- #1 No Delivery
97% matchVery Positive98% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: oates
Windows
No Delivery is a procedurally generated CRPG, pizzeria simulator where you are the newest in a long line of employees for a local decrepit pizza parlor. Despite the rumors and shady history, you sign up for the night shift… Luckily, it’ll just be a boring job in an empty pizzeria… right?
Why similar: CRPG 19.4%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Roguelike 11.9%, Horror 10.4%, Roguelite 10%
- #2 WORLD OF HORROR
96% matchVery Positive90% of 9,731 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.2%, Horror 17.4%, Roguelite 15.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.8%, Roguelike 12.4%
- #3 Retale
96% matchVery Positive94% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Grocery Guys
Windows
Experience working in retail with hardly any similarities to actually working in retail! Manage your time wisely to keep the shelves stocked, control the complaints of colorful and cranky customers, and be wary of the watchful eye of your manager to avoid being fired... or worse.
Why similar: Horror 28.8%, Management 22.4%, RPG 16.4%, Top-Down 14.7%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #4 Look Outside
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,497 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.9 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: Survival Horror 29.1%, Turn-Based Combat 18.7%, RPG 17.7%, Horror 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%
- #5 NO-SKIN
94% matchVery Positive95% of 1,266 reviews2025
Dev: NoEye-Soft
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries
Why similar: Roguelite 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based Combat 13.8%, Roguelike 12.5%, Horror 12%
- #6 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,176 reviews2022
Dev: Miro Haverinen
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
F&H 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us!
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.9%, Horror 16.1%, CRPG 15.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, RPG 11.5%
- #7 Entity Researchers: Prologue
93% 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: CRPG 26.3%, Roguelite 13.8%, Roguelike 12.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10.4%, Horror 8.7%
- #8 Entity Researchers
92% 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: CRPG 28.4%, Roguelite 14.4%, Roguelike 12.7%, Turn-Based Combat 9.3%, Horror 8.6%
- #9 Happy's Humble Burger Farm
91% matchVery Positive93% of 1,953 reviews2021
Dev: Scythe Dev TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.7%, Dark Humor 17.9%, 1990's 17.2%, Horror 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%
- #10 Corner Shop: NightShift
90% matchVery Positive90% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Live Motion Games
Windows
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.6%, Horror 31.2%, Exploration 17.9%, Choices Matter 6.4%
- #11 LISA: The Painful
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 14,938 reviews2014
Dev: Dingaling ProductionsPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Why similar: Dark Humor 32.5%, Horror 21.8%, RPG 19%, Pixel Graphics 16%, 2D 5.8%
- #12 HELLMART
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 908 reviews2026
Dev: GAZE IN GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.3%, Horror 32.4%, Exploration 16.7%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #13 OMORI
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,929 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.6%, Horror 28%, RPG 26%, Exploration 9.1%, 2D 6.3%
- #14 Endless Dark
86% matchVery Positive99% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Little Light Studios, LLC
Windows · Linux
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.
Why similar: Roguelite 27.6%, Dark Humor 24.7%, Roguelike 19%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Management 8.9%
- #15 Obenseuer
87% matchVery Positive94% of 1,522 reviews2018
Dev: Loiste Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.
Why similar: RPG 36.8%, Management 26.1%, Horror 25.7%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #16 Keep Driving
85% matchVery Positive94% of 5,783 reviews2025
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 22.4%, RPG 20%, 1990's 16.4%, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Exploration 12.8%
- #17 Zafehouse Diaries 2
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 133 reviews2017
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Roguelike 14.2%, Turn-Based Combat 13.5%, Horror 12.1%
- #18 Sultan's Game
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 32,886 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.7%, Dark Humor 20.3%, RPG 13%, Lore-Rich 12%
- #19 Quasimorph
84% matchVery Positive83% of 5,924 reviews2023
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based extraction RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Roguelike 20%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, RPG 12%
- #20 Discounty
83% matchVery Positive83% of 2,410 reviews2025
Dev: Crinkle Cut GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23.7%, RPG 21.6%, Capitalism 19.7%, Management 15.4%, Top-Down 13.1%
- #21 Shoppy Mart: Steam Edition
86% matchMixed69% of 91 reviews2015
Dev: Pezomi
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've just been hired as the newest checker at your local Shoppy Mart. You'll be tasked with bagging groceries for the endless waves of customers that will enter your store on a daily basis.
