Games Like Through the Woods (2026)

Shared: Psychological Horror, Norse Mythology

Few games ask you to sit inside a mind this fractured and come out feeling something real. Around 8 hours, zero HUD, and a binaural soundscape that turns headphones into a threat.

Shared: Psychological Horror, Narrative-Driven

Pastel sketchbook exteriors hiding a gut-punch story about grief, guilt, and four years of a locked bedroom door. One of the rare indie RPGs where the mechanics and the narrative are actually saying the same thing.

Shared: Atmospheric Horror, Single Playthrough

Rats, plague, the Inquisition, and two kids with nothing but a sling and each other. If grim medieval atmosphere and a story that actually lands are your thing, this one punches well above its budget.

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.