- #1 Life Gallery
97% matchVery Positive82% of 430 reviews2023
Dev: 751 Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.
Why similar: Surreal 17.7%, Psychedelic 13.9%, Point & Click 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
- #2 Kami: Parade of Senses
96% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Kostrum Games
Windows · Linux
Parade of Senses has begun, and you’ve become an unwilling participant. Make the most of it! Explore the Conscious Space, help the other poor souls trapped here, seek answers, betray, kill... or show mercy and protect.
Why similar: Gothic 17.2% ★, Lovecraftian 14.9%, Point & Click 14.7%, Psychedelic 10.6%, Comic Book 10.3%
- #3 October Nightmares | Cauchemars d'octobre
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Studio Chien d'Or
Windows
Explore a Montréal neighborhood in the 70s, investigate a supernatural phenomenon that inflicts nightmares on its residents, and delve into the depths of the world of dreams to save their lives. October Nightmares is a point & click cosmic horror game where exploration mixes with puzzle solving.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.9%, Historical 21.5%, Point & Click 20.2%, First-Person 12%, Horror 8.4%
- #4 Siphonopolis
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 31 reviews2022
Dev: ApeHardware
Windows
Enter a surreal, rotting, underwater world. Chat with some creatures. Murder a lot more. Find the heart.
Why similar: Underwater 23.2% ★, Point & Click 14.4%, Lovecraftian 12.9%, Surreal 12.6%, Psychedelic 12.4%
- #5 To The Deep
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: kay56
Windows
Dive into a surreal deep sea dream. Survive by devouring and evolving, and encounter a cast of strange, mysterious companions. Explore, upgrade, and uncover the "truth" hidden beneath the beautiful waves. This is more than an adventure—it is a dimension-breaking dive to the deep.
Why similar: Underwater 43.2% ★, Lovecraftian 24.7%, Psychological Horror 7.4%, Surreal 7.1%, First-Person 5.9%
- #6 MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: VIRTUA WORLDS, LLC
Windows
YOU'RE JUST A NORMAL GUY TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP. YOU HEAR A BUMP IN THE NIGHT. WHAT WAS THAT? WHY IS YOUR DAUGHTER ACTING SO WEIRD? IS IT PARENTHOOD OR A HORRIBLE CURIOSITY THAT COMPELS YOU TO FIND OUT? A Short horror experience.
Why similar: Comic Book 24.2%, Lovecraftian 21.1%, Surreal 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 9.4%
- #7 Down Further
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SeaRuby Games
Windows
Explore the deepest parts of the ocean in this open-world, survival horror game. Fend off unknown creatures with only a few damaged devices in your submarine. Collect creature data, upgrade your vessel, and escape the deep ocean trenches in Down Further.
Why similar: Underwater 39.7% ★, Point & Click 16.5%, Horror 11.4%, Hand-drawn 10%, First-Person 7.8%
- #8 Cold Abyss
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio [notes.]Pub: Neon Doctrine
Windows
COLD ABYSS is a relaxing and atmospheric exploration game where you repair internet cables on the bottom of the ocean. There are no enemies or other forms of danger down there. Just you.
Why similar: Underwater 31.6% ★, Lovecraftian 18.5%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 8.7%
- #9 Subject Breach
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dreamfold
Windows
Subject Breach is a hand-drawn psychological thriller about identity, control, and the quiet horror of being observed. Solve surreal puzzles, question self recognition, rethink human connection as reality fractures around you.
Why similar: Point & Click 24.2%, Surreal 23.7%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 11.7%, Thriller 10.5%
- #10 Cat Museum
91% matchVery Positive92% of 897 reviews2022
Dev: 751 Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Immerse yourself in the bizarre art style and the surreal world of Cat Museum, a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure game. Solve the strange puzzles with your mischievous cat, and unveil the truth behind the mysterious museum.
