- #1 Midnight at Forest
81% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Gladiator Games
Windows
Try to escape from the Forest as you setup camp, then realize you were locked in there by a Park officer. There were 5 keyholes, so you had to find one key for each one.
Why similar: Adventure 22.8%, Action-Adventure 20.6%, Exploration 18.7%, Horror 15.9%, First-Person 10%
- #2 Cursed Bloodline
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinite Games Studio
Windows
A narrative psychological horror where past and present slowly blur inside a remote house. The line between memory and reality is gone.
Why similar: Exploration 21.7%, Action-Adventure 19.1%, Horror 17.6%, Adventure 12.9%, First-Person 10.9%
- #3 Fish Market
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Raykwaza
Windows
This is a first-person Japanese horror game where you wake up in a nightmare world after being killed at a fish market. Encounter hostile creatures and traverse impossible environments to find a way home.
Why similar: Exploration 25.8%, Action-Adventure 23.9%, Adventure 15%, Horror 12.2%, First-Person 8.3%
- #4 Veranoia: Nightmare of Case 37
75% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Horrawr
Windows
Play as Vera the gifted detective who can dive into nightmares of deceased to resolve their death mysteries, But.. Things don't always go your way, You're not alone. the threats are greater than your capabilities, are they? 3D Psychological Horror Game Project by the one-person studio "Horrawr".
Why similar: Action-Adventure 18.7%, Exploration 17.2%, Adventure 15.3%, Horror 13.4%, Realistic 10%
- #5 Cornfield Escape
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aethvion
Windows
Trapped in a dense cornfield, you must navigate hidden landmarks, avoid noise traps and outsmart a relentless stalker that hunts by sound. Stay quiet, read the signs and escape before it reaches you.
Why similar: Adventure 26.4%, Action-Adventure 23.6%, Exploration 21.4%, Horror 15.2%, 3D 9.6%
- #6 Thekku Island
69% matchVery Positive89% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Ales Devs Games
Windows
A chilling psychological horror set in 1980s Kerala. After weeks of silence, you arrive on a remote island to search for your missing wife. Explore an abandoned house, uncover local folklore, survive haunting encounters, and unravel the island’s buried secrets.
Why similar: Exploration 25.6%, Horror 16%, Adventure 15%, 3D 11.7%, First-Person 9.3%
- #7 Familiar Stranger
69% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Duanyang WangPub: Horror engine games
Windows
The Familiar Stranger is a 3D psychological horror game where twisted memories and nightmares blur. Uncover dark secrets while evading a relentless entity that watches from the shadows. Can you escape the horrors of the past, or will they consume you?
Why similar: Action-Adventure 27.6%, Exploration 23.7%, Horror 16.3%, Realistic 11.7%, Adventure 8.3%
- #8 Abondoned village
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: M.Mustapha Hadi
Windows
A first-person horror game about an enthusiastic historian who discovers an old map of a hidden village. Ignorant of the village's dark history, he decides to explore it, unaware that a monster has been sealed inside. In the process, he accidentally releases the creature, which tries to kill him.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 19.1%, Exploration 18%, Horror 15.8%, Adventure 13.6%, Realistic 11.7%
- #9 Extinction
71% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Royal Games Studio
Windows
Extinction is a singleplayer horror game where you explore The valley of Extinction. Your job is to explore it while also keeping yourself alive from monsters who want to end your life.
Why similar: Horror 27.8%, Adventure 21.5%, Action-Adventure 18.5%, Exploration 16.7%, First-Person 8.7%
- #10 Moaning Moron of the Mountain
67% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Andman4
Windows
Moaning Moron of the Mountain is an adventure thriller that puts you in the place of a college student who got a love letter and an invitation to the local mountain peak. But be warned, there is a mysterious man on the mountain harassing hikers. Sneak past him and meet your sweetheart!
Why similar: Exploration 24.3%, Action-Adventure 21.5%, Horror 18.2%, Adventure 13.8%, First-Person 11.3%
- #11 GhostHunt With Triggered Insaan
71% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Arkesh BharadwajPub: Indian Developers
Windows
A Horror Game Featuring Triggered Insaan (Nischay Malhan) as a Ghost Hunter.
Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Action-Adventure 22%, Exploration 20%, Adventure 15.6%, First-Person 10.4%
- #12 帰宅 -kitaku-
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: あくも
Windows
I want to go home! Such a chilling experience awaits you.This is an exploration-based action horror game depicting the terrifying experience of a newly hired salaryman in an underground parking garage.
