
In a nutshell: Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Text-based, Point & Click, Exploration, Multiple Endings and Interactive Fiction. Dark and surreal psychological horror. Strongly inspired by Lovecraft, H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Horror, Psychological Horror, Mystery, Surreal.

In a nutshell: Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Text-based, Point & Click, Exploration, Multiple Endings and Interactive Fiction. Dark and surreal psychological horror. Strongly inspired by Lovecraft, H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

Earth's Center of Gravity
Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.

Pseudo-Haunting
Fend off spirits by ripping your spirit off your body. Explore a glitched haunted house. Recall twisted memories. Get out alive.
Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.
Why similar: Thriller 14.5%, Surreal 13.6%, Lovecraftian 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Survival Horror 9.1%
Fend off spirits by ripping your spirit off your body. Explore a glitched haunted house. Recall twisted memories. Get out alive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.4%, Psychedelic 13.5%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Old School 11.7%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Ghosts from the House of Flesh is a horror puzzle game made in 2D pixel art. In the game, you have to collect hidden totems in the forest with ghosts of all kinds.
Why similar: Psychedelic 17.5%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Hidden Object 15.1%, Old School 12.9%, Minimalist 12%
Explore the mythical ancient ruins beneath the island of Minos. Piece together what happened to you and your team. Beware the spirits and beasts that lurk below! A single-player, first-person, horror game inspired by Penumbra and Amnesia.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.6%, Psychedelic 15.9%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Walking Simulator 11%, Thriller 10.8%
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Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.6%, Surreal 21.1%, Horror 14.3%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Stylized 9.9%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Surreal 14.8%, Psychedelic 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
A top-down psychological horror adventure. After a letter from a lover thought long-lost, a man takes a job as a research scientist in a city torn apart by a strange disease.
Why similar: Psychedelic 14.9%, Lovecraftian 14.7%, Surreal 13.8%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
The Circleheads are hungry for new souls to join their twisted game. Can you survive the horrors that await?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20%, Thriller 15%, Survival Horror 13%, Surreal 12.7%, Lore-Rich 10.3%
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 19.1%, Lovecraftian 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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: Lore-Rich 17.5%, Thriller 16%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Hidden Object 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
Paramnesia is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, memory, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.
Why similar: Psychedelic 15.9%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Surreal 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
A claustrophobic anomaly-horror game where you can only turn, blink, and decide: is it real or not? Survive five endings and uncover Mike’s story.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Surreal 13.3%, Hidden Object 13.2%, Walking Simulator 11.7%
Are you ready to face your nightmares?
Why similar: Thriller 17.3%, Hidden Object 13.8%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, Mystery 9.5%
Sealed inside by a cosmic anomaly. In this house that defies the laws of physics, evade the Entity that manipulates your mind. Your only aid is an experimental device that reveals illusions. A 90-minute, intense, and Lovecraftian psychological horror experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.2%, Survival Horror 14%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Psychedelic 13.3%, Thriller 12%
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 25%, Surreal 16.1%, Thriller 15.4%, Psychedelic 14%, Mystery 9.3%
Explore an infinite procedurally-generated abandoned juvie as you try to survive a monstrous egg with legs named Egghead Gumpty that’s hiding in the building. He can watch you from anywhere, so catch him stalking you before it’s too late in this unique horror experience.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.2%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Thriller 14.5%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Surreal 13.5%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Horror 9.8%, Mystery 9.8%
A parody homage to classic RPG Maker horror games where your name will make an impact on the events you encounter as you travel through the abstract environment you have escaped to.
Why similar: Surreal 17.7%, Walking Simulator 15%, Hidden Object 13.1%, Minimalist 12.9%, Old School 11.5%
Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.
Why similar: Surreal 16.6%, Hidden Object 14.7%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Old School 12.5%
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.2%, Psychedelic 16.6%, Surreal 13.5%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Thriller 12.9%
Try to survive on the mysterious island in a lovecraftian 2D roguelite with branching narrative and elements of resource management.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.6%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Surreal 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Psychedelic 25.7%, Surreal 23%, Lovecraftian 21.3%, Visual Novel 18%, 2D 4.8%
Dive into the world based on the Lovecraft universe and its successors. In immersive visual novel discover the secret of the temple and learn the truth about your companions and your father’s past!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.9%, Psychedelic 19.8%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Visual Novel 9.5%
À la carte is a single-player game based on balance. Step into the black lacquered shoes of an Italian waiter, whose rumoured specialty is clearing the tables after dinner. Indulge the bizarre requests of your customers, and challenge the laws of physics with your balancing skills.
