- #1 Ghost Member
97% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: MDGames
Windows
【Ghost Member】is a single-player ghost investigation horror adventure game. You investigate ghosts in a house where a member of the occult research club who went missing was investigating. The story progresses by using multiple items to find traces left by the ghost and identify the type of ghost.
Why similar: Investigation 22%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 21.3%, Exploration 14.3%, Puzzle 12.9%
- #2 From the Last Shift: Horror Collection
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RadiosityPub: Yahaha Studios
Windows
The Last Shift is a first-person adventure horror game. At midnight, demons roam the amusement park while you are alone on the night shift in the security booth. Collect clues, solve puzzles, face your enemies, and strive to survive the night!
Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Investigation 14.8%, Puzzle 13.1%, Exploration 12.5%
- #3 Demon Of The Dark
96% matchMixed64% of 126 reviews2024
Dev: Green Stream Studio
Windows
A 3D Survival Horror Game, in which the player has to investigate an abandoned medical research facility, while looking out for whatever danger that resides in the unknown darkness. An indie game made by a 14 year old student.
Why similar: Investigation 28%, Horror 25.8%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Exploration 13%, Puzzle 12%
- #4 The Evaluation
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Unicorn Games
Windows
A first-person horror puzzle game about solving cryptic puzzles and surviving a deadly night inside an abandoned drive-in theater.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, Horror 24.2%, Investigation 19.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Exploration 10.7%
- #5 Classroom 3B
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SEJUSTUDIO
Windows
Investigate an abandoned Indian school where the truth was buried — literally. Manage a failing power system, monitor live CCTV feeds, and piece together a tragedy through documents, audio logs, and authentic Hindi voice work in this psychological horror investigation.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.7%, Investigation 29.3%, Horror 26.2%, Puzzle 6.1%, 3D 3.3%
- #6 REDSHIFT
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Gravity Interactive
Windows
A short solo developed psychological narrative horror game where you close your eyes to reveal a hidden layer of reality, the REDSHIFT. Uncover the secrets of the facility, Tower 7, and survive what hunts you within the REDSHIFT.
Why similar: Investigation 36.7%, Horror 31.6%, Psychological Horror 26.5%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #7 PAPAO: The Legend of the Bogeyman
93% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Apenas um Game!
Windows
PAPAO: The Legend of the Bogeyman is a horror game with mascots. Face mystical figures in dark settings, solve mysteries, and use toys as weapons to tackle challenges as you guide a child through an intense, puzzle-filled storyline
Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Psychological Horror 25.6%, Puzzle 16.1%, Exploration 15.5%, 3D 5%
- #8 It's Locked
92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Radion Studios
Windows
A first-person Backrooms game where you have to wait for PATROL to rescue you. In the meantime, you try to stay safe.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.1%, Investigation 25.5%, Horror 22.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Exploration 10%
- #9 Don't Remember
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 72 reviews2022
Dev: Boo! Games
Windows
In Don’t Remember, some things are better left forgotten. Fight your amnesia in this atmospheric, first person psychological horror game. Solve the mystery of the old mansion in 1900’s England through the use of your lantern’s various colors and face its hidden grotesque visage.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.9%, Horror 27.3%, Investigation 14.5%, Puzzle 11.8%, Exploration 5.2%
- #10 Neurophobia 神经恐惧
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 金银花社团工作室Pub: 花落游戏
Windows
Neurophobia is a personal first-person decryption exploration. In order to get rid of neurological symptoms, the protagonist woke up from a coma for unknown reasons and has come to the research institute. As one of the former researchers, he came to explore the true face of it.
Why similar: Horror 28.1%, Investigation 26%, Psychological Horror 25.2%, Exploration 13.7%, Indie 3.1%
- #11 Mimic Alert
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: HiddenGames
Windows
You are on a service to detect and destroy mimics - creatures capable of taking the form of any object. Your task is to carefully inspect your surroundings, use all your attentiveness and various tools to detect mimics.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.1%, Horror 26%, Investigation 13.2%, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 9.5%
- #12 Beguiled Egress
89% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Gregory Montoya
Windows
Beguiled Egress is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and puzzle solving.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.7%, Horror 30.8%, Puzzle 13.9%, Exploration 13.1%, Indie 1.9%
- #13 Dark Inquiry - Profane Soil
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bleh Games
Windows
Investigate an abandoned farm where mysterious accidents have brought the construction of a luxury resort to a halt. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets buried beneath decades of silence.
