Games Like True Abstraction: Forbidden

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Underground 25% ★, Walking Simulator 17%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Surreal 8.5%, Puzzle 7.9%

Spot anomalies in a looping complex of empty poolrooms. Choose the correct exit and find the way out.

Why similar: Underground 26.2% ★, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Surreal 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Puzzle 8.1%

Explore a looping corridor filled with anomalies. Walk through the fluorescent-lit backrooms environment, examine your surroundings, and spot subtle changes in reality.

Why similar: Underground 23.3% ★, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Surreal 11.2%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Minimalist 7.3%

Frog Corner is a single-player horror game where you go to an abandoned arcade looking for the arcade machine "Frog Corner", yet you go too deep inside the building. The deeper you go in the weirder and deadlier it gets.

Why similar: Underground 24.1% ★, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Horror 9%, Linear 8.3%, Puzzle 8.1%

Trapped inside a narrow pipeline, your only choices are to move forward or backward. Deadly obstacles stand in your way, and a single mistake means starting over. Can you escape?

Why similar: Underground 29.5% ★, Walking Simulator 22.6%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, First-Person 8.5%, Horror 8.5%

Short description, huh? Ok - run from IRS, try to find money, don't lose your corporate infested mind.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.6%, Surreal 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 10.5%, First-Person 9.9%

Your son had no-clipped into The Backrooms three years ago and you've finally found a way in to get him back. Armed with only a video camera and your determination, you set out on a journey to find him and get him out no matter the cost. Traversing the 12 levels will test your courage and resolve.

Why similar: Underground 19.5% ★, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Surreal 12.9%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 7.7%

17 Horror rooms simulating common phobias. Are you afraid of spiders, cockroaches, snakes, heights, fire, being buried alive? Enter the black doors and conquer your fears!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.6%, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 9.6%, First-Person 8.9%

A lightweight psychological horror and a walking simulator, where the player needs to carefully observe the surroundings to succesfully flee from this wretched place.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Surreal 12.3%, Horror 11.1%, Puzzle 9.4%

Blind Sound is a Game about, Exploration and Puzzle-solving. This is a Linear Story Based horror game which sets in a science facility. You will discover tons of thing and find about the Creepy history of this facility with Full of Creatures That extremely Dangerous.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.1%, Psychological Horror 13%, Surreal 12.5%, Horror 10.8%, Puzzle 9.7%

An exploration puzzle game inspired by the liminal space aesthetic. Explore a huge unknown facility deep underground and solve puzzles while trying to figure out why you are here, and why there is no one there.

Why similar: Underground 26% ★, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Puzzle 9.1%, Linear 7.6%

You must discover the differences between what you see through the camera and with your own eyes to distinguish real floors from fake ones and escape. It is said that ghosts behave the opposite of humans, and taking the elevator is no exception.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.3%, Surreal 11.5%, First-Person 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Horror 9.8%

"Office 8" is a psychological walking simulator exploring the unsettling nature of liminal office spaces. Pay close attention — your sanity depends on it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Surreal 12.8%, Horror 11.2%, Puzzle 9.4%

What lies beyond The 4th Wall?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.9%, Surreal 23.1%, Horror 16%, Puzzle 8.7%, Minimalist 8.1%

A short psychological horror game about descending into a cave.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.5%, Horror 13.9%, Surreal 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, First-Person 8.6%

You can go left or right, but remember, a mistake will cost you your life…

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 11.1%, Puzzle 9.3%

Cognition Method is a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris. Discover the innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveil a non-ordinary story.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Surreal 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Puzzle 8.8%, Horror 8.4%

Make pizzas and deliver them. The hardest part of running the shop alone is that the delivery destinations are "liminal spaces." A story-driven 3D horror game. There is a kind of worst possible outcome that can only be born in infinite space. Once you understand it, it is already too late.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.5%, Surreal 11.6%, First-Person 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Horror 8.4%

A first-person atmospheric horror game. Explore and uncover secrets about the Paragon Corporation, a pharmaceutical on the forefront of innovation.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.9%, Horror 16%, Puzzle 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, First-Person 9.5%

CoRoT is a first-person psychological meta-horror game. Search for cassettes in a transforming house, unraveling its macabre past. A sinister atmosphere surrounds you as you try to understand what's happening and where you really are. Can you discover the truth hidden in its walls?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18%, Surreal 17.3%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Puzzle 9.7%, Horror 9.7%

