- #1 One Dark Night
97% matchMixed45% of 94 reviews2016
Dev: Emblematic Group
Windows
Produced exclusively from real recordings of 911 calls, witness trial testimony, and architectural drawings. One Dark Night tells the story of the day teenager Travyon Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
Why similar: VR 37.4%, Political 27.9% ★, Simulation 19.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Indie 5.8%
- #2 ABE VR
96% matchMixed61% of 313 reviews2016
Dev: Hammerhead VR
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 27%
ABE VR is an intense experience that recreates the horrifying story about a misguided robot seeking the unconditional love of humans…at whatever cost.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #3 RIOT: Civil Unrest
95% matchMixed68% of 1,910 reviews2019
Dev: Leonard MenchiariPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world’s most fractious disputes.
Why similar: Political Sim 51.1% ★, Political 33% ★, Simulation 12.6%, Indie 3.3%
- #4 Covert Syndrome
96% matchMixed68% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: Offworld Industries
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Covert Syndrome is a free to play Coop corridor shooter with a focus on unscripted AI and fast tough combat. Created as a prototyping project we wanted to release it to the community so people can experience Co-op VR for free.
Why similar: VR 90.5%, Indie 9.5%
- #5 The IOTA Project
94% matchMixed69% of 99 reviews2017
Dev: DreamSail Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
The IOTA Project is a VR game where you are thrown into the cockpit of a giant mech. Pilot IOTA as you destroy the enemies who have taken over the city using your two giant robot fists and an array of powerful weapons. This is a pre-alpha free demo.
Why similar: Simulation 46.3%, VR 46.1%, Indie 7.5%
- #6 Insanity VR: Last Score
94% matchVery Positive83% of 179 reviews2017
Dev: Threevol
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Insanity VR combines an immersive and intuitive locomotion system in VR, a compelling horror story and escape the room like puzzles with stealth mechanics. As the new intern at a futuristic institute for mental illnesses you get transported into the mind of a patient to reconstruct his memories.
Why similar: VR 75.5%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Indie 8.4%
- #7 Homeless Simulator
92% matchMixed58% of 243 reviews2019
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Homeless Simulator is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.
Why similar: Simulation 79.4%, Indie 20.6%
- #8 21 Days
93% matchVery Positive79% of 68 reviews2017
Dev: Hardtalk Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.
Why similar: Simulation 78.4%, Indie 21.6%
- #9 Syrian Warfare
91% matchVery Positive87% of 5,490 reviews2017
Dev: Cats Who Play
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Real Time Strategy with a high degree of realism. The game is based on a true story.
Why similar: Simulation 61.2%, Indie 38.8%
- #10 Cockroach Simulator
91% matchVery Positive80% of 3,121 reviews2016
Dev: HFM Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
This game is about the hard life in the kitchen. In this unusual place many interests intertwine. But the only war between humans and cockroaches is truly epic and destructive.
Why similar: Simulation 55.4%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Indie 14%
- #11 The Circus
84% matchMixed66% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: KerenPub: Team Shadow
Windows
On one continent, a special group of individuals exists. Although their appearance is no different from mankind beings, but their bodies contain great power. They are entrusted with a divine destiny and can only be freed after passing a trial.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #12 Ukraine War Stories
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,080 reviews2022
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #13 The Westport Independent
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 334 reviews2016
Dev: Double Zero One Zero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Why similar: Political 54.3% ★, Simulation 34.7%, Indie 11%
- #14 Imaginary Friend Asylum
77% matchVery Positive100% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Emporium
Windows
A psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. Here, you will uncover a dark conspiracy where you are to receive a terrible fate.
Why similar: Simulation 68.5%, Psychological Horror 31.5%
- #15 Sim Junta
90% matchMostly Negative33% of 68 reviews2015
Dev: Icehole GamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Sim Junta – A game of dirty politics! You are the new dictator of Risuena, a small and poor country of the third world. You have just seized power after a bloody coup and your intentions are to stay in power as long as you can, to rip this country off, transfer the money to your secret Swiss bank account and of course, stay alive and...
