Games Like Waking Adrift

Rescued at birth from a life of bondage, Eddie resolves to win his mother’s freedom from the tyranny of his father by defeating him when they meet in the arena. Join Eddie as he fights for his life in this non-combat adventure to dethrone a champion and rescue a slave.

Why similar: Narrative 20.7% ★, Walking Simulator 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Cinematic 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%

Michael Clow is a photographer who documents what he sees. But after following his neighbor into the woods, his camera begins capturing things he never witnessed.

Why similar: Horror 20.8%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Narrative 14.9% ★, Adventure 10.8%, Cinematic 10.8%

Space adventure can be scary, so that's why we at InkForge Studios have developed the most advanced Space Suit ever - the SEMU suit. Standing for Survival Extra-vehicular Mobility Unit, it will keep you safe as you journey the cosmos. With survival guaranteed, what else is there to worry about?

Why similar: Space Sim 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Horror 8.5%, Adventure 6.8%

Neuro Nightmare is a horror game that utilizes brain-computer interface technology to maximize immersion. Run all the levers and escape from boarding schools, running away from monsters. Your concentration and stability directly affect gameplay.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, Hidden Object 19.9%, 1980s 16.2%, Adventure 14.6%, Horror 10.7%

This game series tells the stories from the ancient Chinese book . This is the first part of the first chapter of the book. Suitable for juveniles.

Why similar: Narrative 36.9% ★, Cinematic 15.9%, Walking Simulator 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Story Rich 7.7%

"They Can Hear Us," the first episode, narrates horror stories that interact with you through the microphone, playing on the fear of whoever is listening.

Why similar: Narrative 28.1% ★, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Horror 15.8%, Psychedelic 11.6%, Adventure 7.1%

A sci-fi immersive sim with horror elements set on an abandoned orbital station. Manage life support systems, conserve resources, and survive in an atmosphere of mounting pressure where the environment is fully interactive.

Why similar: Space Sim 33.5%, Walking Simulator 24.9%, Space 13.9%, Hidden Object 10.8%, First-Person 6.7%

Set against the backdrop of a Japanese-style townscape reminiscent of Gion, this exploration-based horror game involves searching for “anomalies” and offering prayers. A work dedicated to those who feel bored with their daily lives.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Psychedelic 13.7%, Adventure 12.6%, Cinematic 11.1%

Wittengrad is no more is a surreal, narrative walking sim with horror elements. The city's foggy streets will lead you through the story of a single evening in Barnaba’s life. You will encounter the peculiar inhabitants of Wittengrad, though… does it even matter? After all, Wittengrad is gone.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.9%, Narrative 20.1% ★, Adventure 13.2%, Linear 10.4%, First-Person 7.6%

The Horror Nightmare Collection is an anthology of retro-style horror games. Immerse yourself in unique stories, from eerie forest horrors to forsaken prison nightmares, pushing your nerves to the limit. Explore psychological and grotesque terrors in this dread-inducing assortment.

Why similar: Jump Scare 31.7% ★, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Horror 13.7%, Cinematic 12.2%, Hidden Object 10.3%

A hot-tempered private of the Soviet army is sent through a portal to the Backrooms behind a fight with an officer, he needs to find a missing scientists. Monsters are hunting him. Will the soldier be able to survive and return?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, 1980s 13.4%, Horror 11.7%, Hidden Object 11.4%

A small "horror" narrative game about isolation and depression.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Walking Simulator 24.3%, Horror 12.9%, Adventure 10.4%, First-Person 6.6%

A short, first-person horror narrative set in the Philippines. While your journalist wife investigates town hall, you start uncovering brutal secrets tying your beloved mayor to local crime. In a place where the powerful control the law, knowing the truth is fatal.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Horror 27.5%, Walking Simulator 25.1%, Adventure 7.8%, 3D 6.7%

Myosotis is a narrative-driven game following Frank Miller, an elderly man living alone after his wife’s passing. As days blur and nights grow darker, familiar places change, memories twist, and reality itself begins to slip away through conversation and story-driven moments.

