Games Like SHADOW MAZE Descent into Fear

In SHADOW, expect the unexpected. Every shadow conceals danger, every sound fuels your dread. Dare to survive a night of terror where the darkness is your enemy, and the unknown waits at every turn.

Why similar: Survival Horror 30.6%, First-Person 19.5%, Linear 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Adventure 10.1%

Boston Nursing Home is a First-Person Indie Horror Game. There’s luggage stacked on the ground, bloodstains on the wall. What happened here and why did people move out in such a hurry? What unpredictable disaster made everything lose control? The truth, is waiting to be uncovered...

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.6%, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 12.8%, Horror 11%, First-Person 9.7%

A survival horror experience set in a cursed forest. Players must explore, solve puzzles, and evade terrifying creatures lurking in the shadows. With relentless tension, a haunting atmosphere, and monsters hiding within the woods. Survival depends on wit, and instinct.

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.9%, Puzzle 19.8%, Adventure 18.9%, First-Person 18.4%, Horror 9.2%

Trapped in an abandoned asylum with the sinister Doctor Viscera, who will stop at nothing to keep you there as his test subject for cruel experiments. Explore the old GrimmHaus Asylum in this PSX-style survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.6%, Puzzle 13.1%, PvE 11.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Game takes place in an distant and desolate town somewhere in Eastern Europe. A player should face frightful creatures and solve twisted puzzles to survive.

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.8%, Puzzle 16.9%, Adventure 16%, First-Person 14.4%, PvE 13.3%

RadioWave is a realistic indie horror first person game set in the 2000s featuring killer robotics, an enticing three-part story in Campaign Mode, murderous fun in Custom Mode and a fast-paced Multiplayer Mode. Can you survive the RadioWave?

Why similar: Survival Horror 34.6%, First-Person 15.4%, Linear 12.8%, Adventure 9.1%, Gore 8%

Explore a sinister world with environments based on Vietnam culture and a storyline inspired by Vietnam myths and folklore.

Why similar: Survival Horror 35.5%, Adventure 18.5%, First-Person 15.4%, Gore 13.1%, Horror 11%

Discover the mystery behind Marcus Circus, the world's first circus with infinite energy generated by a mysterious crystal. You will have to try to survive by hiding, exploring, and solving puzzles.

Why similar: Survival Horror 38.9%, Puzzle 15.8%, First-Person 14.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Horror 9.4%

In The Orphan, you'll step into the shoes of Eric, a young orphan who has returned to the abandoned orphanage. As you explore its dark and twisted corridors, you'll encounter all manner of supernatural creatures and otherworldly horrors that will test your courage and your sanity.

Why similar: Survival Horror 35.8%, Puzzle 21.5%, Adventure 20.8%, First-Person 19.9%, Singleplayer 2%

Step into a 2000s-inspired horror experience with gritty, VHS-style low-poly graphics. Uncover the dark secrets behind your brother’s disappearance.

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.7%, First-Person 20%, Gore 9.7%, Linear 9.1%, Horror 8.9%

Make up your mind to enter the LASHEK family home and solve its mystery!

Why similar: Survival Horror 38.2%, First-Person 17.3%, PvE 15.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Horror 8.7%

Will you be able to get out of this long corridor? A long road with death on the prowl will stand between you and the exit. There is no other way, you are already inside.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.6%, Adventure 23.6%, First-Person 19.9%, Linear 15.1%, 3D 7.5%

The Umbridge Estate is a 1-4 Player Co-Op Survival Horror Game like no other. Solve the riddles of the maze, read the notes of the people who came before you but most importantly… survive the horrors within.

Why similar: Survival Horror 27.3%, PvE 19.7%, Puzzle 15.7%, First-Person 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%

Robotization: The Last Human - a first-person survival-horror game in which you have to survive in a world full of horrors. Be afraid of unknown creatures and lose your last hope for salvation.

Why similar: Survival Horror 33.5%, Adventure 12.6%, Puzzle 11.6%, First-Person 10.8%, Linear 9.3%

Hide wherever you can, look for everything you can use, be quiet to avoid attracting attention, protect yourself from the enemy's bloodthirst, Katherine sees and hears everything, don't get caught in her sight. Explore the territory, find a way to escape from this hell.

