

Pools
2024Linux, Switch, PS5 +4
Liminal space game with focus on eerie exploration and immersion instead of typical horror. Navigate through endless alike rooms. Explore, orient, get out.
82 rating1 list2 h main storyOften paired


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310 games like Platform 8 · 1996 – 2026


Linux, Switch, PS5 +4
Liminal space game with focus on eerie exploration and immersion instead of typical horror. Navigate through endless alike rooms. Explore, orient, get out.
82 rating1 list2 h main storyOften paired


Linux, Switch, PS4 +5
A retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
68 rating1 list2 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
PS4, Windows, Xbox One
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
79 rating4 lists5 h main storyOften paired


Tensori · PlayStation VR, Windows, SteamVR +3
Liminal space game with focus on eerie exploration and immersion instead of typical horror. Navigate through endless alike rooms. Explore, orient, get out.
82 rating1 listOften paired


Funcom · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
66 rating7 lists1.5 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Switch, Windows
Having completed your degree in mortuary sciences, you have taken on an apprenticeship at River Fields Mortuary. Over the past several months you have logged many hours aiding the Mortician in daily tasks along with learning the ins and out
78 rating3 lists2 h main storyOften paired


Team17 · Meta Quest, Switch, PS4 +4
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
78 rating2 lists5 h main storyOften paired


Android, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +5
Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as its inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with botanical research, to figure out the ideal habitat for a collectio
74 rating3 lists3.5 h main storyOften paired


Hidden Fields · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
A lovingly hand-pencilled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of the alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory and solve a variety of hand-crafted puzzles
78 rating5 lists6.5 h main storyOften paired


Parabole · Linux, Switch, PS4 +7
A story-driven survival game set in 1970's Quebec in which Carl Flaubert, a private detective sent to the fictional Atamipek Lake to investigate a deceptively simple case, must solve the mystery surrounding the region while surviving the ha
75 rating5 lists5.5 h main storyOften paired


Mobius Digital · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a s
87 rating8 lists12 h main storyOften paired


Black Salt Games · Android, Switch, PS4 +6
Dredge is a fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your vessel and dredge the depths for long-buried relics. Explore the stories of the strange locals and discover why some things are best left forgotten. C
83 rating6 lists9.5 h main storyOften paired
Timed Xbox exclusive
Zadbox Entertainment · Linux, Switch, PS5 +3
Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements provi
80 rating2 lists14 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
IMGN.PRO · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Kholat is a game developed by independent studio IMGN.PRO, inspired by true events known as the "Dyatlov Pass Incident". We follow the path of a group of Russian students, that went for an expedition in the northern Ural Mountains. The team
63 rating5 lists4 h main story


Bloober Team · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Layers of Fear 2 is a first-person psychological horror game with an emphasis on exploration and story. Players control a Hollywood actor who heeds the call of an enigmatic director to take on the lead role in a film shot aboard an ocean li
66 rating7 lists5 h main story
Timed Xbox exclusive
Fullbright · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088. Explore every detail of how the station's crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in
74 rating5 lists2.5 h main story


Spooky Doorway · Linux, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
81 rating3 listsOften paired


3-Fold Games · Linux, Switch, Windows +3
Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled. A game about dementia and what happens when yo
70 rating2 lists1 h main story


Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
The Town of Light is a psychological adventure told in the first person. The story is set in Italy in the first half of the 20th Century in a place which really existed and has been meticulously reconstructed. Exploring and interacting with
64 rating4 lists3 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Robot Invader · Android, Meta Quest, PS4 +4
Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine calle
60 rating2 lists2 h main story


Red Soul Games · Xbox Series, Windows, PS5
Post Trauma is a game that takes inspiration from classic horror games. Play as Roman, a 57 year old man who has awakened in a strange and hostile place and find a way back home with his family. Get inside this world through fixed camera an
60 rating1 list6 h main story


SadSquare Studio · PS4, PS5, Windows +1
Each death has its visage. How will you face them? Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly real
83 rating3 lists9 h main story


Out of the Blue Games · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
Journey to the far corners of the Earth and unearth ancient horrors in this Lovecraftian narrative puzzle adventure and sequel to 2020’s critically acclaimed Call of the Sea.
69 rating2 lists6.5 h main story
Xbox console exclusive
Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Routine is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror title set on an abandoned Lunar base designed around an 80’s vision of the future. Curious exploration turns into a need for survival when a lunar base goes completely quiet. Searching for answers put
78 rating2 lists6.5 h main story


