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Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.4%, Horror 18.3%, Gore 11.1%, Dark 9.9%, Violent 8.4%

Immerse yourself in the bone-chilling world of Clausum. With no means to defend yourself, solve puzzles, explore and uncover the true horrors that lurk within the house. Will you survive, or succumb to the malevolent forces that await you? Face your fears in this immersive psychological horror game.

Why similar: Horror 21.6%, Psychological Horror 21%, Dark 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Gore 6.4%

MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.

Why similar: Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Dark 14.2%, Violent 6.4%, Demons 6.2%

Mukmil is a first-person psychological horror game about Sa’ad, a student trapped inside a nightmare after failing history class. Explore a haunted school, solve symbolic puzzles, uncover buried memories, and survive the evil hunting you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 18.4%, Adventure 14.5%, Dark 11%, Puzzle 8.2%

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 26.6%, Psychological Horror 25.6%, Dark 12.1%, First-Person 7.9%, Exploration 7.7%

With no other option, you take a job as a farmhand on a remote ranch in the interior of Buenos Aires. But as time passes, you begin to uncover the dark secrets buried deep in the fields.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Horror 23.7%, Dark 20.1%, Exploration 7.7%, Adventure 7.7%

In first-person horror game "Cursed Feed," players embark on a chilling journey with the Thornvale family as they confront a malevolent force unleashed by their own patriarch's archaeological discoveries.

Why similar: Horror 26.2%, Psychological Horror 24.9%, Dark 16.5%, Adventure 13.4%, Gore 9.3%

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: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 16.5%, Dark 13.4%, Surreal 11.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%

After years of missing out on life, the journeys, the friendships, the experiences, you are prescribed an experimental medication to help you reclaim your life. The side effects were supposed to be minor, but as you drift off to sleep, you wake up in your childhood home.

Why similar: Horror 26.6%, Psychological Horror 25.4%, Dark 18.9%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Adventure 10.1%

Jorogumo’s Cradle is a short first person horror game. You are stuck in the woods with a monster that attacks you during the night. Explore the area, build tools to fend off incoming attacks, and most importantly, survive until the very end.

Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Dark 13.2%, Adventure 11.3%, First-Person 7.7%

Immerse yourself in the terrifying world of Circus of Pain, where you become the main participant in a deadly circus show. Solve dangerous puzzles to survive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Horror 21.5%, Dark 18.6%, Gore 11.9%, Violent 9.1%

Feed and raise your little baby. Watch it grow and feed on every and anything. In Full Bloom is a Tamagotchi inspired Katamari-like about a creature with never-ending hunger for the world around it. There is only one way.

Why similar: Horror 19.5%, Surreal 14.9%, Dark 13.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Adventure 10.2%

Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed. This time extended, remastered, and re-imagined.

Why similar: Horror 24%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Dark 15.4%, Demons 13%, Atmospheric 9%

Based on the real Left By Angels Mansion! After your wife vanishes, a strange sighting draws you to an abandoned mansion. Trapped inside, haunted by the past, and hunted by truth, you must survive a looping nightmare where light is your only ally. She’s here—and she remembers everything.

Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Demons 13.7%, Dark 12.5%, Adventure 9.5%

One night, young Lily wakes from a nightmare — unaware that her real nightmares are only just beginning. Uncover the secrets hidden behind closed eyes.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 17.8%, Dark 12.7%, Surreal 9.9%, Atmospheric 8%

Dear Lamb is a cinematic first-person psychological horror about two souls trapped on opposite sides of the same nightmare. Survive a reality built from fear, perform forbidden rituals, and uncover what binds them before one world consumes the other.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 18.4%, Dark 10.6%, Gore 7.2%, Adventure 7.2%

It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Only half of the rooms are safe. When you enter an unsafe room, you must leave immediately. Ghosts can be dispelled with a flute or a guitar.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.5%, Horror 23.2%, Dark 20.8%, Adventure 12%, Atmospheric 9.5%

Silver Chains is a first-person horror game with a strong emphasis on story and exploration. Search for clues within an old abandoned manor to unravel the truth about the terrible events which have happened.

Why similar: Horror 31.6%, Psychological Horror 23.4%, Adventure 10.1%, Demons 7.8%, Gore 6.6%

SECOND SHIFT is a first-person game that immerses the player in a deep and intense horror atmosphere. Using a mysterious clock, you must uncover terrifying secrets while trying to escape the mine. Solve puzzles, pay attention to your surroundings, and most importantly, survive.

