- #1 The Black Watchmen
97% matchVery Positive89% of 747 reviews2015
Dev: Alice & Smith
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Become a Secret Agent and investigate paranormal activities in this dark Lovecraftian universe. This Alternate Reality Game will have you explore complex puzzles in-game but also in real-life; interacting with real websites, companies, and NPCs that we created as part of our universe.
Why similar: Illuminati 87.2% ★, Horror 5%, Adventure 3.9%, Indie 3.9%
- #2 Plan Z Chapter 1
96% matchMixed44% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Kongmeng Yang
Windows
Plan Z is a true-to-life post-apocalyptic zombie survival game that includes an imminent nuclear meltdown, which shapes your every decision in the game to survive. Players will follow Gary Gannon from his home city of Green Bay, WI on his journey across a zombie-infested country to reach the west coast, where his father resides.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #3 Illuminascii
96% matchMixed55% of 44 reviews2015
Dev: DDD Wares
Windows · Mac · Linux
Illuminascii - a first person shooter with an ascii text based visual style, featuring randomly generated content and roguelike / rpg elements. Monsters, weapons, armor, levels and cutscenes are all created with random characteristics.
Why similar: Illuminati 93.8% ★, Indie 6.2%
- #4 The Studio
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Daev Finn Studio
Windows
Eat the cookies. Avoid being eaten. A horror adventure game with cats, baked goods, and creepy dolls.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #5 Oncoming Death Steam Edition
94% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: David VogtPub: Shit-Happens-Software
Windows · Mac
Oncoming Death is a round based game like Call of Duty. Parts will help you to escape from the dark land "Circle of Death" Believe me find the way out.
Why similar: Adventure 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #6 GRIM - Mystery of Wasules
94% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: StudioBACKSTAGE
Windows
GRIM - Mystery of Wasules is a first-person, story-driven mystery. To uncover the truth behind the deaths, you will investigate Wasules as Oswald GRIM.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #7 Brighter Day
93% matchVery Positive89% of 101 reviews2015
Dev: girl software
Windows · Mac
Probably the most colorful horror game you've ever played. Hide from moaning disembodied eyeballs while facing existential dread, ambient music, and alternative medicine.
Why similar: Adventure 49.1%, Indie 35.3%, Horror 15.6%
- #8 Chicken in the Darkness
91% 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 42.1%, Indie 34.1%, Horror 23.8%
- #9 Dunia: Masters
91% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Team Wood Block
Windows
Fill the shoes of Masters Mason-Northwood a ‘genius scientist’ who, after a failed assassination attempt, is left wandering in the dark, reading books, finding notes and listening to audio logs about the North Wood and himself, while also trying to escape his own barren lab.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #10 Uriel's Chasm
92% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 2,706 reviews2014
Dev: Rail Slave GamesPub: KPL
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Religious de-programming tool
Why similar: Illuminati 59.5% ★, Indie 18.8%, Adventure 12.8%, Horror 8.9%
- #11 Damnaze
90% 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 44.9%, Indie 34.1%, Horror 21%
- #12 The Darkest Woods
89% 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: Adventure 41.9%, Indie 31.8%, Horror 26.3%
- #13 UNIDENTIFIED
89% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: DARKSIDEMOON
Windows
Let's play the game in the form of relive the record of the escape that remains as a video.
Why similar: Adventure 45.7%, Indie 34.7%, Horror 19.6%
- #14 Barrow Hill: The Dark Path
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 153 reviews2016
Dev: Shadow Tor StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Follow the Dark Path into a world of Druidic lore and Celtic myths. It is the Autumn Equinox on Barrow Hill, a time of great power, when the ancient standing stones are at their most powerful and dangerous. You have one night to make the offerings, follow the Dark Path and escape Barrow Hill.
