Games Like Selfpolis

Liquids is a surreal adventure game. When Emma, the actress girlfriend of scientist Albert, dies strangely, police detective Todd investigates the unsolved case, and bizarrely Emma's body appears out of nowhere within many time and space.

Why similar: Surreal 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Detective 12.9%, Abstract 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%

A quiet apartment. A friendly neighbour. A normal life. You've been in this apartment for a while now. You know the layout. The sounds. The routine. So do we. A psychological horror about control.

Why similar: Surreal 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%

Have a conversation. It's your choice to find meaning in it, and if you do, the story will adapt.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Surreal 16.5%, Abstract 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%

Dream the riddle. Question the village. Choose who drowns. A poetic folk-horror game about divine messages, guilty villagers, ritual games, and the terrible cost of keeping a place safe.

Why similar: Surreal 17.6%, Horror 13.1%, Detective 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Story Rich 8.5%

A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Surreal 15.5%, Abstract 14.9%, Horror 10%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!

Why similar: Time Management 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Surreal 9.9%, Abstract 9.6%

Welcome to Feed Him, a horror-themed adventure game set in a small, innocent-looking town. Uncover dark secrets, explore eerie places, defeat your evil roommate and escape before it's too late. Immerse yourself in a spine-chilling experience with stunning graphics.

Why similar: Time Management 17.9%, Horror 15.6%, Open World 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Exploration 9.9%

In a Bit of Tales is an episodic "kind of" horror game. Featuring 7 unorthodox stories delivered in an omakase-style experience. While each is untangled, They all feature unique experiences.

Why similar: Abstract 21.4%, Surreal 17%, Horror 11.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

A first-person sci-fi horror game where you explore an abandoned research facility, travel through different timelines using a broken time machine, and uncover shifting, liminal spaces created by the Mirage. Survive evolving shadow-like entities and uncover the facility’s dark secrets.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Surreal 15.8%, Horror 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Open World 8.7%

Deep Into Darkness is a horror game about a guy living in an average city, with dark secrets hiding beneath. Explore the town and its surroundings, do whatever you want, while keeping in mind that every action leads to different paths, each one unique and strange.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Surreal 16.3%, Horror 10.7%, Open World 9%, Psychological Horror 8.1%

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Surreal 15.4%, Detective 13.9%, Horror 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.4%

Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Horror 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11%, Story Rich 10.2%

Waiting for Heaven is a psychological first-person-horror experience about waiting at a lonely bus stop between life and death. Every decision counts. Your actions, patience, and behavior determine whether the final bus takes you to Heaven, Hell, or somewhere far worse.

Why similar: Time Management 22.1%, Surreal 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Horror 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

Hinter is a horror game based on a brutal piece of disturbing crime case in Bavaria Germany

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

Parallel is a first-person (third-person optional) RPG adventure game, you will explore a parallel world with a new civilization. Each player will go through different environments, from mysticism, paradise to claustrophobic and destruction scenes. Your choices can change the course of story.

Why similar: Surreal 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 8.1%

You are a nurse trapped in a decaying hospital, surrounded by grotesque patients you must care for… for your own sake. Step into this psychological horror, uncover the reason for your punishment, and survive the darkness born from within yourself. But above all… stay away from him.

Why similar: Time Management 22.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Horror 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Surreal 14%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%

Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?

Why similar: Surreal 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 10%

This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Horror 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Surreal 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Beso's Shawarma is a short, narrative-driven horror game. A late-night call lures you on a surreal journey through empty streets to a sketchy shawarma shop. Talk to a cast of strange characters, make a terrifying choice, and try to escape a disjointed, looping nightmare.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Surreal 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Horror 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Surreal 16.5%, Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Story Rich 8.4%

Spirit Eyes is a horror game in which, as an experienced exorcist, you take a contract to an abandoned house in Wyoming. Player must discover the type of ghost and try to get rid of it. As you try to communicate with the spirit, you will have to make choices that will affect the course of the game.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Detective 12.4%, Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

Investigate a haunted swamp as Ivy Summers, a field agent facing reality-breaking anomalies and a deadly creature. Monitor cameras, report the paranormal, survive the hunt, and uncover the swamp’s dark secret before the time loop resets everything.

Why similar: Time Management 30.7%, Detective 14.9%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9%, Exploration 8.8%

Silent Harbor is a first-person horror adventure game that will immerse you in a creepy story.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Detective 16.8%, Horror 12%, Story Rich 8.5%, Choices Matter 8%

The Obsessive Shadow is a Survival Horror Game about a stalker you can't exactly Identify. With nothing but your eyes and a flashlight at your disposal, it's up to you to survive whatever horrific person or thing is out there watching you...

Why similar: 6DOF 24.6% ★, Surreal 16.6%, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Exploration 7.4%

In the year 1018, an adventurer from Samarkand drifts to Hardland. Solve a mystery by delving into the different sides of this fantasy world. Hardland is a bustling kingdom filled with secrets. A kingdom that wants you to listen.

Why similar: Surreal 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Open World 9.7%

Navigate the fog, evade monsters, solve puzzles, and escape alive.