Why similar: Horror 29.7%, Exploration 21.5%, Action-Adventure 19.9%, Realistic 10.2%, First-Person 7.3%
- #13 Lady Dracula's Mansion
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Stingy Hat Games
Windows
Explore a creepy gothic mansion and survive the night while being hunted down by a lady dracula! Lady Dracula's Mansion is an FPS horror game with retro graphics where you must sneak around and use your wits while scavenging whatever weapons and resources you can find to help you survive.
Why similar: Adventure 24.2%, Action-Adventure 22.1%, Exploration 20.1%, Horror 18.5%, First-Person 11.5%
- #14 The Clown -White Pursuer-
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Wataru Izumi wa Oni Bakari
Windows
A short first-person horror game featuring exploration, puzzles, and a terrifying clown who hunts you inside a secluded mansion.
Why similar: Adventure 21.8%, Action-Adventure 20.7%, Exploration 18.8%, Horror 13%, Realistic 11%
- #15 Deranged
70% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Franco Hernandez
Windows
Deranged is a single player puzzle and psychological horror video game. Find a way to escape the O'Connor mansion before things get tough. Remember that in order to escape you must complete challenging puzzles against the clock ... Will you be able?
Why similar: Horror 33.6%, Exploration 21.5%, Adventure 19.4%, 3D 11.6%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #16 Lunatic
69% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: BroxStudios
Windows
Neighbors reported a scream from an apartment next door. They claim that people who enter the apartment do not leave. You're the only police officer available at the moment and it's your duty to check it out.
Why similar: Adventure 19.8%, Action-Adventure 19.1%, Exploration 17.5%, Horror 10.4%, Realistic 9.7%
- #17 Down With Fear
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SauterArtStudiosPub: SauterArtStduios
Windows
Down With Fear: is a single-player survival horror game set in the 90s in a military hospital. Your goal is to overcome the enemys who are waiting there for you by hide from them, find items that reveal you new paths and by some enemys there is no other option but to run away to survive!
Why similar: Action-Adventure 21.1%, Exploration 19.2%, Adventure 17%, Horror 11.1%, Realistic 10.5%
- #18 They Hear Footsteps
65% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: GTI
Windows
[Visually Disturbing Short Horror] You’re walking through the aftermath of a cannibal’s obsession. He didn’t just take lives — he turned them into something worse. What’s left of his victims still hangs in the dark, staring, twitching, waiting. A stomach turning, gross experience.
Why similar: Horror 25%, Exploration 20%, Action-Adventure 18.4%, Adventure 16.8%, First-Person 10.2%
- #19 Tall Poppy
67% matchVery Positive89% of 161 reviews2021
Dev: Attainable Entertainment
Windows
Tall Poppy is a fun-house horror experience where you must find your wife's purse and a way off the church property before the prankster ghost gets you!
Why similar: Adventure 22.2%, Action-Adventure 20.7%, Exploration 20%, Horror 13.6%, First-Person 11.6%
- #20 Echoes From The Threshold 2
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Holojet
Windows
Welcome to the Threshold, a place where reality is altered, and memories become disturbing, dark reflections of what once was. Find items to help escape, and explore an almost fully interactive environment!
Why similar: Exploration 24.8%, Horror 20.9%, Adventure 18.7%, First-Person 13.1%, 3D 11.2%
- #21 Deja Vu : The Backrooms
66% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Mihnea Simionescu
Windows
Deja Vu portrays The Backrooms as a manifestation of mental illness. Join forces with up to four friends and endeavor to escape the confines of both your own mind and the mundane existence that led you here.
Why similar: Adventure 19.8%, Action-Adventure 19.4%, Exploration 17.8%, Horror 13.6%, Realistic 10.1%
- #22 MíManny
64% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Radonox Studios
Windows
Trapped in a dark environment, you must escape from the relentless Butcher. Every shadow hides a threat, and every mistake could be your last in this tense survival horror experience. Will you survive the night?
Why similar: Exploration 22%, Action-Adventure 19.9%, Horror 17%, First-Person 11.3%, Adventure 10.8%
- #23 Gravewatch
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FearForge Studios
Windows
Up for some grave robbing? In this horror game, you will get to play as Daniel, a desperate man trying to support his ill daughter by stealing from the dead... however, this time, Daniel will experience hell on earth, as things don't go according to plan...
Why similar: Action-Adventure 23.8%, Horror 21.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Realistic 12.9%, First-Person 12.8%
- #24 Mumble Pines: The Arrival
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dino Nugget Studios
Windows
In this first-person story-driven horror game, you take a job as a janitor to access a run-down island summer camp that got shut down, after the dissapearence of your younger brother, which was only one of many incidents. It’s up to you to uncover the island’s buried secrets.
