- #1 Kohate
97% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
Why similar: Stealth 59.6%, Horror 33.4%, Indie 6.9%
- #2 Like Clay
96% matchVery Positive88% of 124 reviews2017
Dev: free08Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Like Clay is a story driven adventure game with horror elements. Find out what happened to a friend of yours by reading messages and listening to audio files. Search for hidden doors and items, solve light puzzles and survive deadly foes and lethal traps.
Why similar: Horror 52.8%, Indie 47.2%
- #3 Voyager-19
95% matchVery Positive88% of 941 reviews2024
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short horror game where you control a decaying spacecraft exploring distant star systems.
Why similar: Horror 94.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #4 Quadrant
96% matchMixed66% of 127 reviews2015
Dev: HKFiftyOne GamesPub: Three Brothers Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The year is 1979. A secret, final lunar mission has retrieved hundreds of moon rocks for study at Aether Research Facility. Overtaken by curiosity, researchers delve deeper and deeper into the unknown. Only to find a sinister and unperceivable
Why similar: Stealth 44.5%, Horror 31.5%, Indie 24%
- #5 Intrepid
94% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2018
Dev: Miskatonic Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in your cryo-pod. Other crew members are dead. Something is wrong with the spaceship and if you don't use all your wits, you will not leave this place alive...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #6 Space of Darkness
94% matchMixed48% of 134 reviews2018
Dev: PilotLumpa Gaming
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Space of Darkness tells the story of a mechanic who works on a space station. The mechanic is alone on the ship for a few months. One day the power suddenly cuts off. He soon finds himself alone in the dark corridors of a space station. Can you unearth what truly happened on the space station?
Why similar: Horror 51.9%, Indie 48.1%
- #7 Hotel Anatolia
93% matchMostly Positive70% of 395 reviews2017
Dev: Elven Workshop
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
What would you do if the hotel you checked in for the night turned into a death trap? Hotel Anatolia is a short, terrifying horror game which is about a man trying to run away from his past.
Why similar: Indie 57%, Horror 43%
- #8 The Inn-Sanity
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,530 reviews2025
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.
Why similar: Horror 54.5%, Stealth 45.5%
- #9 Trapped
92% matchVery Positive83% of 156 reviews2019
Dev: N4bA
Windows
You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible
Why similar: Horror 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #10 Effugium
91% matchMixed60% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Souporno GhoshPub: Team Glasses
Windows
Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.
Why similar: Horror 81%, Indie 19%
- #11 Salvage Protocol
90% matchVery Positive100% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: IAmDirt
Windows
A short horror about exploring abandoned space stations and collecting junk in order to pay off your S.R.P.O debt.
Why similar: Horror 84%, Indie 16%
- #12 Haywire on Fuel Station Zeta
89% matchMostly Positive94% of 130 reviews2015
Dev: Mad Goblin Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Something has gone horribly wrong on fuel station Zeta. All of the robots have gone haywire. It is up to you, a lone maintenance bot, to help a friendly space traveler fuel up his ship and get home. Explore your way through a dangerous labyrinth of traps and hostile robots.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #13 Skull Hotel
87% matchVery Positive83% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: James Hall
Windows
Skull Hotel is a horror game where you clean hotel rooms while creatures hide, waiting to kill you.
Why similar: Horror 78.1%, Indie 21.9%
- #14 The Hotel
89% 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: Horror 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #15 Hotel 188
86% matchVery Positive88% of 73 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: Indie 100%
- #16 Reflection
86% matchVery Positive84% of 230 reviews2025
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
Why similar: Horror 94.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #17 Nyctophobia
88% matchMixed45% of 607 reviews2015
Dev: Lightning Man MediaPub: Lightning Man Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Your truck is wrecked, your flashlight is dimming and darkness surrounds you. Your fears come alive. Get to the generator and bring back the light before “The Keeper” finds you.
Why similar: Horror 51.6%, Indie 48.4%
- #18 Escape 51
84% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: 51 Goobcells Production
Windows
In Escape 51 you play as a small alien that has been mistreated by humans as he works to escape the research facility that has kept him and other aliens like him captive for so long.
Why similar: Stealth 73.6%, Horror 26.4%
- #19 The Guest
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 945 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 63.1%, Indie 36.9%
- #20 Fear of the Light
84% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Jakob FereniusPub: Team Fuve
Windows
A survival horror game where light is scarier than darkness. Use your radar and other tools to stay out of the light, sneak around dangers, explore the quarantined ship, and find a way to escape. But be careful, monsters are hunting you and are aware of your every mistake!
