The 21 Best Games Like Ib, Ranked

The Witch's House fits the Japanese horror RPG style. It heavily uses puzzles and jump scares. Other games like Ib and Ao Oni show pixel art hiding real scares. The Witch's House uses traps everywhere. Sudden death is unpredictable. It keeps players alert. Anything can happen at any moment.

Mad Father is a horror-puzzle game. It follows Aya Drevis, a young German girl's experiences.

This is a turn-based surreal horror RPG. A child travels with friends through strange, everyday, funny, mysterious, and horrific places. They search for a missing person while facing their past and fears. Explore a world full of colorful friends and foes. Your choices set your fate, and maybe others' too.

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is a survival horror adventure. It follows Corpse party BloodCovered. It adds new twists and character backgrounds to Corpse Party, mostly acting as a prequel.

Kikiyama, a Japanese solo designer, made Yume Nikki. It is a 32-Bit freeware game using RPGMaker 2003. It is one of the most original RPGMaker 2003 uses, starting a new game genre. "Yume Nikki" means "Dream Diary" in Japanese. The game follows Madotsuki as she dreams. Players seek out and get all 24 'Effects'. The game has little plot; much is left to the player to guess.

Misao is a freeware horror adventure game. You explore and escape a high school trapped in another world by a malevolent curse.

The Mirror Lied is the second game in the Freebird Games series. The player controls a girl named Leah. She explores a house with no one else inside and no way out.

Hiroshi and his three friends, Takuro, Takeshi, and Mika, visit an abandoned mansion rumored to be haunted. They find a blue monster chasing them through the mansion.

The original Mogeko Castle is a horror game made in RPG Maker 2000.

Aaron suddenly finds himself in a world slowly dying. He forgets where he came from and why he is there. Aaron explores his new world, seeking clues to unlock surrounding mysteries. Progress makes puzzles harder, and events more horrifying. Action scenes offer a break from puzzles.

Signalis is a survival horror game. It features a unique look and a melancholic mystery. Elster, a technician Replika, searches for lost dreams. She investigates a dark secret, solves puzzles, and fights nightmarish creatures in dystopian, surreal retrotech worlds.

This is a 2D platform game. It uses classic platform gameplay, deadly traps, and a dark storyline. It features unique hero abilities, all with Tim Burton-like audio-visuals.

Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts enter Johnny's mind on his deathbed. They grant his final request. Watch, interact, and change the past as Johnny's life unfolds. The journey takes you inside a head, asking "What if...?" You decide if you would change your life, try for a grand goal, or seek love or fortune. Dr. Rosalene and Watts travel To The Moon with you.

Welcome to the Rusty Lake Hotel. Ensure a pleasant stay. Five dinners happen this week. Make every dinner worth dying for. Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game. Creators of the Cube Escape series developed it.

An eccentric man summons a woman to a project in an old hotel in central Europe. She gets pulled into a dangerous, surreal game of illusions. You enter this mystery with non-linear paths and many handcrafted puzzles. New riddles lead you closer to solving the enigma of Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.

Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. You move through a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and harsh choices. Use your deck of event cards to find new cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable waits.

Five crew members of The Tulpar are stranded in empty space. Perpetual sunset shrouds them. God does not watch.

House of Caravan takes place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century. It is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.

Thirty years before the story in 1959, artist Ichirō Mamiya hid precious frescos in his huge mansion before disappearing. Today, five documentary filmers seek the paintings from the abandoned, dilapidated mansion. A ghost of an unknown woman traps them inside, threatening to kill all trespassers. The team splits up to escape, but the mansion is collapsing and full of monsters.

Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game. It is based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. A guilt-ridden mother must uncover the scary truth about a vengeful, demonic witch. She needs to save her estranged daughter. One knock wakes her. Two knocks raise her from the dead. Explore the grand manor house. Interact with almost every object. Find and save your daughter by exploring the manor's depths. Search for hidden clues. Use items to fight or escape the terror. The game uses the film, Don't Knock Twice.

Control the Batter. Guide him to purify the world of spirits. Take the Batter through the Zones. Collect battle partners. Solve puzzles. Participate in turn-based Active Time Battles. Reach the source of the impurity.