Games Like Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Simulation 64.2%, Indie 24.8%, Casual 5.6%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Daily Chthonicle, this game forces you to manage a high-stakes bureaucratic job where your decisions have dark, moral consequences.

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 58.6%, Simulation 25.9%, RPG 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the Lovecraftian dread and management-heavy gameplay of running a secret organization in a world of occult mysteries.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 58.2%, Simulation 31.4%, Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a shop while investigating occult mysteries, mirroring the investigative and management loop of the seed game.

Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Why similar: Lovecraftian 64.6%, Noir 35.4%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim tasks you with running a cult-ridden island, forcing you to make difficult sacrifices to appease dark entities.

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 76.9%, RPG 16.8%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite horror game that perfectly captures the 1-bit Lovecraftian aesthetic and the feeling of managing limited resources against cosmic threats.

Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!

Why similar: Noir 61.1%, RPG 19.7%, Adventure 11%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A detective simulation game that emphasizes investigative work and noir atmosphere in a procedurally generated city.

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 74%, RPG 13.4%, Adventure 7.9%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration, resource management, and Lovecraftian narrative in a dark, atmospheric setting.

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 60.6%, Simulation 16.8%, RPG 10.6%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines relaxing management gameplay with a creeping sense of Lovecraftian horror as you uncover secrets from the sea.

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 65.9%, Simulation 34.1%

Why You'll Like It: A horror-simulation game where you manage your time and resources to hunt targets, echoing the dark management themes of the seed game.

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant detective game that requires careful observation and deduction to solve complex, supernatural-adjacent mysteries.

Become a Secret Agent and investigate paranormal activities in this dark Lovecraftian universe. This Alternate Reality Game will have you explore complex puzzles in-game but also in real-life; interacting with real websites, companies, and NPCs that we created as part of our universe.

Why similar: RPG 52.9%, Indie 23.9%, Adventure 23.2%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive investigation game that requires real-world research and puzzle-solving to uncover occult conspiracies.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: RPG 46.7%, Noir 37.3%, Adventure 9%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: An unparalleled detective RPG that excels in noir storytelling, investigation, and exploring the darker side of the human condition.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Simulation 62.8%, Indie 14.7%, RPG 12.5%, Adventure 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a state-appointed landlord tasked with spying on tenants, capturing the same feeling of surveillance and moral weight found in the seed game.

This experience can be classified as a psychological and atmospheric horror game. However... This isn't a game... Remember all of the urban legends from your childhood? Imagine if it was all real, but we just weren't performing the right rituals to summon these beings from another realm... Well, now you can...

Why similar: Simulation 44.5%, RPG 23%, Adventure 12.5%, Casual 10.9%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-horror game that focuses on the psychological toll of interacting with the supernatural.

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 83.7%, RPG 8.9%, Adventure 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An investigation-focused RPG that puts you in the shoes of a private investigator uncovering cosmic horrors.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Noir 42.6%, Indie 35%, Adventure 22.4%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in investigative deduction that tasks you with piecing together a supernatural tragedy.

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 71.7%, RPG 17.8%, Adventure 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-adventure game that captures the specific dread of Lovecraft's stories through exploration and investigation.

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: Lovecraftian 86.7%, Adventure 9.8%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that leans heavily into Victorian-era Lovecraftian horror and atmospheric mystery.

One Late Night: Deadline continues the story of One Late Night, a horror/mystery game where you play the role of an office worker caught in the middle of the paranormal activity that has broken out in a seemingly ordinary office building. Freely explore the 5 story office complex that houses several different companies.

Why similar: Adventure 59.1%, Indie 40.9%

Why You'll Like It: A horror-adventure game that captures the feeling of being trapped in a mundane office environment while supernatural events unfold.

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: Adventure 72.3%, RPG 27.7%

Why You'll Like It: A detective-focused visual novel that tasks you with solving supernatural cases through investigation.

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 85.6%, Adventure 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that directly adapts Lovecraftian lore into a classic investigative format.

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.2%, Simulation 17.3%, RPG 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery-investigation game that uses card-based mechanics to explore Lovecraftian themes.

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Simulation 61.7%, RPG 24.9%, Adventure 5.7%, Indie 5.5%, Casual 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game set in a dystopian Britain that mirrors the bureaucratic pressure of the seed game.

H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 87.7%, Adventure 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-noir adventure that blends Lovecraftian themes with investigative gameplay.

Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.

Why similar: Simulation 82.5%, Adventure 17.5%

Why You'll Like It: A typing-based simulation game that focuses on uncovering mysteries through documents and narrative investigation.

Can you endure until morning Monitor Japan's stigmatized properties and report any paranormal activity If you miss a report or make repeated mistakes——

Why similar: Simulation 78.3%, Casual 21.7%

Why You'll Like It: An investigation-heavy horror game that tasks you with monitoring and researching supernatural properties.

Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 94.8%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal walking simulator that emphasizes Lovecraftian atmosphere and exploration of a dying world.

One reporter, trying to survive nine days in an isolated village. Four demonesses who are out for blood. Several supernatural murders... Welcome to Hope Hill!

Why similar: RPG 64.5%, Adventure 35.5%

Why You'll Like It: A horror-mystery visual novel that requires deduction and investigation to identify a supernatural killer.

You're hired to dig up graves at a local church, looting valuables while demonic activity escalates. You must find and return all the burnt bones to stop the demonic activity. Each night you will dig for valuables to find bones, fend off growing corruption, and survive to solve the mystery.

Why similar: Simulation 86.5%, Adventure 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive horror game that focuses on the grim, investigative aspects of dealing with the dead.

