Games Like Verde Station

The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 45.6%, Adventure 31.7%, Indie 22.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title perfectly mirrors the experience of being a lone investigator on a space station where something has gone terribly wrong.

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 59.5%, Adventure 23.8%, Indie 13.2%, Casual 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Verde Station, this game focuses on exploring an abandoned space station to piece together a narrative through environmental storytelling.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Adventure 53.2%, Indie 36.4%, Walking Simulator 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: You play as the station's AI, providing a unique perspective on the psychological isolation and mystery found in space-based horror.

Far into the future, in the year 1999: David, a systems operator, runs from his troubles by taking a job on a space station. After arriving, his mundane work turns into a struggle for his very life as he makes a shocking discovery.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.7%, Casual 19.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of a mundane job in space turning into a tense, narrative-heavy mystery.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 57.4%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a definitive sci-fi psychological horror experience that excels at questioning reality and human identity in a desolate setting.

A first-person Walking Simulator exploring the deeper meaning of family, life goals, and personal choices (with a bit of humor and old-school sci-fi homage mixed in) – set on beautiful and lonely alien worlds.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.2%, Adventure 37.8%, Indie 21.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the existential dread and loneliness of being a lone explorer in a vast, indifferent universe.

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 57.8%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: A lonely space exploration game that relies on your interactions with a computer terminal to uncover the truth.

De-Void is a first-person adventure game, where the player unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a remote space colony crew.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 49.8%, Adventure 31.2%, Indie 19%

Why You'll Like It: A strong match for the walking-simulator aspect of Verde Station, focusing on a solo mission to a deserted colony.

Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.

Why similar: Adventure 54%, Walking Simulator 37.4%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space-based sci-fi with intense psychological horror elements that challenge your perception of reality.

Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. In an effort to solve the energy crisis, global powers created the World Space Agency and secured a promising new source of energy on the moon.

Why similar: Adventure 52.5%, Indie 29.2%, Walking Simulator 18.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the isolation of a solo mission to save humanity, blending exploration with atmospheric sci-fi storytelling.

Caffeine is a quirky first person adventure game with environmental puzzles and a dab of psychological horror. You awaken aboard one of these caffeine mining stations alone. Before long you realize that you are a young boy with no memory of what has transpired on this seemingly empty space station.

Why similar: Adventure 44%, Walking Simulator 28.7%, Indie 27.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person adventure set on a space station that leans heavily into psychological horror and surreal imagery.

Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...

Why similar: Adventure 68.8%, Indie 17%, Casual 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on exploration and survival in a first-person sci-fi environment.

We Went Back is a time-looping horror game in which you wake up in an abandoned space station utterly alone. The exit door is locked and you must find a way to escape what lurks within. Find clues, experience dynamically changing environments and confront terror in order to find a way out.

Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Walking Simulator 30.9%, Indie 25.4%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play space horror game that features a time-loop mechanic and a heavy emphasis on atmospheric isolation.

Unveil the truth in a genre-blending sci-fi mystery. Awaken from cryogenic slumber you find your shelter damaged by unknown circumstances. Scavenge your surroundings, repair the shelter and explore the ruins in hopes of uncovering – or perhaps avoiding – the uncomfortable truth of what has transpired.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.9%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 23.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric sci-fi mystery that shares the same sense of isolation and investigative gameplay.

Inmates is a story-driven, atmospheric psychological horror game. Featuring interactive exploration in a suffocating location, mind-bending puzzles and disturbing imagery. You wake up in a run-down prison cell and have no clue how you got there. You’ve convinced yourself this is all just a nightmare...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 49.7%, Adventure 31.4%, Indie 18.9%

Why You'll Like It: While not in space, it captures the same psychological horror and 'questioning your surroundings' vibe as Verde Station.

Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.

Why similar: Adventure 61.2%, Indie 38.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on narrative and exploration in a mysterious setting, mirroring the slow-burn tension of the seed game.

ADR1FT is the story of an astronaut who wakes up floating silently in space amongst the debris of destroyed space station…the only survivor of a catastrophic event, left with no memory, a critically damaged EVA suit leaking oxygen and no way home.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 46.9%, Adventure 34.2%, Indie 18.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the immediate, claustrophobic experience of surviving alone in the wreckage of a space station.

Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 68.5%, Adventure 31.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven sci-fi game that captures the feeling of being alone on a hostile planet while uncovering a deep mystery.

An exploration game that delves into the depths of loneliness. Wander through empty rooms, search for signs of an abandoned world, and listen to the sounds around you. No dangerous chases, just silence and an empty world to explore.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 75.1%, Adventure 24.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the surreal, walking-simulator experience of exploring strange, empty spaces that feel psychologically unsettling.

You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 67.8%, Adventure 24%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A short, interactive fiction experience that relies on spotting anomalies to build psychological tension.

Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 49.2%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused game that dives deep into the protagonist's psyche, similar to the internal questioning in Verde Station.

Experience backrooms like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 64.5%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Uses the liminal space aesthetic to create a sense of unease and psychological tension similar to the seed game.

An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.

Why similar: Adventure 41%, Casual 36.4%, Indie 22.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed mystery that emphasizes exploration and the feeling of being completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.8%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror experience that focuses on the domestic and mental entrapment of the protagonist.

You are trapped in an underground subway. Observe your surroundings carefully and take the correct trains to reach the 'Station 5' and exit the subway.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 52%, Adventure 40.2%, Indie 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A walking simulator set in a remote location that relies on environmental puzzles and atmosphere to tell its story.