Why similar: Psychedelic 19%, Surreal 18.5%, Point & Click 17.5%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Horror 10.1%
- #11 THE GUTTER
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DracoXia Studio
Windows
Descend into 1801 China as an opium-addicted father who sold his daughter, now prowling a burned-out floating brothel for treasures. As you touch relics of the dead, violent memories reveal a sickening truth: the greatest monster in this tale has always been you.
Why similar: Historical 24.3%, Point & Click 20.7%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Thriller 9.3%
- #12 An Abyss of Dreams
89% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Chien d'Or
Windows
Two worlds, one nightmare. Step inside a brutal orphanage and uncover the dark secrets of Québec’s Great Darkness. Solve puzzles related to an inexplicable phenomenon and dive into the depths of dreams to uncover otherworldly horrors. An Abyss of Dreams is a cosmic horror point-and-click game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.5%, Historical 19.2%, Gothic 19.1% ★, Point & Click 16.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #13 Content
89% matchPositive94% of 47 reviews2022
Dev: UKZ ArtsPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Content is a point-and-click horror adventure game. Become Anthony, an influencer looking for content that will make his videos viral. Investigate the cases, combine and use tools to overcome the given challenges. The fate of the protagonist, Anthony, is in your hands.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.3%, Point & Click 21.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Linear 12.4%, Horror 12.2%
- #14 Depth Diver
87% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Nerra TolstoïPub: HPTD Entertainment
Windows
Dive into an unforgiving underwater nightmare alone or with friends! Complete deadly missions for the Union in the terrifying depths of Gornak. Repair broken pipes, replace defective equipment, and gather scattered body parts to pay off your debt... if the local fauna doesn't get you first.
Why similar: Underwater 30% ★, Lovecraftian 16.9%, Surreal 14.8%, Psychedelic 12.6%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #15 Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 341 reviews2020
Dev: The-Mark Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Follow the fear of Benedek Dohnany and Nikolay Kalyakin and play the onset of a dark and chilling narrative adventure. Make decisions and affect the events that precede a macabre series of murders, allegedly related to devil worship and witchcraft.
Why similar: Gothic 24.4% ★, Lovecraftian 22.6%, Point & Click 17%, Horror 9.7%, Hand-drawn 8%
- #16 An English Haunting
86% matchVery Positive96% of 413 reviews2024
Dev: Postmodern Adventures
Windows
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 29.7% ★, Point & Click 20.8%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 9.8%, Historical 9.6%
- #17 Almost My Floor: Prologue
86% matchVery Positive91% of 164 reviews2020
Dev: Potata Company
Windows · Linux
A Prologue to Almost My Floor, an upcoming horror-themed point'n'click adventure. Alex is a real fan of creepy stuff and horror movies, but he never expected to experience it himself just by taking the elevator back home! Can he avoid the madness and deal with the evil he's up against?
Why similar: Comic Book 24.4%, Point & Click 20.2%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 13.3%, Psychedelic 10.3%
- #18 PARRALYSIS
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Drowsy Yokai
Windows
You open your eyes in a surreal space, paralysed. The only thing you can do is to scarcely move your right arm, and scribble. Scribble in a notepad before you to move forward. Towards a goal you must reach, despite something horrific trying to reach you. Create the cure. You don't have much time.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.1%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Surreal 16.8%, Horror 15.9%, Psychedelic 10.3%
- #19 6 Floors
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Ghoul World
Windows
You find yourself in a strange place and the only way out is within. Navigate liminal corridors and rooms filled with psychological terrors as you traverse all six floors of this mysterious place in order to save your soul.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.3%, Surreal 21.3%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 15.1%, First-Person 14.4%
- #20 rest: in a dark room
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: regular glove
Windows · Mac · Linux
Two misanthropic teenagers attempt to be reborn through the world of sensory deprivation. A visual novel full of death, drugs, and dolphins.