A computer engineer arrives in a remote mountain village, where tech failures and missing residents put him face to face with an unsettling force lurking behind the screen.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Surreal 13.6%, Horror 10.4%, Puzzle 8.3%

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: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Surreal 12.8%, Horror 12.2%, Puzzle 11%

In this first-person horror experience you will solve puzzles while navigating the pitch black Reed forest. Armed with only your flashlight you are at the mercy of the forests inhabitants, with limited time to find your way before they find you and end your adventure.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.4%, Horror 16.8%, Puzzle 14.1%, First-Person 12.1%, Linear 9.9%

You’re a thief! You’ve received a job from a dealer, and now you must steal several artifacts from an ancient tomb recently discovered by archaeologists!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.6%, Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 13.9%, Puzzle 10.7%, First-Person 9.9%

A horror game about paranoia and endurance predation. You cannot beat the monsters, you can only outrun. They are slow, they aren't smart, but they are patient, they are many, and they are powerful.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Horror 16.1%, Minimalist 15.4%, First-Person 12.3%, Puzzle 7.8%

Your first day at the local mine got a hell of a twist when the tunnels caved in. Can you escape when the only way out is going deeper? Avoid the deadly creatures, push through hallucinations and remember: Don't panic.

Why similar: Underground 24.4% ★, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 13.6%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, First-Person 10.1%

SATORI | 悟り is a game that focuses on feelings of sadness and restlessness. In SATORI | 悟り the player immerses himself in a dream world to go on a inner journey of meditation. Are you ready to begin your journey within?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.1%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Linear 12.5%, First-Person 11.3%, Puzzle 11%

Haunting Memories is a psychological horror, walking simulator, platforming and puzzle game. You play as a middle aged man that has made a deal with the devil and must now face the consequences. The game takes place in an old mansion with occult themes and a rich story ready to be uncovered.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 14.4%, Puzzle 13%, Story Rich 6.1%

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: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Underground 18.7% ★, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 10.5%, Puzzle 9.8%

You are trapped in a corridor suspended above the clouds. At the end lies a door. Explore the ever-changing environment each time you open it, find anomalies, use the alarm, and break the loop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Surreal 12.3%, Puzzle 10.4%, Horror 9.4%

Sometimes, regrets come too late. When you're over 40, you start to rethink your life. You remember people and events that completely changed you. I will tell you 7 stories that happened to me in childhood, after which I became a different person.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Surreal 14.4%, Horror 12%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Puzzle 9.5%

Spot the anomalies. Escape the loop. Akeno’s Veil is a psychological horror game where spotting anomalies is your only escape—from the relentless demon determined to pull you back.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Surreal 13.8%, Horror 11.1%, Puzzle 10%

You are a father on a quest for 8 milk cartons. Observe your surroundings carefully to pick up and check out your milk before returning to your family at last.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Surreal 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 10.9%, Puzzle 9.9%

You are an Earworm. You are an underworld contractor who hacks memories for a living. Dive into the memories of your victims in order to unlock the security questions to their bank account.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.2%, Surreal 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Horror 7.6%

Ominous Obscurity is a single-player horror adventure game set in places from the protagonist's childhood. Solve interesting puzzles, while hiding from insidious horrors waiting for you in the shadows.

Why similar: Surreal 16.2%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Puzzle 10.9%, Horror 10.6%

You find yourself in a quiet room with four doors. There's ALWAYS an anomaly. Choose wisely.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 10.5%, Puzzle 9.4%

Echo in Capistrano is an atmospheric horror game with a simple goal - rescue the survivors, escape, and most importantly survive. Use your unique echo ability to find a path through the dizzying cave system of Capistrano, but be careful, there are things that lie in wait and they are hungry...

Why similar: Underground 22.6% ★, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Surreal 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Horror 7.9%

A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.7%, Surreal 19.5%, Psychological Horror 15%, First-Person 7.3%, Horror 5.8%

You wake up to find yourself standing before an old house. The painful memories buried deep within your heart suddenly return. You don’t remember it well, but you used to live here. This is where it happened.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.5%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 16.1%, First-Person 10.7%, Puzzle 6.8%

You are inside an endless hotel but there is a way you can escape. Search in the hallways of the hotel and find the changes within them to reach Room 13.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.6%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Surreal 13.5%, Horror 11.2%, First-Person 9.2%

Memorize the room. Spot the anomaly. Flip the switch. If you miss a detail, the loop resets. A psychological horror where your attention is the only weapon against a shifting reality. Can you break the cycle?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Surreal 13.5%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Horror 8.9%

