Games like Dark Echo
by RAC7 Games
Trapped in darkness, you must use visualized sound to guide your way through threatening environments. The sounds you create will bounce off obstacles, revealing the shape of the surrounding world. It won't be long before your only way of sensing the world attracts a horrifying evil that devours both sound and souls.
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New-15%$5.09The Confined: Basement
Yesterday · Forcell Games
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Puzzle
You are trapped in a dark basement. To find a way out, you must piece together your forgotten past. Survive deadly creatures, collect mysterious notes, and discover who you are before it is too late.
HorrorAdventureThrillerSimulationMysteryPsychological HorrorPuzzleSingleplayerPsychologicalDark
-20%$7.99Escape the Backrooms
Oct 23 · Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
HorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonEscape RoomExplorationAdventure👍 137,469
-20%$7.99Ultradimensional
Aug 19 · VYPXR Studios
Both: Puzzle · Horror
Explore over 40 interconnected levels, evade over 20 unique entities, solve puzzles, manage scarce resources, and survive a nonlinear backrooms horror experience with multiple routes, and extreme replayability.
ActionAdventureStrategyAction-AdventurePuzzle3DFirst-PersonAtmosphericHorrorMystery
$0.99Cave Escape
3 days ago · Carrotbbit
Both: Puzzle · Dark · Horror
An observation-based 3D thriller game where you must safely escape a dark cave to save a companion trapped under a boulder. Carefully explore the cave: if you spot an anomaly, turn back immediately; if there are no anomalies, keep moving forward to find your way out.
CasualSimulationPuzzleWalking SimulatorFirst-PersonAtmosphericDarkHorrorIndieMystery
$11.99Orb of Creation
Jun 23 · MarpleGames
Both: Puzzle · Minimalist
Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
IncrementalMagicCasualStrategyResource ManagementPuzzleIndieMinimalistSingleplayerCrafting👍 2,170
$39.99REANIMAL
Feb 13 · Tarsier Studios
Both: Horror · Dark · Puzzle
The creators of Little Nightmares™ I & II have returned to take you on a darker, more terrifying journey than ever before. In this horror adventure game, a brother & sister go through hell to rescue their missing friends and escape the island that they used to call home.
HorrorCo-opAdventureMultiplayerAtmosphericDarkLocal Co-OpPuzzle3DThird Person👍 13,825
-25%$5.24Ashworth
3 days ago · MR ROCK
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Puzzle
Something has been waiting for you. Explore a forgotten place buried beneath the earth, solve twisted puzzles, and piece together a dark story one clue at a time. But the deeper you go, the more it wakes. Survive what hunts you, or become part of Ashworth's story.
HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorPuzzleIndieAtmosphericAdventureStory RichExplorationWalking Simulator
-20%$4.79Neural Maze
3 days ago · unCurieux Studio
Both: Puzzle · Minimalist
2 neurons. 2 sticks. One brain has to drive both at once: yours. Guide your stray neurons through ever-more-twisted mazes — inverted controls, power cuts, memory mode — under the eye of a doctor who's in over his head.
ActionPuzzleDifficultArcade2DSingleplayerControllerScienceFunnyMinimalist
$9.99SILENT BREATH
Aug 20 · EXODIAC STUDIOS
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark
Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness
HorrorPsychological HorrorThriller1990'sRealisticMultiplayerDarkFirst-PersonExplorationEarly Access👍 1,125
$9.99THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Sep 7 · tweakEra
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror
The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.
AdventurePsychological HorrorHorrorStylizedStory RichGoreRetroAtmosphericActionStealth👍 148
-20%$3.19We Are Sisters
3 days ago · BobaGames
Both: Psychological Horror · Puzzle · Horror
We Are Sisters is a psychological horror experience that takes you deep beneath the forests of Eastbane. Solve puzzles and uncover dark secrets as you venture further underground, drawing ever closer to discovering what happened to your childhood friend, Aleks
Psychological HorrorAdventurePuzzleFirst-PersonHorrorLinearStory RichStealthIndieSingleplayer
$7.99Backrooms Media
Dec 16 · NPK Games
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror
Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.
