Games like Despair

Did Despair leave you in a dark and scary frame of mind? Start with these games when you are ready.

Tunnels of Despair
Tunnels of Despair is an atmospheric game with horror and survival elements, in which you are to explore the tunnels of an abandoned subway system, find a way out and escape the underground.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
64% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Dig your way out of hell with a rusty spoon! Crawl through ancient abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Crank the lights on and get to the other side before they go out! Don't let them see you. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
90% of 200 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Darkness Assault
The number of missing in the city increased. People talk about the experiments on human beings. And now, only you can figure out if it was true. Especially because you have no choice. Mysteriously, you find yourself in a terrible location 40 meters underground. Your name is Katrine, and you do not remember anything about your past.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
55% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Find Yourself
A first-person psychological horror walk through a subway gone wrong. Peter has PTSD from his childhood and can leave his body for the astral plane, and one panic attack on the platform mixes reality with his worst memories. Explore the train cars, dodge what waits in them, and piece his past together from notes. It is short, loud and unsettling, and the sound design does most of the scaring.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
84% of 1,225 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
89% of 3,074 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$6.99
VERGE:Lost chapter
Our hero decided to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city and get out into nature to relax in a cabin that was in the mountains.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
52% of 2,962 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$0.99
Savior of the Abyss
Savior of the Abyss is a horror adventure game. To avoid sudden death, always pay attention and be suspicious of things around you. Collect and use a variety of tools to get to the surface. Please lead the protagonist safely so that the protagonist can achieve his or her purpose safely.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
77% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Subway Midnight
A cute-but-creepy trip through a ghost-infested subway train. Walk car by car, meet strange spirits, solve bizarre puzzles and try to reach a better ending than the one you will probably get first. Short, weird and full of hand-drawn charm.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
78% of 1,170 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Pyromaniac
It's 2009 and Nikolas Rendl wakes up on a bench in an unfamiliar Czech city with no memory and a head full of things he shouldn't hear. Wander cold streets, fight scorched monsters, and piece together why. A short, atmospheric psychological horror with four endings and a story that lands hard.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
86% of 1,297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$4.99
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.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
86% of 783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
OPEN DOOR
A scientific experiment in which no one survives, in a first-person survival horror game made by one developer In the role of a random person who is trapped in an experiment, try to get out and find out what is happening in this abandoned place.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
80% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Metel - Horror Escape
A first-person escape-room horror. A maniac keeps you caged in his house, and getting out means solving puzzles without leaving a trace: he hears every noise and comes to check. Four chapters, four victims, one story to piece together while your heart does the rest.
Dark, Scary, Mysterious
93% of 2,320 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99

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Help

Your daughter was gone at a research of the abandoned bunker.

$0.74

Wire Lips

Leta’s life changed in one moment. She and her friend Lina found an old music box in the mountains... and soon Lina disappeared, leaving behind only…

$0.89

Echoes of Dread

Wake up inside an abandoned mansion. Uncover the dark fate of a missing family. Survive the presence that stalks you within these walls.

$0.49

Umfend

The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important.

$0.89

Fariwalk: The Prelude

The world where humanity is almost gone. A few remaining people search for each other amongst monsters, common inhabitants of the Earth.

$0.89

SHUT IN

SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house.

$4.99

Suicide Guy

Solve surreal physics puzzles by putting yourself in harm's way, then wake up somewhere stranger.

$0.77

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.

$0.69

Underwater

Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and…

$9.99

Suicide Guy: Sleepin' Deeply

In this new chapter of "Suicide Guy" you'll be challenged with even more insane puzzles, generated by the surreal dreams of the Guy.

$0.77

Unalive

Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities.

$0.74

Time Ramesside (A New Reckoning)

Mark Faroh is a Scientist that discovered a new way to harvest energy from Biological beings.

$0.74

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THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY

Dig your way out of hell with a rusty spoon! Crawl through ancient abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen.

$9.99

Pyromaniac

Fight through a fogged Czech winter with no memory, and let four possible endings tell you what the voices really mean.

$4.99

No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

$10.49

THRESHOLD

Keep a lonely mountain border post running by blowing the whistle on schedule, while the thin air drains you and something strange takes hold.

$9.99

Hollowbody

A tech-noir survival horror short story. Mica, a black market shipper, crashes into a sealed-off British city to find her missing partner.

$16.99

The Derailed

The Derailed is a first-person psychological horror game. Beneath the dusty arches of a nearly forgotten depot, shadows of the past tremble.

$6.99

Despair: Blood Curse

A third-person survival horror game featuring non-linear gameplay, puzzles, and enemies from the depths of hell.

$11.99

Dead Seater

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

Free

Noch

Go alone (or with a friend) to find the girl who destroyed the world.

$9.99

Cat in the Box

Explore a cult's abandoned mansion with a camera, solve what holds it shut, and survive what walks inside.

$6.99

Metel - Horror Escape

Solve your way out of a killer's house, quietly, before he notices anything is wrong.

$2.99

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.

$4.99

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