Why similar: Underwater 28.9% ★, Psychedelic 17.5%, Surreal 15%, Thriller 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
- #21 Water Womb World
82% matchVery Positive97% of 300 reviews2026
Dev: Yames' Games
Windows
Aqua Catholicism; Explore Man's Original Sin Under The Sea
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Underwater 20.4% ★, Point & Click 12.9%, Horror 11.8%, Psychedelic 8.3%
- #22 The Dream Of A Cockspur
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: roccayPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Stranded on a desolate island with Earth's remaining researchers, you investigate a strange celestial body. The day before departure, your only means of transportation gets mysteriously damaged, leaving you stranded. Is someone sabotaging the team, or is there something more sinister going on…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.5%, Surreal 17.3%, Thriller 13.8%, Psychedelic 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
- #23 Drawn Tale
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sour Kingdom
Windows
After taking a life, a boy is killed and awakens in a twisted, nightmarish Purgatory. Explore a world of horror, solve eerie puzzles, evade lurking monsters, and fight to keep your soul intact before it’s devoured by the Void.
Why similar: Point & Click 15%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Psychedelic 14.4%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Surreal 12.3%
- #24 Static Dread: The Submarine
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: solarsuit.gamesPub: Polden Publishing
Windows
Descend into Lovecraftian horror aboard a claustrophobic military submarine. Assign tasks as a captain’s right hand, analyze sonar signals, make hard decisions, and keep the crew from madness. Dark horrors lurk both within… and beyond the hull.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.5%, Underwater 21.9% ★, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Surreal 12.2%, Horror 11.2%
- #25 Rachel's Journal
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Moose Byte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in a maintenance room, alone. Your partner's journal is out in the open. You probably shouldn't read it.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.8%, Thriller 16.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Surreal 11.6%
- #26 EarWorm
79% matchVery Positive96% of 155 reviews2025
Dev: TOR2
Windows
You are an Earworm. You are an underworld contractor who hacks memories for a living. Dive into the memories of your victims in order to unlock the security questions to their bank account.
Why similar: Surreal 19.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Psychedelic 13.6%, Thriller 12.6%, Sci-fi 11%
- #27 Lost Awakening
80% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Hambug Games
Windows
A comedic sci-fi point-and-click adventure game
Why similar: Point & Click 19.3%, Psychedelic 17.7%, Lovecraftian 17%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Stylized 8%
- #28 Edgar Allan Poe's Interactive Horror: 1995 Edition
78% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: InscapePub: GMedia
Windows
Originally released as The Dark Eye, this 1995 cult classic adapts Edgar Allan Poe's most macabre tales. Navigate a nightmarish world of uncanny stop-motion puppetry narrated by William S. Burroughs. Solve twisted puzzles and experience madness through the eyes of both murderer and victim.
Why similar: Gothic 20.7% ★, Lovecraftian 17.7%, Point & Click 15.7%, Surreal 15.1%, Psychological Horror 11%
- #29 Magnus Imago
79% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Sons of Welder
Windows · Linux
Magnus Imago is an atmospheric journey through a mysterious world of characters, traces and symbols. The task of the player is to solve the puzzles, using proper combinations of objects, finding them in the environment around him.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.8%, Surreal 16.2%, Point & Click 15.5%, Psychedelic 12.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
- #30 Static Paradox
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Michael Richard Lannon
Windows
Your sight is limited in this first-person psychological horror game in the deep abyss. Use sound to your advantage, while you still have your mind in this experience of pure mind-numbing terror. Try to survive long enough to discover the terrible secrets... if you can...
Why similar: Underwater 27.7% ★, Lovecraftian 21%, Surreal 15%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 10.2%
- #31 Pierrot
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Knot Games
Windows
Pierrot is a first-person psychological horror set in a twisted theater where a small puppet is trapped in its grasp. Violence is routine and you exist only to obey. Forced to harm others Pierrot dreams of tearing his strings. Even as the curtain falls his role never ends.
