- #1 Outbreak: The New Nightmare
97% matchMixed65% of 278 reviews2018
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.3%, Demons 19.7%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Horror 12.1%, Action-Adventure 9.6%
- #2 Outbreak
96% matchMixed61% of 130 reviews2017
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Race against the clock and battle the undead in this co-op survival horror nightmare.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 19.4%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, PvE 9.7%
- #3 Selene's Unbearable Night
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 174 reviews2024
Dev: Farelas
Windows
A third person survival horror game. Search for key objects, solve puzzles and face dangers in order to escape. Inspired by the old survival horror, with two playable characters and modern mechanics delve into the narrative story of Selene's Unbearable night.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 26.5%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Horror 10.7%, Female Protagonist 10%, Third Person 9.9%
- #4 Outbreak: Epidemic
96% matchMixed49% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows · Linux
Return to the world of 4-player co-op survival horror with classic gameplay, strict inventory management, crushing enemies, horrific difficulty and more as you and a group of survivors try to survive the epidemic.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 18.3%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Difficult 12%, PvE 8.8%, Demons 8.2%
- #5 Them and Us
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,665 reviews2021
Dev: TendoGames Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Them and Us is a classic, survival horror game with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Discover the truth of Alicia’s past as she descends further into her strange, unending nightmare.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 29%, Survival Horror 26.2%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Third Person 13.3%, Horror 12.7%
- #6 Nightmare of Decay
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,443 reviews2022
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
Why similar: Survival Horror 38%, Horror 21.7%, Demons 14.3%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, PvE 7%
- #7 Evil Awaits™
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Chai Games
Windows
Uncover the mystery of Archdale Castle in this Indie Action Survival Horror when an explosion threatens to expose a family curse and a new epidemic
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 31.7%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Realistic 12.7%, Horror 11.8%, Third Person 10%
- #8 Carnival Massacre
92% matchVery Positive90% of 228 reviews2025
Dev: Norbert BaranyiPub: BEDTIMESTORIES
Windows
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.5%, Third-Person Shooter 17.6%, Horror 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Third Person 8.4%
- #9 Despair: Blood Curse
91% matchVery Positive82% of 154 reviews2024
Dev: Crimson Sequence
Windows
A third-person survival horror game featuring non-linear gameplay, puzzles, and enemies from the depths of hell. When Anna's mother passes away from a sudden illness, she receives a worrying letter from her sister suggesting that not all is as it seems. Will she uncover the truth?
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.3%, Third-Person Shooter 25%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Third Person 13.1%, Horror 13.1%
- #10 Resident Evil Requiem
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 185,609 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 27.6%, Survival Horror 27%, Horror 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
- #11 Hollowbody
90% matchVery Positive85% of 1,618 reviews2024
Dev: Headware Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.7%, Third-Person Shooter 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Third Person 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
- #12 Eldervale
91% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2019
Dev: Solkitte
Windows
Eldervale is a Third-Person Survival Horror Adventure game, made in the style of early 2000's classics. Explore a large, interconnected level, solve puzzles, uncover the story and survive the horrors by strategic use of your resources and fight or flight decisions.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 30%, Survival Horror 25.5%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Horror 10.9%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
- #13 Elise
89% matchMixed56% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Stuart White
Windows
Awakened in a bunker amidst a zombie outbreak after a car crash, guide Elise through harrowing challenges, solve puzzles, and face relentless undead hordes and uncovering the bunker's dark secrets
Why similar: Survival Horror 18%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Third Person 13.8%, Horror 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%
- #14 The Chant
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,272 reviews2022
Dev: Brass TokenPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.3%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Third Person 11.6%, Horror 10.6%, Action-Adventure 10.2%
- #15 Heaven Dust
87% matchVery Positive91% of 696 reviews2020
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.3%, RPG 30%, Horror 16.3%, Action 14.4%
- #16 Witch Hunt
86% matchVery Positive88% of 2,455 reviews2018
Dev: Gua
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Witch Hunt is a challenging horror themed hunting game that takes place in the 18th century. Main focus of the game is on exploration, non-linearity, and atmosphere.
