Sci-fi Horror Indie Games
Games Like Directive 8020
A curated-style list of indie games whose tags and descriptions overlap Directive 8020’s mood: sci-fi horror, survival, and choice-heavy narratives.
Selections lean on catalog signals such as horror, sci-fi, story rich, and single-player exploration—not a proprietary similarity score.
Catalog matches to explore
ÜBER ICH
A depressed soldier, a dying world, and a girl named Agathe.
Endless Corridor
At 03:17, your own number calls from seven minutes in the future.
The Additional Dimension
Like the Backrooms, but Soviet.
Record of Greypine
An Analog horror-inspired Visual.
The Green Room Prototype — First Arc: Nico & Evan
A choice-driven story about safe power, private access, and what the room remembers.
Bird In The Sun
Space is cold but you are warm. I will make you whole.
She Can Hear You
Your friend called you into the abandoned hospital. Follow his voice. Stay quiet — she can hear you. (~30 min)
The Broken Silence
A one-button echolocation horror game. Sound is your only sight, and everything down here hunts by sound.
Porcelain Heart
Can a broken heart ever love again? A toxic yuri horror VN.
ECHOFORM
Install memory-chips, outsmart enemies that split and fuse, and cut the Loom’s thread.
What makes a game similar to Directive 8020?
The strongest matches usually combine horror atmosphere, sci-fi settings, survival pressure, story-heavy pacing, and choices that affect how the experience unfolds.
- • Sci-fi or space horror atmosphere
- • Survival horror tension
- • Story-rich singleplayer structure
- • Choice-driven or branching narrative elements
- • Dark, atmospheric exploration
Tags used for this collection
smallcrate uses Steam and itch.io catalog tags, descriptions, and matching signals to find indie games that overlap with the Directive 8020 search intent.
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