Why similar: Narrative 24.9% ★, Walking Simulator 23.6%, Horror 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, First-Person 6.9%

Explore an afrofuturistic 3D world scavenging and journaling your way to becoming a wildtender: someone who heals the relationship between humans and more-than-human beings. Reflect on the choices you make, the artifacts you leave behind, and the worlds that will grow out of them.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Psychedelic 14.4%, Cinematic 11.3%, Adventure 9.3%

Explore derelict ship. find out why there is a missing crew. And be careful of things that could be lurking in the shadows.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, 1980s 15.7%, Cinematic 14.4%, Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%

In the gloomy atmosphere of post-Soviet everyday life, routine tasks like cleaning, cooking, and exploring your own room hide something much darker. Survive and uncover the truth before the maniac comes for you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.5%, Horror 23.5%, Hidden Object 16.6%, Adventure 10%, Linear 6.4%

If you get startled, you go back to Number 0. A Japanese-style horror anomaly-spotting game that uses your microphone to detect your reactions. Eerie shrines, schools, and cult-like locations await, filled with all kinds of horror and anomalies.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Psychedelic 13.3%, Cinematic 13%, Horror 10.4%

Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.

Why similar: Narrative 24.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Cinematic 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%

Jon’s dreams were filled with music and a love life he once had. Now they’ve curdled into nightmares, weaving between memories and unknown realms. Set in the '90s, this immersive first-person psychological walking simulator follows Jon as he realizes… something is stalking him.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Narrative 19.8% ★, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Horror 17.4%, Cinematic 7.8%

A scientific research and development facility based in Norilsk, Flow Crop. is attempting to investigate crimes through people's nightmares. The player gets to walk into a virtual world, and investigate the reason for such nightmares. solve puzzles and face enemies.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.4%, Cinematic 14.7%, Hidden Object 14.7%, 1980s 13.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%

You have inherited a train station from a family that never mentioned it. Walk its platforms into Berlin, Paris, New York and Hong Kong across the last century, and learn how a single clue found in one decade rewrites the meaning of another.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Walking Simulator 22.4%, Adventure 14.1%, Cinematic 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%

RIP Love: A Story of Pain is a narrative-driven experience about love, loss, and betrayal. Explore the emotional weight of grief and depression through interactive storytelling, atmospheric design

Why similar: Narrative 20.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Cinematic 12.7%, Hidden Object 12.3%

CH13: Rest Stop is a psychological horror game set in early 2000s Poland. What begins as a calm drive through the woods turns into something you weren't prepared for... Will you find out what awaits at the end of the road?

Why similar: Narrative 23% ★, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Horror 16.5%, Cinematic 12.5%, Adventure 6.1%

After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

Why similar: Narrative 19.4% ★, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Horror 10.7%, Cinematic 9%

A stalker-themed, “Exit 8–style” psychological horror game. Your objective is to track down the intruder—a twisted creep who has broken into your home.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Hidden Object 23.3%, Adventure 17.3%, Horror 14%, First-Person 7.6%

DeadNot is a first-person psychological horror game where you the terminals to navigate, scan points of interest, manage camera feeds, and piece together what went wrong at this site. But you are not alone. A hostile entity stalks you. Don't look at it for too long.

Why similar: Space Sim 34.6%, Horror 25.2%, Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, First-Person 7.5%

"P.I." is a psychological horror science fiction themed around live streaming. While being cautious about revealing her identity, the streamer continues her live broadcast from home, gradually uncovering the truth behind the strange events that begin to unfold in her everyday life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Cinematic 20.2%, Horror 12.1%, Hidden Object 11.1%

Walk Home is a short psychological horror game that puts you in the shoes of a young teenage girl, experiencing deeply unsettling circumstances as she navigates an eerie dirt trail back to her rural home late at night.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.3%, Narrative 18% ★, Horror 17.9%, Adventure 9.9%, Linear 9%

This is the story of a modern Zashiki-warashi who visits a mysterious real estate agency in search of a home to haunt. Explore real apartments in Tokyo, uncover mischievous yokai disguised as everyday furniture and household items, and delve into the mysteries of Warashi Realty.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Hidden Object 13.6%, Adventure 11.5%, 1980s 11.1%

Following the largest cybernetic breach in history, classified documents have exposed an unclaimed Station drifting in Mars' orbit. The crew can't be reached, yet something else now resides there. Every three months, we send someone there. This time, you're the lucky winner.

