- #1 Investigator
97% matchMixed69% of 1,025 reviews2016
Dev: AdroVGames
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
Why similar: Horror 79.1%, First-Person 16.9%, Singleplayer 4%
- #2 In Silence
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,917 reviews2021
Dev: Ravenhood Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In Silence is a multiplayer horror game. One player takes on the role of the monster who has hypersensitive hearing abilities and is almost completely blind. The other players(2-6) play as survivors, trying to escape or hunting the monster.
Why similar: Horror 70.4%, Strategy 15.6%, First-Person 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #3 Silence In The Cabin
96% matchMostly Negative31% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: RedRockGameStudios
Windows
"Silence In The Cabin" is an Open Map Survival Horror Game, where you must survive Dark linear story sections in order to unlock more areas of the world.
Why similar: Horror 56.8%, First-Person 22.9%, 3D 18.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #4 Silence Channel 2
95% matchVery Positive82% of 95 reviews2023
Dev: Lexip Games
Windows
Experience the terror in Silence Channel 2, a first person horror game based on a true story. Navigate through eerie environments, solve puzzles, evade lurking horrors, and even wield firepower in a desperate bid for survival. Can you escape the relentless darkness in this terrifying sequel?
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Exploration 22.7%, First-Person 22.5%, 3D 15.8%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #5 AfterHours
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 607 reviews2022
Dev: Runway Studios
Windows
Experience psychological horror in a large abandoned hospital. Hide, explore and survive from a mysterious creature living in the ruins of this hospital.
Why similar: Horror 53.9%, First-Person 16.9%, Exploration 14.6%, 3D 11.1%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #6 Effugium
94% matchMixed60% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Souporno GhoshPub: Team Glasses
Windows
Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.
Why similar: Horror 42.8%, Exploration 29.5%, First-Person 24.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #7 Exit The Abyss
92% matchMostly Positive70% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Veloneer Games
Windows
Exit the Abyss is a psychological horror game where you are trapped in an abandoned, haunted hospital. The game focuses on an oppressive atmosphere, exploration, and mysteries, with minimalist puzzle elements. Immerse yourself in a distorted reality, confront your fears, and find the way out!
Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Exploration 28.8%, First-Person 24.2%, 3D 16.5%
- #8 King of Silence - Prologue
91% matchVery Positive85% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: Onze 8 Degrés
Windows
Embark on a chilling journey in King of Silence, a first-person horror game where silence is survival. Trapped in a dark, abandoned temple, you must quietly uncover its secrets and the eerie legend of the King of Silence to find your escape. Make a sound, and it may be your last.
Why similar: Horror 41.3%, Exploration 27%, First-Person 25.9%, Singleplayer 5.8%
- #9 Apotheorasis • Lab of the Blind Gods | Prologue
91% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2021
Dev: Tall Guy Productions
Windows
An FPS with ZERO graphics!? Yes, you heard right ! Run • Blast • Escape • Survive, through sound alone, as you challenge your makers and unravel the mysteries of your existence. You may be blind, but you're far from helpless !
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #10 Fear of the Light
90% matchVery Positive84% of 58 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: Horror 36.5%, Exploration 31.8%, First-Person 22%, 3D 9.7%
- #11 TheSilentSnowfall
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: TrueGames
Windows
The Silent Snowfall is a first-person horror game.Embark on a dark Christmas journey where the silence of a winter night hides blood-chilling secrets.
Why similar: Exploration 52%, First-Person 44.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #12 異ノ故リ-Isolated Hours-
89% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Byking RooKIESPub: Byking Inc.
Windows
A 3D horror game where your only goal is to finish your work… and survive the night. Unnatural anomalies creep into the office as you complete your tasks. Can you make it to the end of your shift alive.
Why similar: Horror 46.6%, Exploration 23.8%, First-Person 17.4%, 3D 8.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #13 Shadow of Pharos
88% matchMixed69% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: Team Gaivot
Windows
Shadow of Pharos is a short first-person horror game.
Why similar: Horror 49.7%, First-Person 16.8%, Exploration 16.7%, 3D 13%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #14 DeafBlind
86% matchVery Positive88% of 145 reviews2024
Dev: Joe Williams
Windows
DeafBlind offers an immersive sensory deprivation experience, simulating what life might feel like if you were both deaf and blind. This game invites you to navigate a world shrouded in silence and darkness, challenging you to adapt and explore in entirely new ways.
