Games Like Rat`s Lair

You've been trapped in a mine. You'll need to use your tools to dig your way to the exit in a fully destructible 3D voxel terrain. Manage your oxygen and equipment, and uncover the dark mystery buried deep within the mine.

Why similar: Sandbox 23.7%, Loot 15.2%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 10.8%, First-Person 10.3%

Dive into a surreal and dark office space made of distorted floors. Traverse them all, one at the time, to find an exit. Ruptured Floor is a horror puzzle game with a unique twist. Every floor requires a combination to open the door. The code is known. The lock, however, will need to be found.

Why similar: Surreal 16.9%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 13.8%, Horror 13.6%, Stylized 12.5%

A mysterious frequency is being transmitted from the Radio Tower. You the Technician, must repair the tower, and uncover what happened to the previous engineer.

Why similar: Sandbox 23.2%, Dark 10.5%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 10.2%, Horror 9.7%

An immersive survival crafting adventure game set on an alien planet. Explore the surroundings and build an understanding of the world around you. Create tools, devices, and structures to overcome the limitations of the harsh environment and unravel the mysteries of the unknown signals.

Why similar: Sandbox 26%, Stylized 12.2%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 11.7%, Adventure 8.8%

Nevada, 2011. As Emma Carter, doubt your own mind and face a domestic nightmare that breathes the same air as you. In this immersive psychological horror, every shadow hides a twisted secret. Question your sanity and uncover the chilling truth.

Why similar: Exploration 14.8%, Stylized 14.5%, First-Person 13.5%, Dark 10.7%, Horror 9.2%

Explore endless backrooms complex alone or with friends in the atmospheric horror experience. Survive hostile entities, uncover strange environments, and descend deeper into the unknown.

Why similar: Adventure 13.1%, Exploration 12.4%, Stylized 11.8%, First-Person 10.9%, Dark 9.6%

BlockSouls is a surreal indie adventure set in a lonely brutalist city. Explore strange places, meet unsettling characters, face disturbing enemies, and uncover hidden paths in a dark, dreamlike world.

Why similar: Surreal 19.5%, Exploration 14.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Dark 13.2%, Atmospheric 10.1%

A first-person liminal horror exploration game where you walk endless halls, open doors, encounter 13 anomalies, sink through darker layers, reach Terminal, and wake again—because there is no true exit.

Why similar: Horror 16.9%, Surreal 13.1%, Exploration 13%, Nonlinear 13%, First-Person 10.8%

You awaken, trapped in a dark, blood-stained house. A terrifying puppet hunts you. Solve puzzles, find tools, and unlock the front door to escape. But be quiet, it hears everything. Uncover the house's dark secrets before the Evil Doll finds you.

Why similar: Sandbox 28%, Loot 20%, First-Person 13.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Dark 11%

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 18.9%, Stylized 16.3%, Dark 13.4%, Adventure 13%, Exploration 10.4%

Navigate through various levels as you search for artifacts. But you must listen to your surroundings, for an invisible entity draws ever closer...

Why similar: Surreal 21.3%, Exploration 15.1%, Horror 14.2%, Dark 14.1%, First-Person 11%

A co-op psychotic experience with tycoon and horror elements.

Why similar: Loot 19.3%, Sandbox 18.5%, Stylized 10%, Dark 9.2%, First-Person 9%

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 26.3%, First-Person 12%, Exploration 12%, Dark 10.9%, Horror 9.6%

LUXVYR is an atmospheric, psychological tale about not what light is, but who it sees. In this labyrinth, locks yield not to keys, but to testimony.

Why similar: Stylized 20.1%, First-Person 18.9%, Dark 13%, Mystery 12.4%, 3D 11.9%

DIRUS Software's lost 1999 cult-classic is back! Explore its confusing and stygian world for yourself in this newly remastered edition, and uncover the mystery of its warped labyrinths and crossroads. Find hidden secrets unknown even to the original developers.

Why similar: Surreal 14.7%, Exploration 13.4%, Horror 13%, Nonlinear 11.7%, First-Person 11.1%

A co-op mischievous adventure in the Stone Age.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.2%, Adventure 15.6%, Exploration 13.9%, Stylized 11.7%, First-Person 10.9%

A first-person horror game where you manipulate objects around a house to frighten an intruder. Stay out of his reach, raise his fear, drive him away, and uncover the truth behind his strange visits.

