60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Time Management, Simulation, Resource Management.
Manage a hotel straddling the border between worlds. Use deduction to identify Eldritch guests, solve abstract puzzles, and manage staff to survive the weekly Chaos invasion. A dark humor management sim where you must keep the hotel running... and your sanity intact.
Queen Of The Hill
You are a Queen Ant who has taken her colony's survival into her own hands. By day, hatch swarms of (questionably intelligent) children to gather food. By night, fend off hoards of enemies. Uncover dark secrets, equip powerful artifacts, and defend your hive from the unknowable beyond.
Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
You are a Queen Ant who has taken her colony's survival into her own hands. By day, hatch swarms of (questionably intelligent) children to gather food. By night, fend off hoards of enemies. Uncover dark secrets, equip powerful artifacts, and defend your hive from the unknowable beyond.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.3%, Time Management 30.8%, Resource Management 14.9%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, Simulation 4.8%
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32%, Gothic 18.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
Coffee For Cthulhu is a Lovecraftian Comfy Coffee Shop Simulator. During the day, you serve customers, brew coffee, and keep the various coffee machines from exploding or attacking customers.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.4%, Time Management 22.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%, Life Sim 9.6%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
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 41.5%, Time Management 27.6%, Life Sim 11.5%, Simulation 9%, Stylized 6.8%
A cozy yet tense management game where you maintain a magical Lighthouse. Become a lighthouse spirit, balance daily duties, and aid incoming ships, all while the world around you slowly dims and is consumed by ever-creeping darkness.
Why similar: Time Management 47.8%, Resource Management 24.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Stylized 8.7%, Atmospheric 5.1%
Master the clock, break the loop. Time is limited and is the ultimate resource in this hybrid Dungeon Crawler packed with phases of village defense. Each run is a fight to earn more time, or unlock new weapons and skills to build your escape.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.5%, Time Management 29.6%, Dark Fantasy 17.7%, Resource Management 16.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
This is a Lovecraftian-inspired tale of a man writing the horrors of the one night he visited his great uncle's mansion to remember what actually happened at 3 am during the visit.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.9%, Time Management 36.6%, Puzzle 5%, Atmospheric 4.1%, 2D 2.6%
Swap dreams to more suitable, as sweet FOR PAID USERS.
Why similar: Time Management 45.2%, Simulation 22.5%, Resource Management 18.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, 2D 3.5%
GARLAND FOR SALE! A game about a boy who earn his living by selling flower garlands to cars waiting in a traffic light at the intersection. Save enough money and follow his big dream. When the traffic light turns red, your job begins!
Why similar: Time Management 49.4%, Life Sim 16%, Resource Management 13.3%, Simulation 12.1%, Stylized 8.5%
Storage Finder is a trade and strategy-focused simulation game where you try to make a profit by bargaining and selling items. We buy and sell items found in the city or retrieved from storage units won at auctions — with every deal, some of us make money, while some of us lose.
Why similar: Time Management 41.2%, Resource Management 21.2%, Simulation 20.5%, Life Sim 15.3%, Indie 1%
Prep meals, toss them on the line, and unlock perks to survive the rush. Level up your kitchen, discover recipes, and feed bosses with unique demands. Cook, upgrade, and don't let the line collapse!
Why similar: Time Management 48.3%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Gothic 14.3% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Roguelike 8.7%
The Cope is a 2D, point and click game that presents the fear of the unknown. Your night shift client service job as a janitor will start with you getting entangled in a series of strange stories in The Cope mansion. Work cleaning and serving your client and find the truth of this mansion of fear.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.5%, Hand-drawn 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 19.6%, Puzzle 6%, 2D 3.1%
Barnacles, Beers, and Brawls is a fast-paced bar management game. You are a tavern bar manager in a world filled with plundering pirates and tentacled monstrosities. This game was part of the University of Utah’s Division of Games program for the class of 2024’s Capstone Project!
Why similar: Time Management 37.6%, Lovecraftian 33.5%, Simulation 17.8%, Stylized 9.8%, Indie 0.9%
Manage your own coffee shop and play together with your friends. Stock the counter with coffee beans, create your menu, set prices freely, take customer orders, and prepare delicious coffees. Decorate and expand your shop.
