
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Atmospheric, Adventure, Story Rich, Singleplayer.

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.

Omen Exitio: Plague
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.

SUNLESS SEA
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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 57.7%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Story Rich 8.2%, Indie 7.4%, Adventure 6.5%
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53.4%, Story Rich 9.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%, Adventure 6.8%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 38.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Story Rich 14.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%, Adventure 5.7%
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
Why similar: Adventure 23.3%, Atmospheric 18.2%, Exploration 17.8%, Story Rich 14%, Great Soundtrack 13.6%
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
Why similar: Choices Matter 27.9%, Story Rich 19.2%, Indie 16.2%, Adventure 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 10.6%
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.7%, Mystery 16.5%, Adventure 14.8%, Story Rich 12.7%, Exploration 12.4%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Choices Matter 34.4%, Story Rich 17.8%, Adventure 14.5%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Exploration 9.8%
A dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. A merciless world thatgets sick and vanishes. No past, no present, no future; only the impending moment of “dead synchronicity” ahead. Will you be able to stop it?Because, otherwise... what will you do when Time dissolves itself?
Why similar: Adventure 41.1%, Great Soundtrack 20%, Indie 12.4%, Story Rich 10.9%, Mystery 9.4%
A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29%, Adventure 13.3%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Indie 12.2%, Simulation 10.7%
Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53.6%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Mystery 10.3%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 54.5%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Story Rich 11.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Simulation 4.6%
The Uncertain is an story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Experience the mysterious vibe of each of carefully explored locations, solve diverse puzzles, make fateful decisions and discuss intriguing matters to find out the whole truth being kept from you.
Why similar: Adventure 26.1%, Great Soundtrack 16.7%, Story Rich 16.3%, Indie 14.1%, Atmospheric 14.1%
An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.
Why similar: Choices Matter 27.2%, Mystery 15.9%, Story Rich 14%, Exploration 11%, Adventure 10.6%
it's always monday - is a first person exploration game
Why similar: Adventure 92.6%, Indie 1.8%, Great Soundtrack 1.5%, Simulation 1.4%, Mystery 1%
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 46.6%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Mystery 14.4%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Exploration 6.7%
A handcrafted adventure about overcoming fear and doubt. Will you defeat your inner demons or be crippled with regret ?
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.9%, Adventure 21.1%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Indie 18.1%, Atmospheric 9.4%
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.5%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Mystery 10.9%, Story Rich 8.5%, Adventure 7.2%
A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.8%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Indie 10.8%, Adventure 10.2%
Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 71.8%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Adventure 8.9%, Exploration 5.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.9%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Dark Fantasy 15.2%, Story Rich 10.9%, Mystery 10.2%
Welcome to The Fabled Woods, a dark and mysterious narrative short story. Despite the picturesque beauty, ugly and terrible secrets lurk among the shifting boughs, darkness that no amount of dappled sunlight can erase. Take the first step, and experience an unforgettable journey.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Indie 23.6%, Mystery 11.6%, Story Rich 9.5%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 60.7%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Story Rich 11.6%, Simulation 6.8%
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: Text-Based 23.6%, Mystery 20.9%, Story Rich 16.1%, Adventure 15.2%, Exploration 11.7%
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 57.8%, Mystery 11.9%, Story Rich 9%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Adventure 6.4%
Embark on a touching and creepy journey about sacrifice and how sometimes a person pays for the sins of another
Why similar: Adventure 22.3%, Lovecraftian 22.2%, Indie 17.9%, Simulation 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%
Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.8%, Choices Matter 22.8%, Mystery 10.5%, Story Rich 10.4%, Atmospheric 6.5%
"Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 19.7%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Story Rich 17.3%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 10.6%
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 46%, Mystery 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, Atmospheric 6.6%
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Why similar: Choices Matter 27.4%, Story Rich 15.7%, Mystery 15.1%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Exploration 11.2%
