Games Like The Zhukov Line

Pilot the MOLE, a monstrous post-war drilling machine built to descend deep below the Slavic soil. Fix failing systems, follow voices of the dead, and pray you can survive whatever is sharing your coffin. Will the vessel or your mind break first?

Why similar: Dystopian 21.3%, 1980s 15.7%, Horror 13.4%, Psychological Horror 10%, Simulation 9.4%

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

Why similar: Dystopian 30.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, Dark 11.6%, First-Person 9.9%, Simulation 9.9%

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 19.9% ★, Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 17%, First-Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 10.9%

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

Why similar: Dystopian 41.1%, Horror 19%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Dark 10%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Metro trip simulator

Why similar: Simulation 50.9%, First-Person 23.4%, 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 37.9%, First-Person 15%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Horror 11.8%, Simulation 11%

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 19.3%, Dark 15%, First-Person 13.8%, Atmospheric 10.7%

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 30.5%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, First-Person 16%, Simulation 15.2%, Atmospheric 12.2%

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 27.4%, 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 15.5%, Puzzle 15.4%, Simulation 15.2%, 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 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, First-Person 19%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

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 35.8%, Dark 27.6%, Psychological Horror 24.7%, 3D 5.3%, Violent 3.5%

One bunker. One table. One last game of Durak while the shelling gets closer. Deckline is an atmospheric war horror card game about what soldiers do when there is nothing left to do.

Why similar: Horror 24.4%, Dark 22.1%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, First-Person 15.9%, Atmospheric 14.5%

You are a British WW1 soldier, trapped in an endless looping trench. Inspect your surroundings and report anything that is out of place. Will you escape? Shellshock is a short anomaly hunting experience (-30 minutes) inspired by liminal spaces and psychological horror.

Why similar: Simulation 23.6%, Puzzle 16.8%, Dark 13.1%, Horror 12.3%, First-Person 11.5%

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 29.5% ★, Simulation 18.9%, First-Person 18.3%, 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 22.9%, First-Person 19.4%, Simulation 10.8%, 3D 5.7%

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 50.4%, First-Person 26.6%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%

"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 25.7%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Dark 17.4%, Atmospheric 13.4%, First-Person 12.8%

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

Why similar: 1980s 23.8%, Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, First-Person 10.5%, Dark 10.2%

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%

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 26% ★, Horror 21.6%, Simulation 14.9%, Atmospheric 11.6%, First-Person 9.5%

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 25.2%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Dark 17.6%, Atmospheric 12.2%, First-Person 11.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 48.4%, First-Person 23.9%, Atmospheric 18.5%, Violent 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%

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 28.5%, Dark 23.8%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Atmospheric 15.3%, 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 42.4% ★, Horror 16.6%, Dark 10.5%, First-Person 10.4%, Puzzle 10.4%

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 32.6% ★, Atmospheric 17.5%, Simulation 17.1%, First-Person 16.1%, Horror 8.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 27%, Dystopian 18.8%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Atmospheric 12.9%, First-Person 10.5%

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 18.3%, Trains 16.1% ★, Simulation 11.5%, First-Person 11.2%

The train is the only escape.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 43.5%, Horror 29.4%, Atmospheric 17.7%, Violent 7.3%, Indie 2.2%

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 18.5%, Dark 17.2%, First-Person 16.5%, Atmospheric 10.4%

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 45.7%, Trains 23.7% ★, Horror 14.3%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

An atmospheric survival shooter placing you inside a hyper-violent maze of urban waste, environmental biohazards, and societal ruin. Scavenge, explore, and survive while finding a path out of a late stage modern Shinar

Why similar: Dystopian 38.8%, Psychological Horror 15%, Simulation 13.8%, Puzzle 13.6%, Horror 9.8%

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 29.9%, First-Person 19.8%, Dark 17.8%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Trains 9% ★

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 27.1%, 1980s 20.7%, Dark 18.5%, First-Person 14.7%, Psychological Horror 8.1%

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

Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Dark 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, First-Person 14.1%, Puzzle 13.4%

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 21.3%, Horror 18.6%, Dark 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Puzzle 11.1%

"Anomalous Railroad Crossing" is an escape game where you search for strange happenings, set at Japan's most famous railroad crossing. - You suddenly realize that you're standing on a road leading to a railroad crossing with an ocean view. Escape from a world invaded by strange happenings!

Why similar: Horror 19.5%, Trains 16.1% ★, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Dark 12.5%, Simulation 11.9%

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

Why similar: Horror 25.9%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Dark 20.2%, Atmospheric 14.8%, First-Person 14.6%

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 27.8%, Dark 21.2%, Psychological Horror 21%, Atmospheric 14.6%, First-Person 12.3%

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 21.2%, Dark 19.9%, Psychological Horror 19%, Atmospheric 13.2%, First-Person 11.8%

Deep beneath the abandoned subway, an unknown threat awaits. Collect gold and find a way out.

Why similar: Horror 52.2%, Psychological Horror 31%, First-Person 12.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%, Indie 0.6%

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

Why similar: Horror 36.7%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, First-Person 17.3%, Dark 11.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Iron Blight is a survival horror game set in a cold, rainy Eastern Bloc town. You are trapped in a room as abominations claw at your door, with nowhere to run. You must survive the feverish night, uncover the horrors lurking in the shadows, and above all, find your wife, Valeria.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.6%, Horror 19.5%, Dark 15.6%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.5%

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

Why similar: Horror 41.2%, Psychological Horror 29.4%, First-Person 29.4%

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 23.3%, Dark 19.1%, Psychological Horror 19%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Simulation 12.6%

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

Why similar: Simulation 39.4%, Dark 19%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Atmospheric 12%, Nonlinear 6.5%

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

Why similar: Horror 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Dark 17.6%, Simulation 15.5%, Atmospheric 12.9%

Dire Echo is a psychological horror walking simulator that immerses players in the eerie and oppressive atmosphere of abandoned deep space.

Why similar: Horror 19.9%, Dark 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, First-Person 15.1%, Simulation 14%

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 21.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, First-Person 14.5%, Dark 9%

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

Why similar: Horror 35.9%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Atmospheric 17.1%, First-Person 15.4%, 3D 5.4%

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 27.6% ★, Simulation 18.3%, First-Person 18%, Transportation 13.7% ★, Atmospheric 13.7%

Descend into Lovecraftian horror aboard a claustrophobic military submarine. Assign tasks as a captain’s right hand, analyze sonar signals, make hard decisions, and keep the crew from madness. Dark horrors lurk both within… and beyond the hull.

Why similar: Horror 27.2%, Psychological Horror 22%, Dark 20.8%, Atmospheric 14.8%, First-Person 12.3%

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

Why similar: Horror 32.8%, Simulation 21.8%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, First-Person 16.3%, Dark 3.7%

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

Why similar: Horror 24.7%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Puzzle 18%, First-Person 5.2%

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 22.1%, Atmospheric 15.2%, First-Person 13.7%, Simulation 12.4%

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 28.6%, Puzzle 20%, Horror 14%, First-Person 12.8%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

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 26.5%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Puzzle 17.5%, Atmospheric 13%, First-Person 10.1%

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 37% ★, 1980s 19.5%, Horror 12.7%, First-Person 8.3%, Simulation 7.5%

[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 17.1%, Dark 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%

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 16.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, First-Person 11.5%, Puzzle 10.6%