- #1 Archimedes
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: Joshua Hughes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
After you purchase and install Archimedes, an old operating system appears to be running, and a strange man asks for your help as you start to discover the terrible secrets behind the game.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #2 The Renovator
96% matchMixed66% of 99 reviews2019
Dev: mirzagame5
Windows
In this game you’re an experienced restorer currently working in a museum workshop. The restorer’s friend requested him to fix some old exhibits. From that moment his adventure starts.
Why similar: Indie 59.7%, Horror 40.3%
- #3 Vernon's Legacy
96% matchMixed57% of 116 reviews2016
Dev: TripleBrick
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Vernon's Legacy is an horror adventure with an enigmatic story that takes place nearly a century ago. You are playing as Robert, the new owner of Dunkenhof manor.
Why similar: Indie 57.2%, Horror 42.8%
- #4 Gil's Lucid Dreams
95% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Oblion Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Gil's Lucid Dreams is a FPS horror game based on the story and exploration. Gil use lucid dreams to get away from his unsatisfacting life. He will lose the control of his dreams, becoming completely succubus of his nightmares. Will Gil be able to face his Alter Ego?
Why similar: Indie 56.1%, Horror 43.9%
- #5 The Renovator: Origins
93% matchVery Positive86% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Peace_Studio
Windows
You play as the son of a restorer, a museum worker who died tragically. While searching for the memorabilia, the door suddenly closes and strange things begin to happen. The hero is waiting for immersion in the world of art and the paranormal.
Why similar: Horror 63.6%, Indie 36.4%
- #6 TIMORE REMAKE
94% matchMixed68% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Official remake of the original Timore, that was released in 2014. Mannequins, darkness, blood, loneliness and horror.
Why similar: Horror 93.1%, Indie 6.9%
- #7 BlackShadows
94% matchVery Negative16% of 170 reviews2015
Dev: IceGames Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 17%
BlackShadows is a survival horror game where you'll assume the role of a young scientist who is fighting against her worst nightmare... You'll have to escape from a strange and creepy place in order to survive. You think it's easy? Be careful : Black Shadows are never friendly!
Why similar: Indie 58.2%, Horror 41.8%
- #8 False Dream
91% matchVery Positive97% of 477 reviews2024
Dev: TenkaiGames
Windows
You find yourself trapped in a dream. If you capture anomalies in the dream with a camera, you might be able to escape.
Why similar: Horror 66.2%, Indie 33.8%
- #9 EW/WE
91% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: Date/Time
Windows
EWWE – is just a dream. A bad dream in which you find yourself in captivity in your own room. A bad dream, which seems more like a reality sometimes.
Why similar: Indie 62.8%, Horror 37.2%
- #10 Project Liminal 2
88% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Indie 52.9%, Horror 47.1%
- #11 Shifting To The Backrooms
87% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Oopsome Games
Windows
Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".
Why similar: Horror 82.8%, Indie 17.2%
- #12 Investigator
89% matchMixed69% of 1,029 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 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #13 Grandpa
89% matchMixed49% of 331 reviews2018
Dev: PuddingPub: Cheesecake
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
*Early access game* Grandpa is a survival horror game. You woke up in a house you never knew. Strange things happen in the house. You have to find a way to survive and get out of the house.
Why similar: Indie 65%, Horror 35%
- #14 Time Ramesside (A New Reckoning)
90% matchMostly Negative21% of 398 reviews2015
Dev: Panzer Gaming Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Mark Faroh is a Scientist that discovered a new way to harvest energy from Biological beings. Shortly after his discovery his almost perfect life gets flipped upside down. Discover a story were greed of man kind can turn even the best of us into a demon.
Why similar: Indie 67.6%, Horror 32.4%
- #15 DREAM LOGIC
86% matchVery Positive90% of 394 reviews2022
Dev: Teleopsia Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%
DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.
