- #1 Tattletail
97% matchVery Positive95% of 4,910 reviews2016
Dev: Waygetter ElectronicsPub: Little Flag Software, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
It’s Christmas 1998. The world’s most annoying toy just came out, and yours won’t stay in his box. Can you stop Tattletail from getting you in trouble before the bloodthirsty Mama Tattletail hunts you down? Story-driven first person horror. New DLC Included!
Why similar: Horror 38.2%, Survival Horror 16.4%, First-Person 13.5%, Cute 9.8%, Indie 5%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the 90s-inspired mascot horror aesthetic with a deceptive, toy-based premise that quickly turns sinister.
- #2 Bendy and the Ink Machine
96% matchVery Positive89% of 34,313 reviews2017
Dev: Joey Drew Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.
Why similar: Horror 37.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, First-Person 11.8%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same cartoony-yet-disturbing visual style and focuses on exploring a haunted facility filled with hostile, ink-based creatures.
- #3 Poppy Playtime
96% matchVery Positive88% of 132,662 reviews2021
Dev: Mob Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
Why similar: Horror 52.5%, Survival Horror 14.4%, First-Person 11.8%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Indie 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: As a staple of the modern mascot horror genre, it features a similar blend of puzzle-solving and escaping from oversized, murderous toys.
- #4 Indigo Park: Chapter 1
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 22,765 reviews2024
Dev: UniqueGeese
Windows
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Why similar: Horror 38%, First-Person 12.4%, Cute 8.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.2%, Survival Horror 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at the 'abandoned theme park' trope, utilizing mascot characters to create a sense of dread in a colorful, first-person environment.
- #5 Happy's Humble Burger Farm
94% 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: Horror 39.1%, Survival Horror 20.8%, First-Person 17.2%, Adventure 8.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines mundane, repetitive tasks with surreal, mascot-driven horror in a way that feels very similar to the progression of Spooky's.
- #6 Dark Deception
94% matchVery Positive89% of 23,237 reviews2018
Dev: Glowstick Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.
Why similar: Horror 52.2%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, First-Person 11.1%, Indie 4%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the maze-like structure of Spooky's, forcing players to navigate dangerous levels while being hunted by terrifying, stylized monsters.
- #7 House
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,101 reviews2020
Dev: Bark Bark Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
Why similar: Horror 54.9%, Gore 10.2%, Adventure 7.9%, Psychological Horror 6.7%, Indie 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its pixelated, cute exterior, this game hides a dark, psychological horror story that forces you to survive a nightmarish environment.
- #8 IMSCARED
92% matchVery Positive94% of 3,718 reviews2016
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"I need a Heart in order to open it"
Why similar: Horror 31%, Jump Scare 20% ★, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 9.5%, First-Person 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This meta-horror game uses low-fidelity graphics and psychological tricks to break the fourth wall, much like the unpredictable nature of the Mansion.
- #9 Baldi's Basics Plus
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,894 reviews2020
Dev: Basically GamesPub: Basically Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Baldi's Basics® Plus is an active stealth roguelike that parodies cheap '90s edutainment with a subtle horror twist! Play Hide & Seek with Baldi as he chases you through procedurally generated levels while using your surroundings, items, and game knowledge to shift chaos in your favor.
Why similar: Horror 43.6%, First-Person 15.9%, Survival Horror 15%, Funny 9.8%, Indie 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It uses a deceptively simple, low-fidelity educational aesthetic to hide a frantic and stressful survival-horror experience.
- #10 123 Slaughter Me Street
91% matchMixed69% of 392 reviews2015
Dev: Nate SandersPub: Impulse Game Studios, LLC.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 97.0 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Wounded and on the run, trapped in an abandoned building, armed only with a dying flashlight. Navigate darkness, outsmart lurking horrors, and escape before they reach you. A tense, paranoia-driven survival experience where every moment counts.
Why similar: Horror 74.8%, Indie 13.2%, Action 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar first-person perspective where you must evade creepy, puppet-like entities in a confined, dark space.
- #11 Emily Wants To Play
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,294 reviews2015
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.
Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Jump Scare 9% ★, VR 6.8%, Psychological Horror 6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on surviving against a group of creepy, sentient dolls in a first-person environment, mirroring the jump-scare heavy gameplay of Spooky's.
- #12 Stay Out of the House
89% matchVery Positive95% of 1,761 reviews2022
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
Why similar: Horror 35.5%, Survival Horror 22.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Gore 10.3%, Indie 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This retro-styled horror game emphasizes stealth and survival in a claustrophobic, hostile environment with a distinct VHS aesthetic.
