Games Like Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation

"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.

Why similar: Difficult 22.4%, Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Gore 11.7%, Story Rich 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It continues Lobotomy Corporation's setting and lore while retaining its grim corporate world, difficult progression, and a constant sense of dangerous knowledge being weaponized.

As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 39.6%, Story Rich 25%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Anime 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Another Project Moon game, it offers a character-driven journey through the same surreal dystopian universe with dense lore, horrific abnormalities, and punishing tactical encounters.

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: Management 23.6%, Difficult 18.4%, Lovecraftian 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Story Rich 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its opaque ritual systems, forbidden lore, and careful management of dangerous occult forces capture the pleasure of gradually learning how lethal systems work.

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

Why similar: Management 48.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 10%, Cute 9.8%, Roguelite 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You oversee an expanding AI operation through resource allocation, research, staff-like agents, and cascading strategic consequences in a similarly cold institutional framework.

Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.

Why similar: Management 65.5%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is directly built around managing an SCP-style organization, balancing containment, personnel, research, and the unpredictable consequences of anomalous entities.

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: Management 38.1%, Lovecraftian 27.3%, Horror 12.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its Lovecraftian colony management centers on building a cult-state while satisfying eldritch powers and enduring the costs of forbidden devotion.

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: Management 34.5%, Horror 25.4%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the mad-science angle of researching and exploiting monsters, with experimentation and creature creation framed through gruesome horror aesthetics.

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Management 72.6%, Simulation 18.1%, Singleplayer 4.8%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This dark magic-school management game has you train staff and students, build a hazardous facility, and cope with curses, deaths, and supernatural threats.

Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!

Why similar: Difficult 31.6%, Management 30.5%, Lovecraftian 15.3%, Strategy 7.5%, Roguelike 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing monsters and employees to defend a dangerous facility gives it a lighter but mechanically recognizable take on Lobotomy Corporation's workplace catastrophes.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.

Why similar: Difficult 23.3%, Management 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 12.1%, Story Rich 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This sinister management strategy game has you spread fear through an indirect control system, emphasizing manipulation, escalation, and dark narrative scenarios.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Management 47.2%, Story Rich 16%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 10.2%, 2D 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep colony simulation produces the same desperate personnel-management stories when fragile workers face raids, breakdowns, experiments, and cascading emergencies.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Management 25.8%, Difficult 20%, Horror 15.1%, Gore 13.7%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its submarine crews must operate complex machinery under pressure while facing monsters, sabotage, injuries, and failures that rapidly become disasters.

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: Difficult 35%, Lovecraftian 29.1%, Roguelike 10%, Horror 6.1%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The stress, trauma, attrition, and grim personnel decisions of its expedition management evoke Lobotomy Corporation's willingness to make employees break.

Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Story Rich 22.2%, Horror 19%, Difficult 13.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although action-focused, its paranormal bureaucracy, shifting containment facility, altered items, and SCP-like case-file atmosphere make it an exceptional thematic match.

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: Difficult 22.8%, Lovecraftian 20.2%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 16.5%, Roguelite 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This difficult anthology of Junji Ito-inspired cosmic horror offers desperate investigations, branching calamities, and a similarly oppressive atmosphere.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Difficult 17.9%, Strategy 16.7%, Great Soundtrack 14.8%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Every staffing, research, and resource decision can become an ethical disaster, delivering similarly unforgiving management pressure and bleak institutional storytelling.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Horror 30.5%, Story Rich 29.3%, Roguelike 12.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Roguelite 11%

Why You'll Like It: Its deceptively simple card-game structure gradually reveals unsettling meta-horror, cryptic rules, and a strong sense that something is deeply wrong behind the system.

Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.

Why similar: Difficult 23.6%, Gore 21.4%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 14.5%, Lovecraftian 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile dark-fantasy world demands experimentation with cruel, poorly explained systems, making every discovery feel dangerous and consequential.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Management 46.8%, Difficult 21.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 8.5%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Running a fragile underground facility requires meticulous worker assignments and systems engineering, where one overlooked failure can endanger the entire complex.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Management 48.1%, RTS 15.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Roguelite 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite settlement management rewards adapting to hostile conditions, juggling specialized workers, and making hard tradeoffs under constant pressure.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Management 60.5%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Difficult 8%, Roguelike 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its unmatched emergent simulation turns every fortress into a volatile workplace full of specialized labor, bizarre threats, and memorable catastrophic failures.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Management 31.9%, Strategy 18.5%, Difficult 17.8%, Simulation 15.3%, RTS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a failing space station and its population through accidents, shortages, research, and morally grim crisis decisions in a claustrophobic setting.

