- #1 The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
97% matchVery Positive91% of 910 reviews2019
Dev: Fantasy Flight Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
A companion app for The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth board game from Fantasy Flight Games, a fully-cooperative board game for one to five players! This companion app dictates the setup of each encounter, tracks your party’s inventory and skills, and resolves combat while you brave the looming forests, quiet clearings, and...
Why similar: Board Game 50.6%, Strategy 29.6%, Adventure 19.8%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a similar app-driven companion system to manage exploration and combat in a cooperative board game setting.
- #2 Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace
96% matchMixed63% of 687 reviews2021
Dev: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Inspired by the award-winning board game franchise, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is an investigation game served with turn-based combat, set in the cult universe of H.P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.8%, Board Game 28.6%, Adventure 17%, Horror 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title directly adapts the Lovecraftian board game experience into a digital investigation game with turn-based combat.
- #3 Descent: Legends of the Dark
96% matchVery Positive91% of 273 reviews2021
Dev: Fantasy Flight Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
To play the Descent: Legends of the Dark board game, one player must download the free Descent: Legends of the Dark app on a compatible device. This companion app determines the setup of each quest, tracks your party’s inventory, skills, progress, and resolves combat while telling a narrative story.
Why similar: Board Game 48.6%, Strategy 27.2%, Adventure 17.6%, Co-op 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it features a fully integrated app that acts as a dungeon master for a cooperative, tactical board game experience.
- #4 Elder Sign: Omens
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 456 reviews2013
Dev: Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Elder Sign: Omens is a digital version of the popular board game by Fantasy Flight Games. Build a team of unique investigators and fight to keep an all-powerful Ancient One from invading our world! Explore museums, oceans, deserts and more for the arcane Elder Signs that will help seal the Ancient One away.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44%, Board Game 40.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Horror 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A direct digital adaptation of the Lovecraftian dice-rolling board game that focuses on managing sanity and health against ancient threats.
- #5 Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 259 reviews2020
Dev: Nomad Games
Windows
Dracula is ready to take over Europe and only four iconic vampire hunters can stop him, in this digital adaptation of the classic board game of deduction and gothic horror. Play locally with friends or with up to five players online. Will you be the hunter or the hunted?
Why similar: Board Game 62.1%, Strategy 24.7%, Horror 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a tense, asymmetrical board game experience that captures the same investigative and horror-themed atmosphere.
- #6 Call of Cthulhu®
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,295 reviews2018
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 79.5%, Horror 11.1%, Adventure 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep, narrative-driven investigation experience set in the iconic Lovecraftian universe.
- #7 Gloomhaven
93% matchVery Positive82% of 15,788 reviews2021
Dev: Flaming Fowl StudiosPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Lead your band of mercenaries in the land of Gloomhaven, work with unsavoury individuals, shape the fate of the region, fight your way through horrific places and get rich or die trying in this ruthless Tactical-RPG.
Why similar: Board Game 51.1%, Card Game 28.2%, Strategy 20.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for tactical, cooperative board game adaptations, offering deep strategic combat similar to the encounters in Mansions of Madness.
- #8 Nemesis: Lockdown
92% matchMixed69% of 785 reviews2022
Dev: InterStudioPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
In Nemesis: Lockdown, you're part of a team exploring an alien-infested space base. Craft, hide and fight to make it out of its dark, threat-filled corridors. Fulfill your objective even if it means betraying your allies, but remember - this time, you are not the hunter. You are the PREY.
Why similar: Board Game 58%, Card Game 21.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Adventure 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the high-stakes, cooperative, and often paranoid atmosphere of a board game to a digital space with strong horror elements.
- #9 Cultist Simulator
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,737 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Lovecraftian 39.1%, Board Game 32.3%, Card Game 16.2%, Strategy 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the esoteric, mysterious, and dangerous nature of Lovecraftian lore through a unique card-based simulation.
- #10 Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 898 reviews2017
Dev: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Mysterium is a cooperative deduction game set in the 1920s in which a ghost guides a group of psychics to uncover a murderer, as well as the weapon and location of the murder, using only visual clues.
Why similar: Board Game 60.6%, Strategy 31.2%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative mystery game that relies on deduction and visual clues, mirroring the investigation phase of the seed game.
