- #1 Queen Of The Hill
97% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Veebs22
Windows
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 38.3%, Time Management 30.5%, Resource Management 14.1%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Simulation 4.8%
- #2 Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
96% matchMixed61% of 261 reviews2020
Dev: Shockwork GamesPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 32.7%, Gothic 18.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
- #3 Not Today: Homeless Survival
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Pixel Games
Windows
Survive 30 unforgiving days on the streets before a deadly blizzard hits. Hustle for change, dumpster dive, or risk it all by picking pockets and dodging cops. Balance your hunger, hygiene, and morale. The city doesn't care if you live or die, prove it wrong.
Why similar: Time Management 40.8%, Simulation 20.7%, Life Sim 17.9%, Resource Management 16%, Atmospheric 2.8%
- #4 Coffee For Cthulhu
95% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Josiah ParkhurstPub: Team Coffee
Windows
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 35.1%, Time Management 22.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%, Life Sim 9.5%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
- #5 Eatime
94% matchNo user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Astral Rite
Windows
Eatime is a Chinese-cuisine strategy puzzle about planning every minute. Arrange cooking steps on a timeline, manage chefs and cookware, combine tasks, and adapt your schedule so every dish is served at just the right moment.
Why similar: Time Management 27.9%, Resource Management 23.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Life Sim 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
- #6 Sunken Engine
94% matchVery Positive83% of 803 reviews2025
Dev: Two Nomads StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 42.5%, Time Management 27.1%, Life Sim 11.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Stylized 6.6%
- #7 3 O'clock Horror
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: 3 O'clock grymlins TeamPub: Gabe Simao
Windows
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 51.6%, Time Management 35.9%, Puzzle 5.1%, Atmospheric 4.1%, 2D 2.5%
- #8 The Last Lighthouse
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ticking Clock Games
Windows
Tend a Magical Lighthouse at the edge of the cosmos. Gather and refine resources, maintain and upgrade the Lighthouse Engine, and aid incoming ships while an unsettling fog closes in.
Why similar: Time Management 48.3%, Resource Management 23.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Stylized 8.7%, Atmospheric 5.2%
- #9 Infinite Arcana
91% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Kier Works
Windows
Push deeper into an endless dark-fantasy roguelite of random battles, shops, events, and cursed regions. Build with arcane stones and record 500+ monsters and 20+ regions in a persistent archive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 56.9%, Dark Fantasy 21.4%, Resource Management 16.9%, 2D 2.5%, Indie 1.1%
- #10 Good Sleep Company
91% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Uranus-net.com
Windows
Swap dreams to more suitable, as sweet FOR PAID USERS.
Why similar: Time Management 45.3%, Simulation 22.7%, Resource Management 17.8%, Puzzle 9.7%, 2D 3.5%
- #11 Garland Boy
90% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Wappen Games
Windows
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 49.6%, Life Sim 16.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Stylized 8.4%
- #12 Storage Finder
89% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Chronicles ekA
Windows
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 41.5%, Simulation 20.8%, Resource Management 20.5%, Life Sim 15.5%, Indie 1%
- #13 THE COPE
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DoubleZero Studio
Windows
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 50.9%, Hand-drawn 20.2%, Dark Fantasy 19.3%, Puzzle 6.1%, 2D 3%
- #14 The Roast - Coffee Shop Simulator
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 168 reviews2026
Dev: Leartes Games
Windows
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 22%, Life Sim 19.2%, Stylized 13%, Indie 1%
- #15 Barnacles Beers and Brawls
88% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Infamous GrogPub: University of Utah
Windows
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 37.1%, Lovecraftian 34.3%, Simulation 17.7%, Stylized 9.5%, Indie 0.9%
- #16 Darkest Dungeon® II
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,731 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40%, Dark Fantasy 20.9%, Gothic 16% ★, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Roguelike 7.4%
- #17 Aircraft Dispatcher: Ground Operations
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Mojo Soft
Windows
Take charge of airport operations. Manage aircraft maintenance, ground support, equipment, and taxiway movements, then leave the office to inspect aircraft, investigate damage, clear FOD, respond to emergencies, and keep flights moving safely and on schedule.