- #13 Five Nights at Freddy's
89% matchVery Positive94% of 57,765 reviews2014
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
Why similar: Horror 43.8%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Jump Scare 11.3% ★, Psychological Horror 10.9%, First-Person 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive mascot horror experience, focusing on survival against animatronics that share the same 'cute-to-terrifying' transition seen in Spooky's.
- #14 Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
88% matchVery Positive89% of 8,096 reviews2014
Dev: Krillbite Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Why similar: Horror 53.8%, First-Person 9.3%, Survival Horror 5.8%, Indie 5.4%, Adventure 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Playing as a toddler in a surreal, dream-like world creates a similar sense of vulnerability and psychological tension.
- #15 Granny
87% matchVery Positive94% of 9,403 reviews2018
Dev: DVloper
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You have to escape Granny`s house...You have five days...
Why similar: Horror 38.7%, Survival Horror 17.5%, First-Person 11.5%, VR 10%, Indie 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-horror game that emphasizes hiding and escaping from a persistent, threatening entity in a confined house.
- #16 Garten of Banban
86% matchMixed53% of 12,506 reviews2023
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…
Why similar: Horror 26%, Survival Horror 13.3%, VR 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, First-Person 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A mascot horror game that leans heavily into the colorful, child-friendly aesthetic before revealing the underlying horror of the facility.
- #17 The Beast Inside
85% matchVery Positive83% of 11,932 reviews2019
Dev: Illusion Ray
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
Why similar: Horror 40.3%, Survival Horror 11.5%, First-Person 9.1%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Great Soundtrack 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person horror game blends historical settings with modern psychological terror, offering a more narrative-heavy experience.
- #18 Choo-Choo Charles
84% matchVery Positive91% of 16,941 reviews2022
Dev: Two Star Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.
Why similar: Horror 36.7%, Survival Horror 24.4%, First-Person 14.5%, Psychological Horror 7%, Adventure 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a terrifying, oversized mascot-like creature that stalks the player, blending action and survival in a unique, open-world setting.
- #19 Neverending Nightmares
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,989 reviews2014
Dev: Infinitap Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
Why similar: Horror 42.7%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Gore 6.4%, Indie 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on psychological horror and artistic, surreal visuals that shift and change, much like the varying rooms of the Mansion.
- #20 Slender: The Arrival
84% matchVery Positive88% of 9,226 reviews2013
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Survival Horror 12.4%, First-Person 9.3%, Psychological Horror 7.1%, Walking Simulator 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a quintessential first-person survival experience that relies on atmosphere and jump scares to maintain constant tension.
- #21 Little Nightmares
83% matchVery Positive95% of 115,101 reviews2017
Dev: Tarsier StudiosPub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
Why similar: Horror 46.1%, Great Soundtrack 12.2%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Adventure 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: While third-person, it masterfully uses a 'child in a giant, scary world' perspective that resonates with the atmosphere of Spooky's.
- #22 Home Sweet Home
82% matchVery Positive87% of 3,748 reviews2017
Dev: YGGDRAZIL GROUP CO.,LTD
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.
Why similar: Horror 43.5%, Survival Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 7.8%, First-Person 7.2%, VR 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a traditional survival-horror experience with a focus on stealth and escaping from a persistent, supernatural threat.
- #23 Hello Neighbor
82% matchVery Positive85% of 27,665 reviews2017
Dev: Dynamic PixelsPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
Why similar: Horror 45.5%, Survival Horror 16.9%, First-Person 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Funny 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a colorful, stylized art direction to hide a tense, stealth-based survival game against a mysterious and threatening antagonist.
- #24 Security Booth: Director's Cut
80% 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: Horror 31%, First-Person 18.7%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A short, retro-inspired horror experience that relies on atmosphere and sudden, startling encounters to keep the player on edge.
- #25 Who's Lila?
79% matchVery Positive95% of 3,515 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Horror 54.5%, Psychological Horror 25.7%, First-Person 19.8%
Why You'll Like It: This indie horror title uses unique mechanics and meta-narrative elements to create a deeply unsettling and surreal experience.
- #26 Kraven Manor
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 737 reviews2014
Dev: Demon Wagon Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and prepare yourself. Explore the depths of the immersive, atmospheric world of Kraven Manor. Uncover its secrets, solve its mystical puzzles, and face its growing threat. Face your fears and see if you have what it takes...the doors of Kraven Manor await you.
Why similar: Horror 62.2%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 10.2%, First-Person 8.9%, Action 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a shifting, modular environment that requires the player to explore and survive against a growing threat.
- #27 Lost in Vivo
79% matchVery Positive92% of 3,869 reviews2018
Dev: KIRA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.
