- #1 Care
97% matchVery Positive95% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: The Pocket Dimension
Windows
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: Investigation 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Horror 12.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #2 CRUSH DEPTH
96% matchVery Positive99% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Earth Giant
Windows
CRUSH DEPTH is first-person sci-fi horror game set at the bottom of the ocean. A salvage operation that would set you up for life goes sideways when you realize you're not alone down there. You'll solve puzzles and run from danger as you uncover the mysterious fate of Eclipse Station.
Why similar: Underwater 40.1% ★, Horror 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Puzzle 9.4%, Exploration 7.2%
- #3 Neve
95% matchVery Positive99% of 72 reviews2026
Dev: Michelle SantosPub: Ritus Studio
Windows
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Point & Click 15%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Horror 11.6%
- #4 Our Secret Below
96% matchVery Positive87% of 123 reviews2020
Dev: DarkStone Digital
Windows
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
Why similar: Puzzle 23.8%, Horror 21.3%, Female Protagonist 19.9%, Point & Click 10.1%, Exploration 9.2%
- #5 The Exit 8
94% matchVery Positive93% of 11,464 reviews2023
Dev: KOTAKE CREATEPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
Why similar: Underground 41.4% ★, Horror 13.6%, Puzzle 12.4%, Exploration 9.4%, First-Person 7.8%
- #6 I Can't Escape: Darkness
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2015
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
I Can't Escape: Darkness is a quicksand trap for the senses - the more you listen and look for clues, the deeper you fall into a damp, living dungeon. Plunge into the depths and scrape together whatever tools you can find, then try to escape one of the most diabolical puzzles of all time!
Why similar: Horror 72.1%, First-Person 27.9%
- #7 Elevator Zero
93% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: Arvus Games
Windows
In Elevator Zero, a first-person exploration and puzzle game, you find yourself trapped in an otherworldly dimension. Escape is possible only through the elevator.
Why similar: Horror 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, First-Person 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, 3D 13.2%
- #8 Trapped: Family Vacation
92% matchVery Positive91% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: New Forge Games
Windows
You're trapped in a small six-room hotel. The only way to escape is to observe your surroundings and follow the family's rules.
Why similar: Horror 20.5%, Puzzle 17.2%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Exploration 12.2%, First-Person 11.7%
- #9 Security 51
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 416 reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You're a security officer deep within Area 51. Scan the staff, verify clearances, and decide who can enter the elevator and who absolutely mustn't leave. The deeper you go, the less certain you are that anyone standing before you is still human.
Why similar: Investigation 30.2%, Point & Click 18.4%, Horror 13.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #10 Below, Rusted Gods
89% matchVery Positive89% of 309 reviews2026
Dev: FromSouthGames
Windows
You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.
Why similar: Horror 21%, Puzzle 18.4%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 12.1%
- #11 Station 5
91% matchMixed49% of 90 reviews2023
Dev: Raynmakyr
Windows
You are trapped in an underground subway. Observe your surroundings carefully and take the correct trains to reach the 'Station 5' and exit the subway.
Why similar: Puzzle 23.8%, Simulation 21.9%, Exploration 14.9%, Horror 12.9%, First-Person 10.5%
- #12 Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
90% matchVery Positive82% of 4,888 reviews2016
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Nine participants awaken, trapped in an underground facility. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Puzzle 25.3%, Story Rich 18.9%, Horror 12.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #13 Re:Turn - One Way Trip
89% matchVery Positive81% of 204 reviews2020
Dev: Red Ego GamesPub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Re:Turn - One Way Trip is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure horror game. Trapped in a ghostly train, Saki must search the past and present to find and save her friends. More importantly, Saki must use her wits if she is to survive against an unspeakable evil hellbent on avenging unrequited love.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.4% ★, Point & Click 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Horror 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #14 HOMESICKNESS
87% matchVery Positive95% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: jnity
Windows
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Why similar: Experimental 46.6%, Point & Click 14.7%, Story Rich 9.9%, Horror 9.5%, Exploration 8.7%
- #15 Dead Reset
86% matchVery Positive88% of 787 reviews2025
Dev: Dark Rift HorrorPub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Horror 14.9%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Story Rich 12.2%
- #16 Interference: Dead Air
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Fear of CornPub: V Publishing
Windows
All hell's breaking loose in a mysterious research facility and the only person who can save the day is the night shift security guard in the booth outside. Remotely control systems, guide scientists to safety or just… goof off? You’re not in danger. Yet.