Co-opMultiplayerCasualPsychological HorrorHorrorOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonExplorationSingleplayer👍 546
$13.99Sol Cesto
Apr 10 · Tambouille, Géraud Zucchini, Chariospirale
Both: Puzzle
Sol Cesto is a tactical and frantic roguelite where mastering your luck is key. Choose a hero, upgrade them using cursed teeth and magical items, and descend to the bottom of an ever-changing dungeon. In this dark world, every action has consequences…
Dungeon CrawlerRoguelikeTacticalPuzzleAtmosphericFantasyGamblingProcedural GenerationMysteryTurn-Based👍 4,849
$4.99New Home
Aug 24 · kietchdev
Both: Horror · Puzzle · Psychological Horror
You are trapped inside your new home, where doors open up to various liminal spaces and anomalies appear around every corner. Will you manage to find your way out?
HorrorExplorationPuzzleWalking SimulatorCasualActionPsychological HorrorFirst-Person3DSurreal
-10%$8.99Unmurk
3 days ago · Michal Barszczewski
Both: Minimalist · Puzzle
A minimalist puzzle game. You only see the outer edges of the puzzle pieces in a voxel object. Put the puzzle pieces into place to reveal the hidden voxel object and watch it come to life.
VoxelMinimalistRelaxingPuzzleSingleplayer3DLogicFamily FriendlyCasual
-10%$2.69Take Care of My Heifer
6 days ago · REVVALUTION Studio
Both: Horror · Dark · Psychological Horror
“Take Care of My Heifer” is a short horror game packed with terror and dark humor. You’ve been asked to look after a heifer until morning and follow the owner’s instructions. Just make sure you don’t miss anything.
Walking SimulatorIndieHorrorDarkAtmosphericPsychological HorrorSimulationExplorationThrillerFirst-Person
$2.99Appointment
3 days ago · Omar Jawabreh
Both: Horror · Puzzle · Psychological Horror
Appointment is a first-person survival horror game set in a dark, abandoned hospital. Explore, solve interconnected puzzles, search for essential items, and stay quiet as a relentless doctor hunts by sight, sound, and even the light of your flashlight.
HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonPuzzleStealthAdventureAtmosphericActionPsychological HorrorExploration
$4.99Rescue the Hostages: Misaligned Fate
Sep 3 · rescuethehostages.com
Both: Psychological Horror · Puzzle · Dark
Race against the clock in this gripping FMV horror puzzle where every move could be your last. Solve a deadly sliding-tile challenge, uncover hidden clues, and disarm the bomb while a twisted mastermind watches your every mistake. Can you keep your nerve and save the hostages?
CasualFMVPsychological HorrorPuzzleCinematicCrimeDarkViolentIndieHorror
-20%$5.59United Heist: Facility Zero
4 days ago · No more Sleep
Both: Puzzle
A co-op puzzle heist for two. One of you breaks into a secret bunker. The other sits in the observation office, watching the bunker. A walkie-talkie is your only link. Talk to each other and find out how good your teamwork really is.
Co-opCo-op CampaignEscape RoomPuzzleAdventureCasualMysteryMultiple EndingsAbstractStylized
$9.99Project Unknown
Oct 10 · PsychoRavens
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark
An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorDarkFirst-PersonInvestigationSupernatural👍 776
$7.77Sleep Aid
Aug 20 · Summer Punk
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror · Dark
Not every game is meant to be fair. Not every player is meant to survive. Bluff, adapt, and outsmart your opponent in tense poker matches where the cards don't always play by the rules.
Psychological HorrorPokerHorrorCard GameAtmosphericAdventureStrategyDarkMysteryRoguelike
-30%$6.99MIMESIS
Oct 27 · ReLU Games, Inc.
Both: Psychological Horror
A 4-player online co-op survival horror game. Avoid the contaminated rain, gather scrap and get back to the tram. Monsters that copy your friends' voices and behavior, and many other threats, stand in your way. Gear up and stick together to survive.
Early AccessOnline Co-OpSocial DeductionPsychological HorrorFunnyPvEPost-apocalypticExplorationRogueliteSurvival Horror👍 8,404
-40%$1.79I Wish You Weren't Here
3 days ago · Covenant
Both: Puzzle · Dark
After waking up alone in an unfamiliar building, you have 2 questions: Why are you here, and where is everyone? As you explore, things start to make sense - but not everything is as it seems
AdventurePuzzleExplorationEmotionalSingleplayerStory RichWalking SimulatorPsychologicalDarkAtmospheric
$19.99The Scourge | Tai Ương
Mar 28 · Rare Reversee, Beaztek
Both: Horror · Puzzle
Explore the nightmarish lucid dreams of Nhat Huy to solve his family's mystery. Set in 90s Saigon, navigate dilapidated corridors, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Can you survive the twisting maze and The Scourge?