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 73.4%, Simulation 26.6%

You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.

Why similar: Simulation 51.3%, RPG 28.3%, Adventure 20.4%

Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!

Why similar: Simulation 100%

NEWSPAPER EDITING ADVENTURE. "In 1996, a congressman was murdered...The prime suspect is a congressman's aide. As the suspicious article was published the story begins" Play the role of editor-in-chief of a newspaper. You become the editor of a newspaper and write a front-page article every day.

Why similar: Noir 38.5%, Simulation 37.7%, Adventure 12%, Casual 11.8%

First-person horror game where you work the night shift at a Mexican convenience store, handling daily tasks while facing eerie and unexpected events.

Why similar: Simulation 52.4%, Casual 20%, Adventure 18.3%, Indie 9.3%

Welcome to Elderfield, a cozy horror RPG with hand-drawn art and dark lofi music. Manage your farm, befriend or romance the locals, investigate mysteries, decorate your home, fight terrifying creatures, fish, cook, seek the Old Gods, die in your sleep, and more... There's lots to do in Elderfield!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.3%, RPG 20.8%, Adventure 11%

Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.

Why similar: Simulation 67.7%, Adventure 20.8%, Casual 11.6%

Manage a haunted funeral service as a priest in a cursed forest. Bury or cremate the dead, perform exorcisms, fend off demonic possessions, and quiet restless souls. Survive terrifying encounters, maintain sanity, and experience the pinnacle of horror simulation in The Unholy Priest!

Why similar: Simulation 88%, Casual 12%

In Newspaper Day, you take on the role of a newspaper delivery person in a seemingly quiet neighborhood. Every morning, you carry out your job, delivering the day's news to your neighbors' doors. However, you soon realize that things are not what they seem.

Why similar: Casual 61.4%, Adventure 38.6%

Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Simulation 76.4%, Adventure 23.6%

The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.

Why similar: RPG 100%

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Simulation 76.6%, Adventure 23.4%

Sunken Engine Lovecraftian Ship Repair Simulation. Restore your father’s old shipyard. Each arriving ship carries a dark mystery to be solved. Keep your customers satisfied while dealing with the strange and eerie happenings on the island.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.7%, Simulation 31.3%

Congratulations, you've found Dingir OS — an operating system that lets you glimpse into the darkest corners of the internet. Browse forbidden websites, investigate lethal files, and immerse yourself in the world of digital legends. (We are not responsible for anything that may happen to you.)

Why similar: Noir 50.5%, Simulation 49.5%

CURSE is a point-and-click horror game that throws the player into the world of paranormal investigations.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.5%, Simulation 30.6%, Adventure 11%, Indie 9%

Sort forms, get to know your mysterious new collegues & unravel mysteries they're trying to cover up as you step in to replace the previous RH at this mysterious pharmaceutical company.

Why similar: Simulation 90.4%, Indie 9.6%

Bite Night: Dine or Die is a First-Person horror thriller where you play as a diner worker trying to solve the murders of your customers along side your best friend Vamp.

Why similar: Noir 59.4%, Casual 17.4%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 8%

You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Prepare to be assigned to help investigate and identify anomalous creatures called the LONGEYED.

Why similar: Simulation 60.5%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 11.9%

A survival horror puzzle RPG. Roll your dice to perform checks for elements such as Willpower or Firepower, and save a girl in a hospital full of evil spirits and zombies.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.6%, RPG 19.3%, Casual 6.9%, Adventure 5.2%

This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..

Why similar: Simulation 44.8%, RPG 26.2%, Adventure 20.6%, Casual 8.4%

You are a monster under someone's house.

Why similar: Noir 57.6%, RPG 33.3%, Casual 9.1%

Discover a world unknown to you, becoming the figure before whom the universe itself shudders, the one unacquainted with the confines of time and space, experiencing the lives of different individuals. Transform into someone who fears only one thing: the creature trailing closely behind.

Why similar: Adventure 54.6%, Indie 45.4%

A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.

Why similar: RPG 72.2%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 7.9%

There is a monster living in your apartment.

Why similar: Noir 60.4%, RPG 39.6%

Mason is assigned a new job from the big boss when strange things start happening and he discovers the true meaning of fear... Horror in Da Hood is a gripping first-person horror game set in the hood, where the supernatural lurks around every corner. Are you brave enough to face the real terror?

Why similar: Casual 76.2%, Adventure 23.8%

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: Lovecraftian 42.8%, Casual 22.9%, Adventure 22.1%, RPG 8.5%, Indie 3.6%

Zoochosis is a bodycam horror simulation game. You’re a zookeeper. Identify infected mutant animals, make a vaccine and cure them. Will you save all of them and survive?

Why similar: Simulation 80%, Indie 20%

Raise Your Own Ghost Girl+Deckbuilding+Zuma-Style Match-3!Exorcism Agency is an innovative roguelike that finds joy in thrills.Ghosts are back,the human world is like hell,and you,as a top-tier exorcist,will venture into ghost-infested zones,using all kinds of mystical techniques to capture ghosts

Why similar: Casual 46%, RPG 30%, Noir 23.9%

KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.

Why similar: Simulation 53.1%, RPG 27.5%, Casual 19.4%

Become a mad scientist! Conduct crazy experiments, mix mutagens, breed abominable creatures, and attach monstrous body parts to them. Manage your inventory, expand your lab, and make sure your hideout is safe. Send your creations into the city to obtain salvage and test subjects!

Why similar: Simulation 79.7%, Indie 20.3%