Zoetrope Interactive · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the
66 rating5 lists4 h main story


PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this thriller inspired by the master of Providence.
70 rating1 list


Ocelot Society · Windows, macOS
"Event[0] is a game about building a personal relationship with a machine. You type messages into a computer, and Kaizen answers. As in any relationship, you experience gratitude, disappointment, and sometimes jealousy. It is by working th
72 rating2 lists2.5 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Cyan Worlds · PS4, PS5, PlayStation VR +3
"From Cyan, the indie studio that brought you Myst and Obduction, comes a new steampunk adventure. The game of Firmament is a resplendent, magical, journey — a monumental voyage through four diverse and curious realms, working in concert w
75 rating4 lists8 h main story


Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +2
Dive into this nautic adventure as curiosity will guide you through a space ship wreck on an unknown planet made up of water. When one of the lead scientists still on board tries to unriddle the possibility of a relaunch young Janitor Harol
71 rating5 lists10 h main story


Bloober Team · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
Layers of Fear is a psychedelic horror that will keep you on-edge for the reminder of the game. Delve deep into the mind of an insane painter and discover the secret of his madness, as you walk through a constantly shifting house. Heavily
74 rating1 list3.5 h main story


Rusty Lake · Android, Windows, iOS +1
Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the intriguing Cube Escape series.
62 rating1 list2 h main story


Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Close to the Sun is a story-driven horror game that takes place at the turn of the 20th century on a mysterious ship complex created by Nikola Tesla for the sake of knowledge. In this alternative version of history, his scientific breakthro
64 rating4 lists4 h main story


Loiste Interactive · Windows
Infra is an atmospheric and completely non-violent first-person puzzle/adventure that deals with the issues of deteriorating infrastructure. The player controls an ordinary structural analyst through abandoned factories, forgotten tunnels a
67 rating2 lists16 h main story


Tale of Tales · Windows, macOS
The Path is a psychological horror art game developed by Tale of Tales originally released for the Microsoft Windows operating system on March 18, 2009 in English and Dutch, and later ported to Mac OS X by TransGaming Technologies. It is i
74 rating4 lists3 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
sunset visitor 斜陽過客 · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a sho
86 rating5 lists
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a sho
86 rating2 lists12 h main story


Linux, Windows, macOS
Find your way out of Babbdi. A short, first person exploration experience.
79 rating1 list1 h main story


Headware Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Chasing Static is a first-person psychological horror short story. Uncover the forgotten remains of a government cover-up where a mysterious phenomenon caused time to stand still.
2 lists3 h main story


Android, Linux, Switch +5
Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator in which players act as Enforcers, volunteer moderators who scour Hypnospace's surreal network of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers while also keeping an eye on their inbox,
86 rating4 lists5 h main story


Switch, PS5, Windows +1
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia of the late 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 unusu
81 rating3 lists3.5 h main story


Vladimír Kudělka · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person
60 rating1 list1.5 h main story


Out of the Blue · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific
72 rating6 lists5.5 h main story


Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
The five crew members of The Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
85 rating5 lists2.5 h main story


Cyan Worlds · Android, PlayStation, PlayStation VR +4
Riven: The Sequel to Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle game developed by Cyan and released in 1997. It continues the story of Myst, following the player’s journey to rescue Atrus’s wife, Catherine, from a decaying world. The game features
83 rating1 list6 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Frictional Games · Linux, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +4
Amnesia: Rebirth is a new descent into darkness from the creators of the iconic Amnesia series. Set in the desolate landscape of the Algerian desert, the game will focus on new character Tasi Trianon as she sets out on a harrowing journey t
78 rating7 lists7 h main story


Intelligent Games · MS-DOS, Windows
The player is a Raptor, a highly sophisticated thief armed with cutting edge equipment, who has just received word from a competitor that they may have found the Holy Grail. Offering to split the profits with your for your help, you make yo
1 list8.5 h main story


Not a Sailor Studios · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can
75 rating2 lists5 h main story


Bloodious Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Madison is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles
74 rating1 list6 h main story