- #1 Hollow Remains
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SorajikaGames
Windows
Hollow Remains is a first-person exploration horror game set in a hospital. When you awaken from surgery, you find yourself completely alone. As you flee from the lurking entity, you uncover the truth that was left behind.
Why similar: Horror 34.7%, Exploration 33.4%, Adventure 25.8%, Singleplayer 3.1%, Indie 2.9%
- #2 Riot of Willy
96% matchPositive86% of 42 reviews2023
Dev: Too Production
Windows
Is a horror game with an adventure twist. Your task is to solve puzzles and not to get caught by monsters. They all hear and see you, so be careful. Explore the locations and survive in this thrilling horror game
Why similar: Horror 41%, Adventure 25%, Exploration 22.8%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 5%
- #3 Deranged
96% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Franco Hernandez
Windows
Deranged is a single player puzzle and psychological horror video game. Find a way to escape the O'Connor mansion before things get tough. Remember that in order to escape you must complete challenging puzzles against the clock ... Will you be able?
Why similar: Horror 45.6%, Exploration 26.5%, Adventure 22%, Singleplayer 6%
- #4 The elevator
95% matchVery Positive87% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: Springbok
Windows
Something is going on in the elevator of your new home.
Why similar: Exploration 36.7%, Horror 33.3%, Adventure 21.9%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #5 Pixelwave Off
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PixelwaveCraft Studios
Windows
Pixelwave Off is a backrooms-mascot horror game set in the 2000s.You return to search for your friend, who disappeared a few years ago.Find him and uncover the dark secrets hidden within Pixelwave Entertainment.
Why similar: Horror 41.1%, Adventure 25.9%, Exploration 24.7%, Singleplayer 5.5%, Indie 2.8%
- #6 メアリウム
94% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: 群悠
Windows
少年が迷い込んだのは悪夢の水族館『メアリウム』。果たして彼は襲い来る異変を乗り越え、無事家に帰る事ができるのでしょうか?KOTAKE CREATE様の『8番のりば』を参考に、ドット絵で構成された2Dホラーゲームです。
Why similar: Horror 43.1%, Adventure 28.9%, Exploration 23.2%, Singleplayer 4.8%
- #7 Babysitter
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Void
Windows
Take the role of child who has to escape the house by outsmarting the babysitter. You have to solve puzzles without getting caught in order to escape
Why similar: Horror 41.4%, Adventure 27.7%, Exploration 24.6%, Singleplayer 3.3%, Indie 2.9%
- #8 Descend
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Josh Green
Windows · Linux
Descend is a faithful depiction of SCP-087.
Why similar: Horror 43%, Adventure 27.7%, Exploration 25.7%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #9 In Her Image
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio MHB
Windows
A psychological horror game about descent through grief.
Why similar: Horror 31.1%, Exploration 28.3%, Adventure 19.7%, Stylized 12.8%, Singleplayer 4.2%
- #10 Price of Knowledge
91% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Dark Mind
Windows
Start your journey to meet your fears and new knowledge. You are forced to become an adult and learn the truth.
Why similar: Horror 45%, Exploration 24.5%, Adventure 21.2%, Singleplayer 6%, Indie 3.3%
- #11 Kandyland
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goldenlane Studio
Windows
Kandyland is a single player horror game in which you must outwit beloved characters that once brought you joy, in order to escape the park.
Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Adventure 25%, Exploration 20.4%, Stylized 15.7%, Indie 2.7%
- #12 I Must Kill: Fresh Meat
90% matchMostly Negative29% of 264 reviews2015
Dev: Gaming Cats Studio
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 46.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
I must kill...: Fresh Meat is a light horror story adventure game based on a sad story of a butcher. One day, one night and one accident will bring his misty past and memories to light.
Why similar: Horror 64.5%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 8.2%
- #13 Isolation
89% matchMixed42% of 55 reviews2017
Dev: Interactive Gaming Studios
Windows
The plague destroyed the world you once knew. This unknown bacteria destroyed the lives of many people who lived in various countries around the world. When the plague was first identified by doctors, researchers started working on a cure immediately. The infected people were transported into hospitals to isolate them from other people.
Why similar: Horror 51.7%, Adventure 37.5%, Indie 10.8%
- #14 Tihama | تهامة
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bader Albaker Pub: Bader albaker
Windows
Tihama is a first-person Mysterious story driven adventure game. You return to your family home to take care of your grandfathers property, but strange events begin to appear. Explore, feel the tension, and uncover the truth behind what’s happening. A thrilling journey full of secrets and surprises.
Why similar: Exploration 33.9%, Horror 32.9%, Adventure 27.2%, Singleplayer 3.1%, Indie 2.9%
- #15 House of Caravan
87% matchMixed67% of 808 reviews2015
Dev: Rosebud GamesPub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.
