- #1 A Sceptic's Guide to Magic
96% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2019
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Birmingham, England: 1993. A shocking ritual murder compels a world-weary forensic investigator to discover a hidden realm of witchcraft, gods and demons. Follow clues and use magic to solve the case, with moral choices leading to multiple possible endings.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #2 Entity Researchers: Prologue
96% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #3 Data Hacker: Initiation
95% matchMixed64% of 280 reviews2014
Dev: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Data Hacker: Initiation sets the stage for the Datastream saga; an epic series of tales revolving around the possibility of virtual realms existing beyond our current reach. Once the bridge is crafted, everything will change.
Why similar: RPG 99.7%, Indie 0.3%
- #4 The Occult Detective
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 326 reviews2025
Dev: Battlecry Studio
Windows
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: RPG 97.5%, Indie 2.5%
- #5 Atonement 2: Ruptured by Despair
94% matchMixed69% of 172 reviews2016
Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Three weeks have passed since the events of Atonement: Scourge of Time, but the world is yet in peril. Elleria and her allies find themselves in an alternate timeline where events took a grimmer turn. She will now have to go head to head against her other self in order to stop the impending threat.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #6 Unheard - Voices of Crime
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,170 reviews2019
Dev: NEXT Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
Why similar: RPG 95.9%, Indie 4.1%
- #7 24 Hours 'til Rescue
93% matchMostly Negative28% of 88 reviews2016
Dev: J. FletcherPub: BrainCraft Gaming
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 25%
24 Hours ‘Til Rescue plunges you into dynamic, hand-crafted, city overrun by the undead with one, simple premise: to escape the city alive. Yet, with most of the streets barricaded, all of them teeming with enemies, and with rescue not coming for another 24 hours, the chances of survival are slim to none.
Why similar: RPG 97.6%, Indie 2.4%
- #8 Mercury: Cascade into Madness
91% matchVery Positive81% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Mercury is a quirky and violent vigilante. After experiencing a traumatic event in her life, she saw it as her purpose to take to the streets and fight crime, only to become entangled in something huge that could threaten the entire city. Cyberpunk RPG with choice and consequence.
Why similar: RPG 96.1%, Indie 3.9%
- #9 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
91% matchVery Positive82% of 512 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A strange rumor is spreading through the shadows of Tokyo's H City: a mysterious disfigurement has been appearing on the bodies of certain individuals. Anyone who receives the Mark will rapidly die of unknown, horrifying causes. The countdown to death has already begun...
- #10 Bad Dream: Fever
90% matchVery Positive82% of 1,319 reviews2018
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, loneliness and suffering.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #11 Sonia and the Hypnotic City
89% matchMixed65% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: StudioNAZEPub: Kagura Games
Windows
After receiving reports of a group of criminals using some sort of power to rob an entire city, the church dispatches a Holy Knight named Sonia to investigate the incident.
Why similar: RPG 96.2%, Indie 3.8%
- #12 Outrage
89% matchMixed61% of 172 reviews2016
Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Outrage is a short cyberpunk dungeon crawler. You manage a team of vigilantes and must undertake various missions in the city to strengthen your team and your cause in order to bring a powerful enemy to justice.
Why similar: RPG 83.6%, Indie 16.4%
- #13 Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
87% matchVery Positive92% of 366 reviews2018
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Why similar: RPG 96.2%, Indie 3.8%
- #14 City of Chains
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 340 reviews2015
Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
City of Chains is a dark sci-fi RPG set in a dystopian city. Take control of a small group of escaped fugitives and lead them to their freedom. Decide whether to fight head on or to avoid combat, to help others or to go your own way, to show mercy or to kill. Your actions could affect the fate of the city.
Why similar: RPG 85.5%, Indie 14.5%
- #15 Atonement: Scourge of Time
86% matchMixed69% of 398 reviews2015
Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The last king was killed over 400 years ago and the global rule of the land ceased to exist. The Vindicator is coming. ~a decadent, dark fantasy world with a new take on the concepts of Angels and Demons!
Why similar: RPG 66.5%, Indie 33.5%
- #16 Rabbit Hole
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 272 reviews2022
Dev: Nikita UstinovPub: Blazes Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
An ancient evil has descended upon the rural town of Rabbit Hole. Now Shaun Turner not only has to untangle a twisted web of supernatural events and mysteries to save his family but also escape from the hellish remains of his hometown.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Dirty Room
84% matchMixed63% of 51 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: RPG 98.6%, Indie 1.4%
- #18 Trapped Dead: Lockdown
85% matchMixed54% of 190 reviews2015
Dev: Bigmoon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A small American town is overrun by the living dead! You manage to enter the town just before the military locks it down and now you must slice and shoot your way through thousands of zombies in order complete your mission in this action-packed Hack & Slash RPG.
