- #1 SCP – Containment Breach
97% matchVery Positive99% of 497 reviews2026
Dev: Undertow GamesPub: SCP-CB Community Preservation Project
Windows
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Horror 80.5%, Action 19.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features iconic enemies that move only when the player is not looking, perfectly mirroring the core mechanic of Statues.
- #2 DON'T LOOK AWAY
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 288 reviews2022
Dev: DMNT
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A frightening asymmetrical multiplayer experience! Survive as the Human or terrorize as the Entity that can only move when it isn't being watched.
Why similar: Horror 76.9%, Adventure 13.4%, Action 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Directly focuses on the mechanic of keeping your eyes on threats to prevent them from closing the distance.
- #3 Eyes: The Horror Game
95% matchVery Positive91% of 762 reviews2024
Dev: Fearless GamesPub: QubicGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
You break into the mansion at night. It’s huge and built like a maze. You're trying to escape, but the monster is after you! The chase begins. RUN!!
Why similar: Horror 74.3%, Adventure 25.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival horror experience where you must navigate environments while avoiding entities that react to your presence and gaze.
- #4 123 Slaughter Me Street
96% 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 69.1%, Action 15.9%, Indie 15%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game where you must manage your flashlight and line-of-sight to avoid being caught by aggressive puppets.
- #5 Kraven Manor
94% 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 60.8%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 12.3%, Action 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a unique mechanic where the environment and enemies change based on where you look and how you manipulate the building.
- #6 Emily Wants To Play
94% 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 80.6%, Action 7%, Indie 6.9%, Adventure 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Requires the player to manage specific movement and observation rules to survive against dolls that behave similarly to the statues.
- #7 It follows you
93% matchMixed50% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Boom Games
Windows
You are all alone in this dark and frightening place. Run and hide, hurry to find a way out, because it follows you...
Why similar: Horror 68.9%, Action 16%, Adventure 15.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the constant, creeping dread of an entity that relentlessly pursues you, emphasizing the need for constant vigilance.
- #8 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
91% matchVery Positive95% of 35,239 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 81.8%, Adventure 7.5%, Indie 6.2%, Action 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for first-person stealth horror where looking directly at monsters causes the player to lose sanity, forcing a tense balance of observation.
- #9 Don't Look
92% matchMostly Negative40% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DygoDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Don't Look is a horror game where you are being hunted by things that can only move when you see them. With no explanation or recollection of where you came from your only objective is to survive and make it out of that hell and hopefully uncover some secrets on the way.
Why similar: Horror 72.4%, Adventure 19%, Indie 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror title that emphasizes the danger of being watched and the necessity of keeping your eyes on the threat.
- #10 Alien: Isolation
90% matchVery Positive93% of 64,460 reviews2014
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Why similar: Horror 86%, Action 7.8%, Adventure 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features an advanced AI hunter that requires constant tracking and stealth, providing a similar high-stakes cat-and-mouse experience.
- #11 Stairs
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 361 reviews2015
Dev: GreyLight EntertainmentPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
STAIRS is a first-person atmospheric psychological horror game, inspired by real-life events, that takes players through the stories of three missing people as seen through the eyes of journalist Christopher Adams. Start preparing yourself now, for to descend down these steps is to descend into madness...
Why similar: Horror 52.5%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 15.5%, Action 14.4%
Why You'll Like It: An indie psychological horror title that shares the atmospheric, first-person exploration style found in Statues.
- #12 Dark Deception
89% 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 76.9%, Action 8.2%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A maze-based horror game where you must navigate around monsters that have specific movement patterns and behavioral triggers.
- #13 Pacify
88% matchVery Positive86% of 42,392 reviews2019
Dev: Shawn HitchcockPub: Hitchcock Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
There is reportedly an evil inside that house. Something about an old funeral parlor offering a last chance to talk to their dead loved ones. Plus something about lights, laughter, a girl, missing people, etc... You know the same stuff everyone claims. Take a team, and check the place out.
Why similar: Horror 95.9%, Adventure 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Requires players to perform specific tasks while managing the behavior of a hostile entity that reacts to your actions and proximity.
- #14 Intruders: Hide and Seek
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 348 reviews2019
Dev: Tessera StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Intruders: Hide and Seek is a first-person stealth game, an intense thriller combining intense psychological terror with the point of view of a defenseless boy.
