- #1 Shadows in the Silence
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZoOgame
Windows
Shadows in the Silence is a short first-person psychological horror game with jumpscare mechanics. You will have to explore an abandoned mansion and investigate the horrors committed by a cult devoted to Astaroth,there are scenes of violence and explicit images, the use of headphones is recommended.
Why similar: Gore 56.2%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 10.6%, Story Rich 7.1%, Indie 4.7%
- #2 Sanguine Sanctum
96% matchVery Positive95% of 77 reviews2018
Dev: Modus Interactive Games
Windows · Mac
It desires more. Feed It. Nourish It. Sanguine Sanctum is an atmospheric horror-exploration game with a low-poly, PS1 aesthetic.
Why similar: Gore 69.4%, Indie 16.5%, Horror 14%
- #3 Truecolors
96% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Team Newtype
Windows
Truecolors is a game where we have to gather clues to the murder in the ship and get to the bottom of it, and survive the dangers and traps everywhere.
Why similar: Gore 57.8%, Indie 32%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #4 School Grounds
95% matchMixed43% of 82 reviews2018
Dev: JubleLemonSeed
Windows
Strange mannequins silently stalk visitors to the school grounds as they piece together the mystery of what is happening at the school.
Why similar: Gore 70.6%, Indie 16.8%, Horror 12.7%
- #5 Nine
94% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Baiacu Games
Windows
Never stop walking and try to stay alive, even a child should be able to do it
Why similar: Gore 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #6 Project IO
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: T124 Studios LLC
Windows
Project IO is a first-person, survival horror video game set in the late 1950's, with an emphasis on exploration and narrative.
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #7 Obligation
93% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: 朽木布可凋夜Pub: JingtuStudio
Windows
"Obligation" is a decryption game made by RPGMaker. The player learns what happened to the character by switching the character personality. Different personalities have different ideas and operations on the same item.
Why similar: Gore 82.1%, Indie 17.9%
- #8 Locked Fears
92% matchMixed67% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: dekoga.d
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Locked Fears is a first person puzzle/horror game with platforming elements and creepy atmosphere. You play as Samuel Custer, a late worker at UNIVERS HORIZONS, when things at the office start to drift into a dreadful situation. With the help of an unknown Individual you try to survive and escape this nightmare.
Why similar: Gore 56.1%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 15.2%, Indie 12.8%
- #9 Diastone: Confusion
91% matchMixed50% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Souluted GamesPub: My Way Games
Windows
A short story about a mysterious incident in the North of Transylvania and the punishment suffered by his culprit. Get ready to be a part of this story and learn its solution.
Why similar: Gore 71%, Indie 16.2%, Horror 12.9%
- #10 Maska's Masks
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MIRO-CO Studio
Windows
The brother and sister that destiny joins, the illusion that emerges ceaselessly and weird masks...What is the true face of mysterious person maska after all? Here, players will explore dreams, illusions, absurdity and reality with Ayr.
Why similar: Gore 57.5%, Indie 19.3%, Horror 10.4%, Story Rich 7%, Atmospheric 5.8%
- #11 Creator's Chasm
90% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: ((no-end-parens Studio
Windows
Enter a surreal world crawling with monsters representing the anxieties and challenges you are too afraid to meet face to face as an artist - whether you're a painter, programmer, musician, writer, or otherwise.
Why similar: Gore 54.2%, Indie 18%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 10.2%, Atmospheric 5.7%
- #12 The Inevitability
89% matchMixed58% of 117 reviews2017
Dev: VaNyuHa
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 99%
The main hero of the game was alone. All of his family died. He continued to cling to the life... but Death... seems trying to pick him up... Throughout the game something have been chasing and wants to send you to the other world to meet his family... and as if you were trying to hide it finds you...
Why similar: Gore 70.9%, Indie 16.9%, Horror 12.3%
- #13 Timore 6
89% matchPositive83% of 41 reviews2018
Dev: Vidas Salavejus
Windows
Timore 6 is an indie horror game about facing your inner demons in order to save your child.
Why similar: Gore 63.4%, Indie 14.4%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Horror 8.8%, Atmospheric 4.6%
- #14 The Other Side Of The Screen
87% matchMixed59% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: VaNyuHa
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
The game has 5 main characters that participate in a deadly show called "The Other Side of the Screen" . Each player has to find a way out of his location. The levels and their difficulty are completely different. You are given an opportunity to play for any of the mentioned characters.
Why similar: Gore 69%, Indie 16.7%, Horror 9.2%, Atmospheric 5.1%
- #15 TheNightfall
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 139 reviews2018
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: SilentFuture
Windows
Victoria moves with her family to a new city to start her new job. But the first night in her new house is completely different than expected.
