Games Like BlackDog

Wake up inside the nightmare world you created in this standalone, hand-drawn dark fantasy point-and-click adventure with psychological horror elements. Explore islands, solve puzzles, and make morally ambiguous choices that lead to multiple endings. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

Why similar: Gothic 23.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Dark 12.1%, Horror 10.9%, Mystery 10.1%

Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.

Why similar: Gothic 42.3% ★, Horror 12.9%, Dark 12.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Mystery 6.6%

A pleasantly anticipated trip back home for the holidays becomes a nightmare for Catherine as a tragic accident leaves her unconscious. After coming to her senses, she realizes that something is dreadfully wrong. She must escape the doll factory she awoke in before it's too late.

Why similar: Gothic 21.4% ★, Dark 14%, Horror 13.7%, Mystery 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Five cameras. Five nights. One caretaker who's starting to notice too much. A slow-burn surveillance horror where the building lies to you — and the system does too.

Why similar: Mystery 20.7%, Horror 20.7%, Dark 20.3%, Gore 17.1%, Psychological Horror 9%

An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.

Why similar: Horror 16.1%, Gore 15.3%, Gothic 13.4% ★, Mystery 11.6%, Dark 11.6%

A twisted pixel-art horror thriller about death, ancient gods, and a persistent waiter. Explore The Willow’s Embrace hotel, solve puzzles, and gather paranormal evidence. Challenge the madness to find a way out and avoid becoming part of an eternal nightmare.

Why similar: Horror 18.4%, Gore 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Dark 12.6%, Mystery 8.8%

How far will you go to return your one and the only? Can you cheat death? Save the residents of a remote town where you ended up chance before the ancient evil takes up your soul in this creepy hidden object game.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18.3%, Dark 16.2%, Mystery 15.8%, Horror 14.8%, Point & Click 10.3%

The Witches Pond is a horror-adventure game based on the real-life place with the same name. Enter a world of mystery and strange places where you will experience events that may or may not seem real.

Why similar: Gothic 41.4% ★, Adventure 17.2%, Mystery 16.5%, Horror 14.3%, Indie 5.9%

A witch soars into the night to save her beloved cat… but dark magic always comes with a price.

Why similar: Gothic 37.4% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.5%, Horror 14.4%, Dark 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%

A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.

Why similar: Gothic 35.3% ★, Mystery 16.5%, Dark 15.7%, Point & Click 10.3%, Adventure 6.9%

Work as a dataset moderator for U.N.V.E.I.L AI under Black Angels & CO. Review generated images, ACCEPT, DELETE, or TRAIN them. The system learns from you.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 28.5%, Gore 26.5%, Dark 22%, Horror 10.3%, Psychological Horror 4.9%

This is a horror adventure game where the player go back and forth in between the real world and the hallucination world. The purpose of this game is to search items and collect scattered documents while solving mysteries and finding out the truth of the abolished hospital.

Why similar: Horror 18.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Hidden Object 12.3%, Dark 11.4%, Adventure 11.1%

TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.1%, Dark 13.9%, Mystery 13.6%, Horror 12.2%, Gore 10.6%

One night can feel like a lifetime of pain, suffering and horror to a child...do you have what it takes to survive the night? Play as an 8 year old child who is tormented by monsters in his house. Your choices make his future which lives can be saved or ended.

Why similar: Gore 18%, Horror 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Dark 13.8%, Point & Click 6.9%

When God Left Us is a first-person horror game set in a corrupted world, a world that God abandoned before creating ours. Pronouncing the name of that forsaken place will open a portal to its grounds. Despite the warnings, you dare to try this yourself.

Why similar: Gothic 30.9% ★, Dark 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Horror 14%, Mystery 10.9%

An unknowable entity hunts you through a corrupted divine purgatory. You have no weapon to kill it, only shadows, wit, and flight. Survive a relentless predator that learns from your every move.

Why similar: Gothic 32.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Horror 14.9%, Mystery 14.2%, Adventure 6.5%

A big secret hidden in a small room. "1K - Small Room -" is a first-person horror adventure game set in a single apartment room. Explore the confined space and uncover the hidden truth.

Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Dark 17.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Hidden Object 11.2%, Gore 10.6%

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: Gothic 23% ★, Mystery 22.3%, Point & Click 16.5%, Dark 13.2%, Horror 12.4%

In first-person horror game "Cursed Feed," players embark on a chilling journey with the Thornvale family as they confront a malevolent force unleashed by their own patriarch's archaeological discoveries.

Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Dark 20%, Gore 15.4%, Mystery 14.5%, Adventure 12.3%

You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school. Dunkenwood House takes you in, but its halls hide the darker side of privilege. Humanity or demonic nature. Love or desire. Every choice shapes the person you become.

