Games Like Detention (2026)

Shared: Psychological Horror, Atmospheric Soundtrack

Free, short, and deeply unsettling: DDLC wears the costume of a pastel dating sim and uses it as a weapon against you. Go in knowing nothing.

Shared: Atmospheric Soundtrack

Few two-person studios have conjured a world this dense and this lonely. Hollow Knight is 40-plus hours of hand-drawn melancholy that will humble you, haunt you, and refuse to let go.

Shared: Short Completable

Eight hours of handcrafted cyberpunk seen from four inches off the ground - Stray is the rare short game that knows exactly what it wants to be and never flinches.

Shared: Single Playthrough

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist with a camcorder and zero combat skills, trapped inside a psychiatric asylum that is very much still occupied.

Shared: Atmospheric Soundtrack

A low-stakes space exploration sandbox where terraforming alien planets feels genuinely tactile. Build, dig, and breathe in the silence between stars.