Games Like Sanitize

A first-person survival horror game set in a cursed circus shaped by childhood memories. Move carefully and hide from the demonic clown stalking you. Explore dangerous attractions and burn circus posters to break the curse and save your life.

Why similar: Jump Scare 22% ★, Survival Horror 12.7%, Thriller 9.7%, Lore-Rich 9%, Horror 8.9%

Move carefully and hide from the demonic clown stalking you. Burn circus posters to break the curse and save your life.

Why similar: Jump Scare 22.9% ★, Survival Horror 13.3%, Thriller 9.1%, Horror 9%, Lore-Rich 8.4%

A first-person horror game about working the night shift at a roadside hotel. Answer calls, fix faucets, deliver towels. Something is walking the halls, and she only stops moving while your flashlight is on her. Look away and she's coming. One touch and your shift is over.

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.2%, Jump Scare 14% ★, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, First-Person 8.1%

Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.

Why similar: Thriller 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.6%, Cinematic 8.8%, Action-Adventure 8.5%

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Eilean Mor lighthouse fell silent. The light is out, and its three keepers are missing. No one is answering the radio. As a reserve keeper, you’re sent to investigate this horror mystery. But beware you may become the fourth to vanish.

Why similar: Jump Scare 20.9% ★, Thriller 13.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Cinematic 8.8%, Horror 8.7%

Placefall is a first-person horror game set across different locations. Explore, collect items, solve puzzles, hide from creatures that react to your sound, and uncover the truth behind your missing sister.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.1%, Thriller 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11%, Cinematic 9.9%, Horror 9.5%

Enter a cursed ancestral haveli and uncover the truth behind a forgotten bloodline while surviving a reactive entity that watches, listens, learns your habits, and adapts to how you survive. Explore hidden rooms, solve ritual-based puzzles, and survive

Why similar: Survival Horror 14.1%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Thriller 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Supernatural 9.7%

Survive 5 nights in the heart of northeastern Argentina as a local farmer and reveal the truth behind the haunting tales of the Pombero in a world where folklore meets terror.

Why similar: Jump Scare 20.8% ★, Survival Horror 12.9%, Thriller 9.6%, Lore-Rich 9.3%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

Explore a corrupted game project in this horror-puzzle adventure. Uncover the mystery behind its collapse and the developer's abandonment. Use the Code Cannon to break through the digital barriers and navigate the chaotic realm to uncover the truth behind its downfall.

Why similar: Jump Scare 26.5% ★, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Horror 8.9%, Survival Horror 7.3%

Return to the orphanage Helena once called home after receiving a mysterious letter from a childhood friend. The orphanage was closed years ago after a mysterious fire. Now Helena relives unsettling memories as she explores and uncovers disturbing events that took place after she left.

Why similar: Cinematic 12.4%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Supernatural 8.1%, Realistic 7.7%

Experience the terror in Silence Channel 2, a first person horror game based on a true story. Navigate through eerie environments, solve puzzles, evade lurking horrors, and even wield firepower in a desperate bid for survival. Can you escape the relentless darkness in this terrifying sequel?

Why similar: Survival Horror 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Thriller 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Horror 8.6%

In this sequel to Leenie Boog, you are an Artaktikon named Ballin. Plucking up your courage, you decided to start fresh: move to the big city and get a job. You truly believed that the dark ages, when carnivores devoured herbivores, were long gone... Or so you thought, until recently.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.2%, Jump Scare 13.1% ★, Horror 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Dark 8.7%

In this first-person survival horror game, run and hide from Waffle Cone Willie, a haunted ice cream truck that roams through the town of Sweetwater seeking his next victim. Find clues, survive, and uncover the mystery and nightmare of Sweetwater.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.9%, Supernatural 13.3%, Thriller 12.8%, Jump Scare 11.1% ★, Psychological Horror 10.3%

You're a cameraman, filming dead bodies and unseen horrors from the past, and instantly changing what the Death Counter watches in the future.

