- #1 Escape the Maw
97% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: JLRS Games
Windows
A stealth action survival horror game. Avoid the Maw, a blind and deaf monster, to avoid being devoured. Despite being unable to see or hear you the Maw can be directed to you location by other monsters who can. Explore the rooms and collect the keys to escape.
Why similar: Collectathon 34.9%, Strategy 20.8%, Stealth 14.9%, Horror 14.6%, 3D 7.2%
- #2 The Tension
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Yigit TatlipinarPub: HH Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Tension is a stealth-based puzzle horror game. It's a game where the player can see the character from the top camera view and control it. The main mentality of the game taken from Alien Isolation. You will be controlling a kid who got kidnapped by aliens. You will be trying to escape from their mother ship.
Why similar: Strategy 29.4%, Stealth 28.7%, Horror 17.3%, Action 8.6%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #3 Multiplayer Spiders
94% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Archor WrightPub: Archor Games
Windows
Multiplayer Spiders - You and Your steam spider friends must stop the invading spiders from spinning their web of fear.
Why similar: Collectathon 43.5%, Stealth 25.5%, Action 20.7%, 3D 8.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #4 Bear Haven Nights
94% matchVery Positive87% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: SunRay Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Bear Haven Nights is a great indie horror game where you have to survive scary nights.
Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Horror 26.9%, Action 18.9%
- #5 SCP: Ground Zero
93% matchMostly Positive70% of 731 reviews2022
Dev: Nikk F.
Windows
Infiltrate a secret facility to recover an anomalous object.
Why similar: Strategy 46.1%, Horror 27%, Action 24.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #6 2 Minutes to Die
92% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Jacob StetkaPub: Level55Games
Windows
You awaken in the dark, a cold shiver running down your spine. The familiar setting of your home feels eerily foreign. Something is wrong—terribly wrong. As you gather your senses, a wave of dread washes over you. Button 1: Ctrl, Button 2: Alt.
Why similar: Strategy 42.9%, Action 22.8%, Stealth 18.4%, Horror 14.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #7 Army Men II
91% matchMixed66% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: The 3DO CompanyPub: 2K
Windows
Army Men II, the sequel to the best-selling title Army Men, takes plastic toy soldier warfare into the kitchen, bedroom, front yard, and garage. Once again Sarge will lead his heroic Green forces into head-melting, plastic-body-part-exploding, combat mayhem; only this time the battle is for control of the kitchen sink!
Why similar: Strategy 69.2%, Action 30.8%
- #8 CTU: Counter Terrorism Unit
91% matchMostly Negative31% of 110 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows
Join the CTU, arrest dangerous terrorist threats, use gadgets including the snake cam and play online with up to five player co-op
Why similar: Strategy 69%, Action 31%
- #9 Near Impact
90% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2014
Dev: Sonalysts Combat SimulationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Thousands of incoming asteroids...One robot...An untested defense force...The odds are about even!
Why similar: Strategy 68.5%, Action 31.5%
- #10 Jarheads
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gareth Williams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Jarheads is a fast-paced tactical shooter with fully-destructible environments. Jarheads comprises of a 50 mission single-player (or two-player online co-op) campaign and a separate online multiplayer experience for up to 8 players with a variety of explosive game modes.
Why similar: Strategy 67.5%, Action 32.5%
- #11 Disintegration Technical Beta
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,428 reviews
Dev: V1 Interactive, Inc.Pub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Pilot a heavily armed Gravcycle and command your troops on the ground in Disintegration, a new sci-fi first-person shooter unlike any other. Disintegration features both a thrilling single-player campaign and frenetic PvP multiplayer. Join the multiplayer technical beta today and compete against other pilots and their Crews.
Why similar: Strategy 67.5%, Action 32.5%
- #12 Salvaged
88% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Opposable Games
Windows
The human race explores the stars, but a keen focus on the future has left a trail of desolation in the past. You are Alex Pieterson, commander of the salvage ship Thaddeus and its team of hardened agents. You are a remnant of that past, fighting for survival in a huge new galaxy.
Why similar: Strategy 67.5%, Action 32.5%
- #13 Snails
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2015
Dev: Jorge LimaPub: 2Brains Games
Windows
They are slow and dumb, and they sure need you! Snails is a 2D platformer/puzzle game where the main objective is to help the snails reach the level exit.
Why similar: Strategy 67.5%, Action 32.5%
- #14 NDE Rescue
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: 6L6 InteractivePub: KSCM Consulting
Windows · Mac
Become a NDE rescuer & join the international teams that can pull you back from death!
Why similar: Strategy 67.5%, Action 32.5%
- #15 Tank Tread
85% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: INT2000
Windows · Mac
Tank Tread is a multiplayer real-time strategy game with modern military units.
