60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Story Rich, Atmospheric, Dark.
It all began when you opened that letter. Penned by your late master, it details how you are now heir to his mysterious legacy. You set off for the island on which he'd spent his final years... and so a truly unsettling journey begins, a journey into the deepest secrets of magic and the occult.
The Dark Egg Demo
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Letter Lost
You’re the sole employee at the Kharnym Isle post office, stamping, sorting, and delivering mail. But the job hides secrets, and the office itself holds mysteries you must uncover. This will be the only job you’ll ever need to work… unless you can escape.
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Surreal 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Mystery 9.2%
You’re the sole employee at the Kharnym Isle post office, stamping, sorting, and delivering mail. But the job hides secrets, and the office itself holds mysteries you must uncover. This will be the only job you’ll ever need to work… unless you can escape.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.4%, Dark 19%, Mystery 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Point & Click 16.2%, Mystery 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.4%
Castle of Secrets is a dark psychological adventure with horror elements. Uncover the mystery behind your family's murder as you journey through the world of the dead, meet strange beings, solve puzzles, and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Point & Click 17.4%, Surreal 16.6%, Dark 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.3%, Historical 13%, Dark 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Text-Based 11.1%
Step into the role of a faceless detective investigating creatures from Slavic folklore. Explore dialogue-driven mysteries, solve puzzles, and uncover post-Soviet occult secrets in a pixel art housing block full of bizarre residents and hidden truths
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.6%, Magic 16.9%, Dark 12.5%, Text-Based 10.6%, Demons 10%
Wake up inside the nightmare world you created in this standalone, hand-drawn dark fantasy point-and-click adventure with psychological horror elements. Explore islands, solve puzzles, and make morally ambiguous choices that lead to multiple endings. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
Why similar: Gothic 21.6% ★, Dark 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Surreal 10.7%, Point & Click 10.5%
Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still?
Why similar: Medieval 27.4%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Dark 12.7%, Puzzle 8.5%
The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana is a dark adventure game set inside the haunted mansion of a mysterious magician who vanished several years ago. Resolve a maze of riddles and perplexing puzzles to unlock doors and secret passages, or be doomed to spend eternity trapped inside the inescapable mansion.
Why similar: Gothic 20.4% ★, Magic 17.3%, Medieval 12.5%, Mystery 12.4%, Dark 10.1%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Mystery 21.2%, Text-Based 19.9%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Point & Click 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
Why similar: Historical 19.8%, Dark 18.8%, Mystery 17.6%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 6.7%
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.8%, Magic 14.3%, Mystery 13.1%, Gothic 12.6% ★, Dark 11.2%
A mysterious letter calls you back to your abandoned family mansion. Explore its dark rooms, uncover the bloody rituals buried in your family’s past, and escape the presence lurking in the shadows. Shadow Mansion is a story-driven horror game of atmosphere, exploration, and survival.
Why similar: Gothic 24.6% ★, Dark 16.3%, Mystery 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dark 11.3%, Story Rich 8.7%
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.3%, Dark 17.8%, Mystery 12.8%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
Inner Voices is a dark, non-linear adventure game with a pinch of horror, inspired by works of H. P. Lovecraft and E. A. Poe. Find your way through a procedurally generated maze of rooms and solve the mystery of your past.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.2%, Dark 15.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Surreal 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Follow the fear of Benedek Dohnany and Nikolay Kalyakin and play the onset of a dark and chilling narrative adventure. Make decisions and affect the events that precede a macabre series of murders, allegedly related to devil worship and witchcraft.
Why similar: Gothic 22.2% ★, Lovecraftian 21.5%, Dark 13.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Point & Click 11.3%
Travel to the old train station and hotel, abandoned since 1947, following the 'disappearances'. Unravel the mystery that binds this place, by communicating with the ghosts of the long since dead, both in your time and theirs.
Why similar: Point & Click 64.2%, Psychological Horror 35.8%
A short classic point-and-click adventure with a verb-based interface and dialogue choices, where you explore a strange building, meet unsettling characters, and slowly uncover a dark, ancient secret.
Why similar: Gothic 23.1% ★, Demons 20.4%, Point & Click 14.5%, Dark 13.3%, Mystery 10.9%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 19.6% ★, Text-Based 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Dark 11%
A first-person horror adventure game that will take you on a journey through an ancient castle and that lies beneath. Dangers and forgotten horrors await in the dark...
Why similar: Medieval 26.9%, Mystery 19.9%, Historical 17.5%, Psychological Horror 11%, Exploration 9.5%
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.5%, Dark 16.4%, Mystery 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Mystery 11.4%
Midnight Swamp is a dark point-and-click adventure where you will dive into a world of eerie fairy tales. Play as a tourist who must find a way out of a mysterious swamp, where every corner hides a riddle.
