
Type your fate. Arm yourself with your keyboard and your wits, and try to escape from the abandoned house where you are. Unfortunately, you won't be alone...
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Horror, Adventure, Psychological Horror.

Type your fate. Arm yourself with your keyboard and your wits, and try to escape from the abandoned house where you are. Unfortunately, you won't be alone...

The Night Of The Inquisitor
A VHS/PS1 Survival Horror Experience! Play as Emilia, a young woman cursed by an ancient rosary, transported into the Realm of the Inquisitor, a surreal dimension filled with the ghosts victims of the Inquisitor himself. Solve puzzles, free ghosts, and escape the Inquisitor!

Lights Camera Slaughter
Play as an intern on the set of an upcoming movie, "Lights, Camera, Slaughter!" - where things turn BLOODY. Try and escape this ever-evolving, living hell - OR DIE TRYING. A game inspired by earlier PS1 horror titles.
A VHS/PS1 Survival Horror Experience! Play as Emilia, a young woman cursed by an ancient rosary, transported into the Realm of the Inquisitor, a surreal dimension filled with the ghosts victims of the Inquisitor himself. Solve puzzles, free ghosts, and escape the Inquisitor!
Why similar: Assassins 25% ★, Survival Horror 13.1%, 1980s 13%, Thriller 10.8%, Horror 8.4%
Play as an intern on the set of an upcoming movie, "Lights, Camera, Slaughter!" - where things turn BLOODY. Try and escape this ever-evolving, living hell - OR DIE TRYING. A game inspired by earlier PS1 horror titles.
Why similar: 1980s 14.6%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Old School 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.4%
Whisperstring is an 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”. You’re connected to Adam, a "jock" with a severe fear of strings, who seems to have been the victim of a supernatural kidnapping. Will you be able to help him escape?
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, 1980s 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Investigation 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
A fairytale survival horror. Play as a young squire searching for his missing knight master. Rip answers out of the forest’s strange inhabitants through interrogation, bribery, or threats. Evade the lurking monsters, or slowly become one of them.
Why similar: Assassins 27.5% ★, Survival Horror 13.9%, Investigation 13.8%, Thriller 11.2%, Horror 9.1%
Immerse yourself in this grotesque visual novel. Unspeakable secrets, sinister crimes, and a macabre obsession weave this tale, where sanity crumbles beneath the tide of perversion and human cruelty. The first chapter in a new independent anthology of visual novels.
Why similar: Assassins 26.7% ★, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Thriller 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Horror 8.8%
An evolving death game set in a bar, where getting to know its players is the only way out. Each person hides one of the game's rules. Discover them through their pasts, tastes, and finding hidden clues, then face them in an all-out discussion. Only three can survive, unless you fight back.
Why similar: Assassins 18.3% ★, Text-Based 17.4%, Thriller 14%, Investigation 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%
Watch your back in the small peaceful town of Crystalpine Grove, as it is haunted by The Infamous Rainman.
Why similar: Assassins 35.9% ★, 1980s 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Horror 11.3%, Mystery 10.2%
Re-experience the classic Escape the Ayurok adventure through this Demake, solving more complex puzzles and exploring new places with the old camera angles of 90’s horror games.
Why similar: Assassins 35.7% ★, Survival Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 10%, Retro 9.9%
Scrap hunting season has gone wrong, VHS slasher survival horror.
Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Thriller 12.2%, 1980s 12%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
In the shadowed year of 1985, a killer has been at large leaving behind trails of clues and grisly scenes. Two years have passed, yet the enigma of Ophelia's disappearance still remains. Ophelia vanished without a trace, leaving behind an unsettling scene.
Why similar: 1980s 14.9%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Old School 12.9%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
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: Assassins 37% ★, Survival Horror 12.5%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Dark 11.1%
Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.
Why similar: Thriller 17.6%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 11.6%, Old School 9.6%
Are you ready to face your nightmares?
Why similar: Thriller 15.2%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Investigation 11.1%, Horror 9.6%
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Why similar: 1980s 19.4%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Old School 14.8%, Horror 14.1%, Retro 11%
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Horror 13.1%
Is a psychological horror game set in the 1980s, centered around a cursed cemetery and a hidden underground bunker. A night of routine guarding turns into a descent into fear, where screams, secrets, and dark rituals blur the line between friend and enemy.