Why similar: Horror 49.5%, Adventure 24.1%, Exploration 14.1%, Indie 8.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #16 REALITY
86% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Grey Reality Studios
Windows
REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.
Why similar: Horror 62.9%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 9.2%
- #17 The Final Take
86% matchMixed64% of 506 reviews2016
Dev: HUSH InteractivePub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Relive dark footage recorded from the perspective of multiple characters in this unique first person horror.
Why similar: Horror 58.8%, Adventure 30.8%, Indie 10.3%
- #18 Vorago
84% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Adam HandschuhPub: Hidden Palm Interactive
Windows
Welcome to the Oracle-Fields. You are AL-1, a droid tasked with assisting research across space stations on the edge of the galaxy. But now, the 'Time-Event' has changed something. Everyone has disappeared. Locate the others. Face the horrors of space. Solve puzzles. Find your way home.
Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Adventure 33.3%, Exploration 26.8%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #19 OBSCURIA
84% matchMixed57% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: ARANJA GAMESPub: ARANJA STUDIO
Windows
After the largest cruise ship in the world suffered a shipwreck and was invaded by ghosts, you must find Captain Blackhood after he disappeared, enter the great Nocturne and investigate all the secrets and mysteries.
Why similar: Horror 33.1%, Adventure 27%, Exploration 23.1%, Indie 12.4%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #20 Kach
82% matchVery Positive81% of 292 reviews2022
Dev: Bhargav ModhaPub: BYGames
Windows · Mac
On a task to find your sister, you find yourself exploring an old abandoned house. But you soon find out that things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Horror 34.3%, Stylized 23.3%, Adventure 21.3%, Exploration 17.4%, Indie 2.2%
- #21 Sylvio
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 146 reviews2015
Dev: Stroboskop
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.
Why similar: Horror 47.9%, Adventure 40.3%, Indie 11.8%
- #22 Mesel
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Burak Dabak
Windows
Mesel is inviting you to become the protagonist and the writer of a novel at the same time. Create your own novel with your own decisions.
Why similar: Horror 35.6%, Adventure 26.9%, Exploration 25.2%, Indie 12.4%
- #23 Evil Book: Abandoned House
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shiva Gupta
Windows
A first-person atmospheric horror game set in an abandoned house. Explore dark rooms, uncover the secrets of an ancient evil book, and survive terrifying encounters where every sound and choice can decide your fate.
Why similar: Horror 42.2%, Exploration 27.7%, Adventure 23.7%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Indie 2.9%
- #24 MÅRD
81% matchMostly Negative22% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Black Curtain Studio
Windows
You are a detective who decides to visit your late father's cabin, which he has left you, somewhere in the woods of northern Sweden. But everything is not what it seems. Determined to find out what drove your father to spend his final months in isolation in the cabin, you set out to investigate.
Why similar: Adventure 40%, Horror 29.7%, Exploration 22.5%, Indie 7.9%
- #25 のっぺらぼう
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: ANFWorks
Windows
It is a search-type horror game set in a mansion where curses live."Nopperabo" who became a curse after the tragic event You reached the end,Can you enshrine the curse?
Why similar: Horror 46.5%, Exploration 24.2%, Adventure 20.9%, Singleplayer 5%, Indie 3.4%
- #26 Midnight at Forest
79% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Gladiator Games
Windows
Try to escape from the Forest as you setup camp, then realize you were locked in there by a Park officer. There were 5 keyholes, so you had to find one key for each one.
Why similar: Adventure 34%, Exploration 30.4%, Horror 28.4%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Indie 3.4%
- #27 The Darkest Woods
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: teamsupport
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you remember those horror flash games? Early quests? Well this is the idea.
Why similar: Horror 44.1%, Adventure 43%, Indie 12.9%
- #28 Don't Drop The Cake
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Midoriyama
Windows
Let’s deliver the cake. To reach your goal, you must cross a space crawling with monstrous creatures. If fear makes you tremble or you panic and drop the cake, it’s all over. This challenge isn’t for cowards. Only the brave and composed will make it through. Are you up for it?
Why similar: Horror 41.4%, Adventure 27.6%, Exploration 24.9%, Singleplayer 3.1%, Indie 3%
- #29 GhostHunt With Triggered Insaan
78% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Arkesh BharadwajPub: Indian Developers
Windows
A Horror Game Featuring Triggered Insaan (Nischay Malhan) as a Ghost Hunter.
