- #1 EVIL POSSESSION
97% matchMixed56% of 165 reviews2017
Dev: 2DragonsGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
SURVIVAL HORROR in first person. We incarnate an investigator of paranormal events that only with the help of a paranormal activity detector (EMF DETECTOR) and a small oil lamp, we will try to perform an EXORCISM.
Why similar: Action 40.5%, Indie 33.2%, Horror 26.3%
- #2 Misery Mansion
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 97 reviews2021
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Misery Mansion is a first-person survival horror game. After your car broke down you find yourself helpless in a forest. All alone you will search for help in the dark. You will discover and explore a mysterious old mansion. But soon all you want is to escape the horrors within.
Why similar: Horror 65.4%, Action 34.6%
- #3 Wounded - The Beginning
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 295 reviews2019
Dev: Workbench Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Wounded is a first-person survival horror game, bringing you the old-school indie horror vibe through a detailed and eerie environment.
Why similar: Action 40.3%, Horror 30.9%, Indie 28.8%
- #4 Wick
95% matchVery Positive86% of 709 reviews2015
Dev: Hellbent Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wick is a survival horror game where ghost stories are brought to life. Explore a local legend about the long lost children in the woods who can still be seen... but only by those who dare to enter alone by candlelight.
Why similar: Horror 40.9%, Action 32.1%, Indie 27%
- #5 Apparition
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 102 reviews2018
Dev: MrCiastkuPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
First-person survival horror with ghosts and demons. Find yourself smack in the middle of a haunted forest in the dead of night. Talk to spirits through your Spirit Board. Capture evidence of the paranormal, but beware, fiercely aggressive demons are on the hunt.
Why similar: Horror 41.1%, Indie 35.1%, Action 23.8%
- #6 Echoes of Dread
93% matchVery Positive85% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: Reaper GSPub: Kazakov Studios
Windows
Wake up inside an abandoned mansion. Uncover the dark fate of a missing family. Survive the presence that stalks you within these walls.
Why similar: Horror 40.4%, Action 35.8%, Indie 23.8%
- #7 The House
94% matchMostly Negative36% of 91 reviews2014
Dev: Konsordo
Windows
Plunge into the atmosphere of fear and horror,investigate the dark house full of mysteries and danger!
Why similar: Horror 45.7%, Action 28.7%, Indie 25.6%
- #8 Bigfoot Forest
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 187 reviews2021
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Bigfoot Forest - a first-person indie horror game. While traveling in your car, you run out of gas and find yourself far away from any civilized locations at night, with only woods and a small town nearby.
Why similar: Action 56.2%, Horror 29.4%, Indie 14.4%
- #9 The Guest
91% 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: Horror 44.5%, Indie 41.1%, Action 14.4%
- #10 Devilry
91% matchMixed68% of 66 reviews2015
Dev: New State
Windows
Survive the night in your rural home as a sinister apparition wreaks havoc in the stately manor. Protect your family from the ghost using a variety of tools and weapons found around the estate.
Why similar: Action 45.9%, Indie 36.9%, Horror 17.3%
- #11 Forest Horror
90% matchMixed55% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: Neki4 Electronics
Windows
You have to explore the mysterious forest and complete many tasks to get out of there alive.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #12 Witch Hunt
89% matchVery Positive88% of 2,455 reviews2018
Dev: Gua
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Witch Hunt is a challenging horror themed hunting game that takes place in the 18th century. Main focus of the game is on exploration, non-linearity, and atmosphere.
Why similar: Horror 42.7%, Action 42.5%, Indie 14.8%
- #13 The Empty Eyes
88% matchVery Positive82% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.
Why similar: Horror 40.1%, Indie 33.3%, Action 26.6%
- #14 The Devourer: Hunted Souls
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 607 reviews2023
Dev: ZTEK Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #15 Woodlands
89% matchMostly Negative29% of 295 reviews2017
Dev: Acuze Interactives
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Survive. Build shelter. Build a fire. Scavenge and kill for materials. Craft. Eat and drink. Do what you need to do to survive.