Why similar: Horror 20.9%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Dark 15.6%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Violent 6.8%

In this horror adventure, your only weapons are ink, paper, and will. Explore shifting paths, chart them by hand, and uncover ancient secrets buried beneath root and stone. Every step takes its toll.

Why similar: Horror 31.8%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Adventure 11.8%, Dark 11.7%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Vellar is a first-person psychological horror game where a family is dead… but the recordings they left behind slowly reveal a version of events that doesn’t match reality. Explore a shifting house filled with impossible rooms, distorted corridors, and uncover a truth that refuses to stay buried.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 19.5%, Dark 15.9%, Surreal 10%, Demons 8%

Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.4%, Horror 18.6%, Dark 16.4%, Surreal 13.1%, Adventure 6.6%

Experience a new chapter in the legendary horror series like never before. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival takes first-person action horror survival to the next level. Wield the powers of the Genesis Configuration puzzle box to survive your bargain with the infamous Pinhead.

Why similar: Gore 16.2%, Horror 15.3%, Dark 13.5%, Demons 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

Having done some terrible things in his youth at school, his memories call Bart Blake back to that place, in his nightmares.

Why similar: Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Dark 11.9%, Gore 11.3%, Adventure 10.9%

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 27%, Horror 22.1%, Dark 9.6%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Adventure 8.4%

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Horror 23.4%, Dark 20.4%, Adventure 5.9%, First-Person 5.5%

"The Demon's Exorcism" is a first-person psychological horror game that reveals the story of a family trapped in a haunting curse. Immerse yourself in the chilling narrative as you exorcise the demon and break the curse.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 17.4%, Dark 16.2%, Demons 15.7%, Adventure 6.6%

Your aunt sure was a strange one. She was some sort of witch or something. A good witch though, practicing only good spells and magic. In fact, she was working on a potion just before she was killed. Now the secret will go to the grave with her... unless you can find the missing ingredients.

Why similar: Horror 35.2%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Dark 16.3%, Adventure 12.6%, Exploration 7.3%

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 20.6%, Horror 20.1%, Dark 16.2%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Gore 6.9%

Withered Haven is a first-person psychological horror game. After the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, a broken man struggles to endure a collapsing reality. Familiar apparitions drift closer, echoing memories that mask a darkness beyond comprehension.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 19.3%, Dark 17.1%, Surreal 8.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Something in this abandoned boarding school refuses to rest. Use your flashlight to survive what lurks in its hallways and solve the puzzles that reveal its dark past. Will you find the truth, or will you be the one forgotten tonight?

Why similar: Horror 19.2%, Psychological Horror 18%, Dark 13.5%, Gore 12.2%, Violent 8.9%

your goal is to find your sister that went missing. Solve simple puzzles and avoid being found by the Watcher.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 22.5%, Dark 15.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Puzzle 7.5%

Dive into a surreal and dark office space made of infinite floors. Traverse them all, one at the time, to find an exit. Ruptured Floor is a horror puzzle game with a unique twist. Every floor requires a combination to open the door. The code is known. The lock, however, will need to be found.

Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Adventure 11.2%, Dark 11.1%, Puzzle 10.9%

A first person survival horror where escape is an illusion. No flashlight, no inventory—just your instincts… and what lurks behind you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 19.1%, Dark 16.7%, Violent 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.8%

"Oniwaki Village" is a first-person Japanese horror adventure game set in a Japanese village that has been abandoned due to an incident. Players endure horror as they explore the village and pursue the mystery of the incident....

Why similar: Horror 28.9%, Psychological Horror 25.4%, Dark 23.7%, Adventure 18.7%, Indie 1.8%

Search for your missing child in a cursed summer camp. Uncover dark rituals, craft traps, and face terrifying creatures as you fight to survive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Horror 17.6%, Dark 16.2%, Demons 12.4%, Violent 9.2%

"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 28.4%, Psychological Horror 27.4%, Dark 22.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Puzzle 8%

Mysteries of Hoia Baciu Forest is a first-person horror game inspired by the real Romanian legend, and the first chapter in the Dark Realms series, developed by a Romanian solo dev.