Why similar: Exploration 21.8%, Action-Adventure 19.5%, Horror 17.4%, Adventure 11.4%, First-Person 10.4%
- #25 DISPEL
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Biofly Interactive
Windows
In DISPEL, play as the sole survivor of an unknown magical calamity. Explore the ruins of a corrupted wizard academy, avoid the shades of your former friends, solve puzzles to discover new areas of the school, and uncover what happened in Feylight Academy.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 22%, Adventure 21.7%, Horror 19.7%, Exploration 10.8%, 3D 9.4%
- #26 Riot of Willy
66% matchPositive85% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: Too Production
Windows
Is a horror game with an adventure twist. Your task is to solve puzzles and not to get caught by monsters. They all hear and see you, so be careful. Explore the locations and survive in this thrilling horror game
Why similar: Horror 32.2%, Adventure 23.6%, Exploration 19.8%, First-Person 16.2%, Indie 5.1%
- #27 Price of Knowledge
67% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Dark Mind
Windows
Start your journey to meet your fears and new knowledge. You are forced to become an adult and learn the truth.
Why similar: Horror 31.8%, Exploration 19.1%, Adventure 17.9%, First-Person 13.2%, Story Rich 12.2%
- #28 Wendigo's Outside
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: DrexDinisSGPub: Super Games Studios
Windows
Survive Wendigo and any other challenges that await you later in the adventure!
Why similar: Adventure 19.7%, Action-Adventure 19%, Exploration 17.5%, Horror 10.1%, Realistic 9.9%
- #29 The Random Game
64% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Loquendero Dev
Windows
You play as a youngster sent by your mother to buy eggs, a task that seems simple at first. However, as you journey through, you find yourself trapped in a surreal world crafted by comedians, where written words mysteriously turn into unexpected realities, making your errand a wild adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 27.2%, Action-Adventure 25.2%, Exploration 24.3%, 3D 10%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #30 Kindergarten of hell
64% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Twid Entertainment
Windows
You are a detective investigating a case that has been forgotten for 5 years. The case involves finding out why everyone disappeared from a daycare.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 25.9%, Horror 20.8%, Adventure 15.2%, First-Person 14.3%, Realistic 10.1%
- #31 The Dame
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dovlet Mammedov
Windows
A first-person psychological horror where a harmless camp ritual awakens The Dame: a presence bound to mirrors and silence. Break the mirrors before she reaches you.
Why similar: Adventure 20.3%, Action-Adventure 19.7%, Exploration 18.2%, Horror 10.7%, Realistic 9.7%
- #32 After... Prologue
63% matchNo user reviews25% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Grozny23Pub: SGS
Windows
After... This is a survival simulator set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the abandoned city, scavenge for supplies, and try to stay alive. Avoid the infected they’re fast, ruthless, and deadly. In this world, the only person you can truly rely on… is yourself.
Why similar: Adventure 23.6%, Action-Adventure 22%, Exploration 20.1%, Horror 11.6%, First-Person 10.6%
- #33 OKUGAFUCHI Shopping Street
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DorsalFin Studio
Windows
A timid real estate agent is sent to the abandoned Okugafuchi Shopping District to perform a mysterious ritual for redevelopment. But a wandering female ghost and the town’s cursed past stand in the way. As he uncovers old documents and legends, a buried truth begins to surface.
Why similar: Horror 25.9%, Adventure 20.3%, Exploration 16.2%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, 3D 8.7%
- #34 SCOOMART
64% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Chase Wilburn
Windows
SCOOMART is a INDIE-HORROR game created from an inside joke about a pet! As the protagonist, you get stuck working the night shift at a local gas station. What begins as a normal shift quickly turns into a very confusing night.
Why similar: Exploration 23.8%, Action-Adventure 21.2%, Horror 18.4%, Adventure 13%, First-Person 11.4%
- #35 Feed The Flames
62% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Winterwood Studio
Windows
A shadowed forest looms, its hostile residents bound to an ancient evil that is rising again. You bear the heavy burden of an age-old ritual—to keep the demon at bay. Keep the sacred flame burning until dawn, or risk the fate of both yourself and the world.
