Games Like While We Wait Here

Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.9%, Horror 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title forces you to manage a service role while navigating high-stakes, horror-tinged dialogue choices.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Funny 8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the focus on meta-narrative, multiple endings, and the weight of player choices in a surreal environment.

Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.

Why similar: Horror 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Mystery 12.2%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the unsettling feeling of a mundane job that slowly descends into a psychological horror experience.

Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.

Why similar: Horror 43.2%, First-Person 21.9%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Atmospheric 14%, Adventure 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the 'horror in a food service setting' vibe, combining fast-paced cooking tasks with a dark, atmospheric mystery.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.5%, Story Rich 20%, Funny 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Simulation 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the 'service-simulator' aspect, where your primary interaction with the world is through serving drinks and listening to the stories of patrons.

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Choices Matter 38%, Story Rich 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 21.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Adventure 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-heavy game features a bartender mechanic that directly influences the fate of your customers through dialogue and choices.

This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.1%, Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 19%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Thriller 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric walking simulator that excels at building a sense of place and psychological tension in a confined, urban environment.

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.9%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 16.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines immersive-sim elements with psychological horror and branching choices that affect the narrative outcome.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 33.2%, Simulation 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.8%, Story Rich 14.6%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential service-based game where every minor decision you make carries heavy moral weight and impacts the world's outcome.

Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.

Why similar: Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Mystery 9.2%, First-Person 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique blend of cooking and psychological horror that mirrors the specific gameplay loop of the seed game.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Story Rich 13%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intimate, dialogue-heavy interactions between a server and their patrons in a cozy yet slightly melancholic atmosphere.

Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Horror 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the isolating, psychological horror of being stuck in a workplace environment after the world has gone quiet.

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure choose-your-own-adventure experience that focuses entirely on how your personality and choices define your fate.

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.3%, Story Rich 14%, Mystery 12.7%, Horror 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a masterclass in choice-driven dialogue and supernatural horror that feels personal and grounded in character interaction.

Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...

Why similar: Horror 33.9%, Psychological Horror 31.1%, Mystery 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cosmic horror game that relies heavily on making difficult choices that lead to various, often grim, endings.

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 13.1%, Thriller 10.3%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror game that emphasizes the tension of working a shift while things go wrong around you.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.7%, Horror 28.3%, Thriller 14.3%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Story Rich 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses retro-tech and episodic storytelling to build a sense of dread that mirrors the psychological weight found in the seed game.

The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.5%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Horror 13.3%, Mystery 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy walking simulator that uses mystery and multiple endings to keep the player engaged in its narrative.

Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.1%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the horror of hospitality, forcing the player to navigate strange interactions within a confined service space.

You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 10%, Mystery 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-adventure hybrid that focuses on the anxiety of answering the door and dealing with the unknown.

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 24.8%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Funny 15.8%, Story Rich 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the voyeuristic nature of observing others and the moral dilemma of whether or not to intervene in their lives.

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choices Matter 26.6%, Story Rich 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Mystery 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven experience where your choices in conversation and creation significantly alter the branching paths of the story.

A cozy horror game where you own and manage a boba tea shop. Prepare boba teas, serve customers, and expand your menu to grow your business.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24%, Psychological Horror 23.4%, Horror 19.1%, First-Person 8.8%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A service-based horror game that uses a cozy aesthetic to mask a deeper, more unsettling psychological narrative.

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 19.2%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses interactive fiction and exploration to create a sense of unease that rewards players for paying close attention to details.

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Choices Matter 20%, Mystery 16.9%, Story Rich 15.3%, Funny 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Explores existential themes and character-driven dialogue in a small-town setting that feels both relatable and deeply unsettling.

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.7%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Horror 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, First-Person 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person walking simulator that relies on atmosphere and exploration to tell a dark, psychological story.

