Games Like The Medium (2026)

Shared: Story-Driven, Single Playthrough

SOMA is Frictional Games' underwater sci-fi horror that asks what consciousness really means - and then makes you suffer the answer.

Shared: Atmospheric Horror, Story-Driven

Capcom dragged survival horror back from the dead with this one, and the first-person Baker plantation still holds up as one of the scariest single settings in the genre.

Shared: Story-Driven, Single Playthrough

Rarely does a mid-budget action-adventure punch this far above its weight class. Carry a young sibling through plague-ravaged 14th-century France or accept that story-driven games don't get much bleaker or more gripping than this.

Shared: Atmospheric Horror

Crash-land on an ocean planet, then spend dozens of hours too scared to go deeper, but going anyway. Subnautica is survival-crafting with genuine dread and beauty.

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.