- #1 Eyes Never Wake
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Allan Hedlund
Windows
A horror game where the monster watches you through your webcam. Hide by physically ducking beneath your desk while exploring a strange game never meant to be played.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.1%, Experimental 26.9% ★, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Dark 8.3%
- #2 KAGIDOKO : A Deep Learning Horror Game
96% matchPositive97% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: SeungGeon KimPub: Fischl Works
Windows · Mac
KAGIDOKO is an experimental horror game where every jumpscare has a reason. Collect all keys, open all doors, and get out of that house... While being stalked by a pre-trained Deep Learning Gameplay AI.
Why similar: Experimental 37.9% ★, Survival Horror 22.6%, Horror 11.7%, Artificial Intelligence 11.7%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
- #3 LA Monsters
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 38 reviews2020
Dev: ben lunato
Windows
travel through the LA wasteland with josh and sid in this atmospheric interactive video novel
Why similar: Experimental 45.6% ★, Survival Horror 29.1%, Horror 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, 2D 2.7%
- #4 Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
95% matchVery Positive85% of 1,304 reviews2012
Dev: Jasper ByrnePub: Superflat Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.4%, Horror 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Psychological Horror 6%, Dark 5.6%
- #5 Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
94% matchVery Positive93% of 1,810 reviews2019
Dev: Moonbit
Windows
Every kid has that one toy that scares them, imagine if it came to life. You play as Ruby, a young girl who has a fear of her handmade toy called Mr. Hopp. Things take a dark turn when Ruby sees that Mr. Hopp, who usually sits motionless in the corner of her room, is gone.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.4%, Horror 33.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Psychological Horror 5.3%, Dark 3.7%
- #6 Mother Ghoul - The Curse of Unborns
94% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Queen
Windows · Mac
The next victim is you. Mother Ghoul is a horror and thriller game in which you try to survive against a cursed ghost to whom you are offered as a sacrifice. To escape the curse, you must find and destroy her stillborn children through a ritual. This is the only way...
Why similar: Survival Horror 34.1%, Thriller 17.7%, Horror 17.2%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark 8.9%
- #7 EvilTrap
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jeff Winner
Windows
A psychological horror set in a cursed village where endless night forces you to seek fleeting refuge while a relentless demon hunts you down.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.5%, Horror 18%, Thriller 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dark 11.7%
- #8 Operation TP
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: PizzaquirkPub: Banamurai Media
Windows
A Post-Apocalyptic store run gone wrong, keep moving, don't get hit, get that TP!
Why similar: Experimental 36.6% ★, Survival Horror 25.8%, Horror 12.8%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Logic 6.3%
- #9 The Grounding
91% matchVery Positive89% of 686 reviews2020
Dev: Gus Jewell
Windows
If she catches you, she kills you. Smoke 6 times without getting killed.
Why similar: Experimental 43.5% ★, Survival Horror 27.9%, Horror 14.4%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Singleplayer 2%
- #10 Risu
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iwasherenowiamgonePub: 222°
Windows
Risu Ishikawa is about to split in two.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.7%, Experimental 29.1% ★, Horror 12.7%, Dark 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #11 The Hatchling
90% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Ricardo Pratas
Windows
The Hatchling is a short experimental horror where time and resource management decide your fate. Locked in a dystopian lab, a strange egg stirs. Control its environment before the system deems you unfit. Every second ⏳ counts. The Overseer 👁 is watching…
Why similar: Experimental 23.4% ★, Survival Horror 23.4%, Thriller 13%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 9%
- #12 Unsealed: The Mare
89% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Gamhalla
Windows
A challenging first-person psychological horror game where you play as Vera, trapped in a nightmare tied to her family’s tragic past. Burn the cursed teddies, restore lost memories, and break sealed doors to survive The Mare.
Why similar: Survival Horror 37.6%, Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Dark 15.4%, Atmospheric 5.4%
- #13 Visage
88% 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 29.7%, Survival Horror 27.9%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Dark 9.6%, Experimental 8.2% ★
- #14 B.D.K
89% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: EDO
Windows
B.D.K is a short experimental first person horror game that mainly relies on atmosphere and sounds to create a creepy experience.
Why similar: Experimental 56.2% ★, Horror 19.5%, Thriller 10.8%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Indie 3.2%
- #15 Tomb of Dread
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aleksandar Đuričić
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into an experimental first-person horror game where monsters judge your sanity and Gods want to play with you.