Why similar: Time Management 41.3%, Resource Management 22.3%, Simulation 21.9%, Life Sim 9.8%, Atmospheric 2.7%
- #18 Roads of Rome
86% matchVery Positive86% of 110 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
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 58.1%, Resource Management 24.9%, Simulation 17%
- #19 Tomebound
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Unicursal
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rescue corrupted books from your library, harness their power and rally their forces to fight for you in this hexgrid tactics deckbuilder! Combine cards to create uniquely powerful spells. With thousands of permutations to explore every turn, no two battles will ever be the same.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.6%, Gothic 22.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 19.9%, Hand-drawn 7.6%, Roguelike 6.4%
- #20 What Iron Cannot Hold
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Chris WoodwardPub: Huff Interactive
Windows · Linux
Something impossible is clawing its way through an industrial containment machine. In this 360° ricochet roguelite, weaponize every rebound and build a run powerful enough to force Khaos back into the dark.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.3%, Resource Management 23.1%, Time Management 15.5%, Roguelike 5.2%, Atmospheric 3.1%
- #21 Shop Manager Simulator
82% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Next Dimension Lab
Windows
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 39.8%, Simulation 20.6%, Life Sim 18.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Stylized 9.9%
- #22 Lovecraft Locker: Tentacle Office
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strange Girl Studios
Windows
Take the role of an otherworldly tentacle entity lurking within a high-rise skyscraper! Infect office lockers, stalk the corridors, and ambush unsuspecting workers from the lockers.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 61.3%, Time Management 24.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, 2D 1.8%, Indie 0.8%
- #23 Observation Daruma Log
81% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: LilyCompany
Windows · Mac
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 50%, Simulation 26%, Resource Management 19.1%, 2D 3.8%, Singleplayer 1%
- #24 The Mariner
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flantastic Games
Windows
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 63.3%, Stylized 15.6%, Puzzle 9.5%, Hand-drawn 8%, Atmospheric 2.9%
- #25 The Season of the Warlock
80% 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: Lovecraftian 35.3%, Gothic 24.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #26 Arena Bot Manager
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SonderSoft
Windows · Linux
Manage a scrapyard bot-fighting team on the Lunar Ringworld. Build machines from scraps, plan each day through timeblocks, train adaptive AI fighters, and watch your choices unfold in brutal autonomous arena battles as you attract sponsors, fame, and headline matches across the Ring.
Why similar: Time Management 39.2%, Resource Management 20%, Life Sim 19.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Stylized 5.8%
- #27 Lost Remnant: Roaches to Riches
79% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2020
Dev: Jeff Sproul
Windows
A Point & Click Management game of Incomprehensible Entities, Survival and Discovery. Inspired by SCP and Cultist Simulator, with Cosmic Horror elements.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.1%, Resource Management 24.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Simulation 5.8%, 2D 3.7%
- #28 Retro TV Tycoon
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Xiro's Studio
Windows · Linux
Take control of a 90s television station in Retro TV Tycoon! Acquire rights to hit sitcoms and cult movies, schedule 24/7 broadcast grids, sign lucrative sponsor contracts, upgrade your newsroom, and expand your antenna transmission network to dominate the airwaves.
Why similar: Time Management 59%, Simulation 19.6%, Resource Management 16.6%, 2D 3.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #29 Anomaly Control Division
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Team CaffeinePub: Hoseo Game Software
Windows
Welcome to the Anomaly Control Division—the finest workplace on Earth. Protect humanity. Study the unknown. Monitor anomalies, maintain containment, and survive the shift. Good luck. *All on-duty injuries are your sole responsibility. The Division assumes no liability.
Why similar: Time Management 59.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Indie 1%
- #30 Fine Dying
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Room Games
Windows · Mac
A strange kitchen. Endless orders. Limited minutes. Serve, grow, survive. Bon Appétit!
Why similar: Time Management 29.7%, Gothic 21.8% ★, Resource Management 16.5%, Hand-drawn 10%, Stylized 8.1%
- #31 As The Light Goes Out
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moon Falcon
Windows
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 41.6%, Resource Management 29.8%, Simulation 26.3%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #32 Wedding Dash® 2: Rings Around the World
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 107 reviews2009
Dev: Sarbakan
Windows · Mac
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 60.8%, Simulation 39.2%
- #33 Strange Tales of Tei-Shan
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thumb Parrot Games
Windows · Mac
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 37.9%, Gothic 20.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 18.3%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Stylized 9.3%
- #34 Apes Ticker
73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Cheers
Windows
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 39.5%, Simulation 23.6%, Life Sim 19.1%, Resource Management 15.8%, Indie 1.1%
- #35 Little Horror Raiser
75% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: echomune
Windows
Choose a little horror to raise then unleash it upon the world.