Why similar: Horror 43.3%, Exploration 28.4%, Adventure 20.4%, Singleplayer 4.9%, Indie 3%
- #30 The Sinking Structure, Clione, and Lost Child -Log3
77% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: MATRE
Windows
Two silent wanderers,6 full chapters,A game of exploration and adventure
Why similar: Adventure 47.4%, Exploration 45.5%, Singleplayer 7.2%
- #31 Cornfield Escape
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aethvion
Windows
Trapped in a dense cornfield, you must navigate hidden landmarks, avoid noise traps and outsmart a relentless stalker that hunts by sound. Stay quiet, read the signs and escape before it reaches you.
Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Exploration 31.9%, Horror 25%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #32 Echoes Of Despair
75% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: MiddleNightGame
Windows
"Echoes Of Despair" plunges players into the horror of an abandoned hospital, where Sarah, an investigative journalist, must survive supernatural forces while uncovering the dark secrets of the past.
Why similar: Adventure 36.5%, Exploration 32.1%, Horror 27.8%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #33 BlackShadows
77% matchVery Negative16% of 170 reviews2015
Dev: IceGames Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 17%
BlackShadows is a survival horror game where you'll assume the role of a young scientist who is fighting against her worst nightmare... You'll have to escape from a strange and creepy place in order to survive. You think it's easy? Be careful : Black Shadows are never friendly!
Why similar: Horror 44.6%, Adventure 41.8%, Indie 13.6%
- #34 Selling Souls
74% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Taiga
Windows
Something is wrong with this store
Why similar: Horror 44.6%, Adventure 28%, Exploration 19.6%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #35 Extinction
75% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Royal Games Studio
Windows
Extinction is a singleplayer horror game where you explore The valley of Extinction. Your job is to explore it while also keeping yourself alive from monsters who want to end your life.
Why similar: Horror 44.4%, Adventure 28.6%, Exploration 24.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #36 Last Half of Darkness
73% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: WRF Studios
Windows
Your aunt sure was a strange one. She was some sort of witch or something. A good witch though, practicing only good spells and magic. In fact, she was working on a potion just before she was killed. Now the secret will go to the grave with her... unless you can find the missing ingredients.
Why similar: Horror 51.6%, Adventure 23.1%, Exploration 22.9%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #37 Death Forest Abyss
73% matchMixed58% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: AMG GAMES
Windows
Escape from the Forest of Fear by searching for the broken bike parts while running away from the creatures that are the remains of the massacre victims!
Why similar: Horror 47%, Adventure 42.7%, Singleplayer 5.8%, Indie 4.5%
- #38 Huntsman: The Orphanage (Halloween Edition)
76% matchMostly Negative30% of 272 reviews2013
Dev: ShadowShifters
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
MORE STORY THAN GORY! A HYBRID OF ALTERNATIVE HORROR AND CREEPYPASTA...Welcome to the Halloween Edition v1.03! Take a deep breath, dim the lights, put on your headphones...Non-linear first-person gameplay lets you explore Grimhaven Orphanage and discover the characters who once lived there – voiced by Dan Bull, Chuck Huber and Raychul...
Why similar: Horror 60.3%, Adventure 31.3%, Indie 8.4%
- #39 Chicken in the Darkness
74% matchPositive100% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: Jaesung KimPub: BukGwak
Windows
The game "Chicken in the darkness" is a roguelike-indie-horror game developed by 3 highschool students. The main character, a highschool student who lives in a dorm, plans with his friends to order a fried chicken and get delivered.
Why similar: Adventure 44.5%, Horror 41.2%, Indie 14.3%
- #40 -
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Why similar: Exploration 35.9%, Horror 31.1%, Adventure 24.6%, Singleplayer 5.3%, Indie 3.1%
- #41 Yorunomori Bus Stop
71% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Gattorocco
Windows
A short walk while waiting for the bus. An exploration game where you encounter strange events.
Why similar: Horror 35%, Exploration 34.7%, Adventure 23%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #42 HAUNTED STREAMER
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PrankMaker
Windows
Live-stream Japan’s most haunted ruins. Capture ghosts, grow your channel… and survive.
Why similar: Horror 41.2%, Exploration 27.5%, Adventure 27%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #43 The Warden
72% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Matteo CillarioPub: Black Mist Studios
Windows
“The Warden” is a first-person psychological-horror game with puzzles.Ephram Elias Barkley is a landowner who , after losing his family , lives his life in a alcoholic loneliness.His life is interspersed with moments of lucidity and states of trance that seem to leave, as only trace, mysterious drawings of dark landscapes in which stands...
Why similar: Adventure 48.4%, Horror 42%, Indie 9.6%
- #44 THANATOS
70% matchVery Positive83% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Angela NguyenPub: WahooCat Productions
Windows · Mac
THANATOS is a first-person psychological horror mystery game that involves finding clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets to prevent a friend from taking their own life.
