- #1 Metal Dead
97% matchVery Positive86% of 504 reviews2014
Dev: Walk Thru Walls Studios
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A hilariously terrifying adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead.
Why similar: Blood 33.6% ★, Gore 22.5%, Adventure 15%, Point & Click 14.1%, Indie 8.1%
- #2 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,695 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.6%, Adventure 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.3%, Indie 15.7%
- #3 Gods Will Be Watching
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,928 reviews2014
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Adventure 16.9%, Indie 16.1%, Gore 10.2%
- #4 MO:Astray
94% matchVery Positive92% of 5,040 reviews2019
Dev: Archpray Inc.Pub: Rayark International Limited
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
Why similar: Gore 32%, Adventure 26.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, Indie 20.3%
- #5 Like Clay
95% matchVery Positive88% of 124 reviews2017
Dev: free08Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Like Clay is a story driven adventure game with horror elements. Find out what happened to a friend of yours by reading messages and listening to audio files. Search for hidden doors and items, solve light puzzles and survive deadly foes and lethal traps.
Why similar: Indie 37.1%, Adventure 34.3%, Horror 28.6%
- #6 Anglerfish
94% matchVery Positive83% of 283 reviews2022
Dev: Professional Villains
Windows
The game only saves when you die. Every time you die, something changes. Every change is based on where and how you died. Go on an epic adventure only equipped with your trusted shotgun, your wit and your strong stomach for disturbing exploration. Can you survive a night at the bar, Anglerfish?
Why similar: Horror 32.8%, Survival Horror 30.8%, Pixel Graphics 20.8%, Adventure 15.6%
- #7 Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure
93% matchVery Positive83% of 175 reviews2019
Dev: Screaming Void
Windows
NoW YoU SEE is a story driven, first-person, point & click, horror adventure. You must escape!!! Explore the house, solve fiendish puzzles, uncover horrible secrets and get ready to meet the family. STORY. PUZZLES. GORE.
Why similar: Gore 34.9%, Adventure 16.8%, Point & Click 15.6%, Indie 11.9%, Survival Horror 11.3%
- #8 Escape 51
91% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: 51 Goobcells Production
Windows
In Escape 51 you play as a small alien that has been mistreated by humans as he works to escape the research facility that has kept him and other aliens like him captive for so long.
Why similar: Adventure 59.9%, Horror 40.1%
- #9 Wailing Heights
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 133 reviews2016
Dev: Outsider Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A body-hopping, musical adventure game. Trapped in a horrific hamlet of modern monsters, ex-band manager Francis Finkelstein uses the possession wheel to sing his soul into hipster vampires, vegan werewolves and soulful zombies, using their ghoulish powers to escape from Wailing Heights.
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Point & Click 36.6%, Indie 24.9%
- #10 Blackbay Asylum
91% matchMixed57% of 552 reviews2014
Dev: TAD Productions ABPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Blackbay Asylum, you take on the role of a confused psychopath who finds himself able to leave his cell one day. Explore the hospital grounds, solve mind shattering puzzles, survive relentless horrors and follow the story of Doug Dunheiw as he tries to find some clarity in what goes on at Blackbay Asylum.
Why similar: Gore 46.3%, Adventure 28.3%, Horror 14.3%, Indie 11.1%
- #11 Don't Escape Trilogy
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 734 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.
Why similar: Point & Click 31.9%, Adventure 21.2%, Horror 20.5%, Indie 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%
- #12 Octave
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 167 reviews2016
Dev: Anate Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Octave is a point 'n click horror-adventure game with elements of action. Dark woods, monsters, paranormal activity, nice puzzles - all this is present in the game.
Why similar: Gore 41%, Indie 35.4%, Adventure 23.5%
- #13 Defense: Abominations
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Ominous Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.
Why similar: Gore 53.9%, Indie 19%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Horror 10.6%
- #14 The Executioner
88% matchMixed66% of 372 reviews2019
Dev: Lesser Evil Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The Executioner puts you in the shoes of a man who tortures people for a living while trying to retain his own sanity. In this game the monster isn’t lurking behind you. You are the monster, if you choose to become one.
