
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 Psychological Horror, Horror, Mystery, Adventure.

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.

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A surreal point-and-click with vote-based combat, taking place in a corrupted world based on Spanish "Tebeo" slapstick comics.
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 14.2%, Surreal 13.6%, Lovecraftian 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Survival Horror 9.2%
A surreal point-and-click with vote-based combat, taking place in a corrupted world based on Spanish "Tebeo" slapstick comics.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.4%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Surreal 11.2%, Psychedelic 9.9%
Fend off spirits by ripping your spirit off your body. Explore a glitched haunted house. Recall twisted memories. Get out alive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.5%, Psychedelic 13.7%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Old School 11.8%, Visual Novel 8.8%
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 17.8%, Hidden Object 15.3%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Old School 12.9%, Minimalist 11.8%
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 23.8%, Psychedelic 16.1%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11%, Thriller 10.6%
Diary: White is a 2D psychological horror adventure game. Explore from a collapsing school to a gloomy house, and collect clues to solve mysteries. Hide from dark entities, survive terrifying hallucinations, and make a final life-or-death choice to determine your own fate.
Why similar: Psychedelic 14.7%, Hidden Object 13%, Thriller 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
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 25%, Thriller 13.7%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
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Why similar: Lovecraftian 29%, Surreal 21%, Horror 14.4%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Minimalist 9.5%
Carefully observe your sorroundings and come back to your reality by finding what doesn't fit. If something's wrong take the bus back from across the street. A game situated in the haze of Buenos Aires.
Why similar: Thriller 15.2%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Hidden Object 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Surreal 12.1%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Surreal 14.9%, Psychedelic 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, 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 15.2%, Lovecraftian 14.9%, Surreal 13.7%, Walking Simulator 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
You are left alone in a hotel where everyone has disappeared. Search the endlessly repeating floors for hidden anomalies, eliminate them, and escape. Trust nothing. Something is on this floor.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.6%, Surreal 17.5%, Survival Horror 15%, Hidden Object 13.6%, Thriller 11.1%
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 19.5%, Lovecraftian 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%
You are a nine-year-old runaway who gets trapped in a bizarre pocket dimension with colorful, deceptively friendly Circle-headed creatures who may or may not be murderous psychopaths. Can you survive one long night with them?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.4%, Thriller 14.9%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Surreal 12.7%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
乱世饥年,岭南盐沼中的丰浦仍有热饭与灯火。你是账房执笔者江砚:翻名册、核份额,把「添丰」与「归丰」一笔一笔记清楚。供期临近,潮路、闭门规矩与人们过分周全的好意,让熟悉的日常渐渐显出不对劲。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Hand-drawn 11.7%
First-person atmospheric horror mystery with retro-inspired visuals. Spend several days on a small isolated island in the North Atlantic, settle in an old cabin, explore an abandoned observatory, and operate rustic equipment to do one final reading and uncover what lurks in the dark... and beyond.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.7%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Old School 12.1%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Survival Horror 8.1%
Paramnesia is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, memory, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.
Why similar: Psychedelic 16.2%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Surreal 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
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 16.9%, Thriller 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Hidden Object 11.8%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
Are you ready to face your nightmares?