Why similar: Horror 28.7%, Exploration 22.8%, Action-Adventure 19.8%, First-Person 9.2%, 3D 8.8%
- #36 The Last Tape: Before The Mine
63% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stealth StudiosPub: Stealth Studios UE
Windows
Mia Jane disappeared in 1990 during a camping trip. Years later, Gabriel finds her recording while searching for a cure for her infection at the Lurmont facility. Explore two timelines, uncover the hidden truth, and survive the presence that lurks in the shadows of Black Wood.
Why similar: Horror 27.5%, Action-Adventure 17.9%, Exploration 17%, First-Person 13.7%, Adventure 13.2%
- #37 Day 22
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTTLE Games
Windows
An anomaly horror game where you investigate a barn as Officer Walsh while paranoia, your relationship and the reality of it all slowly collapse, and decisions are gonna have to be made.
Why similar: Adventure 21.3%, Action-Adventure 20.1%, Exploration 18.5%, Horror 12.2%, Realistic 9.5%
- #38 Echoes Of Despair
63% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: MiddleNightGame
Windows
"Echoes Of Despair" plunges players into the horror of an abandoned hospital, where Sarah, an investigative journalist, must survive supernatural forces while uncovering the dark secrets of the past.
Why similar: Adventure 30.2%, Exploration 24.8%, Horror 18.7%, First-Person 14.2%, 3D 10.1%
- #39 Temple of Steel
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nox Metrica
Windows · Mac
A first person survival horror game where you become trapped in a monumentaly vast place known as the Temple of Steel. Explore and escape it as its chilling abominations attempt to devour your soul, and as you struggle with a personal story of revenge, hatred and guilt.
Why similar: Adventure 24.3%, Action-Adventure 21.5%, Exploration 19.6%, Horror 11.7%, 3D 8.8%
- #40 Dread Tomb
62% matchMixed60% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: 轻舟游戏工作室Pub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Dread Tomb is a multiplayer cooperative horror game based on Chinese folk rumors. You will face a rugged random map environment and terrain construction, adventure in various harsh random weather conditions, and discover a variety of thrilling mechanisms and mysterious monsters waiting for you.
Why similar: Adventure 24.9%, Action-Adventure 23.5%, Exploration 21.5%, Horror 18.7%, 3D 9.2%
- #41 The elevator
61% matchVery Positive86% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Springbok
Windows
Something is going on in the elevator of your new home.
Why similar: Exploration 32.7%, Horror 27%, Adventure 21.3%, 3D 12.8%, Indie 4.1%
- #42 Blackthorne's Manor
60% matchPositive85% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Error 404 Studios
Windows
Blackthorne's Manor is a first-person mystery thriller, where logic, puzzles, and the supernatural collide. Search for your missing friend, uncover the secrets of Blackthorne Manor, and escape before the house claims you too.
Why similar: Adventure 19.8%, Action-Adventure 19.7%, Exploration 17.9%, Horror 12.2%, Realistic 9.4%
- #43 Genderman
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PixelForge StudiosPub: PixelForge
Windows
A short, intense psychological horror. Tear up the notes before Genderman finds you — between dark humor, madness, and fear. Meme or nightmare? You decide.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 25.4%, Exploration 23.1%, Horror 16.3%, Realistic 13.7%, First-Person 13.3%
- #44 Vorago
62% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Adam HandschuhPub: Hidden Palm Interactive
Windows
Welcome to the Oracle-Fields. You are AL-1, a droid tasked with assisting research across space stations on the edge of the galaxy. But now, the 'Time-Event' has changed something. Everyone has disappeared. Locate the others. Face the horrors of space. Solve puzzles. Find your way home.
Why similar: Adventure 29.3%, Horror 26.9%, Exploration 21.7%, Story Rich 10.5%, First-Person 9.8%
- #45 Crooked Pines
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neither The Dogs Games
Windows
“Crooked Pines” is a first-person investigative horror game in which you step into the shoes of a retired cop, where the only thing capable of killing you… is your own heart.
Why similar: Adventure 22.1%, Action-Adventure 19.7%, Exploration 18%, Horror 16.2%, First-Person 8.6%
- #46 The Mirst
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OMG STUDIO
Windows
The Mirst is a horror game, you will be unleashed in front of your house where bizarre events are going to happen to you to find the origin of it all.
Why similar: Exploration 26.9%, Action-Adventure 23.5%, Horror 22.2%, First-Person 13.4%, Realistic 10.2%
- #47 HAUNTED STREAMER
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PrankMaker
Windows
Live-stream Japan’s most haunted ruins. Capture ghosts, grow your channel… and survive.