Why similar: 1980s 17.7%, Horror 16.5%, Retro 14.9%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Text-Based 10.7%
A psychological horror you never see — you read it. Blind and deaf, you sense an arctic station through a neural implant: text, smell, touch. Quarantine rules say only one person may leave their cabin at a time. You are out. Five bodies are found by morning.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Investigation 13.8%, Horror 11.2%
Join a serial killer enthusiast group to solve the town's recent murders in this mystery visual novel adventure, featuring point-and-click and text-based investigation and a detailed story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Thriller 16.9%, Investigation 15.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 10.6%
The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.
Why similar: Thriller 18.1%, Survival Horror 18%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 14.7%, Mystery 11.3%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Horror 13.9%
OVRDARK: Dive into the chilling sequel to 'DO NOT OPEN' in this intense VR experience. Explore a cursed mansion, face your former companion turned ruthless enemy, and unravel dark secrets. Can you survive the ultimate horror in virtual reality?
Why similar: Assassins 25.8% ★, Survival Horror 15.6%, Thriller 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Horror 8.9%
Static Hour is a 1980s newsroom thriller where you decide what goes on air during a mysterious lockdown. Uncover a story you can’t see but only hear, and choose which voices make it to air. Every broadcast pushes the town closer to the truth or deeper into panic.
Why similar: Investigation 18.5%, 1980s 16.5%, Thriller 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.9%
Can you survive the return of the legend? A relentless killer is stalking you, and no one believes your story. The only way out? Perform the ritual… or become the next victim. Run, hide, and fight for your life in this brutal PS1-inspired slasher horror experience!
Why similar: Assassins 35.6% ★, 1980s 16%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Thriller 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
The Faceless Killer is a first-person survival horror game with retro PS1-style graphics, consisting of 2 chapters. Solve logic puzzles, fight against your enemies, or hide when there's no other option. Unravel this mystery surrounding the Faceless Killer. Who is he, and what are his motivations?
Why similar: 1980s 16%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 12%
The Unrested is a story-driven first-person horror game. A spirit from your past traps you in an abandoned boarding school. A shadow watching your every step will test you with puzzles while forcing you to confront your fears.
Why similar: Thriller 21.3%, Survival Horror 20.4%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Mystery 11.6%
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 18.6%, Investigation 17.7%, Thriller 13.9%, Horror 13.5%, Mystery 11.6%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Mystery 11.5%
Joyville is a horror-puzzle adventure game set in an abandoned children's camp. Brace yourself for a gripping journey through the shadows, solving puzzles, and trying to survive amidst the hidden horrors that await you.
Why similar: 1980s 18.5%, Survival Horror 16%, Investigation 14.7%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 11.2%
Lyrvane Park is a first-person meta-horror puzzle adventure. Use the "Radar of Emotions" to harvest children's emotions, power up the train, and unlock the path forward. Beyond the "Staff Only" signs, the park’s darkest secrets await.
Why similar: Survival Horror 14.8%, Investigation 14.2%, Thriller 13.6%, 1980s 13.1%, Horror 12.5%
A first-person psychological horror game about a late-night delivery and the disturbing events that follow.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.9%, Thriller 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 14.9%, Dark 11.9%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Assassins 23.1% ★, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Thriller 11.6%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Face horror in an overtaken bunker by horrifying threats, go smart and quiet, or loud and obvious, but always be ready for what's around the corner. Are you prepared to face them?
Why similar: Assassins 34.6% ★, Thriller 16.5%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 9.5%
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
Why similar: Survival Horror 15.1%, Investigation 13.7%, Thriller 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 11%
A psychological horror experience where you reshape reality with graffiti. As an artist who has lost their memory, paint the walls, open hidden passages, and escape the dark labyrinth of your mind.
Why similar: Investigation 16.9%, Thriller 15.8%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Mystery 10.1%
The Holiday Story is an indie horror game about Christmas and New Year, set in the 80s.
Why similar: Survival Horror 15%, 1980s 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Thriller 12.3%, Old School 11.7%
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, 1980s 15.4%, Horror 14.8%, Thriller 13.8%
Investigate the mysterious death of an unidentified young woman, in this shocking psychological thriller kinetic novel.
Why similar: Thriller 17.3%, Investigation 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Dark 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%
A first-person atmospheric horror experience where hidden clues and impossible spaces draw you deeper into a place that should not exist.