Why similar: Stealth 68.9%, Horror 31.1%
- #21 PENGUIN HOTEL -Chapter 1-
82% matchVery Positive89% of 105 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 100%
- #22 The motel
81% matchVery Positive86% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Aura studios
Windows
Work the late-night shift at The Motel, an old roadside stop near Oakhill Grove. Complete simple tasks until a news broadcast reveals a dangerous killer is nearby. Can you survive the night?
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #23 Endless Dark
80% 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.
- #24 Syndrome
82% matchMixed64% of 361 reviews2016
Dev: Camel 101
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Stealth 62.3%, Horror 37.7%
- #25 ALONE IN SPACE
83% matchMixed53% of 158 reviews2016
Dev: Butterflyware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...
Why similar: Horror 69.7%, Indie 30.3%
- #26 Hotel Remorse
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 341 reviews2018
Dev: Charlie Behan
Windows
Wander long creepy corridors in search for answers in this short and jumpscare filled game.
Why similar: Horror 69.7%, Indie 30.3%
- #27 VR Escape The Space Station
81% matchMixed60% of 60 reviews2016
Dev: weyha.com
Windows
You are trapped in the space station all by yourself. Need to find a way to get the hell out of there. Experience with HTC Vive, consists of 4 rooms full of puzzles. Every scene are elaborately designed including spaceship with zero gravity, outer space landscape corridor and all.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 We Went Back
76% matchVery Positive86% of 4,748 reviews2020
Dev: Dead Thread Games
Windows
We Went Back is a time-looping horror game in which you wake up in an abandoned space station utterly alone. The exit door is locked and you must find a way to escape what lurks within. Find clues, experience dynamically changing environments and confront terror in order to find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 85%, Indie 15%
- #29 Spacescape
78% matchVery Positive80% of 70 reviews2018
Dev: Silver Machine Studios
Windows
You are trapped on a space station far above the earth. Will you ever get home to earth again?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #30 PANIC STATION
79% matchMixed41% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Forest Games
Windows
After exploring the new planet, the space crew became infected with an unknown virus. After a long epidemic, the space station plunged into chaos. Various mutations took place with the crew of the ship, which clouded their minds. Make your way to the rescue shuttle through the mysterious danger.
Why similar: Horror 62.1%, Indie 37.9%
- #31 Escape From Monster
77% matchMixed67% of 275 reviews2022
Dev: Thunder Games
Windows
You woke up in a dusty room, in an unknown place, with no memory of how you got here. Your pockets are empty, and there is something outside the door producing frightening sounds.
Why similar: Stealth 47.7%, Horror 46.1%, Indie 6.2%
- #32 Trapped: Family Vacation
75% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: New Forge Games
Windows
You're trapped in a small six-room hotel. The only way to escape is to observe your surroundings and follow the family's rules.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #33 ROUTINE
71% matchVery Positive93% of 6,281 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar SoftwarePub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Why similar: Stealth 64.5%, Horror 35.5%
- #34 Neospace: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Mistfal
78% matchMixed46% of 76 reviews2016
Dev: Sergei Minin
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Interactive novel, survival horror, psychological thriller - you can find in Mistfal, what you're interested in.And when you pass the game, I'm sure it will not leave you indifferent.Welcome to Mistfal !
Why similar: Stealth 46.5%, Horror 28.2%, Indie 25.3%
- #36 Helium
77% matchMixed51% of 112 reviews2017
Dev: rocketship
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Hardcore sci-fi first person shooter. You are a liaison on Vega 237 spacecraft. All crew members died and you are all by yourself in the midst of an unknown planet. Your goal is to find out what happened to the crew and establish the signal's nature.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 The Artifact
76% matchMixed64% of 213 reviews2017
Dev: Colin WrenPub: Enigma Games LTD
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Woken from a hypersleep, you find yourself alone on a drifting star cruiser, light years from home. The crew has disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a few scattered records and a strange artifact that seems to hold the key to an alien civilisation.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 Cosmodread
73% matchVery Positive91% of 417 reviews2021
Dev: White Door Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
Why similar: Horror 84.5%, Indie 15.5%
- #39 Floor 9
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 175 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: Horror 100%
- #40 Moon Runner
73% matchVery Positive86% of 283 reviews2022
Dev: Fractal Interactive
Windows
You are tasked with urgent maintenance on a small moon. Find the monoliths and manage your survival to complete your mysterious assignment.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #41 Mouthwashing
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,133 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Horror 74.3%, Indie 25.7%
- #42 Ghost Stories
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 84 reviews2019
Dev: AK Studio
Windows
You find yourself in a deserted territory of a country house, and when you try to get out, understand that it's impossible. One on one with ghosts and your task is to survive and only then to figure out what happened here...
