
POOLIMINAL is an atmospheric liminal space horror game set in endless, procedurally generated poolrooms. A Backrooms-inspired descent into thalassophobia, where the real terror lies in the dark water below.
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POOLIMINAL is an atmospheric liminal space horror game set in endless, procedurally generated poolrooms. A Backrooms-inspired descent into thalassophobia, where the real terror lies in the dark water below.

The Witch and The Lost Babies
As a journalist, you travel to an abandoned village to investigate a dark event that occurred years ago. As you progress through missing babies, hidden diaries, and forbidden rituals, you will be forced to perform a dangerous ritual yourself to uncover the truth.

TAMAGORUDO - FLOOR O
TAMAGORUDO - Floor 0 - is an atmospheric psychological horror game. You will find yourself stuck in a parallel floor of the Backrooms, trying to break out of the loop of a chicken-or-the-egg paradox. Will you find the answer to this endless question ?
As a journalist, you travel to an abandoned village to investigate a dark event that occurred years ago. As you progress through missing babies, hidden diaries, and forbidden rituals, you will be forced to perform a dangerous ritual yourself to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Adventure 13.9%, Thriller 12%, Exploration 9.2%, Surreal 9%
TAMAGORUDO - Floor 0 - is an atmospheric psychological horror game. You will find yourself stuck in a parallel floor of the Backrooms, trying to break out of the loop of a chicken-or-the-egg paradox. Will you find the answer to this endless question ?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Surreal 13.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 9.9%
My life has changed drastically: a new country, university, dormitory, work. Drowsiness and fatigue have become a habit, just like the silhouettes I’ve started seeing in my peripheral vision.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.2%, Adventure 16.7%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 9.5%, Thriller 8.9%
LiDAR Exploration Program is a relaxing atmospheric game with light horror elements, where you explore in complete darkness using a scanner to reveal the world around you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, First-Person 9.5%
A first-person exploration game about the eerie stillness of liminal spaces. Solve puzzles and navigate surreal environments. Built entirely on atmosphere, with zero jump scares.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.7%, Surreal 16.6%, Adventure 11.4%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
You wake up in an abandoned place, with no memory, trapped in a location that defies logic. As you explore, violent hallucinations stalk you, and a mysterious figure whispers unsettling words. What is real? Only you can uncover the truth before it’s too late.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Thriller 19.1%, Surreal 13.5%, First-Person 9.3%, Adventure 8.9%
“Grandma, Is That You?” is a psychological horror game. As we visit our elderly and ill grandmother to help her, the old mansion reveals buried memories and dark secrets. The line between reality and illusion begins to blur.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Thriller 14.1%, Surreal 10.6%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 9.7%
Wander through bright liminal spaces shaped by distant summer memories. Ride a childhood scooter, reveal hidden paths with Dream Vision, and capture surreal moments with your camera. No combat—just calm exploration.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.8%, Surreal 15.9%, Exploration 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%
You step into a street both strange and familiar, where eerie events unfold one after another. The air is thick with lingering spirits and overwhelming resentment, as if something in the shadows is waiting to drag you into the abyss…
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30%, Thriller 22%, Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
It’s your grandma’s 84th birthday party and nobody is trying to murder her. Stop suspecting your family members, and don’t worry about the strange man in your bedroom. A new creepy-cozy mystery thriller from the creators of Duck Detective.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Adventure 14.3%, Thriller 13.1%, Mystery 11%, First-Person 9.8%
A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.5%, Surreal 16.1%, Thriller 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9%, Atmospheric 7.4%
Liminal City is a psychological horror and exploration game based on found footage, set in Backrooms Level 11. Walk through the streets of Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, dynamically moving to different levels and searching for a way out. Once you fall in here will you be able to get out?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Thriller 14.3%, Exploration 9%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, First-Person 7.9%
A deadly search for a grandmother in the village. Can you escape the loop? Unpredictable horror.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.3%, Adventure 15.7%, Thriller 10.9%, Exploration 10.8%, First-Person 9.7%
This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.9%, Adventure 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Thriller 11%, Horror 10.6%
You are a ghost forever trapped in endless worlds you never even knew existed. An atmospheric experience focused on slow pacing, exploration, and deep environmental immersion.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.2%, Adventure 17.1%, Exploration 11.1%, First-Person 9.9%, Surreal 8.6%
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Adventure 12.4%, Surreal 11.6%, Atmospheric 10.4%
Brews & Blood is a Atmospheric Horror game where you manage your uncle's liquor shop for one night in a remote Indian village.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.3%, Thriller 16.5%, Exploration 9.7%, Horror 9.6%, Adventure 9.3%
project_Structure_01 is first-person exploration game focusing on atmosphere and exploration of surreal liminal spaces that feature brutalist architecture.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Surreal 15.3%, First-Person 11.8%, Adventure 11.1%, Exploration 10.9%