Why similar: Gothic 38% ★, Dark 22%, Mystery 17.9%, Psychological Horror 7.1%, Female Protagonist 4%

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: Gore 18.6%, Horror 12.9%, Point & Click 12.3%, Adventure 11.6%, Dark 10.6%

The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.

Why similar: Dark 19.2%, Gore 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Horror 11.8%, Point & Click 11.4%

Mysteries of Hoia Baciu Forest is a first-person horror game inspired by the real Romanian legend, and the first chapter in the Dark Realms series, developed by a Romanian solo dev.

Why similar: Horror 21.3%, Dark 20.2%, Mystery 20.1%, Gore 11.5%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

Anomaly horror with a dark fantasy theme. Traverse a cursed forest on a stormy night. If you see signs of witchcraft, turn back... Else you remain trapped on the path for eternity...

Why similar: Gothic 27.6% ★, Horror 15%, Dark Fantasy 14.6%, Dark 12.6%, Hidden Object 10.4%

You can’t see the whole complex. You can only hear it. Monitor an underground facility through microphone and radar. Listen to people behind concrete walls, identify threats by sound, and decide when to repair, suppress, or open fire. You hear more than you see.

Why similar: Dark 23.9%, Horror 21.7%, Mystery 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Gore 11.7%

While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.

Why similar: Gothic 35.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Mystery 13.4%, Horror 10.8%, Point & Click 10%

Rei, a protagonist who has become a ghost, and Chris, a mysterious girl who cannot speak. Switch between their forms and unique abilities as you journey through a secret world inhabited by extinct creatures in this cute yet slightly unsettling gothic exploration adventure.

Why similar: Gothic 43.4% ★, Mystery 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Adventure 10%, Dark 10%

Horror adventure game with an emphasis on the story, in which, by interacting with the environment and characters, you have to help the doll-boy stop the terrible events that he himself is to blame.

Why similar: Horror 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Dark 14%, Mystery 11.9%, Gore 11.8%

A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.

Why similar: Gothic 15.6% ★, Point & Click 14.4%, Mystery 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Dark 9.8%

The Season of the Warlock is a weird adventure game inspired by the gothic tale tradition, with two storylines to choose from. The soul of a warlock of yore, trapped in a portrait, will present Lord Alistair Ainsworth with an offer he will not be able to resist. Or will he? It’s your call...

Why similar: Gothic 31.7% ★, Horror 12.4%, Mystery 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Dark 10.1%

Castle Dornstein is a Gothic mystery adventure. Travel to Bohemia with Hemlock, a young scholar hired to translate a mysterious medieval text, The Devil’s Diary. When the book goes missing, everyone becomes a suspect and you must explore a castle where a dark history lurks in the shadows.

Why similar: Gothic 29.5% ★, Mystery 17.5%, Dark 16%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Point & Click 11.5%

Play as Yvonne in this first-person, single life horror adventure. There are no second chances. Complete the tasks her mother started and be careful--stay alive! Find the Book of Good and what it means. Get out of the house as soon as possible!

Why similar: Gothic 25.6% ★, Dark 15.2%, Horror 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Hidden Object 8.7%

A dark fantasy story adventure to face the long-forgotten 「memories」!

Why similar: Gothic 34.3% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.2%, Dark 14.5%, Mystery 12.3%, Horror 7.4%

A macabre ritual murder puts Arkham PD detectives Jack Foster and Harvey Whitman to the test. As the investigation progresses, they will unveil a disturbing connection between the Salem witch trials of the 17th century and the end of humankind.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15%, Mystery 12.6%, Dark 12%, Gore 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%

Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.

Why similar: Gothic 25.1% ★, Horror 21.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Dark 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9%

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

Why similar: Gothic 25.8% ★, Dark 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Mystery 10.9%, Horror 10.7%

Log.in is a mystery-horror game where you explore a PC screen, digging through images, videos and files. Hidden somewhere in the system is the location of a girl being held captive. Your actions on the desktop will dramatically change the story and her fate.

Why similar: Mystery 22.8%, Horror 17.5%, Point & Click 10.9%, Gore 9%, Adventure 8.9%

A story-driven exploration horror adventure set in a fictional modern-day Japan. Experience a quiet tale of psychological horror as two schoolgirls confront folklore, curses, and choices that lead to multiple endings.

Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Mystery 16%, Gore 13.2%, Adventure 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures.

Why similar: Gore 21.4%, Dark 17%, Horror 17%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Adventure 7.4%

Escape the well and find out who you really are... Lost in the snowy lands, find the answers to your questions

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 22.5%, Dark 21.1%, Mystery 18.8%, Horror 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

After a tragic event changed his life forever, Ethan moves to Rottenpine with his mother. As strange occurrences begin to shake the town, the boundary between reality and nightmare slowly starts to crumble.

