Games like Detention

Miss the mysterious and atmospheric pull of Detention? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

The Bridge Curse Road to Salvation
Six students poke at a Taiwanese campus legend and wake something that has waited decades under the bridge. A first-person horror game of hiding, running and piecing clues together, with a story that turns out to hurt more than the ghost does. Short, tense and surprisingly heartfelt.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
89% of 3,041 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
SUFFOCATE
《SUFFOCATE》is a realistic 3D first-person survival horror game. The plot revolves around family relationships, cult, and the greed that permeates human nature. The game doesn't shy away from violence, gore, and faith in this one-of-a-kind survival horror experience, Taiwanese style.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
83% of 290 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
A 2.5D horror game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, mixing cyberpunk with traditional Cantonese folklore. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots by celebrating visceral horror and the slow, fearful creep of dread.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
82% of 488 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Dread Flats
A first-person horror trip into a 1990s Chinese apartment tower where people have gone missing. Explore its cramped corridors, follow the clues, and survive the thing that walks these floors. Short, tense and built on classic scares done well: dread first, then a chase you will not forget.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
83% of 1,494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$5.99
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. 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.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
96% of 1,237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Firework
A funeral fire reopens a massacre case in a remote Chinese mountain village, and rookie cop Lin Lixun is pulled into the investigation. A horror puzzle game with no jump scares and barely a ghost in sight, where the dread comes from what people do to each other. Short, hand-drawn and quietly devastating.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
97% of 41,344 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
Late Homework | 遅れた宿題
Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors. Explore the dilapidated halls, find your missing homework, and avoid whatever's lurking around the corner in this bite-sized, retro survival horror experience.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
95% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Scarred
Scarred is a first-person atmospheric horror puzzle game where you must uncover the truth about one of your schoolmates before it’s too late. Traverse a world of nightmares inspired by nostalgic Singaporean architecture as you fight to survive.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
53% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
A first-person survival horror set in Wen Hua University, famous in Taiwan for its ghost stories. A film club shoots a horror movie in the haunted Da Ren building, and the fiction starts coming true. Sneak past relentless ghosts, solve puzzles and unearth a conspiracy through four very different pairs of eyes.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
93% of 2,589 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$24.99
The Scourge | Tai Ương
A first-person horror puzzle game set in 1990s Saigon. Nhat Huy walks through his own lucid nightmares to find out what happened to his family, solving strange puzzles in a decaying apartment while a sinister force closes in. Atmospheric, story-driven and quietly devastating, with three endings shaped by what you decide.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
93% of 1,226 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99
DYSTHANASIA
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
89% of 349 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
Ann
An art student breaks one rule after 9 PM and her school turns into a maze of corridors, traps and things that chase her.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
93% of 2,803 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than Detention

Dread Flats

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

$5.99

Firework

A funeral fire reopens a massacre case in a remote Chinese mountain village, and rookie cop Lin Lixun is pulled into the investigation.

$9.99

Late Homework | 遅れた宿題

Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors.

$5.99

Scarred

Scarred is a first-person atmospheric horror puzzle game where you must uncover the truth about one of your schoolmates before it’s too late.

$7.99

Tales of the Black Forest

Trapped in the town of Kuromori-chō, a schoolgirl travels into the past to find her way out, meeting humans and yōkai along the way.

$3.99

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

Afterdream

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

$10.99

Mirages

Mirages is a 3D narrative and horror game with folk stories.

$8.99

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

Causality

Causality is a survival horror game. You must rescue 3 students trapped in a school full of mysterious psychic phenomena, and uncover the secrets…

$6.99

The Gretlow Tapes

Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game.

$9.99

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

Hidden gems like Detention

The Scourge | Tai Ương

Walk a decaying apartment, solve its strange puzzles and face what waits, as three endings hang on your choices.

$19.99

Hariti

A first-person psychological horror game about a mother searching an abandoned Chinese-style hospital for her missing daughter.

$6.99

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

DYSTHANASIA

You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures.

$24.99

Among Ashes

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

$14.99

The Gretlow Tapes

Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game.

$9.99

Late Homework | 遅れた宿題

Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors.

$5.99

Luto

Search a shifting home for a way out, one puzzle and one dark secret at a time.

$19.99

Evil Nun: The Broken Mask

Sneak through a cursed school, outsmart a nun who learns your habits, and piece together the mask behind it all.

$19.99

Dread Flats

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

$5.99

SUFFOCATE

《SUFFOCATE》is a realistic 3D first-person survival horror game.

$16.99

The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication

Sneak past relentless ghosts through a haunted campus, filming a movie that stops being fiction.

$24.99

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