- #1 Night Janitor
97% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: batwimp
Windows
A first-person horror game where you clean up after rowdy high school kids while also keeping a lookout for clues as to their disappearance. Scrub, vacuum, clean... die?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35%, Horror 27.9%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Singleplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Like Skull Hotel, this game forces you to perform menial cleaning tasks while navigating a dark, atmospheric environment filled with horror.
- #2 The Closing Shift
96% matchMixed66% of 118 reviews2025
Dev: Bird Box Games
Windows
A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.
Why similar: Dark 22.3%, Horror 18.3%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Simulation 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title is a masterclass in job-based horror, focusing on the anxiety of performing routine tasks while being watched by a sinister presence.
- #3 Silent Cleaning
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 344 reviews2025
Dev: Kao Home Care BusinessPub: Kao Corporation
Windows
Move silently. Clean thoroughly. A 3D horror action and cleaning simulation featuring Kao’s real products. Clean the villa, solve hidden puzzles, and escape while your performance affects the home’s appraisal value. A unique blend of suspense and cleaning awaits.
Why similar: Horror 35.8%, Survival Horror 12.7%, First-Person 12.2%, Exploration 10.4%, Simulation 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific gameplay loop of cleaning environments while avoiding supernatural entities in a first-person perspective.
- #4 The Roach Hotel
95% matchVery Positive90% of 107 reviews2025
Dev: Hawt Combo
Windows
The Roach Hotel is a first person analog horror game that drags you into its halls, where every shadow hides a question and every corner dares you to keep following its path.
Why similar: Horror 36%, Survival Horror 29.1%, First-Person 26.6%, Singleplayer 4%, Indie 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the hotel-based horror theme and focuses on survival within a decaying, infested building.
- #5 [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
94% matchVery Positive82% of 3,243 reviews2020
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, First-Person 7%, Realistic 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A seminal work-horror game that perfectly captures the feeling of isolation and creeping dread during a night shift.
- #6 [Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備
94% matchVery Positive89% of 970 reviews2023
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Night Security | 夜間警備 is a Japanese psychological horror game about night security.
Why similar: Demons 24.8%, Horror 14%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Dark 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the vulnerability of a lone worker performing security rounds in a location that slowly turns hostile.
- #7 Death Motel
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Death Motel is a short, intense first-person horror experience about the paranormal events occurring at abandoned Crimson Motel.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.7%, Horror 26.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, First-Person 13.4%, Action 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the hotel-horror aesthetic, focusing on exploration and survival in a hostile, supernatural lodging.
- #8 Stay Out of the House
92% matchVery Positive94% of 1,823 reviews2022
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.5%, Horror 27.6%, First-Person 13%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Indie 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game features intense stealth and survival mechanics within a claustrophobic, dangerous house environment.
- #9 Implements of Hell
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: PsychoRavens
Windows
Implements of Hell is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore the mysteries, unlock the secrets, and change the outcome in a slow-paced atmospheric, and extremely horrifying experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Dark 14.5%, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Realistic 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a similar walking-simulator experience with a heavy focus on atmospheric psychological horror.
- #10 Devil Inside Us: Roots of Evil
91% matchVery Positive96% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Fernando TittzPub: Mr.Skull Game Studio
Windows
In this story focused horror game, you are a priest! And you need to help a family with their cursed house, explore, follow your visions, find the root, and exorcize it!
Why similar: Demons 18.8%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Horror 11.3%, Dark 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, atmospheric first-person horror experience that relies on exploration and supernatural investigation.
- #11 Murder House
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,314 reviews2020
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.8%, Horror 29.3%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Survival 10.1%, Realistic 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled survival horror game that focuses on navigating a trapped environment while being hunted by a killer.
- #12 Mirror Forge
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 184 reviews2022
Dev: MystiveDevPub: DreadXP
Windows
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
Why similar: Demons 15.8%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Dark 11%, Horror 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends psychological horror with survival elements in a dark, shifting reality.
- #13 The Hotel
89% matchVery Positive84% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: IL PALA
Windows · Mac
The Hotel is an "old style" survival horror game!! Fight zombies and solve puzzles to try to escape!!
Why similar: Survival Horror 52.6%, Action-Adventure 21.4%, Horror 11%, Singleplayer 6%, Indie 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the psychological horror of being trapped in a hotel environment.
- #14 White Room Protocol
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Lefto Studio
Windows
A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.3%, Horror 14.8%, Dark 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11%, Realistic 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A strong atmospheric horror title that emphasizes the feeling of being watched in a confined space.
