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Games Like P.T.: First-Person Haunted Houses and Hallways

P.T., the playable teaser for the cancelled Silent Hills, put you in one looping hallway of a suburban house that grew more wrong every time you walked it. Konami pulled it from the PlayStation Store in 2015, but these games carry on its idea: first-person haunted homes and loops that change as you look away.

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  1. Visage key art: a figure under a pale sheet in front of rain-streaked glass, next to the Visage logo PsychologicalVisageThe fullest game in P.T.'s mould: a large, dim house where families died, rooms that shift when you look away and ghosts that close in.
  2. MADiSON key art: a bruised, bloodied hand gripping an old instant camera with Luca written on top PsychologicalMADiSONA dense first-person haunted house of puzzles and jump scares, with an instant camera that shows what is really there.
  3. SILENT HILL: The Short Message key art: Anita in red glasses with insulting handwritten notes stuck to her face, in a dark red graffiti-covered corridor PsychologicalSILENT HILL: The Short MessageFree on PS5 from Konami: a first-person walk through a crumbling apartment block that turns otherworldly, lit only by a phone.
  4. Infliction key art: a man's silhouette in a brightly lit doorway at the end of a dark hall, with a bloodied hand holding a knife in the foreground PsychologicalInflictionA photorealistic family home frozen by tragedy, changing as you go while a spirit stalks you.
  5. Layers of Fear key art: a torn blood-red canvas, with an eye and part of a painted face showing through the rip and an empty picture frame behind PsychologicalLayers of FearAn artist's mansion that rebuilds itself behind your back, room by room.
  6. CAPTURED key art: a black silhouette with small white eyes and a faint grin in a dark room, tentacles curling by a pale doorway, in grainy blue camcorder light PsychologicalCAPTUREDYour own home turned into an endless hallway, where you film what has changed to get out: P.T.'s loop as a game of spotting.
  7. The Exit 8 key art: a yellow 'Exit 8' sign hanging from the ceiling of a white-tiled subway passage PsychologicalThe Exit 8A looping subway passage where you must notice what is wrong, short and unsettling.
  8. The Cabin Factory key art: a log cabin with a glowing porch and open door alone in a vast, dim factory hall PsychologicalThe Cabin FactoryWalk the same small cabin again and again as an inspector, and call it haunted the moment anything has changed.

Visage is the fullest game built in P.T.'s mould: a large, dim house where families were murdered and people went insane, with rooms that shift when you look away, ghosts that watch and follow, and a sanity that drains in the dark. MADiSON is denser and louder, a puzzle-driven house of jump scares in which an old instant camera shows you what is really in the room. Infliction keeps the photorealistic family home frozen by tragedy, piecing its story together from letters and keepsakes while a spirit stalks you.

Konami's own SILENT HILL: The Short Message is the closest you can get to the series P.T. was made for: a free first-person game on PS5 in which a girl, lit only by her phone, walks a crumbling apartment block that turns into otherworldly spaces. Unbridled Horror, made on Game Jolt, calls itself P.T.-style outright, a house of unexplained things with a flashlight and a button to close your eyes. The Windows Are Gone, free on PC and under an hour long, has you move into a house you keep seeing in your dreams after a fatal accident, and its maker names P.T. as an influence: the bright rooms you furnish slowly turn dark and wrong.

ANATOMY, by Kitty Horrorshow, is the quiet, short version of the haunted suburban house: you walk it at night collecting cassette tapes that describe a house as if it were a body, and the rooms you stand in begin to fit the description, without ever giving you the release of a jump scare. Hotel Remorse, free on Steam, is a smaller cousin in a different building: a grieving man wakes in a dark hotel and walks its long patterned corridors while paranormal events close in.

Layers of Fear takes the changing house and makes it a painter's mansion that rebuilds itself behind your back. For the loop itself, CAPTURED turns your own late-90s home into an endless hallway in which you film whatever has changed to find a way out; CAPTURED 2 moves the loop into a missing girl's apartment and adds creatures shaped like her old toys. The Exit 8 does the same in a white-tiled Japanese subway passage in under an hour, and The Cabin Factory makes it a job: you walk through one log cabin after another as a factory inspector and press Danger the moment something is not as it was.

If you only try one, play Visage for the closest feel to what P.T. promised, or SILENT HILL: The Short Message if you have a PS5 and want Konami's own take for free.

Questions

Can you still play P.T.?

Not as a new download. Konami removed P.T. from the PlayStation Store in April 2015, after Silent Hills was cancelled; the games on this page are the nearest you can play.

What is the closest game to P.T.?

Visage is the fullest game in its style, a first-person house that shifts around you. MADiSON and Infliction are close too.

Is there a free game like P.T.?

SILENT HILL: The Short Message is free on PS5 and is a first-person Silent Hill game from Konami. On PC, The Windows Are Gone is free and under an hour long.

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