Why similar: Dark 15.6%, Magic 15.6%, Surreal 12.6%, Mystery 10.6%, Point & Click 10.5%
What lurks in the darkest corners of the mansion? Westmark Manor is a journey into the occult, a mind-bending survival horror game, with a heavy focus on solving puzzles and exploration, inspired by the formidable H.P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.1%, Dark 21.6%, Gothic 16.9% ★, Mystery 14.9%, Puzzle 7.8%
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.5%, Point & Click 28.5%, Story Rich 11.5%, Puzzle 7%, Psychological Horror 5.4%
MESMALIE is an occult adventure game. A magickal incident in your personal life brings you to a small witches' coven in the middle of nowhere. Here, you'll learn to tame your ability... though, not without some bumps along the way.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Point & Click 24.9%, Magic 24.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Story Rich 9.2%
Embark on an eerie ghost-hunting adventure, featuring real evidence of paranormal activity, to solve the mystery of the Lost Crown. Be warned, to seek advice from the dead can have bitter consequences.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.3%, Psychological Horror 29.8%, Mystery 15.4%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Story Rich 7.2%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Magic 17.1%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Why similar: Point & Click 19.5%, Mystery 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
Why similar: Dark 27.7%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Mystery 16.5%, Surreal 12.2%, Atmospheric 9.2%
This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.3%, Dark 31.4%, Story Rich 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12%
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school. Dunkenwood House takes you in, but its halls hide the darker side of privilege. Humanity or demonic nature. Love or desire. Every choice shapes the person you become.
Why similar: Gothic 33.5% ★, Dark 27.6%, Mystery 19.1%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Story Rich 5.1%
Classic first-person point-and-click adventure game set in contemporary Prague. As a programmer and treasure hunter, you embark on a long journey to uncover the secrets of the infamous Executioner. Your task will be complicated by a sect of fanatic cultists and your own unexplained heritage.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.2%, Mystery 21.6%, Dark 19.2%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 9.8%
In this first-person horror mystery game, you set out to bury the horrible past of a tyrannical government. Retrieve and destroy the documents that unravel the secrets that lie beneath Oack Grove. Will you discover the terrifying truth and find your way out?
Why similar: Dark 28.4%, Mystery 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 11%
Congratulations, you've found Dingir OS — an operating system that lets you glimpse into the darkest corners of the internet. Browse forbidden websites, investigate lethal files, and immerse yourself in the world of digital legends. (We are not responsible for anything that may happen to you.)
Why similar: Dark 24.2%, Point & Click 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Puzzle 8.8%
Marginalia is a first-person horror game that transports you to Kestlebrook, a secluded valley where history becomes enmeshed with a strange present. Weeks ago Eric left. Days ago you got a letter telling you to come to him. Now you're here, but precisely where is here? And better yet, when?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Dark 16.2%, Exploration 10.5%, Story Rich 10.1%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Gothic 24.5% ★, Dark 20.5%, Point & Click 18%, Mystery 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
Vernon's Legacy is an horror adventure with an enigmatic story that takes place nearly a century ago. You are playing as Robert, the new owner of Dunkenhof manor.
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Why similar: Medieval 36.7%, Text-Based 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Story Rich 5%
Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?
Why similar: Dark 23.4%, Text-Based 21.2%, Point & Click 17.4%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Exploration 8%
Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Mystery 19.8%, Dark 19.4%, Surreal 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14.7%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Mystery 16.3%, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dark 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
Enter a dark, captivating world as the massive evil of Black Mirror Castle is reincarnated with over 100 atmospheric locations to explore and 40 different characters to interact with. Will Darren's search lead him to redemption or the hell of insanity?
Why similar: Point & Click 58.3%, Mystery 20.6%, Puzzle 8.6%, Story Rich 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Wander through intricate maze under the bed, and discover the secrets hidden in the long, dark tunnels. Document the existence of monsters. Retrieve the stolen treasures and memories.
Why similar: Dark 19.3%, Surreal 18%, Mystery 16%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Point & Click 11.9%
An orphan returns to the house of the deceased fortune-teller to uncover the secret of his family's death. He must accept his legacy and become a prognostic before supernatural madness engulfs people of his town.
Why similar: Dark 26.3%, Story Rich 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Puzzle 15.6%, Exploration 12.7%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.7%, Gothic 13.5% ★, Dark 11.9%, Point & Click 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
Stranded on a desolate island with Earth's remaining researchers, you investigate a strange celestial body. The day before departure, your only means of transportation gets mysteriously damaged, leaving you stranded. Is someone sabotaging the team, or is there something more sinister going on…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Dark 15.6%, Surreal 12.3%, Point & Click 10.8%, Mystery 10.4%
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Why similar: Magic 21.1%, Mystery 19.1%, Dark 17.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Puzzle 8.6%
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.1%, Mystery 16%, Point & Click 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Mystery 41.8%, Psychological Horror 28.3%, Story Rich 15.3%, Atmospheric 14.5%
You've received a strange letter, and inside, a chilling black and white photograph – the people in the picture are eerily faceless! A powerful intuition compels you to journey to the location in the photo: Greenwater Town...
Why similar: Point & Click 33.5%, Psychological Horror 28.3%, Puzzle 18%, Exploration 14.3%, Story Rich 5.9%
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".
Why similar: Gothic 21.7% ★, Lovecraftian 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Dark 7.8%
You're a journalist searching for answers... but beneath the surface lies only terror. The labyrinth you’ve entered to find the missing may never let you leave.
Why similar: Demons 26.6%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Mystery 21.9%, Surreal 13%, Dark 10.6%
This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.
Why similar: Dark 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Demons 12.7%, Exploration 11%, Atmospheric 8.8%
Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.
Why similar: Dark 23.1%, Point & Click 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Story Rich 11.5%
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.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 19.6%, Point & Click 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Mystery 21.3%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%
An epic adventure through an open world of monsters, traps and magic. Infiltrate the Fortress of Sorcerers, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered, no matter how small. Cheat death, uncover ancient mysteries, and recover the Crown of Kings - if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 100%
