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 21.8%, Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Gore 12.3%, Story Rich 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the direct follow-up to Lobotomy Corporation, carrying over the same universe, dense lore, abnormality-related themes, and punishing trial-and-error design.

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 35.5%, Story Rich 26.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Anime 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Another Project Moon game in the same setting, it delivers dark story-heavy combat, abnormality encounters, and the same bleak corporate-horror tone.

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 24.6%, Difficult 17.2%, Lovecraftian 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Story Rich 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its opaque systems, occult management, and constant risk of catastrophic failure strongly echo Lobotomy Corporation's learn-by-suffering structure.

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: Management 31.6%, Difficult 30%, Lovecraftian 15.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Roguelike 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing monsters, staff, and lethal encounters from the villain side makes it one of the closest matches to Lobotomy's creature-control gameplay loop.

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 49.4%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Cute 9.4%, Roguelite 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its ruthless optimization, system oversight, and cold management of lives make it feel spiritually close to Lobotomy Corporation's detached crisis juggling.

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 22.1%, Management 17.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 12.2%, Story Rich 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: You run a sinister organization that spreads fear through layered strategic systems, matching the seed game's blend of management and horror escalation.

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 34.3%, Lovecraftian 30.5%, Roguelike 10.5%, Horror 6.4%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The stress, attrition, expendable personnel, and oppressive presentation hit a very similar nerve even though the structure is dungeon-based instead of facility-based.

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 72.9%, Simulation 17.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a dangerous facility-management sim about assigning people to risky magical work while keeping a deadly hidden threat under control.

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: Lovecraftian 26.1%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Horror 21.3%, Roguelite 7.4%, Roguelike 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It trades management for investigation, but its psychological and cosmic horror atmosphere is extremely aligned with Lobotomy's unsettling vibe.

Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Why similar: Management 31%, Difficult 23.8%, Lovecraftian 15.3%, Horror 11.3%, Story Rich 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This cult-management game leans heavily into sacrifice, secrecy, and eldritch dread, making it a strong thematic match.

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 32.2%, Strategy 17%, Difficult 16.7%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Lobotomy Corporation's brutal decision-making, cascading failures, and constant tension between efficiency and human cost.

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 52.5%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 16%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its base-management against demonic threats captures the same feeling of trying to hold a doomed operation together under supernatural pressure.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Management 35.7%, Simulation 35.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another brutal sandbox management game where arcane rules, dangerous entities, and disastrous experiments must be learned the hard way.

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 27%, Difficult 18.9%, Horror 15.1%, Gore 13.7%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Directing a crew through system failures, breaches, and monsters creates a similar flavor of escalating panic and multitasking under pressure.

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 35.2%, Horror 24.9%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 10%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its grotesque experimental-lab theme and mad-science simulation make it a natural fit for players who like Lobotomy's body-horror side.

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 30.6%, Story Rich 28.5%, Roguelike 12.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Roguelite 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is mechanically different, but its layered meta-horror, experimentation themes, and oppressive atmosphere appeal strongly to the same audience.

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Why similar: Management 63.7%, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 11.6%, 2D 4.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Running an occult organization, managing followers, and expanding a morally dubious operation gives it a lighter but still relevant overlap.

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 47.9%, Story Rich 15.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 10%, 2D 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its emergent disasters, morally gray management, and tendency for one incident to snowball into total catastrophe make it a strong systems-based alternative.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Management 58.4%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 12.2%, 2D 6.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on staffing, containment, layout, and disasters spiraling out of control mirrors the operational side of managing dangerous abnormalities.

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 48%, Difficult 19.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 8.5%, 2D 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the horror theme, but few games match Lobotomy Corporation's dense facility systems and chain-reaction disasters this well.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Management 42.4%, Story Rich 14.5%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: While not supernatural, it shares the same crushing resource triage, human fragility, and grim consequences for every managerial choice.

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 33%, Strategy 18.7%, Difficult 16.7%, Simulation 15.5%, RTS 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This story-driven station-management game delivers relentless crises, ethical pressure, and the same sensation of a complex facility always being one step from collapse.

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

Why similar: Difficult 34%, Management 14.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Great Soundtrack 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: The darkly comic but cruel resource optimization and expendable-worker design line up with Lobotomy Corporation's utilitarian management streak.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Difficult 36.9%, Horror 18.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Roguelite 9.4%, Roguelike 9%

Why You'll Like It: Commanding drones through derelict ships full of unknown threats recreates the same tense, procedural feeling of cautious operations in a hostile system.

