60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Lovecraftian, Adventure, Horror.
You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.
Desert of Vice
Solve your own murder in this horror text adventure with choice dependent endings. Explore an isolated desert town to figure out who murdered you - and why.
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.
Solve your own murder in this horror text adventure with choice dependent endings. Explore an isolated desert town to figure out who murdered you - and why.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 55.8%, Horror 19.2%, Adventure 14.9%, Indie 10.1%
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 55.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 6.6%, Story Rich 6.2%, Adventure 5.8%
Miskatonic is a text-based strategy game where players take the role of an ancient god, determined to harvest fear for power. Incept your victims through dialogues with their psyche, study the limits of their mind by unlocking their stories, and manipulate the maze with powerful abilities.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 48.3%, Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Story Rich 7.3%, Indie 1.9%
A text-based Lovecraftian adventure game combining role playing and survival horror dynamics, set in a Victorian Gothic environment. Explore the mysteries of the Travelyan home and unravel
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.1%, Text-Based 21.2%, Adventure 15.8%, Horror 11.8%, Indie 11%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.6%, Text-Based 36.4%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 9.7%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.6%, Horror 15.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Story Rich 5.1%
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Lovecraftian 22.3%, Horror 17.1%, Text-Based 12.8%, Adventure 10.3%
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 62.9%, Horror 15.4%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 4.7%, Story Rich 3.6%
A text-based cosmic horror adventure game
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 21%, Horror 13.5%, Adventure 7%
A mystery adventure game set in a present-day Lovecraftian universe.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53%, Adventure 28.6%, Horror 14.1%, Indie 4.3%
Born from an Alternate Reality Game experience created by Alice & Smith in 2019, Cyrano Story is a complex puzzle game designed to ascend to intergalactic forces and give insight into the backstory of Funcom’s cosmic horror game Moons of Madness.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.8%, Adventure 21.7%, Indie 14.5%, Horror 13.7%, Puzzle 7.3%
Nightmare Tale is an interactive horror novel with dark secrets and intricate puzzles. Take control of the fate of the main character named Tom, who inherited an old hotel. You will have to keep your sanity while discovering the horrifying secrets of the hotel.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Horror 14.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Puzzle 6.3%
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41%, Text-Based 38.1%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 5.8%, Puzzle 3.8%
A narrative-driven game where Deduction meets the Dark Arts. Invest crime scenes for evidence and navigate the razor's edge between "Rationality" and "Inspiration." Unlock branching paths through your choices, forge fragile alliances, and decide who survives the encroaching shadows.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 15.8%, Story Rich 7.4%, Adventure 6.9%
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Horror 17.4%, Text-Based 7.9%, Indie 2.5%
In "The Dark Lineage" you re-take the role of police detective Howard Loreid, a man tormented by the paranormal happenings around him. Howard discovers that his own terrible past has some connection to the madness that is about to swallow him, yet again.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 56%, Adventure 17.4%, Horror 17.2%, Indie 9.4%
You are flesh, blood and bones. A fragile mortal, in a land of something far bigger than yourself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 48.8%, Text-Based 29.1%, Adventure 7.8%, Story Rich 7.5%, Puzzle 6.1%
Play the role of Professor Dyer, a geologist at Miskatonic University who travelled to Antarctica in 1930 as the leader of a research expedition, in this 3D first-person horror survival adventure game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 78.6%, Adventure 13%, Indie 8.4%
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 16.4%, Horror 8.6%, Indie 3.7%
Rumors resurface. Legends are resurrected. In this Lovecraftian visual novel, play as Alex N. Wilmarth, skeptic and professor at Miskatonic University, to unravel the hideous secrets centered at a secluded farm in the hills of Vermont, coming ever closer to mortal peril.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 59.7%, Horror 15%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 10.5%
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 52.9%, Text-Based 20.5%, Horror 11.6%, Story Rich 6.9%, Adventure 4.7%
You are shopping on a major online store when strange listings gradually begin to appear. The more you look into them, the more clearly the whole picture of a crime comes into view…
Why similar: Text-Based 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Horror 23.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 3.7%
In this thrilling point-and-click adventure based on the works of H.P Lovecraft, you’ll traverse the haunting world of Gothic New England, solving puzzles and acquiring information to help Stanton solve the mystery of the Necronomicon.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 71.8%, Horror 15.3%, Adventure 12.9%
Explore a stylized recreation of 1935 Providence in this story-focused adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's final work. Investigate clues and uncover the mystery of a looming black church.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 48%, Text-Based 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Horror 6.7%, Adventure 5.5%
Gadgets, conspiracy and conquest await you in this steampunk text adventure. An interactive romp through Victorian England and the British Empire.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34%, Text-Based 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Story Rich 8%
Dive into the worlds of the best classic weird fiction and cosmic horror writers. Try out our original approach to bringing literature into the interactive medium. Relax and let Dr. Emmerson guide you through all the colors of dread.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16%, Horror 12.7%, Story Rich 6.9%
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 51.7%, Text-Based 17.9%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 9.1%, Story Rich 8.1%
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Adventure 23%, Indie 15.6%
Investigate your grandfather’s mysterious disappearance in Shadows Over Lighthouse, a Lovecraftian survival horror adventure. Explore eerie 1912 America, solve puzzles, and face horrors as reality twists around you. Can you uncover the truth, or will you lose yourself to madness?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 48.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Horror 15.2%, Adventure 7.6%, Puzzle 6.2%
