
DATACORE: HAYWIRE Is a gritty dystopian top-down Puzzle/Adventure game within the confines of an indestructible fifty thousand square mile cube. With no knowledge of why or how.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include RPG, Singleplayer, Adventure, Lovecraftian.

DATACORE: HAYWIRE Is a gritty dystopian top-down Puzzle/Adventure game within the confines of an indestructible fifty thousand square mile cube. With no knowledge of why or how.

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Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.

Omen Exitio: Plague
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.
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 54.3%, RPG 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Multiple Endings 6.3%, Indie 1.1%
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 55.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Adventure 3.3%
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 71.3%, RPG 20.3%, Adventure 5.8%, Indie 2.5%
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, RPG 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 4.3%
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 40.3%, RPG 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Lore-Rich 9.4%, Exploration 4.9%
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.2%, RPG 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Adventure 6.6%, Choices Matter 5.3%
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: Lovecraftian 36.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, RPG 12.8%, Exploration 8%
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Why similar: RPG 30.8%, Lovecraftian 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Exploration 4.5%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, RPG 10.8%
An RPG about work-life balance in a Latin American inspired cyberpunk world.
Why similar: RPG 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Exploration 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
You are flesh, blood and bones. A fragile mortal, in a land of something far bigger than yourself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.6%, RPG 18.5%, Top-Down 8%, Puzzle 6.6%, Exploration 6.3%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, RPG 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Lore-Rich 8.9%, Exploration 8.3%
AshCreek is a female-oriented interactive visual novel centered on Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Players take on the role of an outsider who is unwillingly drawn into AshCreek, uncovering the truth behind its anomalies step by step by taking part in stories set across different worlds.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30%, Interactive Fiction 20%, RPG 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Exploration 4.8%
Inspired by the award-winning board game franchise, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is an investigation game served with turn-based combat, set in the cult universe of H.P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 65.2%, RPG 17.2%, Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 7.1%
Nightmare Tale is an interactive horror novel with dark secrets and intricate puzzles. Take control of the fate of the main character named Tom, who inherited an old hotel. You will have to keep your sanity while discovering the horrifying secrets of the hotel.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, 2D 7.8%, Exploration 7.8%, Puzzle 7.1%
A narrative-driven game where Deduction meets the Dark Arts. Invest crime scenes for evidence and navigate the razor's edge between "Rationality" and "Inspiration." Unlock branching paths through your choices, forge fragile alliances, and decide who survives the encroaching shadows.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, RPG 12.6%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
Can a cure be found for the plague, or can humanity live with it? Even if found, should there be a price, and if so, who should pay it? On the road to tomorrow, are those bringing healing the friends I should join hands with, or are they rivals for a future I can hold in my hands?
Why similar: RPG 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Adventure 8.8%, Puzzle 8.7%
A point-and-click puzzle adventure
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.4%, RPG 27%, Puzzle 10.1%, 2D 8%, Choices Matter 6.4%
A feud between old gods, a missing flock of faer, and every choice has consequences. Ren is in the middle of it all. What will her story be? You will decide in this narrative driven adventure.
Why similar: RPG 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, LGBTQ+ 8.8%
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 59.1%, RPG 26.8%, 2D 3.8%, Choices Matter 3.6%, Indie 2.5%
This Cthulhu Mythos RPG is a retro styled horror RPG containing modern elements. What terrors await you in the abandoned mansion...? Create the protagonist "YOU" to your liking. Select your companions and unravel the mystery of the mansion.
Why similar: RPG 43.2%, Lovecraftian 38.9%, 2D 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%, Indie 5%
In this game, you will play a policeman who is transferred to Nabos from out of town. The crime rate here remains high all the year round, and ancient gangs and cults are entrenched here. you will be close to the city's innermost and darkest secret. What choice should you make then?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.1%, RPG 23.3%, Adventure 5.5%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Into Samomor is a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape everything: storylines, quests, and intense boss battles. With a branching narrative and multiple endings, each playthrough offers a fresh experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, RPG 16%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Exploration 7.4%
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, RPG 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Lore-Rich 13%, LGBTQ+ 9.3%
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: RPG 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Choices Matter 5.2%
Engage with the townsfolk and native people to make decisions and choices, your actions will decide the fate of New Albans. With multiple endings, solve puzzles, speak to NPCs and explore the land in this story adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, RPG 17.9%, Exploration 11%, Top-Down 10%, Puzzle 8.7%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, RPG 22%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 34.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.9%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, RPG 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Exploration 8%