Why similar: Indie 44.6%, Action 38.7%, Horror 16.7%
- #16 Mists of Aiden
86% matchVery Positive91% of 1,141 reviews2020
Dev: Steppe Hare Studio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
Why similar: Horror 41.4%, Action 30.6%, Indie 28%
- #17 Kraven Manor
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 752 reviews2014
Dev: Demon Wagon Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and prepare yourself. Explore the depths of the immersive, atmospheric world of Kraven Manor. Uncover its secrets, solve its mystical puzzles, and face its growing threat. Face your fears and see if you have what it takes...the doors of Kraven Manor await you.
Why similar: Horror 42.9%, Action 28.8%, Indie 28.3%
- #18 Escape the Ayurok
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,101 reviews2019
Dev: DeadlyCrow Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Escape The Ayurok is a first person horror-adventure videogame, in which you need to escape from a haunted mansion as quiet as possible, to evade the hideous creature called "The Ayurok". Stealth Mode will be your ally!
Why similar: Horror 41.3%, Action 32.4%, Indie 26.3%
- #19 Nightmare of Decay
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,443 reviews2022
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
Why similar: Action 40.9%, Horror 38.2%, Indie 20.9%
- #20 The Night Shift
84% matchMixed58% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Red Spiral Studios
Windows
Trapped in a department store during a storm, survive with only a flashlight while completing tasks and evading a malevolent presence that only moves when you're not looking. Uncover secrets and face evolving horrors in this immersive first-person horror game.
Why similar: Action 43.3%, Horror 38.2%, Indie 18.4%
- #21 The Story of Henry Bishop
84% matchVery Positive83% of 549 reviews2019
Dev: Blazes Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The story of Henry Bishop is a first-person psychological thriller, where the player will have to fight, guess riddles, immerse into a mystical plot and an incredible story.
Why similar: Horror 36.7%, Action 35.8%, Indie 27.6%
- #22 Jeff The Killer: Horror Game
81% matchVery Positive84% of 157 reviews2025
Dev: SU Company Games
Windows
Survive. Run. Look for answers.
Why similar: Horror 47.1%, Action 29.4%, Indie 23.5%
- #23 Visage
81% matchVery Positive84% of 10,980 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 77.6%, Indie 14.5%, Action 7.9%
- #24 Abnormality
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 320 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Studios
Windows
Explore haunted locations, collect paranormal evidence, and survive the revenge of the former residents still haunting them. Team up with up to 3 friends to figure out the ghost, however, what begins as an investigation quickly turns into a desperate struggle to stay alive.
Why similar: Horror 72.2%, Action 27.8%
- #25 Ghost Stories
82% matchMixed69% of 86 reviews2019
Dev: AK Studio
Windows
You find yourself in a deserted territory of a country house, and when you try to get out, understand that it's impossible. One on one with ghosts and your task is to survive and only then to figure out what happened here...
Why similar: Action 44.9%, Indie 35.7%, Horror 19.4%
- #26 It Lurks in the Woods
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: Olivier Leclair
Windows
It Lurks in the Woods is a short first-person horror game based on French Canadian folklore.
Why similar: Indie 65.5%, Horror 34.5%
- #27 The Guest II
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Guest II is a first-person psychological horror experience.
Why similar: Horror 48.3%, Action 34.8%, Indie 16.9%
- #28 The Beast Inside
78% matchVery Positive83% of 12,171 reviews2019
Dev: Illusion Ray
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
Why similar: Horror 53.8%, Action 27.5%, Indie 18.7%
- #29 Infliction
78% matchVery Positive80% of 968 reviews2018
Dev: Caustic Reality
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Why similar: Horror 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #30 Fear of Dark
79% matchMixed51% of 127 reviews2020
Dev: Perfect games
Windows
Can you survive and kill the monster in the night forest? Or fall in a fight with this dangerous creature
Why similar: Action 45.3%, Indie 32.8%, Horror 21.9%
- #31 Shame Legacy
77% matchMixed61% of 180 reviews2023
Dev: Fairyship GamesPub: Destructive Creations
Windows
Shame Legacy is a first-person survival-horror, set in a forsaken cultist village. You attempt to survive using stealth and escape. By solving puzzles, you unravel the mystery that's h(a)unting you.
Why similar: Action 43.1%, Horror 42.8%, Indie 14.1%
- #32 Haunted Investigation
75% matchVery Positive84% of 264 reviews2023
Dev: Interactive Wave Studios
Windows
Haunted Investigation is a spine-tingling horror game that will test your nerves and keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you choose to play alone or with another friend (up to 2 players), you'll be immersed in a world of terror and suspense as you explore an abandoned mansion.
