
A first person horror game that knows when your eyes are open. Closing your eyes provides safety from the terror, but also leaves you vulnerable to the unknown. Haunted by a clown doll, you can either hide, or open your eyes to the horrors.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Exploration, 3D, Horror.

A first person horror game that knows when your eyes are open. Closing your eyes provides safety from the terror, but also leaves you vulnerable to the unknown. Haunted by a clown doll, you can either hide, or open your eyes to the horrors.

Unhomely
Unhomely is a retro-inspired first person psychological indie horror game. You play a journalist who has 3 days alone in a reclusive tech CEO's cabin to get the exclusive on his new project and save your career.

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Navigate a nightmarish labyrinth, avoid eerie entities, and uncover dark secrets in this liminality based horror game. Explore realistic levels, unravel secrets, and figure out life or death puzzles. Will you escape the madness? Brought to you by a solo 13 year old dev.
Unhomely is a retro-inspired first person psychological indie horror game. You play a journalist who has 3 days alone in a reclusive tech CEO's cabin to get the exclusive on his new project and save your career.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Conspiracy 17.2% ★, Investigation 16.1%, Horror 10.9%, Simulation 10%
Navigate a nightmarish labyrinth, avoid eerie entities, and uncover dark secrets in this liminality based horror game. Explore realistic levels, unravel secrets, and figure out life or death puzzles. Will you escape the madness? Brought to you by a solo 13 year old dev.
Why similar: Simulation 34.4%, Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Exploration 12.1%, Horror 9.6%, 3D 7.5%
A facility run by a mysterious director conducting research into quantifying fear. The user will be a test subject there, undergoing terrifying experiences. It's a simple game in which the player must simply endure the terror of cockroaches without being scared.
Why similar: Simulation 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Exploration 12.8%, Horror 10.5%, 3D 8.1%
Racing against time, a guy wanders around a graveyard on the middle of nowhere, searching for something that may break a deadly curse. Among murders and secrets, only darkness is certain.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Horror 19.3%, Exploration 16.6%, 3D 9.6%, Investigation 8.7%
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a Mouse? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be inside of a Maze? Wonder no more! In R.A.T.T.Z. Maze you will have to rely on the mouse to smell, and your brain to remember! Welcome to the Maze, Good luck!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Simulation 33.6%, Exploration 12%, Investigation 11.7%, 3D 6.4%
Blackhall takes place in the 1970s and lets you explore a remote underground shelter that became home to an isolated community. The facility, long abandoned and left to deteriorate, still shows traces of the people who lived there and the society they built.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Conspiracy 26.2% ★, Exploration 12.2%, Investigation 8.6%, 3D 7.7%
A psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. Here, you will uncover a dark conspiracy where you are to receive a terrible fate.
Why similar: Conspiracy 28.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Exploration 10.6%, Horror 9.5%
Atmospheric Horror in 90's style low-poly 3D. Open-ended exploration, investigation, hidden items, captivating puzzles and intriguing dark storyline.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Investigation 19.5%, Horror 16.9%, Exploration 11.7%, Stylized 7.7%
Semi-automatic micro-sandbox with a console interface. You decide the fates, but don't see anything actually going on. Imagine your purpose is just to simulate a human's decision making system, in a lack of information beyond the spreadsheet numbers.
Why similar: Simulation 60.9%, Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Indie 7.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
You've been hired to power wash a recently renovated hospital, however, teenagers are somehow sneaking in at night and putting up graffiti. This job should cover this months rent... but will you live to pay it?
