The Best Psychological Games

Update : Karma: The Dark World added at rank #1.
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Karma: The Dark World (2025)

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PC Windows j Xbox Series X Playstation 5

KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The time is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • walking-simulator
  • dystopian
  • philosophical
  • cinematic
  • psychedelic
  • fiction
  • experimental
  • emotional
  • story
  • first-person
  • interactive

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SCP: Fragmented Minds (2025)

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early access PC Windows

You arrive at Mars Site-113, a decaying monument to the SCP Foundation's ambition—and its failures. Once the most secure facility, now a cradle of horrors calling you to uncover its secrets. Face relentless anomalies, humanity's darkest truths, and a mission that demands survival above all else.

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  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • first-person
  • space
  • psychological
  • stealth
  • sci-fi
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • fps
  • story
  • controller-support
  • exploration
  • simulation

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AI2U: With You 'Til The End (2025)

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90
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early access PC Windows Mac OS

You wake up in a cute girl's home who's eager to keep you by her side! Engage with thematic stories, puzzles, and unique AI NPCs who'll go to any lengths to protect you—even when it means contradicting themselves. Bask in meet-cutes or brace for chaos if you try to escape.

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  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • horror
  • conversation
  • dating-sim
  • immersive
  • choices
  • psychological
  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • multiple-endings
  • character
  • anime
  • customization

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R (2025)

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Linux PC Windows Android

Run, hide, adapt and survive in a mansion of endless night and bizarre brain-twisting phenomena in this 2D hand-drawn psychological horror title.


  • horror
  • perma-death
  • psychological
  • cooperative
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • hand-drawn
  • comedy
  • multiple-endings
  • thriller
  • multiplayer
  • stealth

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Matchmaking Inc. (2025)

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PC Windows

A young single man returns to his hometown and takes over the family's matchmaking business. Matchmaking Inc. is a modern-themed RPG designed for men that combines gameplay elements of simulation management and text adventure.

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  • dating-sim
  • word
  • deckbuilder
  • time-management
  • multiple-endings
  • romance
  • choices
  • psychological
  • sandbox
  • top-down
  • horror
  • management
  • pixel
  • card
  • story

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Unpossess: Exorcism Simulator (2025)

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early access PC Windows Android

Unpossess is a 1-4 co-op exorcism simulator game set in the early 1900s. Players take on the role of exorcists responsible for addressing cases of human possession.


  • horror
  • dark
  • supernatural
  • cooperative
  • demons
  • psychological
  • thriller
  • survival-horror
  • realistic
  • simulation
  • horror-adventure
  • immersive
  • fantasy
  • multiplayer

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10 Dead Doves (2024)

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PC Windows

10 Dead Doves is a single-player, fixed-perspective narrative horror set in the heart of Appalachia. Avoid strange noises, collect lifelines, and creep through a forest that seems to hate you. Will you discover why the birds drop dead -- or leave behind nothing but footprints?

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  • horror
  • psychological
  • lovecraftian
  • walking-simulator
  • surreal
  • cinematic
  • narrative
  • old-school
  • comedy
  • multiple-endings
  • emotional
  • third-person
  • hidden-object

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Centum (2024)

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78
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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X PC Windows j Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One

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.

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

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Mouthwashing (2024)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch) Xbox Series X/s (Playstation 5

The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.

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  • horror
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • walking-simulator

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Beyond Hanwell (2024)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 PC Windows

Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.

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  • horror
  • immersive
  • psychological
  • survival-horror
  • first-person
  • dark
  • open-world
  • atmospheric
  • shooter
  • post-apocalyptic
  • realistic
  • story
  • gore
  • fps
  • combat

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