Why similar: Adventure 49.9%, Indie 32.4%, Horror 17.7%
- #15 Dark Night
87% 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: Indie 38%, Adventure 36.3%, Horror 25.7%
- #16 BlackShadows
88% 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: Adventure 40.5%, Indie 33.1%, Horror 26.4%
- #17 Dark Wish
85% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Team Jungle
Windows
Dark Wish is an adventure role-playing game set in a harsh desert. Explore 'The Dust', a strange and unusual place filled with dangerous animals, bandits, and wanderers who pass on by.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #18 Sylvio
86% 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: Adventure 40.6%, Indie 29.9%, Horror 29.5%
- #19 The Masked Mage
84% matchMostly Negative27% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: ERMediaPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
The Masked Mage is a slow paced, peaceful metroidvania game focusing on exploration, atmosphere and a story about friendship, mystery and of course magic. There are no bosses to fight. Think of this as a sort of 2D walking simulator.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #20 Like Clay
83% 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: Indie 37.9%, Adventure 32.8%, Horror 29.3%
- #21 Nyctophobia
84% 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: Indie 37.5%, Adventure 34.9%, Horror 27.7%
- #22 Ruction: The Golden Tablet
82% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: Scott RicheyPub: Ruction Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ruction is an open world adventure game where you embark on a journey through a jungle environment looking for clues that lead to your lost brother, and along the way discover the mystery of the golden tablet.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #23 SCP-9735-Alpha: ΔRCH1TECT
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Deepwake Studios
Windows
Currently in rework.
Why similar: Adventure 46.2%, Indie 35.1%, Horror 18.7%
- #24 Solaria Moon
81% matchMixed60% of 67 reviews2017
Dev: 3y3.netPub: Tizona Interactive
Windows
Solaria Moon is a space adventure in 3D with an outstanding script full of challenging puzzles to solve and mysteries to uncover.
Why similar: Adventure 61%, Indie 39%
- #25 Isolation
82% 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: Adventure 38.9%, Horror 32.8%, Indie 28.3%
- #26 Miniballist
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 117 reviews2018
Dev: Timberwolf StudiosPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Minimalist hardcore one click\press direction changer game.
Why similar: Illuminati 84.2% ★, Indie 15.8%
- #27 Playing History 2 - Slave Trade
81% matchMixed63% of 332 reviews2015
Dev: Serious Games InteractivePub: My Way Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Travel back in time and witness the horrors of slave trade firsthand. You will be working as young slave steward on a ship crossing the Atlantic. You are to serve the captain and be his eyes and ears. What do you do, when you realize that your own sister has been captured by the slave traders?
Why similar: Illuminati 57.9% ★, Adventure 25%, Indie 17.1%
- #28 SCP-970 The Recursive Room
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HJ GAMES
Windows
SCP-970 is a spatial phenomenon wherein a collection of rooms are looped on themselves. In all cases found, this is by means of a series of doors appearing in the walls, all in a straight line, such that it is possible to walk forwards and end up at the starting position.
Why similar: Illuminati 88.6% ★, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 0.9%
- #29 MUSEUM VOLUME I
79% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Wreck Tangle Games
Windows
'Museum' is a short Puzzle-Adventure saga. The games follow the Security Guard at The Royal Foyer Museum in England. As you wake from a mid-night nap, you notice all the security cameras are down, it's up to you to get them working again.
Why similar: Adventure 45.7%, Indie 34.7%, Horror 19.6%
- #30 Last of Ass
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: SSP Games
Windows
LAST OF ASS - is a horror game in which the protagonist survives horrible events by just turning the wrong way on the highway.
Why similar: Illuminati 56.2% ★, Horror 19.8%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 5%
- #31 Last in Orbit
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Dapper Rabbit Games
Windows
Last in Orbit is a Horror game with a focus on surviving a A.I. gone Crazy. Your the first to arrive on a new space station meant for human living but in the preparations ahead you found out that the A.I.
Why similar: Adventure 49.5%, Indie 37.6%, Horror 12.9%
- #32 Fireflies
79% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2015
Dev: Phanom Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Adventure horror with many puzzles and an interesting story.