Why similar: Gore 42.8%, Indie 19.8%, Adventure 19.4%, Horror 17.9%
- #15 Nauticrawl
86% matchVery Positive92% of 467 reviews2019
Dev: Spare Parts OasisPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.
Why similar: Point & Click 49.1%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 23.2%
- #16 The Outpost Nine: Episode 1
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: Benjy BatesPub: Sedoc LLC
Windows · Mac
The Outpost Nine - Episode 1 is a Visual Novel/Point and Click hybrid game following the small skeleton crew of “The Outpost”, A lonely mining facility set on the small moon “Cobalt Paradise”.
Why similar: Gore 41.9%, Indie 21.1%, Adventure 20.2%, Point & Click 16.8%
- #17 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
85% matchVery Positive89% of 3,744 reviews2013
Dev: The Dreamers GuildPub: Nightdive Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!
Why similar: Point & Click 55%, Adventure 23.7%, Horror 21.3%
- #18 The Blind Prophet
84% matchVery Positive88% of 522 reviews2020
Dev: Ars Goetia
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A point'n'Click adventure game. Resolve mysteries and fight the Great Evil.
Why similar: Adventure 34.8%, Indie 23.7%, Point & Click 22.6%, Gore 12.8%, Horror 6%
- #19 DOOMED
86% matchMixed56% of 187 reviews2018
Dev: Bloody Pixel Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
DOOMED is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.
Why similar: Blood 44.1% ★, Adventure 15.8%, Gore 15.4%, Indie 10.9%, Horror 9.5%
- #20 Blair Witch
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,941 reviews2019
Dev: Bloober Team SAPub: Bloober Team NA
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Adventure 29.1%, Survival Horror 18.7%, Indie 17.5%
- #21 Why Am I Dead At Sea
84% matchVery Positive95% of 426 reviews2015
Dev: Peltast Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Why Am I Dead At Sea is an adventure game where you solve the mystery of your own murder. As a ghost, you will have to possess people and use them to investigate your surroundings. But in this place no one is who they seem...and everyone has a secret.
Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Indie 30.3%, Pixel Graphics 26%
- #22 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
82% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Point & Click 43.7%, Horror 29.4%, Adventure 27%
- #23 CANINE
81% matchVery Positive97% of 338 reviews2023
Dev: Puko
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
PSX style horror game about a boy looking for his dog, kidnapped by an evil corporation that runs experiments with pets.
Why similar: Gore 31.2%, Horror 26.6%, Survival Horror 23.3%, Indie 10.7%, Adventure 8.2%
- #24 Rotten Flesh - Cosmic Horror Survival Game
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 160 reviews2024
Dev: Steelkrill Studio
Windows
Rotten Flesh is a cosmic horror survival game where you have just lost your dog named Roy and you have to find him by shouting for "ROY" on your microphone. Venture deep into the sewers where your dog was lost - however, something else can also hear your screams in the tunnels.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36%, Horror 24.3%, Adventure 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%
- #25 Barking from the Dark
79% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: shoftArt
Windows
You’re on duty at crossing #13. Keep an eye on the tracks, repair the sleepers, open the barriers for trains, cars, and people. Something in the woods is barking… and it’s calling you.
Why similar: Horror 29.3%, Survival Horror 28.2%, Adventure 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Indie 7.2%
- #26 The Final Station
80% matchVery Positive87% of 9,347 reviews2016
Dev: DO MY BESTPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 36.7%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 21.7%, Horror 14.5%
- #27 Planet RIX-13
81% matchVery Positive95% of 108 reviews2017
Dev: 9 Eyes Game Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Planet RIX-13 is а 2D adventure, in which you play as a space explorer engaged in searching for planets potentially suitable for life.
Why similar: Point & Click 33.8%, Adventure 28.6%, Indie 21.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%
- #28 Furquest
78% matchVery Positive87% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: bitter
Windows
A bitter RPG where every enemy has their own unique minigame, and where there are two sides to every soul: Main and Invert!
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.1%, Indie 27.8%, Horror 23%, Adventure 17%
- #29 Just Ignore Them
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,535 reviews2017
Dev: Stranga GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.