Why similar: Survival Horror 30.1%, First-Person 11.4%, Puzzle 10.8%, Gore 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

Trapped in a bunker connected to an old sewer, you must survive a few days before the creature lurking below finds you. Explore dark tunnels, gather key items, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover what happened underground before “it” finally devours you.

Why similar: Adventure 19.4%, Survival Horror 19.3%, First-Person 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Puzzle 10.7%

You wake up from a nightmare. You can't count how many times you've had a nightmare this month. But this time, after waking up, you find some strange phenomena in your house. You want to go out to see, but the door is locked...

Why similar: Survival Horror 37.1%, Puzzle 16.8%, Horror 11.7%, Adventure 9.9%, Linear 8.9%

You're stuck in school. What has trapped you is a non-human creature. Run away from him (her?). Find the key and escape from the school to survive. Use w,a,s,d, ESC, left shift, mouse

Why similar: PvE 18.6%, Puzzle 18.4%, First-Person 16.9%, Gore 14.8%, Survival Horror 14.3%

You wake up disoriented in a labyrinth, armed with nothing but a flashlight and a video camera... Solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and find a way out, but you’ll have to hurry because time is running, and each day in the labyrinth brings you closer to the end... you are not alone in this place.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.9%, Survival Horror 22.9%, Adventure 15.8%, Exploration 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

After years of being dormant the myth is put to the test and unfortunately it is true. Explore the forest, piece together the past of this cursed place and put the myth to rest once and for all. This task won't be easy as you are not the only one within the forest. Based on character by Eric Knudsen

Why similar: Survival Horror 34.1%, First-Person 22.8%, Adventure 17.5%, Horror 11.8%, 3D 9.3%

Mazut — you’ll launch it just to look. But you won’t be able to leave. A surreal, liminal world calls you forward. It knows you. You feel it. Mazut has arrived. Now you can’t leave.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.6%, First-Person 21.7%, Multiple Endings 19.4%, Horror 11.3%, Adventure 9.7%

Crash land in a haunted forest, stalked by a relentless monster. Explore eerie ruins, solve dark puzzles, and gather mysterious artifacts to escape the nightmare that lurks amongst the forest

Why similar: Puzzle 22.5%, Survival Horror 17.3%, First-Person 17%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Horror 11%

You are an investigator working in a near-bankrupt agency, however a case no-one would take landed on your desk. Disappearances of Ashfield Plains, each case is hauntingly similar, all their final phone calls were traced back to that specific payphone. Short on cash, you took the case.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.9%, Adventure 19.4%, First-Person 18.5%, Gore 13.9%, Horror 9.5%

Rediscover the meaning of terror with Submersed. Are you afraid of depths? You will be.

Why similar: Survival Horror 37.4%, Puzzle 16.6%, First-Person 15.4%, Adventure 11.3%, Gore 9.2%

Trapped in an unfamiliar place surrounded by dangerous unknown creatures, solve puzzles, find hidden objects, and most importantly DON'T GET CAUGHT. Maybe there is a way out, and maybe even a reason for why you are here...

Why similar: Survival Horror 39.9%, First-Person 17.1%, PvE 13.3%, Horror 12.8%, Adventure 12.1%

A mascot survival horror game where you turn detective and learn the truth about disappearances within a local shopping mall. Evade and outwit the Nutcracker whilst finding out what happened to the missing.

Why similar: Survival Horror 39.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Horror 9.6%

You have been selected as a new contestant to play in a twisted puzzle game designed by an up and coming serial killer known as the Game Master. Using your intuition and survival skills, can you stay one step ahead of the Game Master or end up as another one of his many victims?

Why similar: Survival Horror 39.7%, First-Person 17.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Adventure 9.8%, Gore 9.2%

Escape from Tung Tung Sahur it's a puzzle-horror game where you must to survive from Italian Brainrot Characters. The main door is covered with different locks and now you have to search the house and find keys and other objects to unlock the door and escape this house.

Why similar: Survival Horror 37.9%, Puzzle 15.7%, Adventure 13.5%, First-Person 11.8%, PvE 9.5%

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: Survival Horror 19.7%, Puzzle 18.1%, Horror 13.2%, Adventure 12.2%, PvE 11.9%

A first person horror adventure game where you play as a timid protagonist- experiencing a near death experience caused by his bullies sending him to a ghost realm. To reduce your character's fear, take all necessary steps, such as covering your ears.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.5%, First-Person 16.9%, Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Linear 9.5%

Can you stay calm, solve the puzzles and escape? Or will you succumb to fear and be captured? Papaku is already listening… can you escape before it’s too late?