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Thriller 12.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Mystery 8.6%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
A Night On The Farm is an atmospheric horror adventure with deep lore and surprising plot twists. Uncover the mystery surrounding your crash and the farm’s inescapable draw. Utilize key items, cryptic notes, and audio logs as you venture deeper and deeper into the unknown.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.6%, Adventure 17.2%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 11%, Thriller 9.9%
Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター] - this is a New Year's horror game from the first person, in the Japanese style and genre of walking simulator. Collect gifts and make the kids happy on New Year's Eve. But don't forget that Midnight is a time of miracles!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Thriller 13%, Exploration 8.9%, Mystery 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
Enter an impossible Library where every book contains a human life. María's book is fading. Explore the quiet island inside her memory and uncover what she could not face.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.6%, Adventure 18.1%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 11.1%, Mystery 8.3%
You take over as the new ranger overseeing the infamous Timber Trail, a trail known for mysterious disappearances and the Timber Trail Murders.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Thriller 14.3%, First-Person 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Horror 8.9%
Lucid Cycle offers a set of short but unique experiences.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.3%, Surreal 11.2%, Mystery 10.5%, Adventure 10.1%, Exploration 9.4%
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this focussed narrative exploration game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.9%, Thriller 15.1%, Surreal 13.8%, Exploration 7.6%, Mystery 7.6%
You find yourself lost in a mysterious space in the underground shopping area of a certain building while trying to have lunch. Clear the game presented by someone and aim to escape from the eerie underground shopping area.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.6%, Thriller 23.1%, Adventure 18.3%, Mystery 9.5%, Horror 8%
You are a film student recording a house tour in a quiet town. Somewhere between one room and the next, the world changed.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.1%, Thriller 14.3%, Surreal 12.9%, Exploration 9.6%, First-Person 9.2%
Navigate the never-ending hallway of the Hudson: A hotel that doesn’t want its guests to leave. Observe your surroundings, spot irregularities, and choose the correct path to escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Surreal 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Exploration 10.7%, First-Person 9.8%
A short horror observation thriller. Could you tell what's real and what isn't? You stole intel from your company. Now you wake up in a hospital every day with two choices: take your medication if something looks wrong, or hit the call button if you're sure the room is safe.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26%, Thriller 12.1%, Surreal 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Mystery 8.1%
Descend into darkness as John, a search and rescue officer, reaches the final destination of his journey. Explore claustrophobic mines in this horror experience that blends atmospheric exploration with stealth-based survival.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.5%, Adventure 18.9%, Exploration 11.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Atmospheric 7.8%
You awaken in an elevator. Something is terribly wrong with this apartment building. Find the scattered notes, follow the clues, and escape—before it's too late.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.8%, Adventure 19.1%, Surreal 12.4%, Exploration 12%, Horror 7.9%
Dream Voyage is an Indie Story rich Walking simulator focused on the exploration of introspective surreal levels in the dream world of a 10 years old blind child who's looking for the memories of their late mother. Dream Voyage's hudless experience will immerse you in this emotive searching.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.8%, Surreal 18.1%, Exploration 12.8%, Adventure 12.4%, First-Person 10.3%
A psychological loop horror rooted in Malaysian school legends. No chases, less UI, just a slow, atmospheric dread. Estimated 1- 2 hours game time. As an independent artist, I used AI to turn a lifelong dream into reality. Explore shifting corridors, manage character's sanity, and face the cycle.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.7%, Surreal 13.9%, Thriller 13.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Adventure 10.5%
Nightwatch is a first-person mystery game that plays out in the woods of Rivertidecreek, a walking simulator that features choices of dialogues and different puzzles. The artwork will make you feel absorbed in the game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Thriller 11.5%, Adventure 9.8%, Mystery 9.5%, First-Person 9.5%
You watch a news program in the middle of the night featuring an unsettling reporter. As you watch, the world around you begins to warp and become unrecognizable. This is one broadcast you won't soon forget.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Surreal 17.8%, Thriller 12.9%, Horror 9.4%, Exploration 8.6%
Make pizzas and deliver them. The hardest part of running the shop alone is that the delivery destinations are "liminal spaces." A story-driven 3D horror game. There is a kind of worst possible outcome that can only be born in infinite space. Once you understand it, it is already too late.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.5%, Adventure 13.5%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 10.8%, Surreal 10.2%
Mnemosyne is an atmospheric psychological horror and anomaly hunting game that pushes your observation skills to their limits. Trapped in a dark, shifting dungeon, use your camera to document subtle changes and trust your memory to break the endless loop.