Why similar: Comic Book 25.5%, Surreal 21.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Horror 8.2%
- #32 Lammana: The Looe Island Mystery
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Darkling Room
Windows
Journey to Lammana, through the historic 'found footage' of William H Boston. Explore the cursed island off Cornwall's coast. Retrace the steps of a young man who disappeared in 1924. 'Play through' surviving footage to discover a dark mystery involving treasure, exploration and sea monsters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.9%, Underwater 20.5% ★, Point & Click 17.4%, Stylized 8.6%, First-Person 7.7%
- #33 Owl Lights
75% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Grumpi
Windows
Owl Lights is a first-person psychological horror game. You play as 16 year old Paul, who lives in a small town. Your parents are away, leaving you to spend the night alone or so you think. There is something in the wind that night, something unpleasantly quiet.
Why similar: Surreal 21.8%, Horror 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, First-Person 13.6%, Thriller 13.6%
- #34 Blood On The Thames
75% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Team Firestorm
Windows · Mac · Linux
A murder mystery puzzle game with visual novel elements in a Gothic, Lovecraftian world. Collect clues, solve puzzles, interrogate suspects, and uncover the mystery surrounding the death of Mini’s husband.
Why similar: Gothic 21.9% ★, Lovecraftian 21.5%, Historical 19.7%, Point & Click 15.6%, Horror 7.8%
- #35 Our Elusive Suffering
76% matchMixed66% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: 👁️Pub: ⚰️
Windows
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Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.2%, Surreal 24.7%, Horror 17.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Stylized 10.6%
- #36 Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 624 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 36.6%, Point & Click 24.1%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Adventure 5.5%
- #37 Void : EMMA | 空:艾玛
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rabbit Punch
Windows
A 2D side-scrolling point-and-click puzzle game. A mouse awakens in a nightmare, with no memory of who he is. But one image lingers in his mind — the one he loved most. Why is she gone? Find the way out. Find her.
Why similar: Gothic 25.5% ★, Point & Click 22.3%, Surreal 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Hand-drawn 12.2%
- #38 One Long Night with the Circleheads
74% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Jam J
Windows
The Circleheads are hungry for new souls to join their twisted game. Can you survive the horrors that await?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.2%, Point & Click 15.8%, Surreal 14.7%, Thriller 14.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #39 Victoria Kopernik: Mother
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: cosmonomicon
Windows
Victoria Kopernik, an occult influencer, uncovers the dark history of a haunted mansion in a short horror point-and-click adventure video game.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.4%, Gothic 20.9% ★, Psychedelic 17.3%, Lovecraftian 15.2%, Horror 7.1%
- #40 UNIVERSAL WEIRDNESS
71% matchPositive89% of 47 reviews2026
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows
A 2D hand-drawn puzzle adventure that spans multiple dimensions and universes. Encounter a diverse cast of characters and unravel mind-bending mysteries as you embark on unique adventures across different worlds.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.8%, Point & Click 20.8%, Surreal 17.9%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
- #41 The Season of the Warlock
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: enComplot
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25.8% ★, Point & Click 20.8%, Lovecraftian 20.6%, Horror 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
- #42 SAMUDRA
73% matchMixed64% of 148 reviews2021
Dev: Khayalan Arts
Windows
SAMUDRA is an award-winning hand-illustrated deep sea journey.
Why similar: Underwater 41.2% ★, Point & Click 13.7%, Surreal 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Horror 9.3%
- #43 Ode to a Moon
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Colorfiction
Windows
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Why similar: Psychedelic 22.2%, Surreal 19.9%, Thriller 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 11.6%
- #44 Lake Facade: Director's Cut
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rexoto Games
Windows
Explore, Fish and discover the mysteries hidden within Lake Facade. A short narrative puzzle/adventure game with multiple endings and secrets to find.
Why similar: Underwater 27.9% ★, Lovecraftian 24.3%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10%
- #45 ASYLUM
70% matchVery Positive85% of 479 reviews2025
Dev: Senscape
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Point & Click 24.4%, Lovecraftian 18.3%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Gothic 12.4% ★
- #46 Still Wakes the Deep
69% matchVery Positive88% of 11,771 reviews2024
Dev: The Chinese RoomPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.4%, Underwater 24% ★, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 12%, First-Person 8.4%
- #47 Aquamarine: Explorer's Edition
72% matchMixed67% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Moebial StudiosPub: Hitcents
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based playable comic book about surviving in an alien ocean. Explore a planet reclaimed by nature. Forage, salvage, and cultivate to survive. Uncover a lost history. Discover who you are. Find your way home.