Why similar: Simulation 31.2%, Horror 22.1%, Investigation 11%, Exploration 9.3%, Stylized 9%
A struggling content creator goes toe-to-toe with conspiracy and catastrophe in this short, narrative RPG. Adventure to the world of the Soda Kingdom, a plastic paradise that values the brand above all else!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Horror 18.1%, Stylized 13.6%, Investigation 12.5%, Linear 9.1%
A psychological exploration through a liminal dreamscape: no guides, no paths, just you and small environmental mysteries.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.3%, Simulation 24.2%, Exploration 18.2%, 3D 8.7%, Linear 7.7%
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Why similar: Simulation 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Conspiracy 22.5% ★, Investigation 10.7%, Indie 1.3%
Investigate the sleepy town of Lakewood as you follow the trail of numerous missing person cases and the mysterious cause of the disappearances. Unravel the secret of Lakewood and try to survive its tightening grip.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.7% ★, Investigation 19.2%, Horror 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Stylized 10.1%
Oblivistar is a story-driven adventure game where you will help solve a mystery that sinks into the place you call home.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.6% ★, Investigation 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Horror 13.5%, Stylized 11.9%
The Tunnels is a procedural maze environment, where everyone loses except grief What can only be the final truth is a mirror showing us what remains of our humanity. There is, however, an end to reach in this hallway.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.4%, Simulation 26%, Exploration 18.7%, Linear 8%, 3D 7%
A short comedic horror adventure where you investigate the mystery of a piano that won’t stop growing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.6%, Horror 21%, Exploration 20.4%, 3D 11.6%, Indie 1.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Investigation 19.2%, Horror 16.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Exploration 12.3%
PSX-style horror/thriller where you manage a photo studio. Restock supplies, buy upgrades, photograph customers, and print their orders while encountering unexpected events.
Why similar: Conspiracy 34.7% ★, Simulation 26.1%, Horror 16.9%, Investigation 11.7%, Resource Management 5.4%
A work simulator set in an old hotel that is definitely not haunted. Clean the rooms and make sure our guests feel at home!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Simulation 23%, Exploration 13%, Stylized 12.4%, Horror 10.9%
In 2016, a group of ambitious students got together to make the best adventure game ever — but they failed. Discover their story by playing through different builds of their game and reading their development logs.
Why similar: Simulation 35.8%, Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Investigation 12.9%, Exploration 10%, Linear 5.7%
Escape the shady brackwater swamp together with the Professor and the Captn in a small Cutter, in a short, text-heavy, linear Horror-Adventure (without Jumpscares).
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.1%, Exploration 17.6%, Horror 14.8%, Stylized 9.6%, 3D 9.5%
In the darkness they sing in the darkness they sway. The toys that had been swept away want to play, And you are now the toy...
Why similar: Simulation 56.3%, Horror 35.2%, Indie 8.4%
Hachi Hachi Mystery is a interactive Visual Novelf taking place at university. It's your first year as a university student and you're going to discover this new life! ...Well, that's how it should have happened.
Why similar: Simulation 42.4%, Interactive Fiction 41.1%, Investigation 15.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Your mission is to cleanse a cursed item in a haunted house. Use your tools to locate and investigate items. Create a ritual area to mark your location of interest and bring items with energy there to progress. Be careful though, the unknown is always watching you and waiting around every corner.
Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Investigation 18.2%, Horror 17.8%, Exploration 14.6%, 3D 9.2%
Xenoquarium is a simulation game where you breed and sell alien aquatic creatures with unique genetic structure. You have to be careful about the harsh laws of the United Earth Government and your relations with underground organizations. Otherwise you may get into trouble.
Why similar: Simulation 42.4%, Conspiracy 30.9% ★, Exploration 16.5%, 3D 9.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Investigate like it's 1993. Hunt clues on VHS tapes, shortwave radio, and the early internet. Pin evidence to your board, connect the strings, and publish theories for cash and followers. Just try not to lose your mind.
Why similar: Conspiracy 40% ★, Simulation 21.4%, Investigation 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Indie 1.7%
Barrett Foster a realistic and immersive puzzle game in which you play the famous inspector solving a dramatic personal investigation: The disappearance of Emma and Gabriel, close friends of Barrett. Explore your environment and solve different puzzles to progress and find answers !
Why similar: Simulation 45.3%, Horror 23.7%, Investigation 14.3%, Exploration 14.2%, Indie 1.7%
A rainy night, unfamiliar figures outside your mobile home and the growing feeling that something is terribly wrong.
Why similar: Simulation 49.6%, Horror 19%, Exploration 17.5%, 3D 10.9%, Indie 1.9%
Sentenced to life in prison, you’re offered freedom by joining a trial for a new drug. The experiment is simple: enter the room, observe, and identify what has changed. Complete all tasks, and your sentence is commuted. But, the further you go, the more unsettling your reality becomes.