Why similar: Survival Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 18.1%, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 12.2%
A single-player Chinese folk horror RPG puzzle game. As a photographer, you venture into mysterious places with two paranormal vloggers. Explore scenes, gather clues and reveal hidden truths through environmental interaction. Full playthrough takes 2 to 5 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Thriller 15.6%, Investigation 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.8%
While working at a remote site deep in the woods, Chloe becomes entangled in a disturbing mystery that leads her into something far more terrifying than she could have imagined.
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Thriller 14.7%, Horror 12.7%, Survival Horror 12.3%
A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Thriller 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Investigation 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Text-Based 11%
No, it's not your first day. The Amnestics have kicked in, and Site-48 has locked down. Scavenge restricted gear, gain clearance to forgotten levels, and bend reality to escape lethal SCP anomalies. Tactile survival horror where remembering too much will get you annihilated.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Thriller 16.1%, Mystery 13.1%, 1980s 11.1%
Scotophobia is a psychological horror in which you’re your accommodation is rapidly changing ceasing to belong to you. Will you be able to uphold your abode, reveal the origin of the mysterious guests, keep sanity, and… survive?
Why similar: Thriller 18.9%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 12.2%, Investigation 11.8%
Players will enter the Town of Dusk, built on the eve of Empire of Japan's defeat in World War II, along with other characters. Avoid being killed by other characters! Find the mastermind behind the scenes, unravel all the conspiracies, and uncover the truth! Ultimately escape the Town of Dusk!
Why similar: Thriller 18.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Mystery 11.4%
Evacuated from their hometown due to dangerous bursts of dark energy, the ordinary citizen is trying to overcome and survive a series of events in a new reality where living as a human is no longer possible as it once was. 3rd-person horror with fixed camera angles and retro-styled graphics.
Why similar: Old School 17%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 13%, Thriller 12.8%
A new apartment. One tenant who thought his luck had finally changed. One thing certain: some places never let you settle in. A short retro horror about dark secrets and a home that was never meant to be yours.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18%, Horror 16.5%, Investigation 14.4%, Retro 13%, Old School 12.3%
Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, 1980s 14.8%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Old School 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
Why similar: Thriller 16.7%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, 1980s 11.8%, Horror 11.5%
The Last Frame is a psychological horror game about a father who disappeared. As you walk through the locations he documented, you discover that watching and recording them changed the place itself — and not for the better.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Thriller 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.4%
You step into the shoes of a woman being stalked by a mysterious figure. What was supposed to be a safe haven in an isolated forest house turns into a nightmare as strange events unfold during the night. Each night grows more terrifying... Can you escape before it’s too late?
Why similar: Assassins 33.2% ★, Survival Horror 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Horror 10.3%, Mystery 9.4%
You can't sleep, cause of strange noise from somewhere above. Go check it out.
Why similar: Thriller 16.4%, Old School 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, 1980s 12%, Text-Based 11.1%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Investigation 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 11%
Play as the Final Girl and explore a haunted children's hospital in this PSX-style fixed-camera survival horror inspired by "Fatal Frame" and "Resident Evil". Hunt anomalies through a CCTV camera loop similar to "I'm on Observation Duty". Unravel an unsettling mystery, and escape a glitching entity.
Why similar: Investigation 16.9%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Thriller 12.2%, Horror 11.5%
A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Thriller 16.1%, Investigation 12.5%, Old School 12%, Dark 8.9%
In this field, what is harvested doesn’t sprout from the earth. Something hides among the cornfields, watching all the time. Explore and dare to see what the earth itself tries to conceal… because this time, you are part of the harvest.
Why similar: Thriller 18.7%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Horror 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%
"Obscurity State" is an asymmetric co-op horror game for up to 8 players. Escape an ever-changing city as a Marauder, burning everything in your path, or become a supernatural Hunter and track your friends by sound. Remember: your teammates’ goals may not align with yours.
Why similar: Assassins 39.2% ★, Thriller 20.6%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Investigation 10.6%, Survival Horror 7%
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: Survival Horror 20.6%, Horror 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, 1980s 13.7%, Dark 13.1%
Phobic Nightmares is a psychological horror game where you experience nightmarish realities to uncover what happened to your sister. Find notes from your sister and use the sacrifices of those who came before you to uncover what’s hidden and avoid ending up like them.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Thriller 15.6%, Horror 15%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Dark 12.3%
In Republican-era Shanghai, Lu Ping returns to the forgotten Luchang Apartment after receiving a letter from her orphanage headmistress. As lost memories resurface, she uncovers buried secrets, her past, and the eerie truth behind the bond between humans and yaoguai.
Why similar: Thriller 16.4%, Old School 14.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 12.1%