Games Like The Zhukov Line

A collection of 5 short first-person horror games, that revolve around detailed machinery and dread.

Why similar: Dystopian 30.7%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Dark 11.7%, Simulation 10.1%, First-Person 10%

A short narrative-driven psychological horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters.

Why similar: Trains 20.1% ★, Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, First-Person 11.2%, Atmospheric 10.9%

A short horror game where you dig through the flesh of a giant whale

Why similar: Dystopian 41.1%, Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Dark 10%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Metro trip simulator

Why similar: Simulation 51.1%, First-Person 23.3%, Atmospheric 16%, 3D 6.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Bright Lights of Svetlov is a short, story-focused first person quest about a Soviet family facing harsh trials. Set in a fictional provincial town, it carefuly recreates the atmosphere and vibe of mid 1980s.

Why similar: 1980s 37.6%, First-Person 15%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Horror 11.8%, Simulation 11.2%

Callus is a short psychological horror (~30 minutes) in the walking simulator genre, featuring jump scares and themes of cruelty and overprotection. It was released as a transitional project between larger releases, with an intentionally simple story and concise gameplay.

Why similar: Horror 29.5%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Atmospheric 16.5%, Dark 16.2%, Simulation 5.3%

A short, single-sitting VHS-style psychological horror game. Work the night shift at a remote gas station, return home to uncover disturbing clues, and reach one of three endings.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 19.1%, Dark 15.1%, First-Person 13.8%, Atmospheric 10.8%

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 30.2%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, First-Person 16%, Simulation 15.3%, Atmospheric 12.3%

In this short first-person psychological horror game, falling asleep on the subway takes you to the final station, abandoned and eerie. Explore the area and try to survive the entity chasing you in the darkness. Who is it? Its face looks strangely familiar...

Why similar: Horror 27.2%, Dark 23.2%, Psychological Horror 17%, First-Person 16.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 15.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Puzzle 15.3%, Dark 13.4%

Alone at night, working at a petrol station deep in the American wheat belt. Something feels off... are you sure you're alone? A short 10-15 minute horror game with multiple endings.

Why similar: Horror 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, First-Person 19.1%, Atmospheric 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.4%

The Derailed is a first-person psychological horror game. Beneath the dusty arches of a nearly forgotten depot, shadows of the past tremble. Whether you want to or not, you will have to uncover the dark secrets of this place.

Why similar: Horror 35.6%, Dark 27.7%, Psychological Horror 24.7%, 3D 5.3%, Violent 3.4%

The Holiday Story is an indie horror game about Christmas and New Year, set in the 80s.

Why similar: 1980s 23.6%, Horror 18.8%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, First-Person 10.5%, Dark 10.3%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Trains 29.6% ★, Simulation 18.9%, First-Person 18.2%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Transportation 13.5% ★

Anant Express is set aboard a haunted sleeper-class indian train. You board the train as an ordinary traveler, but as the journey progresses, strange events begin to unfold. Mysterious passengers. Shifting compartments. Whispers in the dark. Nothing is as it seems.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.4%, Horror 22.7%, First-Person 19.4%, Simulation 10.9%, 3D 5.7%

"The Last Visit: 98th" is a psychological indie horror from the first person, in the genre of a walking simulator, in the setting of the post-Soviet winter space. The main focus is on the atmosphere of horror, which is emphasized by realistic 3D graphics.

Why similar: Horror 25.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Dark 17.5%, Atmospheric 13.4%, First-Person 12.8%

The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.

Why similar: Horror 50.1%, First-Person 26.6%, Atmospheric 17.4%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

Why similar: Horror 25%, Dark 22.6%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, First-Person 12.3%, Simulation 9.8%

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 25%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Dark 17.6%, Atmospheric 12.3%, First-Person 11.4%

NiGHT SIGNAL is a short first-person horror experience that sees you breaking in a new television set, only to find that it picks up strange signals after dark. Hand crafted from flesh and clay.