Why similar: Horror 29.9%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15%, Great Soundtrack 14.7%, First-Person 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic, psychological horror game that excels at making the player feel small and helpless in a shifting, nightmarish environment.
- #28 The Initiate
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 202 reviews2017
Dev: Deceptive Games Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!
Why similar: Horror 27.1%, Great Soundtrack 18%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 13.8%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy horror game that traps the player in a mysterious, hostile location where every room could be their last.
- #29 Bendy and the Dark Revival
76% matchVery Positive93% of 14,556 reviews2022
Dev: Joey Drew Studios
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Bendy and the Dark Revival® is a first-person survival horror game set in the creepiest cartoon studio to ever exist. Discover the truth. Escape the studio. Above all, fear the Ink Demon…and survive.
Why similar: Horror 35.3%, Survival Horror 16.9%, First-Person 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%, Adventure 6.7%
- #30 Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
78% matchVery Positive93% of 15,344 reviews2015
Dev: Lag Studios
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
Why similar: Horror 44%, First-Person 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Cute 8.6%, Survival Horror 5.9%
- #31 Visage
77% matchVery Positive84% of 10,620 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 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 47.6%, Psychological Horror 17%, Survival Horror 12.7%, First-Person 8%, Walking Simulator 4.6%
- #32 Paratopic
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,101 reviews2018
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
Why similar: Horror 37.6%, Great Soundtrack 16.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Indie 9.7%, Adventure 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its low-poly, surreal aesthetic creates a dream-like sense of dread that fans of indie horror will find very familiar.
- #33 Very Scary Backrooms Game
74% matchVery Positive86% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Wilboforce
Windows
You have no weapons. You have no means of defending yourself. Some will chase you, some will outsmart you. If you are in danger, run and hide.
Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Walking Simulator 10.5%, First-Person 7.5%
- #34 Last Floor
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 367 reviews2020
Dev: AK Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Оne day your life changes dramatically and you become a hostage of your own home. Your task is to survive but to do this you need to get outside.
Why similar: Horror 16%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 13.7%, Action 11.3%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%
- #35 Five Nights at Freddy's 3
74% matchVery Positive90% of 11,040 reviews2015
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l
Why similar: Horror 41.6%, Survival Horror 16%, First-Person 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Jump Scare 5.2% ★
- #36 The Dark Occult
75% matchMixed69% of 1,264 reviews2018
Dev: RYM GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Dark Occult is a psychological driven horror game that puts players in a constant state of anxiety that crescendos into raw panic and terror. You will encounter grotesque creatures, who will take your life at any moment.Your only goal -- survive.
Why similar: Horror 46%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Gore 9.3%, First-Person 8.8%, Adventure 8.3%
- #37 Jumpscare Simulator: System Breach
72% matchVery Positive91% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Durultay Games
Windows
Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!
Why similar: Horror 32%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, First-Person 10.2%
- #38 Don't Be Afraid
73% matchVery Positive83% of 944 reviews2020
Dev: Limo GamesPub: Eneida Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Survival Horror 13.4%, First-Person 11.5%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #39 The House
77% matchMostly Negative36% of 91 reviews2014
Dev: Konsordo
Windows
Plunge into the atmosphere of fear and horror,investigate the dark house full of mysteries and danger!
Why similar: Horror 67.6%, Indie 9.3%, Adventure 9.2%, Walking Simulator 7.1%, Action 6.8%
- #40 The Guest
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 201 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: Horror 30.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, First-Person 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11.4%
- #41 Saiko no sutoka
71% matchVery Positive92% of 3,709 reviews2021
Dev: Habupain
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 61.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Saiko No Sutoka is a Horror Survival Game where you as a Protagonist must escape and avoid the crazy yandere girl who wants you dead.
Why similar: Horror 38.7%, First-Person 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Cute 12.1%, Survival Horror 9.3%
- #42 Dementium II HD
75% matchMixed50% of 1,263 reviews2013
Dev: Memetic GamesPub: Missing Link Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The visage of doctors and patients alike fade in and out of these nightmarish visions of tortured memories. This eggshell reality is fractured by experiments conducted in the ward. Blood, flesh and screams surround as you put together the pieces of your story and make your escape from the Bright Dawn Treatment Center while the dark...
Why similar: Horror 64.5%, Adventure 10.7%, Action 8.6%, Indie 8.6%, First-Person 7.6%
- #43 Mists of Aiden
71% matchVery Positive91% of 1,138 reviews2020
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
Why similar: Horror 41.8%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, First-Person 9.1%, Adventure 8.2%, Walking Simulator 7.8%
- #44 Five Nights In Saransk
70% matchMixed69% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Pine Games
Windows
You wake up in the middle of the night in your cozy one-room apartment and notice something wandering around your five-story panel building. Your only task is to prevent these strange creatures from getting inside.