Why similar: Horror 46.1%, Action 36.8%, Indie 17.1%
- #33 Bureau of Contacts: Mansion
74% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: MIROWIN
Windows
Explore an old mansion full of paranormal dangers alone. Find clues, identify ghosts, collect their dossiers and exorcise them.
Why similar: Action 60.9%, Horror 25.2%, Indie 13.9%
- #34 Stay Out of the House
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,893 reviews2022
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!
Why similar: Horror 37.4%, Indie 32.8%, Action 29.8%
- #35 the cabin game
70% matchVery Positive88% of 536 reviews2026
Dev: Twisted Corridor👻
Windows
the cabin game is a 1-4 player, chaotic horror game where you are trapped inside a cabin and the only way out is through a game of cards. Just beware, as the cards you play have a surprising twist on this humble abode...
Why similar: Horror 54.6%, Action 45.4%
- #36 RAW FOOTAGE
76% matchMixed59% of 86 reviews2018
Dev: Hazier Studio
Windows
Raw Footage is a first-person horror game, travel with nothing but your camera through forests inhabited by vicious creatures while capturing what footage you can of them. You’re not the first, but if you can expose these beasts to the world you’ll be the last.
Why similar: Indie 61.4%, Horror 38.6%
- #37 Expedition Zero
75% matchMixed62% of 189 reviews2022
Dev: Enigmatic MachinesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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: Action 38.5%, Horror 32.7%, Indie 28.8%
- #38 Seek Or Die
76% matchMixed67% of 175 reviews2018
Dev: FlashynuravPub: FLNStudios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
You are an investigator hired to find evidence about the missing children in the manor off the road. Once you enter, the door locks behind you, and you can hear something, lurking...
Why similar: Horror 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #39 INVITATION To FEAR
74% matchMixed60% of 480 reviews2021
Dev: CHEST BOX
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
『INVITATION To FEAR』 is a survival horror game for 1 to 4 players. After receiving one of the invitations, you will wake up in an unfamiliar place. Before long, you will realize that a terrifying creature is wandering around the building. Don't let "her" find you.
Why similar: Horror 50.3%, Action 49.7%
- #40 Horror inside the forest
72% matchVery Positive91% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: Erik García Díaz
Windows
Plunge into the captivating realm of "Horror Inside the Forest," an exhilarating game that tests your bravery. Explore a mysterious forest, confront supernatural forces, uncover secrets, survive the darkness, and escape its shadowy embrace in this immersive horror experience.
Why similar: Indie 53.2%, Action 46.8%
- #41 Agonize
73% matchMixed62% of 145 reviews2022
Dev: Vault Interactive
Windows
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...
Why similar: Horror 39.2%, Action 31.1%, Indie 29.7%
- #42 DeathWatchers
70% matchVery Positive86% of 430 reviews2024
Dev: Swain Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Use the specialized equipment at your disposal to locate & log as many paranormal events as possible. Decipher the ingredients needed for your ritual and try to exorcise any demons within. Any incorrect ingredients and you may never leave! 1-4 Players
Why similar: Horror 89.3%, Action 10.7%
- #43 The Initiate
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 205 reviews2017
Dev: Deceptive Games Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!
Why similar: Indie 42.8%, Action 36.6%, Horror 20.6%
- #44 Silent Rain
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: 2Brains&CoffeePub: Seedlers Interactive
Windows
Silent Rain is a challenging and immersive co-op horror game, for 1 to 4 players. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, and gather information while trying to survive the threats lurking in the dark. How many tries will it take you to master your fear?
Why similar: Action 39.2%, Horror 37%, Indie 23.9%
- #45 The Forest
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Horror 58.1%, Action 28.6%, Indie 13.3%
- #46 Mansion of the Dead
69% matchVery Positive94% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Caicai Studio
Windows
Step into the shoes of Agent Kim, drawn into a chilling mystery deep in the wilderness. Find hidden clues, solve intricate puzzles, and outsmart the relentless zombies that roam the estate. Will you make it out alive, or will you too vanish without a trace?