Why similar: Strategy 67.5%, Action 32.5%
- #16 DwarVRs
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Beard Wizard
Windows
Experience a unique combination of the strategic elements of a tower defense game mixed with action-packed, first person perspective gameplay, built specifically for VR. Use multiple different towers, and your own skills to defeat hordes of greedy dwarves, before they run away with all your wealth.
Why similar: Strategy 67.5%, Action 32.5%
- #17 Crystal Quest Classic
84% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Game Mechanics LLC
Windows · Mac
Crystal Quest is a fast moving, adrenaline-boiling video arcade game from 1987 that won many awards. Now on the latest hardware.
Why similar: Strategy 66.8%, Action 33.2%
- #18 The Lost VR
82% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2019
Dev: TOMATOVR
Windows
The Lost is ultimate FPS VR game. You must defend yourself from enemies with various guns. The Lost is only available in single mode, and you can gradually clear the stages according to the difficulty. Take over best teleport spots and choose proper guns strategically to defeat enemies!
Why similar: Strategy 66%, Action 34%
- #19 Lordian: Karma
82% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: oneIMMERSPub: YJM GAMES
Windows
Destroy waves of monsters with your powerful magic crossbow and alchemical traps. Freeze, blow, trample, even burn your enemies with various traps available. From extreme difficulty which can only be experienced through multiplayer to various stages of difficulties for single player.
Why similar: Strategy 66.5%, Action 33.5%
- #20 Echoed Nights
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Landon Armstrong
Windows
Trapped in a realm of shattered memories, monsters hunger for you to join them in decay. Navigate this first-person indie horror—collect fragments, evade the creatures, and uncover what you left to rot. Your memories may echo… but your scream might not.
Why similar: Horror 38.8%, Narration 28.6%, Action 14.8%, 3D 13.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #21 Uprising: Join or Die
81% matchVery Positive84% of 113 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Uprising offers more strategy than a military sim, and more action strategy than a shoot'em up. Using your hi-tech assault tank, loaded with powerful weapons, you need to establish tidal bases, mine for power, build factories and direct legions of allied units against the enemy
Why similar: Strategy 65.9%, Action 34.1%
- #22 Army Men: Toys in Space
79% matchMixed70% of 83 reviews2017
Dev: The 3DO CompanyPub: 2K
Windows
Finally, proof that little green men exist in outer space! A horde of alien toys has invaded Earth. Now, they've enlisted the Tan Army to help them conquer the galaxy. All hope rests with one man, a green plastic soldier known as Sarge.
Why similar: Strategy 65.6%, Action 34.4%
- #23 The Defenders: The Second Wave
80% matchMixed56% of 96 reviews2015
Dev: FallenMaster
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fight the ghosts through 50 waves of growing danger. Play as a powerful wizard, a mighty warrior, or a strategic builder to stop the ghost invasion. Evolve your character in the direction you want. Survive until dawn, or die trying.
Why similar: Strategy 65.6%, Action 34.4%
- #24 Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy
79% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
After a century of bloody galactic battle, a horde of intelligent bloodthirsty aliens, known as the Kri’iSara, threaten to exterminate all human life. New Alliance Command is counting on you to destroy the alien menace.
Why similar: Strategy 65.5%, Action 34.5%
- #25 Umbra
75% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2022
Dev: Leslie Phillips
Windows
Being hopeless is the feeling you will encounter when you see the dreadful horrors that you will have to face in Umbra, an abyss where the worst horrors that a human can imagine reside, do you dare to face them?
Why similar: Collectathon 26.4%, Stealth 23.2%, Strategy 20.5%, Horror 17.6%, Action 8.7%
- #26 Traffic Cop
78% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Waden Kane Game StudiosPub: Yes Productions
Windows
It's the 1950s in a city like no other. You're on duty as the local Traffic Cop smack dab in the middle of a busy intersection. Direct traffic, dodge flying food, & unlock bonus rounds to disintegrate aliens, and hunt birds!
Why similar: Strategy 65.5%, Action 34.5%
- #27 Depths of Deceit
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GasMilk Amalgamations
Windows · Linux
A collect-a-thon horror experience with fast-paced game play and intense music! Use abilities to pull off moves, try to get all the orbs as fast as possible! Do you have what it takes to get an S?
Why similar: Collectathon 44.7%, Action 21%, Horror 12.8%, Narration 12.7%, 3D 8.9%
- #28 Day of Destruction
78% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: SynaptixGames, LLC
Windows
Embrace Your Inner Alien! Rise as the destroyer of cities and conqueror of galaxies. Empower yourself with alien technology as you unlock new weapons and UFOs. Follow your destiny on the Day of Destruction.
