- #1 Cosmodread
97% matchVery Positive91% of 417 reviews2021
Dev: White Door Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
Why similar: VR 20.2%, Survival Horror 18.3%, Survival 11.3%, Procedural Generation 11%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #2 Propagation: Paradise Hotel
96% matchVery Positive88% of 859 reviews2023
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.
Why similar: VR 17.1%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Zombies 15.1%, Stealth 15%, FPS 10.7%
- #3 Syndrome
96% matchMixed64% of 363 reviews2016
Dev: Camel 101
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Stealth 18.1%, Survival Horror 16.8%, FPS 14.7%, Horror 10.9%, Survival 10.1%
- #4 Alien: Isolation
94% matchVery Positive93% of 65,250 reviews2014
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.2%, Stealth 15.9%, Horror 13.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Space 9.9%
- #5 Star Trek: Infection
94% matchMixed66% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Played with Fire
Windows
A VR full-body survival horror experience in the Star Trek universe. Explore a ruined Defiant-class starship as you battle an unknown entity mutating your body. Confront the darkness within the ship…and your mind.
Why similar: VR 22%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Survival 12.9%, Horror 12%, Sci-fi 11.5%
- #6 Ghostship Aftermath
95% matchMostly Negative39% of 108 reviews2014
Dev: MadAboutGamesStudios
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ghostship Aftermath takes survival horror to a new level with random events and multiple story-lines. Your survival skills will be put to the test on a huge open-world military spacecraft with limited light and oxygen as you struggle to discover what happened, and fight to stay alive!
Why similar: Horror 31.1%, Survival 24.6%, Sci-fi 16.2%, VR 15.6%, Action 7.1%
- #7 Wandering in Space VR
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 214 reviews2023
Dev: MOONSEER VR
Windows
Join Wandering In Space, a unique FPS ROGUELITE SCI-FI experience built for VR. With a variety of space weapons, upgradable armory, power ups and unknown superpower, you, a soldier without any memory have to fight the mutants, cyborgs and the rebels to survive in the space of unknown...
Why similar: VR 17.3%, Zombies 14.7%, Survival Horror 14.4%, FPS 13.7%, Space 11.4%
- #8 The Living Remain
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 292 reviews2025
Dev: Five Finger Studios
Windows
The Living Remain is a virtual reality first person adventure shooter where players immerse themselves in a world where the undead have taken over. You must survive the horde of undead using an arsenal of weapons in a story driven campaign loaded with a variety of interactive environments.
Why similar: VR 19.6%, Zombies 17.4%, FPS 10.7%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Horror 8.9%
- #9 The Solus Project
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,620 reviews2016
Dev: HourencesPub: Teotl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, VR 17.1%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Space 9.1%
- #10 Endoparasitic 2
91% matchVery Positive87% of 631 reviews2024
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.4%, Space 16%, Stealth 13.5%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Horror 11.9%
- #11 Starless
90% matchPositive94% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Petr Sapozhnikov
Windows
In Starless, navigate a space Ark infested with terrifying monsters in this stealth-action game inspired by classic sci-fi. Can you help the colonists survive, or will they be doomed to roam the endless void of space forever?
Why similar: Stealth 18.8%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Space 11.2%, Horror 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.7%
- #12 Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
89% matchMixed69% of 2,490 reviews2020
Dev: Radiation BluePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
Why similar: FPS 16.3%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Space 12.8%, Survival 12.3%
- #13 Half-Life: Alyx
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 103,827 reviews2020
Dev: Valve
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 35.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Why similar: VR 20.2%, Zombies 14.8%, FPS 14.3%, Horror 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
- #14 Kohate
88% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
Why similar: Stealth 22.7%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Horror 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Space 9.9%
- #15 The Chant
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,212 reviews2022
Dev: Brass TokenPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.6%, Horror 17.3%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Atmospheric 7.7%
- #16 Dark Matter
89% matchMixed45% of 264 reviews2013
Dev: InterWave StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.9%, Survival Horror 23%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Action 16.9%, Horror 16.7%
- #17 Deadnaut: Signal Lost
85% matchVery Positive87% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Linux
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.1%, Procedural Generation 20.7%, Horror 19.2%, Space 15.2%, First-Person 13.7%
- #18 Subterrain
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,393 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Survival 21.7%, Zombies 16.4%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Sci-fi 11.3%
- #19 Withering Rooms
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,474 reviews2024
Dev: Moonless FormlessPub: Perp Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Withering Rooms is a challenging 2.5D horror RPG set in a procedurally generated Victorian mansion that changes each night. Explore Mostyn House to collect the perfect items for your build and face a huge cast of overgrown undead, invisible ghosts, devious witches, and more.