Why similar: Gore 54.4%, Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Indie 13%
- #16 Aylin: The Story of Tom
84% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: SkorBartStudioPub: SkorBartInteractive
Windows
A psychological horror adventure where you explore an abandoned hospital, solve environmental puzzles, and escape deadly supernatural forces to save your daughter.
Why similar: Gore 69.2%, Indie 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, Horror 7.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #17 krAsAvA Shot
86% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: MIGALOO GAMES
Windows
2079 planet Earth. Together with the spacecraft conducting the expedition on Mars, the earth gets an unknown virus. Almost the entire population of the planet exposed to infection and mutated into zombies.
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #18 Cruentis The Murderer vol.1
85% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Anunnaki s.r.l.
Windows
A story of murder, demons and lost souls. The eternal struggle between good and evil. Based on an original story you'll test the fear in the shoes of a teenager trapped in a temporal limbo, between present and past. You interpret the main characters of the story and try to return to the reality of your life.
Why similar: Gore 53%, Indie 27%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Horror 9.6%
- #19 Enchantress
84% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Kyle Cornwell
Windows
Enchantress - A Psychological Thriller Game. Play as Megan Sterling in her journey to discover the secrecy hidden within the walls of WhiteRose Orphanage. Lose yourself with different discoveries and beware you don't meet a similar fate.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Indie 38.7%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Horror 8%
- #20 Wolf or Boy
83% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: AIRLIB Co., Ltd.Pub: Icelink
Windows
Wolf or Boy is a simulation game in which you can experience a physiological battle between humans and werewolves. Hearing a rumor that horrible murders are repeated in a village in the middle of nowhere, you decide to visit the site. Apparently, how they got killed is not a human beings doing. There are werewolves amongst the villagers..
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #21 彼岸画廊/Nether Gallery
82% matchVery Positive86% of 206 reviews2019
Dev: HongShou Studio
Windows · Mac
《Nether Gallery》 is a cross-section puzzle-solving horror game in which players play a social animal and solve puzzles in the interlaced environment of dreams and reality. The style of background art is similar to that of contemporary China, and the living condition of the protagonist has a lot of resonance with the young people of...
Why similar: Gore 59.6%, Indie 25.5%, Horror 15%
- #22 Matter of the Dreams
82% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Zuev Nikita
Windows
Matter of the Dreams - is a game for die-hard action fans. No exploration, no searching for keys to unlock paths – the player needs nothing more than good aim and a quick trigger finger to succeed.
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #23 Nystagmus
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 40 reviews2019
Dev: LGDC
Windows
An island, shrouded with darkness and clouds of mystery, is your only hope for salvation. In this first-person horror game, your character, an engineer in search for his fiancee, arrives at the suspicious island you’ve only ever heard about.
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #24 Wire Lips
80% matchVery Positive87% of 451 reviews2020
Dev: AIHASTOPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Leta’s life changed in one moment. She and her friend Lina found an old music box in the mountains... and soon Lina disappeared, leaving behind only a photograph and the ominous music box. Uncover the secrets in atmospheric third-person horror game.
Why similar: Gore 52.6%, Indie 19.4%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%
- #25 One Night 2: The Beyond
81% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: Dark Gaia Studios
Windows
A Lovecraftian survival horror adventure game inspired by the classics of the 90s.
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #26 No Further Instructions
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Apex SevenPub: DEHMAIN
Windows
Silent. Foggy. The murmur of an anxious crowd. Only a cheerful voice on the radio keeps you from giving up. Who is to blame? There is no answer. Guess.
Why similar: Gore 25.5%, Indie 19.5%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 14.2%, Retro 9%
- #27 The Hospital: Allison's Diary
79% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: KR GamesPub: Star Consult S.r.l.
Windows
"The Hospital: Allison's Diary" is a new horror virtual reality experience, putting the user alone in an abandoned hospital searching for the unknown with only the help of a single torch. You will face true fear in a way you had never thought possible.
Why similar: Gore 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #28 The Forgotten Apartment
76% matchMixed67% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Umbra Games
Windows
A psychological horror experience set in a forgotten apartment filled with dark memories, eerie puzzles, and emotional scars waiting to resurface.
Why similar: Gore 50.1%, Indie 16.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 9.7%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #29 SEPTEMBER 1999
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,446 reviews2018
Dev: 98DEMAKE
Windows · Mac
A free, VHS styled, first-person found footage horror game, which runs exactly for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.
Why similar: Gore 40.7%, Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 20%, Indie 14.1%, Atmospheric 3.6%
- #30 Strike Force: Arctic Storm
79% matchMostly Negative28% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: West Forest Games
Windows
Strike Force: Arctic Storm is a small First-Person-Shooter game in the style of old, classic Delta Force games and a standalone add-on for Strike Force: Desert Thunder.Customize your loadout and join intense, large scale missions to prevent terrorist attacks.