Why similar: Investigation 35%, Exploration 18.4%, Psychological Horror 18%, Horror 18%, 3D 7.5%
- #14 Crimson Asylum
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Panzo GamesPub: Downmeadowstreet
Windows
Enter the Crimson Asylum with the means to explore and document it's secrets, only to get lost and trapped inside with the horrors that lie in wait.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.7%, Horror 25.4%, Investigation 18.4%, Puzzle 12.1%, Exploration 10.9%
- #15 Labyrinth: Veins of the Machine
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beyond Illusion Studios
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game. You were sent into an abandoned facility to retrieve something — but it's not as empty as you were told. No combat. No rescue. Just what's waiting inside.
Why similar: Horror 36.2%, Psychological Horror 34.4%, Exploration 15%, Puzzle 7.4%, 3D 3.2%
- #16 I'm on Observation Duty
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,249 reviews2019
Dev: Notovia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
Why similar: Horror 39.4%, Psychological Horror 37.9%, Puzzle 15%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #17 Mirror Backrooms
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Funcity
Windows
Fall into the Mirror Backrooms, alone or with up to 3 friends. Two corridors look identical, but something is always wrong. More than 100 Crawlers and ever-changing room laws make your eyes, your memory—even “identical” itself—impossible to trust. The exit is ahead. Where does it lead?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.3%, Horror 25.6%, Exploration 13.4%, Investigation 12.8%, Puzzle 11.2%
- #18 Ketamina
86% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: DTOM Games
Windows
"Ketamine" is a First-Person game in which you need to uncover why you woke up without any memory in an apparently unremarkable apartment, until you discover the secrets of the resident and consider whether you really want to stay or leave.
Why similar: Investigation 33.2%, Puzzle 18%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 17.5%, 3D 7.1%
- #19 The Guestlist
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: __Mike Ten
Windows
The Guestlist is a horror game where you play as a traveler who gets trapped in a hotel during a thunderstorm. The eccentric and strange guest is your only company, but as you talk to them, you'll uncover the hotel's dark history.
Why similar: Horror 29.1%, Psychological Horror 27.8%, Investigation 26.5%, Exploration 8.6%, Indie 3.5%
- #20 Backrooms:The Exit
84% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: XXE Games studio
Windows
Backrooms: The Exit is a single-player adventure game based on theme of backrooms.Inside the game you will need to avoid all threatening entities and find the cutscenes (exits) for each level, and perhaps many unexpected ways out of a level.
Why similar: Horror 35.2%, Psychological Horror 33%, Exploration 16%, Puzzle 8.3%, 3D 6.3%
- #21 Doors More Doors
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ATTG Studios
Windows · Linux
Doors Moor Doors is a game involving the lengthy process of opening doors testing the mentality of anyone who dares to play it.
Why similar: Investigation 27.3%, Psychological Horror 25.3%, Horror 24.1%, Puzzle 14.8%, 3D 6.8%
- #22 Dead Air
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Blue Feather
Windows
Isolated in a forgotten Canadian forest, you must unravel the truth behind E.C.H.O. Track down lost cassettes, solve cryptic puzzles, and evade the creatures lurking in the fog. Piece together the secrets of a defunct organization.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Horror 24.7%, Investigation 18.8%, Exploration 12.5%, Puzzle 9.6%
- #23 P.I.D.
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: João Victor da SilvaPub: AMDI Studios
Windows
Without memories, all you have is your medicine. What happened to the world? What happened to you? P.I.D. is a first-person puzzle and suspense game in which you must survive 5 chapters in one house. Good luck!