Why similar: Survival Horror 42%, Horror 21.9%, Difficult 19.2%, Exploration 11%, Action 5.9%
- #17 Bushside Rangers
85% matchVery Positive84% of 269 reviews2025
Dev: Daniella G Games
Windows
Bushside Rangers® is a first-person survival horror game that forces you to use your wits as you navigate through the dark, dreary depths of an abandoned nature park.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.4%, Female Protagonist 17%, Action-Adventure 12%, Horror 11.8%, Exploration 10.8%
- #18 Mortanis Prisoners
84% matchVery Positive81% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Alexey BulgakovPub: Honor Games
Windows
Mortanis Prisoners - A survival horror game set in a Third Reich concentration camp where the camp's leadership, upon discovering a planned rebellion, orders the execution of all accomplices. Main protagonist encounter an even more terrifying fate. Will they be able to escape the nightmare?
Why similar: Survival Horror 35.8%, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Horror 17.3%, PvE 12.2%, Exploration 11.8%
- #19 Wounded - The Beginning
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 295 reviews2019
Dev: Workbench Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Wounded is a first-person survival horror game, bringing you the old-school indie horror vibe through a detailed and eerie environment.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.8%, Detective 25.7%, Horror 19.6%, Female Protagonist 7.6%, 3D 7.4%
- #20 Mansion of the Dead
84% matchVery Positive94% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Caicai Studio
Windows
Step into the shoes of Agent Kim, drawn into a chilling mystery deep in the wilderness. Find hidden clues, solve intricate puzzles, and outsmart the relentless zombies that roam the estate. Will you make it out alive, or will you too vanish without a trace?
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.3%, Horror 20.5%, Exploration 14.9%, Action RPG 14.7%, RPG 11.6%
- #21 DYSTHANASIA
82% matchVery Positive89% of 362 reviews2025
Dev: Madowaku KoboPub: Eroge Japan
Windows
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.8%, Third Person 15.8%, Horror 15.2%, Demons 15.1%, Puzzle 8.4%
- #22 Secret Archives
82% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: Juice Game
Windows
This is a third person shooter game The main plot is a secret experiment being conducted somewhere in the future During this process, a strange mineral was discovered and caused a large-scale infection The protagonist's task is to retrieve important "files" and escape from this place!
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 26.3%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, RPG 7.5%, Action-Adventure 6.6%
- #23 Cronos: The New Dawn
79% matchVery Positive88% of 11,957 reviews2025
Dev: Bloober TeamPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A whole new breed of survival horror emerges with Cronos: The New Dawn. Survive the brutal wastelands of the future, fight nightmarish merging creatures and jump back in time to harvest souls as you seek to uncover the origins of the apocalypse that wiped out humanity.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 23.2%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Difficult 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Horror 9.3%
- #24 Echoes of Dread
81% matchVery Positive85% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: Reaper GSPub: Kazakov Studios
Windows
Wake up inside an abandoned mansion. Uncover the dark fate of a missing family. Survive the presence that stalks you within these walls.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.7%, Horror 20%, Detective 19.7%, Exploration 11%, Puzzle 9%
- #25 Dollhouse
83% matchMixed51% of 174 reviews2019
Dev: Creazn StudioPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Dollhouse is a frightening film noir horror story sure to send shivers down your spine. Survive a horrifying trip into the mind of detective Marie. Piece your past together, but watch your back, as something gravely dangerous is hunting you down.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.9%, Detective 23.5%, Horror 20.4%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #26 Comatose
78% matchVery Positive97% of 432 reviews2026
Dev: Lucky DartPub: The Bueno Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore your decaying mind in this story driven retro survival horror FPS. Manage scarce resources, solve puzzles, and fight your way back to the living.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.6%, Horror 19.1%, Exploration 13.4%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Puzzle 11.6%
- #27 Propagation: Paradise Hotel
79% matchVery Positive87% of 882 reviews2023
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Horror 13.8%, Exploration 11%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
- #28 RED NIGHT
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: REDSOFT
Windows
In RED NIGHT, you play as Tess and face a demonic artificial intelligence in a horror anthology game. Each level explores a universal fear through unique and chilling worlds.
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.9%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Realistic 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Horror 12.5%
- #29 Wicked Seed
77% matchVery Positive95% of 1,416 reviews2026
Dev: Dead Right Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Survival Horror 21.3%, Action RPG 17.5%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Third Person 11.3%, Horror 9.6%
- #30 Nocturia The Game
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: BrossLab
Windows
Trapped in the pitch blackness of your own home, you’re a helpless child, alone and pursued by a sinister entity lurking in the shadows. Solve puzzles, brave ever-shifting environments, and uncover a terrible secret. Your worst nightmares come to life. Can you survive the night?
Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Realistic 22.4%, Puzzle 21.4%, Exploration 13.1%, 3D 8.6%
- #31 THE TAG-ALONG OBSESSION
77% matchMixed52% of 162 reviews2024
Dev: LuLuDu Tech Co. Ltd.
