psychological horror game. Solve the mystery of the old mansion in 1900’s England through the use of your lantern’s various colors and face its hidden grotesque visage.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 20.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Mystery 9.1%

Max, who suffers from schizophrenia due to childhood trauma, decides to break free from the endless torment of hallucinations and delusions.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 23.7%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Puzzle 11.2%, Adventure 9.5%

The Bugs Manor is a free 2D pixel art horror game. Explore a cursed mansion, hide from scary monsters, and solve puzzles with an inventory-free gameplay, focused on direct interactions with the environment. Can you survive your first night in this haunted house and uncover its mysteries?

Why similar: Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Gore 14%, Puzzle 10.3%, Survival Horror 6.7%

You are the night shift supervisor at the warehouse of the postal company. You need to make sure that there is nothing prohibited in the package, but are all parcels worth checking?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Horror 20.6%, Immersive Sim 17.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Mystery 9.9%

Explore an abandoned hospital, solve puzzles, and uncover a nonlinear story where your choices have consequences. A hardcore psychological horror game in pixel art.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Gore 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Horror 11%, Puzzle 10%

Your mind is shattered. Step into a first-person psychological horror where you must relive your deepest trauma, uncover fragments of your past, piece them back together and face the tormentors that haunt your mind.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 18.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Mystery 9.7%

A psychological-horror puzzle game where after 16 years in prison for a murder you don't remember, you're back at your family's manor as schizophrenia distorts your reality. Manage, or harness, your mental hallucinations to uncover the truth. Will it vindicate you? Or confirm your darkest fears...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 13.1%, Puzzle 11.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Story Rich 9.5%

Chat is this Real? is a first-person psychological horror game. Play as a streamer in an abandoned hospital during a livestream. Uncover the hospital's dark past, follow the clues in the chat, and survive a nightmare that should have remained buried.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Horror 24.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Story Rich 7.1%

Crash land in a haunted forest, stalked by a relentless monster. Explore eerie ruins, solve dark puzzles, and gather mysterious artifacts to escape the nightmare that lurks amongst the forest

Why similar: Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Puzzle 15.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Mystery 10.3%

Purefire Life Stream is a first-person psychological horror game. In recent years, livestreaming daily life has become a worldwide phenomenon. Explore a slow-paced world beginning with a livestreamed penthouse tour expanding into unsettling realism and terror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.4%, Horror 20.1%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Mystery 8.1%, Survival Horror 7.3%

The abandoned cemetery always intrigued you. Today you finally entered. While exploring, time distorted. It's midnight now. A chapel appears before you. Inside there's a manual: "Survival Protocol. Follow the rules until dawn or something worse than death awaits you."

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.6%, Horror 21.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Story Rich 8.3%

Five cameras. Five nights. One caretaker who's starting to notice too much. A slow-burn surveillance horror where the building lies to you — and the system does too.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.6%, Horror 24.7%, Mystery 17%, Gore 14.6%, Dark 6.8%

Your boat stops working. You are forced to the nearest dock. A fog-covered island lies before you. Abandoned buildings. Dense forest. No guidance. Blood everywhere. Warnings remain. You need to leave. Something is watching. It wants you to look.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 18.7%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Gore 9.2%, Survival Horror 8.6%

Stitched - Mother's Nightmare continues the story of Stitched, putting the player in control of a protagonist named Mia as she ventures in the mysterious doll factory. Why did she come there? What horror awaits her in the factory?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 14.3%, Puzzle 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Mystery 9%

With no other option, you take a job as a farmhand on a remote ranch in the interior of Buenos Aires. But as time passes, you begin to uncover the dark secrets buried deep in the fields.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 24.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Dark 7.6%, Puzzle 6.8%

Apartment 22 is a bite-sized horror game about being trapped in a loop. You look out for clues left by the previous resident or possibly by you to escape the apartment.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 17.5%, Immersive Sim 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

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 25.8%, Horror 21.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Mystery 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%

A dark sci-fi horror where ancient rituals intertwine with secret Soviet experiments. Explore atmospheric tunnels, hidden laboratories, and abandoned shrines inspired by real locations—and survive by solving intricate, mind-bending puzzles.

Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 16%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Puzzle 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

Forced into working as an Anomaly Observer in a space stockroom, you must explore, observe carefully, and report inconsistencies. Earn Credits to buy upgrades, but beware: hideous horrors are creeping in the dark.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Horror 18.4%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Exploration 7.3%

You'll scream in pleasure... Choke with fear! Play through 101 sick, frightening and perverted games, released in an experimental episodic format Can the curious souls brave through the hidden depths of each game to reach the shocking conclusion? Maybe what's been lost was never meant to be found...

Why similar: Horror 17.7%, Gore 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Mystery 9.7%, Puzzle 6.2%

If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures.