Why similar: Time Management 30.6%, Lovecraftian 24.4%, Resource Management 16.4%, Life Sim 15.2%, Simulation 11.1%
- #36 PrisonSoul:Reunion
74% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: AutomaticGrasshopper
Windows
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 44.2%, Gothic 22.7% ★, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Stylized 9.4%, Puzzle 5.7%
- #37 The Call of Krul'ar
74% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2022
Dev: Devious Oatmeal
Windows
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 36.1%, Time Management 26.5%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Roguelike 8.2%
- #38 Security Simulator: Nightshift
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: MetypePub: Blue Dragon Games
Windows · Linux
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 43.5%, Simulation 27.5%, Roguelike 15.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Indie 1.9%
- #39 Town at Stake
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Midnight Mess
Windows
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 37.5%, Gothic 19.1% ★, Life Sim 17.7%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Stylized 9.5%
- #40 Garbage Collector
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixelifact
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.5%, Simulation 27.4%, Resource Management 19.1%, Life Sim 13.2%, Atmospheric 4%
- #41 Ping Profit - Internet Tycoon
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SudoNova
Windows · Linux
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 41.4%, Resource Management 26.5%, Simulation 22.2%, Stylized 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #42 At the Mountains of Madness
75% matchMostly Negative33% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: Team Clockworks
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 97.2%, Indie 2.8%
- #43 Dyer Expedition
71% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: Monkeys With Jobs
Windows
Dyer Expedition is a puzzle adventure game with light Lovecraftian horror elements and a story inspired by Lovecraft's 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 56.8%, Dark Fantasy 19.4%, Stylized 10.9%, Puzzle 7.2%, Atmospheric 4.9%
- #44 Build-a-lot: On Vacation
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Hipsoft
Windows
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 26%, Resource Management 17.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, 2D 2.9%
- #45 The Horror at Highrook
70% matchVery Positive90% of 479 reviews2025
Dev: Nullpointer Games
Windows
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 47%, Gothic 15.1% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, Stylized 6.7%
- #46 The Proprietor
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Noctum Interactive
Windows · Linux
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 46.5%, Gothic 30.7% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Stylized 7.9%, Puzzle 5.2%
- #47 Kooeh: A Timeless Delight
70% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Twilight Foundry Games
Windows
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 21.7%, Hand-drawn 18.5%, Time Management 16.8%, Life Sim 14%, Stylized 11.5%
- #48 Pearl Dream
70% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2023
Dev: IndieCain
Windows
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 75.9%, Hand-drawn 21.9%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #49 BLOODLETTER
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 229 reviews2026
Dev: ALDAMAMI GAMES
Windows
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 45.3%, Dark Fantasy 20.8%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Stylized 9.5%, Simulation 7.9%
- #50 Static Shift
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: North Born Games
Windows
A Lovecraftian, psychological co-op horror where the powers from above are tormenting you and your co-workers, warping reality with anomalies and using any means necessary to stop you from leaving or finding out the truth: Can you do it? (co-op not included in demo version)
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.1%, Time Management 29.6%, Roguelike 10.2%, Stylized 8.3%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #51 E-TECH SIMULATOR
69% matchMixed54% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: empire gamesPub: CEMA GAMES
Windows
Welcome to E-TECH Simulator, the ultimate simulation game where your entrepreneurial skills will be put to the test!
Why similar: Time Management 44.4%, Simulation 21.3%, Life Sim 19.3%, Resource Management 13.4%, Indie 0.9%
- #52 Weird Simulator
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: boötes devPub: boötes voїd
Windows
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 45.7%, Simulation 24.9%, Life Sim 22.3%, 2D 3.7%, Indie 2.3%
- #53 Don't Click in The Dark
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magnaro
Windows
"Don't Click in The Dark" is a unique strategy game with clicker elements, set in a dark world inspired by Lovecraft's mythology. The player assumes the role of an enlightened cultist striving to build a powerful cult worshipping the ancient gods.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 46%, Resource Management 19.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Stylized 9.9%, Simulation 4.5%
- #54 Tales of Inca 2 - New Adventures
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: magnussoft
Windows
Join the Incas on their exciting journey, fight against demons and mystical monsters and experience exciting adventures!
Why similar: Time Management 67.1%, Resource Management 28.1%, 2D 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #55 Siida
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AbyssHaul
Windows
Survive through Lapland's frozen beauty in this Sámi-inspired survival strategy game. Don't conquer nature, listen to it. Master the seasons in a fragile ecosystem where sustainability is the only way to endure.
Why similar: Time Management 43.4%, Resource Management 27.6%, Simulation 17.8%, Stylized 8.3%, Singleplayer 2%
- #56 Iter Noctis
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ENTHECA studiosPub: Foundate Inc.
Windows
Dishonored in death, a pathless soul not worth of an afterlife seeks escape from the eternal commute.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 59.9%, Gothic 36.5% ★, Indie 3.6%
- #57 Hallow Maze
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Solcom Games
Windows
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 42.4%, Dark Fantasy 19.5%, Gothic 16.9% ★, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Stylized 9.1%
- #58 Sea Salt
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 731 reviews2019
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 63.3%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Gothic 15.7% ★, Indie 2%, Atmospheric 1.1%
- #59 MonsterGuest
65% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Jay
Windows
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 65.2%, Simulation 31.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%, Indie 1.6%