Games Like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2026)

Shared: Mystery, Short Playtime

Four to seven hours alone in the Wyoming wilderness with a walkie-talkie and a mystery that burns brighter than it lands - if that sounds like your kind of evening, keep reading.

Shared: Mystery, Environmental Storytelling

Pure curiosity is the only currency that matters here, no combat, no skill trees, just a handcrafted solar system full of secrets and a 22-minute clock before the sun wipes everything out.

Shared: Atmospheric Horror, Short Playtime

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.

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: Environmental Storytelling

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