Games like SIMULACRA 3

If the mysterious and atmospheric rhythm of SIMULACRA 3 stuck with you, this helps. Start with these games when you are ready.

Is Simon There?
A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever imagine. I am haunted everyday with what I have done; But sometimes, I am haunted by more than just my emotions...
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
84% of 292 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Tales Beyond The Tomb - Pineville Night Stalker
A short horror story built on a real case: Megan heads to Pineville to sign an inheritance and finds danger instead. First-person exploration, VHS-style visuals, jump scares and a chase or two, wrapped up in an evening. The ending shows real facts and a photo, which lands harder than it should.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
83% of 763 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10Free
Scrutinized
You are Luna Youngman, a criminal analyst filing reports on the suspicious people of a quiet town, digging through their texts, purchases and search history to decide who is dangerous. The catch: two killers are working their way toward your house while you work. A tense mix of detective work and home defense, with permadeath on the line.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
89% of 1,326 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
The Painscreek Killings
An abandoned town, a dead woman, and nobody left to ask. As journalist Janet you search empty houses for clues, codes and diaries, and piece together who killed Vivian Roberts. No quest markers, no hints: just you, your notebook and a town full of secrets.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
90% of 5,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$19.99
The Operator
You are the new Operator at the FDI, and the field agents call you when a case needs cracking. Dig through photos, databases and call transcripts on your console, feed agents what they need, and follow a conspiracy that starts pulling you in. A short, sharp detective story told entirely through a desktop.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
91% of 8,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
Black Mirror III
Help Darren continue his search to uncover his clouded past. What do his torturous nightmares really mean? Who is the mysterious person that posted the bail to set him free? What demons lie waiting in the crypt?
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
88% of 449 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Dreamless
In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years — and it is happening again. You are a high school student about to turn 18… But what if you become the next victim?
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
71% of 136 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel
An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here. A blend of cozy simulation, horror, and psychological depth, wrapped in a dark, noir-tinged atmosphere.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
90% of 197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Supernatural
Detective Wyatt takes on a missing housemaid case in a house that does not want him there. Talk out loud to the thing in the dark, watch the cameras, solve the puzzles, and keep quiet when it matters: the microphone is always listening, and it gets worse the louder you are. Three endings, about two hours, one very bad house.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
62% of 1,209 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$8.99
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, Story-driven
82% of 488 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Fears to Fathom - Carson House
Noah Baker, 18, takes a weekend job house-sitting for a media executive. Feed the pets, check the cameras, don't open the door for anyone. A short, tense episode of psychological horror where an ordinary evening slowly turns into the worst night of his life, told by the one who survived it.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
91% of 2,860 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$4.99

Cheaper than SIMULACRA 3

SIMULACRA

Dig through a missing woman's messages and apps, question the people who knew her, and race to uncover the truth before it is too late.

$4.99

SIMULACRA 2

Investigate a dead influencer's phone, interrogate three lying suspects and shape an ending with every choice you make.

$7.99

Is Simon There?

A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever…

$4.99

Dreamless

In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years — and it is happening again.

$4.99

Creepy Shift: House For Sale

Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation.

$6.99

Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here.

$6.99

Fears to Fathom - Carson House

House-sit, watch the cameras, and feel the calm give way to dread in a short psychological horror story.

$4.99

Supernatural

Investigate a missing housemaid while the darkness listens to every sound you make, and stay quiet long enough to reach one of three endings.

$8.99

Prognostic

An orphan returns to the house of the deceased fortune-teller to uncover the secret of his family's death.

$6.99

Nightmare Shift

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events.

$8.99

Supernormal

Investigate a missing girl in an apartment that answers back, if you dare speak.

$7.99

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

You play a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki-like database to uncover what is wrong with a small Eastern European town.

$4.99

Hidden gems like SIMULACRA 3

Heaven Does Not Respond

Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.

$9.99

Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here.

$6.99

Among Ashes

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

$14.99

Creepy Shift: House For Sale

Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation.

$6.99

No Players Online

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

$14.99

Welcome to the Game III

Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…

$19.99

Tales Beyond The Tomb - Pineville Night Stalker

You play Megan, sorting out a strange inheritance in a town where something is watching.

Free

Tales Beyond The Tomb - The Farm's Secret

Dragged into a web of secrets and lies, Samantha seems to be part of a puzzle impossible to solve.

$4.99

Home Safety Hotline

Identify the strange things living in people's homes using only an old encyclopedia, and live with whatever your diagnosis causes.

$14.99

Rehaunted

Search a house where a young woman died, uncover clues the darkness hides, and follow a story the evidence keeps contradicting.

$7.99

Prognostic

An orphan returns to the house of the deceased fortune-teller to uncover the secret of his family's death.

$6.99

The Operator

Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.

$13.99

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