- #11 Star Wars: Imperial Assault - Legends of the Alliance
90% matchVery Positive88% of 195 reviews2017
Dev: Fantasy Flight Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Legends of the Alliance is a companion app for the Star Wars: Imperial Assault board game, a scenario-based game of tactical combat. When you play with Legends of the Alliance, the app assumes the role of the Imperials, while you and your friends form a team of Rebel heroes fighting to bring down the Galactic Empire.
Why similar: Board Game 61%, Adventure 24.8%, Co-op 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: It uses an app-driven cooperative mode to manage missions, very similar to the mechanics found in the seed game.
- #12 Tainted Grail: Conquest
88% matchVery Positive90% of 8,124 reviews2021
Dev: QuestlinePub: Awaken Realms
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
Why similar: Board Game 56.6%, Card Game 43.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends dark, Lovecraftian-inspired fantasy with tactical deck-building and exploration mechanics.
- #13 Pathfinder Adventures
89% matchMixed64% of 844 reviews2017
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Pathfinder Adventures translates the best-selling Pathfinder Adventure Card Game into an entirely new breed of digital card game, where players adventure collaboratively to battle monsters and villains, and acquire new feats, items, weapons, and allies.
Why similar: Board Game 44.2%, Card Game 29%, Strategy 26.8%
Why You'll Like It: A faithful digital adaptation of a card-based board game that emphasizes character progression and cooperative strategy.
- #14 October Night Games
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 89 reviews2020
Dev: Octobear Knight GamesPub: WhisperGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you try to keep the world the way it is or fight for the changes? October Night Games is a digital board game where everyone is a cultist working for one of two different sides. Scour the town for cursed ingredients and make deals with inscrutable entities as something eldrich this way comes.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.7%, Board Game 29.8%, Card Game 11.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Adventure 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A digital board game that focuses on the occult and Lovecraftian themes with a tactical, turn-based structure.
- #15 Darkest Dungeon®
87% matchVery Positive92% of 158,223 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 80%, Strategy 14.9%, Horror 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly encapsulates the stress, sanity management, and grim atmosphere found in Lovecraftian horror games.
- #16 Westmark Manor
86% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Nodbrim InteractivePub: Toadman Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
What lurks in the darkest corners of the mansion? Westmark Manor is a journey into the occult, a mind-bending survival horror game, with a heavy focus on solving puzzles and exploration, inspired by the formidable H.P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53.3%, Adventure 40.9%, Horror 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy, atmospheric horror game that captures the feeling of exploring a haunted, mysterious estate.
- #17 Talisman: Digital Classic Edition
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,929 reviews2014
Dev: Nomad Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!
Why similar: Board Game 65.3%, Strategy 18.3%, Card Game 12.6%, Adventure 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic fantasy board game adaptation that focuses on exploration and character growth through dice-based mechanics.
- #18 The Sinking City Remastered
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,182 reviews2021
Dev: Frogwares
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 76.4%, Horror 13.3%, Adventure 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world investigation game that leans heavily into the detective and cosmic horror themes of the Cthulhu Mythos.
- #19 Conarium
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,240 reviews2017
Dev: Stormling StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 74.4%, Adventure 14.9%, Horror 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused exploration game that captures the eerie, otherworldly atmosphere of Lovecraftian horror.
- #20 Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: PsychoDevPub: AtomicHorde
Windows · Mac · Linux
After an encounter with a dreadful horror, detective Lone Carter’s investigation leads him to fateful places as Innsmouth, Arkham and the Antarctic, investigating a series of deaths and mysteries. Play also as Abdul Alhazred and H.P. Lovecraft himself in this Lovecraftian point’n’click adventure.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 79.1%, Adventure 20.9%
Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that pays direct homage to Lovecraft's most famous works with a focus on investigation.
- #21 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
83% matchMixed66% of 2,493 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 75.5%, Horror 11%, Strategy 7.3%, Adventure 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that captures the bleak, sanity-draining essence of Lovecraftian literature.
- #22 The Witcher Adventure Game
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,163 reviews2014
Dev: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
The Witcher Adventure Game is a digital adaptation of CD PROJEKT RED’s board game set in the brutal fantasy universe of monster slayer Geralt of Rivia. Travel across the beautifully rendered world of The Witcher and complete a variety of quests — hunt deadly beasts, solve ancient mysteries and more.
