- #1 Layers of Fear VR
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 273 reviews2019
Dev: Incuvo S.A.Pub: Bloober Team SA
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Enter a tangibly horrifying Virtual Reality and explore a mansion of horror as an artist falling into the depths of insanity. Will you find the muse for your masterpiece... or madness?
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: Like The Scream, this title focuses on the intersection of art and madness within a surreal, shifting environment.
- #2 The Night Cafe: A VR Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh
96% matchVery Positive95% of 275 reviews2016
Dev: Borrowed Light VR
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 33%
The Night Cafe is an environment that allows you to explore the world of Vincent van Gogh first hand. Take a moment to enjoy his iconic sunflowers in 3 dimensions or walk around the chair he painted in his bedroom to see it from another angle. Step into the vivid colors straight from his palette.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: This experience allows you to step directly into a famous painting, mirroring the artistic immersion found in The Scream.
- #3 Eye of the Owl - Bosch VR
96% matchVery Positive92% of 87 reviews2019
Dev: VRX
Windows
Go back in time over 500 years to Hieronymus Bosch's studio and explore his masterpiece - The Garden of Earthly Delights
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep dive into the surreal and nightmarish imagery of Hieronymus Bosch, perfect for fans of art-inspired VR.
- #4 AFFECTED: The Manor - The Complete Edition
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 186 reviews2017
Dev: Fallen Planet Studios
Windows
AFFECTED: The Manor achieves its final form! Experience horror unlike anything you’ve known before as you try to escape The Manor. Terror lurks around every corner as you venture deeper into the abandoned house and find that the only thing keeping you alive is your sanity. Or lack thereof...
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential VR horror experience that focuses on building intense dread through environmental storytelling.
- #5 ABE VR
94% matchMixed61% of 313 reviews2016
Dev: Hammerhead VR
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%
ABE VR is an intense experience that recreates the horrifying story about a misguided robot seeking the unconditional love of humans…at whatever cost.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: This short, narrative-driven horror experience captures the same disturbing psychological tone as The Scream.
- #6 A Chair in a Room : Greenwater
94% matchVery Positive83% of 617 reviews2016
Dev: Wolf & Wood Interactive Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: This is a masterclass in psychological horror that uses VR to create a deeply unsettling and claustrophobic experience.
- #7 Art Plunge
93% matchVery Positive96% of 157 reviews2019
Dev: Space Plunge
Windows
Get the feeling of being inside famous paintings!
Why You'll Like It: This experience brings classic masterpieces to life in 3D, focusing on the same artistic exploration as the seed game.
- #8 Organ Quarter
92% matchVery Positive90% of 314 reviews2017
Dev: Outer Brain Studios
Windows
Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror game built from the ground-up for hand-tracked virtual reality. Explore labyrinthine environments, engage in tense combat, carefully manage your resources and solve horrifying puzzles in this homage to the slow, methodical survival horror experiences of the '90s
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, psychological horror game that captures the same sense of existential dread and distorted reality as Munch's work.
- #9 The Room VR: A Dark Matter
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,940 reviews2020
Dev: Fireproof Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The British Institute of Archaeology, London, 1908: The disappearance of an esteemed Egyptologist prompts a Police investigation into the unknown. Explore cryptic locations, examine fantastic gadgets and uncover an otherworldly discovery which blurs the line between reality and illusion.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: While puzzle-focused, it provides an incredibly atmospheric and tactile experience that feels grounded in a mysterious, dark reality.
- #10 PAGAN PEAK VR
91% matchVery Positive84% of 187 reviews2019
Dev: anotherworld GmbH
Windows
A VR escape room thriller that takes you to the darkest corners of the human mind. You will find yourself in a mysterious alpine cabin, captured by the Krampus Killer. Take on the role of a criminal profiler and solve the riddles laid out by the killer, emerging deeper and deeper into his psyche.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric escape-room style thriller that leans heavily into the dark, psychological themes of its setting.
- #11 Dreadhalls
90% matchVery Positive93% of 350 reviews2017
Dev: White Door Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
You are trapped deep inside a massive dungeon. Explore it, survive it and find a way to escape. Your only weapons will be stealth, your own courage, and a faint light. Dreadhalls is an intense and scary experience, not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A classic VR horror experience that focuses on the primal fear of being trapped in a dark, shifting labyrinth.
