Games Like Black Sails - The Ghost Ship

Discover what connects a lost ship’s disappearance with Devil’s Island and a local family’s unsolved murder.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.5%, Adventure 26%, Female Protagonist 18.7%, Horror 12.7%, Atmospheric 3.1%

Three men once manned the lighthouse on Fetch Rock, but they vanished without trace on New Year, 1900. No-one knows what really happened to those three poor souls, and no-one is brave enough to stay in the lighthouse, alone, after dark. Except you...travel to Fetch Rock Island, and discover what really happened...

Why similar: Point & Click 52.6%, Adventure 27.7%, Horror 19.7%

Relive the original MacVenture Series version of The Uninvited! Play through the Mac and Apple IIGS versions and survive the supernatural dangers of the haunted mansion.

Why similar: Point & Click 42%, Adventure 31.4%, Horror 21.4%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Belladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.

Why similar: Point & Click 47.4%, Female Protagonist 24.8%, Adventure 18%, Horror 9.9%

Mysterious Things are Happening on Vooju Island...

Why similar: Point & Click 35.6%, Pirates 34.3% ★, Adventure 30.1%

Black Mirror is a dark adventure game that details the aftermath of the tragic death of William Gordon. Playing as his grandson Samuel players must unveil the truth behind the events of that fateful, stormy night.

Why similar: Point & Click 56.9%, Adventure 20.9%, Horror 16.7%, Atmospheric 5.5%

This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember!

Why similar: Point & Click 49.2%, Adventure 23.6%, Horror 23.5%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.

Why similar: Point & Click 48.4%, Adventure 21.8%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Horror 11.7%, Atmospheric 3.3%

Are you ready to investigate a mysterious occurrence at a remote lighthouse? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.3%, Adventure 27%, Horror 22.7%

Horror adventure awaits as you step into a place nobody knew existed and hunt for clues around every dark corner and in every scribbled notebook. With a twisted past, and a terrible secret just waiting to be revealed, Cold Winter Farm will leave you questioning whether what you know, is really what you know.

Why similar: Point & Click 46.2%, Adventure 27.9%, Horror 25.8%

Join intrepid sailor and recent island castaway Mina as she explores the hidden secrets within the Jules Verne classic inspired Mysterious Island. Gather key articles left from the island’s previous inhabitants and combine them in unique and interesting ways to stay alive and stay hopeful for rescue.

Why similar: Point & Click 51.8%, Adventure 33.6%, Female Protagonist 14.6%

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 51.2%, Adventure 29.7%, Horror 16.8%, Atmospheric 2.3%

Join the all-night ghost vigil at Harwood House. As part of the 'OPG' paranormal team, explore the haunted buildings and investigate sightings of ghosts, long reported around the area of Wolfenden. Grab the ghost hunting gadgets and solve the mystery surrounding this abandoned building.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.1%, Adventure 40.9%, Horror 18%

Tourists disappearing and blood-curdling screams from a mysterious island out to sea...What secrets does this holiday paradise hold? Perhaps it's time to find out...

Why similar: Point & Click 64.4%, Adventure 35.6%

A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Why similar: Point & Click 34%, Horror 23.1%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Adventure 15.9%, Atmospheric 7.5%

NightCry is set on a cruise ship, and you have been invited along for the cruise of a (possibly short) lifetime. While your surroundings are luxurious and the guests are friendly, not everything is as it should be. The guests and the crew start to turn up dead, the victims of some foul murderer.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.8%, Female Protagonist 22.6%, Horror 21.5%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Pirates 44.1% ★, Atmospheric 21%, Adventure 18.2%, Horror 16.7%

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: Point & Click 56.6%, Adventure 33.4%, Horror 7%, Atmospheric 3%

Survive a macabre world conjured up by the tortured memories of Angelica.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 37.7%, Adventure 32.3%, Horror 26%, Atmospheric 4%

Find the philosopher's stone and save your mentor!

Why similar: Point & Click 35.1%, Adventure 34.5%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Horror 12.9%, Atmospheric 4%

An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

Why similar: Point & Click 34.3%, Adventure 27.8%, Female Protagonist 24.8%, Atmospheric 13.1%

Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.

Why similar: Horror 64%, Atmospheric 20.5%, Adventure 15.5%

Defeat the sorcerer and save your daughter!

Why similar: Point & Click 39.8%, Adventure 25.8%, Female Protagonist 21.8%, Horror 9.4%, Atmospheric 3.2%

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: Horror 50.4%, Adventure 33.2%, Atmospheric 16.5%

After the largest cruise ship in the world suffered a shipwreck and was invaded by ghosts, you must find Captain Blackhood after he disappeared, enter the great Nocturne and investigate all the secrets and mysteries.

Why similar: Adventure 52.5%, Horror 47.5%

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...

Why similar: Point & Click 41.7%, Horror 20%, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Adventure 14.1%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Take a deep breath and find your fiancée who went missing in the dark abyss of the ocean.

Why similar: Point & Click 42.7%, Adventure 19.9%, Female Protagonist 19%, Horror 15.4%, Atmospheric 3%

Save your twin brother from the sinister sea menace that overtakes everything and everyone on the troubled island of Pilgrim's Hook.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.2%, Adventure 24.8%, Horror 17.9%, Female Protagonist 14.1%

When humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world of darkness and light, and discover what it means to be human.