Why similar: Political Sim 68.1% ★, Political 23.5% ★, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 3%
- #16 Displaced
88% matchMixed56% of 216 reviews2017
Dev: GamexyPub: Alawar Casual
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Palmyra Orphanage
83% matchVery Positive89% of 706 reviews2019
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #18 Path Out
86% matchVery Positive92% of 191 reviews2017
Dev: Causa Creations
Windows · Mac
Path Out is an autobiographical narrative game following the real journey of Abdullah Karam, a young Syrian escaping the civil war in 2014. Abdullah himself comments the game through Youtube-style videos, giving insights into his dramatic travels through Syria's war torn countryside & daily life.
- #19 President Erect VR
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 143 reviews2016
Dev: Ape Man RobotPub: Lines Media Corp.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Frustrated by the current political climate? Slap and Punch the President Erect or Smack him with a celebrity Dildo.
Why similar: VR 80.4%, Indie 19.6%
- #20 Putin VS ISIS
85% matchVery Positive90% of 325 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 48 min≥1hr: 9%
You play for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and you need to save Syria from terrorists, for this you must fly and drop bombs on the terrorists.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 59%, Indie 41%
- #21 PROJECT 13
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 197 reviews2024
Dev: VirtualVillainPub: Glacier LTD
Windows
As one of many kidnapped and enslaved Probants of the Project 13 Group... You need to find Anomalies through your Walk. If you not obey and report , you will be stuck in it forever.
Why similar: Simulation 49.9%, Psychological Horror 38.2%, Indie 11.9%
- #22 Shattered Lights
82% matchVery Positive87% of 432 reviews2019
Dev: Team MorbidPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Shattered Lights is a VR psychological horror room-scale experience, which focuses on drawing the player into the game with unparalleled immersion.
Why similar: VR 68.5%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Indie 8.8%
- #23 Lights Off!
74% matchVery Positive85% of 1,843 reviews2022
Dev: TheDollarGameStore
Windows
Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 95%, Indie 5%
- #24 Rogue State
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 257 reviews2015
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution. Forge alliances, grow your economy, invade your neighbors, or pacify your population. Rogue State is a geopolitical strategy game that will force you to always stay one step ahead of your rivals to survive.
Why similar: Political Sim 78% ★, Simulation 17%, Indie 5%
- #25 Don't Be Afraid - The First Toy
78% matchVery Positive90% of 872 reviews2020
Dev: Broken Arrow GamesPub: Eneida Games
Windows
Don't Be Afraid - The First Toy, is an introduction to the dramatic story of a boy kidnapped by a psychopath. Exploring the giant house of your torturer you will soon discover things worse than your childish nightmares. Take on the role of Jamie and see what phrase “The First Toy” actually means.
- #26 3 Blind Mice: A Remediation Game for Improper Children
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 146 reviews2019
Dev: James Earl Cox III
Windows
A remediation game designed for last attempt corrections for particularly troubled youth. Failure to complete this game may result in removal from society. Please do not attempt to find the surveillance units. They are only present for monitoring your progress. Have a pleasant day.
Why similar: Simulation 77.1%, Indie 22.9%
- #27 The VR Museum of Fine Art
84% matchVery Positive87% of 320 reviews2016
Dev: Finn Sinclair
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
JUST UPDATED: Explore the Second Floor of the Museum! Explore a virtual museum in room-scale VR: see famous sculptures in full, 1:1 scale and see famous paintings without the limitations of glass and security guards.
Why similar: VR 62.4%, Simulation 29.2%, Indie 8.3%
- #28 Virago: Herstory
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: Sunday AkorPub: Honest Chronicle
Windows
Virago herstory is about a little girl called Willow who after running away from her home becomes a victim of stalking
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Le Dernier Don
68% matchVery Positive83% of 172 reviews2024
Dev: OopsAllFlesh
Windows
Following a tragic event in an orphanage caused by horrific human experiments, an orphan tries to find other survivors while danger still lurks.