- #15 Dark Fracture: Prologue
87% matchVery Positive83% of 1,368 reviews2020
Dev: Twisted II Studio
Windows
Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.
Why similar: Demons 16.8%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Survival Horror 13%, Horror 11.5%, Dark 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at creating a sense of unease through exploration in a first-person, indie-horror setting.
- #16 Security Booth: Director's Cut
86% matchVery Positive90% of 287 reviews2022
Dev: Kyle HorwoodPub: Cloud Colony Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The year is 1996 and you’re employed by a science lab called Nova Nexus. You work as a security guard at the front gate to the lab, inside a guard booth. However, tonight it seems something important is happening inside of Nova Nexus and things are... well... a little strange.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Dark 17.5%, Horror 12.1%, First-Person 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being trapped in a small, isolated space while monitoring threats from a first-person perspective.
- #17 Visage
86% matchVery Positive84% of 10,777 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 24.5%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Dark 12.2%, Walking Simulator 9%
Why You'll Like It: While higher budget, it is the gold standard for first-person psychological horror in a domestic, trapped setting.
- #18 Vigil
84% matchVery Positive86% of 2,122 reviews2025
Dev: Singularity Studios
Windows
Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.9%, Horror 17.7%, Dark 16.3%, First-Person 10.3%, Realistic 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that emphasizes the first-person perspective and the constant threat of unseen enemies.
- #19 Abandoned Souls
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 391 reviews2023
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This walking simulator focuses on building dread through exploration and environmental storytelling.
- #20 Narrow Woods Hotel
82% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: Hyper Freeze Games
Windows
A retro point-and-click horror adventure game that tests the boundries of the genre! In this "found-footage" horror game you have to navigate the rooms and hallways of the mysterious Narrow Woods Hotel. Collect keys and items and use them to find your way out.
Why similar: Horror 18.5%, Dark 16%, Survival Horror 15%, First-Person 9.7%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the hotel-horror setting and utilizes a retro-inspired aesthetic to build tension.
- #21 It follows you
84% matchMixed51% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Boom Games
Windows
You are all alone in this dark and frightening place. Run and hide, hurry to find a way out, because it follows you...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Horror 13.3%, Dark 12.5%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the feeling of being stalked in a first-person environment, similar to the creature encounters in Skull Hotel.
- #22 From The Other Side
81% matchVery Positive81% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Vania Studios
Windows
"From the Other Side" immerses you in a chilling first-person psychological horror game. You are Steve, a security guard on his first night at work, tasked with monitoring security cameras and fixing unsettling anomalies that will make you question reality.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Demons 19.7%, Dark 13%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A walking simulator that leans into psychological horror and atmospheric exploration.
- #23 PENGUIN HOTEL -Chapter 1-
81% matchVery Positive90% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: lemorion_1224
Windows
You have been invited to the popular “Penguin Hotel”. There, you get caught up in a terrifying event. Solve puzzles and battle with a special camera! Experience a very strange penguin horror.
Why similar: Horror 27.7%, First-Person 18.5%, Realistic 11.9%, Action-Adventure 11%, Atmospheric 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A thematic match that uses the hotel setting to deliver a first-person horror experience.
- #24 Hollow Head: Director's Cut
83% matchMixed70% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: Rubeki Games
Windows · Mac
You wake up to a horrible smell, and whispering vents in your apartment. Something's wrong.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.1%, Demons 13.7%, Horror 11.9%, Dark 11.3%, Survival Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: An indie psychological horror title that focuses on navigating dark, unsettling environments.
- #25 The Guest
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 958 reviews2016
Dev: Team GothamPub: 505 Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Walking Simulator 27%, First-Person 14.9%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the mystery and psychological tension of being trapped in a strange, isolated location.
- #26 The Maid
77% matchVery Positive81% of 172 reviews2025
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Horror 11.1%, Dark 11%, Survival Horror 10.8%, Realistic 9.2%
- #27 The Guest
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 211 reviews2023
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Guest is a first-person psychological horror game that focuses on creating fear and tension for the player.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Dark 15.5%, Horror 14%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
- #28 Fear in Hospital
80% matchMixed48% of 517 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Fear in Hospital is a short survivor horror in hospital where you should find a occult path to escape alive!
Why similar: Survival Horror 20.7%, Dark 17.1%, Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 13%, Realistic 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play horror game focuses on survival and exploration in a dark, confined medical facility.