Why similar: Horror 28.6%, Adventure 22.5%, Exploration 21%, 3D 9.5%, First-Person 9%
- #48 PATIENT ZERO
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CHOKECLOUD
Windows
Enter high-risk extraction zones, plant containment bombs, and evacuate before the area is wiped out along with you and your team. Every decision matters. Death is permanent. A hardcore 6-player cooperative horror experience where survival is never guaranteed.
Why similar: Exploration 22.5%, Horror 21%, Action-Adventure 20.5%, Adventure 13.2%, Realistic 10.8%
- #49 The Joycare
61% matchMixed41% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Deadlight Games
Windows
Explore an abandoned daycare haunted by Jacky Joke, a twisted mascot. Survive the horror, uncover dark secrets, and escape your worst childhood nightmare in The JoyCare. This game is made by Deadlight Games. Subscribe to Dvrkkz (He helps me to make my game)
Why similar: Action-Adventure 30.1%, Horror 28.4%, First-Person 17.2%, Adventure 10%, Realistic 8.5%
- #50 The Sinking Structure, Clione, and Lost Child -Log2
64% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: MATRE
Windows
Two silent wanderers,6 full chapters,A game of exploration and adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 31.5%, Action-Adventure 28.3%, Exploration 26.5%, 3D 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #51 Nightmare Nursery
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pothos' games
Windows
An old-school retro stylised horror where you play as an urban explorer, who has been intrigued by rumours regarding an abandoned nursery, with claims of hauntings and disappearances, now hidden by towering trees, left to be nothing but a forgotten memory in the public's eye.
Why similar: Exploration 25.3%, Action-Adventure 22.5%, Horror 15.9%, Adventure 13.1%, First-Person 11%
- #52 The Abandoned Levels
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArcadeHorizon
Windows · Linux
After personal tragedy, you fall into the nightmarish Backrooms. Navigate handcrafted levels, evade deadly creatures, and cling to your sanity. Find the exit – and the answer to whether survival is worth the struggle at all.
Why similar: Exploration 21.3%, Action-Adventure 19.1%, Horror 16.7%, Adventure 11.2%, First-Person 11%
- #53 Sanguis Luna
61% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Domynyo SRL
Windows
Sanguis Luna is a first person Horror video game that catapults you into a frightening Mansion. Your main objective is to escape the infested Mansion, finding objects and challenging riddles while exploring incredible scenarios.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 19.1%, Exploration 18.4%, Adventure 14.7%, Horror 14.6%, Realistic 12.5%
- #54 Project Unknown Designation
61% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: Diggidy.net
Windows
Meet your friends at their cabin in the woods. What lies ahead?
Why similar: Adventure 27.8%, Horror 27.5%, Action-Adventure 20.1%, 3D 12.3%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #55 The Tunnel
62% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Razero
Windows
Awakened in a mysterious place, with no memory of how you got there. Your only companions are your trusty lantern and a weapon. Every step you take, you can't shake the feeling that something's watching. Can you find your way out?
Why similar: Adventure 23%, Action-Adventure 21.8%, Exploration 20%, Horror 14.3%, First-Person 10.7%
- #56 のっぺらぼう
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: ANFWorks
Windows
It is a search-type horror game set in a mansion where curses live."Nopperabo" who became a curse after the tragic event You reached the end,Can you enshrine the curse?
Why similar: Horror 32.4%, Exploration 18.6%, Adventure 17.5%, First-Person 14.4%, 3D 11.9%
- #57 Escape from MLC
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MLC Student Run
Windows
Welcome to Escape from MLC, a game created by students of Metropolitan Learning Center. MLC is a school in Northwest Portland, OR. This is a game based inside of MLC.
Why similar: Adventure 29.8%, Action-Adventure 25.1%, Exploration 22.7%, First-Person 10.3%, 3D 10.1%
- #58 Haunting on Howard Hill
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Poor Rolemodel
Windows
Single-player Horror Adventure through the abandoned site of Howard Hill
Why similar: Horror 23.1%, Exploration 19.6%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Adventure 10%, First-Person 8.8%
- #59 False Earth
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DuffoPub: Breakbound Studios
Windows
Descend deep into the Earth beneath the Kola Superdeep Borehole, exploring underground layers as a geologist sent to investigate strange signals — and uncover that Earth is not what science believes it to be.
Why similar: Adventure 26.4%, Action-Adventure 22.8%, Exploration 18.9%, Horror 11.7%, First-Person 9.6%
- #60 Descend
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Josh Green
Windows · Linux
Descend is a faithful depiction of SCP-087.
Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Adventure 25.9%, Exploration 22.1%, First-Person 8.9%, 3D 7.3%