Why similar: Capitalism 72.8%, Horror 17.1%, 2D 10.2%
- #22 House of Necrosis
81% matchVery Positive94% of 536 reviews2025
Dev: Warkus
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A turn-based horror RPG with retro 32-bit 3D graphics. Survive the horrors of the mansion that changes every time you enter.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 19.1%, 1990's 17.3%, Roguelike 15.9%, Horror 15.7%, RPG 12.3%
- #23 Organs Please
82% matchVery Positive84% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Management 39.5%, Resource Management 29.3%, 2D 16.4%, Choices Matter 14.8%
- #24 ORDER 13
80% matchVery Positive86% of 1,359 reviews2025
Dev: Cybernetic WalrusPub: Oro Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
You wake up in a dark warehouse, tasked with packing orders while something lurks in the shadows. Work fast, stay safe, and protect your cat. He’s all you’ve got.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.5%, Capitalism 27.3%, Horror 22.8%, Exploration 10.4%
- #25 Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
81% matchVery Positive94% of 52,523 reviews2018
Dev: ProjectMoon
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility
Why similar: Management 33.5%, Horror 30.7%, Roguelike 15.1%, Roguelite 14.7%, 2D 6.1%
- #26 The Shrouded Isle
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,510 reviews2017
Dev: Jongwoo KimPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.9%, Dark Humor 21.1%, Horror 18.8%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Management 12%
- #27 NIGHT SHIFT NIGHTMARE
79% matchVery Positive83% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Taco Al Pastor Dev
Windows
First-person horror game where you work the night shift at a Mexican convenience store, handling daily tasks while facing eerie and unexpected events.
Why similar: Horror 57.4%, Survival Horror 27.7%, Exploration 14.9%
- #28 Graveyard Keeper
79% matchVery Positive86% of 46,799 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 31.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 31.5%, RPG 26.9%, Dark Humor 20.4%, Management 17.5%, 2D 3.7%
- #29 Draft of Darkness
78% matchVery Positive94% of 344 reviews2023
Dev: Crawly Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.5%, Roguelike 16.5%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Horror 14.2%
- #30 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
76% matchVery Positive94% of 4,386 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.7%, Roguelike 22%, Turn-Based Combat 13.9%, Horror 12.2%, RPG 11.4%
- #31 Little Lighthouse of Horror
77% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Codiwans
Windows
A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery. Manage a remote lighthouse, handle limited resources, and confront eerie occurrences as isolation erodes your sanity. Multiple endings await based on your choices and actions. How long can you last?
Why similar: Horror 44.6%, Pixel Graphics 29.1%, Resource Management 19%, Management 7.3%
- #32 The Boba Teashop
75% matchVery Positive94% of 1,170 reviews2025
Dev: Mike Ten
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A cozy horror game where you own and manage a boba tea shop. Prepare boba teas, serve customers, and expand your menu to grow your business.
Why similar: Horror 71.1%, Management 28.9%
- #33 Lakeview Valley
78% matchVery Positive83% of 745 reviews2019
Dev: Roope Tamminen
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Murder rpg set in the small town of Lakeview Valley. Become the most popular home-owner or succumb to your dark desires. The choice is yours.
Why similar: CRPG 28.6%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Horror 10.8%, Top-Down 8.6%
- #34 This is Interesting
75% matchVery Positive99% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Scott Jund
Windows
This is Interesting is a psychological horror mystery based game with roguelite elements. You are being watched, and you aren't really sure why. Delve through the depths of memory to uncover the mystery behind the gray purgatory you find yourself in.
Why similar: Roguelite 28.2%, RPG 16%, Horror 14.8%, Top-Down 12.9%, Exploration 12.2%
- #35 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 714 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 35.9%, RPG 22.9%, Top-Down 14.4%, Exploration 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%
- #36 Free Will
73% matchVery Positive97% of 323 reviews2024
Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
Windows
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: RPG 34.2%, Horror 20.2%, Top-Down 14.4%, Exploration 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%
- #37 Pathologic 2
74% matchVery Positive92% of 11,869 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 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: CRPG 39.1%, Survival Horror 35.9%, RPG 18.9%, Choices Matter 6%
- #38 Darkwood
73% matchVery Positive95% of 23,842 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.4%, Horror 25.8%, RPG 17.8%, Exploration 12.3%, Choices Matter 4.7%
- #39 Supermarket Simulator: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive94% of 4,535 reviews2024
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.
Why similar: Capitalism 59.3%, Management 31.1%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #40 1 Bit Survivor
73% matchVery Positive99% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Chaz Acheronti
Windows
1 Bit Survivor is a unique blend of turn-based combat and survival horror! Carefully manage your resources to solve procedurally generated combat puzzles. Survive 28 Days and save your Pet Cat from the Zed-pocalpyse!
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.5%, Turn-Based Combat 18%, Roguelike 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Procedural Generation 11.9%
- #41 Apocalypse Hotel - The Post-Apocalyptic Hotel Simulator!
77% matchMostly Negative35% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: Michael FlynnPub: FlynnFour Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Can you run a successful hotel even though the world has ended? Repair, renovate, and decorate the ‘Apocalypse Hotel’ while fending off zombies, mutants and the alien Gogfang!
Why similar: RPG 53.4%, Survival Horror 46.6%
- #42 Chef RPG
71% matchVery Positive88% of 2,496 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
Why similar: RPG 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 22.8%, Management 17.4%, Exploration 12.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #43 The Walking Trade
70% matchVery Positive88% of 1,435 reviews2026
Dev: Microwave GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.
Why similar: Capitalism 42.5%, Management 24.1%, Dark Humor 19.9%, Horror 13.5%
- #44 Moonstone Tavern - A Fantasy Tavern Sim!