Why similar: Jump Scare 19.4% ★, Survival Horror 12.9%, Cinematic 9.8%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Supernatural 8.6%

A realistic first-person horror game where you explore a dark underground basement, solve puzzles, uncover hidden clues, and escape from a ruthless killer who could be lurking around every corner.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.9%, Cinematic 13.3%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Horror 11.1%, Thriller 10.5%

A first-person psychological horror game set in the ruins of SCP Foundation Site-63. Sneak past anomalies you cannot fight, scavenge scarce supplies, and piece together what Project Echelon released - because whatever is hunting you knows exactly where you're going.

Why similar: Jump Scare 18.9% ★, Survival Horror 12.6%, Supernatural 10.5%, Cinematic 9.6%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

A first-person psychological survival horror set in an abandoned subway station. Monitor cameras, manage your sanity, and survive the night shift while something moves through the tunnels.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.4%, Thriller 12.6%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Dark 8.1%

Watch the surroundings of the outpost through cameras, keep creatures away by using lights, and protect yourself by locking doors in case of danger. Welcome to the five nights at Backrooms.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Horror 9.5%, Realistic 8.9%, Thriller 8.8%

Embark on a chilling adventure through a mysterious forest on a cold Christmas Eve night, searching for ornaments to decorate a Christmas tree. But beware—something lurks in the snowy darkness…

Why similar: Jump Scare 23.8% ★, Survival Horror 12.7%, Cinematic 9.4%, Horror 7.9%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

A solo shitgame where you wander a massive magical forest hunting for a sword, while trolls hunt you. Part horror, part boredom, all pain. Good luck, you'll need it.

Why similar: Cinematic 12.8%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Realistic 8.3%, First-Person 8.3%

Cursed Bet is a horror game where you play from a body camera perspective. Enter the abandoned preschool, the subject of terrible rumors, in the midnight. Struggle the cursed doll Ebeleen as you investigate the school's dark past. Will you be able to destroy him and his curse?

Why similar: Supernatural 15%, Thriller 13.8%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Horror 11%, Dark 10%

The witch’s ominous chanting echoes through the corn field, a rogues' gallery of deranged monsters is out for your blood, an eerie mist rolls in from worlds unknown... and you don’t even remember how you got here. Can you escape the Terror in the Corn?

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.4%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Thriller 14%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 10.3%

A heart-pounding adventure taking place in the twisted town of West Grove. Play as a patient trapped in a world where dream and reality begin to blur. Use light to solve puzzles, reveal hidden items, and transform objects to explore in a way like never before.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.5%, Thriller 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Cinematic 8.3%, Supernatural 7.9%

You find yourself alone in an abandoned doll factory, assembling and inspecting dolls because you needed the money. Each order ends with the sense that they should never have been shipped, but leaving is no longer an option.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.4%, Thriller 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Supernatural 12.8%, Horror 10.4%

So you’ve been arrested? No Problem! In Vacant’s Mine you can regain your freedom in just 7 Days! With a Mine Railway and a Plunger you’ll navigate through an abandoned mine to steal eggs. But beware of the Greebs, they have terrifying big mouths and razor sharp teeth!

Why similar: Jump Scare 17% ★, Survival Horror 15.4%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Horror 9.9%

Explore the cursed village and discover the sinister secrets it hides. Survive a terrible night and solve puzzles as you try to escape the curse that plagues the place. Experience tension and fear at every step in this horror game.

Why similar: Survival Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Medieval 9.7%, Horror 9.3%, Supernatural 9%

Dead Return is a first-person psychological horror game about returning to a place you can never leave.

Why similar: Thriller 16.3%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 10.9%, Supernatural 8.5%

Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 10.7%, Medieval 8.9%, Dark 8.1%

A first-person supernatural horror inspired by the legends of Bhangarh Fort. Explore India’s most haunted place, uncover your brother’s disappearance, and survive the ancient curse that still haunts the ruins.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.2%, Supernatural 17.8%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Horror 11.1%, Dark 8%

Project Faceless is a 4-player online co-op psychological horror game built with Unreal Engine 5. Players locate papers while being hunted by a faceless creature. Use flashlights and teamwork to navigate, with escalating difficulty enhancing the immersive horror experience.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.7%, Dark 10.2%, Horror 10.1%, Psychological Horror 10%, Realistic 9.5%

Stranded in a cursed forest, you must find four sacred relics to break the Ghost's curse. Use a cross to keep her at bay, a hammer to clear obstacles, and a GPS to navigate the forest. Survive until midnight, or become her next victim.