Why similar: Thriller 18.3%, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 9.9%
Uncover the mystery of an arctic cargo outpost's lost crew in this horror game. Take in the frozen sea and delve into the depths of the facility, finding items and uncovering new paths with each one to learn what really happened here. But be careful, because something else might be here with you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Horror 10%, First-Person 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Thriller 9.2%
Mindbound is a short single-player horror game that revolves around uncovering what has happened. After a business trip, Marty returns home eagerly anticipating seeing his wife and daughter. But, things turn out differently than expected. The game emphasizes a deep atmosphere.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.5%, Thriller 18.7%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, First-Person 10.8%, Horror 10.5%
Set off on a calm and beautiful adventure exploring a vast mystical island in search of the lost Manaliths. Walk, climb, swim, and glide through valleys, woods, caverns, and coves discovering the island's secrets as you go.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 37.5%, Surreal 20.3%, Exploration 12.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Atmospheric 9.1%
Where the Walls Breathe is a first-person psychological horror experience with a strong focus on atmosphere and environmental storytelling.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.9%, Thriller 14.8%, Surreal 13.5%, Exploration 8.7%, First-Person 8.6%
NOT YET is a first-person psychological horror experience where silence grows heavier the deeper you go, and hesitation becomes its own consequence.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.8%, Thriller 14.4%, Surreal 12.2%, Adventure 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
You must discover the differences between what you see through the camera and with your own eyes to distinguish real floors from fake ones and escape. It is said that ghosts behave the opposite of humans, and taking the elevator is no exception.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36%, Exploration 12.4%, First-Person 12%, Surreal 10.4%, Horror 6.8%
"Psalm 5:9-13" is a first-person psychological horror game with VHS effect. Be careful and attentive, there is something hiding in these rooms, something is watching from the darkness.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, Thriller 14.3%, Surreal 10%, Psychological Horror 7.8%, Mystery 7.8%
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, First-Person 11.2%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Thriller 9.3%
Immerse yourself in poolcore-inspired vibes as you explore a vast complex of mind-bending liminal architecture straight out of your dreams. Navigate through a facility filled with obstacles and puzzles, venturing into depths that descend far below the rippling, chlorinated waters.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.2%, Adventure 16.8%, Exploration 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Surreal 8.2%
What happened during the filming? Stan doesn't remember. Explore the decaying depths of an abandoned subway station, piece together a fragmented reality, and discover the horrifying truth behind his last film. Some memories are better left unmade.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Thriller 11.5%, Surreal 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Adventure 7.4%
A first-person psychological horror game where you explore an abandoned mine, uncover its dark secrets, and survive terrifying creatures lurking in the claustrophobic tunnels.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.1%, Thriller 21.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Horror 9.9%, Mystery 9.2%
Sneak, create distractions, use parkour and solve puzzles to escape this First-Person survival horror slaughterhouse. Trapped in a factory farm for humans you must survive being hunted by your captors.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Thriller 13.7%, Surreal 11.9%, Exploration 9.5%, First-Person 8.4%
Worker 42 is a single-player first-person exploration game. Use your scanner to find your way in the interstellar darkness of space. Repair the various systems of the station, complete your tasks and return to Earth. But something seems wrong on this planet.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.7%, Thriller 12.8%, Adventure 10.9%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 10.4%
You are the newest member of a forest cult. Complete assigned rituals, obey their rules, and uncover the forest’s unsettling secrets. Every step is watched.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Adventure 16.9%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 9%, First-Person 8.7%
Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Surreal 17.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Atmospheric 10.5%, First-Person 9.6%
Enter "Weird Corridor"! Escape horror-filled halls by spotting clues: bloodstains, shadows, eerie sounds. Strategize routes, use resources wisely. Find the exit before terror engulfs you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Thriller 20%, Adventure 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 8.2%
Find your way out of a haunted house like a maze. A first-person horror exploration adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.4%, Adventure 17.6%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 11.2%, Horror 10.2%
You've awakened to find yourself trapped within a never ending neighborhood. Explore the deserted city alleyway, observing your surroundings and spotting the anomalies to reach the exit.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Thriller 18.6%, Exploration 10%, Surreal 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
my brother lives in a canyon is a short adventure game about two brothers reminiscing over short-wave radios.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.2%, Adventure 19.1%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 11.4%, Mystery 8.2%
You are trapped in a never-ending street loop. Observe your surroundings carefully and identify anomalies. Make the right choice at the end of each street and try to escape the loop.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Thriller 14.2%, Adventure 11.5%, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 9%
This is a single player, story driven psychological thriller that follows the mental collapse of a character who has lost touch with reality. As the player, you enter the mind of someone trying to escape a world that is falling apart. Remember the past by reading a diary left behind by your family.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.1%, Surreal 16.1%, Thriller 12.9%, Exploration 12.7%, Adventure 8.9%
You’ve stucked into a loop in the mysterious hotel. Find anomalies to escape the hotel’s loop.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.5%, Surreal 12.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, First-Person 9.5%, Exploration 8.7%
I wolf down a cold, lonely meal. Work's wearing me down, and money's shaky. The syrup I pour into my cold coffee never mixes, no matter how much I stir. So I figure I'll just wander around in my dreams.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 45.6%, Adventure 14.9%, Exploration 14.7%, First-Person 12.9%, Atmospheric 10.7%