Why similar: Adventure 47.1%, Indie 31.7%, Horror 21.2%
- #33 The Final Take
78% 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 38.7%, Adventure 33.2%, Indie 28%
- #34 SECTOR 40: The Soviet Legacy
76% match9 user reviews22% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Fifteen Feet
Windows
SECTOR 40 is a fictional discovery game with a slightly sinister atmosphere. Have an adventure in the darkness of Siberia and discover the heritage of the Soviet Union in its sad fate.
Why similar: Adventure 51.6%, Indie 39.2%, Horror 9.3%
- #35 Hermina Lumen is Only Human
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bad chalk
Windows · Mac
A really miserable story-driven adventure game about small-town 80's witches and a fairly disastrous funeral.
Why similar: Adventure 56%, Indie 44%
- #36 Adam's Venture: Origins
77% matchMixed65% of 557 reviews2016
Dev: Vertigo GamesPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Embark on a bold adventure in Adam’s Venture: Origins. Set in the roaring 20’s, in Adam’s Venture: Origins you will explore ancient ruins, and recover mysterious artifacts. Together with your trusted accomplice Evelyn, you will have to outsmart the evil Clairvaux company.
Why similar: Illuminati 69.3% ★, Adventure 18.3%, Indie 12.4%
- #37 Alone K.W.
78% 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 61.6%, Indie 20.9%, Horror 17.5%
- #38 Drifted Tales - Ancestor's Isle
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Course Interactive
Windows
An exploration driven adventure with survival and crafting mechanics but no fighting. Explore a uniquely designed islands in a point and click fashion, gather resources, craft tools and build much needed shelter. Uncover long lost places with a distinct background story and finally manage to escape the island.
Why similar: Adventure 56%, Indie 44%
- #39 Vernon's Legacy
77% matchMixed57% of 116 reviews2016
Dev: TripleBrick
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Vernon's Legacy is an horror adventure with an enigmatic story that takes place nearly a century ago. You are playing as Robert, the new owner of Dunkenhof manor.
Why similar: Adventure 41.8%, Indie 31.8%, Horror 26.4%
- #40 Saturnine
75% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Dominik MichalkePub: 70:30
Windows · Mac
Saturnine - a horror survival adventure. In Saturnine you will explore abandoned villages and the woods of Nearna. But beware: Nightfall comes closer and something mystifying and evil is awaiting you in the shadows of the darkness!
Why similar: Adventure 44.9%, Indie 34.1%, Horror 21%
- #41 Araha : Curse of Yieun Island
73% matchMixed60% of 376 reviews2020
Dev: Palmsoft
Windows
Araha: Curse of Yieun Island is a survival horror game. You will explore the hospital on an island as 'the Boy' who is looking for his sister. Starting from the abandoned hospital, You will journey through the cursed island covering the Sharman's sanctum, Cemetary in the mountainside and more.
Why similar: Adventure 48.8%, Indie 37.5%, Horror 13.7%
- #42 The Renovator
74% matchMixed66% of 99 reviews2019
Dev: mirzagame5
Windows
In this game you’re an experienced restorer currently working in a museum workshop. The restorer’s friend requested him to fix some old exhibits. From that moment his adventure starts.
Why similar: Indie 44.4%, Horror 33.3%, Adventure 22.3%
- #43 看白海豚的好日子 A Perfect Day for White Dolphin
71% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: 寒蟬
Windows
改編自乾綠郎的小說《完美的蛇頸龍之日》。 在這個時代,人們可以透過SC裝置和植物人進行感應。 感應淺者知道自己正在虛擬世界之中;感應深者,則會分不清虛幻與現實。 即使如此,黃芷欣還是決定和植物人弟弟芷樂進行感應,她必須找出芷樂自殺的原因。
Why similar: Adventure 52.3%, Indie 39.2%, Horror 8.5%
- #44 Layers of Fear VR
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 273 reviews2019
Dev: Incuvo S.A.Pub: Bloober Team SA
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Enter a tangibly horrifying Virtual Reality and explore a mansion of horror as an artist falling into the depths of insanity. Will you find the muse for your masterpiece... or madness?
