The Best Psychological Games for Playstation 4

Update : Directive 8020 added at rank #23.
Here are our 10 Best Psychological Games for Playstation 4:
1

Afterdream (2023)

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Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • emotional
  • walking-simulator
  • narration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • linear
  • story
  • surreal
  • fiction

2

The Exit 8 (2023)

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You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".


  • walking-simulator
  • psychological
  • horror
  • immersive
  • surreal
  • first-person
  • simulation
  • atmospheric
  • linear
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • modern
  • realistic

3

Martha Is Dead (2022)

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Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox One

Martha Is Dead is a dark first-person psychological thriller, set in 1944 Italy, that blurs the lines between reality, superstition and the tragedy of war.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • thriller
  • narrative
  • narration
  • walking-simulator
  • war

4

Centum (2025)

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Xbox Series X/s Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Mac OS

Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.


  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • philosophical
  • narrative
  • adventure
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • gore
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • choices

5

Terminal 81 (2023)

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Thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, Lorena migrated to Terminal 81 to work, but what seemed like a simple Latin American neighborhood, it was a dangerous region dominated by a mysterious criminal organization that carries out murders, kidnappings and human trafficking.


  • horror
  • job
  • psychological
  • retro
  • mystery
  • noir
  • crime
  • simulation
  • investigation
  • open-world
  • capitalism
  • choices
  • immersive
  • emotional

6

OMORI (2020)

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Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • rpg
  • rpgmaker
  • pixel
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • turn-based
  • story
  • japanese
  • stylized
  • party
  • dream
  • colourful

7

Ikai (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5

Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.


  • horror
  • psychological
  • walking-simulator
  • survival-horror
  • thriller
  • first-person

8

The Tartarus Key (2023)

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There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.


  • horror
  • psychological
  • puzzle
  • room
  • thriller
  • escape
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • lovecraftian
  • detective
  • first-person
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • exploration

9

Smile For Me (2019)

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A heartbroken clown, wayward souls, and juicy mechanical lips. As “The Big Event" draws near, help the troubled residents of the Habitat and de-mask the mysterious Doctor Habit... before it's too late.


  • horror
  • lgbtq
  • fmv
  • point-and-click
  • conversation
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • linear
  • hand-drawn
  • multiple-endings
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • comedy

10

The Signifier (2020)

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This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.


  • surreal
  • psychological
  • investigation
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • tech-noir
  • horror
  • dark
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • psychology
  • exploration

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