Why similar: Investigation 31.6%, Horror 27.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Exploration 11.6%, Puzzle 6.3%
- #24 File 47
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Kalimater Studios
Windows
A forgotten file. An echo that repeats. Memories that aren’t yours. The past always finds a way back. Are you ready to remember?
Why similar: Horror 39%, Psychological Horror 37%, Exploration 14.7%, 3D 4.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #25 The Hauntings: Dark Passenger
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken Cuff Studio
Windows
Dive into Alex Mercer's twisted reality. Navigate eerie landscapes, solve cryptic puzzles, and uncover the 'Dark Passenger' mystery. Will shadows consume you or will truth emerge?
Why similar: Horror 32.3%, Psychological Horror 30.4%, Puzzle 16.1%, Exploration 11%, 3D 4.8%
- #26 Idrscape
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: idrsgames
Windows · Mac
Idrscape is a first-person solo game, search and analyze the clues to find the codes and keys that will allow you to get out of the building as quickly as possible.
Why similar: Investigation 45%, Puzzle 23.4%, Exploration 20.8%, 3D 8.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #27 Ascendora
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beepy Games
Windows
A first person horror game where you play as Harper, the child of an infamous scientist. You must explore his abandoned laboratory to find the answers you have been looking for. Unravel the secrets of your parents, but be aware, you might not be alone...
Why similar: Investigation 39.2%, Horror 32%, Exploration 15.4%, Puzzle 7.5%, 3D 3.6%
- #28 Escapism: The doll house
77% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Motazin
Windows · Linux
First-person psychological horror escape-room: You're a caregiver in a house where reality fractures and memories melt into the architecture. Read the environment, solve puzzles, and confront the blurred line between truth and illusion.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.5%, Horror 26.1%, Investigation 12.4%, Puzzle 11.6%, Exploration 9.5%
- #29 Anomaly Directive
77% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Grewler Games
Windows
Assigned to monitor live surveillance feeds, you must identify and report anomalies before the threat escalates beyond containment.
Why similar: Investigation 28.6%, Psychological Horror 27.9%, Horror 26.7%, Puzzle 14.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #30 CALENDULA
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 366 reviews2016
Dev: Blooming Buds Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
How to play a game that doesn't want to be played? Calendula is an experimental meta game about trying to play a game. Use your logic to thrive against conventions and get surrounded by a dark atmosphere.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.2%, Puzzle 24.7%, Horror 24%, Indie 9.1%
- #31 Mysteries of Black Hollow
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Red Ash Studios
Windows
Set in a sunless town cursed by the Architect, Mysteries of Black Hollow is a shop management and extraction game. Ride your wagon into blighted lands, gather relics, and trade dark heirlooms to restore the church. But beware: every fortune has its price.
Why similar: Horror 47.2%, Psychological Horror 36.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%, Indie 2.4%
- #32 4D Minesweeper
78% matchVery Positive94% of 694 reviews2018
Dev: Julian Schlüntz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
4D Minesweeper brings the classic mechanics of Minesweeper into the fourth dimension and adds some new features to it.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 58.2%, Puzzle 18%, Horror 17.4%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #33 Absolute Tenebra
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absolute Tenebra
Windows
Absolute Tenebra is a third-person survival horror game. Play as a mysterious girl trapped in a surreal building, immersed in a living darkness where nightmares come to life. Explore haunted halls, solve puzzles, and evade horrific creatures to uncover the secrets of the Wardheim Museum.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27%, Horror 26.6%, Puzzle 15.7%, Investigation 14.5%, Exploration 9.2%
- #34 Psychotic Nightmare
76% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Dani17
Windows
Enter the dark corridors of your high school, the source of your psychotic episodes, and face your haunting fears embodied in shadows to try and find a way to sanity.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.6%, Investigation 31.2%, Puzzle 13.6%, Exploration 12.2%, 3D 4.5%
- #35 The Somnus Fracture
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adhiraj Bhagawati
Windows
A psychological horror adventure where you explore shifting dream worlds, solve immersive environmental puzzles, and unravel the mysteries of your fractured mind inside a surreal facility.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.3%, Horror 27.9%, Investigation 17.2%, Exploration 14.5%, 3D 4%
- #36 Anomaly Street
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pinholic
Windows
In Anomaly Street you must look around for anything that doesn't seem quite right. Once you've decided if there's an anomaly or not, continue down the road you think is right.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.8%, Horror 22.6%, Investigation 15.9%, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 9.8%
- #37 Gallery : Moa's Room
76% match4 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Lee Geon Jae
Windows
Gallery: Moa's Room is a puzzle first-person single horror game. Wandering through the museum, you were trapped in a hidden room. You should find a way to escape the room by following some precautions prepared by the museum.