Why similar: Jump Scare 23.9% ★, Survival Horror 13%, Supernatural 11%, Horror 8.5%, Psychological Horror 7.2%

A kid's nightmare turned into Boogeyman's Freak Show. Discover and flash out any horrors lurking in the shadows, protect your home, keep its lights on, and survive 5 nights straight against him and his varied nightmarish minions to win your freedom.

Why similar: Jump Scare 19.1% ★, Survival Horror 17.4%, Supernatural 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 8.7%

A mysterious event causes an entire town to vanish, leaving it wrapped in dense fog and cut off from the world. Explore impossible underground structures, manage your limited resources, and solve complex puzzles as you try to survive this nightmare. Estimated playtime: 4–7 hours

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.1%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Thriller 12.5%, First-Person 8.2%

Your daughter has vanished inside the facilities of the company "THE BOX." Uncover mysteries, solve puzzles, and survive the creatures that hunt you in a game that blends psychological horror, survival, and atmospheric storytelling.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.6%, Supernatural 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 11%, Thriller 7.7%

The Unrested is a story-driven first-person horror game. A spirit from your past traps you in an abandoned boarding school. A shadow watching your every step will test you with puzzles while forcing you to confront your fears.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.3%, Thriller 18.5%, Horror 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Dark 8.1%

You find yourself trapped alone in a pyramid, being hunted by an Egyptian God. Break containers to find what you need to survive and escape but stay quiet, Shanubis doesn't like trespassers. Just ask the rest of the research team...

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.1%, Supernatural 14.6%, Horror 11.3%, First-Person 8.2%, Thriller 7.7%

Another's Memories is a first-person psychological horror video game located in Argentina. Explore a sinister country house, solve puzzles, and survive ruthless enemies in an immersive experience where every shadow hides a disturbing story.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.9%, Horror 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Thriller 12.2%, Dark 10.5%

EXITRANCE is a single-player psychological horror game set in a constantly shifting loop. Explore a confined environment where each cycle subtly changes, altering objects, sounds, and events. Observe your surroundings, and solve environmental puzzles to break the loop and escape.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Supernatural 13.9%, Thriller 13.7%, Horror 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

DeathOmen is a short psychological horror Experience that challenges players to maintain their sanity over the nights in a mysterious house that hides mystery and fear, disturbing events and jumpscares.

Why similar: Jump Scare 25.4% ★, Thriller 11%, Supernatural 10.9%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

In this first-person adventure/horror game, step into a forest where no one ever returns. Explore its haunted paths, uncover dark secrets, and gather the items you’ll need to survive. But beware—the more you discover, the more the forest will learn about you.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.4%, Thriller 13.3%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Nature 10%

Bleak Haven is a cinematic survival horror where faith is twisted, every shot matters, and survival hangs on what you can build. Explore haunted ruins, abandoned villages, and face a cult preparing the world for a god no one should ever witness.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.1%, Thriller 14.8%, Cinematic 12%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 9%

"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."

Why similar: Supernatural 15.1%, Cinematic 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 10.4%, Realistic 7.5%

Trapped in an abandoned hospital, you must survive the Dollmaker’s twisted test to escape. Solve devious puzzles and outsmart his horrific creations, or risk becoming one of his soulless, Creatures. Will you survive the trial, or will you become his next experiment?

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.2%, Thriller 13.8%, Supernatural 12.9%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Dark 9.6%

Survive heart-pounding chases in this first-person found footage psychological horror. With the help of a camcorder, explore dark tombs and tight halls under the great pyramid. Find its terrible secrets, manage your batteries and, if you can, SURVIVE.

Why similar: Survival Horror 13.8%, Thriller 12.3%, Supernatural 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Horror 8.8%

You're alone. Darkness and hopelessness surround you. These creatures are everywhere. Can you save yourself, or is it all doomed?

Why similar: Supernatural 8.9%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Realistic 8.5%, Thriller 8.3%, Psychological Horror 7.2%

Awakeness is a first-person psychological horror set in Barzakh, a higher layer of reality where space and emotion distort. Explore looping corridors, solve subtle environmental puzzles, and evade an unseen presence using stealth and light.

