- #1 Final Recurrence
97% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Bluehope Studios
Windows
With so many missing persons cases revolving the Shepherd's Hill forest, why is yours any different?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, First-Person 15.1%, Horror 13.7%, Realistic 12%, Linear 11.2%
- #2 Haunted Service
96% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Daring Cat Studio
Windows
A chilling psychological horror experience. Alone at home, you receive a cryptic message: "Congratulations! You got a haunted service." What starts as a prank quickly turns into a terrifying night as sinister events unfold. Will you survive until your parents return?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.2%, Horror 21.9%, Linear 20%, First-Person 14.4%, 3D 11.8%
- #3 Hellventure
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magyu Studio
Windows
What the heck is in the coffin? Hellventure is a brand-new first-person escape horror game that combines rogue-lite elements. Escape from a procedural-generation dark dungeon by selling grave goods to unlock and upgrade your items and tools.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Horror 24.1%, First-Person 17.9%, Survival Horror 16.3%, 3D 10.4%
- #4 Shadow Of The Abyss
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jimmybear Studios
Windows
Shadow Of The Abyss is a psychological horror game where you play through the eyes of a bodycam. As a security guard, your job is to survey an office building during a night shift, until you fall into the hands of fate.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.1%, Horror 23.2%, First-Person 16.7%, Realistic 15.9%, 3D 6.8%
- #5 Junkyard File
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aihz
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration & environmental interaction, where a mysterious “free” pendrive game begins to affect your surroundings. Try them all while you still can.
Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, First-Person 20.1%, Survival Horror 16.3%, 3D 16.1%
- #6 Catastrophe - Earthquake
94% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Meraki
Windows
Trapped in a condemned building, you must escape before the earthquakes and collapses bring a tragic end. Survive the tremors, find essential items, and flee! Each tremor is a new challenge in this fight for survival. Time is running out... Can you escape?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 18.1%, First-Person 16.6%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Realistic 12.6%
- #7 Unusual Tales: Deep Below
93% matchVery Positive95% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Jall
Windows
You, a normal working Joe, decide to try to solve the mystery of the missing girl... Will you make it out alive? A horror game filled with mystery!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 20.6%, First-Person 14.8%, Linear 10.5%, Survival Horror 10.4%
- #8 Hell Storage
92% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Ascend Gaming
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game about an ex-con working nights at a self-storage facility, where an old mirror reveals the spirits stalking him.
Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, First-Person 17.4%, Linear 13.5%, Realistic 11.2%
- #9 Dream Night
91% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: ZonelyGames
Windows
You wake up from a nightmare. You can't count how many times you've had a nightmare this month. But this time, after waking up, you find some strange phenomena in your house. You want to go out to see, but the door is locked...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 25%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Linear 9.9%, First-Person 7.9%
- #10 Check-In, Never Out
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: HogletNovaGames
Windows
You checked into a hotel to get some rest—but it wasn’t an ordinary place. Gather clues, unlock sealed doors, evade the pursuit, and escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 25.5%, 3D 18.7%, First-Person 18.2%, Action 4.7%
- #11 The Archivist
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Archivist GamesPub: Olympos Games
Windows
A VHS-themed psychological horror where each tape drags you into a new nightmare. Explore haunted hospitals, schools, forests, and liminal spaces. Solve puzzles, uncover the Archivist’s secrets, and survive a house that grows darker with every tape you watch.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 19.3%, First-Person 17.6%, Linear 16.2%, 3D 14.9%
- #12 Diving into abyss
89% matchMostly Negative30% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Springbok
Windows
Diving into Abyss is a cave diving horror game with Photorealistic graphics. It's not just a diving simulation. It's a deep-sea survival horror that needs to survive suffocating closure fears and unidentified beings.
Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Survival Horror 20.2%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Realistic 9.2%, Linear 8.9%
- #13 Forest Lookout
88% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Olcaval
Windows
Forest Lookout is a first-person horror game where you navigate a lost person in a forest to safety. You can choose beetween options in dialogs to them. Listen to them, keep track of them, use your map and lead them out of the woods.
Why similar: Horror 25.3%, First-Person 23.4%, Linear 22.8%, 3D 20.4%, Action 3.7%
- #14 Agelast
89% matchMixed63% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: KurGenn
Windows
Agelast is a horror game set in Korea, played from the perspective of a student in a difficult situation. Find a way out and interact as you progress through the story. There are no puzzles.
Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Realistic 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, First-Person 11.2%
- #15 The Hauntings: Dark Passenger
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken Cuff Studio
Windows
Dive into Alex Mercer's twisted reality. Navigate eerie landscapes, solve cryptic puzzles, and uncover the 'Dark Passenger' mystery. Will shadows consume you or will truth emerge?
Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, First-Person 16%, Realistic 11.6%, Linear 10.2%
- #16 LOUGAWOU
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lakay Games
Windows · Mac
A first-person horror game rooted in Haitian folklore. Break into a haunted gingerbread house to steal five treasures — then survive the night by sound alone, hunted by something you'll never see. October 2, 2026.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Horror 25.2%, First-Person 17.3%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Realistic 9.5%
- #17 Home4Us
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Zahair
Windows
A different kind of horror experience one built on confrontation rather than running or hiding. Follow the rules strictly. Act quickly to stay alive in every encounter. Maintain your focus. Watch your surroundings. Don’t exhaust your resources. And complete the primary objective you’re there for.
Why similar: Horror 32%, Psychological Horror 27.1%, First-Person 14.4%, Action 7.2%, Survival Horror 6.8%
- #18 Stalked in Solitude
85% matchMixed68% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: jjpokey
Windows
A teenager's quiet night home alone turns into a fight for survival in this psychological survival horror. Scavenge for tools, outsmart a relentless stalker, and make life-or-death choices in a chilling race to escape. Every decision matters—can you survive the night?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.4%, Horror 22%, Survival Horror 17.2%, First-Person 13.1%, Linear 12.8%
- #19 Joymaker
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Several Confused Clowns
Windows · Mac
A story-driven indie psychological horror game
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 19.5%, Linear 13.2%, First-Person 11.7%, Survival Horror 11.4%
- #20 The Guest
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 217 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: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 20.2%, First-Person 15%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Linear 10.1%
- #21 A Simple Door
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Keter studio
Windows
Try to escape from “A Simple Door” by facing your past, your darkest secrets and your fears through the doors.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Horror 24.5%, First-Person 24.1%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Action 8.1%
- #22 Don't run out of Soda
83% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2021
Dev: OKONNAYA RAMA
Windows
Can you escape a humble cook? If you don't, you will become his meal. You have five tries.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Survival Horror 18.3%, Horror 18.1%, First-Person 14.8%, Realistic 10.3%
- #23 Hands up
80% match5 user reviews80% of 5 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: Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 24.9%, First-Person 19.7%, Survival Horror 17.1%, 3D 8.4%
- #24 Shadow Corridor
82% matchVery Positive90% of 2,204 reviews2019
Dev: Space Onigiri Game LLC
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Now on Steam, revamped with brand new content! Immerse yourself in the latest chapter of the popular, Japanese indie horror title, Kageroh: Shadow Corridor. Survive against the onslaught of horrors that lie in wait in eerie, traditional Japanese locales that change with every playthrough.
Why similar: Horror 42.3%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, First-Person 14.1%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Action 5.4%
- #25 Insider Threat
81% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
Insider Threat is a first-person survival horror game that focuses on creating fear and tension for the player.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 19.2%, First-Person 14%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Linear 11.2%
- #26 It's Locked
81% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Tiny Can of Brains
Windows
A horror game about fumbling with a bunch of keys to try escaping a pursuing monster though a series of locked doors
Why similar: Horror 30%, First-Person 22.1%, Linear 13.5%, Realistic 11.1%, 3D 10.3%
- #27 Into The Depths
79% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: ADC
Windows
Escape the lab and survive through dangerous monsters and military personnel
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 17.9%, First-Person 14.7%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Linear 12.3%
- #28 Peripheral
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Pandimensional Studios
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game where you must return seven books to their shelves in a deserted library while being hunted by statue-like entities that only move when unobserved. Survive using observation and strategy in this tense 20–30 minute experience.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 20.8%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Linear 10.1%, First-Person 9.9%
- #29 Room231
79% matchMixed50% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Genie Games
Windows
Room231 is a single player horror game, which is based on the famous creepy pasta called "Backrooms". Player must find an exit to leave room231 and reach the truth of room231.
Why similar: Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, First-Person 16.2%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Linear 10.1%
- #30 Scolo's Fun World
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scolopendra
Windows
Indie horror game with a creepy and dark atmosphere. You have to find keys to scape the levels while monsters are chasing you.