Why similar: Horror 38.9%, Adventure 22.8%, Action 20.9%, Indie 17.4%
Why You'll Like It: A tense stealth-horror game where you must observe the movements of intruders to avoid detection in a confined space.
- #15 Outlast
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 133,959 reviews2013
Dev: Red Barrels
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Why similar: Horror 84.2%, Adventure 6%, Action 5.7%, Indie 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential stealth-horror game that forces you to hide and observe your pursuers from the shadows to survive.
- #16 The Dark Occult
87% 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 59.4%, Action 15%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A tense horror game that focuses on exploration and surviving against supernatural threats in a claustrophobic setting.
- #17 Pineview Drive
86% matchMixed63% of 674 reviews2014
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A one-of-a-kind horror shocker – a game aware of your fear!Check out the improvements introduced with Update 2.0!
Why similar: Horror 71%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 8.8%, Action 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric horror game that builds tension through exploration and the feeling of being watched in a haunted mansion.
- #18 Five Nights at Freddy's
83% 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 88.4%, Indie 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: The original game that popularized the 'don't look away' mechanic through camera management and environmental awareness.
- #19 Hektor
85% matchMixed62% of 969 reviews2015
Dev: Rubycone
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Experience terrors only madness can conjure in HEKTOR, a psychological horror game set in a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn.
Why similar: Horror 62.7%, Adventure 12.9%, Action 12.9%, Indie 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that features a shifting environment and enemies that thrive in the darkness.
- #20 Granny
82% 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 74%, Adventure 11.2%, Indie 10.3%, Action 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A high-tension survival game where you must avoid a patrolling enemy by listening for cues and carefully managing your line of sight.
- #21 Stay Still 2
84% matchMixed50% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Welcome to Stay Still 2, a spine-chilling first-person survival horror game. Based of the Vietnamese culture, this game unfolds as a daring experiment in which survival seems nearly impossible. Engage in a story gameplay, where puzzles are your key to progress, while surviving various threats.
Why similar: Horror 68.6%, Action 18.1%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that emphasizes puzzle-solving and stealth while being hunted by relentless enemies.
- #22 Phantaruk
84% matchMixed61% of 237 reviews2016
Dev: PolyslashPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Phantaruk combines survival horror with adventure and stealth mechanics. Expect true shivers down your spine as you fight for your life not only facing the dangers of the Purity-02 spaceship, but most of all - when you try to get rid of toxins continually destroying you from the inside.
Why similar: Horror 34.8%, Adventure 23%, Action 23%, Indie 19.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game set on a spaceship that emphasizes stealth and avoiding detection by dangerous creatures.
- #23 Among Ashes
80% matchVery Positive95% of 410 reviews2024
Dev: Rat Cliff Games
Windows
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
Why similar: Horror 59.4%, Action 14.2%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: A meta-horror experience that blends psychological dread with first-person survival mechanics.
- #24 Monstrum
81% matchVery Positive91% of 3,664 reviews2015
Dev: Team JunkfishPub: Junkfish Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
Why similar: Horror 84.9%, Indie 12.6%, Action 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features procedurally generated environments and a terrifying monster that forces you to use stealth and observation to escape.
- #25 Visage
79% 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 85.9%, Adventure 6.8%, Indie 4.9%, Action 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses environmental manipulation and unpredictable enemy behavior to keep the player on edge.
- #26 SOMA
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 50,500 reviews2015
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Why similar: Horror 61.3%, Adventure 14.2%, Action 13%, Indie 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, atmospheric horror experience with terrifying encounters that require careful movement and avoidance strategies.
- #27 Lethe - Episode One
81% matchVery Positive85% of 398 reviews2016
Dev: KoukouStudiosPub: Faber Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Lethe is a first person adventure with survival horror elements. Explore an atmospheric and frightening world and uncover the dark secrets of your origins.
Why similar: Horror 41.2%, Adventure 21.7%, Action 20%, Indie 17.1%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person adventure game that focuses on stealth and using limited tools to survive against hostile creatures.
