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%, Female Protagonist 37%

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 61.7%, Indie 31.8%, 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%, Female Protagonist 25.8%, Indie 19.9%, 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%, Indie 41%

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 47.5%, Indie 39.4%, 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 28.4%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Dark 9.6%

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 41.8%, Indie 41.1%, Dark 17.1%

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 52.4%, Abstract 32.4%, Dark 15.2%

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 63.1%, Indie 23%, Dark 13.8%

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

Why similar: Simulation 72.6%, Female Protagonist 23.3%, Casual 4.1%

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 44.9%, Simulation 44.3%, Dark 10.8%

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%, Dark 17%

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 20.5%, Dark 17.1%, Female Protagonist 8%

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 42.7%, Simulation 37%, Indie 20.3%

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 58.3%, Dark 28%, Abstract 8.9%, Casual 4.8%

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 85.5%, Indie 7.3%, Dark 7.2%

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

Why similar: Indie 47%, Female Protagonist 29.7%, Dark 14.2%, Casual 9.2%

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 57.2%, Indie 42.8%

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 41.9%, Female Protagonist 36.1%, Dark 22%

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 29.6%, Indie 25.6%, Casual 6%

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%, Dark 23.1%, Indie 12.8%

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 35.7%, Dark 26.8%

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 45.8%, Simulation 34.1%, Dark 13.7%, Casual 6.3%

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%

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 80%, Dark 20%

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: Indie 50.1%, Female Protagonist 49.9%

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%

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 57.5%, Simulation 22.7%, Dark 19.8%

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 55.4%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Indie 14.2%, Dark 13.3%

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

Why similar: Female Protagonist 62.4%, Dark 37.6%

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%

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 51.1% ★, Abstract 39.3%, Indie 9.6%

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 22.6%, Indie 21%, Casual 3.5%

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 42.5%, Indie 36.6%, Dark 21%

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: Casual 100%

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

Why similar: Dark 64.8%, Indie 35.2%

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 51%, Female Protagonist 49%

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%

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 63%, Dark 37%

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 34%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Casual 7.1%

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 37.2%, Dark 33.9%, Indie 28.9%

Embark on a touching and creepy journey about sacrifice and how sometimes a person pays for the sins of another

Why similar: Simulation 45.9%, Indie 39.4%, Casual 8.5%, Dark 6.2%

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 49.2%, Female Protagonist 41.9%, Casual 5.4%, Dark 3.6%

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 31.7% ★, Indie 25.5%, Dark 7.1%

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 62.9%, Indie 21.8%, Casual 15.3%

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 52.7%, Indie 21.8%, Dark 18.4%, Casual 7.2%

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

Why similar: Indie 65.7%, Dark 34.3%

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 56.5%, Dark 43.5%

Thin Threads is a first-person psychological horror game about a family's desperate struggle to survive poverty. Step into the shoes of each family member, witnessing their story unfold from different perspectives, immersing you in a truly haunting and disturbing experience.

Why similar: Simulation 86.9%, Dark 13.1%

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: Female Protagonist 43.4%, Indie 32.9%, Dark 23.7%

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

Why similar: Female Protagonist 47.1%, Indie 37.7%, Dark 8.8%, Casual 6.4%

Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

Why similar: Dark 61.4%, Indie 38.6%

MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!

Why similar: Indie 53.5%, Dark 46.5%

Open the doors between your everyday reality and a dark unholy world to unveil the mystery of the disappearance of your child. Explore both worlds to find clues, solve puzzles, decide whether you infiltrate or fight brutal enemies and stand up to an aberrant establishment.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 68.8%, Dark 31.2%

Experience the dread of a midnight shift in a quiet supermarket. As mundane tasks blur with eerie events, discover that the darkness hides more than just silence.

Why similar: Indie 53.6%, Female Protagonist 46.4%

CUCKOLD SIMULATOR, the exciting new game where you play as Cuckold (that is his name) in his day-to-day life. Work hard, give all your money to the bull, and be verbally abused by your fat wife.

Why similar: Simulation 45.9%, Indie 44.9%, Casual 9.3%

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 100%

"The Lady" is a 2D Surreal Puzzle Horror, featuring hand drawn character art, stop motion animation, and a hauntingly abrasive Noisecore Soundtrack. The game features the most unique female protagonist to ever exist in a video game.

Why similar: Indie 50.6%, Female Protagonist 49.4%

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 61.6%, Simulation 32.2%, Casual 6.2%