Games Like The Land of Pain (2026)

Shared: Chase Sequences

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: Day-Night Cycle

Crash a plane, lose your son, then spend 30+ hours building spike traps and slowly losing your mind to cannibals. Solo or with up to 8 friends online, this one earns its Metacritic 83.

Shared: Solo Developer

Free, solo-made, and done in under two hours -- Helltaker is the rare short game that knows exactly what it is and executes it with more style than most paid releases.

Shared: Day-Night Cycle

A five-person studio built a Tarkov parody that somehow outgrew the joke. If you've ever wanted extraction-shooter tension without a lobby full of strangers hunting you, this is the most accessible version of that feeling you'll find.

Shared: Chase Sequences

Four to five hours of pure atmospheric dread that will stick in your memory far longer than its runtime, if slow-burn horror puzzle-platformers are your thing, this is required playing.