Why similar: Horror 26.6%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Survival Horror 21.8%, First-Person 16.3%, 3D 7.8%
- #31 Endless Shift
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ivan Huliakevich
Windows
Endless Shift is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Trapped in a office building, you and your friends must work together to solve puzzles, evade monstrous entities, and escape before it's too late.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.5%, Horror 18.3%, First-Person 16%, Survival Horror 13.9%, 3D 12.8%
- #32 Locked Inside
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Golden Cloud Games
Windows
The horror game where you are an abandoned urban explorer who gets trapped inside a long-abandoned bunker deep in the woods. Now you have to find your way out of this place, but deep underground, the only thing awaiting you is unimaginable horror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 20%, First-Person 17.5%, 3D 14%, Realistic 12.6%
- #33 Train 113
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vincent FranzePub: Wake Up Games
Windows
Train 113 is a first-person horror game in which you play a passenger who wakes up aboard a seemingly empty subway train. As you move around the train, trying to get from car to car, you'll begin to sense that things around you are not what they appear to be.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Horror 25.8%, Realistic 15.6%, First-Person 13.1%, 3D 8%
- #34 Panic Files: Buried Sanity
74% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: LTuomio
Windows
Your first day at the local mine got a hell of a twist when the tunnels caved in. Can you escape when the only way out is going deeper? Avoid the deadly creatures, push through hallucinations and remember: Don't panic.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 20.8%, Survival Horror 15.7%, First-Person 15.2%, Linear 10.5%
- #35 Reborn Soul
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zygen Games Private Limited
Windows
Every curse demands a soul. Reborn Soul is a first-person psychological survival-horror game where dark occult forces have returned. Explore a world twisted by a forgotten curse and survive long enough to uncover who awakened it, why it chose you, and whether it can be stopped.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.9%, Horror 18.5%, First-Person 16.7%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Realistic 10.5%
- #36 Liberation
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: WINTERS
Windows
Liberation is a strategy survival horror game. You have to go to the Deathworld and collect crosses to liberate ghosts. Survive from the attacks of various ghosts!
Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, First-Person 19.8%, Survival Horror 19%, Action 6.3%
- #37 Once In Sakartvelo: Out Of Service
73% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews
Dev: ArbiDev
Windows
A short first-person horror game set in Tbilisi. A late-night walk to the metro turns tense as a slow-moving car tracks your every step. When you find the station closed, a desperate fight to escape begins.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.3%, Horror 24.4%, First-Person 19.2%, 3D 12.2%, Linear 8.6%
- #38 Mumble Pines: The Arrival
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dino Nugget Studios
Windows
In this first-person story-driven horror game, you take a job as a janitor to access a run-down island summer camp that got shut down, after the dissapearence of your younger brother, which was only one of many incidents. It’s up to you to uncover the island’s buried secrets.
Why similar: Horror 18%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, First-Person 16.1%, Linear 13.4%, 3D 12.9%
- #39 Sub Terra
72% matchVery Positive92% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: artescape
Windows
Sub Terra is a first person psychological horror game set deep underground. As a maintenance worker, your job is to fix a broken water line at the end of tunnel 04-R. Enter the tunnel, repair the pipe, and get out.
Why similar: Horror 23.9%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, First-Person 15.1%, Realistic 14.1%, Linear 13.7%
- #40 From The Darkness
74% matchVery Positive89% of 3,540 reviews2021
Dev: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.
Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, First-Person 11.8%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Linear 7.4%
- #41 Kindergarten of hell
73% matchMixed40% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Twid Entertainment
Windows
You are a detective investigating a case that has been forgotten for 5 years. The case involves finding out why everyone disappeared from a daycare.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, First-Person 21.6%, Horror 21.1%, 3D 14.5%, Realistic 10.6%
- #42 Backrooms Untold
71% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Maritime Games
Windows
Backrooms Untold is an atmospheric horror experience where you’re lost in an endless, infinite maze of fluorescent lit corridors, stained carpet, and humming lights. The deeper you go, the more it feels wrong—familiar spaces twisting into something hostile and unknowable. 8 total levels on launch.
Why similar: Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Realistic 15.2%, First-Person 12.1%
- #43 Xarana Xos: BACKROOMS
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonsterAttack
Windows
A psychological horror game inspired by the Backrooms with a unique Yakut cultural atmosphere. Explore abandoned spaces, uncover hidden secrets, and try to survive in a place where reality has long lost its boundaries. But remember: you may not be alone here.
Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Survival Horror 20.8%, First-Person 16%, 3D 7.2%
- #44 Loop Room
75% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: OOPs.K
Windows
The loop room is a horror game from the first person point of view, and the goal is to operate 5 panels in 100 repeated rooms and escape to the emergency exit. Run away from the endless room through various equipment and items.
Why similar: Horror 30%, Psychological Horror 27%, First-Person 18.7%, Realistic 11.4%, 3D 8.9%
- #45 Sanity Bunker
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Micester
Windows
Survive the horrors of a decaying bunker as the last remaining technician, struggling under the pressure of your relentless boss while being stalked by a malevolent force from a forgotten past.