Why similar: Strategy 65.4%, Action 34.6%
- #29 The Silence After
70% matchVery Positive93% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Vancouver Film School
Windows
The Silence After is a first-person atmospheric horror game where you play as a blind sole survivor following a distress signal through an apocalyptic reality, interacting with the environment and using your synesthetic ability to perceive sound as color to progress and avoid death.
Why similar: Strategy 58.4%, Horror 27%, 3D 12.2%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #30 MouseEscape
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 41
Windows
A horror game about escaping a sealed-off city.
Why similar: Stealth 37.4%, Horror 30.6%, Action 18.3%, 3D 10.7%, Singleplayer 3%
- #31 Hostage: Rescue Mission
77% matchMostly Negative29% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: InfogramesPub: Atari
Windows
Special Alert: Terrorists have invaded our embassy and seized an undetermined number of hostages...Lives hang in the balance as high ranking diplomats are held at gunpoint...Their safety requires immediate action... prepare to infiltrate the embassy, neutralize the terrorists, and rescue the hostages, or die trying.
Why similar: Strategy 65.4%, Action 34.6%
- #32 Maze Madness
76% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: James SchilzPub: Syngaming Studios
Windows
First Person Shooter Through a variety of Mazes and challenges. Each level has different weapons and AI to make each entertaining and increasingly more difficult. Try your luck and Beat your Time to get past each challenge all the levels have in store for you.
Why similar: Strategy 64.2%, Action 35.8%
- #33 Mr. Hopp's Manor Escape
72% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Moonbit
Windows
Toys-turned-monsters are roaming the manor. Find a way out and don't get caught!
Why similar: Strategy 37.1%, Action 20.1%, Horror 18.4%, Stealth 14.2%, Puzzle 8.7%
- #34 Mighty Math
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: TreeFall Studios L.L.C.
Windows
Mighty Math is a mind bending fusion of arcade survival and brain training all in one. Collect numbers to survive each round. As you collect numbers you will change the player value. You must maintain a player value between 0 and 9, anything else is instant death.
Why similar: Collectathon 40.2%, Strategy 38.3%, Action 20.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #35 Minskies
74% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Binary EmotionsPub: Piko Interactive LLC
Windows
Minskies Furballs is not a port, but a spiritual clone of Puyo Puyo. In a tournament against a cast of crazy characters, you must guide and rotating falling pairs of cats of different colours to make up colour combinations.
Why similar: Strategy 61.9%, Action 38.1%
- #36 Hovershift
77% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: OuroborOs_
Windows
Test your reflexes with Hovershift and get the highest score on this little arcade game
Why similar: Strategy 65.3%, Action 34.7%
- #37 Toxic Harvest
67% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Overthrown Interactive
Windows
Trapped on Halloween night in a chemical plant after a deadly spill, you’re hunted by a mutated creature. Your only escape is blocked, and every push toward freedom alerts your position. Time your movements, manage your stamina, and survive the night.
Why similar: Strategy 40.5%, Action 23.2%, Stealth 18.6%, Horror 16.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #38 EXPEST
73% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Cadyze
Windows
An arcade-inspired game all about collecting cheese to fulfill your needs. Avoid being exterminated throughout all the levels as you see all the tricks that are used to stop your quest.
Why similar: Strategy 37.4%, Collectathon 32.7%, Action 18.9%, Puzzle 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #39 I will make you scared of this Red Box.
68% matchPositive87% of 46 reviews2024
Dev: Josh Ward
Windows
The Red Cube wants to eat all of the pills in the hospital. The problem is that he has already had WAY too many! You need to collect all of the the pills in the facility so that he doesn't eat any more. Be careful though...The Cube REALLY likes his pills...
Why similar: Strategy 43.1%, Horror 31%, Action 14.8%, 3D 9.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #40 Peek A Doom
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ENIGMA STUDIO Sarl
Windows
Your teachers are monsters, the school is their hunting ground, and your sister is next. Explore Willby School in this first-person horror adventure, solve dangerous puzzles, and survive long enough to stop the cult’s ritual.
Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Stealth 22.1%, Narration 20.1%, Action 18.8%, Puzzle 4.9%
- #41 Killer Vegetable
68% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: 鬱薔薇檸檬(UtuBaraLemon)
Windows
Girl VS Vegetables「crisp and fresh」A horror game aiming to conquer vegetables
Why similar: Collectathon 42%, Horror 25.2%, Stealth 14%, Puzzle 7%, Action 5.6%
- #42 Nine Days
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pansus Studio
Windows
9 Days brings a psychological horror experience where you play as a father. One time, someone kidnaps your child, and The kidnapper asks for money if he wants his child safe. In the end, you must find a way to make money as fast as possible and try to survive by hiding from them.
