Games Like The Hex

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Story Rich 35.3%, Dark 27.3%, Puzzle 11.1%, Horror 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer, this game masterfully blends deck-building with a dark, meta-narrative mystery that constantly shifts in scope.

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Indie 10.1%, Dark 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An essential meta-horror experience from the same creator that forces players to hack their own game to survive.

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.8%, Story Rich 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Indie 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply emotional meta-narrative game that treats the player as a distinct entity outside the game world.

UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.5%, Story Rich 13.2%, Funny 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Hex, it subverts traditional RPG tropes and remembers the player's choices in ways that feel genuinely unsettling.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Multiple Endings 17%, Mystery 13.9%, Story Rich 12.7%, Funny 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for meta-narrative storytelling, constantly subverting player agency and expectations.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.2%, Indie 13.9%, Story Rich 12.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.2%, Horror 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant anthology of horror stories that uses the interface of the game itself to tell a cohesive, meta-fictional mystery.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Mystery 36.1%, Great Soundtrack 17.5%, Story Rich 16.9%, Indie 8.3%, Puzzle 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant mystery game that requires intense deduction and shares a similarly distinct, high-contrast visual style.

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Why similar: Story Rich 18.2%, Funny 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Indie 14%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hilarious and clever puzzle game that constantly breaks the fourth wall and shifts genres to keep the player guessing.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Story Rich 32.7%, Great Soundtrack 20.3%, Indie 17.2%, Dark 8.9%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A profound meta-narrative experience that explores the relationship between the creator and the player through a series of experimental game levels.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Psychological Horror 40%, Story Rich 19.3%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Puzzle 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game featuring a unique facial control mechanic and a deeply unsettling, meta-aware mystery.

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Mystery 31.9%, Story Rich 16.7%, Dark 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Puzzle 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex detective game that rewards careful observation and piecing together a dark, overarching conspiracy.

A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Mystery 20.2%, Story Rich 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Funny 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal and emotional narrative adventure that plays with time and memory in a way that fans of The Hex will appreciate.

Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Story Rich 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Puzzle 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, pixel-art horror game that balances corporate satire with genuinely creepy, genre-bending gameplay.

Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.6%, Story Rich 16.6%, Indie 10.3%, Dark 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, charming, and tragic narrative game that features a narrator who is constantly interacting with the player.

Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.

Why similar: Mystery 26.9%, Story Rich 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Funny 12.9%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous point-and-click mystery series that shares the witty writing and episodic structure found in The Hex.

Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.1%, Great Soundtrack 21.6%, Story Rich 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror RPG that uses its pixel-art aesthetic to explore deep trauma and surreal, shifting realities.

Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Story Rich 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Indie 12.5%, Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that simulates an evolving AI that becomes increasingly obsessed with the player.

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Why similar: Mystery 31%, Great Soundtrack 24.2%, Story Rich 13.6%, Indie 11.5%, Puzzle 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A time-loop mystery game that requires the player to observe and manipulate events to prevent a series of murders.

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

Why similar: Mystery 25.7%, Story Rich 18.2%, Funny 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 12.2%, Puzzle 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A stylish detective game with a focus on character-driven mystery and clever, logic-based puzzles.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.6%, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Dark 12.9%, Story Rich 11.9%, Memes 6%

Why You'll Like It: A deceptive visual novel that uses its medium to deliver a shocking and effective meta-horror experience.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.4%, Mystery 17.6%, Story Rich 15%, Funny 11.4%, Indie 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A nostalgic, meta-heavy simulation that captures the weirdness of the early internet through a series of investigative tasks.

A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Indie 16.1%, Puzzle 13%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, meta-puzzle game where the player's curiosity leads to increasingly bizarre and catastrophic outcomes.

Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.5%, Story Rich 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Horror 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A haunting, Lovecraftian horror game that uses low-fidelity pixel art to create an incredibly atmospheric mystery.

Rusty Lake Paradise is set on a small remote island which is cursed by the ten plagues of Egypt. Solve all the mysteries of this dark, macabre puzzle adventure. Paradise builds upon the distinctive atmosphere and excitement from the Rusty Lake series.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Mystery 16.1%, Puzzle 14%, Indie 13.6%, Story Rich 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal and cryptic point-and-click adventure that excels at building a bizarre, unsettling world.

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Mystery 14.9%, Story Rich 14.3%, Dark 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, story-driven platformer that weaves together three interconnected narratives with a dark, emotional core.

Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.

Why similar: Indie 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Mystery 17%, Story Rich 16.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game that forces the player to investigate a smartphone to uncover a conspiracy, blurring the line between game and reality.

And now, for today's story.

Why similar: Story Rich 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, atmospheric adventure game where the protagonist can read the memories of objects to solve mysteries.