Why similar: Horror 63.6%, Indie 36.4%
- #16 Reflection
84% matchVery Positive84% of 247 reviews2025
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
Why similar: Horror 91.7%, Indie 8.3%
- #17 Jumpscare Simulator: System Breach
83% matchVery Positive91% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: Durultay Games
Windows
Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!
Why similar: Horror 79.4%, Indie 20.6%
- #18 The Nightmare
86% matchMixed50% of 74 reviews2020
Dev: Leakage Games
Windows
The Nightmare is a first-person horror game. Dive into the nightmare and try to get rid of that nightmare...
Why similar: Horror 76.7%, Indie 23.3%
- #19 Nightmares to be
85% matchMixed67% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: WolfAndOthers
Windows
A scientific research and development facility based in Norilsk, Flow Crop. is attempting to investigate crimes through people's nightmares. The player gets to walk into a virtual world, and investigate the reason for such nightmares. solve puzzles and face enemies.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #20 Anomalies Detective
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: ChenGame
Windows
A psychological horror game with a chapter-based plot, thriller and unusual elements! You are a novice paranormal detective, exploring secrets and finding ways to escape in an infinite loop of scenes. Many unusual things happen during this process, as if some strange force wants to devour you...
Why similar: Horror 62.1%, Indie 37.9%
- #21 The Dire
82% matchVery Positive82% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: Grumpi
Windows
Dean Holt, popular Urbex vlogger, sets off on another exploration of an abandoned home but this time things aren't going as planned. Something dark is lurking inside and Dean quickly finds himself in over his head
Why similar: Horror 69.2%, Indie 30.8%
- #22 Directionless
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: Zach Tsiakalis-Brown
Windows
Directionless is an experimental Virtual Reality horror game. It tries out a variety of ways of using Virtual Reality to unnerve and disorient the player, with carefully crafted audio working with an interactive environment to pull you into a nightmarish world where you can't trust anything.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Score the Fear
79% matchVery Positive98% of 224 reviews2025
Dev: AquaEternity
Windows
The little ghost that appeared before your eyes seems to want to become a proper evil spirit. He'll scare you in a variety of ways, so rate him on whether he was scary or not.
Why similar: Horror 66.3%, Indie 33.7%
- #24 The Green Light
78% matchVery Positive82% of 102 reviews2026
Dev: waleedzo
Windows
A first person horror game. Fred is stuck in a dead-end job, haunted by hallucinations. A voice on the radio speaks of a green light. It promises peace and freedom. A tale of self-discovery where Fred is willing to find freedom, even at the cost of his life.
Why similar: Horror 65.8%, Indie 34.2%
- #25 Timore Inferno
81% matchMixed58% of 351 reviews2016
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Timore Inferno is the 4th indie horror game in the Timore series. Strange visitors have come to a little girl's house, robbing her home and killing everyone inside... Except her. With dolls holding the anger of her loss, everyone who tries to go there and investigate what happened wind up missing.
Why similar: Indie 55.4%, Horror 44.6%
- #26 Don't Play This
76% matchVery Positive85% of 628 reviews2026
Dev: AdmiaPub: Notex
Windows
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
Why similar: Horror 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #27 [Stories to Tell] Greyville Stay
76% matchVery Positive86% of 229 reviews2025
Dev: zebaxx
Windows
"Stories to Tell" Is a psychological horror game series developed by a 15 year old kid were each installment is based on a dream/nightmare me the developer has had. This is a game you wouldn't want to miss...
Why similar: Horror 73.4%, Indie 26.6%
- #28 Autumn Dream
81% matchMixed48% of 234 reviews2016
Dev: GDNomaD
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
You've inherited a small house. The documents say that you will only have a right to own it once you manage to live there for at least few days. But you must not go outside at night and shouldn't open the cellar door. Is there a chance to meet the conditions? Only time will show!