Why similar: Surreal 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Psychedelic 13.4%, Minimalist 13.3%
The Initiative was a Welsh government facility that was mysteriously abandoned in the 60s, with rumours of terrifying supernatural threats lurking inside. Will you take the plunge?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.1%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Surreal 16.1%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Horror 11.7%
DRIFTED is a 3d horror mystery game, as you explore a mansion looking for your missing friend, you will find many secrets within as you uncover the mystery behind their disappearance. Between locked rooms and fighting monsters, who knows what you will uncover!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Hidden Object 22.8%, Puzzle 11.3%, Stylized 8.9%, Mystery 8.8%
A short narrative-driven horror game made in RPGmaker featuring hand-drawn graphics and animated cutscenes. Players navigate the house and its backyard, interacting with the environment and collecting key items to progress the story.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Walking Simulator 11.8%
Help solve the mystery of the moonlit mansion in this classic fixed camera horror puzzle game inspired by the art styles of Resident Evil and Silent Hill. The Lunar Effect takes its protagonist on a dark and unfamiliar path but be warned, sometimes when one stares into the moon, the moon stares back
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Surreal 17%, Lovecraftian 15.7%, Horror 11.2%
No Nap November is a short psychological horror game set in a kindergarten during an endless nap time. Observe each loop carefully, spot anomalies, and survive an entire month without sleep to save yourself and the children from a strange presence.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.3%, Thriller 17.6%, Hidden Object 17.3%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Horror 11.2%
Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.1%, Thriller 14.8%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Surreal 13.6%, Walking Simulator 13.6%
Midvinter is a cozy little point-and-click game, which invites you to explore Swedish folklore using puzzles and riddles as well as compelling music and voice over. In it, you as a player take on the role of gnome - the guardian of the farm - and get to interact with various dark and fantastical creatures.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Hand-drawn 14.6%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Hidden Object 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
swamp_land.mp4 is a found footage horror walking sim set in southern Chile. Descend through 7 symbolic levels of sin to uncover a haunting past and open your museum. A 30-minute story with twists, eerie landscapes, and hidden collectibles.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 15.5%, Hidden Object 15%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Surreal 13.1%
WHEN THE CROW SINGS is an adventure mystery game with a focus on exploration, characters, and world building, featuring a cast of diverse survivors trying to keep the status quo as their compound life grows more complicated and dangerous.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
Uncover the truth in '[ANOMALY TAPES]: Beyond Reality'. Navigate through haunting levels, survive deadly anomalies with unique mechanics, and piece together a chilling mystery hidden within the tapes. Dare to uncover the secrets?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20%, Thriller 19.3%, Survival Horror 16%, Hidden Object 14.2%, Horror 10.4%
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Surreal 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%
The Coma 2B: Catacomb is a Korean survival horror adventure. It is the back story to the previous game, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters, and a story bridge for the full series. You return as Youngho, the hero from The Coma 1, as you once again venture forth into the terrifying mirror dimension…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.6%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Visual Novel 10%
A short first-person horror game, exploring the mysterious DMT realm. Roam infinitely repeating worlds while escaping from malevolent entities. Can you find your way back home?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.7%, Psychedelic 23.2%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Surreal 16.1%, Horror 10.6%
Into the Harmony is a psychological quest set in a post-apocalyptic world after an AI uprising. Awakening with amnesia, Sophia must piece together her forgotten past to uncover a secret that ties her own fate to the destiny of humanity.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.9%, Psychedelic 13.9%, Hidden Object 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Thriller 12.3%
Welcome to "Waking Tides," a small but captivating atmospheric adventure game that thrives on experimentation. Delve into a world where augmented reality extends your gameplay, seamlessly blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.2%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Psychedelic 12.4%, Mystery 10%, Horror 9.6%
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.3%, Horror 15.2%, Surreal 13.5%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Thriller 12.9%
You are trapped in an endless alleyway late at night. Observe anomalies or differences in the surrounding environment carefully, and finally reach "Alley Nine".