Why similar: Exploration 80.6%, Singleplayer 19.4%
- #15 Midnight Snack
84% matchVery Positive86% of 251 reviews2025
Dev: Desborde Games
Windows
A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.
Why similar: Horror 37.1%, Exploration 25.1%, First-Person 19.8%, 3D 15.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #16 The Wailer
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 126 reviews2023
Dev: Ethan RobichauxPub: Vultive Entertainment
Windows
A highly stylized horror adventure game set in the depths of an ancient dungeon. With torch in hand, explore and find a way to escape before falling prey to the unspeakable horror that lurks within.
Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Exploration 28.5%, First-Person 22.3%, 3D 16.3%
- #17 Frosty Nights
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 267 reviews2017
Dev: ClockWork WolfPub: ClockWorkWolf
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Frosty Nights is a First Person hybrid horror game that focuses on atmosphere and suspense.
Why similar: Strategy 58.2%, Horror 41.8%
- #18 Silent Residence
82% matchVery Positive93% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Woyboy
Windows
Experience Harry's story of battling multiple personalities and his severe case of schizophrenia. In this First-person horror game, you battle the hallucinations and illusions your mind creates. You misjudge reality and quickly lose control over yourself.
Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Exploration 26.1%, First-Person 22%, 3D 16.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #19 Siren Head: Awakening
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 918 reviews2020
Dev: Prisma Games L.L.C.
Windows · Mac
Siren Head: Awakening is a first-person horror game based on Trevor Henderson's artwork. You're stuck with your car in the middle of a dark forest with nothing but your flashlight. Seek escape by finding items necessary to survive while a terrifying monster lurks the shadows.
Why similar: Horror 51.6%, Exploration 27.3%, First-Person 17.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #20 Achromatic
83% matchMixed59% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: Raccoon Platoon Games
Windows
Achromatic is a first-person horror puzzle game — Walk around the carnival you have been tasked with repairing and uncover the darker secrets that lie within. Solve puzzles and avoid the carnival workers as you try to escape.
Why similar: Horror 53.3%, First-Person 27.6%, 3D 16.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #21 Fear in Hospital
84% matchMixed48% of 504 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Fear in Hospital is a short survivor horror in hospital where you should find a occult path to escape alive!
Why similar: Horror 50.5%, Exploration 22.6%, First-Person 21.8%, Singleplayer 5.1%
- #22 10 Seconds
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: ithinknotM8!
Windows
Time loop puzzle horror, where you're stuck in a failed experiment and must escape or face being eaten for eternity.
Why similar: Horror 42.7%, Strategy 18.6%, 3D 17.3%, First-Person 17.2%, Singleplayer 4.2%
- #23 REDSHIFT
78% matchVery Positive81% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Gravity Interactive
Windows
A short solo developed psychological narrative horror game where you close your eyes to reveal a hidden layer of reality, the REDSHIFT. Uncover the secrets of the facility, Tower 7, and survive what hunts you within the REDSHIFT.
Why similar: Horror 92.4%, Singleplayer 7.6%
- #24 In Passing
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.
- #25 Ranger Danger
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: Reid Annin
Windows
A park ranger's life is changed forever as they discover what really lurks in their national park. A first-person horror, exploration, and stealth-based game.
Why similar: Horror 44.6%, Exploration 25.3%, First-Person 16.7%, 3D 8.5%, Singleplayer 5%
- #26 LiDAR Exploration Program
77% matchVery Positive91% of 265 reviews2025
Dev: KenForest
Windows
LiDAR Exploration Program is a relaxing atmospheric game with light horror elements, where you explore in complete darkness using a scanner to reveal the world around you.
Why similar: Horror 35%, Exploration 27.3%, First-Person 20.8%, 3D 14.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #27 Mirrored Phantoms
78% matchMixed68% of 212 reviews2025
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows · Linux
Trapped in a nightmarish mannequin factory where reality itself is shattered, unravel the secrets of Mirrored Phantoms. Explore a deeply atmospheric world, solve the mystery of the mirror shards, and survive the terrors that await in this slow-burning, first-person horror experience.
Why similar: Horror 51.4%, First-Person 29.3%, 3D 14%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #28 Agelast
79% matchMixed62% of 77 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 43.6%, Strategy 20.7%, First-Person 17%, 3D 15.7%, Singleplayer 3%
- #29 THANATOS
77% matchVery Positive85% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Angela NguyenPub: WahooCat Productions
Windows · Mac
THANATOS is a first-person psychological horror mystery game that involves finding clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets to prevent a friend from taking their own life.