Why similar: Survival Horror 46.1%, First-Person 20.1%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Adventure 12.1%, Singleplayer 2.9%

A childhood friend has been missing for as long as you can remember. You decide to investigate the abandoned town in which he used to live only to find something truly unexpected and even more so unexplainable. Have you got what it takes to find out what happened to Chris Williams?

Why similar: Survival Horror 37.2%, First-Person 14.5%, Adventure 12.6%, Horror 9.5%, Puzzle 8.8%

Descend into the depths of the Blocker Library, a place where darkness and terror intertwine. Solve puzzles, confront unique and horrifying monsters, and uncover the chilling story of this establishment. Will you find a way out, or will you become another dark page in this twisted tale of horror?

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.8%, First-Person 19.8%, Puzzle 16.7%, Horror 12.4%, Gore 10.7%

Experience this first-person horror game in a tiny Guatemalan home. As a journalist, you investigate a mysterious villa after your long-lost friend Eddie calls. Grim halls, monsters, and rusty mailbox blood await. The four chapters include spooky stories, jump scares, and difficult riddles.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.7%, Puzzle 18.4%, Adventure 16.5%, First-Person 15.1%, Gore 10%

Desolate Roads is a first-person psychological horror vignette. You’ve run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, and all you can see are empty roads, a dark forest, and the endless thick and strangling fog.

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.3%, First-Person 11.4%, Linear 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Puzzle 9.9%

A teenager's quiet night home alone turns into a fight for survival in this psychological survival horror. Scavenge for tools, outsmart a relentless stalker, and make life-or-death choices in a chilling race to escape. Every decision matters—can you survive the night?

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.5%, First-Person 13.7%, Linear 11.8%, Horror 10.6%, Gore 9.3%

Speechless is an "escape the loop" experience.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.4%, Puzzle 18%, Adventure 16%, First-Person 10.6%, Gore 9.8%

Your parents left for the night, and you stayed at home alone, you were bored and you decided to call the Jester (Joker), but something went wrong... It looks like you succeeded, now the jester wants to play with you, hide and don't let him catch you, find a way to call the jester away.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.9%, First-Person 15.9%, Puzzle 15.8%, PvE 13.1%, Horror 11.9%

Yoko no Hanashi is a first-person survival horror game where you need to survive in an abandoned college with one of your chosen yandere: Yoto (male version) and Yoko (female version)

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.7%, Puzzle 16.1%, First-Person 15.8%, Horror 10.5%, Gore 8.7%

You Wake up as A teenager Named neo in a strange place,apparently in someones mind and they want your help?! Collect items,fight enemies and try not to get yourself anhillated! But always remember,nothing in this game is as "typical" as it seems

Why similar: Puzzle 21.3%, PvE 20.8%, First-Person 19.6%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Horror 10.2%

Find the 5 keys and survive to escape the house.

Why similar: Survival Horror 41.5%, Puzzle 18.3%, First-Person 14.7%, Linear 9.1%, Horror 6.7%

The Dollmaker is a first person horror game, where after being captured, you find yourself searching a mansion for a way to escape. But the Dollmaker and his creations will be searching for you, will you become a part of his collection?

Why similar: Survival Horror 46.2%, Adventure 18.2%, First-Person 17.3%, Horror 15%, Singleplayer 3.4%

You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Do your best to survive the monsters of the funhouse and uncover the mystery behind them. Multiple endings. Will you partake in the madness, or find a way out. She is coming.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.1%, Puzzle 16.6%, Adventure 11.8%, First-Person 11.8%, Horror 10.2%

You are the King. Trapped in your castle, you are being hunted by something wearing the faces of your former subjects. Run. Pray. Hide. And may God be with you...

Why similar: Survival Horror 30.3%, Dark Fantasy 13.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Horror 9.3%, First-Person 8.1%

Inn 8 is a first-person horror adventure game with unique gameplay mechanics. Stumbled upon a cursed inn while taking a selfie in the wild. Endless rooms and terrifying monsters await. Use your wits to uncover the house's evil secrets, defeat your enemies and break the curse.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.3%, Puzzle 20.8%, Adventure 19.1%, First-Person 10.2%, Horror 9.8%

Work the night shift and uncover what haunts Lone Oak College in this short horror exploration game inspired by British folklore. Survive the horror, solve challenging puzzles, and search for your missing friend before it’s too late.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.9%, Puzzle 14.2%, First-Person 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Gore 10.2%

The Facility Project is a survival horror game. Navigate the environments by using your photo camera to illuminate dark areas, uncover hidden messages, and evade lurking creatures. Are you truly trapped within the facility, or in something else entirely?