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 13%, Mystery 8.2%

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Choices Matter 15%, Horror 14.4%, Psychological 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that emphasizes the importance of player choice in determining the protagonist's fate.

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Horror 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy horror game that uses interactive fiction elements to build a mysterious and atmospheric narrative.

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy horror game that uses atmosphere and psychological tension to keep the player on edge.

Anant Express is set aboard a haunted sleeper-class indian train. You board the train as an ordinary traveler, but as the journey progresses, strange events begin to unfold. Mysterious passengers. Shifting compartments. Whispers in the dark. Nothing is as it seems.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Horror 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich psychological horror game that offers multiple endings based on the choices you make during your journey.

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 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Horror 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Psychological 6.3%

Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Horror 12.2%, Mystery 10.9%

You’re just trying to get home. It’s only a quarter mile. One street. What could go wrong.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Walking Simulator 25.8%, Choices Matter 21.7%, First-Person 7.7%, Psychological 6.4%

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.9%, Psychological Horror 32.9%, First-Person 10.4%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Mystery 5.3%

When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.7%, Walking Simulator 28%, Horror 13.7%, First-Person 7.7%, Choices Matter 5.6%

For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Horror 12.4%

You’re torn between a girl who is obsessed with you and a creature. Whose words can lead you out of this endless loop? Trust the right person in the right cycle to get closer to the exit, or be misled by facades, complicating your next loop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.6%, Horror 17.9%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 15.1%, Mystery 8.5%, Funny 8.3%

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Multiple Endings 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Horror 9.1%

Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Horror 16.2%, Multiple Endings 16%, Mystery 12.3%

You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, Horror 16.8%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, First-Person 8.3%

It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.8%, Horror 19.4%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Thriller 12%, Simulation 7.4%

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Horror 12%, Mystery 8.9%, Simulation 7.9%

The doctor said today was my last appointment, I'm healthy. Time to go home, what could go wrong?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 16.9%, Funny 9.3%, First-Person 8.5%

"DINNERDINNNER" is a horror adventure game set in the modern era. You become a diner staff member and encounter strange events – customers with bizarre stories, engaging in trivial conversations, and discussing incomprehensible matters.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 48.8%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, First-Person 12.1%, Casual 9.2%, Story Rich 5.1%

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Horror 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Thriller 10.3%

Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.4%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Horror 9.2%

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Thriller 9.5%

You receive a dinner invite from an awkward new neighbor and things go great.

Why similar: Horror 24.4%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Funny 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Simulation 11.9%

Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 40.3%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Mystery 11.7%, Story Rich 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Presented by the team behind critically acclaimed "Moncage", this is a transformative adventure exploring the art of waiting. Clear the game by doing nothing, but discover the power of acceptance and patience in numerous situations from birth to death. Learn to embrace life as you wait.

Why similar: Funny 42.8%, Choices Matter 36.5%, Casual 12.4%, Adventure 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%

A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 37.9%, Psychological Horror 18%, Choices Matter 12%, Psychological 10%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%

"You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Mystery 10.7%

Immerse yourself in an atmospheric psychological horror with a haunting VHS aesthetic. As a night-shift waitress at a secluded roadside café, serve strange patrons and feel mounting dread. Each night, the nightmare becomes more real, and someone is watching from the darkness. Can you survive?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 17.9%, Simulation 9.5%, First-Person 7.5%

A psychological horror game with a chapter-based plot, thriller and unusual elements! You are a novice paranormal detective, exploring secrets and finding ways to escape in an infinite loop of scenes. Many unusual things happen during this process, as if some strange force wants to devour you...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.7%, Multiple Endings 21.6%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 14.4%, First-Person 8.6%

A story-driven psychological horror game where you must balance cooking authentic Vietnamese Pho with surviving chilling, unexpected events in a quiet, mysterious village.

Why similar: Horror 18.8%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Funny 10.4%

Find a way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Horror 13.3%, Mystery 9%

The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Horror 11.8%