Games like Backrooms: VHS
Looking for games like Backrooms: VHS? Here are top survival puzzle recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Torn Veil, HorrorCore: Maze and Pools of Horror or Project X.
1 Torn Veil is a psychological horror game that immerses you in a chilling tale of moral decay in a deeply unsettling atmosphere to deliver a haunting experience.
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2 43%Game Brain Scoreemotional, humorgameplay, atmosphere62% User Score 21 reviewsInstead of a traditional flashlight, a camera flash – a brief, flickering, blinding light that reveals dark secrets and leaves you in total darkness when it fades. Every step is a fight for survival, and the use of the flash completely redefines the way you explore dark locations.
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3 Project X Welcome to Project X, a first-person survival horror experience that traps you in the cold, dark corridors of an abandoned subway station. What begins as a routine visit turns into a chilling fight for your life when you find yourself trapped underground… and you're not alone. Something is down here with you. It doesn't speak. It doesn't breathe. It doesn't even make a sound when it…
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4 View Game50%Game Brain Score50% User Score 1 reviewsAbout the Game: Beyond The Illusions Beyond The Illusions is a psychological horror game developed as a prototype in just 50 hours, delivering an eerie blend of puzzle-solving, atmospheric terror, and psychological twists. This first-person experience drags you into the depths of a cursed and near-deserted forest, where reality blurs and nothing is as it seems. You play as Dan, a heartbroken teen…
View Game5 51%Game Brain Score51% User Score 2 reviewsAlright, you absolute legends—or degenerates, depending on the day—welcome to Beyond the Illusions, a 10-minute shitshow where one dude’s birthday goes from “my ex dumped me” to “am I tripping balls or is that lava?” I’m dVlpr, the sleep-deprived lunatic who puked this mess into existence over 55 hours of caffeine and regret, then “remastered” it with 25 more hours of “why the hell am I doing this…
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6 After losing his daughter, a broken detective clings to the sound of her voice — until an accident pulls him into a twisted nightmare. Trapped in haunting echoes of her past, he must solve puzzles and uncover chilling clues to stop a deranged man from sacrificing his child... to bring back his own.
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7 54%Game Brain Score54% User Score 5 reviewsThe Valley of the Unknown – A Psychological and Survival First-Person Horror Game Release Date: September 15, 2024 Platform: PC (Windows) (Released) Mac (Coming soon) Engine: Unreal Engine 5.4 Trigger Warning: This game contains graphic violence, disturbing imagery, and themes of psychological horror that may be unsettling to some players. Sensitive Content Warning: Themes of disappearance, …
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8 Operation Stutter is a first-person psychological horror game set in the shadow of the Cold War, where the line between reality and delusion begins to blur. As nuclear annihilation looms, you descend into a haunting, fractured narrative, uncovering a top-secret operation, unraveling your identity, and confronting the paranoia that threatens to consume you. You wake up in a cold, dimly lit room de…
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9 Sebastian is a janitor in a nursing home, but in a world of drugs and mysteries, his reality unravels. Under Dr. Malverick's watch, his ordinary life twists into strange experiments, missing patients, and inner turmoil. What is real?
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10 95%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, graphicsstory, gameplay95% User Score 3,407 reviewsOne could say POOLS is like an art gallery where you look around and listen to the sounds. There are very few things to solve, practically a few mazes. Sometimes the game can challenge your navigation skills. But mostly you're just... there. Note: There are no monsters chasing you or jumping suddenly towards you, but the game can feel oppressive. POOLS plays on fears of getting lost, the dark, …
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