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.6%, PvE 15.4%, First-Person 13.8%, Linear 12.1%, Puzzle 11.1%

Trapped in a haunted mansion on your first day delivering coffins, you must uncover its dark secrets to survive. Explore eerie halls and evade a stalking demonic presence as you race to gather the ghost's remains and find a way out alive.

Why similar: Survival Horror 37.4%, First-Person 15.9%, PvE 15.3%, Adventure 12.7%, Horror 11.2%

A puzzle horror game in an old empty house, use the flash from a camera as your only weapon against the shadowy figures. Solve puzzles as you try to escape this nightmare

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.5%, Puzzle 23.7%, First-Person 18.2%, PvE 11.7%, Horror 11.5%

In this first person, horror, casual game, you have to protect your Teddy from the Two Bad Fellas. Find quickly a safe spot to hide your buddy and than move him to the next one. Explore the house and solve riddles but be aware, if you hold your Teddy for too long, you will be in big danger!

Why similar: Survival Horror 40.8%, Puzzle 17.4%, Horror 13%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, 3D 6.7%

Returning to the village feels wrong. The wind howls through empty streets, and the lanterns sway like they’re alive. What happened while you were gone?

Why similar: Puzzle 21.3%, Adventure 19.5%, First-Person 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%

Welcome to “Keep it Shut” — a first-person horror game. Game is intended to play with a microphone. You have to stay as quiet as possible and find all notes to beat the game. If you will scream - you lose.

Why similar: PvE 25.8%, Puzzle 22.7%, First-Person 17.2%, Linear 16.3%, Horror 7.1%

Have you ever dreamed about being trapped in a manor where the architecture is a maze? Understandable, but unfortunately that will be happening. Where each maze has its own mechanic, will you be able to decipher them to free yourself from a place where it seems like you have no allies.

Why similar: Survival Horror 44.8%, First-Person 18.6%, Horror 13.5%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 7.3%

A VHS and PS2 aesthetic experience with heavy influence from classic horror games and movies of the 80s and 90s. With detailed environments, gory first-person action and a claustrophobic atmosphere, witness the horrors lurking beneath the streets of Northern England

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.2%, First-Person 14%, Puzzle 13.6%, Linear 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.9%

In this prologue you will step into the shoes of little Eddie, a 12 year old boy who goes to the amusement park with his parents until what would be a fun day out turns into a nightmare. Experience the terrifying atmosphere of what awaits you in Jack Holmes: Master of Puppets!

Why similar: Survival Horror 27%, Adventure 17.7%, Puzzle 17.2%, First-Person 16.4%, Linear 8.5%

Rainbow Gate is a survival horror game set in an abandoned toy factory and amusement park that was once full of joy, but has now become a deadly trap. You are trapped in a twisted game, forced to find a way to escape from the lurking shadows and relentless Animatronics before it’s too late.

Why similar: Survival Horror 34%, Puzzle 14.1%, Adventure 13.3%, Horror 11.9%, First-Person 10.1%

Diving into Abyss is a cave diving horror game with Photorealistic graphics. It's not just a diving simulation. It's a deep-sea survival horror that needs to survive suffocating closure fears and unidentified beings.

Why similar: Survival Horror 39.1%, Horror 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Adventure 9.8%, First-Person 9.5%

DO NOT OPEN is a terrifying short and paced first-person escape-room experience, based on randomness in puzzle combinations, and classic survival-horror mechanics. Each game will contain different rooms and puzzle combination, being different to solve.

Why similar: Survival Horror 33.5%, Adventure 15.9%, First-Person 15.3%, Horror 10.2%, Gore 10.1%

Escape from Darkness is a single player, first person survival horror game. After waking up alone in a strange, eerie place. You must plunge into the oppressive darkness ignorant to what awaits. Survival depends on the use of stealth, finding limited resources, and quick wits.

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.4%, PvE 13.5%, Puzzle 13%, First-Person 12.4%, Gore 8.7%

Indie Horror puzzle game

Why similar: Survival Horror 36.1%, Horror 12.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Gore 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%