Why similar: Adventure 34.6%, Horror 31.1%, Exploration 30.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #45 人间恶灵 Evil Spirits of the Mortal World
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Individual
Windows
Evil Spirit is a third-person, single-player psychological horror exploration game. As a psychiatrist drawn into a disturbing mystery, players will investigate a friend's disappearance by exploring eerie environments, collecting clues, and confronting unsettling visions to uncover the dark truth.
Why similar: Adventure 33%, Horror 30.2%, Exploration 29.9%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Indie 3.1%
- #46 Like Clay
71% 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: Horror 50.1%, Adventure 34.2%, Indie 15.7%
- #47 Nyctophobia
71% matchMixed45% of 607 reviews2015
Dev: Lightning Man MediaPub: Lightning Man Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Your truck is wrecked, your flashlight is dimming and darkness surrounds you. Your fears come alive. Get to the generator and bring back the light before “The Keeper” finds you.
Why similar: Horror 47.6%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 15.6%
- #48 The Sinking Structure, Clione, and Lost Child -Log1
70% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: MATRE
Windows
Two silent wanderers,6 full chapters,A game of exploration and adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 48.8%, Exploration 44.2%, Singleplayer 6.9%
- #49 It Lurks in the Woods
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 78 reviews2017
Dev: Olivier Leclair
Windows
It Lurks in the Woods is a short first-person horror game based on French Canadian folklore.
Why similar: Horror 36.7%, Adventure 27.2%, Exploration 24.2%, Indie 11.9%
- #50 Tuya
68% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Taiga
Windows
A frightening experience in the Japanese countryside!
Why similar: Horror 43.1%, Adventure 28.4%, Exploration 17.8%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #51 Coma: Mortuary
69% matchMixed57% of 1,010 reviews2014
Dev: Naga Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Coma:Mortuary is the introduction part of a trilogy about events in the world of the dead. The game`s genre is Adventure-Ambient with Horror-quest element.
Why similar: Horror 68.2%, Adventure 24.2%, Indie 7.6%
- #52 Statues
68% matchMixed66% of 303 reviews2015
Dev: Room710Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Do not even try to close your eyes. You can't let the fear go. It is real. It is more real than you can imagine... "Statues" is a mix of survival-horror and action-adventure developed by Room710Games. The game based on the creepy enemies that only move when you're not looking at them.
Why similar: Horror 62.2%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 9.5%
- #53 Damnaze
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: INGO
Windows
You were taken into this damn maze, but you are not the first, and you are not the last.Here you do not have friends.You have only hope for salvation. To escape from this place you can use absolutely everything that you have found.
Why similar: Adventure 48.4%, Horror 37.1%, Indie 14.6%
- #54 DISPEL
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Biofly Interactive
Windows
In DISPEL, play as the sole survivor of an unknown magical calamity. Explore the ruins of a corrupted wizard academy, avoid the shades of your former friends, solve puzzles to discover new areas of the school, and uncover what happened in Feylight Academy.
Why similar: Horror 30.3%, Adventure 27.7%, Stylized 21.6%, Exploration 15.1%, Singleplayer 5.4%
- #55 High Pines
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Sapling
Windows
Photograph your way through High Pines Summer Camp and uncover the mystery of the campers’ disappearance.
Why similar: Exploration 31.4%, Horror 25.1%, Stylized 17.9%, Adventure 16.2%, Singleplayer 6.7%
- #56 Scare Girl 2
66% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: PartyGaming
Windows
A game at a haunted house and you're trying to collect 10 radio to open an escape door from a killer.
Why similar: Adventure 48.3%, Horror 46.3%, Singleplayer 5.4%
- #57 Dark Night
68% matchMostly Negative38% of 64 reviews2016
Dev: NighthoodGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Welcome home Amelia, familiar eyes are watching you, and they want to play. Home alone you can feel them. You can hear their footsteps. You need to move. You have limited visibility. Light a matchstick to see in the dark. Close your eyes. Start begging for your life.
Why similar: Horror 45%, Adventure 38.9%, Indie 16.1%
- #58 Amanecer
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Abner Noé Ramírez
Windows
Juego 2D de terror psicológico que combina exploración, ambientación inquietante y acertijos en una experiencia breve e intensa.
Why similar: Adventure 33.5%, Horror 30%, Exploration 29.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Indie 3.1%
- #59 Alone K.W.
67% matchMostly Negative33% of 79 reviews2016
Dev: TeamWaterFlyPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dr. Kevin White, a drug manufacturing manager in the same company was sent to a conference in Greenland. In turn, the ship was caught in the ice and crashed. The main character was thrown by an unknown island. Seeing the house, Kevin went there.
Why similar: Adventure 62.6%, Horror 29%, Indie 8.4%