60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Multiple Endings.
Strange Tales of Tieshan is a text adventure inspired by Chinese records of anomalies. As a traveler in a dark land of monsters, you make elixirs, choose paths, and negotiate with supernatural beings to survive and collect bizarre stories to appease a possessed book and escape.
Darkest Dungeon® II
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Apollyon: River of Life
Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.8%, Gothic 14.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 13%, CRPG 12%, Dungeon Crawler 11.2%
Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!
Why similar: CRPG 17.5%, Lovecraftian 16.7%, Strategy RPG 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
The Cope is a 2D, point and click game that presents the fear of the unknown. Your night shift client service job as a janitor will start with you getting entangled in a series of strange stories in The Cope mansion. Work cleaning and serving your client and find the truth of this mansion of fear.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.6%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Roguelite 11.9%
A Black and White Choose Your Own Adventure game in the Open World of the Umbra Fields. Customize who you are among 15 distinct classes, choose what nation you wish to be in, and explore to your heart's content. Do quests, explore dungeons, fight, and discover your fate; the fate of the world.
Why similar: Gothic 25.1% ★, Lovecraftian 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Dungeon Crawler 11%, Survival Horror 9.3%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 23.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
A Gothic horror faerie tale.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.8%, Gothic 16% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Story Rich 7.8%
A story-driven horror game.
Why similar: Gothic 25.1% ★, Lovecraftian 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Stylized 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 19.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 29.4% ★, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%, Hand-drawn 10%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.2%, Gothic 20.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
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: Lovecraftian 20.7%, Gothic 19.1% ★, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Dungeon Crawler 10.7%
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.3%, Gothic 22.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Visual Novel 6.9%
Assassin at Crimson Keep is a short, point and click visual novel set in a dark, quasi-fantasy world. After a botched assassination attempt, you pursue the King into his lair known as the Crimson Keep. Your small choices can have great consequences, either for good or for evil.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
Why similar: Gothic 26.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!
Why similar: CRPG 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%
From killer dolls to lethal furniture, nothing wooden can be trusted!
Why similar: Gothic 24.2% ★, Lovecraftian 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Narrative RPG inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft, celtic myths, rapiers and gunpowder. World awaits the Arrival of unknown creatures. It needs a hero who would stop the menace. Or he won't. He may even join them. Only you shall decide who would Morar become.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.8%, CRPG 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Story Rich 8.5%
Hero Well is a grid-based roguelike RPG with a minimalistic aesthetic. Choose your hero, manage your resources, and prepare yourself to delve ever deeper into the unexplored wells to cleanse the vile beasts once and for all.
Why similar: Gothic 26.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.6%, Lovecraftian 17.3%, Dungeon Crawler 14.4%, Roguelite 12.5%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Gothic 25.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Adventure 6.8%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Gothic 23.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%
The Crawling Horror is dead, but its legacy of madness lives on!
Why similar: Gothic 25% ★, Lovecraftian 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.2%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 23.6% ★, Lovecraftian 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.7%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
A horror lurks beneath the earth. Terror rises from the past.
Why similar: Gothic 24.7% ★, Lovecraftian 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%
Zjawa: Bloodstained Soul is a 2D Survival Horror RPG mixing turn-based combat with real-time elements and hand-drawn art, set in 13th century France during a crusade against heresy. Slash, parry, and collect items to survive to see the end, whatever it may be. Find absolution or damnation.
Why similar: Gothic 21.2% ★, CRPG 17.3%, Lovecraftian 16.4%, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Hand-drawn 18.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG. You are the villain - you command disciples, outwit enemies in combat, and shape the fate of the fallen city as you awaken the Dead Gods — Wrath, Desire, and Madness.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.3%, Strategy RPG 17.8%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Roguelite 13.5%, Dungeon Crawler 10.4%
Discover the mysteries of a forgotten world in Morning Star. Explore a vast, decaying land full of strange creatures and ancient ruins. Wander through breathtaking, magical places, but also venture into shadowy, haunting, and dangerous realms, all brought to life with stunning hand-drawn 2D visuals.
Why similar: Gothic 22.9% ★, Lovecraftian 22.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Otherworld Chronicles is a Lovecraftian narrative puzzle game set in a dark fantasy world. In a forgotten land where power and war never ceased, you are chosen as a savior, unraveling mysteries, ascending the tower, and drawing closer to a long-buried truth that has waited to be revealed.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.7%, Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dungeon Crawler 14.4%, Stylized 7.9%
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 43.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Story Rich 8.2%
Danger looms over Calder and its citizens. Is it linked to the Alchemy Academy, the workings of a secretive cult, or an ancient god rising to erase the city? In this narrative game with multiple endings, each choice you make unfolds its own story.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
Manage a hotel straddling the border between worlds. Use deduction to identify Eldritch guests, solve abstract puzzles, and manage staff to survive the weekly Chaos invasion. A dark humor management sim where you must keep the hotel running... and your sanity intact.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.2%, Gothic 20.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 18.5%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Stylized 9.6%
这是一款适合朋友/情侣体验的双人联机互动影游，双人单局游戏时长30-40分钟。在层层考验中，你们可以携手合作，亦可互撩互坑。两个人的选择，将共同决定故事走向，创造你们独属的冒险故事。
Why similar: CRPG 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Strategy RPG 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Immersive Sim 11.4%
You're an eldritch in love with your angel. A glutton in love. You may be a mass of vines and branches but you have a confession to make. Somehow, you must find a way. (A darker sequel to Seraphim Slum.)