Windows
《THE TAG-ALONG OBSESSION》 is a first-person horror puzzle game. You will play Hui Ting and enter the long-abandoned resort to explore the truth of everything. The props survive as much as possible and solve all the mysteries and connections to her own past.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Lore-Rich 21.2%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Horror 17.3%, Puzzle 10%
- #32 Left Alone
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 646 reviews2016
Dev: SpeedTutor
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.4%, Horror 20.2%, Exploration 19.2%, Puzzle 14.4%, 3D 11%
- #33 The Dead Thread
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 110 reviews2026
Dev: JSK Games
Windows
A third-person zombie survival horror in the style of classic Resident Evil. Play as Beth, battle hordes of undead, alluring female foes, and towering bosses in a fallen town, while what you wear becomes part of your survival in a 90s B-movie nightmare.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 25.5%, Survival Horror 20.7%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Third Person 9.8%
- #34 Deformed
75% matchVery Positive95% of 176 reviews2024
Dev: Deformed Studios
Windows
Single player horror game set in an underground lab. Kill monsters and escape.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 25.8%, Action RPG 15%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, PvE 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
- #35 Necrophosis
71% matchVery Positive90% of 909 reviews2025
Dev: Dragonis AresPub: Dragonis Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27%, Horror 15.2%, Demons 14.3%, Third Person 13.3%, Exploration 11.6%
- #36 Fragile Reflection
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: Spectra team
Windows · Mac · Linux
A young woman returns back to her home in a rural Japanese village - but something is very wrong. Find items, solve puzzles, fight monsters and traverse between dimensions. Help Kario Ito reveal hidden mysteries and stay alive in this retro-styled survival horror!
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 28.3%, Survival Horror 23.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Third Person 12.7%, Horror 11.4%
- #37 DreadOut
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,721 reviews2014
Dev: Digital Happiness
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
Why similar: Horror 39.6%, Survival Horror 22.4%, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Third Person 14.1%, Puzzle 3.7%
- #38 Misery Mansion
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 97 reviews2021
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Misery Mansion is a first-person survival horror game. After your car broke down you find yourself helpless in a forest. All alone you will search for help in the dark. You will discover and explore a mysterious old mansion. But soon all you want is to escape the horrors within.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.6%, Demons 23.5%, Horror 16.4%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Realistic 10.9%
- #39 Dead Purge: Outbreak
76% matchMixed44% of 87 reviews2017
Dev: Microlith Games
Windows
Dead Purge: Outbreak is a modern first-person shooter set in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic world where every minute can be your last.
Why similar: Survival Horror 37.8%, Difficult 26.4%, Horror 21.3%, Action 14.6%
- #40 The Night Shift
72% matchMixed58% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Red Spiral Studios
Windows
Trapped in a department store during a storm, survive with only a flashlight while completing tasks and evading a malevolent presence that only moves when you're not looking. Uncover secrets and face evolving horrors in this immersive first-person horror game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.4%, Horror 17.6%, Action-Adventure 15.3%, Realistic 13.3%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #41 Project Nightmares Case 36: Henrietta Kedward
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 405 reviews2021
Dev: NC Studio
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Project Nightmares is a survival horror game with a procedural structure, creating unique scares every time you play. A machine will induce you into a dream state, throwing you into a living nightmare firsthand in order to discover the story of Henrietta Kedward, an old woman with a dark past.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.1%, Horror 15.9%, Demons 14.1%, Realistic 12.4%, Action-Adventure 12.3%
- #42 DOCTOR VISCERA
69% matchVery Positive94% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: Liminal RoadPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Trapped in an abandoned asylum, survive by exploring, solving puzzles, and escaping the terrifying Doctor Viscera. Hide, fight back with limited resources, and uncover documents that reveal the way out before you become the next victim of his gruesome experiments.