Why similar: Board Game 52%, Strategy 22.9%, Adventure 12.9%, Card Game 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A digital board game adaptation that focuses on questing, investigation, and tactical decision-making.
- #23 Armello
81% matchVery Positive82% of 15,967 reviews2015
Dev: League of Geeks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 30.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.
Why similar: Board Game 52%, Card Game 22.9%, Strategy 18.1%, Adventure 7%
Why You'll Like It: A digital board game that features deep strategy, card-based mechanics, and a dark, fairy-tale atmosphere.
- #24 Clue/Cluedo
80% matchVery Positive89% of 475 reviews2023
Dev: Marmalade Game Studio Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience a fresh take on the classic crime-solving board game. Step into new mysteries and use your skills of deduction to find out whodunit, with what weapon and where.
Why similar: Board Game 49.6%, Strategy 19.1%, Co-op 12.4%, Horror 9.6%, Adventure 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential investigation board game that focuses on deduction and uncovering secrets in a mansion setting.
- #25 Catan Universe
82% matchMixed48% of 17,548 reviews2017
Dev: Client/Frontend: Endava / Backend: SuperNimbusPub: USM
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Trade – build – settle: Become Lord of Catan! Get to know Catan and play the starter scenario in multiplayer mode. Purchase the complete base game, expansions, card game and much more to discover the entire Universe of Catan.
Why similar: Board Game 71.8%, Strategy 14.9%, Card Game 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: A popular digital board game adaptation that emphasizes resource management and strategic board positioning.
- #26 Love Letter
81% matchVery Positive86% of 588 reviews2018
Dev: Nomad GamesPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
The princess has several suitors... but which of them will manage to charm her? Choose a strategy, be it through bluffing or power of deduction, to win your beloved's heart. The official adaptation of the renowned card game.
Why similar: Board Game 44.5%, Card Game 29.3%, Strategy 26.2%
Why You'll Like It: A quick, deduction-based card game that captures the social and tactical elements of tabletop gaming.
- #27 Morimens
78% matchVery Positive82% of 3,749 reviews2024
Dev: B.I.A.V. Studio
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 50.6%, Card Game 20.3%, Strategy 15.8%, Adventure 6.8%, Horror 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based roguelike that incorporates Lovecraftian themes and visual novel elements to tell a dark, mysterious story.
- #28 Fhtagn! - Tales of the Creeping Madness
79% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Design Imps
Windows
Fhtagn! - Tales of the Creeping Madness is a text based adventure game, where choices matter. There's couch co-op and just a hint of betrayal. Play as one of four cultists intent on releasing the Ancient One!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.9%, Board Game 26.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Co-op 7.9%, Horror 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A choose-your-own-adventure style game that focuses on the narrative and sanity-testing aspects of Lovecraftian horror.
- #29 The Horror at Highrook
76% matchVery Positive91% of 451 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 42.8%, Board Game 32.7%, Card Game 15.9%, Horror 8.5%
- #30 SUNLESS SEA
78% matchVery Positive83% of 9,470 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 80.6%, Adventure 11.5%, Horror 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy exploration game that excels at building a sense of dread and mystery in a Lovecraftian-inspired world.
- #31 Menace from the Deep
74% matchVery Positive84% of 2,275 reviews2024
Dev: Flat Lab
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 56.8%, Card Game 16.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Adventure 7.6%, Horror 6.3%
- #32 Descent: Road to Legend
77% matchVery Positive89% of 387 reviews2016
Dev: Fantasy Flight Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 43.3 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Road to Legend is a companion app for the Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd edition board game. When you play with Road to Legend, the app assumes the role of the overlord player, controlling monsters and inviting you to explore the dungeon in entirely new and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Board Game 64.5%, Adventure 22.3%, Co-op 13.2%
- #33 Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness
79% matchMixed44% of 205 reviews2014
Dev: Cryo InteractivePub: Microids
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
In this thrilling point-and-click adventure based on the works of H.P Lovecraft, you’ll traverse the haunting world of Gothic New England, solving puzzles and acquiring information to help Stanton solve the mystery of the Necronomicon.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 74.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Horror 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click adventure game that dives deep into the lore and mystery of the Cthulhu Mythos.