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Ascend the sunken labyrinth called the Tower and choose your path to escape to the surface. Battle foes, forge relationships, and find power in this roguelite dark fantasy RPG.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17.5%, Dungeon Crawler 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Roguelite 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
Niverium is a survival game in a harsh world where you have to take on the role of a man sent to the very bottom. You will have to do any dirty work for those who stand above you, under threat of death.
Why similar: CRPG 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
A horror game inspired by the works of M.R. James. Explore Aswarby Hall to uncover your family’s secret history. Decide the fate of your ancestors by re-living each ghost’s last day on earth, with several endings for every story. Lift the family curse and save yourself… if you can.
Why similar: Gothic 26.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Story Rich 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 10%
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 22.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%
在一片被暖阳与绿荫环抱的土地上，坐落着一座名为 “拾光镇” 的奇妙小镇。生活在小镇中的狗狗们各个都是收藏家，探索小镇收集稀有收藏品的同时，逐渐了解狗狗们过去的故事。这是一个连风都裹挟着温馨的地方，每一寸土地都记录着人们与狗狗之间的温情故事。 超多超有梗的稀有收藏品，等你来发现。 剧情+解密温情时刻：主线+支线多种解密元素融入场景和剧情，超多NPC，感受人与动物的温情瞬间。 装扮+经营治愈体验：从零打造温馨狗窝，经营餐厅成为大厨，超多配饰装扮个性狗狗。
Why similar: CRPG 23.7%, Collectathon 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Strategy RPG 13.6%, Dungeon Crawler 13.1%
Revisit the case which made you a legend among your peers.
Why similar: Gothic 25% ★, Lovecraftian 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dark Fantasy 14.1%
This is an adventure game with a comical and mysterious story. Become the unluckiest detective in the universe and travel around Town with your buddy, a fortune teller, to solve crimes.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Adventure 8.2%, Exploration 7.4%
In this single-player narrative roguelite, govern a cursed island as you investigate your niece’s mysterious disappearance. Interrogate, trade, upgrade, and embark upon card-based expeditions to uncover dark secrets – before the next cataclysm strikes.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.9%, Gothic 23.5% ★, Roguelite 16.7%, Exploration 11.1%, Story Rich 7.5%
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.
Why similar: Gothic 25.1% ★, Lovecraftian 24.1%, Dark Fantasy 19.5%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Exploration 6.3%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Multiple Endings 17%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%
Try to survive on the mysterious island in a lovecraftian 2D roguelite with branching narrative and elements of resource management.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Roguelite 12.2%, Survival Horror 10.7%
An ancient castle with human-making technology.A human, a dummy...Unrelated brothers, imprisoned by time in a castle...When you unlock the secrets of time, can you escape from your predicament?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.3%, Gothic 25% ★, Visual Novel 11%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Stylized 7.7%
Answer the summons to the parallel world of "Kamitsubaki City" and meet a cast of colorful characters as you set out on a quest to save this city from the brink of destruction in this dark-fantasy sci-fi visual novel!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Adventure 5.6%
Embark on a enchanting visual novel where every choice shapes destiny. Guide the Princess of Lust through dream realms, exploring the delicate balance between love and desire. Immerse yourself in a mesmerizing fantasy adventure where your decisions truly matter.
Why similar: Gothic 23.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.5%
A short interactive dark fantasy story in which you meet an egomaniacal empress and must try to survive the encounter through the choices you make.
Why similar: Gothic 29.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Dark Fantasy 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Dark Fantasy 20.2%, Hand-drawn 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%
Old school, rich with lore, and made with love. Experience a linear gothic story with carefully handwritten prose. Play either as an action RPG or visual novel. Your Weaver journey starts here.
Why similar: Gothic 32.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 20.8%, CRPG 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Story Rich 7.8%
You are the leader of a gang of slave raiders in post-apocalyptic America
Why similar: CRPG 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
Why similar: CRPG 20.9%, Dark Fantasy 16.6%, Strategy RPG 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Story Rich 8.4%
Narrative role-playing game in the world of slavic dark fantasy. You have to take on the role of a father who must guide his daughter to distant lands. A cruel world, terrible monsters, witchcraft, and even time itself will stand in your way.
Why similar: CRPG 24%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Roguelite 13%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%, Visual Novel 10%