Why similar: Horror 19.2%, Dark 17.1%, Mystery 16%, First-Person 13.4%, Atmospheric 10.7%

Shorten your journey to the castle by digging a tunnel through the mountain. Use magic and craft: swing your pickaxe, cast spells, blow up obstacles, and light your path with glowing slimes. Trade resources with the Goose, unlock new tools, and uncover the mountain's secrets.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.7%, Loot 17.1%, Adventure 12.8%, Exploration 11.9%, Stylized 10.7%

Feed and raise your little baby. Watch it grow and feed on every and anything. In Full Bloom is a Tamagotchi inspired Katamari-like about a creature with never-ending hunger for the world around it. There is only one way.

Why similar: Surreal 24%, Horror 16.2%, Exploration 16.1%, Dark 12.3%, Adventure 11.7%

Byte & Brew is an upcoming dystopian exploration game about making coffee, learning about your customers, the city, and influencing it through your actions.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.2%, Stylized 12.2%, Exploration 11.2%, First-Person 11.1%, Dark 8.6%

Sail as a pirate across a Caribbean ocean. Trim to the wind, rake enemy hulls with broadsides, and haul plunder home in a hold you have to pack yourself. Take your vessel from a floating shipwreck to an unsinkable fortress, and make a name for yourself amongst the factions that sail these waters.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.1%, Loot 21.6%, Adventure 14.1%, Exploration 12.4%, Stylized 11.9%

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 21%, Horror 14.4%, Dark 13.1%, First-Person 12.8%, Exploration 12.6%

Stranded on a deserted island, survive alone or invite your friends in co-op multiplayer! Explore an infinite procedural open world, gather natural resources, master node-based crafting, and construct bases with real physics in IslaNode Rescue Signal.

Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Loot 19.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Stylized 10.4%, First-Person 10.2%

Dig to China Simulator, is a simple game about digging a hole in your back yard, until you get to China. Find ores in the holes you dig, sell them, upgrade your equipment to dig faster. No Monsters, No Fall Damage, 500 meters of pure digging.

Why similar: Loot 19.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Adventure 10.1%, First-Person 9.6%, Horror 9.3%

A Survival-Crafting Game combining all of your favourite mechanics from different games and genres. Fill your Item Collections, Max out your Weapons and Skills, Complete all Quests, Defeat Bosses, Increase your Stats, or just Build your Island.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.6%, Loot 15.9%, Adventure 13.9%, Exploration 11.8%, Stylized 11.1%

A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.

Why similar: Surreal 19.8%, Horror 14.7%, Dark 13.4%, Stylized 12.1%, Exploration 10.9%

Welcome to a reimagining of Beneath the Cardboard, a fairytale-themed tale of things not so fairytale-like... Survive countless cold nights in Snow Town, a place where no one will look at you twice.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.2%, Surreal 13.4%, Exploration 10%, First-Person 9.6%, Dark 8.9%

Sanguis Luna is a first person Horror video game that catapults you into a frightening Mansion. Your main objective is to escape the infested Mansion, finding objects and challenging riddles while exploring incredible scenarios.

Why similar: First-Person 14.5%, Exploration 14.4%, Dark 12.8%, Horror 11.6%, Adventure 10.8%

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 26.8%, First-Person 14.6%, Adventure 13.7%, Exploration 12.5%, Dark 10.6%

An otherworldly being has trapped you in their mysterious extradimensional prison. Explore a home ripped from time, activate the signals, and follow them to free that which binds you in this surreal first-person non-linear puzzle game.

Why similar: Surreal 17.9%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Stylized 13.5%, Mystery 13.1%, Exploration 11.7%

Uncle's Basement is a survival horror game with puzzle solving elements. In it you will have to go through all the difficulties and find a way out of the place of confinement.

Why similar: Horror 23.6%, Exploration 15.1%, Dark 14.4%, Adventure 12.1%, First-Person 10.1%

A young girl, suffering from sensory abnormalities, finds herself in a thrilling adventure fighting with her imagination.