- #12 KOBOLD: Chapter I
89% matchVery Positive82% of 293 reviews2018
Dev: anotherworld GmbH
Windows
KOBOLD is a new kind of horror experience that blurs the line between cinema and VR gaming. Step into the shoes of an urban explorer investigating the mysterious case of a missing boy. Pick up your flashlight and discover the secrets of an abandoned villa in the middle of a dark forest in Germany.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven horror experience that uses mystery and atmosphere to draw the player into a dark, unfolding story.
- #13 The Exit 8 VR
88% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: MyDearest Inc.
Windows
The popular indie game “The Exit 8” is reborn and brought to virtual life as “The Exit 8 VR”! Experience the eerie and thrilling atmosphere of Japan's underground passageways, now with new anomalies!
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: This title uses repetitive, liminal spaces to create a sense of unease that resonates with the anxiety depicted in The Scream.
- #14 The Bellows
89% matchVery Positive86% of 244 reviews2016
Dev: BOT Jungle Productions
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 35%
The Bellows is a VR Horror experience designed to play like an interactive movie. Plunge yourself into a world of nightmares and fear, and discover just how frightening the past can really be.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A short, intense VR horror experience that focuses on building a terrifying atmosphere through sound and lighting.
- #15 Nevermind
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 432 reviews2015
Dev: Flying Mollusk
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that reacts to your biofeedback, making the experience feel deeply personal and unsettling.
- #16 The Cubicle.
86% matchVery Positive87% of 620 reviews2016
Dev: Roel van BeekPub: Pelican Party Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 18%
The Cubicle is a short VR experience about your regular everyday job in an office, or is it?
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal and slightly disturbing experience that uses the mundane setting of an office to create a sense of psychological unease.
- #17 White Day VR: The Courage Test
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 103 reviews2020
Dev: SONNORI CorpPub: PQube
Windows
The Notorious cult-classic Korean horror White Day returns with a unique VR experience! Step into the eerie darkness of classroom 1-1 and earn your place in the Occult Club by braving the horrors within. Will you survive the courage test?
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A focused, atmospheric horror experience that relies on tension and environmental storytelling.
- #18 Narcosis
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,427 reviews2017
Dev: Honor Code, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that uses isolation and psychological pressure to create a suffocating, immersive experience.
- #19 Don't Knock Twice
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 706 reviews2017
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game that focuses on exploration and atmospheric tension in a supernatural setting.
- #20 Escape Bloody Mary
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: Well Told Entertainment
Windows
If you summon an evil spirit, you have to be prepared to face the consequences. Locked in your bathroom you must use your surroundings to stop Bloody Mary from coming through your mirror and claiming your soul in this thrilling VR escape. Bloody Mary… Bloody Mary… Bloody Mary…
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A classic urban legend-inspired horror game that utilizes VR to make its supernatural encounters feel immediate and frightening.
- #21 Life after Death
82% matchMixed65% of 177 reviews2022
Dev: ASK_GAMES
Windows
Do you remember the scares that chased you in childhood? How did your limbs shake with fear, take your breath away, and you couldn't do anything about it? I invite you to live it all over again!
Why You'll Like It: A walking simulator that focuses on psychological horror and a somber, reflective atmosphere.
- #22 Near Midnight
84% matchMostly Negative40% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: Indie Dynamics
Windows
Taste the fear like never before
Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric horror game that focuses on building tension in a dark, isolated environment.
- #23 Transference™
82% matchMixed70% of 505 reviews2018
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Imagine an escape room set in a deranged mind. Experience a first-person exploration game in a chilling new dimension. Shift between three perspectives of a family and unravel the mystery hiding in this mind-bending psychological thriller.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological thriller that blurs the line between reality and digital simulation, perfect for fans of mind-bending horror.
- #24 The Paperman
81% matchMixed69% of 315 reviews2019
Dev: Proto1Studios
Windows
Not a single jumpscare. Pure psychological terror.Unique horror experience.The kids of the neighbourhood tells a story about a man made out of paper that lives inside the forest. Solve the mystery. Find the truth about that “Paperman”.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror experience that uses a distinct art style to create a sense of dread and mystery.
- #25 A Girls Fabric Face
81% matchVery Positive83% of 246 reviews2017
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A brutal murder has taken place. To that, you find yourself investigating what has happened through cameras set up in the house. Upon investigating you find yourself determining that not everything is as it seems. In the end, you are faced with an important decision to truly understand what happened to the girls with the fabric face.
