Games Like PAPERWORKS

Separated by Nightmares: Where Duty Dies merges first-person puzzles with a poignant narrative. A driven lieutenant, haunted by hidden grief, confronts a sudden blackout. Clues force him to face buried truths, while a lurking darkness waits in the shadows.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 9.7%, Mystery 9.3%, Survival 9.2%

Come, friend, and explore the decaying ruins of this once beautiful home. Overcome relentless monsters, tricky puzzles, and your own mind as you struggle to find a way to escape the estate. Or, perhaps you could look deeper into the horror around you and see if you can untangle its grisly mystery.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.5%, Horror 13.5%, Exploration 13.4%, Puzzle 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

You wake up from the noise of thunderstorms, no one there. You are trying to get out and realize that after all you are not alone here... Сan You Exit From?

Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.7%, Horror 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Mystery 8.6%, Survival 8.5%

Explore an abandoned candy factory once known for its Sweet Door attraction. Unlock zones, solve mechanical puzzles, and survive hostile creations as you search for what was lost the day the factory mysteriously shut down.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 13.6%, Puzzle 12.6%, Exploration 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 8.9%

Trapped in the endless liminal spaces of the Backrooms by accident, your only way out is to uncover the truth. Explore over 30 unique locations, unravel the dark experiments of the F.O.T. foundation, and piece together Arthur Penn’s story—all while fighting panic attacks to maintain your sanity.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.8%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Exploration 11.8%, Horror 11.5%, First-Person 10.1%

Baba Yaga is a horror game, where you play as a wooden boy who needs to bring sleeping herbs for his mum, but on the way, he meets the BABA YAGA! After that everything becomes more brutal and scary.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 14%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Horror 11.3%, Exploration 8.9%

Experience the terror in Silence Channel 2, a first person horror game based on a true story. Navigate through eerie environments, solve puzzles, evade lurking horrors, and even wield firepower in a desperate bid for survival. Can you escape the relentless darkness in this terrifying sequel?

Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.9%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 9.2%, Survival 8.5%, Mystery 8.4%

Fight possessed souls, solve deadly puzzles, and master movement abilities like wall running to infiltrate a sinister factory built to control everyone. Survive the sweet world of Mr. Shrine’s candy empire in this action-horror adventure. Uncover dark secrets, meet mysterious characters, and gods.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.3%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Puzzle 11.5%, Horror 11.2%, First-Person 9.6%

Days after your daughter vanishes, an anonymous note says she’s trapped in an abandoned indoor playground. You break in. It’s dark, rotten, silent. As you search the ruins, something watches you. You’re not alone and it knows you’re there.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.2%, Horror 11.3%, Puzzle 10.8%, Mystery 10.7%, Dark 9.4%

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 17%, Horror 16%, Mystery 12.3%, RPG 12.1%, Puzzle 11.8%

LIMB: Origins is a dark sci-fi horror game where you must survive in a mysterious parallel world following the disappearance of a research team. Unravel the mysteries of your missing colleagues, explore the world, repair the teleporter, and find your way home.

Why similar: Sandbox 15.2%, Horror 11.4%, Exploration 10%, Puzzle 9.8%, First-Person 8.6%

Venture through a twisted corporate office in this first-person psychological horror. An ordinary evening of overtime turns into a nightmare. You awaken at midnight, trapped in a place you no longer recognize. Follow clues, find the truth behind the dark. Can you survive the night and escape alive?

Why similar: Horror 13%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, First-Person 9.6%, Puzzle 8.8%

It has been -̷̯͙̔̈́-̴̱̽̓͝-̷̍̊̕͠ days without incident. Your investigation has brought you to an old metalworks factory, abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. But something’s been growing in the quiet. A short first-person survival horror experience.

Why similar: Horror 17.1%, Mystery 12.1%, Puzzle 11.5%, Exploration 10%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

"The Bait：Tide" is a 3D first person action adventure narrative game. An ancient portrait of unknown origin, let An Xin return to the eastern fishing hometown.And across the sea, on the magnificent waves, we meet again for a century of engagement.

Why similar: Mystery 13.5%, Horror 12.8%, RPG 10.9%, Exploration 10.9%, First-Person 10.3%

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 16.3%, Horror 15.3%, Exploration 10.6%, Puzzle 9.8%, Mystery 8.5%

Lost RETROGRADE is a stealth horror sandbox game about finding your missing grandfather. Avoid a mysterious man hunting you down, but be careful, the he learns & adapts to your every move. Can you outsmart him and find your grandfather?

