Silence of the Sleep
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live.
77% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Games like The Protagonist
Still thinking about The Protagonist and its emotional and dark tone? These games make natural next picks for you.
Luto
Luto is a first-person psychological horror story about grief. You play someone who cannot leave their home, and every attempt at the door bends the world into something stranger and darker. Expect slow-burn dread, clever puzzles, a house full of secrets, and a story that hits harder than most horror games dare.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
85% of 1,268 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99Some Distant Memory
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
93% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Silence of the Sleep
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
77% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Eclipsium
A sunless world is eating itself, and you walk through it anyway. Eclipsium is a first-person horror journey through tombs, cathedrals of flesh and open space, guided by a pale light and the memory of Her. Its pixel-shaded world and music are the point; the walking is slow, the puzzles light, the images unforgettable.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
91% of 3,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$12.99MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME
An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
92% of 395 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Psychroma
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
87% of 204 Steam reviews are positive$9.99CINERIS SOMNIA
A girl wakes on the seashore. Her mother is gone; all that remains is her sister's yellow bucket and the sand castle they built together. So begins CINERIS SOMNIA, a 3D adventure through a strange, mesmerizing dream world, where you explore shifting places, piece together four tragic stories and meet a tall man in black.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
90% of 1,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99Inner Voice
A slow-burning first-person adventure where a mysterious narrator guides your choices through a dreamlike world of grief, symbols and secrets.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$12.49Lost Child
Are You Lost? Wander endless corridors where shifting environments, sinister voices, and echoes of real events create a chilling atmosphere. Andrey doesn’t remember who he was, but the walls know the truth. It’s time to remember everything.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
78% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$4.99My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences. You wander, read, talk, and piece together 10+ puzzles to give a finished story some closure. Worth playing for its sad, strange mood and early-2000s look.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14HOMESICKNESS
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
91% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Cheaper than The Protagonist
Lost Child
Are You Lost? Wander endless corridors where shifting environments, sinister voices, and echoes of real events create a chilling atmosphere.
78% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
HOMESICKNESS
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia.
91% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14
Never Forgotten
A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.
86% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Lantern of Remembrance
A faint light is your only clue. A branching psychological horror through memory and darkness.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Land of Ghosts
A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters…
95% of 127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.50
Noelle
Trapped in a frozen dimension of depression, you fight despair and fading sanity as memories of Christmas haunt you.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
DE:VOID
An adventure psychological horror game which explores the themes of life and death in a unique way.
91% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Silent Nights
Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.
70% of 210 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
The Lost Souls
What does it feel like to find yourself in hell? You don't feel the wind, you don't see the sun. No more hearing child's laughter.
41% of 203 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like The Protagonist
Land of Ghosts
A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters…
95% of 127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.50
MOLE
Drive a giant drilling rig into the dark, keep its failing systems alive, and follow a call that will not stop.
97% of 4,070 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$12.99
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
93% of 701 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Eclipsium
Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.
91% of 3,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$12.99
Luto
Search a shifting home for a way out, one puzzle and one dark secret at a time.
85% of 1,268 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99
Pieces of me
“Pieces of Me” is not a classic horror game with jump scares, but a psychological thriller-drama in the walking simulator genre.
87% of 619 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
KARMA: The Dark World
A first-person psychological thriller in an alternate 1984 East Germany, where the Leviathan Corporation watches everyone.
90% of 4,061 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$24.99
The Windows Are Gone
Haunted by grief and guilt after a tragic accident, you start seeing a house in your dreams.
92% of 615 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Afterdream
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction.
91% of 308 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Psychroma
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house.
87% of 204 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Renovator: Origins
You play as the son of a restorer, a museum worker who died tragically.
85% of 230 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Newest games like The Protagonist
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Provoron
When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.
87% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Project Looking Glass
A classified experiment. A grieving mother with unnatural powers.
100% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
MOLE
Drive a giant drilling rig into the dark, keep its failing systems alive, and follow a call that will not stop.
97% of 4,070 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$12.99
ABOVE
A daylight, psychological horror experience. Stranded in the desert, every choice meant to save you brings something closer.
68% of 77 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Land of Ghosts
A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters…
95% of 127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.50
Inner Voice
A slow-burning first-person adventure where a mysterious narrator guides your choices through a dreamlike world of grief, symbols and secrets.
92% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$12.49
Lost in Voice
A psychological horror where reality fractures around musician John Hale.
81% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Beneath the Quiet: Where It Ends
Beneath The Quiet: Where It Ends is a first-person psychological horror game.
100% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14
Noelle
Trapped in a frozen dimension of depression, you fight despair and fading sanity as memories of Christmas haunt you.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
SLEEP AWAKE
In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake.
71% of 177 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99