Why similar: Survival Horror 35.9%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, Horror 14.6%, Puzzle 10.8%, PvE 10.3%
- #43 Near Death
71% matchVery Positive91% of 1,072 reviews2016
Dev: Orthogonal Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.8%, Female Protagonist 25.7%, Action-Adventure 18.4%, Exploration 17.5%, Action 5.5%
- #44 Noch
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 325 reviews2023
Dev: Fair Games StudioPub: Sad Horse studio
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Go alone (or with a friend) to find the girl who destroyed the world. An ominous surreal first-person adventure full of dangerous monsters and secrets of the deceased world
Why similar: Survival Horror 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Demons 19.4%, Exploration 10%, Horror 9.2%
- #45 Asleep: Act 1
69% matchVery Positive94% of 575 reviews2024
Dev: Black Hole GamesPub: CriticalLeap
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Use light to survive a nightmare: each creature reacts differently to it. Explore, solve puzzles, and evade the horrors in the dark. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.2%, Female Protagonist 22.1%, Horror 18.3%, Exploration 12.9%, Puzzle 10.5%
- #46 Apartament 1406: Horror
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 744 reviews2023
Dev: Airem
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 34.7%, Horror 19.4%, Realistic 16.5%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, 3D 8.6%
- #47 THE MUTE HOUSE
70% matchVery Positive80% of 309 reviews2025
Dev: December Blues Games
Windows
Inspired by old and classic survival horror games, THE MUTE HOUSE combines exploration, management, puzzles and a touch of action. As Emily investigates about her sister's vanishing, she finds herself trapped in a mysterious mansion.
Why similar: Survival Horror 31%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Horror 15.4%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Realistic 9.9%
- #48 Ground Zero
67% matchVery Positive89% of 786 reviews2026
Dev: Malformation GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Fight through post-apocalyptic South Korea in this retro survival horror. Uncover the truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the country in ruins and turned every living organism into a terrifying monstrosity. Fight. Solve puzzles. Upgrade gear. Make every bullet count.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 28.6%, Survival Horror 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Third Person 12.2%, Horror 10.6%
- #49 No Way Out
73% matchMixed45% of 141 reviews2018
Dev: Rafael FariasPub: Fiassink Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
You are alone. Except for the zombies! But there are guns and some ammo. You can fight, but there is No Way Out of this city infested with hideous creatures that will chase you to the end!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #50 Affliction
73% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2018
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Affliction is a survival horror shooter designed to engage players with a thrilling storyline, surreal environments, merciless foes, a chilling atmosphere, and an unforgettable gameplay experience. Players must explore, scavenge, and fight in order to survive and live to tell the tale.
Why similar: Action RPG 21.3%, Lore-Rich 20%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Horror 11.9%, RPG 9.2%
- #51 BrokenLore: DON’T LIE
68% matchVery Positive84% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: Serafini ProductionsPub: Wired Productions
Windows
BrokenLore: DON'T LIE is a Japanese psychological horror game exploring trauma, isolation, and a fractured reality where perception becomes increasingly unreliable.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 50.6%, Horror 24.6%, 3D 15.6%, Action 9.3%
- #52 HORROR TALES: The Wine
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 484 reviews2021
Dev: Carlos Coronado
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
Why similar: Survival Horror 31.3%, Lore-Rich 20.9%, Horror 15.8%, Realistic 11.4%, Exploration 10.9%
- #53 BrokenLore: FOLLOW
67% matchVery Positive80% of 171 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: Demons 31.2%, Female Protagonist 28%, Horror 26.5%, 3D 8%, Action 6.3%
- #54 Outbreak Island
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,124 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.1%, Horror 27.4%, Exploration 21.8%, RPG 13.9%, Action 5.8%
- #55 SIGNALIS
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,748 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 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: Survival Horror 41.1%, Female Protagonist 22.3%, Third-Person Shooter 19.1%, Puzzle 7.4%, Action-Adventure 7.1%
- #56 Self-Delusion
68% matchVery Positive94% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: RollingBreadPub: RollingBreadGames
Windows
Self-Delusion is a first-person survival horror in the original setting of Slavic fairy tales. You will faces such unique monsters like: Kolobok, Leshy, Boggart, Lapot and other creepy creatures. Explore, hide or run. Just don't get devoured by them.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.7%, Difficult 25.7%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Horror 13.5%, PvE 10.1%
- #57 The Mortuary Assistant
65% matchVery Positive92% of 8,787 reviews2022
Dev: DarkStone DigitalPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Why similar: Horror 36.3%, Demons 32.7%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Realistic 9%, Exploration 7.5%
- #58 Bad Omens: 8th Apartment
67% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Neon Flamingo Games
Windows
You play as a student named Lisa, who has just moved in with her university friend. But instead of a carefree student life, Lisa faces events full of despair and fear when she is left alone in her apartment number 8...
Why similar: Horror 24.5%, Female Protagonist 22.7%, Action RPG 20.5%, Exploration 17.1%, Action-Adventure 11.9%
- #59 Fragile
68% matchMixed65% of 431 reviews2020
Dev: Beer Night Studio
Windows
Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.4%, Horror 19%, Difficult 17.8%, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Puzzle 10.9%