Why similar: Thriller 17%, Hidden Object 14.1%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Mystery 9.4%
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 21.7%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Horror 9.8%, Mystery 9.6%
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 26.2%, Psychedelic 20.1%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Visual Novel 9.5%
HYPNOS is a first-person adventure and exploration game, set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams. Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mountain. Embrace your destiny.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.4%, Surreal 16%, Psychedelic 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Horror 10.7%
Try to survive on the mysterious island in a lovecraftian 2D roguelite with branching narrative and elements of resource management.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.8%, Psychedelic 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Surreal 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
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 15.2%, Hidden Object 13.3%, Minimalist 12.8%, Old School 11.6%
White Ward is a single player horror game where nothing is as it seems. Awoken as a confused patient, your only hope of escape from an anomalous hospital is to detect the strange occurrences within each ward. Do you have what it takes to escape the White Ward?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, Hidden Object 21.5%, Horror 15.8%, Surreal 12.6%, Minimalist 11.2%
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 16.5%, Hidden Object 15%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Old School 12.6%, Lore-Rich 12.4%
A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.1%, Surreal 22.8%, Lovecraftian 21.8%, Visual Novel 18%, 2D 4.6%
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 16.6%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Thriller 14.4%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Surreal 13.6%
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 18.3%, Psychedelic 17%, Surreal 13.4%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Thriller 12.7%
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 26.3%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Surreal 16%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Horror 11.7%
"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 17.7%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Surreal 16.1%, Thriller 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%
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 25.8%, Hidden Object 22.6%, Puzzle 11.6%, Horror 9.2%, Mystery 8.7%
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 14.5%, Psychedelic 13.7%, Minimalist 13.3%
An adventure game about exploring dreams purchased by an office worker who can no longer dream. Using the “Somnialys” dream console, explore surreal/weirdcore worlds that loop endlessly and solve the puzzles to wake up.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.1%, Surreal 21.1%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, Horror 10.8%, Old School 6.5%
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: Hidden Object 15.4%, Walking Simulator 15%, Lore-Rich 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Surreal 13.1%
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: Walking Simulator 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Surreal 17%, Lovecraftian 15.9%, 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 19.4%, Hidden Object 17.6%, Thriller 17.3%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Horror 11.2%
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 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Hand-drawn 15%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.8%
Venture into the Tuscan village of Pietralba to solve the mystery of your brother’s disappearance. Uncover the dark secrets buried within the marble quarries and your own family's past.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.6%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Surreal 13.4%, Thriller 11.5%
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 15.4%, Thriller 14.6%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Surreal 13.7%
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 23.8%, Psychedelic 23.4%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Surreal 15.9%, Horror 10.5%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.5%, Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Walking Simulator 10.1%
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: Walking Simulator 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Hand-drawn 14.6%, Hidden Object 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
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 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Surreal 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%
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 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Lore-Rich 13%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Thriller 11%
In 1960s USA, Jane Ferguson, a New York restaurant owner, receives an information on her CIA agent husband Mark, who had vanished mysteriously during a Tibet mission. To uncover his hidden secrets, she follows his trail, delving into the enigma of his disappearance.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.7%, Psychedelic 20.6%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Horror 10.7%
An unauthorized data breach reveals ALL LIGHT IS GONE - a deeply-intricate, found-footage psychological horror game. Enter a sentient brutalist megastructure shaped by humanity's collective subconscious. Evade unearthly entities, manage your panic, and survive the House. Be Consumed.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.5%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Thriller 13.1%, Walking Simulator 12%, Surreal 11.7%
Lost Estate Agent - is a survival horror game a real atmosphere of abandoned mansion.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.3%, Hidden Object 17.9%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Old School 12.5%, Horror 11.2%
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 29.4%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Psychedelic 12.5%, Mystery 9.8%, Horror 9.6%
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 22.9%, Lore-Rich 15%, Survival Horror 14%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Visual Novel 10%
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 25.5%, Walking Simulator 23.1%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Surreal 14.1%, Mystery 6.9%
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 33.3%, Thriller 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Horror 10.9%
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 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Horror 6.9%
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: Psychedelic 14.2%, Hidden Object 14.1%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Thriller 12.2%
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 32.6%, Horror 15.4%, Surreal 13.3%, Walking Simulator 13%, Thriller 12.5%
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 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Horror 10%
Observe your surrounding and be confident there is or is not a anomaly to progress.
Why similar: Hidden Object 20.7%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Surreal 17.2%, Thriller 13.1%, Horror 10.7%
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 26.1%, Psychedelic 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Surreal 11.5%, Horror 10.2%