HorrorSingleplayerSupernaturalMultiple EndingsExplorationFirst-PersonIndieRealisticAdventurePuzzle👍 1,195
$2.49Mantra
Apr 2 · BlqGms
Both: Psychological Horror · Dark
Mantra is a multiplayer (1-4 player) and single-player psychological-horror game with high tension. Do whatever it takes to save your soul that has been possessed by an demonic spirit. If you don't, demon will imprison you in hell for eternity.
ActionSupernaturalPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorSurvivalDemonsSingleplayerDarkMysteryFirst-Person
-33%$2.006F: NIGHT SCHOOL LOOP∞
6 days ago · お寿司
Both: Puzzle · Horror · Psychological Horror
Observe a familiar Japanese elementary school corridor at night. If nothing has changed, go downstairs. If you spot an anomaly, go upstairs. A wrong choice sends you back to 6F. Escape the loop in this short first-person horror game.
PuzzleWalking Simulator3DAdventureFirst-PersonHorrorPsychological HorrorSurrealRealisticMystery
$3.99INKUBO
12 days ago · DATAPHOBIA INTERACTIVE
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Puzzle
Eve, who suffers from sleep issues and nightmares, takes pills from Dr. Isaac that put her into REM sleep. She becomes trapped in a loop inside a distorted, other-dimensional version of her own home. She must find anomalies, make the right choices, and survive deadly entities to break the cycle.
HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorThrillerMysteryDemonsPuzzleRealisticCinematicAdventure
-25%$5.99Cloudscrapers
7 days ago · Nementic Games
Both: Puzzle · Minimalist
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game with a relaxing atmosphere. Build your tower, manage resources, unlock new tools, and uncover the secrets hidden in the sky.
CasualCity BuilderRelaxingPuzzleStrategyMinimalistSimulationAtmosphericResource ManagementCozy
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Oct 23 · Piece of Cake studios
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror
Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.
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-10%$5.39寄生エレベーター
3 days ago · TAYUTA CREATE
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror
A space where parasites in human form lurk. You are trapped inside this bizarre and unsettling place. Count the number of parasites hidden throughout the corridor, then use the elevator to proceed to the correct floor. Choose the wrong floor, and the elevator will begin to consume you.
Walking SimulatorPsychological HorrorPsychologicalImmersive SimHorrorAtmosphericAdventureRealisticSimulationFPS
$9.99NO BACKUP
May 9 · Serundeox
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror
Escape together or die alone. A relentless creature is hunting you in this intense co-op bodycam horror experience. Communicate. Stay quiet. Survive. Every move matters. Every sound could be your last. Made by one developer.
HorrorFPSOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorActionRealisticFirst-PersonSurvival HorrorShooter👍 893
-10%$9.90Poopy's Playland
3 days ago · EmilJoes Games
Both: Puzzle · Horror
Play as a grieving mother whose child went missing in a playland one year ago. Use your trusty flashlight to navigate through the dark, solve replayable puzzles to progress forward, and hide from the unstable killer mascots! Investigate the mysteries and find out the truth...
ExplorationPuzzleHorrorSurvival HorrorAction-AdventureFemale Protagonist3DFirst-PersonColorfulRealistic
$2.99Backrooms: The Deep Dark
Aug 20 · SUDT Games
Both: Puzzle · Horror
Backrooms: The Deep Dark is a 4-player cooperative horror game where you will survive in a mysterious scary atmospheric world, wander through unknown dark corners and get scared of every nook and cranny!
ExplorationFPSPuzzleStealthPvEWalking Simulator3DFirst-PersonHorrorSimulation
-10%$1.44小先生 Little ShiFu
3 days ago · Liminal Factory
Both: Horror · Puzzle · Psychological Horror
Little ShiFu is a Chinese folk-horror puzzle adventure across the realms of humans, gods, and ghosts. As a Pure-Yang Fatebreaker, enter Zhongnan to break ancient laws and reshape fate.
HorrorNudityDating SimActionAtmosphericPuzzleIndieFirst-PersonSingleplayerPsychological Horror
$6.99Mournight
Sep 7 · Fround Interactive
Both: Horror · Dark
A terrifying 1–4 player co-op horror game set in a cursed mansion. Use flashlights, find clues, and survive the horrors within. Every decision matters. Can you escape before the curse claims you?
HorrorActionThrillerSurvival HorrorSurrealAdventureDarkFPSAction-AdventureFirst-Person
-15%$8.49Tape 101: Liminal Descent
3 days ago · 2H-Productions
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror
A psychological horror descending through liminal spaces shaped by the Kübler Ross model - the five stages of grief, where your perception and an RC car are the only tools to grasp what’s real.