Why similar: Hidden Object 25.2%, Walking Simulator 23%, Hand-drawn 16%, Surreal 14.2%, Mystery 7%
This is a story about the fall of a man. Told in the form of an interactive comic book with sounds and animations, Saint Kotar: The Crawling Man follows the appalling life of Mojse, his fall from a beloved teacher to a bitter and vengeful leader of a sinister cult.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Thriller 11.1%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
"Tempter" is a suspenseful first-person horror game that shows how humans can be even more dangerous than demons when they gain power. It centers on the struggle to save one's soul against a demon after breaking a pact.
Why similar: Hidden Object 17.5%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Surreal 16.3%, Thriller 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%
This game is an experimental stream-of-consciousness visual novel. It tells the story of you and an amnesiac girl exploring, wandering, traveling, singing, dancing, laughing, crying, loving, and embracing in an empty city.
Why similar: Psychedelic 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Surreal 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%
Soul of Savarog includes four of Twisted Universe's mobile horror thriller games. All of these plays tell the story of Savarog. Play Savarog, Savarog 2, Rule and Savarog 3 respectively.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 15.7%, Thriller 15.1%, Surreal 14.4%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Hidden Object 14.1%
Explore a mysterious Halloween night full of secrets, eerie encounters, and hidden truths. Trick or Truth? is a story-driven walking adventure where every choice leads you deeper into the unknown.
Why similar: Thriller 25.6%, Hidden Object 14.9%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Horror 14.5%, Mystery 13.7%
Explore the afterlife world of Yomi as a soul sales manager in the Japanese business punk first-person horror adventure "Karoshi Club".
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Horror 11%
Does The Moon Dream is a grid-based action horror game. Psychedelic visuals, meaty melee combat, in a cosmic horror fairy tale. The world is falling apart. People are turning into monsters. Rescue survivors, hack apart monsters, and investigate the source of the 'infection'.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.9%, Psychedelic 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Surreal 11.5%, Horror 10.2%
You have been taken prisoner and sold to a deep space testing facility. Upon arrival, you are fitted with a device forcing you to participate in their experiment. Released into a massive complex, the dark halls wind around testing rooms and conceal pieces to puzzles. There is no option but to comply.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.8%, Survival Horror 15%, Thriller 14.9%, Surreal 13.6%, Hidden Object 11.8%
Embrace the horrors of Banban’s Kindergarten. Delve even deeper into the depths of the establishment that was left suspiciously empty. Try to survive the unexpected residents and continue the search for your child…
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.8%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Horror 13.2%, Surreal 11.4%
Observe your surrounding and be confident there is or is not a anomaly to progress.
Why similar: Hidden Object 20.4%, Walking Simulator 18.7%, Surreal 17.3%, Thriller 13.3%, Horror 10.7%
The complete surrealist horror-comedy series! A mysterious world of zines and blood!!
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.4%, Surreal 19.8%, Walking Simulator 16.4%, Hand-drawn 14%, Horror 11.8%
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Hidden Object 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.7%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Mystery 11.1%
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Hidden Object 15%, Walking Simulator 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%
A horror visual novel about coming back to your childhood home.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.8%, Minimalist 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Surreal 10.3%
Something crawled up the kitchen sink drain. Now it is your responsibility. Make choices that will affect its growth in this short disturbing first-person psychological horror walking simulator.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Lovecraftian 11.9%, Surreal 10.1%
"Destiny Isle" is a visual novel that combines survival horror, multiplayer combat, and puzzle-solving elements. Set in a mysterious isolated academy, players take on the role of newcomer Xu Fan, uncovering the academy's chilling secrets while navigating between darkness and hope.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.9%, Lore-Rich 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Mystery 10.7%
The Suits Have Gone Mad! is a brand new episodic horror brought to you by Blank Dream Studios. Unravel the mysteries behind the monopoly of Blake & Whitley Innovations and bring color into a dull world.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.2%, Thriller 17.2%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Horror 10.2%, Surreal 9.3%