Games like Dead On Arrival

Contra Spem Spero (Latin for 'Against all hope, I hope') is a narrative-driven horror experience that blends text-based exploration, immersive visual novel storytelling, survival elements, and puzzle-solving. Your car breaks down in the middle of a deserted road. Having no time to waste, you decide to continue on foot, grabbing only your journal and camera. Yet imperceptibly, the asphalt turns …

95%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

optimization, grinding

95% User Score Based on 496 reviews

You arrive at a luxury hotel to stay for just one night. During this time, the city turns into a den of deformed monsters, and the hotel becomes a prison for its guests. After quarantine was announced the hotel residents began to turn into deranged creatures. This alien influence haunts you too. The only chance for you to survive the apocalypse and to not go mad is to understand who you can t…

67%Game Brain Score

atmosphere, gameplay

stability, optimization

67% User Score Based on 634 reviews

The Dark Occult is a psychological driven horror game that puts players in a constant state of anxiety that crescendos into raw panic and terror. You will encounter grotesque creatures, who will take your life at any moment.Your only goal -- survive.

88%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

stability, grinding

88% User Score Based on 232 reviews

Take on the role of Annie, a low level employee of the SCP Foundation, a covert organization meant to secure and contain anomalous entities and protect the general public from them. Why has an organization with the motto "Secure, Contain, Protect" created a division for replicating dangerous paranormal events and anomalous entities? Why are you tasked with repeatedly testing the sam…

70%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

stability

92% User Score Based on 25 reviews

Critic Score 72%Based on 3 reviews

GAMEPLAY Focused on the real-life practices of forensic analysts, we have created mechanics that allow the player to understand and uncover the truth behind the evidence they find. Throughout She's Leaving, you begin to discover that there has always been a target on your back. Equipped with a taser, the choice is up to you, are you going to run and hide, or stand and fight? STORY As you wade th…

73%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

optimization, music

82% User Score Based on 100 reviews

Critic Score 56%Based on 5 reviews

Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

73%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

grinding, optimization

73% User Score Based on 71 reviews

Embark on a haunting journey in Ontotis, where chilling secrets of the past shape a story that blurs reality and nightmare in this psychological horror experience. Key Features ❖ Engage in an immersive gameplay experience that blends an atmospheric environment with chilling horror elements. ❖ Solve intricate puzzles to progress the story and unlock secrets. ❖ Piece together the mystery …

78%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

stability, grinding

78% User Score Based on 674 reviews

Infliction is a story driven first person physiological horror experience. Set in a regular suburban home, the story is told over alternating time periods spanning 13 years. Through environmental storytelling, Infliction tackles taboo subject matter. While you're discovering what has happened over the last 13 years, you're being stalked by an evil entity. Can you learn enough to vanquish the evil …

80%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

optimization, stability

80% User Score Based on 262 reviews

You will play a telepath named James. He has the ability to connect with the soul thus he can understand their past. He was hired to explore what happened in the previous 20 years in a haunted house This is the puzzle game! Gameplay uses the first person perspective, your mission searching for items and solve puzzles in order to connect with the souls of those who died in the house and listen t…

95%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

replayability, monetization

95% User Score Based on 1,004 reviews

The Witch’s House, originally released in 2012, falls within the tradition of Japanese horror RPGs with heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving and jump scares. Among other entries in the genre such as Ib and Ao Oni, The Witch’s House surprised fans with pixel-art that conceals truly frightening horror. The Witch’s House is deliberately designed with traps at *almost* every turn--sudden death is unpred…