Why similar: Underwater 30.4% ★, Comic Book 24.5%, Point & Click 15.4%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Linear 9.4%
- #48 Suffocate
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spectral Doe
Windows
Step into a haunting journey through Dreary Lake Asylum, where reality blurs with nightmare. Inspired by the classic PSX survival horror era, Suffocate plunges you into a fever dream of a plot that will test your logic, courage, and sanity.
Why similar: Underwater 32.6% ★, Surreal 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Thriller 11.1%, Horror 10.7%
- #49 Gallerie
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Shakles
Windows
A psychological horror adventure where you investigate a large art gallery following many disappearances. You'll go on a journey filled with fear and stress to find out what happened to all those who went missing.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.8%, Surreal 19.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 12.5%, Linear 11.7%
- #50 Blessed with Death
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Michael Grauberger
Windows
Guard a haunted house at night, protect yourself from intruders using magical relics and try to survive the nights in this unique FNAF-Like without electricity.
Why similar: Point & Click 23.7%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 12.3%, Hand-drawn 12%, Linear 11.6%
- #51 A Mirror, Darkly
68% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: tombasche
Windows
Explore your surrounds in this short narrative using a novel mechanic to find objects in a mirror's reflection
Why similar: Historical 23.6%, Gothic 20.5% ★, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 10.4%, Linear 10.3%
- #52 Color Fear
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: West View
Windows
The Scariest Horror game you will ever experience. Today on The Color Fun Coloring Show they want viewers to help them find out who is breaking into their house! Survive each night against the Intruders and the Horror that comes from The Color Fun Coloring Show!
Why similar: Surreal 24.5%, Psychedelic 16.5%, Thriller 15.1%, Horror 14.7%, Linear 13.5%
- #53 Insight
67% matchVery Positive87% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GravelRoadPub: PaperPixel Games
Windows
Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27%, Thriller 18.6%, Surreal 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Horror 11.5%
- #54 The Night Is Long
67% matchPositive83% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: TheGamerUrso
Windows
The Night Is Long is a short first-person horror game where a grieving man follows a ghostly vision into an abandoned mansion. Uncover dark secrets, survive atmospheric horrors, and face your past through exploration, puzzles, and subtle scares.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.2%, Surreal 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 13.5%, First-Person 8.8%
- #55 Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness
71% matchMixed44% of 207 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 49.1%, Point & Click 25.9%, Horror 13.2%, Adventure 6.6%, First-Person 5.1%
- #56 Gamebook Edgar A. Poe: The Oval Portrait
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: The Midworld
Windows
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".
Why similar: Gothic 24% ★, Lovecraftian 19.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Linear 10.6%
- #57 Carnival
65% matchVery Positive100% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Beyond Booleans
Windows
Carnival is an atmospheric folk horror point-&-click featuring low-resolution pixel art graphics, locations drawn from Venice itself, and developing relationships with NPCs, allowing the player to influence events in the game and achieve multiple different endings.
Why similar: Historical 25.4%, Lovecraftian 24.8%, Point & Click 24.1%, Horror 9.7%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #58 Open Waters
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FluffyGameDev
Windows
Open Waters is a first-person ocean survival horror game. Stranded in a small boat, you must navigate treacherous waters, evade creatures of the deep, and find your way back to safety before the ocean drags you into its depths.
Why similar: Underwater 42.7% ★, Lovecraftian 28.4%, Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 6.8%, Adventure 4.7%
- #59 Samorost 3
67% matchVery Positive94% of 5,435 reviews2016
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.8%, Psychedelic 19.7%, Surreal 18.7%, Hand-drawn 16%, Stylized 9.7%