Why similar: Gore 80%, Indie 20%
- #31 To the Hell
77% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: 森林纵火犯
Windows
This is a nerve-racking, stimulating, exciting, and even crashing horizontal version game. In this personal adventure, you have to use the easiest operation to move on in the hardest level.
Why similar: Gore 75.1%, Indie 24.9%
- #32 Prelude: Psychological Horror Game
78% matchMostly Negative37% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: Juan P Dev
Windows · Mac
This game is not for everyone, do you have what it takes to unravel the secrets behind this... thing? Are you ready to face the truth and question your own existence? You've been warned...
Why similar: Gore 55.6%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Indie 12.7%, Horror 10.9%
- #33 The Pillage
76% matchVery Positive88% of 57 reviews2018
Dev: Bishop Armstrong
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A fast paced hack-n-slash arcade game where kidneys are harvested from everyone in your path.
Why similar: Gore 99.3%, Indie 0.7%
- #34 Barry Has a Secret
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sandbay Games
Windows
Meal hiding simulator.
Why similar: Gore 80.8%, Indie 19.2%
- #35 What Happened At Sugar Hill?
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADirtyDan Games
Windows
A First Person Horror Walking Simulator 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: Gore 54.6%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Indie 4.4%
- #36 The Road to Hades
75% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: AUTOSAVE
Windows
TRTH(The road to hades) is a horror adventure game full of Asian myths and art. Guide the girl safely in the world of the dead. Welcome to a new game you have not experienced.
Why similar: Gore 62.7%, Indie 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 10.9%
- #37 Hot Earth: inVasion
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: .M.Y.W.
Windows
Earth, 11019 year, George and Jack, first encountered the bloodthirsty race "Virus". Which captures and subjugates the other worlds. Led by the emperor Necrofus, their army invaded the land. -You have a unique opportunity to become a hero and save the earth!
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #38 Unnamed Experiment
71% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Ke Zhou
Windows
A point-and-click puzzle game with no textual guidance at all, relying solely on cryptic symbols and mundane objects given an alien twist. An atmospheric journey awaits. Lean on your sensation and gut instinct, but don't get lost.
Why similar: Gore 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #39 Beyond
74% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Tired Dad Games
Windows
Your grandma has died. No one knows how or why. You are the sole beneficiary of her will. Heed the warning in her will as you investigate her death. Explore, investigate, and survive.
Why similar: Gore 64.1%, Indie 15.3%, Horror 13.6%, Atmospheric 7%
- #40 Carrot Cake
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Luna Apps
Windows
In this Easter Horror Game compete in the mini games, solve puzzles, and escape the Easter Bunny. PS1 style survival horror!
Why similar: Gore 37.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 12.4%, Retro 11.7%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #41 Empty Sharp
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Meltdownergames
Windows
Play the part of Rosalie, a wicked girl forced to take a long journey due to an unexpected tragedy. Leave Lanya capital and go searching yourself; ask mysterious entities, dark creatures and mere humans to find a way to heal.
Why similar: Gore 74.8%, Indie 25.2%
- #42 魔光
73% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Magic Light TeamPub: Magic Light & LittleV
Windows
I am a Milky Way administrator from the Imperial Army. This time I was serving at a small base station 200 light years away from Earth. Although the Zerg had been defeated by the Empire for half a century, some insects still threatened us.
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #43 Guroopia!
72% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Josh Sullivan
Windows
A fun 2D puzzle physics platformer where you manipulate the direction of gravity to complete your mission. You are Marvin, a cool stick-man who is abruptly disturbed by the Dream Wizard. Marvin is told he owes a "dream debt" to the Dream Wizard and will not be allowed to wake up until it's paid!
Why similar: Gore 74.8%, Indie 25.2%
- #44 IMMURE
70% matchVery Positive93% of 111 reviews2019
Dev: Wither Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
IMMURE is a story driven, psychological horror game. Will, the protagonist, has found himself trapped inside a foreboding Mansion with no exit. To escape, he must travel through strange doors which lead into other dimensions, filled with tormented souls.
Why similar: Gore 57.5%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Horror 13.1%, Indie 12.7%
- #45 Azurael's Circle: Chapter 3
71% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Jordan AllenPub: Enkian Games
Windows
Azurael's Circle: Chapter 3 is a horror-mystery adventure game. Explore the Old Ways nursing home and speak to the various residents to learn the secrets and answers within the nursing home.
Why similar: Gore 71%, Indie 16.2%, Horror 12.9%
- #46 Red Flu
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Kostrov Games
Windows
The game "Bird flu" - is a shooter (with elements of horror game) first-person. The action takes place in the USSR in the nineteen eighties.
