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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, Atmospheric.

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  1. #1 Among Us
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 725,594 reviews2018
    Developer: Innersloth
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.0hMean: 30.6h≥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 75,429 reviews2017
    Developer: Ninja Theory
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.2hMean: 12.7h≥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 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,042 reviews2023
    Developer: Kit9 Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.2hMean: 12.3h≥1hr: 87%

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

  4. #4 Buckshot Roulette
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 115,773 reviews2024
    Developer: Mike KlubnikaPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 2.6hMean: 8.0h≥1hr: 79%

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

  5. #5 SILENT HILL 2
    93% matchVery Positive95% of 58,918 reviews2024
    Developer: Bloober Team SAPublisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18.6hMean: 26.0h≥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 Stanley Parable
    92% matchVery Positive92% of 45,432 reviews2013
    Developer: Galactic Cafe
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.4hMean: 8.7h≥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.

  7. #7 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,921 reviews2020
    Developer: Nikita KryukovPublisher: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 24mMean: 7.2h≥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
    88% matchVery Positive95% of 32,646 reviews2020
    Developer: Pillow Castle
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 5.1h≥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
    88% matchVery Positive89% of 82,586 reviews2013
    Developer: Team Psykskallar
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 7.6h≥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
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,133 reviews2024
    Developer: Wrong OrganPublisher: CRITICAL REFLEX
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.8hMean: 3.4h≥1hr: 91%

    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 Positive95% of 53,234 reviews2022
    Developer: WSS playground
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.6hMean: 18.3h≥1hr: 82%

    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
    82% matchVery Positive91% of 28,372 reviews2011
    Developer: Spicy Horse GamesPublisher: Electronic Arts
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.8hMean: 11.1h≥1hr: 70%

    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 Psychonauts 2
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,956 reviews2021
    Developer: Double Fine ProductionsPublisher: Xbox Game Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 13.0hMean: 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.

  14. #14 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
    80% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
    Developer: 0x0Real StudioPublisher: Nino Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.5hMean: 15.7h≥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".

  15. #15 CloverPit
    79% matchVery Positive90% of 22,113 reviews2025
    Developer: Panik ArcadePublisher: Future Friends Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.3hMean: 11.1h≥1hr: 88%

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

  16. #16 SILENT HILL f
    79% matchVery Positive81% of 25,603 reviews2025
    Developer: NeoBards Entertainment Ltd.Publisher: KONAMI
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.3hMean: 22.3h≥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.

  17. #17 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,215 reviews2015
    Developer: 07th ExpansionPublisher: MangaGamer
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.0hMean: 21.9h≥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.

  18. #18 Until Then
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,382 reviews2024
    Developer: Polychroma GamesPublisher: Maximum Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 7.6hMean: 11.4h≥1hr: 80%

    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.

  19. #19 The Test
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,124 reviews2020
    Developer: Randumb Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30mMean: 2.9h≥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?

  20. #20 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,266 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.

  21. #21 Viewfinder
    75% matchVery Positive94% of 11,827 reviews2023
    Developer: Sad Owl StudiosPublisher: Thunderful Publishing
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.5hMean: 4.4h≥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 902 reviews2019
    Developer: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 4.2h≥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 missed messages.
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,420 reviews2019
    Developer: Angela He
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 36mMean: 3.1h≥1hr: 18%

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

  24. #24 A Space for the Unbound
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,328 reviews2023
    Developer: MojikenPublisher: Toge Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 7.1h≥1hr: 83%

    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.

  25. #25 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,295 reviews2022
    Developer: MAHOUMAIDENPublisher: Nikita Kryukov
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 48mMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 37%

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

  26. #26 Psychopomp
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,339 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.

  27. #27 Raging Loop
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,674 reviews2017
    Developer: KEMCO
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 23.9hMean: 58.6h≥1hr: 84%

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

  28. #28 INDIKA
    71% matchVery Positive90% of 7,865 reviews2024
    Developer: Odd MeterPublisher: 11 bit studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 7.7h≥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.

  29. #29 The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
    71% matchMostly Positive74% of 10,214 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 Positive98% of 4,810 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 How Fish Is Made
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,380 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!

  32. #32 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
    69% matchVery Positive89% of 3,231 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.