Why similar: Time Management 43.9%, Simulation 21.9%, Life Sim 19.1%, Stylized 13.2%, Indie 1%
Advance into the unknown territories full of secrets and dangers. Expand the famous road system to the far corners of mighty Roman Empire in this blend of casual strategy, sim and time management genres!
Why similar: Time Management 57.5%, Resource Management 25.7%, Simulation 16.8%
Take control of airline operations from the ground up. Flights depend on your judgment — from managing aircraft, equipment, and maintenance schedules to overseeing ground crews, tugs, and marshals. Coordinate taxiway movements and ensure every aircraft reaches its gate or runway safely and on time.
Why similar: Time Management 41.4%, Resource Management 23.3%, Simulation 21.8%, Life Sim 9.8%, Atmospheric 2.6%
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39%, Dark Fantasy 21.1%, Gothic 16.1% ★, Hand-drawn 8.4%, Roguelike 7.6%
Take charge of your own retail outlet. Stack shelves with products, hire staff, set prices, appease the customers, manage suppliers, expand your space. Grow from a little store into a massive supermarket.
Why similar: Time Management 39.6%, Simulation 20.4%, Life Sim 18.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Stylized 10%
Daruma Observation Log is a roguelite observation sim where you breed darumas, harvest mysterious energy, and escape a collapsing facility ravaged by disasters to unlock permanent upgrades. Zero comfort, zero cuteness—just nonstop tension and brutal choices.
Why similar: Time Management 49.7%, Simulation 25.7%, Resource Management 19.8%, 2D 3.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Enter into a Horror Adventure Lovecraftian-inspired story. As your sanity begins to erode, and armed with only a oil-lit lantern, work to unlock and uncover the secrets of the ship. Yet be aware, for something ancient and unknowable stirs within the suffocating darkness of the ship's maw...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 62.7%, Stylized 16.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Hand-drawn 8%, Atmospheric 2.9%
A Point & Click Management game of Incomprehensible Entities, Survival and Discovery. Inspired by SCP and Cultist Simulator, with Cosmic Horror elements.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.9%, Resource Management 26.2%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Simulation 5.8%, 2D 3.8%
The Season of the Warlock is a weird adventure game inspired by the gothic tale tradition, with two storylines to choose from. The soul of a warlock of yore, trapped in a portrait, will present Lord Alistair Ainsworth with an offer he will not be able to resist. Or will he? It’s your call...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.9%, Gothic 24.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 16%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Puzzle 6.7%
As The Light Goes Out is a simulation game utilizing Emergency and Rescue services from across the globe as its background. Become the Emergency Services Commander and take charge of the Fire, Police, and Paramedic departments! Instruct your teams and ensure public safety！
Why similar: Time Management 41.2%, Resource Management 30.7%, Simulation 25.9%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 1%
Apes Ticker is a real-feel simulation game built on virtual data inspired by the atmosphere of historical markets. Experience the ups and downs of market fluctuations firsthand and enjoy crafting your own investment strategies.
Why similar: Time Management 39.3%, Simulation 23.4%, Life Sim 19%, Resource Management 16.4%, Indie 1.1%
Quinn is back on a new whirlwind adventure, joined by Flo® and Joe Wright, wedding photographer. Help Quinn become the world's top wedding planner in this hilarious sequel to the hit game Wedding Dash®. Visit beautiful, exotic locations while managing new guests, fulfilling bride and groom requests, and tackling comedic disasters.
Why similar: Time Management 60.9%, Simulation 39.1%
Choose a little horror to raise then unleash it upon the world.
Why similar: Time Management 30.7%, Lovecraftian 23.6%, Resource Management 17.1%, Life Sim 15.2%, Simulation 11.1%
The city is full of trash… but what secrets lie hidden among the garbage? Hit the streets at sunrise, collect waste, and uncover the city’s forgotten mysteries! Upgrade your tools over time, collect faster, and progress on your trash-collecting journey!
