Who's at the door? similar games & best alternatives

Who's at the door?

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.

What works

  • Effective and creative jump scares
  • Engaging anomaly spotting gameplay
  • Interesting story with multiple endings
  • Good value for price
  • Addictive and replayable with endless mode

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some confusing mechanics and lack of clear instructions
  • Occasional bugs reported
  • Repetitive environment and gameplay loop
  • Predictable story elements

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ten Bells

  • The Mortuary Assistant

  • Shadow Corridor

  • Paragnosia

  • The Heilwald Loophole

  • MOLE

More violent

Games that feels like Who's at the door? but with more combat and destruction

  • Dead Signal

  • Don't Be Afraid

  • Skull Hotel

  • At Dead Of Night

  • Shadows 2: Perfidia

  • Infliction

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Who's at the door?: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Relaxation, Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026