Games Like The Housewife

Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.

Why similar: Indie 63.3%, Female Protagonist 36.7%

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 61.9%, Indie 31.5%, Casual 6.5%

This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store. Our task is to help her buy groceries.

Why similar: Abstract 51.2%, Female Protagonist 25.9%, Indie 19.6%, Casual 3.3%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Simulation 59.1%, Indie 40.9%

Before you realize it, dreams have become a curse. Wander through a darkened room and descend into the depths of her mind. A story-driven first-person horror game that leads you into an abyss of anguish and despair. Dedicated to those who once pursued their dreams—and to those who still do.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 47.8%, Indie 39.1%, Dark 13.1%

You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!

Why similar: Simulation 45.7%, Indie 28.2%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Dark 9.7%

Step into a Psychological Horror Experience where you live in an apartment complex where the walls between reality and nightmares are crumbling. Run for your life, solve small puzzles and use items to help you survive.

Why similar: Indie 52.1%, Abstract 32.6%, Dark 15.3%

In the Salesman, you play as a recently laid-off employee trying to survive the grind of job applications, debt, and dwindling hope. Trade your belongings for ad-supported replacements as you slowly sell away your life in this psychological horror game

Why similar: Simulation 63.2%, Indie 22.9%, Dark 13.9%

A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.

Why similar: Abstract 58.3%, Simulation 23.7%, Indie 17.9%

My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 56.7%, Dark 43.3%

Come home to see your wife who loves you a lot every day.

Why similar: Simulation 72.5%, Female Protagonist 23.4%, Casual 4.1%

You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.

Why similar: Experimental 39%, Abstract 30.4%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Indie 9.4%, Dark 9%

In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Indie 40.9%, Dark 17.2%

You're trapped in a small six-room hotel. The only way to escape is to observe your surroundings and follow the family's rules.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 45%, Simulation 44.2%, Dark 10.8%

Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.

Why similar: Simulation 54.5%, Indie 20.4%, Dark 17.1%, Female Protagonist 8%

A short, unique survival-farming-base-building-tycoon-horror game where you must survive through washing dishes. Explore mysterious depths, manage resources, and unravel a cryptic narrative. In DWS, a chore becomes a journey to freedom.

Why similar: Simulation 83.1%, Dark 16.9%

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here. A blend of cozy simulation, horror, and psychological depth, wrapped in a dark, noir-tinged atmosphere.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 42.9%, Simulation 36.9%, Indie 20.2%

A short find it game that helps you make sense of a tragic accident as you uncover a piece of the story with each item found.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 56.2%, Dark 26.8%, Abstract 8.6%, Casual 4.6%, Indie 3.8%

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: Dark 56.1%, Indie 43.9%

A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 50.6%, Simulation 19.8%, Dark 17.3%, Indie 12.2%

Dread Neighbor is a first-person, multi-perspective psychological horror game. Play as a young woman living alone in an unusually cheap apartment. As the days pass, combat the overwhelming sense of unease, malice, and the unshakable feeling that you’re being watched from every crack in the room.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 45.9%, Indie 34%, Dark 20.1%

It Happened At Night is a short horror game where the player must complete basic objectives to advance the story and immerse themselves through the eyes of the protagonist.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 85.6%, Dark 7.2%, Indie 7.2%

Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.

Why similar: Indie 46.7%, Female Protagonist 29.9%, Dark 14.2%, Casual 9.2%

Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 62.5%, Dark 37.5%

Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!

Why similar: Indie 41.7%, Female Protagonist 36.3%, Dark 22%

A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 57.5%, Indie 42.5%

It’s a humorous project about a young parent's difficult weekdays. If you feel worried, irritated, you don’t understand what’s going on and what you must do next, so don’t worry. We want to give you exactly these feelings in our game.

Why similar: Simulation 38.8%, Female Protagonist 29.7%, Indie 25.4%, Casual 6%

This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

Why similar: Simulation 37.5%, Indie 35.6%, Dark 26.9%

The Bathhouse | 地獄銭湯 Remake is a Japanese horror game that revolves around working at a bathhouse. A complete revamp of the original bathhouse.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 46%, Simulation 34%, Dark 13.7%, Casual 6.3%

You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.

Why similar: Simulation 72.7%, Dark 18.2%, Indie 9.1%

A silly little physics-based game about moving on... or is it? Be neat, be careful, or be a chaos goblin. The choice is yours. But be warned, not all is as it seems in this quiet little house.