Upon visiting his decrepit and dying grandfather, Isaac discovers an ancient evil that has parasitically dwelled within his ancestry for generations. Isaac must stop the parasite's symbiotic cycle from reoccurring or else become its new host.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, First-Person 11.6%, Surreal 11.5%

Explore a seemingly endless hotel floor where each identical corridor challenges your perception. This horror walking simulator tests your observation skills as you seek the emergency exit.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Surreal 13.3%, Horror 11.1%, First-Person 9.3%

The Hotel is a psychological horror thriller in which the player will have to face the evil living within the walls of a lonely hotel. But more importantly, the player will have to decide what this evil is to him. Maybe the nature of this evil is deeper than it seems at first glance.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Surreal 11.5%, Horror 11.4%, First-Person 8.7%

Work has ended. Something told you to find the tower. You can only get in by obliterating your brain. What comes next?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.9%, Underground 18.4% ★, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Surreal 9.2%, Horror 7.9%

Dweller is a psychological walking sim horror game where you're trapped in a rotting sewer system with something watching your every move. You're low on resources, high on tension, and the only voice you hear might be trying to help... or mess with your head. Trust no one. Stay quiet. Stay alive.

Why similar: Underground 24.3% ★, Walking Simulator 23.3%, Psychological Horror 14%, Surreal 12.2%, Horror 6%

Drawn back to his haunted home, Dave must solve eerie puzzles, uncover forgotten lore, and survive the shadows that stalk every corner of its decaying halls - a past that refuses to let go.

Why similar: Surreal 19.3%, Puzzle 12.9%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Walking Simulator 11.3%

"Glimpse" is a single-player atmospheric horror game. Get a glimpse of the struggles and fears of a person affected by Alzheimer's Disease.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 12.2%, Surreal 11.4%, Linear 11.4%

Your father needs a beer, and it's your job to get it. He doesn't care what it takes, so do what you must. Be quick though - it's not so safe in the dark.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.7%, Horror 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Surreal 9.4%, Linear 9.4%

You find yourself trapped in a haunted VHS rental store, can you survive their twisted games and escape?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 10.5%, Puzzle 9%

There's one rule on the office stairwell: do not look back. The darkness follows – and with every mistake, it draws closer. A surreal horror about the power of rules over the human soul

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22%, Surreal 12.6%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Minimalist 8.6%

A psychological horror where reality fractures around musician John Hale. Explore a non‑linear story, haunting memories, and immersive sound as you slip between truth, delusion, and the darkness of your own mind.

Why similar: Surreal 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Horror 11.8%, First-Person 11.3%

You are Vicente, a night guard that works in Corcovado, taking care of this brazilian tourist spot, christ the redeemer. A first person, singleplayer, walk-simulator experience. Investigate what is happening and try to escape this nightmare.

Why similar: Underground 26.4% ★, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Psychological Horror 9%, Puzzle 8.2%, Horror 7.5%

A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.7%, Surreal 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 10.9%, Puzzle 9.8%

You are trying to reach classroom 1.09. Nobody is around, and the atmosphere feels wrong. Trapped in looping corridors, your only way out is to observe carefully, spot anomalies, and choose the right door… or remain trapped.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.4%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Surreal 14%, Horror 11.6%, Puzzle 9.9%

You are trapped in the new company by Lao Liu, and you need to carefully observe whether there are any abnormalities every day, make the right choice within the limited time, and break the cycle.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.1%, Surreal 12.6%, Puzzle 12%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Horror 8.7%

In Anomalist’s story, you and Finn chase an anomaly on a planet, experiencing the mood swings of a mysterious entity that devours victims with mind games and imprisons them in its own dimension. Your choices lead to different endings

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Surreal 16.1%, Puzzle 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, First-Person 9.5%

Enter the patient's inner world. Seek out the abnormal, uncover the truth. You will step into the patient's mental world, explore their psyche, and search for anomalies and fragmented memories. Every wrong choice will send you back to the beginning—can you reach the eighth level?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 16.4%, First-Person 16.1%, Puzzle 9.8%

Exploration. Silence. Echoes. Wander a shifting pyramid where rooms change and reality bends. No monsters, just atmosphere, isolation, and subtle unease. Uncanny, immersive, and unsettling. Solve light environmental puzzles across 8 levels. Experience the pyramid alone - empty, yet somehow present.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30%, Surreal 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Puzzle 11.4%, First-Person 7%

A late-90s retro 3D horror where you feed the Biomass Core to escape. No keys. No doors.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Underground 20% ★, Horror 14.4%, First-Person 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.5%