Why You'll Like It: A dark, psychological horror game that uses a unique visual style to convey its disturbing narrative.
- #26 Senza Peso
80% matchVery Positive94% of 315 reviews2016
Dev: Kite & Lightning
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 30%
As a soul transitioning into the afterlife, Senza Peso shepherds you on a spiritual journey through a beautifully dark world of lost souls and redemption.
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: An operatic, artistic VR journey that focuses on visual splendor and emotional resonance rather than gameplay mechanics.
- #27 Layers of Fear
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,582 reviews2023
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.
- #28 Face of Another
76% matchVery Positive97% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: MadBug Studio
Windows
Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.
- #29 The Visitor
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 210 reviews2016
Dev: Stephen Long
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 27%
The Visitor is a VR horror experience about an unexpected visitor calling to your door in the middle of the night. The game relies heavily on atmosphere, utilizing a dark environment to make the player both as nervous and uncomfortable as possible.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #30 Richie's Plank Experience
78% matchVery Positive80% of 626 reviews2017
Dev: Toast Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #31 Directionless
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: Zach Tsiakalis-Brown
Windows
Directionless is an experimental Virtual Reality horror game. It tries out a variety of ways of using Virtual Reality to unnerve and disorient the player, with carefully crafted audio working with an interactive environment to pull you into a nightmarish world where you can't trust anything.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #32 Twisted Gallery 异馆
74% matchVery Positive85% of 349 reviews2025
Dev: FH Create Inc
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.
- #33 Phobia
79% matchMostly Negative29% of 70 reviews2017
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Horror. Nightmare. Fear. Monsters. Madness. And again ... And again ....
Why You'll Like It: A horror experience designed to test the player's nerves through intense, claustrophobic VR encounters.
- #34 Subliminal
73% matchVery Positive81% of 236 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #35 Deadness
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: ALIEN studio
Windows
Deadness is a VR game of the horror genre that will literally knock you off your feet. Experience real fear and anxiety helplessly confined to a wheelchair in a super-realistic VR environment. Not for the faint of heart! This is no game anymore!
Why similar: VR 100%
- #36 The Brookhaven Experiment
75% matchVery Positive86% of 879 reviews2016
Dev: Phosphor Games Studio
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
The Brookhaven Experiment has terrified players and creators like Jacksepticeye and Markiplier. A VR shooter classic with bone-chilling atmosphere and easy-to-master controls it is a perfect experience to share with friends and family. Face down waves of horrifying monsters in VR’s scariest shooter!
Why similar: VR 100%
- #37 瞳：祈愿 VR / Pupil: Wandering VR
77% matchMixed67% of 127 reviews2019
Dev: Spoon Network
Windows
Pupil : Wandering is an Asian-style horror VR game. The game focuses on an immersive horror atmosphere. All key items and game hints can only be found using the "Moon Lantern", a main feature that brings to light an extraordinary and truly terrifying experience.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #38 You’ve Got a Package
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: REVVALUTION Studio
Windows
You are a young and talented writer. One evening, someone leaves a mysterious box on your doorstep. What’s inside will turn your life into a living nightmare...
- #39 Hand Simulator: Horror
74% matchMixed70% of 888 reviews2020
Dev: HFM Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Fear clouds the mind. Fear paralyzes the body. If your hands are shaking with fear, you will remain in this hell forever.
- #40 Hospitality VR
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 126 reviews2020
Dev: David FlossdorfPub: flossdorfgames
Windows
A VR Horror Experience, not a Game! No controller input needed! After having checked into a haunted hospital, you are being confronted with its evil resident who is not too pleased about your visit.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #41 Find Yourself
72% matchVery Positive84% of 1,285 reviews2021
Dev: EMIKA_GAMES
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.
- #42 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
70% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: X1 Games
Windows
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
- #43 Score the Fear
69% matchVery Positive98% of 220 reviews2025
Dev: AquaEternity
Windows
The little ghost that appeared before your eyes seems to want to become a proper evil spirit. He'll scare you in a variety of ways, so rate him on whether he was scary or not.
- #44 DreadEye VR
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Digital Happiness
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
DreadEye is a virtual reality experience that allows you to become an Indonesian shaman. Immerse yourself in terrifying experiences set in haunted rural Indonesia, and discover the gruesome horrors lurking in the shadows!
