Games You'll Love

Curated recommendations based on Layers of Fear (2016)

Deep Sorrow
81% match

Deep Sorrow

Indie

Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

Empathy: Path of Whispers
80% match

Empathy: Path of Whispers

Indie

Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure
80% match

Now You See - A Hand Painted Horror Adventure

Indie

NoW YoU SEE is a story driven, first-person, point & click, horror adventure. You must escape!!! Explore the house, solve fiendish puzzles, uncover horrible secrets and get ready to meet the family. STORY. PUZZLES. GORE.

Homesick
79% match

Homesick

Indie

Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.

>observer_
79% match

>observer_

Indie

What would you do if your fears were hacked? >observer_ is a cyberpunk horror game from Bloober Team, the creators of Layers of Fear. Play as an Observer, the new front line of neural police, as you hack into the jagged minds of the insane.

Infliction
78% match

Infliction

Indie

Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

Layers of Fear VR
78% match

Layers of Fear VR

Indie

Enter a tangibly horrifying Virtual Reality and explore a mansion of horror as an artist falling into the depths of insanity. Will you find the muse for your masterpiece... or madness?

Funeral
77% match

Funeral

Singleplayer

Funeral is a first-person horror game that creates a terrifying atmosphere and powerful tension. Solve mild puzzles, explore different worlds, and escape from the demon's trap.

Fear Corporation
76% match

Fear Corporation

Atmospheric

Fear Corporation - This is a game about the hero's fear of his phobias, the hero is terribly afraid of clowns, statues and dolls. Waking up from a nightmare at night, the hero begins to realize that he is still in a dream, because he observes all his most terrible nightmares.

Corridor: Amount of Fear
76% match

Corridor: Amount of Fear

Indie

Corridor: Amount of Fear is a psychological horror for one person. Prepare for the wildest adventure ever. And remember... No one will help you.

SOMNIFUGE
76% match

SOMNIFUGE

Indie

Trapped in a dark mansion, you must solve cryptic puzzles, evade mind-warping horrors, and descend into a PSX-inspired nightmare. Will you escape, or will you spiral into oblivion in SOMNIFUGE?

Inner Darkness
76% match

Inner Darkness

Indie

Inner Darkness is a first-person horror game made in pixelated 3D graphics that immerses you in an atmosphere of loneliness. The gameplay consists in walking around locations, solving riddles.

The Land of Pain
76% match

The Land of Pain

Indie

The Land of Pain is a Lovecraftian horror adventure. After something strange appears in the woods, you'll have to learn how to survive as you fend off a dark and disturbing evil. Flee from an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and unravel the ancient mystery that's befallen this land.

Layers of Fear 2
76% match

Layers of Fear 2

Indie

Layers of Fear 2 is a first-person psychological horror game with an emphasis on exploration and story. Players control a Hollywood actor who heeds the call of an enigmatic director to take on the lead role in a film shot aboard an ocean liner. Beware, for all may not truly be what it seems.

Layers of Fear
75% match

Layers of Fear

Singleplayer

All stories must come to an end, even twisted and eerie ones. The canvas. The stage. The novel. This narrative-focused psychological horror experience is ready for its final brushstrokes, its curtain call, its final chapter. Are you ready to return and face your fears one last time?

Insomnis
75% match

Insomnis

Indie

Insomnis is a first-person horror game focused on story, exploration and solving puzzles to advance through a terrifying atmosphere. Players take control of Joe Castevet, who will have to deal with a mysterious inheritance he has just received. Discover all the secrets of the Castevet mansion!

Invisible Fear
74% match

Invisible Fear

Indie

Invisible fear is a horror game where you will have to go through a nightmare, surviving during the nights, using your camera that is able to show the non-existent to your eyes...

Scotophobia
74% match

Scotophobia

Singleplayer

Scotophobia is a psychological horror in which you’re your accommodation is rapidly changing ceasing to belong to you. Will you be able to uphold your abode, reveal the origin of the mysterious guests, keep sanity, and… survive?

Fear the Spotlight
74% match

Fear the Spotlight

Indie

Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…

CLeM
74% match

CLeM

Atmospheric

CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.

Suspense: Madman's Dreams
74% match

Suspense: Madman's Dreams

Singleplayer

Explore the fears that shape lives and the unseen worlds that haunt them. You're not just witnessing their struggles — you're living them.

Horror of Victim
73% match

Horror of Victim

Indie

Psychological horror about a girl captured by an insane family.

Layers of Fear: Inheritance
73% match

Layers of Fear: Inheritance

Indie

I’m home, Father. Layers of Fear: Inheritance expands the plot from Layers of Fear and tells the story of the painter’s daughter, who comes back to her childhood home to face her past. Lead the daughter through what’s left of the mansion and take part in the madness that her father bestowed upon the whole family.

PHOBOS Project
72% match

PHOBOS Project

Indie

Phobos Project is a first-person psychological horror adventure exploring the depths of psychological horror. In this experiment you have to find a way out and keep your sanity level up through different hostile environments. Face your dread and try to find the source of the nightmare !

Don't Be Afraid 2
72% match

Don't Be Afraid 2

Singleplayer

Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?

Neverending Nightmares
72% match

Neverending Nightmares

Indie

Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.