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 59.1%, Adventure 27.5%, Indie 9%, Casual 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: While not horror, it is the gold standard for 'isolation and radio communication' gameplay that defines the Verde Station experience.

Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 70.2%, Adventure 18%, Indie 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric horror walking simulator that focuses on exploration and first-person immersion.

Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 47.1%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 20%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a tense, atmospheric experience in an isolated, high-stakes environment that feels like a psychological thriller.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 70.7%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in atmospheric exploration and psychological narrative that shares the 'walking simulator' DNA.

You have found yourself in a space that reminds you of nothing, and everything. A space of rooms, that are both comfortingly familiar, yet strangely unknown. A space of quiet and loneliness. You have found the BACK*SPACE. You aren't sure if you are alone. You aren't sure if you want to leave.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 58.2%, Casual 33.9%, Indie 7.9%

You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 56.6%, Adventure 23.7%, Indie 19.7%

Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...

Why similar: Adventure 60.3%, Indie 39.7%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward indie horror game that captures the feeling of being confined in a first-person environment.

Dire Echo is a psychological horror walking simulator that immerses players in the eerie and oppressive atmosphere of abandoned deep space.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 64.4%, Adventure 26%, Indie 9.6%

Lost in a series of endless train station hallways, find your way to the exit Platform in this First-Person Anomaly Spotting game set in the Midnight Monitor universe. Watch out for anomalies - If you see any, turn back immediately! Can you find your way out of Aldercourt Station?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 73.5%, Casual 26.5%

Dive into a realistic experience of the Backrooms, without jumpscares, getting lost in impossible spaces and feeling like something is watching you. The uncertainty of not knowing where you're going will make you want to quit… Will you be able to make it to the end?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.7%, Adventure 24.4%, Indie 9.9%

You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 61.2%, Adventure 32.3%, Indie 6.5%

A psychological horror game where you enter the Greenhouse at your own risk to uncover the truth behind the friendly façade. Change the environment and weather to progress, hoping to get out. Switch off the entities to enjoy eerie serenity.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 78.1%, Adventure 21.9%

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.1%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 13.1%

Who looks out dreams? Who looks inside awakens?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.3%, Adventure 24.6%, Indie 22.8%, Casual 20.3%

A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 63.8%, Indie 23.3%, Adventure 12.9%

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: Walking Simulator 37.6%, Adventure 34.6%, Indie 27.8%

wandering into the uncanny concept of liminality, captured in DV tape format you explore what seems to be another dimension, lost in an endless space that looks human-made but isn't.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 75.3%, Indie 14.4%, Adventure 10.3%

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: Walking Simulator 74.2%, Adventure 22.8%, Indie 3.1%

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 65.1%, Adventure 34.9%

A different kind of liminal experience. Explore surreal spaces inspired by nostalgia, discover hidden paths, and unravel a mystery that is shaped by your own mind. No monsters, no combat. Just atmosphere, discovery, and dread.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 70.6%, Adventure 29.4%

You woke up and found yourself in an anomalous endless place from which it is not so easy to get out. Carefully observe your surroundings to find a way out of this place.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 51.5%, Adventure 40.4%, Indie 8%

Montague's Mount is disturbing psychological thriller set in the bleakness of an abandoned Irish island, featuring exploration and challenging puzzle solving. This game is part one of a two part story, some questions are left unanswered and open to interpretation.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 45.8%, Adventure 32.1%, Indie 22.1%

A short, single-sitting VHS-style psychological horror game. Work the night shift at a remote gas station, return home to uncover disturbing clues, and reach one of three endings.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 61.3%, Adventure 22.5%, Indie 16.2%

You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 69.6%, Adventure 30.4%

Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Indie 29.2%, Walking Simulator 27.1%

You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 63.6%, Adventure 33.8%, Indie 2.6%

You are a participant in Project Threshold, an experiment designed to force people to confront their deepest fears. Pass through sets of blue and red doors, survive what waits beyond them, and reach the end, if escape is even possible.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 54.7%, Adventure 38.3%, Indie 6.9%

You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.

Why similar: Adventure 53.1%, Indie 21.6%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Casual 5%

You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible

Why similar: Adventure 39.2%, Walking Simulator 34.2%, Indie 26.6%

Space of Darkness tells the story of a mechanic who works on a space station. The mechanic is alone on the ship for a few months. One day the power suddenly cuts off. He soon finds himself alone in the dark corridors of a space station. Can you unearth what truly happened on the space station?

Why similar: Adventure 42.1%, Casual 31.7%, Indie 26.1%

Can you tell the difference between truth and tale? Experience three short horror stories and gather clues as to which are true and which are just part of our imagination. Immerse yourself in the protagonist's perspective and discover eerie tales from around the world.

Why similar: Adventure 42.6%, Walking Simulator 32.3%, Casual 13.8%, Indie 11.4%

INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 59.8%, Adventure 26.2%, Indie 13.9%

You are trapped in a corridor suspended above the clouds. Each time you open the door at the end of the corridor, explore the environment that awaits you, find anomalies, use the alarm, and break the loop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.8%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 11.3%

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 67.7%, Adventure 17%, Indie 15.3%

You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?

Why similar: Adventure 42.6%, Walking Simulator 30.9%, Casual 17%, Indie 9.6%