Games like Brighter Day

Looking for that same scary and surreal spark as Brighter Day? These games are a good place to start.

Fear the Spotlight
A séance in an abandoned school goes wrong, Amy vanishes, and Vivian is left alone with a monster that hunts by light. Fear the Spotlight is a short, tense horror adventure with tactile puzzles, PS1-style visuals and a story that keeps getting darker. Stay low, stay quiet, and never step into the beam.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
96% of 1,237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
From The Darkness
You came for your late grandfather's family album. You leave, if you leave at all, by facing whatever lives in the dark of his old Soviet apartment. A short first-person horror built on dread, flickering lights and well-timed scares: about an hour that feels longer, in the best way.
Scary, Atmospheric, Tense
89% of 3,076 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$6.99
Midnight: Submersion - Nightmare Horror Story
Nightmare Horror Story an adventure game from the first face in a horror genre provides you to take a trip in a huge and dark city full of dummies. You would have a possibility to figure out in a weird atmosphere when alive people are missed and everything that had remained is the dummies.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
86% of 123 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
My Beautiful Paper Smile
Welcome, child, to your new home. Here you shall learn the art of perfection. Here you shall learn to smile. Be sure that smile doesn’t fade into sadness, or you will need to run and hide…
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
82% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
A cute little mansion invites you through 1000 rooms.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
92% of 15,640 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30Free
Don't Play This
Five found-footage horror stories land in your inbox, each one the last recording of someone's life. Step inside the tapes, feel the dread build, and survive five short, sharp episodes of psychological horror. One evening, five nightmares, and a friend who keeps sending more.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
84% of 1,090 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$8.99
Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
86% of 783 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Happy Game
A little boy falls asleep into a horrible nightmare. Happy Game sends you in after him, through three of them, dragging and poking your way past suspicious smiley faces and pink bunnies. It is a psychedelic horror adventure from Amanita Design, cute on the surface and deeply unsettling underneath, with creepy songs from the Czech freakfolk band DVA.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
89% of 3,351 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Daylight
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
Scary, Atmospheric, Tense
53% of 1,039 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
IMSCARED
A pixel horror that refuses to stay in its window. IMSCARED hunts you through a surreal first-person nightmare, then slips out onto your desktop: files appear, the game closes itself, and the puzzles only make sense outside it. Something called White Face wants a Heart. It will lie to get one.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
95% of 3,532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$3.99
Witchblood
Witchblood is a first-person psychological horror game that draws you into the heart of a dark curse. Explore a decaying house where reality begins to unravel. Uncover the truth behind a forgotten family’s tragedy and face what should have remained buried.
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
82% of 139 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Fear of Clowns
You woke up in the middle of the night from the doorbell's sound. Someone wants to play with you...
Scary, Surreal, Atmospheric
63% of 157 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

Cheaper than Brighter Day

Fear of Clowns

You woke up in the middle of the night from the doorbell's sound. Someone wants to play with you...

$0.99

Seen

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

$0.99

You Must

In the social network, the main character plays the quest "Hide and Seek", but this time the organizers decided to move the quest to the real world.

$1.99

NeverHome Ch.1 - Hall of Apathy

Use your wits to solve puzzles and escape from an abstract world in this hand-drawn atmospheric horror game

$0.99

Uninvited Guest

Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.

$2.49

The Final Take

Relive dark footage recorded from the perspective of multiple characters in this unique first person horror.

$1.99

Nyctophobia

Your truck is wrecked, your flashlight is dimming and darkness surrounds you. Your fears come alive.

$1.99

Real Horror Stories Ultimate Edition

Urban myths are stories that may or may not have been believed to be true. Unlike most, some are actually based on real events.

$1.99

ColdSide

ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.

$1.99

Antihorror

Strange coincidence brought traveler in unfamiliar places. It would be fine, except sinister desolation is starting to embrace the surroundings.

$1.99

In the backyard of the civilization, left by destiny without any hope, you'll find this house on the hill.

$1.99

Barking from the Dark

You’re on duty at crossing #13. Keep an eye on the tracks, repair the sleepers, open the barriers for trains, cars, and people.

$1.99

Hidden gems like Brighter Day

Out of Sight

You’re Sophie, a young blind girl who sees through her teddy bear’s eyes.

$9.99

Gloomy Eyes

A cozy horror, “self-coop”, adventure about two unlikely souls who forge a forbidden bond and journey together to find the sun.

$24.99

Fear the Spotlight

A séance in an abandoned school goes wrong, Amy vanishes, and Vivian is left alone with a monster that hunts by light.

$19.99

Among Ashes

Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game.

$14.99

Don't Play This

Step into found-footage recordings and live through each person's final moments in short bursts of psychological horror.

$8.99

Eclipsium

Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.

$12.99

Witchblood

Witchblood is a first-person psychological horror game that draws you into the heart of a dark curse.

$9.99

Dread Flats

Search a 1990s apartment block for the missing, piecing together clues while something hunts the halls.

$5.99

Unspoken

You find yourself in the center of inexplicable nightmare. Make your way through the horror, come face to face with terrible events.

$2.99

Afterdream

Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction.

$10.99

The Maid

The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.

$5.99

Dead Seater

Explore the halls and travel deeper into the Vincent estate, but beware what lurks there. Father is coming home.

Free

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