HorrorPsychological HorrorWalking SimulatorAtmosphericRealisticExplorationFirst-PersonSingleplayerImmersive SimSurreal
$3.99We Used to Play Here
Dec 19 · ThreeFrauds
Both: Puzzle · Horror
Daniel wakes up to the same nightmare every night. A girl he cannot escape. When he finds a missing child report tied to his childhood home, he returns to uncover a truth buried in twisted games and shattered memories.
ActionAdventureAction-AdventurePuzzleChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationHorror3DRealisticCrime
$17.99Folklore Hunter
Jan 30 · Liquid Donkey Games
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror
You’re a world-renowned hunter of supernatural beasts. Track down urban legends from all over the world, set traps, solve disturbing puzzles, and defeat the beasts before you succumb to their otherworldly presence.
HorrorMultiplayerSurvival HorrorOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorViolentEarly AccessMythologyHuntingFPS👍 1,217
$2.99DAKENSHI
9 days ago · rspepe
Both: Minimalist
Can you hear the bad can? Tap, listen, and reject defective cans in a sound-based inspection game. The line keeps accelerating. Three mistakes end your shift. Headphones strongly recommended.
ActionCasualArcadeIndie2DMinimalistTime ManagementCookingInvestigationAtmospheric
$12.99Liminal Shroud
Sep 3 · Everdeep Studios
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror
A different kind of liminal experience. Explore surreal spaces inspired by nostalgia, discover hidden paths, and unravel a mystery that is shaped by your own mind. No monsters, no combat. Just atmosphere, discovery, and dread.
Psychological HorrorHorrorMystery DungeonWalking SimulatorExplorationDungeon CrawlerRelaxingAdventureThriller3D
$29.99Voidtrain
Nov 7 · HypeTrain Digital
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Open World Survival CraftCo-opTrainsMultiplayerSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 8,715
-30%$6.99Augmental Puzzles
Feb 13 · Flammable Penguins Games
Both: Puzzle
Hand-set Sudoku, Nonograms and Minesweeper with HUNDREDS of HANDSET puzzles. A fresh puzzle every day, global leaderboards. Smart Hints help teach you how to solve complex puzzles. No guessing andno rush. A soothing logic-puzzle lounge, built for VR from day one.
VRPuzzleEducationLogicTutorialTabletopRelaxingEarly AccessWholesomeCasual
$5.99Dreamcore: Rabbit Hole
Apr 24 · Ankoku
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror
Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.
ExplorationWalking SimulatorPsychological HorrorFirst-Person3DAdventureSurrealNonlinearHorrorRelaxing👍 398
$4.99Rescue the Hostages: Words of Fear
May 27 · rescuethehostages.com
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror · Dark
Rescue the Hostages: Words of Fear is an FMV horror word puzzle game that tests your observation and focus. Search the grid of letters for hidden words in a gripping experience where every discovery moves you closer to completing the puzzle and saving the hostages.
IndieFMVViolentCasualHidden ObjectWord GamePsychological HorrorHorrorDarkThriller
$17.99Lost and Found Co.
Mar 5 · Bit Egg Inc.
Both: Puzzle
Lost and Found Co. is a hidden object adventure in a cozy and immersive world. Join a cast of lively characters on their epic journey across countless magical locations. Find lost items, solve puzzles, and help a tiny dragon regain her power!
Hidden ObjectPuzzlePoint & Click2DCuteIsometricFunnyRelaxingStory RichCasual👍 2,745
-33%$2.00Petrichor: Reverie Edition
3 days ago · 6six6
Both: Puzzle
Petrichor is an escape room type puzzle game that follows a fateful incident in a man's life. After an accident in the wilderness... What fate awaits him as rain falls down onto the forest below? Can you escape it?
PuzzleEscape RoomLGBTQ+AtmosphericMysterySurrealAdventureStory RichSurvivalPsychological
-10%$14.39Fright Train
6 days ago · WildArts Games
Both: Horror
Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelike.
Survival HorrorThird-Person ShooterRoguelikeExplorationHorrorShooter3DStylizedThird PersonAtmospheric👍 203
$8.99Sketchy's Contract
Jul 15 · Dimensionless Games
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
Online Co-OpHorrorFirst-PersonCo-opExplorationSci-fiSurvival HorrorAtmosphericAdventurePsychological Horror👍 1,027