Why similar: Horror 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Gore 16%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Story Rich 6.8%

Control an RC car in an abandoned hospital. Capture eerie anomalies, avoid making noise, and uncover a chilling mystery—before something finds you first.

Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Mystery 12.7%, Exploration 8.3%, Gore 8.2%

Thank you for applying for the job. What? You didn’t apply? Don’t worry! You’re hired. Congratulations! Your job is simple: film “anomalies” inside a typical Japanese office. Don’t worry—a friendly coworker will guide you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.9%, Horror 22%, Multiple Endings 8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Survival Horror 7.2%

Fragments of Dread is an episodic psychological horror series. Each episode tells a self-contained story of dread, fear, and survival.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Mystery 10.8%, Atmospheric 8.6%

A retro inspired psychological horror game about a student pulled into a surreal hub of locked doors and broken memories, where each step deeper reveals the town’s buried secrets and the truth behind what everyone chose to ignore.

Why similar: Horror 27.2%, Psychological Horror 25.7%, Mystery 19%, Atmospheric 17%, Story Rich 5.8%

Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20%, Horror 19%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Gore 9%

Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Horror 17.2%, Mystery 12.3%, Gore 10.6%, Puzzle 9.8%

A first-person psychological horror game inspired by The Hat Man urban legend, focusing on sleep paralysis, fear, and the terror of being unable to move.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22%, Horror 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Mystery 9.1%

Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.2%, Horror 28.8%, Gore 15.5%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Indie 3.9%

Stay alive in this first-person horror-puzzle game. Trapped inside a claustrophobic train, each carriage tests you differently.

Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Mystery 13%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Atmospheric 9.9%

Embark on a creepy point-and-click adventure through the heart of a post-apocalyptic world in Memory Trap: Hidden Protocol. Dive into a fractured past to solve puzzles, uncover clues, and reveal the long-buried secrets of the Soviet era.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, Horror 16.6%, Story Rich 11%, Puzzle 10.9%, Gore 8%

You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Puzzle 8.5%, Atmospheric 7%, Adventure 6.4%

A psychological horror game where every artifact traps you in the final moments of someone’s life. Face five distinct nightmares, each with its own monster, story, and theme. You’re not solving the mystery… you’re reliving it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Mystery 13.9%, Horror 12.4%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Story Rich 10%

When your father goes missing with little more than a letter to clue you in, it's up to you to find him. His last known whereabouts? Ashmere Manor. Will you succeed in solving the mystery at the heart of the house and find your father, or will you succumb to its phantom call?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Mystery 9.3%

A first-person psychological horror game. You were sent into an abandoned facility to retrieve something — but it's not as empty as you were told. No combat. No rescue. Just what's waiting inside.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.9%, Horror 28.1%, Exploration 8.6%, Atmospheric 8%, Puzzle 6.6%

Mourning Ritual for a Haunted Boarding Room. Uncover the mystery behind the ghost through exploration, puzzles, and a psychological horror narrative.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Puzzle 9.8%, Gore 9.6%

A first-person horror puzzle game about solving cryptic puzzles and surviving a deadly night inside an abandoned drive-in theater.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.7%, Horror 20.7%, Puzzle 10.9%, Mystery 9.3%, Gore 8.7%

The Old Woman | 無言老婆 is a psychological horror game set in Japan.To attend university, the protagonist moved to the countryside. However, after starting to frequent a certain public bathhouse, strange and unsettling things began to happen.

Why similar: Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Gore 8%

A First Person Horror Walking Simulator with other Simulator elements set in a fictional town called Sugar Hill. Play as various characters trying to unravel the mystery of What Happened At Sugar Hill.

Why similar: Gore 21.4%, Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%

Wake up in a trashed apartment and investigate mysterious disappearances. Solve challenging puzzles, interact with others, and confront the person behind it all. Your choices lead to one of five unique endings in this tense, atmospheric puzzle-horror game!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 17.9%, Puzzle 12.1%, Mystery 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 17.3%, Survival Horror 8.7%, Mystery 8.2%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Mukmil is a first-person psychological horror game about Sa’ad, a student trapped inside a nightmare after failing history class. Explore a haunted school, solve symbolic puzzles, uncover buried memories, and survive the evil hunting you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 19.8%, Puzzle 14.2%, Gore 10.7%, Adventure 9.3%

A narrative psychological horror game where you'll explore different environments and fragments of your past. Solve puzzles and uncover a truth some would rather forget.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 20.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Story Rich 8.9%, Puzzle 8.5%

A short first-person horror game where strange anomalies slowly begin to appear in a laundromat you casually visit. As you return again and again, you move closer to the ending waiting in this place.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.6%, Horror 19.9%, Immersive Sim 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Exploration 7.1%