Why similar: Experimental 32.2% ★, Survival Horror 29.5%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Dark 6.3%
- #16 AREA93
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: KIMJUIM
Windows
Survive in Area93 where unidentified life forms exist.
Why similar: Survival Horror 40%, Thriller 21.7%, Horror 20.7%, Simulation 9%, Dark 6.1%
- #17 Minds Eyes
86% 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 39.4%, Survival Horror 29.3%, Thriller 11.7%, Experimental 10.7% ★, Psychological Horror 5.3%
- #18 Miasma
84% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: GhostMasakiPub: GMRX
Windows
Miasma is a first-person psychological horror maze game with a horrific atmosphere, you are trapped in a maze-like prison with a mysterious creature, and your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.6%, Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Dark 13.9%, Atmospheric 4.9%
- #19 Hands up
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ghuvyi
Windows
Hands UP Experience a classic first-person horror in pixel graphics. Use your shovel to clear the debris and reach the lowest level Do not tear wrist tendons.
Why similar: Survival Horror 35.2%, Horror 24.7%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Dark 7.4%
- #20 Stan
83% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Gus Jewell
Windows
Obsessive fans are common for artists, but this one is different. He's found his way to the home of J.W. Eel slug, a piano player who just got a deadline from a record label, and is determined to get inside.
Why similar: Survival Horror 47.8%, Horror 26.6%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Indie 2.4%
- #21 Lighthouse Keeper
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 398 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.1 hrs≥1hr: 9%
This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.
Why similar: Experimental 45% ★, Survival Horror 26%, Horror 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Dark 4.9%
- #22 The Door Before
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StormBrew
Windows
Step into a haunted hotel that will test your resolve. Run, hide, and use your resources to survive the dangers that lurk. Every attempt brings you closer to uncovering the way out, but beware as the monsters that hunt you grow more bold. Do you have what it takes to escape this nightmare?
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.3%, Horror 20.6%, Thriller 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Dark 9.8%
- #23 Madness in the dark
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Enfain
Windows
Monsters hide in the darkness - shoot to light up the room. But be careful - shots attract new enemies. Will you be able to find your way to the light?
Why similar: Survival Horror 38%, Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Dark 12%, Thriller 5.8%
- #24 Sevyal
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Ünal
Windows
Sevyal is a single-player horror game set in an underground hospital. Something has gone wrong and as a government official, you must visit the location, repair the electricity, survive, establish communication with the military, and escape.
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.6%, Horror 19.7%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Thriller 12.2%, Dark 7.2%
- #25 Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 107 reviews2018
Dev: Gattai Games
Windows · Mac
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
Why similar: Experimental 29.2% ★, Survival Horror 20.8%, Horror 13.1%, Thriller 12.6%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
- #26 Evil Inside - Prologue
79% matchMixed68% of 1,036 reviews2021
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
Why similar: Experimental 39.4% ★, Survival Horror 26.4%, Horror 22.4%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Atmospheric 2.4%
- #27 Trauma playground
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Marginalact
Windows
Horror playground simulator in the early 2000s. Someone keeps putting sharp objects inside toys, but who?
Why similar: Experimental 31.5% ★, Survival Horror 28.7%, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Dark 8.4%
- #28 Nightshift - The School Janitor
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Irreplaceable Studios
Windows
Survive the night shift at an abandoned school. Complete your cleaning tasks before 5 AM, manage your flashlight battery, and avoid the darkness that hunts you. Can you last 5 nights?
Why similar: Survival Horror 43.9%, Horror 23.8%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Dark 9.2%, Atmospheric 4.2%
- #29 Nameless
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AibsK
Windows
A man hides in a remote building deep in a silent forest, where uncertain memories resurface and reality begins to slip. As you uncover the reasons behind his retreat, you’ll gather scrap, buy equipment, and try to survive an intruder who grows more unpredictable each night.
Why similar: Survival Horror 31.5%, Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Dark 15.3%, Atmospheric 5.6%
- #30 Two Broken Mirrors
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hans-Peter Eriksson, Malin HultmanPub: Hans-Peter Eriksson
Windows
Classic survival horror with a twist. The whole mansion is ALIVE!. Will you get out or will it get you?.