Why similar: RPG 96.8%, Indie 3.2%
- #19 The Dark Rites of Arkham
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 531 reviews2026
Dev: Postmodern AdventuresPub: enComplot
Windows
A macabre ritual murder puts Arkham PD detectives Jack Foster and Harvey Whitman to the test. As the investigation progresses, they will unveil a disturbing connection between the Salem witch trials of the 17th century and the end of humankind.
- #20 Data Hacker: Corruption
84% matchMixed50% of 150 reviews2014
Dev: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
What if there were virtual realms that exist just beyond our reach? What if an online game became the bridge? The worlds are changing rapidly, with each side vying for a position that will secure their realm's future. In the coming war, on which side do you stand?
Why similar: RPG 63.8%, Indie 36.2%
- #21 Pixel Noir
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: SWDTech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Untangle a gripping conspiracy in this noir-influenced mystery, laced with classic RPG elements. Navigate seedy streets to collect clues, upgrade skills and customize weapons. Brawl in turn-based combat with timed hits & combos, to reveal the dark truth that plagues the city’s core and your sanity.
Why similar: RPG 96.5%, Indie 3.5%
- #22 Hotel Sowls
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 582 reviews2019
Dev: Studio SOTTPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Hotel Sowls is an eerie mystery adventure. You are a pharmacist who, after a long and grueling journey, finally acquires a rare and enigmatic stone; only to have it stolen overnight at Hotel Sowls. Can you recover the stone and uncover the secrets hidden within this strange and unsettling hotel?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Slender Threads
78% matchVery Positive91% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Blyts
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Achievement Lurker: Respectable Accomplishment
81% matchVery Positive83% of 184 reviews2017
Dev: Perverse Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The world of Ashendalila is a dark and terrible place, but one hero will outshine the rest. To accomplish what most dream of, but a heroes' work is never done. Monsters roam the world and try to stop the accomplishers from accomplishing the accomplishment.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #25 Camp Sunshine
80% matchVery Positive91% of 294 reviews2016
Dev: Fossil GamesPub: Hound Picked Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Camp Sunshine is a 16-bit blood-soaked Horror RPG that pits you as Jez, who is dropped off at Summer Camp. He awakes in the middle of the night to discover blood everywhere, a rampaging killer on the loose dressed in a mascot costume and himself involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 Heaven Dust
78% matchVery Positive91% of 681 reviews2020
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
Why similar: RPG 95.6%, Indie 4.4%
- #27 Human Apocalypse - Reverse Horror Zombie Indie RPG Adventure
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 72 reviews2022
Dev: Euphoric Bros
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.
Why similar: RPG 95.9%, Indie 4.1%
- #28 Look Outside
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,602 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: RPG 98.9%, Indie 1.1%
- #29 Entity Researchers
77% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-C
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #30 Roots of Insanity
77% matchMixed67% of 441 reviews2017
Dev: Crania Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
As Dr. Riley McClein, you have to figure out what is real and what is not as you try to uncover the mysterious happenings at the hospital, while also trying to deal with your epileptic attacks that have haunted you all your life.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 困兽TrappedBeast
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: LIN ZHILONG
Windows
Detective Iver investigates the case of a missing girl. As the investigation deepens, Iver is unable to escape and the secrets behind it are slowly being revealed. Can they escape from that crazy world
Why similar: RPG 96.2%, Indie 3.8%
- #32 Card Detective
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 188 reviews2023
Dev: 神探饭店制作组
Windows · Mac
Players will take on the role of newspaper reporter Hazel Gong, who was originally covering a practice exercise at an abandoned building site, but stumbles upon a mysterious corpse in an accidental collapse!
Why similar: RPG 97.4%, Indie 2.6%
- #33 Disillusion
73% matchVery Positive94% of 932 reviews2021
Dev: Disillusion Dev
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.
Why similar: RPG 97.3%, Indie 2.7%
- #34 Captive
75% matchVery Positive92% of 118 reviews2018
Dev: Dead Inside Studio
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
"Captive" tells the story of a woman who awakens badly hurt in an unknown cell, without any memories about herself. Will you be able to escape?
Why similar: RPG 96.1%, Indie 3.9%
- #35 Sunlight Scream
73% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Faithy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The hero moves to a new city. However, along with him comes a masked killer who begins to kill his friends one by one... Make decisions to build your adventure. Can you stop him before it's too late?
- #36 1914: Prelude to Chaos
76% matchMixed54% of 189 reviews2017
Dev: Amaterasu Software
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Enter the year 1914, which will mark the beginning of the Great War. This Indie adventure RPG will show you the glory of dying empires, death, despair and chaos that hasshaken the world and finally put an end to the ancient European monarchies.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #37 DETECTIVE - Rainy night
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: k148 Game StudioPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Detective Rainy Night is a narrative adventure with elements of deduction. Violent crimes, mature stories, and a touch of psychological horror await you at the Motel Holiday. Grab a pencil and paper because solving this case won’t be easy.