- #34 Roots Devour
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 515 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.7%, Card Game 17.4%, Strategy 17.2%, Horror 8.8%, Adventure 8.8%
- #35 Curse of the Old Gods
77% matchVery Positive84% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: Tim Rachor
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A mystery adventure game set in a present-day Lovecraftian universe.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 55.4%, Adventure 36%, Horror 8.6%
- #36 The Foretold: Westmark Legacy
75% matchMixed58% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Nodbrim Interactive
Windows
Fight to investigate another day in this gothic horror adventure card game. Equip items and relics. Acquire cards and use them wisely to survive what lurks in the darkest corners of town. Take a short and mind-bending dive into the unknown with a cosy horror atmosphere.
Why similar: Board Game 31.3%, Lovecraftian 28.2%, Card Game 18.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Adventure 7.7%
- #37 Chronicle of Innsmouth
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 248 reviews2017
Dev: PsychoDevPub: AtomicHorde
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Chronicle of Innsmouth is a point'n'click adventure inspired by Lucas' retro classics from the 90s and H.P. Lovecraft's works. Investigate, gather info and solve enigmas to unveil the secrets of the cursed town of Innsmouth, a forsaken place surrounded by horrifying rumors.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 81.6%, Adventure 18.4%
- #38 Heretic Operative
75% matchVery Positive82% of 89 reviews2019
Dev: C Prompt Games
Windows
A unique digital boardgame with strategy and narrative elements, inspired by games like Pandemic, Arkham Horror, and Talisman. As a Heretic Operative, a secret mage sworn to oppose the Cult, you must harness the arcane without becoming lost in its power.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36%, Board Game 31.9%, Card Game 14.9%, Strategy 12.9%, Horror 4.3%
- #39 Eyes of Hellfire
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: GambrinousPub: Blumhouse Games
Windows · Mac
Eyes of Hellfire is a co-op gothic horror game inspired by tabletop games, but with a twist - the insidious Host can manipulate your sense of reality
Why similar: Strategy 37.8%, Card Game 30.4%, Co-op 17.4%, Horror 14.3%
- #40 Splendor
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,460 reviews2015
Dev: Days of WonderPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The OFFICIAL digital adaptation of the best-selling board game. ** ONLINE MULTIPLAYER NOW AVAILABLE !!! **
Why similar: Board Game 60.4%, Strategy 24.8%, Card Game 14.7%
- #41 Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition
72% matchVery Positive87% of 3,493 reviews2018
Dev: Marmalade Game Studio Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The official digital version of Hasbro’s classic mystery board game, Cluedo (Clue). Roll the dice and launch into a murder investigation. Whodunit? With what weapon? Where? You’ll need all your brain power to find the answers you need, as you race your friends and family to the truth!
Why similar: Board Game 60.3%, Strategy 21.6%, Card Game 18.2%
- #42 Cthulhu Realms
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 229 reviews2016
Dev: Wise Wizard Games, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Star Realms has gone insane! Introducing Cthulhu Realms! Are you zany enough to play the crazier and creepier cousin of Star Realms? Download and play today to find out why Cthulhu Realms is so crazily addictive!
Why similar: Card Game 55.4%, Strategy 44.6%
- #43 Moons of Madness
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,891 reviews2019
Dev: Rock Pocket GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 65.2%, Adventure 20.9%, Horror 13.9%
- #44 Destinies
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 82 reviews2021
Dev: Lucky Duck Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A companion app for the Destinies board game from Lucky Duck Games. Destinies is a competitive, story-driven, game of adventure and exploration, mixing an app and a board game.
Why similar: Board Game 79.9%, Adventure 20.1%
- #45 Hunt: The Unknown Quarry
73% matchMixed67% of 58 reviews2017
Dev: Quicksilver Software, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hunt: The Unknown Quarry is a deductive combat game for 3 to 6 players. One is secretly the monster and is trying to cripple the other players in order to escape the mansion. Shared Play: One purchase allows a whole group to play together. Based on the original board game from Victory Point Games.