Why similar: Gore 27%, Horror 17.1%, Point & Click 16.5%, Adventure 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%
- #30 1 Bit Survivor
76% matchVery Positive99% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Chaz Acheronti
Windows
1 Bit Survivor is a unique blend of turn-based combat and survival horror! Carefully manage your resources to solve procedurally generated combat puzzles. Survive 28 Days and save your Pet Cat from the Zed-pocalpyse!
Why similar: Survival Horror 55.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Adventure 15.2%, Horror 12.9%
- #31 HOMESICKNESS
75% matchVery Positive96% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: jnity
Windows
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Why similar: Point & Click 46.4%, Horror 24.5%, Adventure 13.8%, Survival Horror 10.7%, Indie 4.5%
- #32 Dark Scavenger
78% matchVery Positive86% of 243 reviews2014
Dev: Psydra Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Why similar: Point & Click 40.9%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 24.8%
- #33 SLACKJAW
73% matchVery Positive83% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Nostromo Interactive
Windows
As the latest prey of a deranged serial killer, you must use your wits and resources to survive in this atmospheric first-person escape room-style horror game. Explore, uncover secrets, and plan your escape... but be quiet, or you'll be his next victim. Inspired by true events.
Why similar: Horror 40.4%, Survival Horror 32%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 12.1%
- #34 Zelle
74% matchVery Positive95% of 509 reviews2019
Dev: Fuming
Windows · Mac
Zelle is a occult adventure game. You can explore the inside and outside of the castle using adventure game mechanics and battle demons with strategic mouse clicks. Your goal in this game is to bring the protagonist home.
Why similar: Gore 35.9%, Adventure 29.7%, Indie 20.5%, Horror 13.9%
- #35 Slender Threads
71% matchVery Positive91% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Blyts
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.3%, Gore 24.5%, Adventure 23.2%, Indie 15.6%, Horror 11.5%
- #36 Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 138 reviews2015
Dev: InfogramesPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
As you journey to the seemingly placid surroundings of a Greek courtyard or the secret gardens of Tihuanica, beware - things are not as they seem. This supernatural action adventure is sure to pique your obsession with horror and espionage.
Why similar: Gore 43.4%, Point & Click 36.7%, Adventure 19.9%
- #37 Dark Fear
75% matchVery Positive94% of 233 reviews2016
Dev: Arif Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Dark Fear is a pixel horror game with RPG and adventure game elements. Explore a diverse landscape filled with forests, mountains, lakes and deserts. Make allies in the local village, upgrade your weapon and armor, go hunting/fishing and fight your way to the truth by slaying your foes, solving puzzles and helping people with their...
Why similar: Adventure 31.7%, Point & Click 21.1%, Indie 19.4%, Horror 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #38 You Will (Not) Remain
72% matchVery Positive92% of 2,539 reviews2022
Dev: Bedtime PhobiasPub: No way, we're indie baby of course we don't have a publisher
Windows
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Point & Click 46.1%, Pixel Graphics 29%, Horror 24.9%
- #39 Dogworld
73% matchVery Positive96% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Lateralis Heavy Industries
Windows
Shoot, jump, and slide your way through a ruined, mysterious, dog-filled world as you fight to save humanity from the clutches of a rogue AI named Daddy.
Why similar: Adventure 60%, Indie 40%
- #40 The Long Reach
74% matchVery Positive84% of 491 reviews2018
Dev: Painted Black GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.
Why similar: Gore 34%, Adventure 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Indie 15.1%, Horror 11.1%
- #41 Outlive
71% matchVery Positive87% of 71 reviews2023
Dev: Bossco Games
Windows
Outlive is an intense game of survival! Run, hide and outsmart mutants in a post-apocalyptic world. No fighting allowed, only puzzles to solve. Created by an indie studio founded by a father and son.
Why similar: Gore 35.9%, Survival Horror 26.8%, Horror 18.8%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 7.4%
- #42 Lone Leader
76% matchMostly Negative35% of 366 reviews2016
Dev: SirGoosePub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Lone Leader is a unique zombie apocalypse survival game. Your only aim in life is to survive. Explore the spine chilling open world map in a quest to survive.