Why similar: Cold War 25.8% ★, Horror 21.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Atmospheric 11.7%, First-Person 9.5%

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Horror 28.2%, Dark 23.9%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Atmospheric 15.4%, First-Person 8.6%

Developed by Phantomery Interactive, 1953 – KGB Unleashed is a tense and atmospheric First Person Adventure set deep within the bowels of a Soviet bunker during the Cold War. Players must uncover the dark and horrifc secrets buried within, fighting their own paranoia along the way as well as the possibility of all-too-real terrors within...

Why similar: Cold War 42.3% ★, Horror 16.5%, Dark 10.6%, First-Person 10.5%, Puzzle 10.3%

The train is the only escape.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.9%, Horror 29.6%, Atmospheric 18.1%, Violent 7.3%, Indie 2.2%

A first-person adventure game with a storyline. You are about to travel on a passenger train along the Trans-Siberian Railway. You can walk around cities, ride a train and watch nature change, talk to passengers and much more.

Why similar: Trains 32.8% ★, Atmospheric 17.5%, Simulation 17.1%, First-Person 16%, Horror 8.3%

The Tape is a slow and creepy first person horror game, with mystical story and abstract psychological elements.

Why similar: Horror 48.2%, First-Person 24%, Atmospheric 18.6%, Violent 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%

HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.

Why similar: 1980s 26.3%, Horror 18.3%, Dark 17.1%, First-Person 16.5%, Atmospheric 10.5%

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Dystopian 18.8%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Atmospheric 13%, First-Person 10.6%

Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.

Why similar: Horror 26.9%, 1980s 20.5%, Dark 18.6%, First-Person 14.8%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 45.5%, Trains 23.8% ★, Horror 14.3%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Horror 29.7%, First-Person 19.9%, Dark 17.8%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Trains 8.9% ★

Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

Why similar: Horror 24.5%, Dark 18%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, First-Person 14.1%, Puzzle 13.3%

MATRESHKA is a first-person psychological horror experience, you need find a way to escape from a maze of old soviet building. If you die...

Why similar: 1980s 21.1%, Horror 18.6%, Dark 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Puzzle 11%

A horror walking sim that emphasizes atmosphere, tension, fear, and immersive storytelling, all heightened by well-timed jump scares. The game takes place in a village frozen in time, stuck somewhere in the mid-20th century.

Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Dark 21.2%, Psychological Horror 21%, Atmospheric 14.7%, First-Person 12.3%

A psychological horror experience set in a forgotten apartment filled with dark memories, eerie puzzles, and emotional scars waiting to resurface.

Why similar: Horror 25.7%, Dark 20.3%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Atmospheric 14.9%, First-Person 14.7%

Zoochosis is a bodycam horror simulation game. You’re a zookeeper. Identify infected mutant animals, make a vaccine and cure them. Will you save all of them and survive?

Why similar: Dark 20.4%, Horror 18.1%, Trains 16.2% ★, Simulation 11.6%, First-Person 11.2%

Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen. This is deep-sea horror. Obey or drown.

Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Dark 19.9%, Psychological Horror 19%, Atmospheric 13.3%, First-Person 11.8%

Cave Crawler is a short horror game where you pilot a drone into a cave and discover something horrible.

Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, First-Person 17.3%, Dark 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.4%

The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.

Why similar: Horror 41%, First-Person 29.5%, Psychological Horror 29.5%

A videographer receives the task of filming a wake in an old Soviet apartment. But he soon realizes that something terrible is lurking within these walls. And in the middle of the room there is a closed coffin...

Why similar: Horror 23.2%, Dark 19.1%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Simulation 12.7%

The winds of the frozen wasteland are calling in this atmospheric horror game. Operate an aging vehicle to locate the missing driver of the previous expedition. Be careful not to stray from the path...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 15%, First-Person 14.5%, Dark 9.1%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Trains 27.8% ★, Simulation 18.3%, First-Person 17.9%, Transportation 13.7% ★, Atmospheric 13.7%

The Gap is a short first-person horror experience taking place in a ghostly abandoned house on a lonely street corner.

Why similar: Horror 35.7%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Atmospheric 17.2%, First-Person 15.5%, 3D 5.4%

Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.

Why similar: Simulation 39.6%, Dark 19%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Atmospheric 12%, Nonlinear 6.4%

A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.

Why similar: Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Dark 17.6%, Simulation 15.6%, Atmospheric 13%

Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.