- #28 Joe's Diner
82% matchMostly Negative40% of 258 reviews2015
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Somewhere along the venerable Route 7, in the middle of nowhere, you will find Joe’s Diner. The old Diner was built on the site of a former Indian cemetery. Amongst the buried, two rival chieftains are laid to rest; while alive each could not stand the other.
Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Adventure 18.5%, Action 16.7%, Indie 16%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game where you must manage your environment to keep hostile spirits at bay during a night shift.
- #29 The Empty Eyes
76% matchVery Positive80% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.
Why similar: Horror 63.1%, Indie 16.1%, Action 11.6%, Adventure 9.2%
- #30 Dementium II HD
78% 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 62%, Action 14.2%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 10.1%
- #31 Familiar Stranger
75% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Duanyang WangPub: Horror engine games
Windows
The Familiar Stranger is a 3D psychological horror game where twisted memories and nightmares blur. Uncover dark secrets while evading a relentless entity that watches from the shadows. Can you escape the horrors of the past, or will they consume you?
Why similar: Horror 53.2%, Indie 18.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Action 14.1%
- #32 Fear of Clowns
76% matchMixed64% of 198 reviews2017
Dev: Mikhail Nevsky
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
You woke up in the middle of the night from the doorbell's sound. Someone wants to play with you...
Why similar: Horror 44.3%, Adventure 19.7%, Action 19.2%, Indie 16.9%
- #33 While Sleeping
73% matchVery Positive81% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Sangwoon JinPub: FLUXJIN
Windows
A first-person horror game dealing with sleep paralysis. You are lying in bed, unable to move, experiencing creepy phenomena and having to survive until morning from ghosts.
Why similar: Horror 70.1%, Indie 16.9%, Adventure 6.6%, Action 6.4%
- #34 Blinding Dark
77% matchMostly Negative32% of 62 reviews2014
Dev: Games HutPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Blinding Dark is a First Person Adventure horror game. Complete puzzles, collect items and power-ups, fight enemies and do your best to manage the very thin resources you have at your disposal to uncover terrible secrets.
Why similar: Horror 58.9%, Action 21.4%, Adventure 19.8%
- #35 Ghost Stories
75% 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 34.8%, Adventure 23.9%, Action 21.9%, Indie 19.3%
- #36 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 65.6%, Adventure 12%, Action 11.2%, Indie 11.1%
- #37 Minds Eyes
73% matchMixed70% of 1,826 reviews2016
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?
Why similar: Horror 79.3%, Adventure 7.7%, Action 7.3%, Indie 5.7%
- #38 DON'T FACE UP
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: tesakiza
Windows · Mac
DON'T FACE UP is a first-person horror game. Never make eye contact with them. They may appear and disappear. They may be standing in the direction you suddenly turn your eyes. Even in such a situation, you must proceed with your search for the building. Therefore, "DON'T FACE UP."
Why similar: Horror 74%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 8.6%
- #39 Stay Still
74% matchMixed44% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Stay Still is a first-person horror adventure based on Vietnamese culture. The gameplay is focused on storytelling, puzzles and avoiding dangerous threats & spirits hunting you. Solve various puzzles, watch your surroundings, and of course survive.
Why similar: Horror 68.9%, Action 20.2%, Adventure 10.8%
- #40 Depths of Fear :: Knossos
74% matchMixed67% of 435 reviews2014
Dev: DIRIGO GAMES
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Depths of Fear :: Knossos, a Greek-themed, 1st Person, Roguelike stealthy action-adventure where you play as Theseus out to kill the rampaging horror the Minotaur. Succeed in the beast’s slaughter or learn the meaning of fear trying. You will run. You will hide. You will fight. You will die.
Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Adventure 24.9%, Action 24.3%, Indie 22.2%
- #41 Vigil
68% matchVery Positive86% of 2,025 reviews2025
Dev: Singularity Studios
Windows
Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.
Why similar: Horror 65.4%, Action 16.3%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 2.5%
- #42 Apartament 1406: Horror
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 698 reviews2023
Dev: Airem
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.
Why similar: Horror 53.5%, Adventure 16.8%, Action 15%, Indie 14.6%
- #43 Very Scary Backrooms Game
70% 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 60.3%, Action 17.2%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 6.9%
- #44 Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded
73% matchMostly Negative24% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: Alexander Walford
Windows
Close your eyes. Step into a world filled with nothing but darkness and terror, where everything wants to destroy you. Your time has come to fight the shrieking darkness, be brave and don't look back or you won't make it.