Why similar: Investigation 30%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Horror 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #17 Cooking Companions 2: Dread Weight
86% matchVery Positive87% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: Deer Dream Studios
Windows · Mac
Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Horror 15.1%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #18 The Test: Reality Check
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 653 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
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: Visual Novel 20.6%, Horror 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #19 The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
84% matchVery Positive98% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Haunted Dude
Windows · Mac
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.7% ★, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Horror 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #20 Unusual Tales: Deep Below
82% matchVery Positive96% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: Jall
Windows
You, a normal working Joe, decide to try to solve the mystery of the missing girl... Will you make it out alive? A horror game filled with mystery!
Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Investigation 23.7%, First-Person 15.5%, Funny 14.2%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
- #21 Jumpscare Simulator: System Breach
83% matchVery Positive91% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: Durultay Games
Windows
Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!
Why similar: Horror 36.8%, Puzzle 29.4%, First-Person 14.9%, 3D 11.9%, Simulation 6.9%
- #22 SIMULACRA
84% matchVery Positive90% of 4,678 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.1%, Horror 18.4%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Puzzle 12.4%, Story Rich 11.3%
- #23 The Floor Above
80% matchVery Positive90% of 264 reviews2026
Dev: Swytapp Games
Windows
A claustrophobic anomaly-horror game where you can only turn, blink, and decide: is it real or not? Survive five endings and uncover Mike’s story.
Why similar: Simulation 28.5%, Horror 25.7%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Story Rich 16%, Exploration 12.6%
- #24 Blood Lily Loop
82% matchVery Positive83% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
Windows
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Horror 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
- #25 oneway.exe: Module 1.0
81% matchVery Positive84% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Disordered Media
Windows
You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?
Why similar: Investigation 23.8%, Horror 17.1%, Puzzle 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #26 10 Seconds
79% matchVery Positive79% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: ithinknotM8!
Windows
Time loop puzzle horror, where you're stuck in a failed experiment and must escape or face being eaten for eternity.
Why similar: Horror 36.1%, Puzzle 27.9%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, 3D 12%, First-Person 11.5%
- #27 Shifting To The Backrooms
78% matchVery Positive87% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Oopsome Games
Windows
Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".
Why similar: Horror 26.7%, Puzzle 21.9%, Story Rich 19.4%, Exploration 14.9%, First-Person 14.1%
- #28 The Chrono Jotter
78% matchVery Positive94% of 2,261 reviews2021
Dev: Orca LayoutPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Female Protagonist 17.4%, Horror 14.2%, Story Rich 11.9%
- #29 Neverout
81% matchMixed65% of 240 reviews2017
Dev: Gamedust
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Neverout is a 'Escape Room' game with quantum physic and reality bending. Packed with dozens of levels, difficult puzzles, eerie atmosphere and unreal immersion. Every action creates reaction. Nothing is certain, but one thing is known - every lock has a key. And in Neverout, the key - is YOU.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.5% ★, Investigation 26%, Puzzle 11.7%, Horror 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
- #30 CLeM
77% matchVery Positive91% of 295 reviews2024
Dev: Mango ProtocolPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Why similar: Investigation 27.3%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Puzzle 13.7%, Horror 11.9%, Exploration 10.4%
- #31 Scary School Simulator 2
79% matchMixed58% of 103 reviews2023
Dev: Scary Creepy Pasta
Windows · Mac · Linux
Escape from horror anime ghost story in your school's classroom!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Female Protagonist 15%, Horror 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Puzzle 11.5%
- #32 TEST TEST TEST
75% matchVery Positive92% of 1,015 reviews2024
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Investigation 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Puzzle 19.3%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Story Rich 13.5%
- #33 The Tartarus Key
76% matchVery Positive93% of 303 reviews2023
Dev: Vertical ReachPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
Why similar: Horror 16.3%, Female Protagonist 16%, Exploration 14.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #34 ELEVATOR: AVICI
74% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross
Windows
"ELEVATOR: AVICI" is a 1st-person psychological horror with a retro, HK lo-fi aesthetic. Trapped in a decaying apartment elevator, your only link to the outside is a strange voice on the intercom claiming to be a repairman. Will you follow his commands, or find your own escape from the darkness?