Why similar: Horror 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Open World 10%, Action-Adventure 9.3%

You're a regular employee of department 14. One day, after falling asleep at your desk, you wake up and notice that all the other workers have left early and you are alone in the department.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 11.8%, Puzzle 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, First-Person 9.1%

What starts as a normal sleepover quickly turns into a terrifying paranormal nightmare. Explore the house, investigate strange occurrences, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the haunting before it's too late.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Exploration 16.2%, Action-Adventure 15.7%, First-Person 11.7%, Horror 11.7%

A 2–8 player online co-op rule-deduction horror game. Find real and false safety notices, survive the rules that activate, then solve the sigil, object, and action sequence and follow the final record to escape. Your crew can help. That does not make them trustworthy.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 13.5%, Puzzle 11%, Exploration 10.3%, Action 8.1%, Horror 7.9%

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 17.3%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Puzzle 11.9%, Exploration 8.4%

Welcome to Inuyo Academy, an all-ages school once filled with joy. Something terrible happened after the school’s mascot staff was revealed to the public, and it’s your job as an officer to investigate the abandoned building, in search of evidence to figure out the truth.

Why similar: Horror 16.6%, Puzzle 13.5%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, First-Person 11.7%, Mystery 11.1%

In this horror game, you'll explore an abandoned shopping mall, solving puzzles along the way using tablet. You'll also be attacked by robots that have lost control after the building exploded. Your goal is to survive.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.2%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Puzzle 12.2%, Survival 8.4%, Action 8.2%

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 20.1%, Horror 19.1%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 12.7%, Puzzle 6.6%

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 18.4%, Horror 16.3%, Puzzle 11.7%, Mystery 10.9%, Exploration 8.4%

Alibaba, the caretaker of the Medieval Grow your Business Game notices a Glitch or Virus of some sort called Snafu has infiltrated the game files. NPCs begin to act strangely, textures look off, and I think - I think something is trying to hunt me down?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 12.1%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Exploration 9.1%, Open World 8.4%

A first-person Venezuelan folk horror game inspired by El Silbón. Explore, hide, solve puzzles and survive a nightmare where memory, guilt and folklore come together in the darkness of the rural plains.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 15.1%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Lore-Rich 9.3%, Puzzle 8.6%

Whisperwind is a short psychological horror experience featuring puzzles, multiple endings, creepy ambience and deep storytelling.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.8%, Horror 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Exploration 9.8%

Beyond Acrimony is a first-person psychological horror set within the fractured spaces of a grieving mind. Explore shifting liminal environments shaped by emotion, solve cryptic puzzles, and confront what your mind refuses to let go of.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Mystery 10.3%, Horror 9.6%, Puzzle 7.6%

Hunt down the mythical beast, created in desperation during the final days of World War II. A failed Nazi project known as “Wolfsklinge” unleashed an ancient creature from the depths of hell. Now, it’s your task to lift the curse that haunts the village and the forest. It won’t be easy.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 15.7%, Open World 11.3%, Horror 10.8%, Survival 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

《Rising Snake》 is a semi sandbox horror decryption adventure game. A fictional university campus based on real size. A "Taoist" with special abilities. A twisted and bizarre story. Waiting for your arrival.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.9%, RPG 10.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Exploration 9.7%

In this horror adventure, your only weapons are ink, paper, and will. Explore shifting paths, chart them by hand, and uncover ancient secrets buried beneath root and stone. Every step takes its toll.

Why similar: Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 10.2%, Open World 7.3%

RERODENT is a first-person psychological horror and puzzle game about rats and cultists. You play as Jimmy Rodentim, and one day you get a call from your Uncle Vic, who asks you to clean up his house for 100 bucks. Little did you know that a simple task will get you killed.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 10.7%, First-Person 8%, Puzzle 7.9%

CALL OF CUTIE is a single-player horror adventure set inside a vast, terrifying laboratory. Explore dark corridors, solve puzzles, fight frightening enemies, and rescue the victims trapped inside. Choose your own path with Bubbles and find a way to escape.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 10.9%, Puzzle 9.2%, Survival 9.2%

A psychological horror game set in an abandoned hospital. A sound-sensitive creature hunts you. Stay silent, hide, and escape before it hears you.

Why similar: Horror 18.1%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Exploration 14.3%, Survival 10.1%, Dark 9.7%

Navigate a maze of rivers and streams, avoid The Graft at all cost, and open your way into the unknown to find your missing pet.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.4%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Survival 9.2%, Puzzle 9.1%

Armed with nothing but a flashlight, your intuitions, and each other; you and your partner have set out to uncover the lost history of “Lab 257.” Only through teamwork will you succeed in navigating the labyrinths below. Will the encroaching darkness bring you together, or will it tear you apart?

Why similar: Exploration 16.1%, Action-Adventure 15.3%, Puzzle 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 10.5%

A cooperative psychological horror where the house manipulates each player differently. Share clues, question reality, and find out who — if anyone — makes it out together.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 17%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Horror 9.3%, Action 6.1%

Explore the most obscure levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the new deceives and mysteries that await you. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…

Why similar: Horror 14.1%, Lore-Rich 14%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, First-Person 9.9%

A psychological survival horror game where you explore a shifting, haunted forest, uncover rituals, and fight to escape before madness consumes you.

