Games like Protocol 86: Chernobyl
by Core Interactive
A terminal-driven psychological horror puzzle set in a secret Soviet underground research facility built after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Survive in procedurally shifting sectors using only the terminal. Type ‘help’ to begin.
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$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
-25%$5.24Ashworth
3 days ago · MR ROCK
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
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
-40%$14.99CONVRGENCE
4 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
Both: Survival Horror · Horror
CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.
VRAtmosphericPost-apocalypticShooterExtraction ShooterLooter ShooterLootSurvival HorrorSurvivalHorror👍 1,588
-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
-20%$9.59lily's world XD
4 days ago · SonderingEmily
Both: Psychological Horror · Puzzle
Lily was an ordinary teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, message her friends, and piece together what happened to her before it’s too late. But you're not the only one with access to her computer… A fourth wall-breaking psychological horror experience featuring LilyPichu
Psychological HorrorInvestigationRetroPuzzleMysterySimulationChoices MatterStory RichCultLogic👍 524
-15%$5.94SHOCKFACE
4 days ago · adrenak, approximi
Both: Survival Horror · Horror · Puzzle
THE JOB INTERVIEW FROM HELL. Chelsea enters a nearly abandoned office building for an interview and gets trapped inside with a serial killer. Explore, solve item-based puzzles, hide when he gets close, and escape. A short 90s-style survival horror with fixed cameras, tank controls and no combat.
Survival HorrorHorrorStealthRetroPuzzleInvestigation1990'sOld SchoolThird PersonAtmospheric
$2.99Appointment
3 days ago · Omar Jawabreh
Both: Horror · Survival Horror · Puzzle
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
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-10%$9.90Poopy's Playland
3 days ago · EmilJoes Games
Both: Exploration · 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
-15%$8.49Tape 101: Liminal Descent
3 days ago · 2H-Productions
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Exploration
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
$29.99Active Matter
6 days ago · Matter Team
Both: Horror
Join dangerous raids for loot or intense PvP battles in this new realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse. Fight in the quantum unstable zones over control of the active matter – the substance that bends time and space.
FPSHorrorExtraction ShooterPvEPvPAtmosphericCo-opOnline Co-OpMultiplayerAction👍 802
-10%$14.39Fright Train
6 days ago · WildArts Games
Both: Survival Horror · Exploration · 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
-10%$2.69Take Care of My Heifer
6 days ago · REVVALUTION Studio
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Exploration
“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
$3.77La mansión de Campanillas
4 days ago · Lacinia Estudio
Both: Exploration · Thriller
Campanillas, 1963. A stranger leaves you a ruined house and a district hiding its disappearances. You don't solve a crime: you learn to read a place. Weigh every account —Trust, Doubt, Dismiss. Andalusian rural horror.
AdventureVisual NovelExplorationText-BasedInvestigationMysteryIndieEarly AccessThrillerSingleplayer
-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
$6.99Mournight
Sep 7 · Fround Interactive
Both: Horror · Thriller · Survival Horror
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%$5.09Dead Margin
3 days ago · Bug Production
Both: Exploration · Survival Horror
Survival is optional, rent is mandatory. Team up in Dead Margin, a brutal 1-4 player co-op horror. Whisper to survive, avoid anomalies, and scavenge scraps. Sell it to pay the greedy customer. Out here, everything has a price. Especially you.
Action RoguelikeActionExplorationPvE3DFirst-PersonFunnyProcedural GenerationSci-fiSurvival Horror
$0.99Cave Escape
3 days ago · Carrotbbit
Both: Puzzle · 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
$12.99Liminal Shroud
Sep 3 · Everdeep Studios
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror · Exploration
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%$4.96Warm
3 days ago · OutHereGaming LLC
Both: Survival Horror · Horror · Exploration
A wilderness survival game set in an endless Alaskan night. Keep campfires alive, gather wood, craft torches, survive freezing blizzards and wolves, and search abandoned campsites for the cabin that might save you.
SurvivalSurvival HorrorOnline Co-OpOpen WorldAtmosphericHorrorFirst-PersonCo-opCraftingExploration
-20%$3.19CONCRETE BURIAL
4 days ago · Games From The Abyss
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror
Equipped only with a weapon that consumes your own blood, explore an ancient brutalist catacomb. Beware the Eyes of The Whispering Crypt. Find the 4 artifacts of desire. Confront God.
ShortFirst-PersonHorrorAtmosphericFemale ProtagonistAdventureFPSPsychological HorrorDark FantasyDystopian
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
Aug 23 · GLITCHED MATRIX
Both: Exploration
Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.
Action RoguelikeExplorationFPSCreature CollectorDungeon CrawlerColony SimSandboxUtilitiesEducationArcade
-40%$29.99STRATA
3 days ago · Gamesforgames
Both: Exploration
STRATA is an arcade descent through rock that is destroyed cell by cell. You pilot a drilling capsule from a dome on the surface, and everything below the first metre is procedurally generated geology: dirt, clay, stone, shale, granite, basalt, obsidian, ironstone.
CasualRoguelikeExplorationDungeon CrawlerPixel Graphics2DAtmosphericFamily FriendlyOld SchoolSingleplayer
-20%$3.99Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY!
8 days ago · Domnaier
Both: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
Run your bar as a gorilla and hunt down the humans in animal costumes hiding among your customers. Observe them closely, spot the clues that give their disguises away, test their slogans, and blow the imposters away with your shotgun. Choose your targets wisely... or become the hunted.
SimulationHorrorShop KeeperPsychological HorrorInvestigationChoices MatterSurvival HorrorConspiracyMysteryRetro👍 122
-10%$22.49Unmourned VR
4 days ago · Codebros Studio
Both: Psychological Horror · Horror · Survival Horror
Unmourned is a first-person psychological horror game where Jason moves into a new house only to be haunted by escalating paranormal events. Driven by fear, he must uncover the truth behind the previous owners' disappearance. Can he solve the mystery before it's too late?
ActionVRAdventurePsychological HorrorHorrorSurvival HorrorExplorationMystery DungeonAction-AdventureWalking Simulator
-15%$12.74Eternity Lost: Mystery of Aurum Collector's Edition
3 days ago · Cateia Games
Both: Puzzle · Exploration
Follow a mysterious girl into a hidden underground city built centuries ago by a secret order of Alchemists. Reveal a dangerous conspiracy, search for clues and items, solve puzzles and mini-games, and uncover the secrets of a forgotten world. Will you bring truth to the light?
AdventureMysteryPoint & ClickPuzzleHidden ObjectConspiracyInvestigationSteampunkVisual NovelExploration
$2.99DAKENSHI
9 days ago · rspepe
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
-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
-15%$2.54下校怪奇譚
4 days ago · THE FOOL CREATE
Both: Exploration
Walk home from school — and step into a different story every time. Talk to the people you pass in town, or take a closer look at the things around you, and a new tale begins.
AdventureCasualWalking SimulatorExploration3DFirst-Person1990'sRetroAtmosphericMultiple Endings
-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