Welcome to Forgotten Hill Museum, a place where the past, the present, nature, art and the unknown are exhibited!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 61.2%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 9.4%, Horror 9%, Puzzle 4.8%
Piece together your memories and reveal the truth in this minimalistic Lovecraftian tale of symbols and sentences.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.8%, Text-Based 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Horror 11.8%, Story Rich 5.2%
基于“克苏鲁神话”世界观下的Roguelike动作冒险游戏作品。玩家将在游戏中身临其境地接触洛夫克拉夫特笔下那些不可名状之物。通过不同的选择调查世界的谜团，合理控制自己的san值让自己在残酷的走位-射击战斗中生存下去！获取装备，磨练技巧，挫败古神与外神们的邪恶计划！
Why similar: Lovecraftian 80.6%, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 7.6%
A narrative survival horror where every choice matters. Explore, gather resources, face or avoid creatures, and try to survive a night where every decision can change your fate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Text-Based 31.8%, Adventure 18.6%, Horror 16%
An interactive narrative in social engineering.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.7%, Text-Based 31.7%, Indie 25.3%, Story Rich 9.4%
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 57.2%, Horror 19.9%, Adventure 11.4%, Puzzle 6.5%, Indie 5%
In The Watch Post you will explore areas through a living CRT television in this atmospheric dark-fantasy text adventure. Find strange items, unlock hidden paths, solve optional mysteries, and decide whether the signal should ever be answered.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Horror 15.9%, Adventure 12.6%, Puzzle 6.2%
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Adventure 18.8%, Indie 12.4%, Story Rich 6.6%
Chronicle of Innsmouth is a point'n'click adventure inspired by Lucas' retro classics from the 90s and H.P. Lovecraft's works. Investigate, gather info and solve enigmas to unveil the secrets of the cursed town of Innsmouth, a forsaken place surrounded by horrifying rumors.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 84.2%, Adventure 15.8%
Get ready for a puzzling journey through the memory of Forgotten Hill, can you survive?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.1%, Horror 17.8%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 10%, Puzzle 9.9%
I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43%, Text-Based 41.4%, Adventure 15.6%
Immersed yourself in an interactive story with multiples choices, in the style of "choose your own Adventure book" (CYOA).Will you be able to survive ?Probably not!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.3%, Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Horror 10.7%, Adventure 6.4%
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 69.4%, Horror 16.6%, Adventure 6.8%, Story Rich 6.6%, Puzzle 0.7%
Crazy cultists. Cthulhu. A talking cat. Gibbous takes you on an expansive, traditionally animated, hand-painted adventure. Play as three protagonists and explore a lushly rendered Lovecraft-inspired world, unraveling ancient conspiracies. A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.2%, Horror 14%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Story Rich 9.4%, Adventure 8.4%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Text-Based 29.1%, Adventure 17%, Horror 13.4%, Story Rich 4.6%
Inspired by the award-winning board game franchise, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is an investigation game served with turn-based combat, set in the cult universe of H.P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 69.4%, Adventure 19.8%, Horror 10.8%
In Season 2 of The Last Door, the search for his missing client will bring psychiatrist John Wakefield deeper into a conspiracy of darkness and closer to the heart of madness than ever before.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 62.7%, Horror 17.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Story Rich 5%, Indie 3.1%
🐙Original сomics style game inspired by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft - a recognized master of the horror genre. You have to avoid traps, solve puzzles and react very fast fleeing from Lovecraftian horrors which fill the labyrinth of the Temple of Nameless Cults.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 76.5%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 9.9%
Otherworld Chronicles is a Lovecraftian narrative puzzle game set in a dark fantasy world. In a forgotten land where power and war never ceased, you are chosen as a savior, unraveling mysteries, ascending the tower, and drawing closer to a long-buried truth that has waited to be revealed.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 16.3%, Story Rich 6%, Puzzle 5.5%
A psychological horror interactive novel, Boston 1926. Explore, investigate, lose your footing. Your choices shape a branching story where your mental state governs what you see and which paths open to you. 4 intersecting routes, 12 possible endings, 15 to 20 hours of play.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Horror 10.4%, Story Rich 7.4%, Adventure 5.4%
Enter into a Horror Adventure Lovecraftian-inspired story. As your sanity begins to erode, and armed with only a oil-lit lantern, work to unlock and uncover the secrets of the ship. Yet be aware, for something ancient and unknowable stirs within the suffocating darkness of the ship's maw...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 59.3%, Horror 22.5%, Puzzle 9.8%, Adventure 8.4%
Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Horror 15.1%, Story Rich 6.6%, Adventure 5.1%
Corpo Connections is a stylistic, narrative-driven, horror adventure game where you match anomalies and their descriptions. Uncover hidden secrets, solve scrambled messages, and piece together the mysterious workings of your new employer.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Horror 12%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 6%
Embark on this Lovecraft-inspired tale and discover the mysteries that await you on this island. Explore the island, solve challenging puzzles, and most importantly: try not to lose your sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 57.6%, Horror 13.4%, Puzzle 9.6%, Story Rich 8%, Indie 6.2%
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.2%, Puzzle 12.4%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 4.9%, Horror 4%
Souls Alive: Origins is a Lovecraftian survival horror game set in a dark sci-fi future. Explore a world where reality bends, ancient cults return, and Cthulhu stirs once more. With a strong focus on story, atmosphere, and visual detail.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 63.4%, Horror 16.6%, Adventure 9%, Story Rich 8.2%, Indie 2.8%
A man wakes up in Heaven.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 48.9%, Text-Based 33.5%, Horror 11.1%, Story Rich 3.6%, Indie 2.9%
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Indie 3.8%
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40%, Text-Based 21.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Horror 10.2%, Indie 9.2%
A compilation of two slow-paced, cosmic horror walking simulators, to be completed in under an hour. Please makes you maintain a power station and ignore the noises from the main engine, while Please Follow has you explore the trenches of a losing war, exposing your mind to visions of another world.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 51.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Horror 14.3%, Adventure 10.3%, Puzzle 5%