- #30 Trapped With the Dolls VR
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: Designated Play Space
Windows
The room is dark and unformed. You hear the voice of Claire: "I didn't mean to hurt anybody..." As the room snaps into place, you discover puzzles and solve them to learn more about what happened to her. The dolls are always close by, and her message is one of warning. Can you escape her mind?
Why similar: VR 78%, Indie 22%
- #31 Lynne
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,124 reviews2018
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Lynne is a short story about the scariest thing in the world: being a teenager.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.1%, Simulation 39.3%, Indie 12.7%
- #32 The Lancaster Leak - Crisis At Call Center
65% matchVery Positive84% of 334 reviews2023
Dev: Jeremy FischerPub: Jflyer Games
Windows · Mac
YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. Another tape has been leaked, this time a cover-up of a tragic mass casualty event.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 95.2%, Indie 4.8%
- #33 Negative Atmosphere: Emergency Room Prototype
67% matchMixed68% of 120 reviews2023
Dev: Sunscorched Studios
Windows
A free, first-person, short medical horror experience that is an early rendition of the prequel we envisioned for Negative Atmosphere.
Why similar: Political Sim 57.2% ★, Political 36% ★, Simulation 6.8%
- #34 The Cubicle.
79% matchVery Positive87% of 620 reviews2016
Dev: Roel van BeekPub: Pelican Party Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 18%
The Cubicle is a short VR experience about your regular everyday job in an office, or is it?
Why similar: VR 69.4%, Simulation 24%, Indie 6.6%
- #35 Kaf village
66% matchMixed63% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: SignaturePub: Signature
Windows
( True story gameplay ) For those who have a hard heart, they shall enter the village to search for the precious ring. During this time, you will face difficulties
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Realities
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 267 reviews2016
Dev: realities.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Explore what was out of reach before - travel to mesmerizing real world places and discover their stories!
Why similar: VR 72.6%, Simulation 27.4%
- #37 Our Elusive Suffering
68% matchMixed66% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: 👁️Pub: ⚰️
Windows
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Why similar: Psychological Horror 79.4%, Indie 20.6%
- #38 Sands
66% matchMixed52% of 315 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Hutkouski
Windows
"The sands have no pity." The inhabitants of Zetta-115 often say that. The same they instill in their children from an early age. And this is what they whisper about, sitting in their dilapidated shacks, waiting for the impending storm...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 100%
- #39 War of Rights
72% matchVery Positive88% of 14,641 reviews2018
Dev: Campfire Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 90.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.
Why similar: Simulation 87.3%, Indie 12.7%
- #40 IKEA VR Pancake Kitchen
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2017
Dev: IKEA Communications AB
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Welcome to the IKEA Virtual Reality kitchen experience, where you can make some virtual pancakes. Our IKEA kitchen specialist will guide you through some of the key aspects of a well-planned kitchen. And look out for the instructions that will help you to prepare those perfect pancakes.
Why similar: VR 73.6%, Simulation 26.4%
- #41 Broken Blue
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: BacklotRealitiesPub: Cacti Council
Windows
Broken Blue is a Puzzle Solving VR Game that utilizes an innovative interface to allow the player to traverse and explore the game’s content. Blue is supposed to be the guardian of a mountain machine and the protector of the monkey monks who dwell there.
Why similar: VR 50.6%, Simulation 38.1%, Indie 11.3%
- #42 Smile More
58% matchVery Positive97% of 217 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel Poxet
Windows · Mac
A short medical simulation horror game with multiple endings where the imperfect are made HAPPY. Perform tasks and operations on sedated patients to fix their defects before submitting your files to the Ministry of Happiness & Peace!
Why similar: Simulation 56.3%, Psychological Horror 32.9%, Indie 10.7%
- #43 Phucker in the Woods
70% matchVery Positive94% of 173 reviews2019
Dev: GZ Storm
Windows
A group of youngsters go to the woods to self-investigate a disappearance...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 ShotForge
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Alix
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A sandbox to build the coolest guns in.
Why similar: Simulation 77.1%, Indie 22.9%
- #45 Belko VR: An Escape Room Experiment
73% matchVery Positive86% of 672 reviews2017
Dev: Top Right Corner
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Exploring the themes in THE BELKO EXPERIMENT, the Belko VR – Escape Room Experiment provokes the question: “What does it take to survive at work?” Players are prompted to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to escape from their office before a microchip in their head explodes.