Why similar: Exploration 13.8%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Puzzle 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 9.1%

踏上《河神：沉溺之流》的旅程，在那里一个古老的村庄与深入其骨髓的诅咒斗争。揭开一个邪恶祭司的秘密，他的黑暗仪式将村庄与生死界限之外的领域连接在一起。

Why similar: Puzzle 13.6%, Exploration 12.6%, Action 10.3%, Horror 8.8%, First-Person 8.8%

Astral Dusk is a first-person, crafting horror survival game following a lone astronaut marooned on the edge of a deep, dark moon crater. Scavenge various resources, debris, and alien plant life to craft tools to venture further into the void, to fix your damaged rocket, and blast off into space.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 9%, Horror 8.4%

In this sequel to Leenie Boog, you are an Artaktikon named Ballin. Plucking up your courage, you decided to start fresh: move to the big city and get a job. You truly believed that the dark ages, when carnivores devoured herbivores, were long gone... Or so you thought, until recently.

Why similar: Horror 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, First-Person 9.1%

Step inside a circus performer's quiet home, but don't stop at the surface. In this short-form descent into dread, follow a hidden labyrinth deep beneath the floorboards and watch a simple investigation spiral into a claustrophobic nightmare.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 12.9%, Exploration 8.3%, Dark 7.3%

Explore the monster-occupied levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dreads that reside below as you are now completely on your own. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…

Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 13.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, First-Person 9.6%

Your mother is dying, piece by piece. As Jesse, you must journey through corrupted realms ruled by fiends, evade deadly threats, recover shattered monuments, and face deadly challenges beyond mortal limits, using the monuments' power to rewrite fate and save her.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.5%, Action-Adventure 14.8%, Exploration 14.4%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Dive into Alex Mercer's twisted reality. Navigate eerie landscapes, solve cryptic puzzles, and uncover the 'Dark Passenger' mystery. Will shadows consume you or will truth emerge?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 16.9%, Puzzle 14.2%, First-Person 11.1%, Exploration 9.4%

Trapped in a remote, snowbound village, uncover the haunting secrets buried beneath Yukimura’s endless winter. A Japanese-inspired survival horror experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 13.3%, Action-Adventure 12.4%, Open World 12.1%, Exploration 11.1%

Giggleland is full of adventures and fun! Will you be the next to discover why our guests are always smiling? This game is not suitable for children.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.5%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Puzzle 11.2%, Horror 9.5%, First-Person 8.9%

A first-person survival horror game where a desperate search through a cursed forest leads to terrifying creatures, hidden secrets, and a truth better left buried.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Exploration 12.4%, Horror 11.7%, First-Person 10.3%

Survive this puzzle-horror adventure and uncover the truth behind the terrible story hiding in the depths of the aquarium! But beware: once you cross the point of no return, there is no going back...

Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.1%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Exploration 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Horror 10.9%

Step in the shoes of a debt collector in an immersive, interactive world where your primary weapons are psychological leverage and high-stakes negotiation to extract payments from everyone — from desperate street vendors to corrupt corporate titans.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.4%, Exploration 15.8%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Open World 11.5%, First-Person 8.2%

Enter Grinny’s Playhouse, a once‑lively children’s fun centre now abandoned after its mysterious shutdown. Explore the dark party rooms and uncover what happened here. But be careful… the mascot who once entertained families hasn’t fully powered down.

Why similar: First-Person 14.9%, Horror 14.7%, Puzzle 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Dark 9.6%

Trapped in a frozen cabin during a relentless storm, you begin to realize the silence around you isn’t empty… something is watching, waiting, and getting closer.

Why similar: Exploration 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 11.8%, First-Person 11.1%, Mystery 10.8%

A horror story with many paths. Whole open prison with environmental puzzles and interesting characters.

Why similar: Horror 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 12.1%

A psychological horror spin-off of the acclaimed game Claire. You play as Deacon, a man searching for his missing father, but the deeper you dug, the darker the truths you uncovered, secrets you wish you’d never found, and that will haunt you forever.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 12.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Puzzle 10.9%, Exploration 8.5%

A Japanese survival horror game full of tension, drama, and violence. If you like psychological horror games with exploration, puzzles, and limited resources, you'll enjoy an intense experience where every decision can mean the difference between finding Sayuri or getting lost in the forest forever.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 9.7%, Survival 8.6%, Action-Adventure 8.3%

Beyond reason is a knowledge-based time-loop game about surviving a tiny open world. Master fluid first person combat, while uncovering the island's secrets. When you die, you take nothing but your knowledge of the world into the next loop.

Why similar: Open World 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Mystery 13.7%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 8.3%

Can you tell the difference between truth and tale? Experience three short horror stories and gather clues as to which are true and which are just part of our imagination. Immerse yourself in the protagonist's perspective and discover eerie tales from around the world.

Why similar: Horror 16.7%, Mystery 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Exploration 10.8%, Action-Adventure 10.1%

Tokyo's population has vanished, and deadly supernatural forces prowl the streets. Use an arsenal of elemental abilities to unravel the truth behind the disappearance and save Tokyo.

Why similar: Open World 16.1%, Lore-Rich 14%, Horror 11.5%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, First-Person 10%