- #1 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
97% matchVery Positive88% of 5,751 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14%, Mystery 13.7%, Point & Click 8.2%, Horror 7.7%
- #2 WORLD OF HORROR
96% matchVery Positive90% of 9,731 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.3%, Horror 13.3%, Point & Click 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Mystery 8.9%
- #3 Return to Shironagasu Island
96% matchVery Positive94% of 3,990 reviews2020
Dev: HYOGO ONIMUSHIPub: TABINOMICHI
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.1%, Mystery 20.1%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Anime 10.2%
- #4 Call of Cthulhu®
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,295 reviews2018
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 54.1%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 11.3%, Mystery 9.1%, Story Rich 6.3%
- #5 Whisper of Y'Ryando
94% matchMixed68% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: IndieCain
Windows
Whisper of Y'Ryando is a Lovecraftian puzzle-solving game that showcases a layered papercraft aesthetic. In this game, players will uncover the ongoing stories of the town through a unique perspective, acquiring hundreds of clue fragments by rolling dice.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 51.1%, Mystery 17%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Exploration 8%, 2D 4.1%
- #6 Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,107 reviews2021
Dev: Bit Golem
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.5%, Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
- #7 The Innsmouth Case
94% matchMixed66% of 197 reviews2020
Dev: RobotPumpkin GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 39.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 10.6%, Horror 7.7%
- #8 Dreams in the Witch House
91% matchVery Positive93% of 421 reviews2023
Dev: Atom Brain GamesPub: Bonus Stage Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.8%, Point & Click 16%, Mystery 14%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 10.4%
- #9 DESOLATIUM: Prologue
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 118 reviews2021
Dev: SUPERLUMEN
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26%, Point & Click 12.1%, Mystery 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
- #10 Omen Exitio: Plague
91% matchVery Positive85% of 621 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 57.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Story Rich 8%, Adventure 4.1%
- #11 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,520 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.8%, Mystery 12.6%, JRPG 12%, Anime 11.6%, Horror 10.6%
- #12 Sucker for Love: First Date
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,933 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Anime 10.7%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #13 Chronicle of Innsmouth
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 248 reviews2017
Dev: PsychoDevPub: AtomicHorde
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 73.6%, Point & Click 17.1%, Adventure 9.3%
- #14 Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness
90% matchMixed44% of 205 reviews2014
Dev: Cryo InteractivePub: Microids
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 61.7%, Point & Click 19.3%, Horror 11.6%, Adventure 7.5%
- #15 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
86% matchVery Positive95% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: Indra Studio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Point & Click 12%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
- #16 Myths of Rules
86% matchVery Positive88% of 1,027 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Exploration 15%, Horror 13.4%, Story Rich 13.1%, Lovecraftian 13%
- #17 Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
84% matchVery Positive93% of 1,607 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Delve into the enthralling world of Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum, the acclaimed RPG Maker gothic horror game that'll take you on a moving journey of self-discovery.
Why similar: Horror 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Anime 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Exploration 9.6%
- #18 Lovecraft Quest - A Comix Game
87% matchMixed65% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: OGUREC APPS
Windows · Mac · Linux
🐙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 89.3%, Adventure 10.7%
- #19 Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves
85% matchVery Positive85% of 252 reviews2022
Dev: leavesPub: socah
Windows · Mac · Linux
In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Mystery 11.7%, Anime 11.2%
- #20 Midnight Syndrome
84% matchVery Positive99% of 87 reviews2024
Dev: ナツミカン
Windows
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Point & Click 14.3%, Horror 11%, Anime 10.2%
- #21 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
82% matchVery Positive95% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Avoid the fanatical cultists and survive dangerous rituals to escape the Black Woods with your life in this 90’s anime inspired visual novel!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Anime 11.1%, Horror 10%, Point & Click 9.9%
- #22 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
83% matchMixed66% of 2,493 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 64.6%, Horror 14.2%, RPG 9.3%, Story Rich 5.2%, 2D 3.2%
- #23 Lunar Mirror:The Pavilion of Desire
80% matchVery Positive81% of 1,305 reviews2023
Dev: TUTGamePub: DSGame
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
This is a side-scrolling exploration and puzzle game with the background of the horror story of Cthulhu. You can move the character through A and D, talk to the character in the scene, press the F key to interact with the props in the scene, and complete the puzzle by collecting clues.