Why similar: Horror 36.6%, Puzzle 23.5%, First-Person 20.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, 3D 7.4%
- #35 Tested on Humans: Escape Room
76% matchVery Positive86% of 506 reviews2021
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You are the test subject. In this dark environment escape room, you have to solve various puzzles to escape from the research center where you are trapped. Can you find out how you got there and escape???
Why similar: Investigation 30.6%, Point & Click 25%, Puzzle 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #36 Buried Alive: Breathless Rescue
77% matchMixed56% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: EchoVerse CorePub: Midnight Games S.R.L
Windows
Are you ready to embark on a spine-chilling adventure? Step into the shoes of the protagonist and experience the terror of being "Buried Alive" in a crypt. Your mission is clear: Escape the confines of your coffin, find the key to unlock the door, and unveil the dark secrets that lie within.
Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Puzzle 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Story Rich 12.7%, Exploration 11.7%
- #37 a pet shop after dark
75% matchVery Positive89% of 407 reviews2022
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Point & Click 17.2%, Horror 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Female Protagonist 12.1%
- #38 My Sleeping Girlfriend
73% matchVery Positive95% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Dog Games
Windows
Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.
Why similar: Horror 31.6%, Story Rich 17.9%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, First-Person 13.5%, Exploration 13.1%
- #39 Cursed Mansion
74% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2023
Dev: Dragon Emperors
Windows
Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.
Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Female Protagonist 21%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Puzzle 14.9%, Story Rich 14.1%
- #40 Orten Was The Case
73% matchVery Positive95% of 165 reviews2023
Dev: Woodhill Interactive
Windows · Mac
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 54.2% ★, Horror 13.1%, Puzzle 10.7%, Story Rich 9.1%, Exploration 8.2%
- #41 IN THE FACADE WE TRUST™
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 178 reviews2025
Dev: svklmrtPub: Patchwork Interactive
Windows
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: Horror 37.1%, Exploration 19.5%, First-Person 15%, 3D 10%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #42 海子 UMIKO
71% matchVery Positive99% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: 盾构机 Tunnel Boring Machine
Windows
"海子 UMIKO" is a psychological horror visual novel. Engage in conversations with Umiko, complete various mini-games, solve puzzles, and gradually piece together the dark truths she tries to hide about herself and her dimension from fragmented narratives. Preserve your fragile friendship for a week!
Why similar: Underwater 25.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #43 Purgatory’s Flower
71% matchVery Positive95% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory. Your job here is simple. Listen to their stories, and break out together. Easy, right? ...But, doesn't it seem strange? These people... seem to be out of their mind, a bit.
Why similar: Point & Click 37.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Horror 22.7%, First-Person 16.9%
- #44 Centum
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Hack The PublisherPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Point & Click 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Puzzle 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #45 Reminiscence
72% matchVery Positive85% of 1,527 reviews2021
Dev: Reminiscence Project
Windows
You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.8% ★, Horror 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, First-Person 5.4%
- #46 13F
70% matchVery Positive95% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: PixelCat
Windows
You are a tired office worker who has been working overtime until late at night due to a heavy workload and is trapped in a strange office building. You have to get to the first floor quickly and go home to rest, because you have to go to work tomorrow morning!