Why similar: Survival Horror 48.8%, Horror 19.7%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, 2D 3.5%
- #31 Geeste
78% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Skobbejak GamesPub: Skermunkel
Windows
Take on the role of the ultimate Ghost-Fighting robot "Ghostatron 9000" and eradicate every ghost in site, you are humanity's last hope. Will you be the 1st one to make it to the end, to claim your prize?
Why similar: Experimental 43.1% ★, Survival Horror 26.9%, Horror 12.8%, Dark 10.3%, Indie 4.6%
- #32 Dark Existence
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dima Zangana
Windows
Dark Existence is an upcoming multiplayer atmospheric horror game. You will be able to walk the halls of horror alongside your friends and share the horrifying experience together.
Why similar: Experimental 37.5% ★, Survival Horror 27.9%, Horror 14.6%, Dark 11.4%, Psychological Horror 6.9%
- #33 Doomed Inheritance
75% match2 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Orikazi
Windows
Doomed Inheritance is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game set in a decaying Gothic manor where a brain-shaped sanity meter steadily drains. Explore eerie rooms, solve immersive environmental, light-and-shadow, and pattern puzzles, and collect vials to stave off creeping control drift.
Why similar: Survival Horror 37.7%, Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Thriller 7.3%, Dark 7.2%
- #34 Touch of Madness
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NLT Productions
Windows
In this 2D Survival-Horror, you switch between two protagonists as you advance through the story: Neo, a man lost in his own mind, trying to survive an endless nightmare, and Lavina, a loyal friend who will do anything to try to save him.
Why similar: Survival Horror 37.1%, Horror 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Dark 8.3%
- #35 The Unrested
74% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Nightfall Interactive
Windows
The Unrested is a story-driven first-person horror game. A spirit from your past traps you in an abandoned boarding school. A shadow watching your every step will test you with puzzles while forcing you to confront your fears.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.9%, Horror 19.8%, Thriller 19.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Dark 9.5%
- #36 The Beckoning
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SquawkA Games
Windows
Explore an abandoned and decaying village in this immersive first-person psychological horror experience, search forgotten houses and shadowed paths, piece together disturbing clues, and uncover the truth that waits within the suffocating darkness.
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.7%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 15.8%, Thriller 14.9%, Dark 7.4%
- #37 Mr. Hopp's Playhouse: The Toybox
73% matchMixed67% of 45 reviews2025
Dev: Moonbit
Windows
When Emmie brings home a toy rabbit she found in the woods, her mother, Kaiya, starts experiencing strange happenings inside their home as everything becomes a fight for survival.
Why similar: Survival Horror 46.9%, Horror 19.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, 2D 5.2%
- #38 Sleepless Night
73% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Damien Rouzeau
Windows
Your nightmare haunts you every night, but... are they really nightmares? You better survive them!
Why similar: Survival Horror 46.4%, Horror 24%, Simulation 21.8%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #39 Membrane
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Noe Abc
Windows
I had lost all contact with my sister when she suddenly called me from a Tokyo suburb consumed by the Membrane, a curse that blurs the line between nightmares and reality. Fight shadows and your own fears in this psychological horror exploration game.
Why similar: Experimental 53.2% ★, Horror 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, 2D 3.9%
- #40 Dolls made here
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ready2Run
Windows
You find yourself alone in an abandoned doll factory, assembling and inspecting dolls because you needed the money. Each order ends with the sense that they should never have been shipped, but leaving is no longer an option.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.3%, Horror 15.9%, Thriller 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Dark 10.9%
- #41 La Villa de la Muerte
72% matchMixed64% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: Ottercide Studio
Windows
La Villa de la Muerte is a looping psychological horror game where players will progress through an ever-changing environment in pursuit of the truth behind a family disappearance.
Why similar: Survival Horror 32.1%, Horror 16.9%, Artificial Intelligence 14%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dark 10.1%
- #42 My favorite school
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZHAZH
Windows
My Favorite School is a horror game set in a Russian municipal school. You are a student who stayed after school and witnessed terrible events. From now on, you need to survive, so explore and use the environment, save resources and move.
Why similar: Survival Horror 34.4%, Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 14%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Dark 6.1%
- #43 As Duty Demands
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rabbit Bay Games
Windows
A first-person narrative psychological horror game focused on exploration and environmental storytelling, set in a decaying naval retirement home ruled by a tyrannical former admiral, where you play as Coral, a newly hired nurse who must navigate shifting environments and uncover hidden truths.
