Games like Caretaker

If Caretaker left you wanting something mysterious and atmospheric, you have options. These games are worth a look next.

1. Toony's Daycare

   

   Children have vanished without a trace inside Toony’s Daycare. Beneath its playful surface lies a hidden world of science and shadows. Uncover the secrets of the twisted experiments within, piece together the fate of the missing kids, and confront the dark figure who rules the daycare.

   Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   82%82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

2. Care

   

   Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

   Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   93%93% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

3. Poopy's Playland

   

   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...

   Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   72%72% of 90 Steam reviews are positive$11

4. Out of Sight

   

   You’re Sophie, a young blind girl who sees through her teddy bear’s eyes. Escape your captors and uncover the evil history of the dark mansion you desperately seek to escape in this unique, atmospheric horror puzzle/adventure game.

   Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   94%94% of 837 Steam reviews are positive8Players online now: 8$9.99

5. SOWON

   

   In the middle of the night, while finding her parents, a girl falls to the toy world through attic locked for a long time. Will it be possible for her to find her parents and go back to her world? Let's solve some puzzles and explore the mysterious toy world.

   Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   80%80% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

6. Puppet House

   

   Puppet House is a puzzle-adventure horror with escape room elements. A freak ritual creates a killer puppet, murdering anyone who enters the ventriloquist’s mansion. Detective Rick, seeking missing locals, will soon face his greatest horror.

   Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   89%89% of 212 Steam reviews are positive$17.99

7. Poppy Playtime

   

   A first-person horror puzzle game in an abandoned toy factory where every employee vanished one day. Its toys are still around, and they are not friendly. Solve puzzles with a two-handed GrabPack, dig through VHS tapes for the truth, and don't get caught.

   Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   88%88% of 144,462 Steam reviews are positive653Players online now: 653Free

8. Joy Land

   

   Lewis, an intelligent detective, finds himself on a mission to uncover the truth behind the many disappearances including his sister's. With the help of Joy, Lewis is going to explore what lies behind these walls. only to realize that there's much more to discover than he initially thought.

   Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   66%66% of 61 Steam reviews are positiveFree

9. Bubbaruka!

   

   A survival horror puzzle game about exploring an abandoned children's toy, stalked by the shambling husks of scrapped concepts that pursue you endlessly throughout the environment as you try to solve the cryptic puzzles left behind by the developers and keep your pet alive.

   Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

   92%92% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

10. The House of Toys

    

    The House of Toys is a horror game in which the player ventures into an old mansion filled with seemingly harmless toys. His mission is to explore each room, searching for clues to discover which of the toys is cursed. To free the soul trapped in this toy, the player must solve intricate puzzles.

    Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

    93%93% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

11. Root Of Evil: The Tailor

    

    You will play a telepath named James. He has the ability to connect with the soul thus he can understand their past. He was hired to explore what happened in the previous 20 years in a haunted house This is the puzzle game!

    Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

    83%83% of 469 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$6.99

12. Riddlewood Manor

    

    Riddlewood Manor is a point & click adventure set in a haunted house that will try to kill you each step of your way. Overcome eerie logic puzzles to uncover a maze of mysterious rooms filled with dark secrets, spooky encounters, and hidden pathways. Optional jump scare warning is available.

    Mysterious, Atmospheric, Scary

    94%94% of 138 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$14.99

Cheaper than Caretaker

BABAVA's Playspace

BABAVA's Playspace is a horror puzzle adventure game. In your search for the answer you will have to go through puzzles, difficult moral choices and…

53%53% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Creepy Forest

Creepy Forest, a scary plot puzzle game, is full of strange things waiting for you to discover the truth on the mysterious mountain.

78%78% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

House of Caravan

Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark…

66%66% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

Play With Me: Escape Room

See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all…

61%61% of 458 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Fancyland

After breaking in to an abandoned indoor amusement park, finding clues and solving puzzles, you soon realize that your investigation is not just a…

88%88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

Last victim. House of Fear

This is an indie horror game in which you have to face your fear and escape from house by solving puzzles and escaping from a ghost.