Why similar: Horror 32.5%, Psychological Horror 32.3%, Puzzle 21.8%, 3D 9.2%, Indie 2.4%
- #38 Smiglee's Statues: The Cursed Curation
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WoollyOne Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short first-person narrative horror simulator about cataloging and restoring museum statues while uncovering unsettling inconsistencies.
Why similar: Horror 26.4%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Investigation 22.4%, Exploration 12.1%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #39 Replace the Lamp: The Last Shift
72% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Penjaga Malam Studio
Windows
Every light you replace makes the house a little brighter. But something inside prefers to live in the dark. And now, it knows you’re here.
Why similar: Investigation 29.4%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Horror 18.7%, Exploration 13.6%, Puzzle 12.3%
- #40 HGPP
73% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: joid
Windows
a p̶e̶r̶f̶e̶c̶t horror game
Why similar: Horror 48%, Psychological Horror 44.7%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 3%
- #41 Lumenile: Found Footage
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: thedevvdude
Windows
a found footage style phycological horror game
Why similar: Horror 33%, Psychological Horror 31.7%, Puzzle 14.5%, Exploration 12.9%, 3D 4.7%
- #42 No Exit : Anomaly
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beoru Studio
Windows
A single-player psychological survival horror. At the end of an ordinary day, a routine subway ride leads you into a bizarre, endless alternate reality. Survive against overwhelming dread and surreal creatures by utilizing your surroundings.
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Psychological Horror 32.9%, Exploration 13.3%, Puzzle 10.5%, 3D 4.4%
- #43 Solo Path
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: JMG
Windows
Enter at night in an abandoned place in the middle of the forest.Realize that you are trapped inside.Trying to escape to survive ...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 24.6%, Investigation 18%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 12.4%
- #44 Unanswered
69% matchVery Positive96% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: WhiteRoot Studio
Windows
You wake up in a strange place, not knowing who you are, where you are, or how you got here. Trapped in an environment that twists to break your sanity, your only way out is to delve into the unknown and face the horrors of a past your mind is trying to hide.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.4%, Horror 30.1%, Exploration 14.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, 3D 4.8%
- #45 Decommission Protocol
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Worldspawn Studios
Windows
A short horror game where you control a maintenance space elevator and decommission a derelict space station.
Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Psychological Horror 30.7%, Puzzle 13.9%, Exploration 13.3%, 3D 4.8%
- #46 Project Tape
71% matchMixed68% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: Stealth StudioPub: Stealth Studio UE
Windows
Experience the arrival of The Last Tape's protagonist in this short horror adventure that reveals what happened before the main events. Explore Lurmont’s abandoned facilities, avoid the mysterious creature, and descend step by step into a hell you might not escape from
Why similar: Psychological Horror 45.9%, Horror 45.7%, Indie 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #47 Midnight Overtime
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EXS
Windows
A first-person atmospheric horror experience where hidden clues and impossible spaces draw you deeper into a place that should not exist.
Why similar: Horror 32.6%, Psychological Horror 31.2%, Investigation 22.7%, Exploration 6.6%, 3D 3.8%
- #48 Floor Zero
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GSS Interactive
Windows
An atmospheric anomaly horror game set inside a mysterious hospital. Observe your surroundings, identify anomalies, survive deadly Threat encounters, and reach Floor Zero.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.8%, Horror 24.4%, Investigation 21.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Puzzle 11.3%
- #49 人间恶灵 Evil Spirits of the Mortal World
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Individual
Windows
Evil Spirit is a third-person, single-player psychological horror exploration game. As a psychiatrist drawn into a disturbing mystery, players will investigate a friend's disappearance by exploring eerie environments, collecting clues, and confronting unsettling visions to uncover the dark truth.
Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Puzzle 19.3%, Exploration 18.5%, 3D 8%
- #50 Dead Stop - No Vacancy
67% matchPositive81% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: Camel 101
Windows
One night at the Paradise Motel. One reporter who took a wrong turn. One thing certain: nobody checks out clean. A short retro horror inspired by 80s slasher films.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28%, Horror 27.5%, Investigation 24.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Exploration 9.8%
- #51 Escape30DayCircle
69% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: ZHANG YI
Windows
A first person perspective horror game for finding anomalies. This realistic style of 'Escape from 30 Day Cycle' may be suitable for you. You will play the role of a stay at home man. One day, the player is trapped by a mysterious force and needs to explore secrets and find ways to escape
Why similar: Investigation 30.4%, Psychological Horror 26.9%, Horror 21%, Exploration 9.9%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #52 Urban Pulse: Nightwatch
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rendrify Interactive
Windows
Monitor the city from your window. Identify anomalies, capture proof, and file reports before Exposure spikes. Miss too much, and what you’re watching starts watching back.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.7%, Investigation 27.1%, Horror 25.2%, Puzzle 8.9%, Exploration 7%
- #53 last seen online
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,301 reviews2024
Dev: Sochin Studio
Windows · Mac
Look through someone else’s computer. Inspired by early “escape room” flash games.
Why similar: Horror 35.5%, Investigation 25%, Puzzle 19.2%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Indie 2.5%
- #54 Apartment203:HongKong
67% matchMixed46% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Seasonbean Team
Windows
Apartment 203: HongKong is a first-person horror adventure game set in the urban landscape of Hong Kong. The story follows a young man who returns from abroad to investigate his sister's mysterious disappearance by moving into her former residence in an old tenement building.
Why similar: Horror 34.1%, Psychological Horror 32.7%, Puzzle 14.9%, Exploration 11%, Indie 3.9%
- #55 Circustime
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: moncage
Windows
"CircusTime" combines circus nostalgia with horror. As Olive, explore eerie levels and puzzles to uncover dark secrets in a haunting, immersive journey.
Why similar: Horror 38.5%, Psychological Horror 36.5%, Puzzle 15.3%, 3D 5.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #56 BrainRooms - Brainrot Backrooms
68% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Tuning Mania
Windows
🧠 BRAINROOMS is a grotesque horror born from a twisted internet: rotten memes, entities laughing at you, rooms that feel all wrong. A trashy, surreal nightmare where you scream, laugh, and lose your mind. Survive… if you can even grasp what’s happening.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32%, Investigation 27.3%, Horror 26.5%, Exploration 9.3%, 3D 2.3%
- #57 Fooling Dead
67% matchMixed60% of 30 reviews2026
Dev: Seasonbean Team
Windows
On April Fool’s Day, the protagonist is caught in eerie supernatural events! As you investigate, uncover the truth behind a past tragedy. Explore chilling scenes, solve mysteries, and face unknown fears—can you survive?
Why similar: Horror 35.8%, Psychological Horror 32%, Puzzle 14.5%, Exploration 10.7%, Indie 3.4%
- #58 Birthday Boy
65% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Experience the birthday party from hell. Face your demons - both psychological and mechanical. Kill plush toys, evade demonic animatronics and possessed puppets… Aaaannnnnd…discover the truth about your evil clown father. Yes, your own father…
Why similar: Horror 41.3%, Psychological Horror 39.1%, Puzzle 16.3%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #59 In Her Image
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio MHB
Windows
A psychological horror game about descent through grief.
Why similar: Horror 31.8%, Puzzle 19.6%, Exploration 19.4%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, 3D 8.7%