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.5%, Choices Matter 21.5%, Story Rich 13.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Atmospheric 9%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Adventure 24%, Indie 18.6%, Mystery 12.8%, Story Rich 11.5%
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 71.6%, Story Rich 13.4%, Exploration 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.4%, Mystery 16%, Great Soundtrack 15.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 11.7%
A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.
Why similar: Choices Matter 37.5%, Adventure 22.1%, Mystery 15.3%, Indie 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.6%
Abducted with only four hours to live… Learn about your captor, use your knowledge to escape, end the cycle.
Why similar: Mystery 36.6%, Adventure 19.8%, Atmospheric 17.7%, Exploration 12.8%, Indie 11.1%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Choices Matter 34.3%, Mystery 18.1%, Story Rich 18%, Adventure 10.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Why similar: Adventure 26.3%, Indie 19.3%, Story Rich 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 11.3%
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53%, Text-Based 21.6%, Mystery 10.5%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Simulation 6.9%
Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 58.9%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Mystery 13.6%, Adventure 10.3%
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 44.7%, Choices Matter 17%, Story Rich 9.3%, Adventure 7.4%, Mystery 6.8%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choices Matter 37.9%, Mystery 20.9%, Story Rich 19.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Atmospheric 8.1%
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 60.3%, Story Rich 11.5%, Mystery 10.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.2%
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: Choices Matter 43.6%, Mystery 24.8%, Story Rich 19.4%, Simulation 12.2%
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: Adventure 23.1%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Indie 17.4%, Mystery 14.2%, Story Rich 9.5%
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 55.4%, Great Soundtrack 19.4%, Story Rich 13%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 2.6%
You've made a mistake trying to summon a beast from the depths. Explore a huge manor to solve your mess. Can you find the sacred grimoires before being consumed by the darkness?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 58%, Exploration 13%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Adventure 9.2%, Mystery 5.2%
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53.6%, Story Rich 11.8%, Text-Based 8.2%, Exploration 7.8%, Indie 6.4%
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 65.9%, Adventure 14.2%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%, Indie 7.1%, Atmospheric 5.5%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Choices Matter 41.3%, Story Rich 22.7%, Adventure 16.1%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%
You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.
Why similar: Adventure 42.7%, Atmospheric 33%, Exploration 16.3%, Singleplayer 8.1%
Sunken Engine Lovecraftian Ship Repair Simulation. Restore your father’s old shipyard. Each arriving ship carries a dark mystery to be solved. Keep your customers satisfied while dealing with the strange and eerie happenings on the island.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 52.4%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Mystery 10.7%, Story Rich 9.1%, Simulation 6%
UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!
Why similar: Choices Matter 27%, Mystery 17.4%, Story Rich 16.4%, Adventure 14%, Atmospheric 11.4%
A narrative-driven exploration game where your choices shape the outcome as you traverse an ancient temple and confront the fate of an Old God's eternal slumber.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.8%, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Exploration 6.9%
'Chasing Light' is the story of the seven days of exploring the physical properties of a game and uncovering an inner world of human beings and society. Have a weird trip!
Why similar: Adventure 32.8%, Indie 26%, Simulation 20.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.3%, Story Rich 6.2%
'Your Blight' is a turn-based dark fantasy RPG that survives in a city sealed off by the appearance of a vampire. Survive for a limited time of 21 days. Explore the city. Meet the survivors. And uncover the secrets surrounding you and the world.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 28.8%, Choices Matter 25.9%, Story Rich 17.9%, Exploration 13.4%, Indie 10.7%
You’re torn between a girl who is obsessed with you and a creature. Whose words can lead you out of this endless loop? Trust the right person in the right cycle to get closer to the exit, or be misled by facades, complicating your next loop.
Why similar: Choices Matter 43.8%, Atmospheric 15.5%, Adventure 15.1%, Exploration 14.6%, Story Rich 8.1%
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.4%, Mystery 15.3%, Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 10.8%, Atmospheric 10.3%
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Choices Matter 23.4%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Story Rich 12.7%, Indie 11.8%
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
Why similar: Story Rich 24%, Exploration 22.4%, Mystery 20.8%, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 8%