Why similar: Simulation 90.5%, Casual 9.5%

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Why similar: Simulation 54.9%, Female Protagonist 17%, Indie 14.7%, Dark 13.4%

Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

Why similar: Simulation 100%

An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 50.2%, Indie 49.8%

You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?

Why similar: Simulation 68.3%, Dark 25.4%, Indie 6.3%

My Lovely Wife delves into the depths of a man’s grief after the sudden death of his beloved wife. Explore the notions of one’s willingness to do anything for love and the importance of letting go in this mix of dating, management, and alchemy simulators.

Why similar: Simulation 84.5%, Casual 15.5%

The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 52.9%, Dark 22.7%, Indie 20.9%, Casual 3.5%

A third‑person psychological horror game where you explore both the real world and the spirit realm. As a medium drawn to a deserted resort, you’ll uncover dark secrets, confront echoes of trauma, and face the consequences of seeing more than one truth.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 64.5%, Dark 23%, Indie 12.5%

Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 42.7%, Indie 36.3%, Dark 20.9%

The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.

Why similar: Dark 65%, Indie 35%

A psychological first-person horror about a house that hides a disturbing truth beneath its walls. Explore, uncover fragments of the past, and decide whether to confront what lies below… or leave it buried forever.

Why similar: Indie 48%, Dark 42.5%, Casual 9.5%

The Call of Karen is a PC simulation comedy game about a 1950s suburban housewife whose home is being invaded by Cthulhu. Keep up appearances in the face of an unhappy marriage, ungrateful child, and eldritch madness!

Why similar: Simulation 45.4%, Indie 33.8%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Casual 7.1%

Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

Why similar: Indie 62.9%, Dark 37.1%

A story of a recluse's sister to protect her brother.Her room is bright, but the inside of the house is dim.She always feel like there’s someone watching her andneed to push herself to walk the house.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 46.6%, Dark 24.2%, Indie 23.8%, Casual 5.4%

Feeling that your computer desktop is too plain? Want to find a cute girl to keep you company? Then try this desktop pet wife!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 62.6%, Indie 22%, Casual 15.4%

The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー is a Japanese-style horror game where you play as a sushi chef working the night shift.

Why similar: Simulation 49%, Female Protagonist 42%, Casual 5.4%, Dark 3.6%

Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen. This is deep-sea horror. Obey or drown.

Why similar: Simulation 36.6%, Dark 34.3%, Indie 29.1%

There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.7%, Experimental 31.9%, Indie 25.4%, Dark 7%

In Guilty Me, take the role of Lucy on a scary nighttime journey home from the coffee shop. Face psychological terror, explore a dark environment, and uncover hidden secrets. Survive the chase and immerse yourself in a gripping walk simulator of suspense.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 67.6%, Dark 23.3%, Casual 9.1%

The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...

Why similar: Female Protagonist 48.7%, Indie 32%, Dark 19.3%

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

Why similar: Simulation 50.8%, Female Protagonist 49.2%

A patchwork quilt of meanings, ideas, references, and madness. A crack in the sink of your understanding. And also the story of one unfortunate girl.

Why similar: Abstract 53%, Indie 21.7%, Dark 18.1%, Casual 7.2%

A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

Why similar: Experimental 51.3%, Abstract 39.2%, Indie 9.6%

A first-person psychological horror game set in the remote countryside of South Korea in the 1990s. Over the course of just three days, you will encounter a series of mysterious events and come face-to-face with an unseen, encroaching threat

Why similar: Indie 36.5%, Female Protagonist 36.4%, Dark 27%

Hyper color ball is a casual, difficult game. The game-play mechanics are based on testing your focus and dexterity skills. With a fast paced, upbeat soundtrack and a strong vibrant colours. Hyper color ball makes for a fantastic party game.

Why similar: Indie 61.5%, Simulation 32.3%, Casual 6.2%

Survive a macabre world conjured up by the tortured memories of Angelica.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 47.4%, Indie 37.4%, Dark 8.8%, Casual 6.4%

A cozy horror game where you run an ice cream shop. Your illness twists reality. Sometimes you see things that shouldn't be there. Serve strange customers and try to separate your mind’s visions from the horrors at your door.

Why similar: Simulation 59.1%, Indie 35.9%, Casual 5.1%

“SHE WAS 98” - you play as a grandson who returns to his elderly grandmother's home to care for her.....

Why similar: Indie 65.5%, Dark 34.5%