Why similar: Horror 52.7%, Indie 47.3%
- #43 Trucker Horror
71% matchMixed66% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Fireplay Studio
Windows
The main character is a truck driver. Along the way, he finds a road that is not on the map and drives along it. On the road, abandoned cars and abandoned gas stations are a place shrouded in horror, secrets and mysteries. Soon the hero realizes that someone is watching him...
Why similar: Horror 85.8%, Indie 14.2%
- #44 Cold House
72% matchMixed55% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: Menge Studio
Windows
The protagonist gets into a car accident and is forced to take shelter from the cold in an abandoned house, waiting for warmer temperatures, where it will soon turn out that he is not alone at all..
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #45 The elevator
69% matchVery Positive86% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Springbok
Windows
Something is going on in the elevator of your new home.
Why similar: Horror 71%, Indie 29%
- #46 Signal Simulator
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,022 reviews2018
Dev: Blagovest Penev
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signal .Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive control in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. Manage and Maintain an electrical system to improve your systems and make it more efficient.
Why similar: Horror 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #47 Wayward Harbor
69% matchVery Positive83% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: Daniil ShashenkovPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
Short first-person horror experience with a unique mirror mechanic. Escape from an invisible monster that can be only seen in the reflection.
Why similar: Stealth 51.7%, Horror 40.8%, Indie 7.5%
- #48 Misery Mansion
70% 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: Stealth 62.2%, Horror 37.8%
- #49 A Night in Prison
70% matchMixed55% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: STuNTPub: STuNT
Windows
You come to your senses in a cell that looks like you are in some kind of prison. It's almost silent, but sometimes there are some sounds.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #50 The Anomalous Hour
68% matchVery Positive92% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Gambir Studio
Windows
You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 87.1%, Indie 12.9%
- #51 Crimson Hotel
72% matchMostly Negative34% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Spire Interactive
Windows
In 1949 two gruesome accidents tainted the Crimson's reputation and led to an innocent mother being charged with murder. Jane Barker hasn't been seen since her release in 1954. You're a group of teenagers on their way home from a party when your car breaks down outside the Crimson Hotel...
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #52 Francisca
71% matchMixed61% of 377 reviews2016
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Today my parents went to Mexico for a week, and I’m gonna have to spend seven days alone in our new house.
Why similar: Stealth 43.4%, Horror 35.3%, Indie 21.3%
- #53 Cargo Duty
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Carrot Studios
Windows
Your crew is on a mission to collect cargo. As you are going from moon to moon, there are creatures who will try and stop you. How long will you survive ?
Why similar: Horror 95.1%, Indie 4.9%
- #54 Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,268 reviews2022
Dev: Pulsatrix StudiosPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Explore a decadent hotel across different timelines and uncover the dark history of a fanatical cult and your role in their plans.
Why similar: Horror 61.5%, Indie 38.5%
- #55 Ten Bells
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 549 reviews2024
Dev: Hillfort Games
Windows · Mac
You're trapped in an old English pub. Unravel a chilling tale by identifying anomalies while trying to escape. Confront the horror as you survive the endless loop of Ten Bells.
Why similar: Horror 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #56 Lazaret
66% matchVery Positive85% of 265 reviews2024
Dev: Aegon Games
Windows
Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.
Why similar: Horror 52.1%, Stealth 47.9%
- #57 no signal
65% matchVery Positive99% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #58 Meridian 157: Chapter 1
66% matchVery Positive95% of 319 reviews2020
Dev: NovaSoft Interactive Ltd.
Windows · Mac
While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it? Why was it left abandoned? Explore the uninhabited complex you now find yourself trapped in, but be warned: you might not be as alone as you think...
Why similar: Horror 66.7%, Indie 33.3%
- #59 Space Escape!
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 95 reviews2018
Dev: Cow Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You're an astronaut who stole a international galactic spaceship and took it for a joyride. Thrown into space prison, it's time for your high speed escape!
Why similar: Indie 100%