Why similar: Gore 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #47 Employee Recycling Center
72% matchMostly Negative29% of 140 reviews2017
Dev: Idea Cabin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Abandoned by your co-workers after a terrible accident in the factory, you are trapped. Interact with your environment, solve puzzles and unlock up to 500 achievements in this new adventure for PC and Virtual Reality Headsets.
Why similar: Gore 78%, Indie 22%
- #48 John:Condemned
71% matchMixed43% of 40 reviews2018
Dev: Blue Commands
Windows
John: Condemned is a psychological horror game. John, a man trained from a very young age to be a murderer, is contacted for a final assignment.
Why similar: Gore 50.2%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 13.2%, Indie 12.5%, Story Rich 5.6%
- #49 Stary
70% matchMixed50% of 18 reviews2018
Dev: Yars
Windows
Death is the inevitable and logical conclusion of life. All people, one way or another, understand this, but until the end they dare to accept only a few. Stary - the story of the traveler
Why similar: Gore 81.4%, Indie 18.6%
- #50 Bloom
69% matchMostly Positive68% of 41 reviews2020
Dev: Cyberius Dei
Windows
Fight your way through the hordes of demon summoners to destroy the black flower before it BLOOMS...spilling rivers of pixelated blood to psychedelic noise metal tunes in this classic frenetic action FPS indie game!
Why similar: Gore 65.7%, Indie 15.5%, Horror 10.4%, Retro 8.4%
- #51 Ash Asylum
69% matchMixed42% of 33 reviews2020
Dev: Tainted Games
Windows · Linux
In Ash Asylum you play an amnesiac thrust into a morbid, really creepy universe. After an accident you wake up to find that instead of lying in a hospital, you’re in an asylum with your head wrapped in bandages. Who the hell am I? What am I doing here? How do I escape?
Why similar: Gore 56.8%, Indie 19.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 12%
- #52 Fever Cabin
68% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2020
Dev: Justin Foley
Windows
"Five Nights at Freddy's meets COD Zombies" in this challenging horror shooter with pseudo puzzle elements that forces you to use your head and listen carefully.
Why similar: Gore 64.1%, Indie 22.6%, Horror 13.2%
- #53 Near Death Experience
68% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Distorted Games
Windows
Near Death Experience is a defensless horror game that puts you in the mind of a car crash victim that lost his memory and finds himself in a threatening and unknown area. The player has to solve riddles to try to regain his memory while running from dark forces.
Why similar: Gore 59.4%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Indie 12.9%, Horror 12.3%
- #54 The Emulator
67% matchMixed61% of 99 reviews2018
Dev: concluse_dev
Windows · Mac
It's the night before Halloween and a new terror is about to be unleashed from the deep web.. The Emulator!
Why similar: Gore 54.8%, Horror 12.6%, Indie 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Retro 6.4%
- #55 Azurael's Circle: Chapter 1
66% matchVery Positive86% of 111 reviews2018
Dev: Jordan AllenPub: Enkian Games
Windows
Azurael's Circle: Chapter 1 is a horror-mystery adventure game where you must find the truth about your mother's death. What evils await you in the depths of the Lancaster farmhouse? The further you go, the more strange things get.
Why similar: Gore 69.6%, Indie 17.3%, Horror 13.1%
- #56 The 8th Day
68% matchMostly Negative23% of 26 reviews2019
Dev: Tainted GamesPub: TAINTED GAMES
Windows
Trapped in an abandoned asylum. The only feeling of safety is light. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind every corner lurks an evil presence and horrifying noises...
Why similar: Gore 62.2%, Indie 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Horror 10.3%
- #57 Redie
67% matchVery Positive80% of 272 reviews2016
Dev: Rückert Broductions
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Redie is a challenging singleplayer 3D top-down shooter. Fight an army of well-trained terrorists and soldiers in action-packed close quarters combat. Prepare to (re)die.
Why similar: Gore 83%, Indie 17%
- #58 Corpse Castle
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wicked Cake GamesPub: Whim Independent Studios
Windows
Corpse Castle is a procedurally animated high-velocity twin stick fighter set in a deranged body-horror mystery where you must use your bare hands (or what’s left of them) to construct a tower from the flesh and bone of those who stand in your way.
Why similar: Gore 61.1%, Indie 25.1%, Retro 6.9%, Horror 6.9%
- #59 廃病院探索
63% matchVery Positive81% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: カニお@VtuberPub: vkanio_game
Windows
This is a horror game that asks a friend to find out what happened in an abandoned hospital.
Why similar: Gore 52%, Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Atmospheric 7.5%, Indie 5.2%