Games like The subject: Protocol zero

If The subject: Protocol zero scratched a tense and dark itch for you, keep reading. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Vigil
A short narrative horror game set in a decaying underground facility. Your job is simple: dispose of boxes. The catch is the automaton roaming the halls, which moves only when you look away. And yes, the game watches your webcam to catch you blinking.
Tense, Dark, Scary
85% of 2,244 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Obey the Voice™
You are here to listen to The Voice. Do what he says. But don't listen to other voices... Obey the Voice is a pressure-driven psychological horror experience built on constant threats and rule-based challenges, where survival depends on attention, timing, and decision-making under extreme stress.
Tense, Dark, Scary
85% of 724 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
SUBJECT 404
A PSX-style psychological horror game where rapid-fire microgames become a system of obedience. Read the Panel’s commands, react before time runs out, and survive each room — or face the Executioner.
Tense, Dark, Scary
$5.09
DON'T STOP SMILING
Smile—and survive. A first-person “forced-smile” horror game that tracks your facial expression in real time. PC camera required.
Tense, Dark, Scary
57% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
ISOLATE
You, who needed money, will participate in a secret biological experiment. You will play a 'Game' in a huge cellar for two weeks and have to survive the attack of numerous 'Entities'. What are those 'Entities', and who is waiting at the top of the cellar?
Tense, Dark, Scary
95% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Shhh!
Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)
Tense, Dark, Scary
71% of 342 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Nevermind
Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.
Tense, Dark, Scary
75% of 347 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Don't Blink
Don’t Blink is a first-person psychological horror game. Navigate an abandoned asylum where blinking reshapes your surroundings - sometimes helping you, sometimes unleashing terror. The game blends slow-burn tension, stealth and psychological horror.
Tense, Dark, Scary
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
DON'T SCREAM
DON'T SCREAM gives you one rule: if you scream into your microphone, you restart. Wander a pitch black forest with a camcorder, keep its battery alive, dodge traps and hunters, and make it to 8:00 AM. Time only moves when you do. A tense night walk where your own voice is the enemy.
Tense, Dark, Scary
65% of 4,534 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99
Passage Zero
A short psychological horror experience that asks one question: are you paying attention, or just doing what you were trained to?
Tense, Dark, Scary
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Don't Make a Sound
Don't Make a Sound is a voice-controlled horror game. You wake up in a morgue with one rule: stay silent. Your microphone detects any noise – and any sound means death. But not all rules are true; you must uncover the lies. Search sealed jars for keys and survive.
Tense, Dark, Scary
$8.09
SWEYET(etc.)
Learn to live without control while solving dynamic dreamscapes that change through real-life blinks.
Dark, Scary, Cinematic
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99

Cheaper than The subject: Protocol zero

Limb

Speak into the microphone to see, but be careful, for he can hear you...

$0.79

Zero One Protocol

No story. No mercy. Just perfect control and instant punishment.

$0.49

The Anomaly Protocol

The Anomaly Protocol – Something is wrong with the building. Floors repeat, reality shifts, and you’ve been assigned to investigate.

$0.99

Project Threshold

You are a participant in Project Threshold, an experiment designed to force people to confront their deepest fears.

$1.79

I scream Ice cream

The Super Ice Cream Scream Challenge—control bizarre ice cream with your voice.

$0.99

Nothing

Prepare your body, to do nothing for a few hours.

$1.49

Silent Watcher

You're waiting for your partner at home. But something isn't right. You feel a presence, something watching you... from every window, every shadow.

$0.99

Water Boiling Simulator

It's 2016. Explore through your house in the middle of the night and complete your chores before the water you put on the stove starts boiling.

$1.50

Psychocat: The Answer

"Short" Arcade Game about the life of a cat named "Zag", who desperately seeks an answer.

$0.99

Francisca 2

Francisca 2 – a first-person indie horror game. Every day you’ll have to survive in your own house.

$0.99

AtooB

This is a game where you move 5 boxes. Move it from the first point to the next point, and then back to the first point. That's just the game.

$0.99

ROCK - PAPER - DEATH

Rock, Paper, DEATH is a short-form horror game about pressure, greed, and knowing when to walk away.

$0.99

Hidden gems like The subject: Protocol zero

FIRE AND ASHES

You wake up in a terrifying psychiatric hospital. Fire and Ashes is an immersive horror game where madness and reality blur, and every monster hears…

$14.99

Obey the Voice™

You are here to listen to The Voice. Do what he says. But don't listen to other voices...

$7.99

Vigil

You burn boxes in an underground facility while an automaton that moves only when unseen hunts you, and your webcam reports every blink.

Free

SILENT BREATH

A forest that listens through your microphone. Search for missing people in the dark while the game tries to make you scream, and things hunt you…

$9.99

Shhh!

Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)

$2.99

I'm on Observation Duty

One long night, a wall of monitors and your memory as the only tool: spot what changed before it's too late.

$2.99

Before Your Eyes

Relive a whole lifetime of family, love and art aboard the Ferryman's ship, where every blink moves time forward.

$9.99

DON'T SCREAM

Survive a dark forest until 8:00 AM while your microphone listens for fear.

$7.99

Nevermind

Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients.

$19.99

Minds Eyes

You explore your own home inside a dream, collecting objects and hunting for whatever is keeping you asleep.

Free

SUBJECT 404

A PSX-style psychological horror game where rapid-fire microgames become a system of obedience.

$5.09

DON'T STOP SMILING

Smile—and survive. A first-person “forced-smile” horror game that tracks your facial expression in real time. PC camera required.

$3.99

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