Games Like Omen Exitio: Plague

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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Story Rich 6.8%, Text-Based 4.9%

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 51.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Story Rich 7.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%

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 79.6%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Indie 6.4%, Story Rich 4.8%, 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 15.5%, Story Rich 8.1%, Indie 7.3%, Adventure 6.6%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 56.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Story Rich 5.6%

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 92.2%, Adventure 7.8%

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 50.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Casual 3.7%

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 51.3%, Indie 17.9%, Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 14.1%

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 44.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 10%

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%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Story Rich 8%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 63%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Story Rich 10.2%, Indie 4.4%, Text-Based 3.3%

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 18%, Visual Novel 11%, Story Rich 7.7%, Adventure 4.9%

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 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Story Rich 10.9%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 76.9%, Adventure 18.7%, Indie 4.4%

🐙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 85.3%, Indie 7.9%, Adventure 6.8%

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 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Story Rich 10.3%

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 12.7%, Story Rich 7.9%, Adventure 4.1%

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 70.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Story Rich 11.3%, Adventure 5.6%

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 6.4%, Indie 4.6%, Story Rich 4.5%

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 25.8%, Choices Matter 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Story Rich 16.3%, Text-Based 7.4%

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 32.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Text-Based 10.9%, Story Rich 7.3%

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 24.7%, Indie 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Adventure 13.3%, Casual 11.9%

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 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Adventure 8.9%

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 59.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Story Rich 6.6%, Adventure 4.9%

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 56.5%, Story Rich 27.3%, Adventure 16.1%

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 28.9%, Visual Novel 21%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Text-Based 11.3%, Story Rich 9.5%

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 22.2%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Choices Matter 20.8%, Story Rich 14.4%, Indie 7.6%

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 29.8%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Text-Based 12.1%

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%, Story Rich 7.4%, Choices Matter 4.9%, Adventure 3.7%

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 65.5%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 10%, Adventure 4.5%, Indie 3.8%

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 88.6%, Adventure 7.2%, Casual 4.2%

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 34.8%, Story Rich 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 12%, Adventure 9.6%

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 43.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Story Rich 7.2%

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 54.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 8.7%, Visual Novel 6.8%

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 58.8%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Story Rich 14.8%, Adventure 5.8%

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 23.5%, Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 18.3%

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 79.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Adventure 5.8%

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 35.4%, Indie 34.8%, Adventure 29.8%

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 38.6%, Story Rich 29.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Adventure 10%, Casual 9.5%

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 22.6%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Story Rich 12.5%

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 73.2%, Adventure 21%, Story Rich 5.7%

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 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Story Rich 17.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Adventure 10.4%

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Choices Matter 48.4%, Story Rich 32.5%, Indie 10%, Adventure 9.2%

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 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Visual Novel 18%, Story Rich 8.1%

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 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Story Rich 10.7%

Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Indie 6.6%

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: Lovecraftian 61.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Adventure 6.3%

Step into the role of a faceless detective investigating creatures from Slavic folklore. Explore dialogue-driven mysteries, solve puzzles, and uncover post-Soviet occult secrets in a pixel art housing block full of bizarre residents and hidden truths

Why similar: Lovecraftian 64.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Story Rich 10.5%, Text-Based 6.4%, Adventure 4.6%

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 82.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, Adventure 5.8%

You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Choices Matter 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Story Rich 11.3%

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 73.5%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 10.4%

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 90.5%, Adventure 4.7%, Casual 4%, Indie 0.8%

Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 69.1%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Story Rich 10.5%

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 47.7%, Adventure 26.5%, Indie 25.8%

Plague: London 1665 is an RPG with pixel art graphics set in 1665's during the Bubonic Plague outbreak in overcrowded and polluted London. As a body collector, graveyard keeper, and family provider, avoid the disease while clearing the streets. Will you survive the outbreak or become another victim?

Why similar: Choices Matter 49.3%, Story Rich 22.5%, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 13.1%

Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.

Why similar: Story Rich 62%, Indie 25%, Adventure 13%

It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, Indie 7.7%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.3%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Story Rich 16%, Casual 4.7%