Why similar: Horror 75%, Indie 25%
- #47 The Legacy
71% matchMixed52% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Cooperative survival and horror genre. You and your family have returned to your native land, on which a terrible curse and darkness has fallen. Will you be able to survive in a harsh and dangerous environment and stop the evil? It depends only on you, on your skills and ability to help each other.
Why similar: Horror 47.5%, Action 46.1%, Indie 6.4%
- #48 Remnant Records
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 704 reviews2024
Dev: Noctiluca Studio
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 24.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Remnant Records is a horror investigation game for 1 to 4 players. Explore places haunted by the dead, survive elaborate and unique ghosts and find out what happened to them through thousands of generated stories.
Why similar: Action 38.2%, Horror 35.1%, Indie 26.7%
- #49 The Wellmonts Case
67% matchVery Positive95% of 238 reviews2026
Dev: Zakym s. r. o.
Windows
The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.
Why similar: Horror 90.5%, Indie 9.5%
- #50 Blackberry
71% matchMixed62% of 173 reviews2021
Dev: AndeoTEAM
Windows
Psychological Horror. The action takes place in forestry, in which a married couple of foresters stopped communicating with city. You were sent to investigate. But once in the forest, not lose your mind - turns out to be a very difficult task
Why similar: Action 38.8%, Horror 32.2%, Indie 29%
- #51 Horror
68% matchMixed65% of 100 reviews2026
Dev: STuNT
Windows
HORROR is a test of your logic in the face of primal fear. You are unarmed. You are vulnerable. All you have is a flashlight with a dying battery and your intellect.
Why similar: Horror 47.1%, Action 39.4%, Indie 13.5%
- #52 Panic In The Woods
69% matchMixed70% of 151 reviews2024
Dev: Exit Plan Games
Windows
A horror survival and extraction game playable in single player or co-op for up to 4 players. Lost in a creepy forest, you and your friends are hunted by a monster. Stay quiet while extracting keys through nightmarish realms using items like traps, sonars, and flare guns to survive!
Why similar: Action 58%, Horror 42%
- #53 Witch The Bloodlines
72% matchMostly Negative28% of 61 reviews2018
Dev: Kerim Kumbasar
Windows
Witch The Bloodlines is an FPS horror - adventure game that focused on reversing a curse of the 18th century village which you are living in. Discover the living forest and experience the horror that you are in.
Why similar: Action 41.3%, Horror 30.2%, Indie 28.4%
- #54 Venge
68% matchVery Positive91% of 417 reviews2020
Dev: Costek Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...
Why similar: Action 37.4%, Horror 34.7%, Indie 27.9%
- #55 Dead Beacon
67% matchVery Positive89% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: SelianiDEV
Windows
Dead Beacon is a first-person survival horror inspired by late 1990s games and taking place in the Beacon manor, a location crawling with zombies and creatures governed by a malevolent will. Survive using the given array of weapons and escape the island.
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Horror 40.9%, Indie 4.3%
- #56 The Deer
70% matchMixed69% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Dodo Digital
Windows
The Agilevak, otherwise known as The Deer, has taken over Grapeberry State Park. Take on the role of a regular Deer hunter or an experienced Bigfoot hunter and discover the truth in this twisted horror adventure that is, The Deer.
Why similar: Indie 57.6%, Horror 42.4%
- #57 THE MUTE HOUSE
65% matchVery Positive80% of 309 reviews2025
Dev: December Blues Games
Windows
Inspired by old and classic survival horror games, THE MUTE HOUSE combines exploration, management, puzzles and a touch of action. As Emily investigates about her sister's vanishing, she finds herself trapped in a mysterious mansion.
Why similar: Horror 38.6%, Indie 34.6%, Action 26.8%
- #58 Project Unknown
64% matchVery Positive83% of 925 reviews2025
Dev: PsychoRavensPub: Nightmare Studios
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught
Why similar: Horror 44.4%, Action 29.9%, Indie 25.7%
- #59 The Dark Occult
68% matchMixed69% of 1,271 reviews2018
Dev: RYM GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Dark Occult is a psychological driven horror game that puts players in a constant state of anxiety that crescendos into raw panic and terror. You will encounter grotesque creatures, who will take your life at any moment.Your only goal -- survive.
Why similar: Horror 38.3%, Action 37.2%, Indie 24.5%