Why similar: Horror 27%, Jump Scare 25.3% ★, Survival Horror 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, First-Person 6.5%
- #45 House of Caravan
73% matchMixed67% of 803 reviews2015
Dev: Rosebud GamesPub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.
Why similar: Horror 54.3%, First-Person 17.3%, Indie 13.9%, Adventure 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #46 Nightmare of Decay
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,249 reviews2022
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
Why similar: Horror 40.1%, Survival Horror 21.3%, First-Person 12.5%, Gore 8%, Action 7.1%
- #47 Score the Fear
68% matchVery Positive98% of 220 reviews2025
Dev: AquaEternity
Windows
The little ghost that appeared before your eyes seems to want to become a proper evil spirit. He'll scare you in a variety of ways, so rate him on whether he was scary or not.
Why similar: Horror 53%, Walking Simulator 21.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 8.5%, Singleplayer 3%
- #48 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
70% matchVery Positive90% of 12,409 reviews2016
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Survival Horror 19.8%, First-Person 14.5%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, Indie 4.5%
- #49 Ghost Stories
72% 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 34.4%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 15.5%, First-Person 13%, Action 12.7%
- #50 Murder House
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,293 reviews2020
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Horror 46.6%, Survival Horror 21.5%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Gore 9.1%, Adventure 4.4%
- #51 Escape the Ayurok
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,077 reviews2019
Dev: DeadlyCrow Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Escape The Ayurok is a first person horror-adventure videogame, in which you need to escape from a haunted mansion as quiet as possible, to evade the hideous creature called "The Ayurok". Stealth Mode will be your ally!
Why similar: Horror 28.1%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, First-Person 12.7%, Gore 8.3%
- #52 UnderDread
71% matchMixed57% of 138 reviews2016
Dev: Bigzur Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A first-person horror adventure game that will take you on a journey through an ancient castle and that lies beneath. Dangers and forgotten horrors await in the dark...
Why similar: Horror 31%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Adventure 12.3%, Walking Simulator 11.1%, Indie 10.9%
- #53 The Backrooms Game FREE Edition
68% matchVery Positive80% of 3,604 reviews2019
Dev: Pie On A Plate Productions
Windows · Linux
Nothing but the stink of old, moist carpets, the madness of mono-yellow, and the blinding light of fluorescent bulbs at maximum hum-buzz. Over 600 million sq. miles of randomly segmented rooms. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.
Why similar: Horror 45%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Survival Horror 8.6%, Walking Simulator 7.7%, First-Person 6.3%
- #54 MADiSON
67% matchVery Positive87% of 3,277 reviews2022
Dev: BLOODIOUS GAMES
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
Why similar: Horror 37.9%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Survival Horror 14.2%, First-Person 10.9%, Adventure 4.6%
- #55 Albino Lullaby: Episode 1
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 382 reviews2015
Dev: Ape Law
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Albino Lullaby is a horror adventure game that doesn't rely on jump scares or gore. Escape from a surreal psychological nightmare as the world dynamically twists and contorts around you.
Why similar: Horror 42.7%, Adventure 12.8%, Indie 12.1%, VR 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
- #56 The Witch's House MV
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,881 reviews2018
Dev: FummyPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.
Why similar: Horror 61.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 7%, Survival Horror 6.4%, Indie 5%
- #57 HorrorToleranceTest
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: うさうさはっぴーげーむず
Windows
A horror game that challenges you to play three different games and diagnoses your tolerance for fear. “Surprise fear,” “hiding fear,” “escaping fear”—are you tolerant of all types of fear?
Why similar: Horror 55%, First-Person 19.9%, Action 8.8%, Gore 8.1%, Indie 5.5%
- #58 Don't Be Afraid 2
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Eneida Games
Windows
Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?
Why similar: Horror 27.4%, Survival Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, First-Person 12.4%, Walking Simulator 11.8%
- #59 Deadcam
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: Alien Big Cat
Windows
Sealed shut inside a rural, abandoned house for a paranormal hunting TV show.. Something is VERY wrong with Margo. Her live headcam is still rolling.. and you can see the whole thing. Run, hide, and escape the house in this first-person survival horror. And remember: the raccoon knows everything.
Why similar: Horror 30%, Survival Horror 15.6%, First-Person 14.3%, Walking Simulator 8.1%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
- #60 Skull Hotel
64% 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 31.4%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Survival Horror 14.9%, First-Person 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9.4%