Why similar: Space Sim 27%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Hidden Object 11.2%, Horror 10%

Low poly horror. A paranormal streamer investigates an obscure urban legend referred to as the "Phantom Incident". In documenting the journey, the more he uncovers, the less it makes sense.

Why similar: Jump Scare 28.4% ★, Horror 24.8%, Walking Simulator 18.5%, Adventure 12.5%, Linear 5.6%

After a sudden rent hike, you move into a suspiciously cheap house deep in the woods. The price is absurdly low and there’s work nearby-it seems like a stroke of luck. But you soon realize something is seriously wrong with the place...

Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Narrative 20% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Cinematic 13.4%, Walking Simulator 11.9%

EVIL SCIENTISTS have created a SCARY MAGIC ZOMBIE! Play as a top secret spy, who enters the zombie facility, and collects information about the zombie. But be cautious! The zombie is very dangerous!

Why similar: Jump Scare 47% ★, Horror 18.4%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, First-Person 6.1%, Linear 6%

Bite Night is a comedic first-person horror game that explores the idea of what if the big bad monster was bad at their job of being scary.

Why similar: Jump Scare 40.9% ★, Horror 23.7%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, First-Person 5.1%

GILLES shows the Journey of a Theater Director's 10 years exile to create his Great Work, his Theater Play named The Klown. On this first episode, join him and SamPath on their Journey to show the Great Premiere. GILLES is a story exploration game from Infiniti Studio.

Why similar: Narrative 24.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Cinematic 13.3%, Psychedelic 12.9%

The Witch is a first-person indie game in the genre of adventure with elements of horror. In it you are a journalist who has to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the inhabitants of the village of Hoer Verde.

Why similar: Horror 20.9%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Adventure 16.5%, Psychedelic 15.4%, First-Person 9.8%

“NO LIFE BABY OF THE END” is a walking simulator set in a school. Pay close attention to your surroundings and aim for the rooftop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.8%, Horror 26.5%, Adventure 16.6%, Cinematic 7.4%, 3D 6.7%

A first-person psychological horror set in rural Finland, where isolation and unsettling encounters slowly turn your housekeeping job into something far more disturbing.

Why similar: Narrative 22.5% ★, Horror 15.6%, Cinematic 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Walking Simulator 11.1%

Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!

Why similar: Narrative 27% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Walking Simulator 17%, Hidden Object 12.8%, Visual Novel 7.4%

A horror adventure where you confront supernatural phenomena and unravel mysteries in a school transformed into another world, all to save your childhood friend. Exploration, combat, and psychological terror await you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Hidden Object 17.5%, Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Cinematic 11%

In this psychological horror, you are a guilt-ridden, drunken father who wakes in his dark room, alone. As you search for your missing family, reality twists, and madness takes hold. Something is watching, guiding you—will you uncover the truth, or become its victim?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Hidden Object 23.7%, Horror 19.4%, Adventure 11.1%, 3D 6.4%

"Onionisin” is a horror adventure game in which you must escape from a village where demons roam by solving various riddles.

Why similar: Horror 28.5%, Walking Simulator 27.3%, Hidden Object 20.6%, Adventure 17.2%, 3D 4.6%

Explore an mid-2000s Korean apartment complex in this short first-person psychological horror experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.4%, Horror 18.3%, 1980s 14.3%, Adventure 10%, Linear 8.8%

The Butcher's Village is a psychological slasher horror game that provides a horrifying experience. Explore unsettling environments, solve intricate puzzles, and struggle to survive in a village that is at once eerily familiar and terrifyingly real.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Horror 17.7%, Cinematic 14.4%, Psychedelic 13.4%, Story Rich 7.9%

A slow-burning, psychological horror walking sim set in a haunted Japanese neighborhood.