Why similar: Gore 28.8%, Indie 21.7%, Adventure 18.7%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Horror 12.5%
- #43 House
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,128 reviews2020
Dev: Bark Bark Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
Why similar: Gore 31.7%, Horror 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 8.9%
- #44 STASIS: BONE TOTEM
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,604 reviews2023
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...
Why similar: Point & Click 36.6%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Horror 21.8%, Adventure 19.8%
- #45 Endoparasitic
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,957 reviews2022
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must save your research. Drag yourself through the corridors of a secret research lab on a remote asteroid, fight off horribly mutated monsters, inject countless syringes of vaccines, and survive at all costs.
Why similar: Survival Horror 54%, Horror 33.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%
- #46 Survivor
73% matchMixed64% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: Reija Meriläinen
Windows · Mac
Outwit, Outplay, Outcast.
Why similar: Adventure 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #47 DEADBOLT
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,586 reviews2016
Dev: Hopoo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.
Why similar: Gore 45.8%, Pixel Graphics 28.6%, Indie 21.1%, Horror 4.5%
- #48 Cleansuit
72% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2017
Dev: Goblin Council
Windows · Mac
Cleansuit is a retro-style graphical text adventure game where you must find creative ways to survive a mysterious serial killer's assault on your home. Use text commands to manipulate the detailed environment and discover all the unique ways to win and die.
Why similar: Gore 43%, Indie 24.7%, Horror 18.1%, Adventure 14.1%
- #49 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets
71% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: BeautiFun Games
Windows · Mac
Become the most epic intern of all times (or at least save your own neck), in this frantic puzzle-adventure game infested with aliens ! Created by the studio behind the award-winning game "Nihilumbra".
Why similar: Adventure 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #50 Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse Ep2: Caged
68% matchVery Positive92% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.
Why similar: Adventure 63.8%, Indie 36.2%
- #51 Antarctica 88
70% matchVery Positive86% of 273 reviews2020
Dev: Euphoria Games
Windows
Uncover the chilling secrets beneath the Antarctic ice in this survival horror FPS. Shoot unimaginable creatures, solve cryptic puzzles, and fight for your life in the frozen wastelands.
Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Survival Horror 24.4%, Adventure 24%, Indie 17.8%
- #52 Out There Somewhere
69% matchVery Positive93% of 6,918 reviews2016
Dev: MiniBossPub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 36.2%, Adventure 34.6%, Indie 29.2%
- #53 CARRION
67% matchVery Positive95% of 30,840 reviews2020
Dev: Phobia Game StudioPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Why similar: Gore 46.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Horror 16.4%, Adventure 10.7%, Indie 10.1%
- #54 Mansion of the Dead
66% matchVery Positive94% of 108 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: Gore 33.9%, Survival Horror 30%, Horror 21%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 4.9%
- #55 Inscryption
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,872 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 43.5%, Point & Click 31.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Adventure 11.7%
- #56 That Which Gave Chase
66% matchVery Positive92% of 1,055 reviews2023
Dev: AslakPub: Fremmed
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A first-person dog sledding horror game. Play as a sled dog musher hired to transport a scientist deep into the unforgiving wastes of the arctic.
Why similar: Horror 54.9%, Adventure 31.8%, Indie 13.4%
- #57 The Third Shift
65% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: Teebowah Games
Windows
In this Game Boy styled horror game, uncover the mystery of the Roanoke Museum of History and Wonder. Get lost in its maze-like exhibits, solve peculiar puzzles, and survive being hunted by grotesque creatures from the controversial Human Body Exhibit. Can you leave the museum alive?
Why similar: Point & Click 29.8%, Horror 26.4%, Adventure 25.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Indie 2.9%
- #58 Stay Out Of The Farm: Prologue
69% matchMixed58% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Yasha
Windows
Free Prologue to Stay Out Of The Farm, a ps1 styled horror game where you try to escape from a serial killer.
Why similar: Adventure 34.3%, Gore 24.5%, Survival Horror 19.7%, Horror 13.9%, Indie 7.6%
- #59 Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,793 reviews2024
Dev: Mega Cat Studios
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.
Why similar: Horror 35.5%, Pixel Graphics 22%, Adventure 16.6%, Point & Click 12.1%, Survival Horror 7.8%