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Exploration 33.7%, First-Person 28.4%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #30 Blinding Dark
81% matchMostly Negative32% of 62 reviews2014
Dev: Games HutPub: BulkyPix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Blinding Dark is a First Person Adventure horror game. Complete puzzles, collect items and power-ups, fight enemies and do your best to manage the very thin resources you have at your disposal to uncover terrible secrets.
Why similar: Horror 74.4%, First-Person 25.6%
- #31 God's Basement
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,314 reviews2018
Dev: Erebus
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.
Why similar: Horror 42.2%, First-Person 25.6%, Exploration 18.4%, 3D 10.1%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #32 Face of Another
73% 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.
Why similar: Horror 43.2%, First-Person 29.8%, 3D 21.3%, Singleplayer 5.6%
- #33 Aphotic Descent
76% matchMixed64% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Broiled Squid Studios
Windows
In Aphotic Descent, you play as a diver whose submarine crashed at the bottom of the ocean. With no other option for survival, you must make your way to a nearby underwater research facility facing terrifying creatures, all while descending deeper and deeper...
Why similar: Horror 43.3%, Exploration 27.4%, First-Person 24.9%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #34 KEEP LOOKING
72% matchVery Positive92% of 154 reviews2024
Dev: Solshade Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is a nerve-wracking horror game that puts you in a dark, claustrophobic cave with a relentless creature. Survive by flashing your dying flashlight at the right moments, too soon or too late, and it’s over. You must keep an eye on the creature, but beware: staring too long is just as deadly.
Why similar: Horror 62.7%, First-Person 29.4%, Singleplayer 8%
- #35 Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 107 reviews2018
Dev: Gattai Games
Windows · Mac
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
Why similar: Horror 46.2%, Exploration 24.9%, First-Person 23.9%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #36 STRANGER
74% matchMixed67% of 60 reviews2022
Dev: Lost Frame Development
Windows
STRANGER is a Single-player Survival Thriller Horror Game. Choose your house and difficulty, then survive until dawn. Uncover mysterious truths about the STRANGER. Play on PC or with VR support
Why similar: Horror 41.8%, Strategy 33.9%, First-Person 19.3%, Singleplayer 5%
- #37 Insert Item Apocalypse
72% matchVery Positive92% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Insert Item Apocalypse - interactive 3D puzzle in genre "find and click". Explore a world full of many details, conveying the spirit of the aftermath of a major man-made disaster.
Why similar: Strategy 69.2%, 3D 26.5%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #38 Blind Trust
75% matchMixed53% of 1,479 reviews2016
Dev: Viswanath AtluPub: Good Vibration Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Blind Trust is a two-player, cooperative game where the deaf leads the blind on a fantasy island. Navigate using only 3D sound as the blind Oracle, or lead the Oracle with magical sound beacons as the deaf Soldier. Work together to fight monsters, solve puzzles, and reach your ultimate goal.
Why similar: First-Person 55.2%, Horror 40%, Singleplayer 4.8%
- #39 Our Elusive Suffering
73% matchMixed65% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: 👁️Pub: ⚰️
Windows
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Why similar: Horror 44.5%, Exploration 28.7%, First-Person 15.5%, 3D 8.6%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #40 White Room Protocol
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Lefto Studio
Windows
A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Horror 49.6%, First-Person 25.3%, 3D 18.7%, Singleplayer 6.4%
- #41 The NADI Project
74% matchMixed67% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Monkeys Tales Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.
Why similar: First-Person 34.5%, Exploration 33.9%, Horror 29.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #42 DON'T FACE UP
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: tesakiza
Windows · Mac
DON'T FACE UP is a first-person horror game. Never make eye contact with them. They may appear and disappear. They may be standing in the direction you suddenly turn your eyes. Even in such a situation, you must proceed with your search for the building. Therefore, "DON'T FACE UP."
Why similar: Horror 47.4%, Exploration 21.9%, First-Person 16%, 3D 12.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #43 Brighter Day
73% matchVery Positive89% of 100 reviews2015
Dev: girl software
Windows · Mac
Probably the most colorful horror game you've ever played. Hide from moaning disembodied eyeballs while facing existential dread, ambient music, and alternative medicine.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #44 Wayward Harbor
71% matchVery Positive83% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: Daniil ShashenkovPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
Short first-person horror experience with a unique mirror mechanic. Escape from an invisible monster that can be only seen in the reflection.