Why similar: Adventure 50.7%, Indie 38.8%, Horror 10.5%
- #45 The Warden
75% 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 49.3%, Horror 26.1%, Indie 24.6%
- #46 Cube XL
73% matchMixed40% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: Timberwolf StudiosPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 21%
Cube XL is a hardcore cube game.
Why similar: Illuminati 86% ★, Indie 14%
- #47 Sullen: Light is Your Friend
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 71 reviews2017
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
FIVE YEARS AGO IN THIS FOREST.. A journalist wanted to go there.And of course he didnt come back. Few days later,he called his best friend.He just said to him "Come Here" and line dropped. You're the best friend of this guy.You listened your friend and you went there. LET THE GAME BEGIN
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Indie 31.3%, Horror 29.9%
- #48 Trace of the past
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Konev
Windows
In this horror story, you will go to explore the old boarding school to find out a secret of your forgotten past.
Why similar: Adventure 44.9%, Indie 34.1%, Horror 21%
- #49 How Mosquito Became Human
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SaintHeiserPub: Half-Face Games
Windows
This game is about a brave mosquito who wants to become a human. The main idea is that if you eat something, you become it.
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #50 Blendy 2 Dolls Factory
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Daniil999OPub: CDA Games
Windows
Go through locations, finding keys and avoiding traps. Find out the secret of Blendy and make the crucial choice! It all depends on you and your perseverance! Can you finally stop Blendy? Or will he and his associates be more cunning than you?
Why similar: Adventure 52.7%, Indie 40.1%, Horror 7.2%
- #51 REALITY
71% 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 42.9%, Adventure 31.2%, Indie 25.9%
- #52 Infinite Sunshine Dust
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Kena MAKF
Windows
Infinite Sunshine Dust (ISD) is a psychedelic horror adventure game. Four prisoners wander a virtual world for insane experiment and they get involved with many, many strange things.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #53 BEKKOUAME
67% matchVery Positive93% of 269 reviews2018
Dev: Mt.Bamboo VillagePub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
有一天,想成为制簪人的【光】无法忍耐每日修行的痛苦,逃出了家门。 路上,她遇到一位头上发簪十分合称的女性。 在女性的引导下,她来到一个稀奇古怪的城镇。
Why similar: Adventure 42.4%, Indie 30.9%, Horror 26.7%
- #54 Abandoned Hospital VR
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: munsunghyun
Windows
You have to escape from this insane place. Oculus Rift required to play.
Why similar: Adventure 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #55 Shutter
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 218 reviews2015
Dev: Cosmic Logic
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Re-live a dark and haunting tale in this fixed camera puzzle-horror game RE-miniscent of the first generation of survival horror games.
Why similar: Adventure 42.3%, Indie 32.1%, Horror 25.6%
- #56 Den vänstra handens stig
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Newmark Software
Windows · Mac
Den vänstra handens stig is a transcendental blackened narrative experience that focuses on courage, determination and sacrifice.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #57 Will Fight for Food: Super Actual Sellout: Game of the Hour
70% matchMixed60% of 100 reviews2015
Dev: Pyrodactyl
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Kill, steal, and tread the tender fields of diplomacy in this RPG Brawler with a ridiculously complicated conversation system - or you can just beat up everyone you meet, you psycho.
Why similar: Illuminati 82.3% ★, Indie 17.7%
- #58 Inner Riddle
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Growfall Games
Windows
You have awoken in strange and unfamiliar place. Soon you realize that you are not simply locked up. But why? For what reason? In search of answers, you must follow the rules of this place. Puzzles and hard decisions are waiting for you. Will you perish never reaching the end or pass through all obstacles and understand what happened?
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #59 DownWind
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jackson Clarke
Windows
Are you ready to leave your home? Join a Little Leaf on a Big Journey.
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%