Why similar: Strategy 39.1%, Horror 27.5%, Action 17.3%, Stealth 14.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #43 Minesweeper Pillar
66% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Gabriel Fabian Hinca
Windows
Minesweeper Pillar is a twist on the classic minesweeper game. In this unique gaming experience, you'll find yourself in a cylindrical world where mines are hidden within the walls of a rotating pillar.
Why similar: Strategy 49.9%, Action 26.5%, 3D 10.8%, Puzzle 10.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #44 UNHALLOWED: THE CABIN
73% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Tom AdamsPub: TREEFORT VR
Windows
Jump into this creepy VR horror title. Investigate you family’s ancestral cabin and collect clues as eldritch secrets are revealed and you discover what grotesque fate has befallen your brother and his missing family.
Why similar: Strategy 57.8%, Action 29.3%, Horror 12.9%
- #45 Wisentree Spirit
75% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: OriorInteractifPub: Orior Interactif
Windows
In this virtual reality tower defence, you will embody a hero, push back the enemies assaults, By building a network of defensive Towers and manipulating, internal might that will grant you powers of the mystical Fire.
Why similar: Strategy 64.2%, Action 35.8%
- #46 Creepy Claus
67% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: LimeYee
Windows
Its your first day on the job but Santa isn't impressed Wrap the presents to escape OR ELSE!
Why similar: Strategy 31.5%, Horror 30.5%, Stealth 17.5%, Action 14.3%, 3D 4.4%
- #47 Fear Of Nightmares: Madness Descent
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 90 reviews2017
Dev: Christoffer Ryrvall
Windows
After having witnessed his own hanging, the character finds himself in a forest where strange events begin to happen. While traveling through dark enviroments in order to restore his sanity he will encounter various obstacles aswell as malformed horrors lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Strategy 51.8%, Action 25%, Horror 23.2%
- #48 March Of Soldiers
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: FAYEZ ALRASHEEDIPub: THE MARCH OF KWF
Windows
March Of Soldiers is a real time strategy single player , It is a military game based on the player's skill and the strength of his financial economy
Why similar: Strategy 66.6%, Action 32.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #49 The Dark Stares Back
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Jacob McCormick
Windows
The Dark Stares Back pins you against multiple invaders with no purpose but to hunt you. Each of them behaves in their own unique way and you must learn from your experience to evade them long enough to win. You can run into the vents, hide in cabinets, duck behind furniture and more to survive.
Why similar: Stealth 36%, Strategy 34.2%, Horror 22.8%, 3D 4.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #50 The Rubberhose Forest
65% matchPositive81% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: lilleBror
Windows
Welcome to a bone-chilling horror experience set a world inspired by the iconic Steamboat Willie cartoon and Slender: The eight pages. You are a daring cargo collector, navigating through an eerie forest, collecting valuable cargo while desperately avoiding the nightmarish duo, Mickey and Minnie.
Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, Stealth 19.4%, Horror 18.5%, 3D 9.2%, Action 6.7%
- #51 evoke: The Rules of Toys
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ENDROLL
Windows
There are rules for toys. A toy must never be seen moving. A toy must never break. And a toy must always make its owner happy. These rules are absolute. So Patch keeps going—again and again—patching together his broken body as he searches. Because there is something his owner must remember.
Why similar: Stealth 37%, Action 25.7%, Horror 23.9%, Puzzle 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #52 SolSeraph
70% matchMixed51% of 103 reviews2019
Dev: ACE TeamPub: SEGA
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build your cities and set up defensive structures to protect them from the constant threat of monsters. Brought to you by ACE Team, SolSeraph combines action and strategy for a rich gameplay experience reminiscent of the 16-bit era.
Why similar: Strategy 67%, Action 33%
- #53 Cluck Yegger in Escape From The Planet of The Poultroid
71% matchMixed69% of 72 reviews2015
Dev: Guys From Andromeda LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 30%
As space-faring free ranger, Cluck Yegger, you’ve been shot out of the sky by none other than your old arch nemesis, Colonel Zanderz. Your disabled ship is running on limited auxiliary solar power that charges during the daytime.
Why similar: Strategy 50.5%, Horror 26.1%, Action 23.4%
- #54 Around - The Game
63% match8 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: TecshieldPub: Story Czar
Windows
Step into a haunted mansion where reality bends. Solve chilling puzzles, offer cherries to speak with the Fiend, and escape before you're consumed by the nightmare.
Why similar: Strategy 49.8%, Action 22.2%, Horror 11.3%, 3D 9.6%, Puzzle 4.7%