Why similar: Time Management 32.3%, Simulation 27.1%, Resource Management 19.9%, Life Sim 13.1%, Atmospheric 3.9%
Faced with expulsion from his order, fledgling alchemist Leon must brave the seas and travel to Port Gelour, a plague-ridden city on the brink of revolution. Craft potent potions, befriend quirky locals, and uncover the dark secrets lurking beneath the waves in a quest for alchemy and discovery!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.2%, Gothic 17.8% ★, Hand-drawn 17.6%, Stylized 10.9%, 2D 3.1%
You are a vampiric Mayor of a town on the brink of financial collapse. You must listen to the town and choose what is right for them, while maintaining a constant craving for blood. How will you choose to get it? How does the town feel about it? Balance your double life in Town at Stake!
Why similar: Time Management 37.7%, Gothic 18.9% ★, Life Sim 17.8%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Stylized 9.7%
Run the internet your way. Build infrastructure, control traffic, stop outages, and grow a basement hosting startup into a global powerhouse.
Why similar: Time Management 40.9%, Resource Management 27.3%, Simulation 21.9%, Stylized 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Vacation towns are looking to upgrade their local attractions and your skills are needed! Can you get the gondola working at the ski resort? Will the fairgrounds get constructed in time for the festival? Find out in Build-a-lot: On Vacation!
Why similar: Time Management 43.4%, Simulation 25.7%, Resource Management 18%, Puzzle 9%, 2D 2.9%
Strange Tales of Tieshan is a text adventure inspired by Chinese records of anomalies. As a traveler in a dark land of monsters, you make elixirs, choose paths, and negotiate with supernatural beings to survive and collect bizarre stories to appease a possessed book and escape.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.2%, Gothic 20.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 18.5%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Stylized 9.6%
Survive the horrors of the unknown as you expand your lands to keep from being dragged into the darkness; and devoured by that which lurks inside. Every time you make an action, the world around moves forward too. So be strategic in your choices, and be sure they are worth it.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.3%, Time Management 26.9%, Dark Fantasy 16%, Simulation 8.5%, Roguelike 8.4%
A spot-the-difference-horror game; you use a camera system to locate and report disturbances and thieves, but you can't stay in the cameras the whole night. Getting up from your office to patrol is necessary to keep thieves at bay.
Why similar: Time Management 43.7%, Simulation 27.5%, Roguelike 16%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 1.9%
Welcome to E-TECH Simulator, the ultimate simulation game where your entrepreneurial skills will be put to the test!
Why similar: Time Management 44.2%, Simulation 21.1%, Life Sim 19.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Indie 0.9%
Join the Incas on their exciting journey, fight against demons and mystical monsters and experience exciting adventures!
Why similar: Time Management 66.3%, Resource Management 29%, 2D 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Kooeh: A Timeless Delight is a heartwarming cosy narrative-driven restaurant management game about rediscovering lost family recipes and reviving the family restaurant.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.5%, Hand-drawn 18%, Time Management 16.7%, Life Sim 13.8%, Stylized 11.5%
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 45.9%, Gothic 15.3% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, Stylized 7%
The game doesn't copy real life, it surpasses real life. Player is free to do whatever he wants: play on the stock exchange, get an academic degree, blogger, musician, traveler, boxing champion, create a business, find love, make real friends, or get a job for a five-day week, drink and sleep.
Why similar: Time Management 45.8%, Simulation 24.8%, Life Sim 22.3%, 2D 3.7%, Indie 2.3%
Assist clients in matters of Ritomancy. Devise powerful esoteric rituals by scouring forgotten tomes and unearthing forgotten grimoires in this uniquely text-based and lore-driven lovecraftian mystery game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.9%, Gothic 31% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Stylized 8.2%, Puzzle 5.1%
Play the role of Professor Dyer, a geologist at Miskatonic University who travelled to Antarctica in 1930 as the leader of a research expedition, in this 3D first-person horror survival adventure game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 97.1%, Indie 2.9%
Alicia Quatermain, a well-known adventurer and adrenaline junkie, is invited by sir Gringray to a charity ball – a common social event where no surprises can happen.
Why similar: Time Management 61.3%, Resource Management 31.1%, Puzzle 5.5%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Mawang: Dark Lord Defense is a real-time tactical tower defense game. As Princess Lua, defend the demon realm against the hero alliance. Build unique towers, manage unit morale, and use tactical pauses to repel invasions. Your strategy decides the demon realm's fate.