Why similar: Surreal 16.3%, Stylized 15.6%, Exploration 13.2%, Mystery 9.9%, Dark 9.5%

An atmospheric mini game that let's you explore a snowcapped yard in which you build your very own snowman.

Why similar: Sandbox 43.5%, First-Person 18.7%, 3D 12%, Adventure 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!

Why similar: Sandbox 33.5%, Adventure 15.4%, Exploration 14.7%, Stylized 13.8%, First-Person 13.7%

Selenetrope is a survival horror game where you play as a lab grown homunculus struggling to survive in a base below the surface of an exoplanetary moon. Battle your insane and misbegotten brothers and stave off a raging fever that threatens to destroy you from within.

Why similar: Nonlinear 18.8%, Horror 18.2%, Exploration 14.3%, First-Person 13.4%, Adventure 9.5%

Test Physics Through Multiple Labs And Push The Limits Of What Physics Can Do In A Sandbox Environment!

Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, Stylized 15.3%, Nonlinear 13.4%, First-Person 12.7%, Atmospheric 11%

Fort Oasis is no paradise—it's a decaying nightmare where reality crumbles. The creator of Turbo Overkill unleashes survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge to craft weapons, while a voice on your walkie-talkie guides you into the island's depths.

Why similar: Loot 20.2%, Horror 11.6%, Surreal 11.5%, First-Person 10.2%, Dark 10.1%

Yank an enormous line into an anomalous ocean in online co-op. Reel in physics-based props and risk the odds for rare loot. Use literally anything caught as bait, then decide how to break down your catch to build a dock and reach other islands.

Why similar: Loot 20.7%, Sandbox 13%, Stylized 12.3%, Horror 10.6%, Surreal 8.3%

A first person survival horror game set in The Backrooms. Explore and survive in this liminal expanse of many levels while maintaining your sanity, with realistic yet distinct graphics. You may attempt to run or fight, but how far will that really get you?

Why similar: Exploration 18.4%, Nonlinear 18.2%, First-Person 16.4%, Stylized 12.4%, 3D 10.2%

Peel wallpaper, dry each layer and rip it away in this strange first person peeling game. Earn Peelcoins, buy better tools and keep working your way through hundreds of layers. Just don’t peel too far. You might find something you weren’t meant to.

Why similar: Sandbox 34%, Stylized 16.3%, First-Person 15.3%, Exploration 15.2%, Mystery 8.2%

A murky point-and-click puzzle game where a straightforward repair job gets stranger the deeper you go. Solve 2D and 3D puzzles, meet weird characters, and figure out what is happening below the sludge.

Why similar: Surreal 17%, Dark 13.1%, Stylized 11.1%, Horror 10.8%, Mystery 9%

The Keyless: Forbidden Door is a dreamlike and surreal journey, witness bizarre metaphorical and surreal scenes in a world that changes shape as you overcome simple challenges.

Why similar: Surreal 22.1%, First-Person 14.2%, Stylized 11.4%, Horror 11.3%, Adventure 10.4%

What is inside the Red Fridge? Collection of six episodes of psychological analog horror. Tour through liminal spaces filled with surreal events and uncanny strangers. Inspired by retro horrors of the PSX era.

Why similar: Surreal 14.6%, Horror 12%, Mystery 11.1%, Dark 10.7%, Stylized 10.5%

A single-player horror game set in a decrepit roadside mine attraction. Descend to uncover the mine's dark history, and find a way to escape from the lurking horrors within.

Why similar: First-Person 18.9%, Horror 18.6%, Stylized 17.1%, Dark 14%, 3D 11.4%

Escape your nightmares. Explore the Backrooms and other dreams. Solve puzzles to find your way out. Don't get caught.

Why similar: First-Person 16.6%, Exploration 15.9%, Stylized 15.4%, Sandbox 12%, 3D 9.9%

Above The Horizon is terraformation survival crafting game where you crash landed above the planet "Lunaris". The rest of your colonization team landed safely on the planet... so it's up to you to get back to the planet and terraform it along the way!