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 33.6%, Great Soundtrack 19.1%, Story Rich 16.3%, Horror 10.7%, Roguelike 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a crew through an unknowable gothic ocean combines resource pressure, permanent losses, obscure lore, and superb cosmic-horror atmosphere.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Difficult 39%, Story Rich 20.3%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 11.2%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its bleak expedition leadership revolves around rationing, morale, crew roles, and impossible decisions as an isolated team confronts an unnatural threat.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Management 60.2%, Simulation 15.6%, RTS 13.6%, Strategy 8%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Building and defending an underground lair with minions, traps, research, and monsters offers a more humorous but satisfying facility-management alternative.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Management 51.6%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 16.3%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This occult survival-management game asks you to organize survivors in a demon-infested world, research threats, and defend a vulnerable base.

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: Great Soundtrack 39.6%, Story Rich 18.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing an oppressive apartment block through surveillance, scarce resources, and morally compromising choices captures the seed game's bureaucratic dread.

Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Spirit Hunter, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. All employees can be romanced depending on your choices.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.1%, Horror 16.3%, Story Rich 11.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Cute 8.2%

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Management 48.4%, Story Rich 16.2%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 9.7%, 2D 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This voyeuristic surveillance-management game has you monitor isolated lives, make risky interventions, and uncover unsettling stories through limited information.

Grow magical crops—and your own workforce. Run an alchemy shop in a city trapped in a time loop, forge bonds with humans and non-humans, and shape its fate. A dark fantasy management sim with branching stories and multiple endings.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.4%, Story Rich 22.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Visual Novel 10%, Simulation 9.5%

Morimens is a roguelite card-battler inspired by the Lovecraftian mythos. Bond with a diverse cast of Awakeners, build your perfect deck, and battle through the mists of Kadath—facing wild events and uncovering maddening truths at every turn.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.4%, Horror 18%, Story Rich 16%, Strategy 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.4%

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: Management 67.2%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 10.3%, 2D 4%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades anomalies for medicine, but its detailed facility layout, staff scheduling, diagnosis systems, and operational crises make it a strong management-focused alternative.

Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 38.9%, Horror 19.5%, Roguelite 18.5%, Cute 15.4%, 2D 7.8%

Chrono Ark is a singleplayer roguelike that combines elements from deckbuilders and party-based RPGs. Recruit, train, and build a team of unique Investigators to restore the Twisted World!

Why similar: Difficult 23.2%, Anime 17.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Great Soundtrack 11.2%, Story Rich 9.8%

Experience the newest tactical RPG from the creators of Girls’ Frontline. Some 30 years in the future, AU agent Mendo and the mysterious girl Jefuty find themselves in gruesome battles against armed URNC forces…

Why similar: Difficult 31.4%, Lovecraftian 18.3%, Gore 13.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Story Rich 7.3%

SCP: Observer is a frightening experience in which you'll play the role of a maintenance engineer trapped inside a security room. Survive by managing the emergency power supply, monitoring the facility's camera system for threats and blocking the paths of oncoming horrors.

Why similar: Difficult 31.6%, Management 27.7%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 14.9%, Atmospheric 2.8%

Summon, consult, and train procedurally generated monster girls in this dungeon roguelite. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different monster types as you prepare the ultimate team to defeat dangerous enemies and collect powerful artifacts. (Game is SFW)

Why similar: Cute 21.9%, Roguelite 20.5%, Anime 19.6%, Strategy 18.1%, 2D 12.9%

"May all stories find their best endings." "Depersonalization" is an anthology-style game featuring standalone chapters and diverse story genres. We continuously collect and create a wide variety of stories, ultimately housing them in a library that transcends the flow of time.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.6%, Story Rich 21.1%, Anime 12.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Roguelike 5.4%

Love, Internet, and Murder Magic is a Roguelike game. You will role-play an agent of a streamer who died because of a murder. You are trying to "bring her back" through AI technology on the Internet, making her the unique creation of the Internet.