Why similar: Board Game 48.4%, Card Game 22%, Strategy 16.7%, Horror 12.9%
- #46 Mind Lure
68% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Little Tiger Game
Windows
A Lovecraftian deck-building roguelike. Collect eerie cards and twisted creatures. Strengthen your deck while battling sanity loss in waters haunted by unspeakable entities.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 54.6%, Strategy 20%, Card Game 15.5%, Adventure 5%, Horror 4.8%
- #47 Inkshade
67% matchVery Positive88% of 590 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Vezelle
Windows
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
Why similar: Board Game 45.9%, Lovecraftian 26.8%, Strategy 16.5%, Horror 7%, Adventure 3.9%
- #48 D&D Lords of Waterdeep
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,629 reviews2017
Dev: Playdek, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Lords of Waterdeep is an award winning strategy board game, set in the Dungeons & Dragons world of Waterdeep. Play as one of the masked Lords of the City of Splendor. Intrigue abounds as you recruit adventurers, via your agents, to quest on your behalf and spread your influence.
Why similar: Board Game 71.2%, Strategy 28.8%
- #49 Demonologist
67% matchVery Positive85% of 23,523 reviews2023
Dev: Clock Wizard Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 60.1%, Horror 20.4%, Co-op 19.6%
- #50 The Picture in The House
71% matchMixed51% of 136 reviews2020
Dev: Dystopia Game Studio
Windows
A journey through ancient mysteries and forces described by the original short story "The Picture in the House" written by H.P Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.9%, Horror 26.2%, Adventure 23.9%
- #51 Moonrakers: Luminor
69% matchVery Positive92% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: IV Studio
Windows · Mac
A fully-cooperative game mode for the board game Moonrakers. Introducing a co-op game mode for 1-5 players where you'll adventure across a procedurally generated map, attempt multi-tiered narrative-driven contracts, build a ship, and face off against a Utopian Alliance General.
Why similar: Board Game 61.1%, Card Game 25.3%, Adventure 13.6%
- #52 The Cursed Hour
69% matchMostly Negative29% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: FIFTYFIVE GAMING STUDIO PRIVATE LIMITED
Windows
"The Cursed Hour" is a cooperative survival horror game where players explore a haunted mansion to find cursed relics and exorcise the supernatural. With every wrong move, the ghost gets more aggressive, forcing players to work together before fear and darkness consume them.
Why similar: Strategy 65.8%, Horror 22.8%, Co-op 11.5%
- #53 The Living Dungeon
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 60 reviews2015
Dev: RadiationBurn
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
5 actions. 2 minutes. Impossible odds, and many, many ways to die. There really is nothing quite like The Living Dungeon. Up to 9 players can take part in a battle of wits, luck and skulduggery, Or delve into a 30 hour story campaign and try to guide our hero's to freedom.
Why similar: Board Game 41.2%, Strategy 38%, Adventure 20.8%
- #54 Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,107 reviews2021
Dev: Bit Golem
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 77%, Horror 15.1%, Adventure 7.8%
- #55 Moonlight Mansion
68% matchMixed63% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Monocarpic GamePub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
Windows
A mother and her son uncover the mystery shrouding the manor in which they are imprisoned. To escape, they need to cooperate without letting panic take over, while the manor – or what haunts it – tries to separate them. In this suspenseful game, will you be able to accept the truths revealed to you?
Why similar: Co-op 100%
- #56 At the Mountains of Madness
70% matchMostly Negative34% of 65 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 83.5%, Adventure 16.5%
- #57 Classified Stories: Color Out of Space
66% matchMixed67% of 132 reviews2022
Dev: RVL Games
Windows
A short, free, horror adventure game set in our days, inspired by Lovecraft novel: The Colour Out of Space.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 57.4%, Adventure 26.3%, Horror 16.3%
- #58 Eresys
65% matchMixed64% of 467 reviews2023
Dev: Ares DragonisPub: Dragonis Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Eresys is a co-op horror game inspired from the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Teamwork is a key as players take on the roles of four cultists and face the terrifying entities together. Dynamic AI mechanics and unique enemies, Eresys promises to deliver a thrilling and spine-chilling gaming experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 63.8%, Horror 13%, Adventure 12.2%, Co-op 11.1%
- #59 A Walk in the Woods
68% matchMixed41% of 551 reviews2018
Dev: Something Dark Studios
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 22%
A Walk in the Woods is a co-op multiplayer game where four players must roam a dark and dangerous forest in search of each other, avoid a terrifying creature, and reunite before the curse is complete.
Why similar: Horror 44.3%, Adventure 32.9%, Co-op 22.8%