Why similar: Sandbox 35.9%, Adventure 16.8%, Exploration 15.9%, First-Person 13.2%, 3D 9.3%

Lantern Light is an action horror puzzle game where you explore a decrepit manor and face twisted monsters. While clinging to the fragile glow of your lantern, the only thing keeping you from madness. Keep the light alive, preserve your sanity, and confront your deepest fears in Lantern Light.

Why similar: Stylized 25.2%, Adventure 15.9%, First-Person 12.3%, Horror 11%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Clock in and discover the dark secret behind one of the world’s favorite canned meat brand in Beef, a surreal horror experience like no other.

Why similar: Horror 18.3%, Adventure 12.8%, Stylized 12.1%, Exploration 12%, First-Person 9.8%

SCOOMART is a INDIE-HORROR game created from an inside joke about a pet! As the protagonist, you get stuck working the night shift at a local gas station. What begins as a normal shift quickly turns into a very confusing night.

Why similar: Exploration 19.9%, First-Person 16.5%, Horror 15.7%, 3D 10.4%, Adventure 10.3%

The roads are comfortably quiet at night. The only sound to keep you company is the medical equipment rattling behind you. You turn on the radio, but instead of music you hear a growl behind you. A strange being has appeared in the back, eyes pleading for help. It reminds you of someone.

Why similar: Stylized 19.3%, First-Person 18.4%, Horror 16.8%, Surreal 14.8%, 3D 11.3%

Steal $5,000 from an abandoned apartment complex while avoiding a demented man.

Why similar: Horror 15.2%, Exploration 13.6%, Adventure 13.2%, First-Person 12.7%, Stylized 12.1%

A late-90s retro 3D horror where you feed the Biomass Core to escape. No keys. No doors.

Why similar: Horror 18%, First-Person 14.8%, Exploration 12%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Dark 10.6%

Strange noises echo through empty rooms, shadows seem to shift, and it feels like you’re never truly alone. To feel safer, you’ve installed a smart monitoring system, allowing you to watch every room. But in a place like this, will that be enough?

Why similar: Surreal 19%, Horror 14.6%, Mystery 12.9%, First-Person 12%, Dark 10.6%

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 21.3%, First-Person 17.6%, Dark 13.9%, Mystery 13%, Adventure 9.5%

A short first-person horror game set in Tbilisi. A late-night walk to the metro turns tense as a slow-moving car tracks your every step. When you find the station closed, a desperate fight to escape begins.

Why similar: Horror 20.9%, First-Person 18.8%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Exploration 12%, Stylized 10.6%

Enter the murky depths of the Zenith Corporation facility as a ZBO unit technician. In this merciless 4-player extraction horror, you will face living anomalies and a paranoia system that will make you distrust your own senses. Will you uncover the secrets of the complex before it's too late?

Why similar: Mystery 13.6%, Horror 13.1%, Surreal 12.9%, Exploration 12.5%, PvE 12%

Noclipped is a Survival Horror Adventure game located in the Backrooms. Explore infinite levels, collect resources, fight or flee from dangerous beings and survive in the harsh environments of the Backrooms.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.5%, Loot 18.8%, First-Person 12.5%, Exploration 12.2%, Horror 10.2%

Paragrowth is Survival RPG game placed in giant dark forest. Scavenge and explore countryside areas overgrown by trees and mysterious living roots. Find hideout to survive nights full of paranormal activities. Hunt mutating prey for ingredients to inject enemies abilities into yourself.

Why similar: Sandbox 20.2%, Surreal 12.9%, Horror 10.3%, First-Person 10.2%, Dark 9.9%

Explore quiet liminal spaces that feel familiar, yet strangely wrong. Walk, climb, and swim through five handcrafted stages, then build worlds of your own in a powerful sandbox. Publish them through LIMSCAPERS, visit other creators’ spaces, and explore together in Multiplay Beta.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.5%, Surreal 14.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Horror 12.4%, First-Person 10.7%

A minimalist game about digging through a deep, surreal tunnel. Upgrade your gear to go further, and uncover the dark secret of why no one returns from the depths. But move carefully—some cubes should remain buried.

Why similar: Surreal 17.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Horror 10.9%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 9.8%