Why similar: Horror 28.8%, Stealth 21.4%, Procedural Generation 20.3%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Survival Horror 8.9%
- #20 Star Shelter
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 435 reviews2018
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Why similar: VR 22.5%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, FPS 15%, Space 12.2%, Survival 11.7%
- #21 Moros Protocol
82% matchVery Positive81% of 780 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel ReignPub: Super Rare Originals
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Face the darkness in Moros Protocol, a pixel-painted sci-fi FPS roguelite. Survive the nightmare alone or with allies as you navigate the decaying warship, stalked by horrors and guided by a voice you don’t recognize. Adapt, upgrade, and push forward. You may be outnumbered, but not outmatched.
Why similar: FPS 26%, Procedural Generation 21.3%, Space 18.2%, Horror 16.2%, Sci-fi 13.6%
- #22 Dead Effect
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,761 reviews2014
Dev: BadFly Interactive, a.s.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
Why similar: Zombies 26.5%, FPS 22.1%, Horror 11.1%, Survival 9.1%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #23 Propagation VR
81% matchVery Positive94% of 5,841 reviews2020
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?
Why similar: VR 33.9%, Zombies 16.2%, Horror 12.1%, FPS 12%, Survival 9.6%
- #24 Deformed
81% matchVery Positive96% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: Deformed Studios
Windows
Single player horror game set in an underground lab. Kill monsters and escape.
Why similar: FPS 50.2%, Female Protagonist 30.6%, First-Person 19.2%
- #25 HELL OF FEAR: Mind Breach
79% matchVery Positive90% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: Abyss AssemblyPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Step into the boots of Major Axel Vex in this survival horror descent into deep space. You embark on a mission to investigate a distress signal coming from Cengona Base. What starts off as a simple mission quickly turns into a terrifying, action-packed fight for survival.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.9%, Space 18.6%, Horror 15.5%, Sci-fi 13.4%, First-Person 9.9%
- #26 RIPOUT
80% matchMixed61% of 1,205 reviews2024
Dev: Pet Project GamesPub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Ripout is an online Co-Op horror FPS that will have players fight their way through procedurally generated derelict ships filled with mutants capable of reconfiguring their alien bodies. Survive with your trusty Pet Gun companion, collect loot, and customize your character to fit your playstyle.
Why similar: FPS 19.4%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Horror 13.6%, Survival 12.7%, Space 12.3%
- #27 CDF Ghostship
82% matchMixed41% of 105 reviews2015
Dev: MadAboutGamesStudios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CDF Ghostship is a science-fiction Old-style shooter featuring an open-world spaceship, space station and colony. Each new game will offer a challenge with random story-lines and narrative, random enemies and multiple endings. Can you escape the Ghostship?
Why similar: FPS 17.5%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Space 14.5%, Horror 11.3%, Zombies 11.2%
- #28 System Shock
77% matchVery Positive91% of 12,525 reviews2023
Dev: Nightdive StudiosPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
Why similar: FPS 16.9%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Horror 12.7%, Space 10.8%
- #29 Space Beast Terror Fright
78% matchVery Positive92% of 1,781 reviews2022
Dev: nornware AB
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
S.B.T.F. is a very hard arcade-style / rogue-like / perma-death first person shooter. You play as Marines who must brave dark, claustrophobic and terrifyingly intense Space Beast infested spacecraft in order to extract critical data and lucrative upgrades. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: FPS 21.8%, Horror 17%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Procedural Generation 15.4%, Sci-fi 10.1%
- #30 VAR: Exterminate
79% matchVery Positive88% of 146 reviews2021
Dev: VAR LIVE International Ltd
Windows
The fight is here, humanity’s fate is in your hands! Match up different offensive and defensive upgrades between waves and fend off the onslaught of zombies. Level up and strengthen core abilities and progress to new areas where strains of the virus have evolved.
Why similar: VR 22.3%, Survival Horror 18.4%, Zombies 18.1%, FPS 13.5%, Horror 7.9%
- #31 Beyond Contact
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,121 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Survival 24.4%, Crafting 21.3%, Space 15.1%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Sci-fi 14.2%
- #32 ROUTINE
75% matchVery Positive92% of 7,023 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar SoftwarePub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Why similar: Stealth 19.9%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Space 13.3%, Sci-fi 13%, Horror 10.8%
- #33 Dread Meridian
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: KUKRGAME
Windows
Dread Meridian is an original VR survival horror inspired by Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", set in Oglanbyen’s frozen wasteland. As Daniela, you search for your twin while facing betrayal and mutated researchers.