Breathing Fear
72% match

Breathing Fear

Pixel Graphics

Breathing Fear is a non-linear 2D horror game with survival elements. Solve all the secrets of the mysterious house and try not to go crazy with horror.

Lover
72% match

Lover

Action

Lover is a first-person psychological horror game. Presented in a nostalgic and retro environment, player will uncover the cause of the illness through reincarnation and overcome psychological issues. Before darkness consumes your world, find those unspeakable secrets as you face shattered reality.

Writer. Chapter 1
72% match

Writer. Chapter 1

Controller

You, the legendary writer, the “King of Horror,” find yourself at the center of a nightmare. A mysterious place, frighteningly familiar, hides sinister secrets. Explore locations, solve riddles, escape from the monster, collect a story that will become a new masterpiece... if you survive.

MIRROR MIRROR
72% match

MIRROR MIRROR

Indie

MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.

Anthology of Fear
71% match

Anthology of Fear

Difficult

Take part in a one-man investigation and solve the mystery of your brother’s disappearance. Find out the truth by exploring unsettling liminal locations. Discover the story chapter by chapter, with each one unveiling their common tragedy.

Under: Depths of Fear
71% match

Under: Depths of Fear

Indie

Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.

Interior Worlds
71% match

Interior Worlds

Indie

Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.

Masked and Mysterious
71% match

Masked and Mysterious

Indie

Enter a twisted world, in which nothing is as it seems. You play the role of a father, who wakes up on a traumatic night to find his children missing. You start finding clues about possible whereabouts and.....

You Are Liam: Shadow Memories
71% match

You Are Liam: Shadow Memories

Action

You have done some things you're not proud of. Now you must enter your own mind to come to terms with the things you've done. Loop around rooms, solve puzzles and hide from different monsters as you uncover your own truth.

IFU
71% match

IFU

Singleplayer

IFU is a psychological horror about a young guy who is forcibly locked in an abandoned mansion of a dead surgeon along with his restless soul.

Realm of Dread
70% match

Realm of Dread

Action

Take a step into the Realm of Dread's world of horror and suspense. Explore mysterious locations, fight for survival within the realm of supernatural entities and uncover the secrets hidden in the shadows. This journey through darkness requires courage and intellect. Are you ready?

Polygon of Reality
70% match

Polygon of Reality

Action

'Polygon of Reality' is a horror game in which you will have to unravel the mysteries of other dimensions and a research complex. Descend into the complex buried in the ground, uncover the mysteries of what happened, meet with forgotten fears and unknown creatures.

Last Floor
70% match

Last Floor

Indie

Оne day your life changes dramatically and you become a hostage of your own home. Your task is to survive but to do this you need to get outside.

Framed Fear
70% match

Framed Fear

Indie

You must discover the differences between what you see through the camera and with your own eyes to distinguish real floors from fake ones and escape. It is said that ghosts behave the opposite of humans, and taking the elevator is no exception.

Fear deeps
70% match

Fear deeps

Indie

This is a horror game where the player controls the protagonist (Tom) to go to a mental sanatorium to find Lily, but who knows that there is something weird in the sanatorium! You'll need to explore the sanatorium, find Lily, and uncover the final truth!

Blinded by Fear
70% match

Blinded by Fear

Indie

Interned, blind and alone. Fulfil your contractual obligation to the corporation that owns you. Your vision, modified by a cybernetic LiDAR device, is the only way to investigate the ANIMA, an abandoned futuristic mining facility with a dark secret...and even darker horrors.

嗜憶 Swallow
70% match

嗜憶 Swallow

Indie

Swallow is a first-person psychological horror game with a heavy focus on story and exploration. Based on a true story, describe an unsolved case that took place on an isolated island of 20th century England. Players take control of a lighthouse keeper to uncover the truth.

CONTORTED
70% match

CONTORTED

Atmospheric

CONTORTED is an exploration/gameplay focused horror game, where you descend down a seemingly endless number of mysterious wells to find someone, only to discover you are neither alone nor safe

Conundrum
70% match

Conundrum

Indie

Conundrum is a first-person puzzle-game that takes you on a journey through a complex where every room is a puzzle, and the whole complex is a mystery.

FEAR background
69% match

FEAR background

Atmospheric

FEAR - a horror game made in realistic 3D graphics, immersing in an atmosphere of horror and fear.

Mirror Layers
69% match

Mirror Layers

Indie

Mirror Layers is a first person social horror game. Cooperate with other players to solve challenging puzzles. Explore and collaborate to unravel the mystery behind Apartment 12 and its horrific and distorted mirror reality.

Looking Glass
69% match

Looking Glass

Indie

Don’t stand still—and don’t trust your eyes. Step into Looking Glass, a PC horror VR game set in the darkness of a hedge labyrinth. Use a hand mirror to peer through the blackness in this haunting horror maze.

Blair Witch
68% match

Blair Witch

Indie

Inspired by the cinematic lore of Blair Witch, experience a new story-driven psychological horror game that studies your reactions to fear and stress.

Somber
68% match

Somber

Action

Somber is an atmospheric action-platformer that takes place in the semi-open world of Gloom. A hand-painted game filled with stunning environments, Somber demands absolute precision from players who wish to unlock its many secrets.