  33. #33 INMOST
    69% matchVery Positive91% of 7,185 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.

  34. #34 Eliza
    69% matchVery Positive91% of 1,720 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.

  35. #35 Shady Part of Me
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 3,198 reviews2020
    Developer: Douze DixièmesPublisher: Focus Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 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).

  36. #36 AL QMRAH RESTAURANT - مطبخ القمرة
    69% matchMixed50% of 271 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.

  37. #37 The Town of Light
    69% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,758 reviews2016
    Developer: LKA
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.4hMean: 4.3h≥1hr: 90%

    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
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 3,475 reviews2020
    Developer: Thomas Mackinnon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.1hMean: 3.8h≥1hr: 53%

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

  39. #39 Insomnia: Theater in the Head
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,813 reviews2022
    Developer: Perfect Day Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.3hMean: 4.0h≥1hr: 66%

    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...

  40. #40 Martha Is Dead
    67% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,639 reviews2022
    Developer: LKAPublisher: Wired Productions
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.6hMean: 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 Summer of '58
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 4,849 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.

  42. #42 Wednesdays
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,812 reviews2025
    Developer: Pierre CorbinaisPublisher: ARTE France
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 1.1hMean: 25.7h≥1hr: 51%

    "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 Away
    67% matchMixed50% of 1,213 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.

  44. #44 Lost in Vivo
    66% matchVery Positive92% of 3,869 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.

  45. #45 GNOSIA
    65% matchVery Positive94% of 4,733 reviews2022
    Developer: Petit DepottoPublisher: PLAYISM
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.2hMean: 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...

  46. #46 Masochisia
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 431 reviews2015
    Developer: Oldblood
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.7hMean: 3.2h≥1hr: 84%

    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...

  47. #47 DEATH NOTE Killer Within
    64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,614 reviews2024
    Developer: Grounding Inc.Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.6hMean: 12.4h≥1hr: 80%

    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.

  48. #48 Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,866 reviews2023
    Developer: NankidaiPublisher: 0UP GAMES
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.4hMean: 14.0h≥1hr: 82%

    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.

  49. #49 Among Us 3D: VR
    64% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,712 reviews2022
    Developer: Schell GamesPublisher: Innersloth
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 2.8h≥1hr: 48%

    Teamwork and betrayal in space! In this PC & VR party game, Crewmates work together to complete tasks before one or more Impostors kill everyone aboard. Experience all of the same deception and deceit as the original Among Us, but now in all three dimensions.

  50. #50 Digimon Survive
    63% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,599 reviews2022
    Developer: HYDE, Inc.Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.9hMean: 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.

  51. #51 Super Sus
    63% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,391 reviews2024
    Developer: GIANT INTERACTIVE HK LIMITED
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 6.8h≥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!

  52. #52 The Caligula Effect 2
    63% matchVery Positive92% of 446 reviews2022
    Developer: historia Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.8hMean: 15.2h≥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.

  53. #53 Pathologic 3
    61% matchVery Positive82% of 2,382 reviews2026
    Developer: Ice-Pick LodgePublisher: HypeTrain Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 15.4h≥1hr: 85%

    In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

  54. #54 Ignited in Cavern
    62% matchVery Positive95% of 1,123 reviews2024
    Developer: 伤官制作组
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    In the waning years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a rumor circulates about a stone statue that bestows blessings in the mortal realm. Lured by the rumor, Anu and Chu Qingqing, a Xianbei General and her Han captive, are led to Dunhuang to face their fates.

  55. #55 Twin Mirror
    62% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,604 reviews2021
    Developer: DON'T NOD
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.2hMean: 8.9h≥1hr: 79%

    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?

  56. #56 Her Lie I Tried To Believe
    63% matchVery Positive81% of 976 reviews2018
    Developer: Hangover Cat Purrroduction
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.7hMean: 13.1h≥1hr: 69%

    Her Lie I Tried To Believe is a short kinetic novel about the persisting hatred of a boy throughout his life, the destructive relationship that was born from it, and the consequences he had to face as a direct result.

  57. #57 Anodyne
    62% matchVery Positive85% of 1,586 reviews2013
    Developer: Melos Han-TaniPublisher: Analgesic Productions
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.7hMean: 4.6h≥1hr: 90%

    A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!

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