Why similar: Gore 30.3%, Horror 15.1%, Mystery 13.6%, Dark 12.9%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

音楽アルバムを楽しむように7つのゲームを体験しよう。「死と生」をテーマとするダークで神秘的な世界観と、ミュージックプレイヤーをモチーフにした独特なゲームシステムが特徴のオムニバス作品。

Why similar: Gothic 32.2% ★, Dark 19.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Horror 10.4%, Point & Click 9.8%

Three Doors. One Safe Path. Observe the signs, learn the patterns, and uncover the fate of the explorer who ventured before you.

Why similar: Gothic 29.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Dark 12.6%, Horror 9.4%

A first-person horror adventure with action and puzzle elements. Exploration is irremissible. Death is foretold.

Why similar: Gothic 22.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 20.7%, Horror 20.4%, Mystery 10%, Gore 9.7%

One day, the unlucky girl "Runa Ichiya" wakes up in a haunted house.

Why similar: Gothic 41.2% ★, Horror 18.3%, Adventure 7.8%, Female Protagonist 6.4%, Multiple Endings 6.4%

Reprobate is a surreal hidden object game focused on free exploration, where players uncover symbolic objects and engage with abstract puzzles and creative mini games in dreamlike environments.

Why similar: Dark 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Hidden Object 11.4%, Point & Click 11.3%, Adventure 11%

Brother Aurelijus, a priest, receives a letter warning that dark forces have taken over the abbey he once served. You set out on a journey toward the abbey, traveling through lands already corrupted by evil.

Why similar: Gothic 28.6% ★, Dark 16.6%, Horror 15%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Mystery 9.8%

Night Shift is a first-person psychological horror game. During a late shift, reality begins to distort. What starts as a normal lonely shift descends into a nightmare of lost time and haunting childhood memories, where the line between real and imagined disappear...can you survive the shift ?

Why similar: Dark 30.1%, Horror 21.9%, Gore 18.8%, Mystery 16.8%, Adventure 5.8%

A fourth-wall breaking narrator leads you through a mystery event — until glitches, enemies, and a corrupt AI rewrite the game.

Why similar: Dark 26%, Mystery 19.9%, Horror 19.1%, Gore 15.6%, Adventure 15%

RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Gothic 30.2% ★, Dark 14%, Horror 11.9%, Mystery 8.5%, Hidden Object 6%

Returning to the village feels wrong. The wind howls through empty streets, and the lanterns sway like they’re alive. What happened while you were gone?

Why similar: Dark 22.5%, Dark Fantasy 17.6%, Adventure 15.1%, Horror 14.7%, Mystery 14.2%

An occult influencer, Victoria Kopernik, and her possessed cat, Pumpkin, uncover a dark story behind a haunted mansion.

Why similar: Gothic 26.6% ★, Dark 13%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Point & Click 11%, Adventure 9.7%

During her new adventure, Pamela Cavendish goes to a misty and mysterious Scotland where a seemingly innocent landscape of moor quickly reveals its dark nature. Spectre from the past and ghostly sounds will force her to follow the amazing legend of the Red Moon.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Hidden Object 14.1%, Mystery 14.1%, Dark 14%, Horror 13.9%

TAMU Open your eyes to a dark world and confront your deepest fears. TAMU drags you into a terrifying adventure where nightmares reign and reality blurs with dreams. In this mansion filled with horror and uncertainty at every corner, are you ready to fight for survival?

Why similar: Horror 28.4%, Dark 28.2%, Mystery 21.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Adventure 5.4%

✣ Dread Chess is an original and strange narrative story-puzzle game with sandbox elements. Uncover mysteries by speaking with gods in Latin. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of madness, and reach one of many endings in an unfair game against Death that can be played ONLY ONCE...

Why similar: Gothic 28.8% ★, Dark 16.8%, Horror 13%, Mystery 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%

ヤカタを探索して消えた妹を探す2Dホラーアドベンチャーゲーム。 妹が消えた理由と不思議な生物達の目的は・・・ ダークでメルヘンなホラーアドベンチャーゲーム、是非楽しんでください！

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 26.6%, Horror 23.2%, Mystery 20.4%, Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.

Why similar: Gothic 40.3% ★, Mystery 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.3%, Horror 12%, Point & Click 8%

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

Why similar: Gothic 38.3% ★, Point & Click 16.5%, Adventure 11%, Mystery 11%, Horror 10.1%

Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!

Why similar: Gore 14.9%, Dark 14.8%, Horror 13.9%, Mystery 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%

A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...

Why similar: Gothic 35.6% ★, Mystery 15.4%, Dark 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Horror 11.6%