Why similar: Horror 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #29 Father´s Island
80% matchMixed63% of 56 reviews2016
Dev: Homegrown GamesPub: Intr Studio Pty Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Father´s Island is a mystic, surreal visual novel / playable B-Movie in a 3D open world, with hundreds of buildings, structures and relics, wildlife and strange machinery. Combining dense atmosphere with mystery, horror & exploration!
Why similar: Indie 74.5%, Horror 25.5%
- #30 Lair of Torment
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 191 reviews2023
Dev: Admia
Windows
This is an indie horror game with first-person puzzles. Terror and fear have enveloped the city. The maniac has returned. You sneak into his lair to try and stop him before he goes too far...
Why similar: Horror 92.8%, Indie 7.2%
- #31 Lex Mortis
79% matchMixed46% of 157 reviews2015
Dev: Denis Esie
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Lex Mortis is an open-world horror game set on a fully explorable island. The game’s atmosphere is directly affected by the time of day. During the daytime you will study the island and it’s mysteries. But at night the enemies reveal themselves, and the worst nightmare becomes real!
Why similar: Horror 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #32 White Room Protocol
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 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 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #33 Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker
73% matchMixed69% of 1,714 reviews2025
Dev: markuwaaaaa
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Steve Jackson, a 19-year-old guy, is looking after a friends house and encounters eerie events in a small town. Dive into the dark mystery of the events you unwittingly became a part of. Will you be able to uncover the truth?
Why similar: Horror 76%, Indie 24%
- #34 LIMINAL SHIFT
73% matchVery Positive82% of 252 reviews2025
Dev: NextPhase Studios
Windows
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
Why similar: Horror 62.5%, Indie 37.5%
- #35 Darkness Ahead
78% matchMixed52% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: Useless MachinesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.
Why similar: Indie 60.9%, Horror 39.1%
- #36 Try To Fall Asleep
75% matchVery Positive90% of 194 reviews2019
Dev: AmberDrop
Windows
John Herrin survived a horrible accident, damaging his brain and memory. Through falling asleep, he can rediscover his unfortunate past in his dreams, but due to his brain damage he'll start to see visions and hallucinations, and falling asleep won't be as easy as it seems at first...
Why similar: Horror 72%, Indie 28%
- #37 MIND CORRIDORS: Paroniria
74% matchVery Positive96% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Heartbyte Studios
Windows
A fever-dream-like puzzle horror game. Descend to the depths of a sleeping curse, survive every floor and find your way out of the never ending nightmare.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #38 Despair
77% matchMostly Negative35% of 1,837 reviews2015
Dev: AGC
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Indie 68%, Horror 32%
- #39 Decay: The Mare
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,051 reviews2015
Dev: Shining Gate SoftwarePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Sam is an addict who ends up in an institution named “Reaching Dreams”, hoping to kick his drug problem and sort out his miserable life. But during the first night, something goes horribly wrong and he gets stuck in an endless nightmare…
Why similar: Horror 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
- #40 異ノ故リ-Isolated Hours-
71% matchVery Positive89% of 56 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 100%
- #41 Dream Cage
72% matchMixed66% of 314 reviews2025
Dev: Hitori De Productions
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Robert battles early Alzheimer's and nightly sleep paralysis. Each night reveals fragments of his past. Uncover the truth and help him solve the mysteries haunting his mind.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #42 Unseen
71% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Redsroll
Windows
It’s an indie horror game where John, a forensic photographer, after an unexpected and exhausting shift, is forced to spend the night away from home. What seemed like a temporary rest soon begins to turn unsettling.
Why similar: Horror 68.3%, Indie 31.7%
- #43 Paranormal VHS
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 140 reviews2023
Dev: Elite Lords Studios
Windows
Paranormal VHS is a horror game that features a VHS tape-inspired aesthetic. The game's story revolves around a popular vlogger who spends a night in haunted locations in search of paranormal activity. Brace for intense jumpscares.
