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Top Psychological Games

60+ psychological games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Story Rich, Adventure, Psychological Horror.

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  1. #1 Among Us
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 730,360 reviews2018
    Developer: Innersloth
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.0hMean: 30.8h≥1hr: 93%

    An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!

  2. #2 Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
    98% matchVery Positive90% of 75,796 reviews2017
    Developer: Ninja Theory
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.2hMean: 12.8h≥1hr: 85%

    From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.

  3. #3 Buckshot Roulette
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 119,065 reviews2024
    Developer: Mike KlubnikaPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 2.6hMean: 8.1h≥1hr: 80%

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

  4. #4 The Stanley Parable
    94% matchVery Positive92% of 45,498 reviews2013
    Developer: Galactic Cafe
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.4hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 79%

    The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

  5. #5 SILENT HILL 2
    93% matchVery Positive95% of 61,098 reviews2024
    Developer: Bloober Team SAPublisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18.8hMean: 26.6h≥1hr: 93%

    Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

  6. #6 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 37,109 reviews2023
    Developer: Kit9 Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.3hMean: 12.6h≥1hr: 87%

    Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.

  7. #7 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,269 reviews2020
    Developer: Nikita KryukovPublisher: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 24mMean: 7.7h≥1hr: 11%

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

  8. #8 Superliminal
    89% matchVery Positive95% of 33,072 reviews2020
    Developer: Pillow Castle
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 5.3h≥1hr: 85%

    Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

  9. #9 Cry of Fear
    89% matchVery Positive89% of 84,143 reviews2013
    Developer: Team Psykskallar
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 7.8h≥1hr: 57%

    Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

  10. #10 Mouthwashing
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,697 reviews2024
    Developer: Wrong OrganPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.8hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 90%

    The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.

  11. #11 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
    87% matchVery Positive94% of 55,246 reviews2022
    Developer: WSS playground
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.5hMean: 18.1h≥1hr: 81%

    NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).

  12. #12 Alice: Madness Returns
    83% matchVery Positive91% of 29,247 reviews2011
    Developer: Spicy Horse GamesPublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.8hMean: 11.2h≥1hr: 69%

    Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.

  13. #13 Until Then
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 16,524 reviews2024
    Developer: Polychroma GamesPublisher: Maximum Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 7.5hMean: 11.2h≥1hr: 78%

    A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

  14. #14 Psychonauts 2
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 14,113 reviews2021
    Developer: Double Fine ProductionsPublisher: Xbox Game Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 13.1hMean: 15.9h≥1hr: 80%

    Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.

  15. #15 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,381 reviews2015
    Developer: 07th ExpansionPublisher: MangaGamer
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.0hMean: 21.7h≥1hr: 85%

    Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

  16. #16 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
    81% matchVery Positive93% of 20,460 reviews2024
    Developer: 0x0Real StudioPublisher: Nino Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.5hMean: 16.7h≥1hr: 70%

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

  17. #17 CloverPit
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 23,947 reviews2025
    Developer: Panik ArcadePublisher: Future Friends Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.4hMean: 11.3h≥1hr: 88%

    A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!

  18. #18 SILENT HILL f
    80% matchVery Positive81% of 27,037 reviews2025
    Developer: NeoBards Entertainment Ltd.Publisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.1hMean: 22.7h≥1hr: 91%

    Hinako's hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.

  19. #19 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,578 reviews2021
    Developer: Nikita Kryukov
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.6hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 79%

    A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

  20. #20 The Test
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,135 reviews2020
    Developer: Randumb Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 2.8h≥1hr: 23%

    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?

  21. #21 Viewfinder
    76% matchVery Positive94% of 12,170 reviews2023
    Developer: Sad Owl StudiosPublisher: Thunderful Publishing
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.3h≥1hr: 76%

    Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

  22. #22 My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 903 reviews2019
    Developer: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 4.1h≥1hr: 52%

    This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions have to be made. Or meaningful, to such an extent, that there is nothing left once they are made.

  23. #23 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,432 reviews2022
    Developer: MAHOUMAIDENPublisher: Nikita Kryukov
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 48mMean: 3.5h≥1hr: 37%

    REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.