Why similar: VR 100%
- #45 10:59
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 155 reviews2024
Dev: Beshbarmak games
Windows
You wake up with a bad hangover and don’t recognize your home. You see a boy and you understand... that something is wrong with him. Someone's presence causes anxiety, fear and is about to plunge you into the realm of horror. But you don’t lose hope and try to get out of this nightmare.
- #46 Writer. Chapter 1
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Beshbarmak games
Windows
You, the legendary writer, the “King of Horror,” find yourself at the center of a nightmare. A mysterious place, frighteningly familiar, hides sinister secrets. Explore locations, solve riddles, escape from the monster, collect a story that will become a new masterpiece... if you survive.
- #47 War Remains: Dan Carlin Presents an Immersive Memory
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 113 reviews2020
Dev: Flight School StudioPub: MWM Interactive
Windows
This is not a game. This is history. Presented by Hardcore History® legendary podcaster Dan Carlin, War Remains is an immersive VR experience that transports viewers into the nightmarish hellscape of the Western Front of the First World War.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #48 The Watson-Scott Test
71% matchMixed67% of 811 reviews2018
Dev: Normal Wholesome Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Take the Watson-Scott personality test and discover your deepest and darkest fears. 30 multiple-choice questions will tell you if you're more afraid of clowns, snakes, or something more sinister...
- #49 Loathful
69% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: FazerdooPub: Fazerdoo's Studio
Windows
Dive into a bone-chilling horror experience with PS1-style graphics. Step into the shoes of a Neural Net Solutions employee testing a virtual reality vacation system. Brace yourself for an immersive journey into terror, where the past meets cutting-edge fear.
- #50 Scamper
68% matchVery Positive90% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Bezbro Games
Windows
You are a rat. Your fear response will be tested.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #51 MADiSON VR
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 208 reviews2024
Dev: BLOODIOUS GAMES
Windows
MADiSON VR now plunges you even deeper into its immersive and terrifying world. With the utilization of an instant camera in your virtual hands, bridge the gap between our world and the unknown. Snap photos, develop them by yourself to solve puzzles, explore the shadows and above all, survive.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #52 The Atlas Mystery: A VR Puzzle Game
69% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: Top Right CornerPub: TRC DMI
Windows
Explore the haunted halls of the infamous Atlas Theater, a 1940’s era movie palace that played host to a shocking Hollywood tragedy. Solve intricate puzzles, discover startling artifacts, and evade sinister forces to uncover the twisted truth behind the theater’s dark history.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #53 Spectral Scream
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 731 reviews2024
Dev: STOIC Ent.
Windows
Spectral Scream is a 1-4 player cooperative horror exploration game. Are you ready to face death in the maw of purgatory? Your goal is to find key items in each chapter and retrieve the orb. But be careful! Threatening and vicious creatures await you at every stage.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #54 The Agony
70% matchMixed57% of 319 reviews2017
Dev: KishMish Games
Windows · Linux
Do you often think of what is there, beneath the towns and the cities we live in? Sewer systems, bombshelters, scientific objects... Are you ready to find yourself in a place on the edge of the reality plane you are used to?
- #55 Forbidden Art
66% matchVery Positive91% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: AIXLAB
Windows
Forbidden art is a VR room escape puzzle game where you escape from the killer’s secret hideout. Use all your abilities to escape the dangerous and terrifying hideout created by a psychopathic killer who thinks killing is an art, without being discovered by the killer.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #56 HINGE VR
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 202 reviews2020
Dev: Arcadia
Windows
HINGE is a psychological horror VR adventure. You suddenly find yourself in an abandoned skyscraper, devoid of all your senses and memories. The laws of physics are distorted, and time has collapsed. The only way out is to step into the terrifying unknown and piece together the fragmented clues
Why similar: VR 100%
- #57 Rise of Insanity
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,266 reviews2018
Dev: Red Limb Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: VR 100%
- #58 2020: THE RIDE
67% matchMostly Positive69% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Pariah Interactive Inc.Pub: Dot Precision LLC
Windows
2020: THE RIDE is a year in review in the form of the world’s scariest VR roller coaster.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #59 Under: Depths of Fear
67% matchMixed68% of 299 reviews2020
Dev: Globiss InteractivePub: Rogue Games, Inc.
Windows
Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.