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Management 52.5%, Strategy 18.9%, Simulation 17.4%, Great Soundtrack 4.7%, RTS 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its secret-base staffing, room management, and containment of hostile intrusions overlap well with Lobotomy's facility-operations appeal.

Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 45.1%, Horror 30.8%, Roguelike 20.4%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its disposable operatives, cosmic-horror backdrop, and grim risk management make it a good lower-level match for the seed's tone and tension.

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 50.4%, Story Rich 16%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 9.9%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Monitoring unpredictable subjects through detached surveillance systems captures a smaller-scale version of Lobotomy Corporation's observer-manager tension.

Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Demon-Slayer, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. Your choices will determine which employees become enamored with you.

Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Story Rich 15.2%, Cute 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: Management 64.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 9.6%, 2D 7.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Building and optimizing a cruel infernal workplace scratches a similar itch for dark, morally ugly management systems.

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 38%, Story Rich 18.9%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its constant surveillance, authoritarian pressure, and ugly choices echo the seed game's theme of managing people through dehumanizing systems.

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 39.1%, Lovecraftian 26.4%, Horror 12.7%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.5%

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 22.9%, Anime 18.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%, Story Rich 8.7%

Morimens is a roguelite card-building game inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, where you craft a versatile and intricate deck tailored to your playstyle. The choice is yours to embark on a climb up treacherous towers or engage in tactical battles. Explore misty maps and uncover the truth of the world.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.5%, Story Rich 17%, Horror 13.7%, Strategy 10%, Visual Novel 9%

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Difficult 29.1%, Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Roguelike 18.5%, Strategy 16.4%, Roguelite 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Balancing resources, personnel, and lethal threats in a collapsing sci-fi environment gives it a familiar disaster-management rhythm.

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 21.2%, Roguelite 21.2%, Anime 19.5%, Strategy 18.1%, 2D 13.2%

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 24.5%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Story Rich 10.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Anime 7.5%

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%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Gore 16.3%, Horror 12.6%, Story Rich 10.9%

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 30%, Management 29%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 15%, Atmospheric 2.8%

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 22.6%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 13.8%, Story Rich 12.6%, Cute 7.4%

"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 20.7%, Anime 13%, Strategy 10.3%, Roguelike 5.4%

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 28.2%, Psychological Horror 25.7%, Story Rich 14.3%, Simulation 9.7%, Roguelite 7.8%

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 29.4%, Lovecraftian 21.7%, Strategy 18.2%, RTS 16.2%, Simulation 6.9%

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: Lovecraftian 26.6%, Gore 20%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, Strategy 8.6%

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 47.8%, Roguelite 13.9%, Roguelike 11.8%, Strategy 11.6%, 2D 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 52%, Horror 17.6%, Story Rich 15.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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 30.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.2%, Horror 11.9%, Gore 11.4%, Story Rich 7.9%

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.5%, Story Rich 18.4%, Horror 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, 2D 7.1%

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 66%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 15.4%

Deck-building meets monster catching in this turn-based roguelike. Recruit enemy cards to your party as you dive into the depths of the abyss. Will you kill them or will you tame them?

Why similar: Difficult 40%, Lovecraftian 15.6%, Strategy 13.7%, Horror 10.6%, 2D 5.6%

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 22.5%, Gore 21.5%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Horror 14.8%, Lovecraftian 13.3%

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 51.6%, Roguelite 9.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Roguelike 7.8%, Strategy 7.3%

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 27.5%, Psychological Horror 20%, Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Difficult 16.4%, 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 26.1%, Horror 21.4%, Roguelite 14.9%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 13.8%

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 41.3%, Horror 16.9%, RTS 12.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 8.6%

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 28%, Difficult 23.6%, Lovecraftian 18.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 6.2%

F&H 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Lovecraftian 27.3%, Horror 24.9%, Anime 5.6%, 2D 4.9%

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 34.4%, Story Rich 16.9%, Horror 13.4%, Cute 11.5%, Anime 10.7%

"Vivid Knight" is a "party-building roguelike" game in which you collect friends who have been turned into jewels and fight by combining their abilities! Explore the ever-changing dungeon and harness the gems you have gathered to challenge the labyrinth!

Why similar: Difficult 39.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Roguelike 10.8%, Cute 9.1%, Strategy 9%

The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.8%, Story Rich 19.6%, Anime 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Simulation 10.5%

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Why similar: Management 47.2%, Simulation 22.3%, Strategy 18.6%, Indie 8.3%, 2D 2%