- #38 Data Hacker: Reboot
76% matchMixed61% of 224 reviews2015
Dev: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Time, Space and Parallel Universes collapse and merge, tethered to threads of reality and sustained by a paradoxical power source. Nothing is impossible - it is time to become a Data Hacker.
Why similar: RPG 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #39 Mansion of the Dead
70% matchVery Positive94% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: Caicai Studio
Windows
Step into the shoes of Agent Kim, drawn into a chilling mystery deep in the wilderness. Find hidden clues, solve intricate puzzles, and outsmart the relentless zombies that roam the estate. Will you make it out alive, or will you too vanish without a trace?
Why similar: RPG 98.2%, Indie 1.8%
- #40 破镜恐惧
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 62 reviews2020
Dev: 幻想理戈游戏开发工作室
Windows
In this game, you will play a policeman who is transferred to Nabos from out of town. The crime rate here remains high all the year round, and ancient gangs and cults are entrenched here. you will be close to the city's innermost and darkest secret. What choice should you make then?
Why similar: RPG 97.1%, Indie 2.9%
- #41 Signs Of Darkness
75% matchMostly Negative23% of 57 reviews2017
Dev: Press Pause Games
Windows
Kidnapped and thrown into the dark depths of the Undercrypt to die, you are rescued by an unknown ally. Eager to find the motive behind your abduction you set out on an unexpected journey. Master sorcery and swordsmanship to overcome the evil forces out to put an end to your existence.
Why similar: RPG 96.2%, Indie 3.8%
- #42 Rabbit Hole Chapter 1
71% matchVery Positive81% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Blazes Games
Windows
An ancient evil has descended upon the rural town of Rabbit Hole. Now Shaun Turner not only has to untangle a twisted web of supernatural events and mysteries to save his family but also escape from the hellish remains of his hometown.
- #43 Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening
69% matchVery Positive98% of 176 reviews2023
Dev: Sapphire Dream Games
Windows
Join Alicia as she tries to save her niece from a city warped and twisted by otherworldly beings in this eccentric RPG.
Why similar: RPG 98.8%, Indie 1.2%
- #44 Death of Marionette
70% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Gustav
Windows
Strange things start to happen at a ruined factory where Sawyer and her friends arrive to prepare an event. Can they leave the place safely?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Vesnith Tapes
69% matchVery Positive80% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: KY XEPub: Darks Zone
Windows
A psychological horror game where a police officer investigates a cold case in a decaying house, uncovering a strange and haunting tape recorder that reveals a terrible secret.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Scrutinized
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,345 reviews2020
Dev: Reflect Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 2
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 reviews2015
Dev: Sapphire Dragon Productions
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
One week after the eerie events occurred in Silver Creek Falls, the sleepy town in North Carolina is hit with yet another tragedy. An FBI agent is brutally murdered in cold blood in his own bedroom. No one knows who did it or why. Only one thing is clear: something truly sinister is broiling in Silver Creek Falls.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 624 reviews2014
Dev: Stormling StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 CaseCracker3
65% matchVery Positive89% of 302 reviews2026
Dev: BlackRobe
Windows · Mac
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #50 Harts
70% matchMixed54% of 84 reviews2018
Dev: Reglest5 Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Welcome to the house full of secrets and mysteries, the house in which for several years people disappear. Take on the role of a young detective whose idol died here about a year ago.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Slender Threads: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 516 reviews2021
Dev: Blyts
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 VRZ: Torment
68% matchMixed70% of 235 reviews2017
Dev: StormBringer Studios OU
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Be immersed into Purgatory Island of undead and dying. Solve mysteries to escape while trying to survive. The undead are rising, zombie skags are swarming the land, and your end is fast approaching! Arm yourself, uncover what you need to survive, and escape the inescapable.
Why similar: RPG 96.2%, Indie 3.8%
- #53 The Last Sin
68% matchMixed69% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: Amaterasu Software
Windows
The world is stuck in permanent limbo where the living don't realize what is going on and the dead cannot rest. Recruit a party of balanced heroes to save the endless plane of existence.
Why similar: RPG 96.2%, Indie 3.8%
- #54 Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
64% matchVery Positive90% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: Active Fungus Studios
Windows · Linux
In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #55 Soulscape
67% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Samu
Windows
Explore a bizarre world and defeat eldritch demons in your stylish wheelchair.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #56 Pathologic 2
63% matchVery Positive92% of 12,002 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: RPG 97.2%, Indie 2.8%
- #57 Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 1
66% matchVery Positive86% of 638 reviews2015
Dev: Sapphire Dragon Productions
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Two city detectives are sent to a small idyllic town in North Carolina called ‘Silver Creek Falls” to investigate a strange series of events that the local sheriff can’t seem to get his mind around. What initially seems like an open-and-shut case unfolds into a truly terrifying mystery that will leave the detectives wondering what is...
Why similar: RPG 100%