  24. #24 missed messages.
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,474 reviews2019
    Developer: Angela He
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 36mMean: 3.0h≥1hr: 18%

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

  25. #25 INDIKA
    73% matchVery Positive90% of 8,070 reviews2024
    Developer: Odd MeterPublisher: 11 bit studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 7.6h≥1hr: 93%

    Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.

  26. #26 A Space for the Unbound
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,476 reviews2023
    Developer: MojikenPublisher: Toge Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 7.1h≥1hr: 82%

    A magical adventure about two high school sweethearts set at the end of their school days - and the end of the world. Explore a crumbling town and help friends face their inner demons, which could be the key to stopping reality itself disintegrating. And don’t forget to pet the cats.

  27. #27 Raging Loop
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,075 reviews2017
    Developer: KEMCO
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 24.2hMean: 59.5h≥1hr: 84%

    The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?

  28. #28 Psychopomp
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,472 reviews2024
    Developer: Fading Club
    Platforms: Windows

    Your entire life has been a lie. There are catacombs under every home and building, stretching down for miles. Something calls you deeper into the labyrinth. Delve into the depths, and discover the monstrosities below.

  29. #29 The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
    72% matchMostly Positive74% of 10,406 reviews2020
    Developer: Supermassive GamesPublisher: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.3hMean: 7.3h≥1hr: 95%

    Trapped and isolated in the abandoned town of Little Hope, 4 college students and their teacher must escape the nightmarish apparitions that relentlessly pursue them through an impenetrable fog.

  30. #30 Psychopomp GOLD
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,990 reviews2024
    Developer: Fading Club
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.7hMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 69%

    Psychopomp is BACK. The catacombs stretch down farther than ever before. Your entire life has been a lie. Delve into the depths, and discover the horrors that lie below. More realms, more modes, more secrets. An ancient voice calls to you from the center of the earth. Will you answer it?

  31. #31 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
    70% matchVery Positive88% of 3,358 reviews2023
    Developer: silver978Publisher: IndieArk
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.3hMean: 2.9h≥1hr: 57%

    A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.

  32. #32 Yume Nikki
    70% matchVery Positive94% of 10,100 reviews2018
    Developer: kikiyamaPublisher: PLAYISM
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 71.6h≥1hr: 47%

    This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

  33. #33 How Fish Is Made
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,490 reviews2022
    Developer: Wrong Organ
    Platforms: Windows

    Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!

  34. #34 Shady Part of Me
    70% matchVery Positive94% of 3,278 reviews2020
    Developer: Douze DixièmesPublisher: Focus Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 4.4h≥1hr: 77%

    Overcome emotional struggles across a touching narrative filled with twists and surprises. Embark on a dream-like journey, with breathtaking artistic direction and the enthralling voice of Hannah Murray (Game of Thrones, Skins).

  35. #35 INMOST
    70% matchVery Positive91% of 7,236 reviews2020
    Developer: Hidden Layer GamesPublisher: Chucklefish
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.3hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 77%

    Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

  36. #36 Eliza
    70% matchVery Positive91% of 1,738 reviews2019
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.3hMean: 5.5h≥1hr: 73%

    Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

  37. #37 The Town of Light
    70% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,772 reviews2016
    Developer: LKA
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.3h≥1hr: 91%

    12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.

  38. #38 THE CORRIDOR
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 3,525 reviews2020
    Developer: Thomas Mackinnon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.1hMean: 5.0h≥1hr: 53%

    THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.

  39. #39 AL QMRAH RESTAURANT - مطبخ القمرة
    69% matchMixed51% of 277 reviews2024
    Developer: M4DOOM
    Platforms: Windows

    Survive the night in AL QMRAH RESTAURANT with a 4-Player co-op survival horror set in a real-life restaurant, players take on the roles of restaurant workers completing closing tasks while facing haunted kitchen creatures and keeping the restaurant stable to find their way out.

  40. #40 Martha Is Dead
    69% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,780 reviews2022
    Developer: LKAPublisher: Wired Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.5hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 88%

    Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?

  41. #41 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,849 reviews2020
    Developer: Conor Petersen
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.7hMean: 5.6h≥1hr: 62%

    It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!

  42. #42 Wednesdays
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,921 reviews2025
    Developer: Pierre CorbinaisPublisher: ARTE France
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.0hMean: 23.6h≥1hr: 49%

    "The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.