Why similar: JRPG 25.4%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Mystery 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Exploration 10.1%
- #24 Outlying Islands
79% matchVery Positive96% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: 九指画尸Pub: 2P Games
Windows
A story about discovering anomalies, finding strange energy sources, and the intertwining of peculiar spaces. Get ready to uncover hidden stories, delve into a horrifying narrative and unveil the most fundamental truth!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Comic Book 10.8%, Point & Click 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
- #25 Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,656 reviews2023
Dev: Frogwares
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.7%, Mystery 15%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 10.8%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #26 Inner Voices
82% matchMixed53% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: Sigma GamesPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Inner Voices is a dark, non-linear adventure game with a pinch of horror, inspired by works of H. P. Lovecraft and E. A. Poe. Find your way through a procedurally generated maze of rooms and solve the mystery of your past.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 11%, Mystery 9.8%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #27 克苏鲁异闻录
81% matchMixed66% of 249 reviews2019
Dev: LLC Blini GamesPub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac
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 84.2%, Adventure 8.3%, RPG 7.5%
- #28 Kowloon's Curse: Lost Report
78% matchVery Positive94% of 248 reviews2023
Dev: Studio [notes.]
Windows
Explore a surreal world inspired by Kowloon Walled city in this turn-based RPG inspired by Japanese dungeon crawlers from the late 1990s.
Why similar: JRPG 40.1%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Horror 13.3%, Adventure 9.7%, RPG 8.8%
- #29 Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 623 reviews2014
Dev: Stormling StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 47.6%, Point & Click 18.5%, Horror 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Adventure 6.4%
- #30 Blackout Hospital
78% matchVery Positive96% of 167 reviews2023
Dev: arcadekitten
Windows
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: Anime 25.8%, Mystery 19.9%, Horror 16.7%, Adventure 11.6%, 2D 11.2%
- #31 DIGITAL EXORCIST case_(0);
77% matchVery Positive94% of 156 reviews2023
Dev: COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONSPub: HYPER REAL
Windows
Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Point & Click 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Anime 12.6%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #32 Subway Exorcist Girl
76% matchVery Positive83% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: 纤指游戏Pub: Delicate Fingers
Windows
A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Horror 10.2%
- #33 Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion
77% matchVery Positive86% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: SezhesPub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion is an old-school JRPG with a deep and mysterious storyline placed in a fictional dark city of Gris. Explore the story of four troubled souls and kill the abominations that threaten the existence of reality itself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.3%, JRPG 20.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 11.7%, Horror 8.9%
- #34 Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
76% matchVery Positive90% of 2,272 reviews2019
Dev: Stuck In Attic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40.8%, Point & Click 19.1%, Horror 11.2%, Story Rich 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%
- #35 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
72% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Anime 17.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #36 Care
74% matchVery Positive96% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: The Pocket Dimension
Windows
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 34%, Mystery 15.5%, Horror 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
- #37 MAMIYA
75% matchVery Positive93% of 444 reviews2021
Dev: Kenkou LandPub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Mystery 12.5%, Horror 10.7%, Anime 10.5%
- #38 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
75% matchVery Positive86% of 252 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Horror 14%, Anime 10.4%
- #39 Saihate Station
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,177 reviews2025
Dev: びぶ/viv
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, JRPG 13.2%, Modern 10.1%, Horror 9.6%
- #40 Nightmare Zapping
73% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 11.5%, Mystery 11.2%
- #41 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
72% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: X1 Games
Windows
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.8%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 13.2%, Mystery 13%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #42 PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,800 reviews2026
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Will you survive the curse together this summer? A new supernatural mystery adventure begins, telling a bittersweet story of the passions of youth featuring new locations, new legends and a new cast of characters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Mystery 15.1%, Point & Click 12.1%, Horror 10.1%, JRPG 10.1%
