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A ~10-hour first-person psychological horror about tense exploration, emotional storytelling, and a grieving man's search for meaning.

Unmourned
A ~4-hour first-person psychological horror mystery in a haunted house, with escalating paranormal events and a tense investigation.
2025-11-17
- Action
- First person

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Games like The Meaning

A ~10-hour first-person psychological horror about tense exploration, emotional storytelling, and a grieving man's search for meaning.

Unmourned
A ~4-hour first-person psychological horror mystery in a haunted house, with escalating paranormal events and a tense investigation.
2025-11-17
- Action
- First person

Adventure

Horror

Indie

Simulator

Mystery

Pieces of me

A short, atmospheric walking-sim psychological thriller with a story-driven narrative and minimal jump scares.

2025-05-21

First person
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Drama

The Gap

A short, introspective first-person walking simulator about exploring parallel realities through déjà vu to recover memories and confront a family's neurological affliction.

2023-10-19

First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Drama

The Haunting of Joni Evers

A dark supernatural mystery adventure in Oklahoma, featuring a haunted house, generational curse, and memory exploration in a roughly five-hour single-player experience.

2025-01-13

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Mystery
Drama

The Guest

A short first-person psychological horror game focused on fear and tension, with mostly positive reviews but a noted progression bug.

2023-10-24

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie

Layers of Fear

A first-person psychological horror adventure about madness and art, with exploration and puzzles in a tense, story-rich experience lasting around 10 hours.

2023-06-15

Action
First person
Puzzle
Horror

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

A tight ~4-hour episodic first-person psychological action-adventure through a castle of lies, focused on atmosphere, puzzles, and an immersive touching story.

2025-01-15

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Mystery

Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut

First-person psychological horror adventure where a father searches forest for his missing daughter, with puzzle-solving and a roughly 10-hour story.

2023-03-07

Adventure
Horror
Indie

My Friend The Spider

A brief single-player narrative adventure that uses a horror-tinged mood to explore isolation and depression.

2024-01-04

First person
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Simulator

Withered Haven

Withered Haven is a compact single-player first-person psychological horror game about grief and collapsing reality, with dark hide-from-enemy gameplay and a story reviewers found underdeveloped.

2026-03-12

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator

Hundred Doors

A short, atmospheric psychological-horror walking simulator about exploring unsettling rooms behind one hundred doors.

2026-01-26

First person
Horror
Indie

Inner Voice

A short, gloomy first-person narrative adventure guided by a mysterious narrator through four chapters of nightmare-like grief.

2026-04-30

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Mystery

Unmourned