Why similar: Horror 51.3%, First-Person 33.9%, 3D 9%, Singleplayer 5.7%
- #45 The Voidness - Lidar Horror Survival Game
69% matchVery Positive83% of 322 reviews2023
Dev: Steelkrill Studio
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Voidness is a SCI-FI psychological horror game where it takes place inside the void where it's filled with just gloom - the only way to see is by scanning the environment with your range finder device, however you are not alone. Don't breathe ... as they are listening.. and watching.
Why similar: Exploration 39.8%, First-Person 34.6%, 3D 25.6%
- #46 Backrooms: Found Footage
68% matchVery Positive84% of 280 reviews2024
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
Backrooms: Found Footage is a single-player horror game where you are the main character trying to survive the Backrooms. Curiosity wins and you decide to explore this weird place that you got trapped in. What could go wrong?
Why similar: Exploration 29%, Horror 26.8%, First-Person 24.1%, 3D 18%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #47 Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife
71% matchMixed62% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Fast Travel Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You died in a mysterious seance and have become a Wraith, one of the restless undead. In this VR horror game, use your supernatural abilities to solve the mystery behind your death. But beware of the sinister Spectres lurking in the shadows...
Why similar: Horror 71%, Exploration 13.4%, First-Person 13.3%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #48 Fears to Fathom - Home Alone
67% matchVery Positive90% of 10,232 reviews2021
Dev: Rayll
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 14%
Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.
Why similar: Horror 53.6%, First-Person 20.2%, Exploration 13.5%, 3D 8.7%, Singleplayer 4%
- #49 SCP: Daybreak
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 377 reviews2022
Dev: SquiffyDev
Windows
An open-ended, SCP-based, atmospheric, exploration-focused, survival-horror game with puzzle elements and replayability.
Why similar: First-Person 37.1%, Horror 35.5%, 3D 27.4%
- #50 Escape the Clinic
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 414 reviews2020
Dev: JubleLemonSeed
Windows
A first-person puzzle horror game. Solve clues, find hints, discover keys, and use passwords to navigate the haunted Clinic and find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 69.5%, 3D 23.8%, Singleplayer 6.7%
- #51 Operation: Outbreak
65% matchVery Positive80% of 468 reviews2025
Dev: DREADMITH Games
Windows
Your squad's vehicle exploded during a patrol, and you're the only survivor. The enemy is unusual this time. A virus has turned the city into a warzone of the undead. Get to the exfil in time or die trying. A free-to-play short and intense FPS zombie survival horror game.
Why similar: Horror 49.4%, First-Person 30.2%, 3D 14.2%, Singleplayer 6.2%
- #52 Mortal Decay
69% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2020
Dev: Roger Kaffer
Windows
You are a veteran, in a post World War 3 apocalyptic world. Starving and alone, you fight to keep your sanity in the hell that this world has decayed into. In a desperate attempt to find food, you stumble your way into an abandoned prison, but you find out it is not as abandoned as you believed...
Why similar: Horror 36.5%, First-Person 26.2%, Exploration 20.6%, 3D 12.1%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #53 The Closing Shift
67% matchMixed68% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Bird Box Games
Windows
A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.
Why similar: Exploration 38.7%, Horror 36.6%, 3D 23.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #54 The Anomalous Hour
67% matchVery Positive92% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Gambir Studio
Windows
You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 34.8%, Exploration 27.2%, First-Person 20.7%, 3D 15.3%, Singleplayer 2%
- #55 Fragments of Dread - False Haven
64% matchVery Positive92% of 207 reviews2025
Dev: Domnaier
Windows
Fragments of Dread is an episodic psychological horror series. Each episode tells a self-contained story of dread, fear, and survival.
Why similar: Horror 40.8%, First-Person 23.2%, Exploration 20.8%, 3D 12%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #56 The Day Of Survival
68% matchMixed46% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: xHARDHeMPuS
Windows
The Day Of Survival Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic world where every decision is crucial. "The Day Of Survival" is a thrilling survival game that challenges players to explore a harsh, unforgiving landscape filled with zombies and enemy soldiers.
Why similar: Exploration 36.4%, First-Person 31.8%, Horror 29.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #57 Defense: Abominations
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Ominous Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.
Why similar: Strategy 61.9%, Horror 18.1%, First-Person 16.9%, Singleplayer 3%
- #58 Fingerbones
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,583 reviews2015
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.
Why similar: Horror 36.4%, First-Person 25.1%, Exploration 21.8%, 3D 12.2%, Singleplayer 4.6%