  43. #43 Insomnia: Theater in the Head
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,891 reviews2022
    Developer: Perfect Day Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.3hMean: 3.9h≥1hr: 65%

    Hickory dickory dock. The city's deep in sleep. The clock's ticking. The sheep's bouncing. Hickory dickory dock. The girl tosses again, only with more things swarming into her head... In this Point & Click puzzle game "Insomnia", the show in the head is rolling on again. Alas, any sleep tonight...

  44. #44 Summer of '58
    67% matchVery Positive89% of 4,888 reviews2021
    Developer: EMIKA_GAMES
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.7hMean: 4.3h≥1hr: 79%

    In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.

  45. #45 Away
    68% matchMixed49% of 1,276 reviews2018
    Developer: NipoBoxPublisher: NipoBox Publishing
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    Away — is a short game telling about the hero's death experience, performed in a gloomy black and white style.

  46. #46 Lost in Vivo
    66% matchVery Positive92% of 3,903 reviews2018
    Developer: KIRA
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.5hMean: 4.9h≥1hr: 80%

    A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.

  47. #47 GNOSIA
    65% matchVery Positive94% of 4,865 reviews2022
    Developer: Petit DepottoPublisher: PLAYISM
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.3hMean: 15.4h≥1hr: 90%

    The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

  48. #48 Masochisia
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 432 reviews2015
    Developer: Oldblood
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.8hMean: 3.2h≥1hr: 85%

    A young man discovers through a series of hallucinations that he will grow up to become a violent psychopath. How will he respond to these revelations? Can he change his fate? Can you even... change fate...

  49. #49 93, Kuindzhi
    64% matchVery Positive95% of 1,967 reviews2026
    Developer: Nikita Igorevich StudioPublisher: Smysl Media
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 1.6h≥1hr: 79%

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

  50. #50 Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,059 reviews2023
    Developer: NankidaiPublisher: 0UP GAMES
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.4hMean: 13.8h≥1hr: 81%

    Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.

  51. #51 DEATH NOTE Killer Within
    64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,654 reviews2024
    Developer: Grounding Inc.Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.6hMean: 12.6h≥1hr: 78%

    DEATH NOTE Killer Within is an online social deduction game for up to 10 players. Players will be split into two teams with different objectives. To win the game, players will need to figure out each other’s identities and either eliminate L who threatens Kira's power or seize the Death Note.

  52. #52 Among Us 3D: VR
    65% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,738 reviews2022
    Developer: Schell GamesPublisher: Innersloth
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 2.8h≥1hr: 47%

    The definitive social deduction party game in virtual reality! Can the Crewmates survive, or will Impostors take over? Roles, Emergency Meetings, deception, sabotages, tasks: enjoy your favorite brand of chaos from the original Among Us with a VR twist.

  53. #53 The Cat Lady
    64% matchVery Positive94% of 6,142 reviews2013
    Developer: Harvester GamesPublisher: Screen 7
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 6.0h≥1hr: 91%

    The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...

  54. #54 Digimon Survive
    64% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,644 reviews2022
    Developer: HYDE, Inc.Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.0hMean: 17.5h≥1hr: 85%

    Digimon Survive presents a hybrid visual novel and tactical RPG set in a mysterious world filled with dangerous monsters and deadly battles that will test your ability to survive.

  55. #55 Super Sus
    64% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,648 reviews2024
    Developer: GIANT INTERACTIVE HK LIMITED
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 48mMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 46%

    Welcome to join the multiplayer social deduction game - Super Sus! Engage in intense gameplay with global players, as you strategize to safeguard your spaceship from the cunning Impostors determined to sabotage the mission and eliminate everyone aboard!

  56. #56 Twin Mirror
    64% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,651 reviews2021
    Developer: DON'T NOD
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.2hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 80%

    The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?

  57. #57 The Caligula Effect 2
    63% matchVery Positive92% of 450 reviews2022
    Developer: historia Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.8hMean: 15.4h≥1hr: 91%

    Redo is a world without sorrow created by the virtuadoll Regret. Virtuadoll songs give Redo residents respite from their struggles. Our protagonists discover the truth and form the Go-Home Club to return to reality. Make your way home with companions bearing heavy burdens in this school-themed RPG.

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