Why similar: Conspiracy 42.6% ★, Horror 18.2%, Investigation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%, Exploration 6.5%
A hyper-realistic bodycam survival horror experience. Navigate through eerie, abandoned locations where the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Built on Unreal Engine, every sound, shadow, and step immerses you deeper into a world of terror. Will you survive what lies behind the veil?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.7%, Simulation 23.9%, Horror 17%, Exploration 14.7%, Linear 5.1%
Black Pine is a 4-player online co-op horror survival game where you and your crew are hired contractors, sent deep into the Appalachian Mountains to restore critical infrastructure after unknown events devastate the area. Take on dangerous repairs and avoid the horrors lurking in the shadows!
Why similar: Conspiracy 35.5% ★, Investigation 19.9%, Horror 17.3%, Exploration 12.1%, Simulation 11.9%
Be forced to expand your knowledge through various mini-games in a timeless limbo. Memorize, Deduce, and survive the suffocating darkness in this atmospheric horror game!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Investigation 31.2%, Horror 18.2%, Exploration 8.1%, Stealth 4.7%
Disorganized and alone, a woman finds herself crafting new glasses in order to look at her own home with different shaded views. I won’t forget Hue is a psychedelic thriller experience. You’ll go searching for new lenses, try to figure out what is happening to her home and why she is all alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Investigation 14.1%, Exploration 13%, Stylized 12.3%, Horror 12.2%
Step into the unsettling world of The Blackwood Legacy, a first-person puzzle horror game set in the eerie halls of Blackwood Manor. Solve intricate puzzles, unveil long-held secrets, and decipher the mystery surrounding your father's disappearance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Conspiracy 17.4% ★, Stylized 16.9%, Exploration 11.6%, 3D 8.4%
Help solve the mystery of the moonlit mansion in this classic fixed camera horror puzzle game inspired by the art styles of Resident Evil and Silent Hill. The Lunar Effect takes its protagonist on a dark and unfamiliar path but be warned, sometimes when one stares into the moon, the moon stares back
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Horror 17.2%, Exploration 14.3%, Stylized 10%, Investigation 8.8%
Dive into the world of divination with the Cartomancy Anthology, a collection of introspective and compact digital experiences presented together in a virtual tarot deck.
Why similar: Simulation 43%, Interactive Fiction 37%, Exploration 11.5%, 3D 6.2%, Indie 1.7%
A portal back to August, Friday the 13th, 2021.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Simulation 38.7%, Investigation 11%, Exploration 10.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Four little letters that can turn your whole day upside down – ADHD. Think it’s nothing? That everyone has it? Then watering a few plants, walking the dog, or writing one simple email shouldn’t be a problem... right?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.1%, Simulation 37.6%, Exploration 12.5%, 3D 6.6%, Linear 4.8%
You're the newest steward of Thoth Observatory, tasked with researching the strange Kerr black hole SJ-1765—the Sejanus Singularity. The data gathered here is invaluable, so maintain the installation and preserve your sanity until your rotation ends in this deteriorating station.
Why similar: Simulation 42.5%, Interactive Fiction 41.9%, Horror 13%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Explore a wikipedia-like database and solve a small town mystery in Eastern Europe. Step into the shoes of a journalist in the 90s as you sprawl through articles and uncover the secrets that have been laid in front of you.