Why similar: Survival Horror 39.5%, Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Dark 14.5%, Atmospheric 4.7%
- #44 Book Head Monster
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nursultan Nazarov
Windows
Book Head Monster is a survival horror game. You find yourself in an empty metro station after falling asleep after long days of work. Find the key to the car and get to home safely from Head Book Monster!
Why similar: Survival Horror 42.2%, Horror 23%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Dark 13.8%, Atmospheric 4.9%
- #45 Port of Call
71% matchVery Positive88% of 1,273 reviews2015
Dev: Underdog Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.
Why similar: Experimental 72.9% ★, Horror 16.6%, Atmospheric 4.9%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #46 THE JOY OF CREATION
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NiksonPub: Clickteam
Windows
The lines between creation and creator blur, in this first-person psychological horror game inspired by Five Nights At Freddy’s.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.8%, Horror 23.4%, Dark 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Simulation 6.2%
- #47 The Last Gift
67% matchPositive85% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: AIO_Games
Windows
You came for loot on Christmas night, but found someone who has no intention of letting you go.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.9%, Horror 18.8%, Thriller 17.6%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Dark 9.5%
- #48 MIDNIGHT Remastered
70% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Mad Jackal Games
Windows · Mac
Collect the seven letters of the deadly sins and repent for your past in this horror game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.9%, Horror 18.4%, Dark 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%
- #49 The Obsession
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: O.D Games
Windows
The Obsession Game is a story-driven psychological horror experience exploring themes of guilt, obsession, and revenge.Onur receives a phone call from his friend Murat and goes to an old house he inherited.At first, everything seems calm…Until the silence inside the house is broken.
Why similar: Survival Horror 34.1%, Horror 21.5%, Thriller 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15%, Simulation 8.3%
- #50 Asylum Of Evil
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Delta Games Productions
Windows
A detective is hired to find a missing young woman. The clues lead him to an old abandoned sanatorium, where personal belongings reveal she was there. But something sinister lurks in the shadows — and leaving may no longer be an option.
Why similar: Survival Horror 43.5%, Horror 23.7%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Dark 13.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #51 Evil Inside
69% matchMixed62% of 327 reviews2021
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
Why similar: Experimental 39.9% ★, Survival Horror 21.1%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Atmospheric 4%
- #52 Dark Shadows
67% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: Karakaya Inc.
Windows
Elena killed Jason to protect her friend but unleashed a terrifying curse. Now Dark Shadow is back for revenge. Survive, face your fears, and don’t scream—if you do, it all starts over!
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.2%, Horror 21.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Thriller 9.6%, Dark 9.2%
- #53 Insanity
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bruheny
Windows
You Spawn In The Middle Of A Forrest And Must Escape Without Being Murdered By Ghosts, The More Times You Escape The More Insane You Get Until You Just Cant Take It Anymore...
Why similar: Survival Horror 42.1%, Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Artificial Intelligence 16.8%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #54 Uncanny Valley
70% matchMixed56% of 497 reviews2015
Dev: Tiny Mold
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Uncanny Valley is a survival horror game that includes a mix of exploration, puzzle solving and a bit of action with a lot of optional story content. We're trying to preserve the old survival horror kind of gameplay instead of following the modern trend of creating a third person shooter with horror elements.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.1%, Horror 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Atmospheric 5.3%
- #55 Nightmare
67% matchMixed59% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: DiTMGames
Windows
Nightmare is a single-player survival-horror game. Once in a bad dream, you will have to decide: find a way to wake up or stay in it forever.
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.2%, Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Dark 11.2%, Artificial Intelligence 6.4%
- #56 Whispers of the Seasons
65% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Jawbone Games
Windows
You have been marked by a monster to be its next prey. Defend your cabin against the beast across the four seasons, listening out for its attacks to stop it before it gets inside. Complete tasks throughout the night in an effort to free yourself from its curse and return to a normal life.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.9%, Thriller 20.6%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 12%, Dark 9.8%
- #57 Water Boiling Simulator
65% matchPositive98% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: wolfyer
Windows · Linux
It's 2016. Explore through your house in the middle of the night and complete your chores before the water you put on the stove starts boiling. Sounds easy, right? If only you hadn't seen things you were not supposed to see.
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.7%, Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Dark 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%