Why similar: Horror 17.8%, Abstract 16.6%, Surreal 16.4%, Time Management 15.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Surreal 14.2%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Choices Matter 11%, Exploration 9.5%

THE VIRUS IS INSIDE YOU. Play as an infected scientist trapped in a facility destroyed by the XPT-120 outbreak. Explore, solve puzzles, and survive hallucinations where reality breaks apart and nothing can be trusted. Wishlist now.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Horror 13.1%, Exploration 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Surreal 17%, Horror 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Story Rich 9.6%

Vermilion Arcade is a collection of 8+ horror games inside a surreal and mysterious arcade.

Why similar: Surreal 18.7%, Abstract 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Horror 11.6%, Open World 9.2%

An anthology of 7 horror tales within a connected universe. Join a murderous marshmallow bound by their past down an atmospheric descent, brought into question by an odd game show host. Follow a Witch trying to seduce her love with sweet things. Plus 5 other surprisingly twisted yet emotional tales.

Why similar: Abstract 18.4%, Surreal 18.2%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Story Rich 7.8%

Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.

Why similar: Surreal 18.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Horror 11.9%, Choices Matter 11%

You are a soul awakened in the Abyss,composed of fallen human souls.Explore surreal structures and mysterious constructs, collect fragments of your essence,overcome challenges,and discover the path to self-knowledge.

Why similar: Abstract 24%, Surreal 21.2%, 6DOF 20.1% ★, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 6.9%

Explore, fight, and survive in this minimalistic psychological horror set in the depths of the human psyche. A story about perception and empathy.

Why similar: Surreal 20.8%, Abstract 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

The Gray Man is a surreal first-person point-and-click adventure about a serial killer who confronts the player, as the murderer's conscience, with interpretations of his internal conflict.

Why similar: Abstract 19.2%, Surreal 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

Cerebral is a short psychological horror game where every mistake hurts your memory. Save your mind or surrender it to the system. What remains of you either way?

Why similar: Surreal 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 11%

A First-person horror game with multiple endings. Endings and Events might change Every time you Replay it.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.4%, Horror 16%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, First-Person 9%

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

Why similar: Abstract 20.4%, Surreal 20.4%, Detective 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 9%

On one rainy morning, Steve found a baby in a utility tunnel. He is not alone. Navigate eerie locales, solve puzzles, and face bizarre creatures to uncover a cosmic mystery in Tunnel Baby.

Why similar: Surreal 18.1%, Abstract 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Horror 11.4%, Exploration 8.6%

Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

Why similar: Abstract 19%, Surreal 18.3%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Atmospheric 8%

Paramnesia is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, memory, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Surreal 15.7%, Detective 14%, Horror 9.8%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

Go to the 11th floor of a building that doesn't have an 11th floor.

Why similar: Abstract 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Surreal 14.1%, Horror 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.

Why similar: Abstract 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Story Rich 9%

A surreal adventure through the dreams purchased by an ordinary office worker.

Why similar: Surreal 24.8%, Abstract 17.9%, Horror 13.5%, Exploration 10.2%, Psychedelic 8%

Face of Fear: The Forester is a psychological horror where you become a new forest ranger. A couple of months of silence, a house in the middle of a dense forest and not a soul around, what could go wrong?

Why similar: 6DOF 22.3% ★, Horror 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%

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Why similar: Abstract 19.4%, Surreal 18.2%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Story Rich 7.6%

Atmospheric and surreal horror game about day and night cycle.

Why similar: Surreal 26.2%, Abstract 24.6%, Horror 18.4%, Exploration 7.6%, Atmospheric 6.3%

Whispers of Mexico is a psychological narrative horror game with puzzle elements set in post-revolutionary Mexico in 1930. Follow Manuel as he navigates his mind, where he must recover his memory, unravel the mystery surrounding the town, and redeem his sins.

Why similar: Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Abstract 12.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%

In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Surreal 13.3%, Detective 11.1%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Surreal 16.5%, Horror 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Surreal 19.9%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Exploration 7.3%

You wake up in a place that feels strangely familiar. Something isn’t right. The experiment has begun. And it is watching you. Explore, survive, and uncover the truth behind a repeating reality.

Why similar: Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Story Rich 10.9%

HOLLOW BLISS, the horror game where death, choice, and consequences all come back to haunt you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Surreal 17.1%, Horror 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.4%

"Can I Buy You A Cheeseburger?" is a reality-bending puzzle game. Explore a fractured mindscape, solve subconscious riddles, and experience surreal storytelling through figurative expressionism. Uncover hidden truths and reconstruct your reality.

Why similar: Surreal 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Abstract 17%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%

A home brewed 360° interactive horror flick. Witness a troubled soul craving to make a chilling home movie realize that the monster lies a lot deeper than he could have ever guessed. Play the cassette and rewind the terror hidden inside.

Why similar: Surreal 17%, Abstract 13.3%, Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

A grave robbery gone wrong sends you tumbling down an absurd rabbit hole.

Why similar: Abstract 20%, Surreal 19.4%, Horror 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

Granite Casket is a claustrophobic horror about crawling with six degrees of freedom through caverns. Careful positioning and awkward angles will be needed to find the crevices within the earth no human was ever designed to go.

Why similar: 6DOF 55.2% ★, Horror 16.8%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Exploration 7.9%, First-Person 4.5%