Why similar: VR 90%, Indie 10%
- #46 Civil Warfare: Another Bullet In The War
76% matchMostly Negative34% of 125 reviews2018
Dev: Mental Zone Digital Game Studios
Windows
CIVIL WARFARE allows you to fight against real players with the Battle Royale style and different game modes. You battle until you are the one last survivor of dozens of people in a Battle Royale style civil war town.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 Toofan AlAqsa
60% matchMixed63% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Dimension LLC
Windows
A shooter game is about protecting AlAqsa and Palestine . for the support of Palestine .. #FreePalestine
- #48 Mortanis Prisoners
58% matchVery Positive81% of 69 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?
- #49 IKEA VR Experience
75% matchMixed70% of 384 reviews2016
Dev: IKEA Communications AB
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Explore and interact with an IKEA Kitchen in Virtual Reality! Walk around freely, open drawers and put your vegetable peelings in the waste sorting station. You can even enjoy the visual impact of different material finishes and experience things from a child’s point of view.
Why similar: VR 74.2%, Simulation 25.8%
- #50 VILLAGE THE SIBERIA
63% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: VikTor
Windows
Uncover the terrible secret of Siberia as a little boy in the first person.
Why similar: Simulation 54.6%, Psychological Horror 45.4%
- #51 Primal Reign
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: The Games Shed
Windows
Egypt, 1943. Among the ancient tombs the Nazis played with time – and time bit back. Primal beasts from the past are invading the present and your pal is their next tasty meal! Play in VR to battle the beasts, save your friend and survive.
Why similar: VR 86.8%, Indie 13.2%
- #52 Nevrosa: Prelude
73% matchVery Positive87% of 223 reviews2017
Dev: GexagonVR
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 27%
You wake up in a strange, but yet familiar place. You feel like you are supposed to be here for something.VR roomscale puzzle-horror game with redirect walking locomotion.
Why similar: VR 65.6%, Simulation 23.4%, Indie 11%
- #53 School Teacher Simulator
58% matchMixed68% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Eathrabaria
Windows
Become a teacher in a local school. Teach kids, but make sure that your students stay focused during the lesson and react if they misbehave. Each day has unique events. Living school environment with each teacher and student having their own personality.
Why similar: Simulation 68.8%, Psychological Horror 31.2%
- #54 Nick
72% matchVery Positive81% of 90 reviews2017
Dev: Firstborn Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 671.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Nick is a free wave defense survival game—all in virtual reality. Built in Unreal engine, this first-person, room-scale VR experience lets users take control of a variety of weapons and tools to fight off endless waves of evil robotic elves.
Why similar: VR 88.2%, Indie 11.8%
- #55 Vanaris Tactics
59% matchMostly Positive72% of 172 reviews2022
Dev: Matheus ReisPub: Toge Productions
Windows
Vanaris Tactics is a short narrative tactical RPG experience that tells a story about refugees fleeing their occupied motherland. You lead a group of refugees looking for freedom outside the walls of Vanaris, unite your people and use tactical prowess to escape your oppressors.
- #56 Hospitality VR
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 128 reviews2020
Dev: David FlossdorfPub: flossdorfgames
Windows
A VR Horror Experience, not a Game! No controller input needed! After having checked into a haunted hospital, you are being confronted with its evil resident who is not too pleased about your visit.
Why similar: VR 66.8%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Indie 6.1%, Simulation 5.9%
- #57 Epicenter VR
58% matchMixed65% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: FiveVolt Games
Windows
Save the last survivors after a deadly zombie virus has taken over your island home. Protect those closest to you at all costs and evacuate before supplies run out.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #58 The Black Whale
56% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Marrit
Windows
The factory chip began to malfunction. Your horrible headaches don’t bother anyone in this dystopian world. “Black Whale”, the attractive white powder, is the only thing that can stop the pain. And show you the life without the horrors of harsh reality.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 83.4%, Indie 16.6%