Why similar: Jump Scare 29.9% ★, Walking Simulator 16.4%, Horror 13.4%, Hidden Object 11.7%, Cinematic 9%

You are on your way home from a holiday and your car breaks down and you are stranded in the middle of nowhere. You get out of the car, explore the surroundings, and try to get home. Enjoy this escape game set in a deserted mountain village in modern Japan.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.7%, Horror 21.9%, Adventure 19.7%, Linear 12.3%, First-Person 10.5%

Young Saif loved going for walks with his dad in the forests of Bangladesh. On one of these walks, however, they became separated and Saif was left alone. What he encountered that day would reveal secrets about his home that, sooner or later, would need to be confronted.

Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Adventure 15.9%, Story Rich 8.6%

SCP-087-B UE Remake is a free single-player horror experience which seeks to recreate many aspects of the 2012 game SCP-087-B made by Joonas Rikkonen while keeping the charm and feel of the original.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.5%, Horror 29.2%, Adventure 14.5%, First-Person 9.2%, Linear 8.8%

A surreal psychological horror game where you cook, serve, and slowly descend into madness. Solve puzzles, interact with strange customers, and try to stay sane as your world unravels.

Why similar: Jump Scare 25.4% ★, Horror 19.1%, Psychedelic 16.4%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Adventure 11.1%

In the darkness, they are approaching. The protagonist is a detective who has come to the location to search for a person who has disappeared at a haunted spot. A horror game played from a first-person perspective. Can you safely escape from the terrifying abandoned house?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, Hidden Object 23.8%, Adventure 17.7%, Horror 11.9%, First-Person 7.8%

This game is a multi-ending horror game set in Japan. The story branches based on the player's choices, leading to different endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Psychedelic 21.1%, Cinematic 18.1%, Adventure 15.4%, Horror 13.1%

Uncover the truth hidden in the darkness with your own hands.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31%, Hidden Object 24%, Adventure 17.4%, Horror 13.7%, First-Person 6.7%

Lost Prototype is a walking simulator in which you have to find your way out of a maze under construction. But be aware, you're not alone in this place. Something is following you and wants to erase all your progress.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.6%, Horror 32%, Linear 13.4%, First-Person 10.1%, Adventure 7.5%

It contains two types of games: an game like "8番出口" which you have to escape from an endless series of rooms by progressing to the correct room, and a legacy version in which you have to survive for seven days by looking for anomalies and dolls and completing the game to escape from the room safely

Why similar: Jump Scare 33.7% ★, Hidden Object 17.4%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Horror 13.8%, Story Rich 6.5%

David Lagani is an ordinary Filipino worker whose quiet life turns to dread when a mysterious figure begins breaking into homes and making people disappear. Each night feels longer, every sound closer, and all he can do is pray the footsteps don’t reach his door.

Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, Horror 20.2%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Cinematic 11.3%, Adventure 8.6%

1997. After a sudden mine collapse, you find yourself trapped inside an abandoned Soviet research complex where classified experiments were once conducted. Explore underground laboratories, uncover forgotten secrets, and discover why the facility was buried along with everything it contained.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Hidden Object 16.4%, Horror 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%

A cursed arcade machine. A demon's pact. A hidden exorcism buried in the code. Find the encrypted phrases. Speak them aloud. Save the souls — or be claimed by the darkness.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Hidden Object 20%, Adventure 14.5%, 1980s 14.4%, Horror 7.7%

A PSX retro horror game made by a sixth grader. Your car runs out of gas on your way to an abandoned carnival now infested with danger at every corner.

Why similar: 1980s 28.7%, Horror 27.1%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Adventure 9.6%

Play, no game. Put on your headphones, listen and imagine what exists in the dark. Did Lovecraft expose the most insidious Outer in his last story? Plunge into the Dormitory of Horror for answers. Oh, not sure if it's a one-way path…

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Horror 28.6%, Walking Simulator 26.7%, Adventure 11.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%