Why similar: Conspiracy 39.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Investigation 22.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Linear 2.8%
LOOP 13 is a psychological horror game where you work as a quality control clerk in a dystopian biotech company, inspecting anomalous products and making moral decisions. Every choice changes both your job — and your body.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Simulation 32.7%, Conspiracy 15.6% ★, Exploration 10.4%, 3D 6.4%
Socrates and his crew are back and they won't stop yapping. Block the doors, survive the philosophical ragebait, and contain these ancient thinkers before they break your brain.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Horror 25.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Linear 11.2%, 3D 7.4%
《出马》是一款结合了AVG和挂机玩法的恐怖互动真人影视游戏,脱变于东北传统民俗出马仙,同时融合了挂机玩法,不仅让你有视觉体验,还有超高的成就收集体验。 在游戏里,你将扮演民国时期的一名尔滨神探,和青梅竹马的记者林秋,受林秋学妹刘菲菲的邀请,前往一个名叫黑顶子的山村,调查一起离奇命案。过程自然是惊恐万分,你要面临多种选择,在村民、村长、巫师、林秋、刘菲菲,以及穿着肚兜出现的神秘女人之间,不断做出选择,最终获得正经的、不正经的、完美的、遗憾的等多种结局。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.7%, Simulation 38.4%, Horror 11.7%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
A co-op survival-horror about looting houses for money to help you live to the next day.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.3%, Investigation 19.4%, Horror 15.7%, Exploration 15.1%, Stealth 11.5%
A narrative noir thriller set in Kyoto. Detective Thomas Bennett investigates the disappearance of a British agent, only to collide with the Yakuza, a shadowy conspiracy, and a truth that should never surface.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.9%, Simulation 36.4%, Exploration 14.4%, Investigation 8.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
A first person point and click adventure. Takes place in and around a large house and yard. There are puzzles to solve, and allot of mystery and horror elements blended into the story. Many objects to interact with and to use on the environment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Investigation 19.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Exploration 12.6%, Horror 12%
Explore the depths of an unknown computer, finding clues and surprises along the way. Put the pieces together to unravel a psychosexual mystery.
Why similar: Simulation 54.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Horror 14%, Indie 2.2%
A minimalist surveillance horror game. Flip through security cameras on a deep space station and report subtle anomalies. No jump scares. No combat. Just watch, observe, and try not to miss the moment everything goes wrong.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Simulation 23.9%, Investigation 17.2%, Horror 13.8%, 3D 8.7%
Play as Inspector Barrett Foster in this exciting and immersive enigma game that mixes mystery and suspense at the same time. The expression "The devil is in the details" takes on its full meaning in this game that will make you think and certainly more...
Why similar: Simulation 37.3%, Investigation 26.4%, Horror 22.5%, Exploration 11.5%, Indie 1.6%
My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.
Why similar: Simulation 49.4%, Interactive Fiction 47.5%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.6%, Simulation 27%, Horror 14%, Exploration 13.9%, 3D 8.8%
Take a temporary job as a forest ranger deep in the mountains. Complete daily tasks, maintain equipment, and enjoy the quiet, until strange things start to happen.
Why similar: Simulation 43.4%, Horror 23.5%, 3D 11.4%, Linear 9.5%, Exploration 9%
You wake up in an unfamiliar building. You have to get out of here. You go down the stairs and go down the corridor to reach the same stairs again. The world repeats itself over and over, but each time it repeats itself, something changes. Eternal return. Can you escape from this looping world?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 51.2%, Exploration 19.4%, Horror 15.3%, 3D 11.1%, Indie 2%
Children have been vanishing while playing with the brand new Room2Room handheld gaming system. You have been contracted to monitor playtest sessions, document any unwanted quirks, and help young testers play safely.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Investigation 20.3%, Horror 17.7%, Simulation 16.6%, Exploration 12.1%
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.4%, Investigation 24.9%, Exploration 15.3%, Stylized 12.5%, 3D 8.5%
Terror on the Bayou is a 3rd person, exploration horror game where you must navigate your canoe through a hostile bog, alone and afraid. Will you take up the mantle of lighthouse keeper to keep the bayou safe, or will you become prey along the way?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.2%, Exploration 19.4%, Horror 19.2%, 3D 9.4%, Linear 8%
An immersive storytelling experience that gives you the freedom to roam and explore a large and mysterious building at your own pace while an interwoven narrative plays out around you. Rewind time and watch each story from every angle.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.3%, Simulation 19.4%, Stylized 17.2%, Exploration 10.2%, 3D 8.5%
"Escape the psychological nightmare by solving ingenious puzzles. Every object you touch hides secrets. Every code you crack brings you closer to freedom… or to final destruction."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.4%, Exploration 17.7%, Horror 14.3%, 3D 11.1%, Stealth 9.7%