76% matchMixed49% of 138 reviews2016
Dev: Trevor Jones
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
With the death of your aunt you have been left the once famous Moonstone Tavern. Unfortunately the tavern has seen better days. With only two functioning rooms, crumbling architecture, and an ever-diminishing reputation there is plenty of room for improvement.
Why similar: RPG 56.9%, Survival Horror 43.1%
- #45 Gamestonk Simulator: Gone Rogue
70% matchVery Positive85% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: simsum
Windows
Gamestonk is the first roguelite shop simulator. Manage the last videogame store in town, keep up with the latest releases, trade smuggled retros, select your modifiers strategically, hire workers, and deal with pesky shoplifters.
Why similar: Roguelite 30%, Capitalism 29.1%, Roguelike 26.5%, Management 14.3%
- #46 SCP Operations
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: LUXO InteractivePub: LUK KUS SOFT
Windows
Step into the enigmatic world of SCP OPERATIONS. Lead your team of elite agents through tactical, turn-based combat against the Chaos Insurgency and dangerous SCP objects. Uncover secrets and protect humanity.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.9%, RPG 15.6%, Horror 15.3%, Top-Down 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
- #47 13F
70% matchVery Positive95% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: PixelCat
Windows
You are a tired office worker who has been working overtime until late at night due to a heavy workload and is trapped in a strange office building. You have to get to the first floor quickly and go home to rest, because you have to go to work tomorrow morning!
Why similar: Roguelike 27.9%, Roguelite 22.6%, RPG 20.6%, Horror 13%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%
- #48 SPOOKWARE
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 787 reviews2021
Dev: BEESWAX GAMESPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Play through loads of hand-crafted fast-paced microgames based on horror tropes, explore the world of the afterlife and help the skelebros live their death to the fullest.
Why similar: Dark Humor 32.8%, RPG 27.7%, Horror 22.4%, Exploration 17.1%
- #49 Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop
68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,166 reviews2024
Dev: Beard EnvyPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Come on down to Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop, for all your roguelite spaceship repair simulation needs! WARNING: Untested genre not suitable for people with tentacles for arms or an aversion to dying horrifically. Side effects include improved reading comprehension under pressure and a furry fetish.
Why similar: Roguelite 26.9%, Dark Humor 22.9%, Roguelike 18.5%, Management 12.9%, Lore-Rich 10.2%
- #50 First Day
72% matchMixed49% of 134 reviews2019
Dev: BadWolf Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's the first day of the rest of your life
Why similar: Dark Humor 41.2%, RPG 24.5%, Management 18.6%, Resource Management 15.7%
- #51 Summoner's Mess
69% matchVery Positive98% of 84 reviews2021
Dev: Elendow
Windows · Linux
You've made a mistake trying to summon a beast from the depths. Explore a huge manor to solve your mess. Can you find the sacred grimoires before being consumed by the darkness?
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 27.2%, Exploration 24.6%, Management 17.6%, Horror 12.1%, Top-Down 10.3%
- #52 Sorry We're Closed
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,819 reviews2024
Dev: à la mode gamesPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Survival Horror 70.7%, Horror 29.3%
- #53 Creepy Shift: Roadside Diner
67% matchVery Positive91% of 240 reviews2024
Dev: Night Shift TeamPub: Red Limb Studio
Windows
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: Survival Horror 68.4%, Horror 31.6%
- #54 Unemployment Simulator 2018
66% matchVery Positive86% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Samuel LehikoinenPub: turbolento publishing
Windows
Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.
Why similar: Dark Humor 39.2%, Roguelite 22.9%, Horror 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%
- #55 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
67% matchVery Positive94% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
Windows
An unsettling rogue-lite horror adventure. Iconic Backrooms levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.3%, Horror 20.4%, Roguelite 19.5%, Procedural Generation 18.6%, Exploration 11.2%
- #56 Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,651 reviews2021
Dev: Goblinz StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 26.2%, Roguelike 22.4%, Roguelite 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, RPG 9.3%
- #57 Covid Simulator
68% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Coldrice Games LLC
Windows
COVID SIMULATOR is an outbreak simulation that visualizes how quickly Covid-19 spreads, becoming a disaster. The game is an open sandbox where you can add (or remove) Covid mandates and see what happens! Create your workplace, enact your mandates, and roll the dice with your workers.
Why similar: Dark Humor 32.9%, Procedural Generation 22.7%, Management 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, 2D 7.8%
- #58 Dead of Night: Supermarket
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: SilverMoon Studios
Windows
Experience the dread of a midnight shift in a quiet supermarket. As mundane tasks blur with eerie events, discover that the darkness hides more than just silence.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #59 Pixel Shopkeeper
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel Prototype
Windows · Mac · Linux
Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!
Why similar: Capitalism 34.4%, Pixel Graphics 23.1%, Management 22.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, 2D 6.2%
- #60 The Summoning
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 77 reviews2019
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
This experience can be classified as a psychological and atmospheric horror game. However... This isn't a game... Remember all of the urban legends from your childhood? Imagine if it was all real, but we just weren't performing the right rituals to summon these beings from another realm... Well, now you can...
Why similar: Survival Horror 32%, Horror 27.6%, RPG 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Choices Matter 5.8%