Why similar: Management 23.7%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Anime 7.5%, Strategy 7.5%

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 38.1%, Simulation 13%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Roguelite 9.1%

<3 Bond with your Family, but there's something wrong going on in this house........

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.9%, Simulation 22.5%, Horror 22.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, Anime 6%

Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.4%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Horror 13.6%, Story Rich 12.8%, Cute 7.5%

SCP Bloodwater is a strategy management defense game inspired by the SCP Foundation's SCP-354, also known as the Red Pool. Take the role of a newly appointed Site Director at the Red Pool Containment Zone, harvest valuable organic material, and defend the facility against the Red Pool's attacks.

Why similar: Management 27.9%, Lovecraftian 21.8%, Strategy 18.6%, RTS 17.3%, Simulation 6.7%

Fhtagn Simulator is a Cthulhu Roulette Deckbuilder. Set up card slots on roulette to maximize card's value. Collect evil creatures, spells, items and environment to build your deck. Your ultimate mission is to sacrifice spirit collected by cards to unseal the ancient gods that have come to earth!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 48.5%, Roguelite 13.4%, Roguelike 11.8%, Strategy 11.6%, 2D 6.8%

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.

Why similar: Management 27.5%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, Story Rich 14.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Roguelite 7.6%

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.4%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Gore 16.1%, Horror 12.5%, Story Rich 11%

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.7%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Horror 11.6%, Gore 11.4%, Story Rich 7.9%

A VR/Desktop game where you are a new D-Class personnel in secret SCP Research Site-50 when everything falls apart. Use what you can find as you explore the facility, access logs to learn about the SCP entities in containment, and run for your life from the SCP entities that have escaped.

Why similar: Horror 26.4%, Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Difficult 17.1%, Story Rich 6.9%

Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31%, Horror 23.5%, Roguelite 11.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Roguelike 11.4%

Scare, terrify and thrill guests as you build the haunted house of your nightmares. Design and customize your creations with incredible detail to scare your guests, or risk losing it all in this tower defense/management/tycoon hybrid.

Why similar: Management 40.3%, Horror 17.3%, RTS 13%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8.7%

A.D.D is a management simulation game where you run operations for a company investigating the Backrooms. Connect nodes, build workflows, dispatch employees, and deliver the results the company demands.

Why similar: Management 58.7%, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Indie 4.1%, 2D 3.7%

Step into the enigmatic world of SCP OPERATIONS. Lead your team of elite agents through tactical, turn-based combat against the Chaos Insurgency and dangerous SCP objects. Uncover secrets and protect humanity.

Why similar: Management 50.9%, Horror 18%, Story Rich 15.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.

Why similar: Management 51.4%, Roguelite 8.9%, Simulation 8.5%, Roguelike 7.9%, Cute 7.4%

A horror roguelike bento-builder. You're trapped in an underground kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster. Gamble with your life, assemble meals, and master your multipliers. Whatever you do, Don't Let it Starve.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.3%, Horror 22.7%, Strategy 16.7%, Roguelike 13.4%, Roguelite 11.3%

A gothic roguelike shopkeeping game where you sell antiques, read the tarot, and manage your inventory to survive crushing rent increases. Match strange customers with the relics they crave, unlock powerful cards, and gamble your way out of debt, one deal at a time.

Why similar: Management 23.4%, Strategy 16.2%, Horror 14.7%, Lovecraftian 12.9%, Roguelike 12.7%

SCP-8008-1 IS A HORROR DATING SIM WHERE THE BEST YOU CAN HOPE FOR IS SURVIVAL. SMOOCH SCP-173, SCP-682 AND EVEN SCP-096. DO NOT RUN THIS SOFTWARE WITHOUT CLASS-4 AUTHORIZATION.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.2%, Story Rich 17.1%, Horror 13.2%, Cute 11.6%, Anime 10.5%

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Why similar: Gore 46.2%, Horror 17.5%, Lovecraftian 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%, 2D 5%

Containment is a turn-based, minimalist strategy game about managing the growth of bacteria. Use antibiotics to keep their power under control as you work towards containment.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.6%, Difficult 22.3%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 9.7%

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Management 27%, Difficult 25%, Lovecraftian 18.4%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 6.1%