Why similar: Horror 83.5%, Indie 16.5%
- #44 Paranormal place
72% matchMixed65% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: ASK_GAMES
Windows
Alex is a blogger who explores places with paranormal phenomena. At the request of his subscribers, he goes to an abandoned place where, according to rumors, some creepy things were noticed. What is happening there? You have to find it out.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #45 Mortisomem
70% matchVery Positive92% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: David Pateti
Windows · Linux
Donald Barnes is a successful merchant who one day on his way home, starts being stalked by a dangerous demon from the Colonial Times. Now he has to find a way back home or finally defeat Mortisomem.
Why similar: Horror 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #46 Pomberito
67% matchVery Positive94% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: Lara the Pitbull
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Survive 5 nights in the heart of northeastern Argentina as a local farmer and reveal the truth behind the haunting tales of the Pombero in a world where folklore meets terror.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #47 RESTORER
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Beshbarmak games
Windows
RESTORER is a classic walking simulator set in an old, atmospheric mansion. Something roams the halls… It wants to share its secret—with the price being your sanity.
Why similar: Indie 51.3%, Horror 48.7%
- #48 OPEN DOOR
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 117 reviews2023
Dev: BraveCat'Studios
Windows
A scientific experiment in which no one survives, in a first-person survival horror game made by one developer In the role of a random person who is trapped in an experiment, try to get out and find out what is happening in this abandoned place.
Why similar: Indie 71.3%, Horror 28.7%
- #49 NIDANA
67% matchVery Positive86% of 193 reviews2025
Dev: lvl374Pub: PLAYISM
Windows
She continues to dream. A first-person dream simulator where you explore a corner of a dream.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 My Sleeping Girlfriend
66% matchVery Positive95% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Dog Games
Windows
Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #51 Five Stages of Pink
68% matchVery Positive98% of 93 reviews2022
Dev: Kaffein
Windows · Mac · Linux
Horror mystery about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city while trying to survive one more day. In a universe where Sleep is an illness. This is a visual novel with point and click features.
Why similar: Horror 72.3%, Indie 27.7%
- #52 彼岸画廊/Nether Gallery
69% matchVery Positive86% of 206 reviews2019
Dev: HongShou Studio
Windows · Mac
《Nether Gallery》 is a cross-section puzzle-solving horror game in which players play a social animal and solve puzzles in the interlaced environment of dreams and reality. The style of background art is similar to that of contemporary China, and the living condition of the protagonist has a lot of resonance with the young people of...
Why similar: Indie 62.2%, Horror 37.8%
- #53 Dementium II HD
71% matchMixed50% of 1,276 reviews2013
Dev: Memetic GamesPub: Missing Link Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The visage of doctors and patients alike fade in and out of these nightmarish visions of tortured memories. This eggshell reality is fractured by experiments conducted in the ward. Blood, flesh and screams surround as you put together the pieces of your story and make your escape from the Bright Dawn Treatment Center while the dark...
Why similar: Horror 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #54 50 Floors: The Paranormal Investigators Prologue
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 477 reviews2024
Dev: Arsonist Studio
Windows
Find a way out.
Why similar: Horror 61.5%, Indie 38.5%
- #55 Fragments of Dread - False Haven
64% matchVery Positive92% of 227 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 66.9%, Indie 33.1%
- #56 SCARY MAGIC ZOMBIE
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: OP37K
Windows
EVIL SCIENTISTS have created a SCARY MAGIC ZOMBIE! Play as a top secret spy, who enters the zombie facility, and collects information about the zombie. But be cautious! The zombie is very dangerous!
Why similar: Horror 77.7%, Indie 22.3%
- #57 Overtime Anomaly
65% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #58 Trucker Horror
66% matchMixed67% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Fireplay Studio
Windows
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 79%, Indie 21%
- #59 SEPTEMBER 1999
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,473 reviews2018
Dev: 98DEMAKE
Windows · Mac
A free, VHS styled, first-person found footage horror game, which runs exactly for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.
Why similar: Horror 61.3%, Indie 38.7%
