Games like SEARCH PARTY: Director's Cut
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House and Distrust: Polar Survival play most like SEARCH PARTY: Director's Cut. Of the 16 closest games below, most share its horror; 1 came out in the last year and 11 are free or under $10. The best known is OMORI, with 79,956 Steam reviews.
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Distrust: Polar Survival
Aug 23, 2017 · Cheerdealers
Both: Survival · Isometric · Horror
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
SurvivalIsometricAdventureProcedural GenerationHorrorPsychedelicSurvival HorrorSingleplayerTop-DownAtmospheric👍 1,767Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Aug 7, 2024 · Mega Cat Studios
Both: Horror · Exploration · Multiple Endings
Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.
HorrorPixel GraphicsAdventure2DSingleplayerExplorationTime Travel1980sMultiple EndingsAction👍 10,173Look Outside
Mar 21, 2025 · Francis Coulombe
Both: Horror · Exploration
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
RPGSurvival HorrorPixel GraphicsHorrorLovecraftianTurn-Based CombatAdventure2DAtmosphericExploration👍 13,755Dead of Darkness
Jan 23, 2025 · Retrofiction Games
Both: Horror · Action-Adventure
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Survival HorrorHorrorStory RichAtmosphericAction-AdventurePsychological HorrorLovecraftianPixel Graphics2DSingleplayer👍 207OMORI
Dec 25, 2020 · OMOCAT, LLC
Both: Multiple Endings · Horror
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Psychological HorrorStory RichIndiePixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackRPGMultiple EndingsHand-drawnHorror2D👍 79,956Hamster Hunter
Dec 31, 2023 · Hamuno
Both: Exploration · Action-Adventure · Horror
You come home for an annual family reunion, only to find your family missing with an eerie note left by your father. After you discover what has happened you SEEK REVENGE!
ExplorationArcadePsychological HorrorAction-Adventure3DFirst-PersonHorrorDark ComedyDark HumorOpen World👍 3,555BIO Fault
Apr 1 · IKO Games
Both: Exploration · Action-Adventure · Horror
Become a scientist forced to correct a biological error born within the walls of a secret laboratory. Use the environment to survive and destroy your creation.
ExplorationPvEAction-AdventureFirst-Person3DHorrorAlternate HistoryMultiple EndingsActionPixel GraphicsD'LIRIUM
Oct 25, 2023 · B52 Development Team
Both: Action-Adventure · Horror · Multiple Endings
An experimental 2D-shooter with the elements of a horror game. D'lirium brings together some mechanics back from 90s classics. Non-linear levels, search for the keys, violence and a lot of other things. Including the colourful ponies.
Top-Down ShooterAction-Adventure2DHorrorPsychological HorrorPixel GraphicsSurrealMultiple EndingsActionThriller👍 987Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami
Jun 10, 2021 · qureate, Orgesta Inc.
Both: Horror · Action-Adventure
In this side-scrolling action-adventure game, you'll need to scour the inside of an abandoned hotel, looking for clues to solve the mystery of the hotel and ensure your escape from a mysterious, murderous mascot intent to kill.
Sexual ContentHorrorSurvival HorrorFemale ProtagonistActionAdventureAnime2DAction-AdventureCute👍 701InMaze
Jul 28, 2020 · Appvator Interactive
Both: Action-Adventure · Exploration · Horror
You woke up. You don't know where you are. You don't know who you are. Soon you will meet your sister dead and your amazing story begun. Go throught maze, kill monsters and solve logic puzzles.
AdventureActionCasualPoint & ClickAction-AdventureExplorationSingleplayerHorrorSurvival2D FighterNoct
Oct 21, 2015 · C3SK
Both: Horror · Top-Down · Survival
Noct is a 2D top-down multiplayer survival horror game that blends arcade combat with RPG survival elements. You are a survivor of the apocalyptic purge that formed the desolate wasteland now known as Noct.
IndieActionEarly AccessSurvival HorrorMultiplayerHorrorTop-Down ShooterTop-DownAtmosphericSurvival👍 357Scarred Stars: Traumatic Edition
Oct 22, 2021 · Tuomo Laine
Both: Exploration · Action-Adventure · Horror
Scarred Stars: Traumatic edition begins by you entering an amusement park from hell and you must escape with your sanity - if you can! Adventure through a ruined amusement park with a dark past. Escape monsters and discover multiple endings in this survival horror game!
ExplorationAction-AdventureFemale Protagonist2DHorrorLore-RichPsychological HorrorStory RichChoices MatterMultiple Endings
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Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
Mar 11, 2019 · scriptwelder
Both: Survival
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Pixel GraphicsAdventurePoint & ClickPost-apocalypticIndieSingleplayerChoices MatterStory Rich2DSurvival👍 2,200