- #43 The Simen Rumors
71% matchVery Positive92% of 88 reviews2026
Dev: 羊之口
Windows
本游戏以视觉小说的形式,收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角,探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, Visual Novel 29.1%, Mystery 28.2%, Psychological Horror 3.2%, Adventure 2.9%
- #44 The Occult Detective
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 323 reviews2025
Dev: Battlecry Studio
Windows
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24%, Anime 18.3%, Mystery 17.5%, Story Rich 14.5%, Exploration 9.2%
- #45 SkullX: Aibohphobia
70% matchVery Positive93% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: SkullX
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were hired to extract a bioengineer. Now your team is cut off, your comms are dead, and you're surrounded by something wearing human skin. Hold the line, make the calls, and survive the night in this choice-driven visual novel with turn-based combat.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Comic Book 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Modern 8.4%
- #46 Curse of the Old Gods
74% matchVery Positive84% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: Tim Rachor
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A mystery adventure game set in a present-day Lovecraftian universe.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 62.5%, Adventure 22.8%, Horror 14.7%
- #47 Stygian: Outer Gods
69% matchVery Positive85% of 611 reviews2025
Dev: Misterial GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.7%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Mystery 14%, Horror 12.2%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #48 Cursed Mansion
71% matchVery Positive90% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Dragon EmperorsPub: Nuon Games
Windows
Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.
Why similar: Mystery 18.8%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 15.8%, Anime 11%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #49 Illusion Carnival
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 6,466 reviews2024
Dev: KiZ
Windows · Mac
A lost soul wanders through a whimsical, eerie pop-up book like amusement park. Dive into fun-filled stages, encounter unique characters, fend off spirit erosion, and uncover the park's hidden secrets. The enchanting yet dark Illusion Carnival begins now.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, JRPG 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Anime 11.5%, Exploration 10.2%
- #50 The Island: Into The Mist
73% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Mystery 12.7%, Point & Click 11.5%, Anime 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
- #51 Mythos: The Beginning - Director's Cut
73% matchMixed68% of 74 reviews2014
Dev: Dark Gaia StudiosPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Mythos: The Beginning is a survival horror/adventure rpg based on the pulp-horror and monster movies of the 1930s. Set in London in 1934, Mythos tasks you with creating your own paranormal investigator from scratch and guiding them through an exploration of the infamous Harborough Asylum.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 61.4%, Horror 13.4%, Adventure 13.3%, RPG 11.9%
- #52 RGB GlitchGazer
66% matchVery Positive99% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.1%, Mystery 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Anime 18.1%, 2D 7.5%
- #53 Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary
68% matchVery Positive98% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Mystery 14%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, JRPG 11.3%
- #54 The Shadow Over Cyberspace
67% matchVery Positive90% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: Fiction Factory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #55 Blood Lily Loop
67% matchVery Positive84% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
Windows
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Horror 10.3%, Mystery 8.6%, Anime 8%
- #56 The Murder Hotel
66% matchVery Positive95% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Wegenbartho Games
Windows
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Modern 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Mystery 17.5%, Anime 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
- #57 Minds Beneath Us
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,416 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Point & Click 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #58 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
70% matchVery Positive83% of 160 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Basically the story goes as visual novel form. Sometimes, the system switches into dot part, and you can control the character to continue the story.
Why similar: Anime 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Mystery 14.1%, Horror 13.9%
- #59 Night Loops
67% matchVery Positive89% of 157 reviews2023
Dev: JiaquariumPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Anime 14.8%, Horror 13.9%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #60 Stirring Abyss
68% matchVery Positive88% of 431 reviews2020
Dev: Sleepy SentryPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 64.3%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 6.8%, RPG 5.9%, Adventure 4.8%