92%92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

[Chilla's Art] Missing Children | 行方不明

Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

84%84% of 619 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Forgotten Hill First Steps

The first three games of the Forgotten Hill series joined together with new contents, new locations, new puzzles and secrets revealed: let's follow…

94%94% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Harts

Welcome to the house full of secrets and mysteries, the house in which for several years people disappear.

55%55% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

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

97%97% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

Stray Cat Crossing

Stray Cat Crossing is an indie pixel horror game about an encounter with a mysterious little girl named Cat.

93%93% of 547 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Dad's Monster House

Dad's Monster House is a hand-drawn puzzle game featuring horror and fantasy.

93%93% of 273 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Hidden gems like Caretaker

Dark Pals: The 1st Floor

A first-person mascot horror set in an abandoned children's asylum, with a toy paint gun that fires ink.

88%88% of 752 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$6.70

Out of Sight

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

94%94% of 837 Steam reviews are positive8Players online now: 8$9.99

Riddlewood Manor

Riddlewood Manor is a point & click adventure set in a haunted house that will try to kill you each step of your way.

94%94% of 138 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$14.99

Puppet House

Puppet House is a puzzle-adventure horror with escape room elements.

89%89% of 212 Steam reviews are positive$17.99

CLeM

CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist.

92%92% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$15.99

Tormenture

Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret.

87%87% of 210 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$14.99

My Friendly Neighborhood

Repair a dead TV studio where the felt stars have turned hostile, shooting letters and piecing together what went wrong.

96%96% of 2,539 Steam reviews are positive27Players online now: 27$29.99

The Tartarus Key

There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her…

92%92% of 240 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Crow Country

The year is 1990. Detective Mara Forest walks into an abandoned theme park looking for its vanished owner, and finds puzzles, monsters and a story…

97%97% of 8,024 Steam reviews are positive28Players online now: 28$19.99

Birth

A short, tender puzzle adventure about collecting body parts around the city to build a companion and quiet your loneliness.

95%95% of 4,068 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5$10.99

Giggleland

Follow Eliot through a pastel amusement park where every friendly rule hides something wrong, across eight chapters of psychological horror.

74%74% of 620 Steam reviews are positive42Players online now: 42$19.99

Children of Silentown

Help Lucy uncover why people vanish from her village, through a point & click adventure where cute drawings hide something dark.

86%86% of 1,031 Steam reviews are positive12Players online now: 12$19.99

Newest games like Caretaker

Giggleland

Follow Eliot through a pastel amusement park where every friendly rule hides something wrong, across eight chapters of psychological horror.

74%74% of 620 Steam reviews are positive42Players online now: 42$19.99

Poopy's Playland

Play as a grieving mother whose child went missing in a playland one year ago.

72%72% of 90 Steam reviews are positive$11

Dark Pals: The 1st Floor

A first-person mascot horror set in an abandoned children's asylum, with a toy paint gun that fires ink.

88%88% of 752 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$6.70

Rainbow Gate

Rainbow Gate is a survival horror game set in an abandoned toy factory and amusement park that was once full of joy, but has now become a deadly trap.

68%68% of 125 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$13.99

We Used to Play Here

Daniel wakes up to the same nightmare every night. A girl he cannot escape.

74%74% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$3.99

Nocturia The Game

Trapped in the pitch blackness of your own home, you’re a helpless child, alone and pursued by a sinister entity lurking in the shadows.

68%68% of 41 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$8.99

The House of Toys

The House of Toys is a horror game in which the player ventures into an old mansion filled with seemingly harmless toys.

93%93% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Riddlewood Manor

Riddlewood Manor is a point & click adventure set in a haunted house that will try to kill you each step of your way.

94%94% of 138 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$14.99

Toony's Daycare

Children have vanished without a trace inside Toony’s Daycare. Beneath its playful surface lies a hidden world of science and shadows.

82%82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Out of Sight

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

94%94% of 837 Steam reviews are positive8Players online now: 8$9.99

Locks

Locks is a horror puzzle-platformer set in a puppet show. The game features a new type of puzzle, and the evil doesn't chase the puppet, as it…

78%78% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Care

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences.

93%93% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$9.99