Why similar: Horror 24%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Dark 17.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Gore 7.3%

A First Person Horror Walking Simulator with other Simulator elements set in a fictional town called Sugar Hill. Play as various characters trying to unravel the mystery of What Happened At Sugar Hill.

Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Gore 17.2%, Dark 11.5%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Enter Grinny’s Playhouse, a once‑lively children’s fun centre now abandoned after its mysterious shutdown. Explore the dark party rooms and uncover what happened here. But be careful… the mascot who once entertained families hasn’t fully powered down.

Why similar: Horror 21.4%, Dark 19.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, First-Person 9.7%, Adventure 9.1%

Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 17.7%, Surreal 12.8%, Gore 9.4%, Adventure 8%

Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.

Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Violent 12.6%, Adventure 9%, Gore 7.6%

Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Psychological Horror 27.9%, Dark 13.4%, Atmospheric 4.7%, First-Person 4.5%

In 'Stranger Watch' players step into the shoes of an elementary school student in a town plagued by recent sightings of suspicious figures. As they make their way home, it’s up to them to spot and report these lurking dangers

Why similar: Dark 26.7%, Psychological Horror 25.3%, Horror 25.3%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 1.8%

Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.1%, Horror 18%, Adventure 11.2%, Surreal 10.9%, Gore 8.7%

You are trapped in a biological research facility critical to global research. You must explore, survive and learn the realities while something breathes down your neck in a complex laboratory enviroment.

Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 24%, Dark 16.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Adventure 7.8%

A first-person narrative psychological horror game focused on exploration and environmental storytelling, set in a decaying naval retirement home ruled by a tyrannical former admiral, where you play as Coral, a newly hired nurse who must navigate shifting environments and uncover hidden truths.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Horror 22.6%, Dark 18.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%, First-Person 6.7%

A collection of short horror games to play in the dark, presented by the dreadfully delightful Mr. Talkie. Explore nine unique horror experiences in multiple gameplay styles.

Why similar: Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Dark 15.3%, Demons 12.5%, Atmospheric 8.2%

The railroad crossing I walk by every day… something’s off.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 27.1%, Dark 22.5%, Adventure 11.5%, First-Person 5.7%

A dark sci-fi horror where ancient rituals intertwine with secret Soviet experiments. Explore atmospheric tunnels, hidden laboratories, and abandoned shrines inspired by real locations—and survive by solving intricate, mind-bending puzzles.

Why similar: Dark 24.9%, Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Atmospheric 10%, Exploration 7.7%

As the clock strikes midnight, you find yourself trapped within the oppressive confines of a desolate office. Your task seems straightforward: Keep putting the correct paper in the correct place and you might find yourself entitled to overtime pay. And will you?

Why similar: Horror 26.6%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Adventure 14.1%, Gore 8.8%, Violent 8.2%

Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.

Why similar: Horror 24.2%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Violent 14.1%, Dark 12.8%, Gore 8.9%

Darkness Inside is a first-person atmospheric horror game. The game takes place in an old house. You will be playing the game as James, who is a paranormal investigator.

Why similar: Horror 25.5%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Dark 21.2%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Adventure 9.3%

It is an indie psychological horror game in which you must solve the mystery behind the Dewey family while various entities try to hunt you down and torment you. Will you be able to survive and escape this infinite loop?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 19.3%, Dark 16.8%, Gore 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%

A twisted pixel-art horror thriller about death, ancient gods, and a persistent waiter. Explore The Willow’s Embrace hotel, solve puzzles, and gather paranormal evidence. Challenge the madness to find a way out and avoid becoming part of an eternal nightmare.

Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Gore 12.5%, Dark 12.4%, Adventure 10.5%

The Kitchen Knife is a psychological horror game that throws you into the fragmented mind of a man haunted by memory, guilt, and something much darker. As the world shifts around you, you must uncover the truth about that morning... This house isn't haunted. It’s waiting for you to come home.

Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Dark 14.7%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Gore 8.9%

God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 17.7%, Dark 15.4%, Violent 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.2%

Whispering Walls is a surreal first-person horror escape game filled with strange rooms, hidden clues, watching eyes, and disturbing human forms. Solve environmental puzzles, uncover the mystery, and find a way out before the place claims you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.5%, Gore 18.6%, Dark 15.5%, Surreal 10.8%, Horror 9.7%

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 27.3%, Horror 21.8%, Dark 10.1%, First-Person 7.5%, Gore 7.2%