Why similar: VR 18.8%, FPS 12.4%, Horror 11.4%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Zombies 9.9%
- #34 CRUSH DEPTH
75% matchVery Positive98% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Earth Giant
Windows
CRUSH DEPTH is first-person sci-fi horror game set at the bottom of the ocean. A salvage operation that would set you up for life goes sideways when you realize you're not alone down there. You'll solve puzzles and run from danger as you uncover the mysterious fate of Eclipse Station.
Why similar: Sci-fi 19.8%, Horror 19.4%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, First-Person 11.4%
- #35 Amnesia: Rebirth
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,236 reviews2020
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A first-person horror adventure. Uncover your past and survive the Algerian desert. Fear is your enemy; stay calm to not succumb to an illness threatening you and your loved one. Avoid darkness, hide from monsters and solve puzzles. Adventure Mode available for a less scary experience.
Why similar: Stealth 24.6%, Survival Horror 14%, Horror 13.2%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, First-Person 9.7%
- #36 INDUSTRIA 2
76% matchMixed52% of 349 reviews2026
Dev: BleakmillPub: Headup
Windows
INDUSTRIA 2 is a narrative FPS adventure about a woman stranded in a parallel dimension. Explore, scavenge and fight your way through a mysterious boreal landscape consumed by an ever-hungry artificial intelligence to find a way home.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26%, FPS 23.7%, Action-Adventure 11%, Story Rich 9%, Horror 7.6%
- #37 SIGNALIS
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,665 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Survival Horror 38.2%, Female Protagonist 20.8%, Sci-fi 19.3%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Action-Adventure 6.7%
- #38 Alien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 877 reviews2025
Dev: Survios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A new action-horror story set in the iconic Alien universe. Play as rogue Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks, sent to investigate a blacksite on Purdan. Fight and survive using your skill, reflexes, and determination against a deadly Xenomorph incursion in this gripping first chapter of a two-part saga.
Why similar: FPS 21.7%, Stealth 19.3%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Sci-fi 11%, First-Person 9.7%
- #39 The Callisto Protocol™
74% matchMixed65% of 43,003 reviews2022
Dev: Striking Distance StudiosPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
Why similar: Survival Horror 26.2%, Space 18.8%, Horror 17.2%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Action-Adventure 9.9%
- #40 Deadzone: Rogue
70% matchVery Positive83% of 15,360 reviews2025
Dev: Prophecy Games
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.
Why similar: FPS 26.5%, Zombies 22.9%, Horror 15%, Sci-fi 14.2%, First-Person 10.6%
- #41 SCP – Containment Breach
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 942 reviews2026
Dev: Undertow GamesPub: SCP-CB Community Preservation Project
Windows
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.1%, Procedural Generation 17%, Horror 15.2%, Sci-fi 12%, Survival 9.1%
- #42 The Highrise
73% matchMixed56% of 277 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Hatch Co., Ltd.
Windows
THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.4%, Stealth 18.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.6%, Horror 9.3%
- #43 Prey
71% matchVery Positive91% of 53,815 reviews2017
Dev: Arkane StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Why similar: Sci-fi 15%, Space 14.9%, FPS 14.4%, Stealth 11.6%, Survival Horror 11.3%
- #44 Alien: Rogue Incursion VR
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,443 reviews2024
Dev: Survios
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Alien: Rogue Incursion is an all-new action-horror VR game that transforms you into ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks on a dangerous mission to the uncharted planet Purdan, featuring innovative real-life motion gameplay, a whole-body loadout, and the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered.
Why similar: VR 19.5%, Stealth 14.4%, FPS 12%, Survival Horror 12%, Sci-fi 9.7%
- #45 Fear of the Light
70% matchVery Positive85% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Jakob FereniusPub: Team Fuve
Windows
A survival horror game where light is scarier than darkness. Use your radar and other tools to stay out of the light, sneak around dangers, explore the quarantined ship, and find a way to escape. But be careful, monsters are hunting you and are aware of your every mistake!
Why similar: Stealth 20.9%, Survival Horror 18.8%, Space 14.1%, Survival 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.5%
- #46 Hollowbody
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,582 reviews2024
Dev: Headware Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.