Why similar: Horror 32.6%, Simulation 22.1%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, First-Person 16.3%, Dark 3.7%

SKUF BACKROOMS is a psychological horror game that takes the player to the Backrooms level, consisting of intertwining transition zones of post-Soviet living spaces.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Horror 22%, Atmospheric 15.3%, First-Person 13.7%, Simulation 12.5%

Deckline is an atmospheric war-horror card game. Out of ammo and encircled, you play one last game of Durak to distract from the inevitable. Experience the grit and dread of modern combat through the lens of a board game.

Why similar: Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Dark 17.5%, First-Person 15.5%, Puzzle 14%

A tense, atmospheric descent into psychological horror—trapped in a place where reality fades and fear takes hold.

Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Simulation 18.8%, Puzzle 17.8%, First-Person 5.2%

You are trapped in an underground subway. Observe your surroundings carefully and take the correct trains to reach the 'Station 5' and exit the subway.

Why similar: Simulation 28.8%, Puzzle 19.8%, Horror 13.9%, First-Person 12.8%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Why similar: Cold War 36.9% ★, 1980s 19.3%, Horror 12.6%, First-Person 8.4%, Simulation 7.6%

Trapped in a hallucinatory, liminal-space style underground passageway, explore and unravel the endless "dead-end" paths to find a way forward. "Dead Path is a short ambient horror puzzle game that references Exit 8, but with a completely different core mechanic.

Why similar: Horror 26.4%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Puzzle 17.4%, Atmospheric 13.1%, First-Person 10.1%

A short Psychological Horror Experience for one night that takes you through the dark corridors of a mental asylum. For best experience a dark room and headphones recommended.

Why similar: Horror 24.3%, Psychological Horror 18%, Dark 17.8%, Puzzle 14.1%, Atmospheric 12.9%

[SUBJECT] is a first-person psychological horror game. You wake up confused in a dark room, not knowing where you are. The last thing you remember is a robotic voice echoing through you ears. How you got here or why is unclear, but you do know one thing: You're being watched.

Why similar: Dystopian 33%, Horror 17%, Dark 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.2%

Sector 404 is a first-person anomaly horror game set in a crumbling Soviet housing block. After taking your medicine, your world begins to fracture. Climb from floor to floor, uncovering distorted anomalies and your own unraveling mind. Miss too much, and reality resets. Will you ever make it home?

Why similar: Horror 24%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, First-Person 14.8%, Dark 13.8%, Atmospheric 10.3%

A short narrative horror experience, in which you find yourself in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm without knowing what has happened to the driver or the other passengers in the vehicle, you just know that there is something out there lurking.

Why similar: Horror 35.4%, Psychological Horror 28.4%, Dark 20.1%, First-Person 11.4%, 3D 4.7%

The main character is a truck driver. Along the way, he finds a road that is not on the map and drives along it. On the road, abandoned cars and abandoned gas stations are a place shrouded in horror, secrets and mysteries. Soon the hero realizes that someone is watching him...

Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Dark 21.4%, Psychological Horror 17%, First-Person 16.2%, Atmospheric 10.3%

One room. One hole. One judgement. Watch the guests through your peephole, inspect their documents, dial the telephone, and judge who's normal and who's not. Do your job properly to avoid the demon's punishment.

Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Simulation 18.1%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, First-Person 15.3%, Dark 11%

Lost in a series of endless train station hallways, find your way to the exit Platform in this First-Person Anomaly Spotting game set in the Midnight Monitor universe. Watch out for anomalies - If you see any, turn back immediately! Can you find your way out of Aldercourt Station?

Why similar: Dystopian 34.2%, Horror 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, First-Person 11.5%, Puzzle 10.5%

Short atmospheric first person horror game with elements of quest and shooter about being lost in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by weird mist.

Why similar: Horror 27.5%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Puzzle 14.6%, Atmospheric 14.2%, First-Person 13%

Step into a Psychological Horror Experience where you live in an apartment complex where the walls between reality and nightmares are crumbling. Run for your life, solve small puzzles and use items to help you survive.

Why similar: Dystopian 37.6%, Horror 17.6%, Dark 16.2%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, First-Person 10.7%