Games Like Omen Exitio: Plague

A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%

The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 56.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Story Rich 6.8%, Text-Based 4.8%

YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 52%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Story Rich 7.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%, Choices Matter 7%

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 79.8%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Indie 6.3%, Story Rich 4.7%, Adventure 2.4%

You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 58%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 8.4%, Indie 7.3%, Adventure 6.8%

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 92.1%, Adventure 7.9%

Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 63.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Story Rich 10.2%, Indie 4.3%, Text-Based 3.3%

Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 51.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Casual 3.7%

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 10%

Stop a deadly plague in a medieval fantasy tale of swords and surgery! Unearth medical knowledge, prevent the town’s purge, or plot your own escape.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 51.1%, Indie 17.9%, Adventure 17%, Text-Based 14%

Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 56.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Story Rich 5.6%

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Story Rich 10.8%

Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 52.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Story Rich 8%

A mystery adventure game set in a present-day Lovecraftian universe.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 76.7%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 4.4%

DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 58.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Story Rich 7.6%, Adventure 5%

Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Story Rich 10%, Text-Based 9.6%

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 84.6%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 4.5%, Story Rich 4.5%

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Cthulhu Mythos with this 2D visual novel game featuring a thrilling TRPG-based experience! Roll the dice and use your skills and luck to escape the abandoned hospital, while experiencing the cosmic terror.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 57.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Story Rich 7.9%, Adventure 4.2%

Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Story Rich 10.3%

🐙Original сomics style game inspired by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft - a recognized master of the horror genre. You have to avoid traps, solve puzzles and react very fast fleeing from Lovecraftian horrors which fill the labyrinth of the Temple of Nameless Cults.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 85.2%, Indie 7.8%, Adventure 6.9%

A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 70.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Story Rich 11.3%, Adventure 5.7%

Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...

Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Choices Matter 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Story Rich 16.4%, Text-Based 7.3%

Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Text-Based 10.8%, Story Rich 7.4%

HYPNOS is a first-person adventure and exploration game, set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams. Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mountain. Embrace your destiny.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 60.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Story Rich 6.5%, Adventure 5%

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Indie 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Adventure 13.5%, Casual 11.9%

UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Story Rich 14.5%, Indie 7.6%

Inner Voices is a dark, non-linear adventure game with a pinch of horror, inspired by works of H. P. Lovecraft and E. A. Poe. Find your way through a procedurally generated maze of rooms and solve the mystery of your past.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 65.7%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Story Rich 10%, Adventure 4.6%, Indie 3.8%

A story-driven survival visual novel inspired by SCP-610. Face a flesh-spreading outbreak, make brutal moral choices, protect the people you can’t let go of, and uncover the terrifying truth behind the disease.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.6%, Interactive Fiction 33.7%, Choices Matter 15%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 6.3%

Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.

Why similar: Choices Matter 55.9%, Story Rich 27.5%, Adventure 16.6%

In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Why similar: Story Rich 35.2%, Indie 34.4%, Adventure 30.3%

In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 12%, Text-Based 12%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Adventure 9.1%

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: Visual Novel 35.3%, Story Rich 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Adventure 9.7%

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.9%, Story Rich 39.4%, Adventure 19.7%

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 88.5%, Adventure 7.3%, Casual 4.2%

An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 7.2%

Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Indie 8%, Adventure 6.4%

In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Choices Matter 20%, Text-Based 11.2%, Story Rich 9.5%

In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 58.9%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Story Rich 14.9%, Adventure 6%

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 84.1%, Story Rich 7.3%, Choices Matter 4.8%, Adventure 3.8%

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.7%, Visual Novel 35.5%, Story Rich 21.6%, Adventure 7.2%

Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.6%, Indie 23.4%, Adventure 23%, Text-Based 18%

Love is deception, germinated in desperation. Fill the role of one of the nation's top researchers. You will have 10 days to study the rapidly spreading and mysterious new species to decide: friend or foe? The coming Telluricene rests in your hands.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.9%, Visual Novel 29.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Text-Based 11.8%, Casual 5.9%

Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 79.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Adventure 5.9%

Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 73.7%, Choices Matter 16%, Story Rich 10.4%

When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.8%, Choices Matter 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Story Rich 11.6%, Indie 6%

This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.7%, Story Rich 29.2%, Text-Based 10.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Casual 9.5%

How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Story Rich 17.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Adventure 10.5%

Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Story Rich 12.5%

You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 57.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Story Rich 7.9%, Casual 1.9%

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 73%, Adventure 21.3%, Story Rich 5.7%

Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.1%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Text-Based 16%, Adventure 9.7%

Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 54.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Story Rich 8.7%, Visual Novel 6.8%

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Story Rich 10.7%

399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Choices Matter 19%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Story Rich 8.1%

In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?

Why similar: Story Rich 47.5%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 25.6%

H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 82.5%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 5.9%

Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 90.4%, Adventure 4.8%, Casual 4%, Indie 0.8%