Why similar: Survival Horror 14.8%, Thriller 12.5%, Cinematic 11.7%, Horror 10.8%, Dark 8.8%

The protagonist gets into a car accident and is forced to take shelter from the cold in an abandoned house, waiting for warmer temperatures, where it will soon turn out that he is not alone at all..

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.9%, Supernatural 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Horror 10%, Dark 9.5%

Guarding the graveyard shift is often considered one of the most terrifying jobs globally, but night guarding at Whispering Winds Cemetery surpasses any other cemetery in horror! Being Night Security in this place will turn into a nightmare for you that you may never forget.

Why similar: Thriller 16.1%, Jump Scare 13.3% ★, Cinematic 11.3%, Horror 10.5%, Dark 10.3%

Geppetto's Nightmare is a first-person gothic horror. Navigate a nightmare built from a father's regret, using past inventions to overcome distinct challenges. Survive a jarring journey through deepening darkness where every tool is a key to enduring this surreal and haunting struggle.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.9%, Thriller 13.2%, Horror 11%, Dark 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

This is a survival escape action game from a huge wave where you can experience fear and despair within the first minute. The goal is to run around freely in 3D space from a first-person perspective and avoid large waves. The joy of conquering a huge wave is immeasurable.

Why similar: Cinematic 11.9%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Thriller 11.5%, Realistic 8.5%, Nature 8.2%

In the process of searching for real estate, he comes across a lucrative offer - a 2-storey house with a basement and an attic for only $295,000. After much hesitation, he contacts the seller and agrees to the deal. But what happened on the next day after the move, he was shocked.

Why similar: Cinematic 13.9%, Thriller 8.7%, Realistic 8.7%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Dark 7.1%

A psychological horror spin-off of the acclaimed game Claire. You play as Deacon, a man searching for his missing father, but the deeper you dug, the darker the truths you uncovered, secrets you wish you’d never found, and that will haunt you forever.

Why similar: Supernatural 15.1%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Cinematic 10.7%, First-Person 9.6%

In this first-person horror game, sanity changes everything and can turn nights into a living nightmare. Survive at Tamixa School whilst carrying out various tasks, keeping your cool and avoiding Julio and his friends.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17%, Thriller 14%, Horror 10.9%, Dark 9.1%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

Silent Chamber is a first- and third-person psychological horror adventure focused on exploration, survival, and traversal through nightmarish places. Survive what waits beyond the veil.

Why similar: Jump Scare 18.4% ★, Survival Horror 13.1%, Supernatural 11.1%, Cinematic 9.7%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

Phobic Nightmares is a psychological horror game where you experience nightmarish realities to uncover what happened to your sister. Find notes from your sister and use the sacrifices of those who came before you to uncover what’s hidden and avoid ending up like them.

Why similar: Supernatural 15.8%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Thriller 13%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 12.4%

You are trapped in a biological research facility critical to global research. You must explore, survive and learn the realities while something breathes down your neck in a complex laboratory enviroment.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.6%, Thriller 16.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Horror 11.3%, Dark 8.1%

Whisper is a chilling first-person horror game set in a haunted mansion filled with dark secrets and eerie whispers. As an investigator, explore the shadowy corridors, solve haunting puzzles, and uncover the tragic past of Whisper Manor. Will you survive the terror within?

Why similar: Jump Scare 20.1% ★, Thriller 12.9%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Realistic 8.2%

In this mascot horror game, you explore an abandoned children’s asylum and solve deceptive puzzles with your plush squid gun. Escape Chompy Chasey, befriend (or avoid) Binky Drinky, and uncover secrets you had long forgotten about. Do you remember?

Why similar: Survival Horror 15%, Thriller 12.9%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Horror 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

A gritty first-person action-horror where you awaken trapped in the cursed settlement of Hellhole—a forsaken place swallowed by the northern wilderness. Fight your way out of this nightmare’s depths and uncover what has been buried under top-secret clearance for centuries.

Why similar: Cinematic 13.5%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Supernatural 11.9%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

Reality Breach is a first-person psychological horror game where your own creation turns against you. Step into the shoes of an exhausted indie developer trapped in a shifting home studio, evading a relentless entity born from your own corrupted code.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 12.6%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Supernatural 11.3%, Thriller 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.7%