- #29 Cursed
78% matchVery Positive83% of 765 reviews2016
Dev: Jetdogs Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Her future, as well as of the whole world depends on her ingenuity and bravery. The path to her fiancé is blocked by ghosts, dragons, demons and other creatures from beyond. Will she overcome her fears? Will she find her beloved? Play "Cursed" and find out!
Why similar: Horror 80.8%, Indie 19.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a tense, psychological horror experience that relies on atmosphere rather than just jump scares.
- #30 The Lodge
79% matchMostly Negative38% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: Mad Mountain StudiosPub: Cogswell University
Windows
A first-person, psychological horror game, The Lodge takes players on a journey into the horrors of a twisted mind.
Why similar: Horror 33.8%, First-Person 18.8%, Action-Adventure 16.4%, Action 11.4%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game that focuses on survival and exploration in an isolated, dangerous building.
- #31 Psycho
79% matchMixed57% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: Rachata SuksereekulPub: Good Monkey
Windows
”Psycho” is a 3D horror game that allows you to explore and survive with your friends in the terrible mystery bunker.
Why similar: Horror 19.6%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a fast-paced, action-oriented horror experience set in a tense, psychological environment.
- #32 Creepy Shift: Roadside Diner
75% matchVery Positive89% of 262 reviews2024
Dev: Night Shift TeamPub: Red Limb Studio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A broke young man takes on the night shift at a roadside diner. In the glow of the blood moon, routine tasks turn into a fight for survival. First-person horror based on a dark creepypasta with a set of rescue rules.
Why similar: Demons 21.2%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Dark 10.1%, Realistic 8.4%
- #33 The Hotel
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: Constant ArtPub: Constant_Art
Windows
The Hotel is a psychological horror thriller in which the player will have to face the evil living within the walls of a lonely hotel. But more importantly, the player will have to decide what this evil is to him. Maybe the nature of this evil is deeper than it seems at first glance.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Horror 16.8%, Dark 15%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, First-Person 10.4%
- #34 Hotel Remorse
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 345 reviews2018
Dev: Charlie Behan
Windows
Wander long creepy corridors in search for answers in this short and jumpscare filled game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Horror 18.5%, Dark 11.9%, First-Person 11.5%, Psychological Horror 7%
- #35 Hotel 188
74% matchVery Positive88% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Leonn CamayoPub: Andes Interactive
Windows
Dive into a realistic experience of the Backrooms, without jumpscares, getting lost in impossible spaces and feeling like something is watching you. The uncertainty of not knowing where you're going will make you want to quit… Will you be able to make it to the end?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.8%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Realistic 13.6%, First-Person 11.6%, Dark 8.9%
- #36 Waffle Cone Willie
74% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: corsgames
Windows · Linux
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 17.3%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Horror 13.6%, Dark 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
- #37 The Guest II
73% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Guest II is a first-person psychological horror experience.
Why similar: Survival Horror 20.3%, Horror 18.3%, Dark 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13%, Walking Simulator 12.4%
- #38 Dirty Room
75% matchMixed63% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: Tactic Forge
Windows
First person shooter horror adventure game. As detective C, you arrived at an old friend's home and try to find out what's going on.
Why similar: Horror 54.8%, First-Person 22.5%, 3D 9.4%, Action 4.8%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #39 Ghost Janitors
71% matchVery Positive86% of 915 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Wave Studio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job? Cleaning haunted houses while avoiding terrifying monsters. Ready to face the spine-tingling challenge with your team?
Why similar: Horror 16.4%, Dark 14.2%, Demons 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Realistic 10.1%
- #40 AfterHours
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 613 reviews2022
Dev: Runway Studios
Windows
Experience psychological horror in a large abandoned hospital. Hide, explore and survive from a mysterious creature living in the ruins of this hospital.
Why similar: Horror 37.1%, Walking Simulator 24.4%, First-Person 11%, Realistic 7.7%, 3D 5.3%
- #41 Horror
72% matchMixed67% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: STuNT
Windows
HORROR is a test of your logic in the face of primal fear. You are unarmed. You are vulnerable. All you have is a flashlight with a dying battery and your intellect.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.1%, Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, First-Person 9.5%, Realistic 6.6%
- #42 Dead Feed
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: SolitaryStudios
Windows
DEAD FEED is a psychological ghost-hunting horror game where you control two friends investigating a haunted house. One explores the darkness while the other monitors the feeds, as something unseen and paranormal slowly turns their investigation into a quiet, creeping nightmare.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Demons 16.5%, Dark 9.8%, Realistic 8.5%, Horror 7.8%
- #43 Hospital 666
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,389 reviews2024
Dev: Lokin
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Realistic 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #44 Scauage
69% matchVery Positive91% of 833 reviews2024
Dev: KREIDPIX
Windows
Scauage is a short horror experience where you play as a scavenger looting an abandoned house, uncovering its dark secrets and collecting hidden treasures while facing what lurks within.