Why similar: Horror 24.1%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Survival Horror 20%, First-Person 9.6%, Linear 8.1%
- #46 Unnerving Nightmare
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tokhir Umarov
Windows
Survive five increasingly dangerous nights in a psychological horror game where the cameras are your eyes and the flashlight is your defense. Monitor the entity, prevent it from attacking, and repair sabotaged systems in order to survive a terrible end because the nights won't be forgiving.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.4%, Horror 28.6%, 3D 21%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Indie 2.2%
- #47 Sewer Side
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: WTFRYLANPub: WTF PRODUCTIONS
Windows
What should have been a simple generator reset job turns into a fight for survival in this HARDCORE horror game, with ZERO save system! countless entities begin hunting you through a seemingly endless sewer system. Stay alive and find a way out of the sewer side.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 16.3%, First-Person 15.7%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Realistic 12.5%
- #48 SCP: EXPERIMENTS
70% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: sylvester
Windows
EXPERIMENTS is a first person horror game about escaping a research facility while being hunted by a creature
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 21%, Survival Horror 18.6%, First-Person 8.7%, Action 8%
- #49 The Last Joy 2
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napping Penguin
Windows
Dive into a new nightmare inside an abandoned toy factory where mascots come alive. Explore, survive, and uncover the dark secrets behind The PlayCenter.
Why similar: First-Person 17.9%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, 3D 12.6%, Survival Horror 12.4%
- #50 The Things We Lost
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cottage Interactive
Windows
A slow-paced psychological horror centered on atmosphere and vulnerability. Bound to a wheelchair, you explore an old house under constant mental pressure. There is no combat - only observation, tension, and a decision that can change the story’s direction.
Why similar: Horror 28%, First-Person 27.6%, Linear 20.9%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Action 3.6%
- #51 Honey Time! with Pooh!
70% matchVery Positive84% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Highlander Interactive
Windows
Honey Time with Pooh is a game about survival and escape. Pooh has invited you for honey. He recently went through the trouble of gathering it all for you. Please come by and show your appreciation.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 20.4%, First-Person 19.2%, Survival Horror 16%, 3D 13.4%
- #52 House Of Nowhere
68% match3 user reviews75% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Glassroot Interactive
Windows
Survive a merciless hunt in the House of Nowhere. Alone in a haunting home that no longer feels like your own, you must solve puzzles to escape into a vast, silent forest. Scavenge for your life and uncover the truth before the ancient thing hunting you turns your story into a forgotten legend.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 19.9%, First-Person 18.2%, 3D 14.5%, Realistic 10.4%
- #53 Tuun
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voltage Games
Windows
Horror set in the dark and mysterious Yakutia. Explore abandoned villages, uncover Soviet-era secrets, and face unexplained phenomena that threaten your sanity.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.5%, Horror 25.5%, First-Person 21.6%, 3D 16.1%, Indie 7.4%
- #54 Cold Nights
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NullPoint Works
Windows
A quiet house. A long night. Keep the lights on - or find out what happens when they fade. Cold Nights is a grounded psychological horror about staying calm when your home turns against you. The lights flicker, the power drops, and the silence grows heavier with every minute.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 20.4%, Survival Horror 18.2%, First-Person 12%, Linear 7.4%
- #55 Unsettled : NIGHT SHIFT
67% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Bongduck Games
Windows
Unsettled: NIGHT SHIFT is a horror game about the terrors of daily life experienced by someone who has moved to a new city to live alone.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28%, Horror 27.7%, First-Person 19%, Linear 12.8%, 3D 8.9%
- #56 The Doll Sitter
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bearded Games
Windows
This is a psychological horror game where you play as a nanny taking care of dolls in a strange house. Watch over the dolls, complete tasks, gather clues, and uncover which one is the impostor.
Why similar: Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, First-Person 15.6%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Realistic 12.7%
- #57 祟り坂 | TATARI Curse road
66% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: STUDIO DYD
Windows
A simple survival horror set in a hilly town where you must escape from a ghost. There are no puzzles, item usage, or complex controls. If you fail, try again, memorize the roads, and find your way to the goal.
Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Survival Horror 23.9%, Psychological Horror 16%, First-Person 11.3%, Action 6.8%
- #58 鬼壓床
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KID
Windows
Is a first-person perspective horror game, adapted from the producer's personal experiences and real-life events, with the story set in Tainan in 2005. Through the gaming experience, it aims to help players who have never experienced ghost pressing bed understand the fear associated with it.
Why similar: Horror 24.3%, Survival Horror 20.4%, Realistic 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, First-Person 12.1%
- #59 Water Boiling Simulator
65% matchVery Positive95% of 83 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 said things you would soon regret.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.9%, Horror 24.3%, Survival Horror 21.3%, First-Person 17.4%, 3D 6.2%
- #60 Cave Of Evil
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2HEADSTUDIOS
Windows
Cave of Evil is a horror game in which a desperate father becomes obsessed with recovering his daughter who died in an accident through a strange ritual.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.1%, Horror 25.6%, First-Person 23.5%, 3D 20.3%, Indie 2.1%