The classic web game, reborn! Enjoy this remaster in glorious 4k resolution! Follow this frog on its arcade action adventure through swarm of bugs and beyond! Purchase the hat DLC for the ultimate experience, if you want to eat bugs while wearing a hat!

Why similar: Indie 35.2%, Story Rich 20.9%, Funny 15.5%, Memes 14%, Adventure 12%

Why You'll Like It: A legendary example of genre-shifting, where a simple educational game evolves into a bizarre, multi-layered experience.

A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 38.7%, Story Rich 28.3%, Indie 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Funny 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy experience that explores the life of a dying man through his memories, focusing on emotional impact over traditional gameplay.

Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.3%, Story Rich 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Puzzle 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, fairy-tale-inspired horror game that features multiple endings and a focus on exploration and puzzle-solving.

An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Mystery 23.7%, Dark 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Puzzle 7.3%

Two souls are drawn into a mysterious otherworld—and torn apart. In a realm filled with danger and restless spirits, each searches for the other while uncovering hidden truths. A suspenseful multi-ending adventure where every choice shapes their fate.

Why similar: Mystery 19.9%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Story Rich 11.8%, Dark 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

Why Am I Dead At Sea is an adventure game where you solve the mystery of your own murder. As a ghost, you will have to possess people and use them to investigate your surroundings. But in this place no one is who they seem...and everyone has a secret.

Why similar: Mystery 30.6%, Indie 16.6%, Story Rich 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, RPG 9.9%

Exploration, puzzles and a touch of classic horror awaits you! Uncover the secrets and mysteries of Neuville's Mansion. Test your logic against diverse puzzles, locate and use a variety of items, and don't lose your sense of direction, as navigation itself becomes an obstacle in your path!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Mystery 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Story Rich 9.5%

You just want to play a video game in an old game club, but time passes quickly, and strange noises draw you into a dark nightmare! A nightmare that begins with an old video game... Are you ready to experience a 2D platformer game within the heart of a 3D first person psychological horror game?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.4%, Mystery 21.8%, Dark 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

This is Interesting is a psychological horror mystery based game with roguelite elements. You are being watched, and you aren't really sure why. Delve through the depths of memory to uncover the mystery behind the gray purgatory you find yourself in.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.9%, Mystery 21.1%, Story Rich 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Puzzle 6.5%

Unlucky Seven will take you on a space walk and tell you a story about love, hate, and craving for human flesh.

Why similar: Story Rich 17.4%, Great Soundtrack 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Indie 10.8%, Funny 10.5%

Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

Why similar: Mystery 32.9%, Story Rich 23.5%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, RPG 8.6%

Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.

Why similar: Mystery 22%, Indie 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Horror 7.4%

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: Indie 21.8%, Great Soundtrack 21.5%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Story Rich 13.3%, Puzzle 7%

Welcome to Bummertown a place where You'll have to collect items, talk to colorful characters and solve puzzles in order to find a lost character named Bedford.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 14.7%, Indie 14.5%, Mystery 13.6%, Story Rich 9.8%, Memes 9.6%

The one and only non-linear adventure with 100 different endings. Don't just wishlist me. I'm not that expensive... also, look at those reviews!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Indie 17.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%, Platformer 7.7%

Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.3%, Story Rich 22.4%, Dark 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.4%, Mystery 16.8%, Story Rich 12.8%, Dark 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.1%, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Story Rich 16.8%, Indie 11.8%, Dark 7.9%

A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.3%, Mystery 17.6%, Story Rich 15.8%, Dark 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 12%

A dark comedy RPG set in streets and psyches.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32%, Story Rich 19%, Pixel Graphics 17%, RPG 9.8%, Indie 9.2%

Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Mystery 15.6%, Dark 10.4%, Story Rich 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Mystery 17.6%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 12%, Story Rich 8.8%

Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.

Why similar: Story Rich 21.8%, Indie 13.1%, RPG 10.2%, Mystery 9.9%, Puzzle 9.1%

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Story Rich 14.9%, Mystery 14.6%, Indie 13%

A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.5%, Story Rich 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Indie 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.9%, Mystery 23.8%, Story Rich 14.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Indie 8%

You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Indie 12.9%, Dark 9.2%, Mystery 7.9%

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Why similar: Story Rich 20.9%, Mystery 19.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Indie 7.9%

A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Mystery 16.6%, Dark 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Great Soundtrack 19.7%, Story Rich 14%, Indie 11.4%, Dark 10.1%

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.2%, Story Rich 23.7%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Indie 8.6%

A story-driven psychological horror RPG about a group of friends who unintentionally become bound together after encountering 7 curses from a school.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Mystery 16.9%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%

In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Indie 18.2%, Story Rich 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%, Dark 8.8%