Why similar: Survival Horror 40.8%, Female Protagonist 19.8%, Action-Adventure 17.1%, Horror 11.3%, Atmospheric 7%
- #47 Monstrum
71% matchVery Positive91% of 3,704 reviews2015
Dev: Team JunkfishPub: Junkfish Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.3%, Horror 25.4%, Survival 8.6%, Stealth 8.2%, First-Person 7.3%
- #48 Outbreak: The New Nightmare
73% matchMixed66% of 275 reviews2018
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.6%, Zombies 20.5%, Survival 13.3%, Horror 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
- #49 The Light Keeps Us Safe
72% matchMixed57% of 198 reviews2019
Dev: Big Robot Ltd
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 39%
THE LIGHT KEEPS US SAFE is a procedurally-generated apocalypse in which only The Light can save us. Use stealth and evasion to avoid terrifying machines that patrol the desolate world, and employ the powers of Light to unpick their deadly traps.
Why similar: Stealth 28.9%, Procedural Generation 17.5%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Horror 14.4%, First-Person 9.8%
- #50 Harvest Hunt
69% matchVery Positive97% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Villainous Games StudioPub: CULT Games
Windows
You are the Warden. Enter the dense cornfields and gather the resources your village desperately needs. But beware: you are not alone. Build a deck of abilities and choose your weapons to face the growing dangers of the night. With a relentless monster after you, will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Stealth 22.3%, Survival Horror 21.6%, Horror 12.9%, First-Person 12.7%, Survival 12.2%
- #51 Project Pulsation
72% matchMixed71% of 377 reviews2015
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Project Pulsation - a sci-fi first person shooter with elements of horror and stealth. The distant space station 'Complex' located nearby Thanatos Asteroid keeps a valuable Artifact. Fight your way through turrets, unknown creatures and mysterious ghosts, survive and try to get back.
Why similar: Action 36.4%, FPS 31.4%, Horror 20.7%, Adventure 11.5%
- #52 Barotrauma
66% matchVery Positive94% of 86,224 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.1%, Survival 28.1%, Horror 19.7%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Action 3.3%
- #53 SCP: Fragmented Minds
67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,323 reviews2025
Dev: HST StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You arrive at Mars Site-113, a decaying monument to the SCP Foundation's ambition—and its failures. Once the most secure facility, now a cradle of horrors calling you to uncover its secrets. Face relentless anomalies, humanity's darkest truths, and a mission that demands survival above all else.
Why similar: Stealth 16.5%, Survival Horror 14.9%, FPS 13.3%, Space 11%, Horror 9.6%
- #54 Vertigo 2
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,678 reviews2023
Dev: Zach Tsiakalis-BrownPub: Zulubo Productions
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Vertigo 2 is a single-player VR adventure. Explore the depths of the vast Quantum Reactor as you descend to finish your journey home.
Why similar: VR 27%, FPS 18.7%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Action-Adventure 10.3%
- #55 Invasion 2037
71% matchMixed60% of 157 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive
Why similar: Zombies 20.7%, Survival 18.6%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Crafting 12.7%, FPS 8.7%
- #56 Death Horizon: Cyberfusion
68% matchMixed64% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Horizon Lab
Windows
Cyberfusion is a VR roguelike, physics-based, full-body FPS that immerses you in a futuristic battlefield. Featuring cybernetic implants and procedurally generated levels, this game challenges you to adapt and survive in a world where your body is your ultimate weapon.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 17%, FPS 16.5%, VR 14%, Zombies 13.9%, Horror 11.9%
- #57 Death in the Water 2
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,792 reviews2023
Dev: Lighthouse Games Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Dodge and carve your way through swarms of terrifying sea creatures controlled by Death, a vicious giant mind-controlling Kraken that haunts your every move. Scavenge for hidden treasure to unlock weapons, and upgrades to help you in your fight for survival. Every dive reveals a new nightmare.
Why similar: Survival Horror 31.3%, FPS 20.5%, Survival 18%, Horror 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #58 Synthesis of Corruption
65% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: VidyGames
Windows
Emergency Protocol activated: Dark Energy Particle Synthesis failed. Now you – late and alone – must navigate a facility where science and sanity have collapsed. Face entities born from the corruption of dark energy in this atmospheric FPS-horror hybrid, where human ambition meets primal terror.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21.7%, FPS 17.2%, Horror 13.9%, Zombies 12.7%, Sci-fi 12.5%
- #59 ECHO
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,822 reviews2017
Dev: ULTRA ULTRA
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she’ll face in the ancient halls below.
Why similar: Stealth 37.7%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Horror 10.4%, Atmospheric 6.3%
- #60 Expedition Zero
68% matchMixed61% of 185 reviews2022
Dev: Enigmatic MachinesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Expedition Zero — survival horror set in the anomaly zone of the northern forest. Face the dreadful forest monster and find a way to defeat it. Reveal the secrets of the lost expedition and your mysterious enemy. It’s either hunt or be hunted.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19%, Survival 17.8%, Horror 15.7%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Action-Adventure 11.5%