Why similar: Time Management 30.1%, Gothic 23.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 19.5%, Resource Management 18.3%, Simulation 7.2%
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 75.6%, Hand-drawn 22.2%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Turn a small courier shop into a massive transport company. Hire new employees and purchase new vehicles. Negotiate different product licenses and build the most profitable system based on your strategy.
Why similar: Time Management 40.8%, Simulation 23.8%, Life Sim 19.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Indie 1%
Survive against endless waves of monsters while selling food to reach your target amount. Identify monsters using the camera and dolls, and survive by serving them blood-stained food. Monsters are impatient, so you must serve the blood-stained food quickly.
Why similar: Time Management 65.1%, Simulation 31.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%, Indie 1.5%
A grim medieval deckbuilder where you use your dubious healing methods to protect bizarre villagers from the corrupting influence of ancient evils.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.3%, Dark Fantasy 21.1%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Stylized 9.8%, Simulation 8.1%
Hallow maze is a soulslike metroidvania set in a gothic world in 2D. Use transformations into different creatures to open your way, as well as incredible tools of energy. Discover the origin of the scourge that is infecting the lands of the Evernight Valley and venture into The Hallow Maze...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.8%, Dark Fantasy 19.8%, Gothic 17% ★, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Stylized 9.3%
On a visit to her hometown, Flo and her Grandma Florence take a stroll down memory lane. Bring five restaurants back to life, and meet new customers like the Hungry Man and the Celebrity. Take special care of customers with reservations and place flowers at tables in order to make diners happier.
Why similar: Time Management 77.1%, Simulation 22.9%
An ancient castle with human-making technology.A human, a dummy...Unrelated brothers, imprisoned by time in a castle...When you unlock the secrets of time, can you escape from your predicament?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.7%, Gothic 22.9% ★, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Stylized 9.7%, Puzzle 5.6%
Mariuccha is an old elven with a dark, tragic past, trying to make amends for her sins by opening an alchemy shop with the help of her ghost boyfriend Mr Testamentin.
Why similar: Time Management 36.4%, Life Sim 18.7%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Roguelike 11.8%, Resource Management 10.9%
Wield an ever-growing herd of quirky creatures to rebuild broken paths, battle perilous beasts, and solve peculiar puzzles in a rich, interconnected world. Join two young runaways as they unravel the mysteries of a lost realm in this nostalgic storybook fantasy!
Why similar: Time Management 34%, Resource Management 18%, Hand-drawn 17.6%, Stylized 13.2%, Puzzle 7.9%
Tribe Dash is a Stone Age time management simulator! Hunt, collect resources, and search for treasure on lost islands playing as the leader of a Stone Age tribe in this exciting adventure game!
Why similar: Time Management 50.8%, Resource Management 25.9%, Puzzle 9%, Stylized 8.5%, 2D 2.9%
Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 61.9%, Dark Fantasy 17.9%, Gothic 16.2% ★, Indie 2.1%, Atmospheric 1.2%
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 62.5%, Dark Fantasy 22.2%, Simulation 7.3%, Atmospheric 3.9%, Indie 3.1%
Deadly Daycare is a VR experience where you must take care of a cast of chaotic creatures before they destroy you and your daycare!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.2%, Time Management 33.2%, Life Sim 12.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Puzzle 6.2%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 46.6%, Dark Fantasy 27.8%, Roguelike 11.5%, Gothic 9.4% ★, Atmospheric 2.2%
NEVERMORE: The Chamber Door is an indie game developed by just one person, with fluid combat in the style of hack n 'slash and lore inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.6%, Gothic 22.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 20.7%, Roguelike 10%, 2D 2.1%
Harness the Orbs of Chaos! Choose 3 orbs each run to create 10 overpowered spells in real time in this noisy action roguelite. Slay Lovecraftian horrors and face deadly bosses every 3 minutes. Embrace the Chaos and uncover the unholy secrets of a grotesque world, all set to a haunting soundtrack.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49%, Gothic 18% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.1%, Stylized 8%, Roguelike 7.6%