Narrative-adventure game where you contain "anomalies" secretly and prevent the world’s end. Influenced by the "SCP Foundation" and "Cthulhu Mythos," the game offers a blend of unease and curiosity as you delve into a bizarre and disturbing world, eventually uncovering hidden truths.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Exploration 9.4%, 2D 7.2%
A text-based Lovecraftian adventure game combining role playing and survival horror dynamics, set in a Victorian Gothic environment. Explore the mysteries of the Travelyan home and unravel
Why similar: Lovecraftian 46.4%, RPG 38.5%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 4.8%
This is an adventure game with a comical and mysterious story. Become the unluckiest detective in the universe and travel around Town with your buddy, a fortune teller, to solve crimes.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Exploration 8%, 2D 5.6%
Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, RPG 17.4%, Puzzle 7.3%, 2D 6.2%
Memories of Zattera is a visual novel that merges fantasy and science fiction. Explore moral and political dilemmas from multiple viewpoints as tradition, progress and freedom collide. Will you see the world the same once all truths are revealed?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, RPG 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Exploration 9.9%
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: RPG 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Adventure 8.6%
Gadgets, conspiracy and conquest await you in this steampunk text adventure. An interactive romp through Victorian England and the British Empire.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.6%, RPG 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, RPG 17%, Lore-Rich 16.4%, Choices Matter 5.5%
Explore the abandoned Signal Creek Shopping Mall in this dialogue-rich pixel art RPG. Playing as college student Nour, you must guide your companions through encounters with the past.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, RPG 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%, Top-Down 7.8%
"Destiny Isle" is a visual novel that combines survival horror, multiplayer combat, and puzzle-solving elements. Set in a mysterious isolated academy, players take on the role of newcomer Xu Fan, uncovering the academy's chilling secrets while navigating between darkness and hope.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.2%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, 2D 6.2%, Multiple Endings 6%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: RPG 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Adventure 9.5%, Choices Matter 6%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, RPG 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%, 2D 6.1%
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: RPG 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Adventure 8.3%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.9%, RPG 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Adventure 6.3%
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: RPG 33%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
You are Doctor Parsnip Green, the first and last line of defense against a grotesquely beautiful epidemic. Make difficult choices as you investigate the disease’s origin, operate on patients, and fight to save those you love - all while managing your own dwindling sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, RPG 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Lore-Rich 8.7%
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 41.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 7%
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 38.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choices Matter 5.7%, Multiple Endings 5%
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: RPG 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choices Matter 5.7%, Multiple Endings 5%
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, RPG 17.3%, Lore-Rich 16%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%
Welcome to Vespera Hotel! Please orbserve the precautions on manager's letter and greet our dear guests with your smile.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.6%, RPG 19%, Exploration 13.4%, Adventure 9.8%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, RPG 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Indie 3.7%
Vasilisa a young beautiful girl, abused by her step-mother and step-sisters is forced to face Baba Yaga the human eating evil witch living in the woods. Could she get back home safely? collect items to solve puzzles you face along the journey and find the solution of textual based puzzles.
Why similar: RPG 34.9%, Exploration 12.3%, Puzzle 11.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Top-Down 10.1%
A horror dice roll adventure inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Much like in a tabletop RPG, "abilities," "luck," and "dice rolls" influence the story's progression. The protagonist is cursed on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. Investigate the island, uncover the mysteries, and break the curse!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 59.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, RPG 8.7%, 2D 5%, Adventure 4.2%
Super SpaceMail is a point-and-click adventure game about connections where you play as a mailman delivering letters in space, making friends, and solving a mystery way bigger than this universe.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, LGBTQ+ 9.4%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Exploration 5.9%
Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.
Why similar: RPG 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Choices Matter 5%
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.1%, RPG 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Adventure 7.4%
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: RPG 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Choices Matter 7%
As a social media influencer recruited to a team of heroes, can you earn their trust, defend the city, and prove you’re worth more than your follower count? A text-based interactive superhero novel.
Why similar: RPG 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Choices Matter 4.8%