Why similar: Puzzle 39.5%, Simulation 32.6%, Horror 27.9%
- #47 Escape from the Cursed Convent
68% matchVery Positive92% of 204 reviews2025
Dev: Ais Kacang StudioPub: 迷糊的安安
Windows
Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Female Protagonist 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Horror 14.6%, Puzzle 13.7%
- #48 Lost Hope: Backrooms
69% matchMixed69% of 113 reviews2026
Dev: mdvdPub: Lost Hope games
Windows
Explore 20+ handcrafted levels filled with puzzles, secrets, and hidden lore. Collect, trade, and upgrade your tools as you uncover the story behind a realistic world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, First-Person 12.9%, Exploration 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #49 Endless Escape
71% matchVery Positive81% of 89 reviews2020
Dev: 511GAMES
Windows
"Endless Escape" is a maze game that lets you escape from a castle full of mazes, dodging traps. Look around while moving yourself, as there are traps that will come out from nowhere. Life or death depends on your choices.
Why similar: Puzzle 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Exploration 23.4%, 3D 13.3%
- #50 Who's Lila?
68% matchVery Positive94% of 3,792 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Point & Click 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Horror 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #51 Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets
70% matchVery Positive85% of 178 reviews2022
Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
Windows
Your girlfriend seems to be hiding something. Will you respect her privacy or pry into her secrets? Don't worry, though. This is a horror dating sim with a time loop, so you can try again...and again...and again...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Visual Novel 26.5%, Horror 17.2%, Story Rich 14.2%, Exploration 13.2%
- #52 The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
66% matchVery Positive94% of 3,251 reviews2024
Dev: SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENTPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
Why similar: Investigation 28%, Story Rich 16.3%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 10.6%
- #53 Subway Midnight
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,319 reviews2021
Dev: Bubby DarkstarPub: Aggro Crab
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Board the train! Run away from a weirdo! Solve some puzzles! Make friends with some ghosts! Try not to become a ghost yourself!
Why similar: Horror 22.4%, Female Protagonist 19.7%, Puzzle 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Exploration 13.3%
- #54 Liminal Exit
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: LittleRedDread
Windows
Step into an uncanny building trapped in endless loops. Use the elevator, uncover unsettling anomalies, and evade the Entity lurking behind you. Liminal Exit is an immersive game inspired by liminal spaces and Exit 8. Explore 3 liminal space floors and track anomalies to escape, but watch your back!
Why similar: Puzzle 25.6%, Horror 23.5%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, First-Person 14%, 3D 10.7%
- #55 Greenhouse
67% matchVery Positive90% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: 7D Games Studio
Windows
A psychological horror game where you enter the Greenhouse at your own risk to uncover the truth behind the friendly façade. Change the environment and weather to progress, hoping to get out. Switch off the entities to enjoy eerie serenity.
Why similar: Horror 38%, Exploration 23.4%, Puzzle 19.2%, First-Person 10.8%, 3D 8.6%
- #56 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
65% matchVery Positive88% of 6,230 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Horror 15.9%, Point & Click 15.2%, Story Rich 15%, Exploration 13.1%
- #57 Last Message
69% matchVery Positive89% of 178 reviews2021
Dev: JamesGamesNZ
Windows
Use an in-game computer to chat with friends to stay connected and help each other. Explore your 'empty' apartment building for items to assist them and uncover lost messages.
Why similar: Horror 24%, Story Rich 20.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Exploration 11.4%
- #58 Love Alone Death
66% matchVery Positive98% of 441 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.1%, Female Protagonist 22.4%, Horror 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 12%
- #59 Your Future Self
70% matchVery Positive81% of 97 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.6%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Story Rich 23.1%
- #60 One Last Clip
65% matchVery Positive87% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Struggle Games Studio
Windows
You are locked inside a cinema. Your only way to escape is to follow the instructions of your task: Watch the same film clip repeatedly and search for flaws to break free. But this may sound easier than it is, every wrong decision or death will set you back. So be careful!
Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Puzzle 25.5%, Simulation 15.2%, First-Person 14.9%, 3D 10.6%