Why similar: Horror 77.4%, Action 13.9%, Indie 8.7%
- #45 Mental Hospital VR
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: Igor MigunPub: AGaming+
Windows
Mental Hospital VR is a truly scary first-person stealth horror game. Discover heart-thumping terror, chase and scary creatures in this atmospheric horror game.
Why similar: Horror 58.4%, Action 19.3%, Indie 12.3%, Adventure 10.1%
- #46 QuattroMan
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: natamigame
Windows
Escape from creepy and irrational enemies. Fight your fear!
Why similar: Horror 68.5%, Adventure 23.9%, Indie 7.6%
- #47 Backrooms Doors
70% matchMixed68% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
Backrooms Doors - This is an atmospheric first-person horror game. Explore spaces that can't exist in the real world and find your way out before the entities find you.
Why similar: Horror 65.6%, Action 18.7%, Adventure 15.7%
- #48 FLIGHTMARE
71% matchMostly Negative28% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Van Studios
Windows
Indie horror game that will take your adrenaline to another level.
Why similar: Horror 38.6%, Action 33.1%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 12.9%
- #49 Room 817: Director's Cut
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Bormak Studio
Windows
Welcome to one of the scariest old-school horror games. Here, you're not the predator, but the prey. Any mistake will cost you your life. Hide, solve puzzles, explore, and embrace the inevitable terror. The Ancient horror lurks, awaiting you. Based on true events.
Why similar: Horror 80.1%, Action 16.8%, Adventure 3.1%
- #50 DYSTHANASIA
66% matchVery Positive90% of 301 reviews2025
Dev: Madowaku KoboPub: Eroge Japan
Windows
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
Why similar: Horror 75.2%, Action 12.8%, Adventure 12%
- #51 Nyctophobia
71% 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 48.2%, Indie 28%, Adventure 23.8%
- #52 Mental Hospital - Child of Evil
69% matchMixed65% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: Igor MigunPub: AGaming+
Windows
Mental Hospital is a truly scary first-person stealth horror game. Discover heart-thumping terror, chase and scary creatures in this atmospheric horror game.
Why similar: Adventure 37.7%, Action 35.8%, Horror 26.5%
- #53 The Guest
67% 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 60.7%, Adventure 17%, Indie 16.9%, Action 5.4%
- #54 Echoes of Dread
67% matchVery Positive85% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Reaper GSPub: Kazakov Studios
Windows
Echoes Of Dread is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore the mansion, solve puzzles, and uncover the secrets hidden within. Prepare for unexpected encounters with terrifying entities.
Why similar: Horror 63.7%, Action 15.5%, Indie 11.3%, Adventure 9.5%
- #55 In The Backrooms
68% matchMixed57% of 154 reviews2022
Dev: BLOCK 211
Windows
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
Why similar: Horror 66%, Action 20.3%, Adventure 13.7%
- #56 BlackShadows
72% matchVery Negative17% of 169 reviews2015
Dev: IceGames Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 16%
BlackShadows is a survival horror game where you'll assume the role of a young scientist who is fighting against her worst nightmare... You'll have to escape from a strange and creepy place in order to survive. You think it's easy? Be careful : Black Shadows are never friendly!
Why similar: Horror 46.7%, Adventure 28.1%, Indie 25.2%
- #57 Jawbreaker
66% matchMixed64% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Vincent Lade
Windows
Will you survive when the world falls apart? Jawbreaker is a punishing stealth & survival horror game that will have you running, hiding, and fighting in a terrifying gang-infested society on the verge of collapse. Though that’s not all, once the sun goes down the true fear begins...
Why similar: Horror 75.1%, Action 24.9%
- #58 Gynophobia
67% matchMixed66% of 773 reviews2015
Dev: Gua
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Gynophobia is a horror themed shooter about abnormal fear of women. Gynophobia is using classic first person shooter gameplay, to convey story about Mark, who is suffering from different phobias, including abnormal fear of woman.
Why similar: Horror 59%, Action 16.1%, Adventure 12.8%, Indie 12.2%