Why similar: Demons 24.9%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Dark 14.2%, Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #45 50 Floors: The Paranormal Investigators Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 480 reviews2024
Dev: Arsonist Studio
Windows
Find a way out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Realistic 10.6%, First-Person 9.8%
- #46 Golgotha
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,042 reviews2023
Dev: Craig LawrencePub: LockleyGames
Windows
Dare to explore the most haunted vicinity in all of England? You will leave no stone unturned as you walk along the eerie grounds of the Black Waters Station and uncover the horror that lies within.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.2%, Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, First-Person 11.3%, Realistic 11.2%
- #47 Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 460 reviews2016
Dev: Saibot Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.
Why similar: Demons 20.9%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 10.6%
- #48 Paranormal Cleanup
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,143 reviews2025
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
Why similar: Demons 19.7%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
- #49 Misery Mansion
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 93 reviews2021
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Misery Mansion is a first-person survival horror game. After your car broke down you find yourself helpless in a forest. All alone you will search for help in the dark. You will discover and explore a mysterious old mansion. But soon all you want is to escape the horrors within.
Why similar: Demons 20.8%, Survival Horror 15%, Horror 12.3%, Dark 12%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
- #50 The Empty Eyes
68% matchVery Positive81% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.4%, Horror 17.9%, Dark 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Walking Simulator 10.5%
- #51 Floor 9
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 210 reviews2024
Dev: Room Games
Windows · Mac
In Floor 9, you find yourself trapped in a mysterious hotel known as "Hotel Liminal." To escape, you must identify anomalies on each floor. These anomalies can be anywhere - on the ground, in paintings, or even right in front of your eyes.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 13.1%, First-Person 11.3%, Realistic 9.7%
- #52 Shelley Manor
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Terrors StudioPub: ESAT
Windows
Find your way through a puzzle filled manor while barely dodging human-eating monsters. You wake up in a dark room with one objective: escape those sharpened teeth. However, you should not worry; you will meet friends along the way.
Why similar: Dark 36.2%, Action-Adventure 21.7%, Exploration 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.1%, 3D 7.5%
- #53 Death Park
69% matchVery Positive81% of 189 reviews2019
Dev: Euphoria Games
Windows
Survive a deadly clown in a haunted amusement park. Solve puzzles, search for items, and make choices that shape your escape. Death Park is a first-person horror game with multiple endings, tense stealth, and terrifying moments.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.9%, Horror 14.7%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Dark 11.8%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
- #54 Creepy Shift: House For Sale
65% matchVery Positive93% of 346 reviews2025
Dev: Night Shift TeamPub: Red Limb Studio
Windows
Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation. Tackle the chaos, uncover dark secrets, and finish everything before dawn.
Why similar: Survival Horror 15.8%, Horror 15.7%, Demons 14.8%, First-Person 10.2%, Dark 9.8%
- #55 Lights Off: Director's Cut
66% matchVery Positive90% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Insanctum Games
Windows
Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed. This time extended, remastered, and re-imagined.
Why similar: Demons 23.2%, Horror 19%, Dark 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13%, Walking Simulator 10.1%
- #56 Scary Game
63% matchVery Positive92% of 760 reviews2025
Dev: KanGames
Windows
You open your eyes in a dark, unfamiliar room; each door drags you into a new chamber filled with absurd surprises and dark comedy. Will you manage to escape, or will you continue to star in this black comedy?
Why similar: Horror 31.3%, Walking Simulator 18%, Action-Adventure 13%, Dark 11.4%, First-Person 9.9%
- #57 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
65% matchMixed65% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
In the Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket, you find yourself trapped in a labyrinth of endless, flickering aisles. Unearth dark secrets behind every shelf while evading lurking apparitions and supernatural terrors. Can you survive the haunted corridors and escape before the nightmare consumes?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.9%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Dark 15.8%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #58 FLIGHTMARE
68% matchMostly Negative27% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Van Studios
Windows
Indie horror game that will take your adrenaline to another level.
Why similar: Horror 20.8%, Action-Adventure 18.9%, First-Person 14.7%, Action 11.3%, Exploration 10.6%