Why similar: Adventure 53.8%, Female Protagonist 23.5%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Horror 6.4%

A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game

Why similar: Point & Click 45.9%, Horror 28.9%, Adventure 21.6%, Atmospheric 3.6%

Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!

Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Female Protagonist 31.3%, Horror 29.9%, Atmospheric 3%

A short first-person horror game. An accident cripples your submarine while trying to find the wreck of the Titanic. In the darkness, you must restore life-support systems through tense puzzles, only to discover that you are not alone.

Why similar: Horror 61.8%, Adventure 19.8%, Atmospheric 18.4%

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: Point & Click 36.8%, Horror 21.2%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Adventure 14.3%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Crash-landed on a desolate, alien planet, what should've been a routine work-for-hire job for Powell has become a deadly mission to save the merchant vessel Morningstar and her crew.

Why similar: Point & Click 70.6%, Adventure 29.4%

Short first-person horror experience with a unique mirror mechanic. Escape from an invisible monster that can be only seen in the reflection.

Why similar: Horror 44.8%, Adventure 27.6%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Dead men tell no tales! And tales about an infamous ship - The Cursed Rose - probably cost renowned sailor Mason Owens his life. As his daughter you can do only one thing - find the damned ship and learn your father's fate.

Why similar: Pirates 51.9% ★, Adventure 22.9%, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Solve the mystery of Mnemosyne Asylum!

Why similar: Point & Click 39%, Adventure 25.1%, Horror 18.1%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Atmospheric 3.8%

What are the most important moments in your life? Lost At Sea is a game about life and death, about coming to terms with your past and about family. Set on a beautiful island, this game will force you to face your fears and take stock of your life through imaginative puzzles and a relatable story.

Why similar: Adventure 58.1%, Horror 29.3%, Atmospheric 12.6%

VOID SAILS is a single-player adventure where you captain a flying ship across uncharted space. Sail through mysterious worlds, battle powerful foes, and make story-defining choices. Uncover dark secrets in a game where every discovery could bring you closer to the truth—or to madness.

Why similar: Adventure 63%, Atmospheric 37%

An abandoned boat. A system of surveillance camera that works. A woman, Lea Nichols, only survivor of a team of researchers. Monitor, manage, search… Behind your camera, guide Lea Nichols to freedom but also to the truth. Be her eyes and ears to help fulfill her destiny! But be careful, remember that things are not always what they seem…

Why similar: Point & Click 36.8%, Adventure 34.7%, Female Protagonist 28.5%

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: Point & Click 58.8%, Horror 27.3%, Adventure 13.9%

You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.2%, Female Protagonist 22.7%, Horror 17.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Atmospheric 6.8%

Amongst the motliest of all crews, an enigmatic woman prepares the ship to enter an intense thunderstorm raging in the middle of the ocean. What otherworldly mysteries lie within?

Why similar: Pirates 76.1% ★, Adventure 23.9%

You must attempt a life-or-death escape from the SENARA — a 6,000-ton vessel meticulously recreated from a real-world ship. This first-person survival horror prologue tells the story of a different survivor, set before the events of "SENARA: The Sacrament".

Why similar: Horror 75.2%, Atmospheric 24.8%

Set a Course for Danger and Discovery!

Why similar: Point & Click 51.9%, Female Protagonist 28.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Atmospheric 7%

You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...

Why similar: Horror 32%, Point & Click 31.4%, Adventure 26.3%, Atmospheric 10.4%

Inspired by old and classic survival horror games, THE MUTE HOUSE combines exploration, management, puzzles and a touch of action. As Emily investigates about her sister's vanishing, she finds herself trapped in a mysterious mansion.

Why similar: Horror 37.5%, Female Protagonist 30.7%, Adventure 22.8%, Atmospheric 9%

Sci-fi horror anime point and click adventure game. Guide a young woman through a nightmarish space station as she tries to uncover why she's there and how she can escape.

Why similar: Point & Click 46.2%, Adventure 30.3%, Horror 23.5%

A cargo ship carrying a valuable collection of artwork for the Metropolitan Museum of Art sinks. A few months later, one of the paintings resurfaces in Hungary. Will you be able to solve the mystery of the Dragon?

Why similar: Point & Click 57.2%, Adventure 42.8%

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 39.2%, Adventure 32.3%, Horror 28.5%

Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.1%, Horror 31.6%, Adventure 24.4%, Atmospheric 11.9%

You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

Why similar: Horror 57.7%, Adventure 34.2%, Atmospheric 8%

Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.

Why similar: Point & Click 59.1%, Adventure 35.3%, Female Protagonist 5.6%

Moebius: Empire Rising is a contemporary adventure that merges classic point-and-click puzzle solving with Jane Jensen’s sophisticated storytelling. Travel the world using Malachi’s unique deductive powers to analyze suspects, make historical connections, and uncover the truth behind a theory of space and time the government will defend...

Why similar: Point & Click 64.4%, Adventure 35.6%

It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Horror 32.8%, Point & Click 31.8%, Adventure 27.3%, Atmospheric 8.1%

At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Female Protagonist 30.4%, Adventure 25.6%, Atmospheric 13.1%

As captain of the Pandora sub, you must explore the Trench and retrieve data from the Neptune wreckage. But beware - the trench is home to unimaginable horrors that will test your courage. Can you survive the terrors of the deep and complete your mission, or will you become the next victim?

Why similar: Horror 55%, Adventure 28.9%, Atmospheric 16.1%