Games Like The Hunter's Journals - Tattered Sails

From killer dolls to lethal furniture, nothing wooden can be trusted!

Why similar: Gothic 12.9% ★, Text-Based 9.6%, Lovecraftian 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%

The Crawling Horror is dead, but its legacy of madness lives on!

Why similar: Gothic 13.3% ★, Text-Based 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Lovecraftian 8.8%

Revisit the case which made you a legend among your peers.

Why similar: Gothic 12.8% ★, Steampunk 12.6% ★, Text-Based 10.3%, Lovecraftian 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

Art imitates life. Horrifying, unclean life.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Steampunk 14.6% ★, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Gothic 10.6% ★

A fantasy RPG about saving a medieval town from a spreading curse as the Witch's Apprentice. Spend your limited daily actions investigating secrets, earning the trust of townsfolk, discovering the ingredients your ritual actually needs, and holding back the thorns before time runs out.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 13.6%, Gothic 12.1% ★, Investigation 8.8%

"Escape from Death" is a 256,000-word interactive horror adventure novel by Tova Näslund. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Why similar: Gothic 19.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Dark 9.2%

A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.

Why similar: Gothic 19.4% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Lovecraftian 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 7.5%

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.

Why similar: Gothic 18.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 14.8%, Dark 7.8%

You've played this game before. It's a haunted game about a haunted game. You may not remember, but the game remembers you. I remember you.

Why similar: Gothic 18% ★, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 10%

A Gothic horror faerie tale.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.4%, Gothic 15.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%

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: Gothic 18.5% ★, Lovecraftian 16.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 20.9%, Dark 10.2%, Horror 7.7%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.4%, Gothic 20.2% ★, Steampunk 20% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Dark 8.2%

A psychological horror interactive novel, Boston 1926. Explore, investigate, lose your footing. Your choices shape a branching story where your mental state governs what you see and which paths open to you. 4 intersecting routes, 12 possible endings, 15 to 20 hours of play.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Investigation 8.6%, Mystery 6.9%

This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.

Why similar: Gothic 41.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Horror 10.2%

Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 13.2%, Investigation 7.5%

The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Horror 8.6%, Dark 8.2%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Dark 8.2%, Horror 7.9%

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 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Investigation 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Dark 9.6%

Sanator: The Jewel of Monostructure is a dark fantasy visual novel that combines deep lore with exciting adventures. Who is behind the mysterious thefts and why are the gates of the Monostructure open again? Take control of Richard Murdock, the plague doctor, and find the answer.

Why similar: Gothic 14.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Supernatural 11.2%

It all began when you opened that letter. Penned by your late master, it details how you are now heir to his mysterious legacy. You set off for the island on which he'd spent his final years... and so a truly unsettling journey begins, a journey into the deepest secrets of magic and the occult.

Why similar: Gothic 18% ★, Lovecraftian 15.1%, Text-Based 12.2%, Dark 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%

A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Investigation 11.1%, Text-Based 11%, Thriller 9.7%

A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.

Why similar: Gothic 26.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14.2%, Mystery 7.1%

What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Supernatural 11.2%, Thriller 8.6%

A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Investigation 11.5%, Thriller 8.5%

Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Investigation 12.2%, Supernatural 10%

Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!

Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Investigation 12.9%, Survival Horror 8.2%

Investigate the cursed town of Midnight Falls in a roguelike horror RPG. Scavenge powerful relics, outlast vicious foes, and cut down the awakened Ancient Deity before it devours everything. Every run is different, and the town hides secrets in every shadow.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Text-Based 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Investigation 11.2%

NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.

Why similar: Investigation 16.9%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Horror 9.5%

A psychological horror game set in a forgotten village. Solve environmental puzzles and uncover the truth behind Ethan’s crumbling mind trapped between memory and madness.

Why similar: Gothic 22.9% ★, Text-Based 15.7%, Supernatural 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 9%, Thriller 8.5%

The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Lovecraftian 15.1%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Supernatural 8.8%

Gadgets, conspiracy and conquest await you in this steampunk text adventure. An interactive romp through Victorian England and the British Empire.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Lovecraftian 20.6%, Steampunk 18.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%

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 30.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Supernatural 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%

Sound is your only hope for survival in this first-person psychological horror game. Investigate the mysteries of an apartment block in 1960s America terrorized by a cosmic horror, as you try to save your lost mentor… and yourself.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.5%, Investigation 15.6%, Supernatural 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Dark 10%

The Season of the Warlock is a weird adventure game inspired by the gothic tale tradition, with two storylines to choose from. The soul of a warlock of yore, trapped in a portrait, will present Lord Alistair Ainsworth with an offer he will not be able to resist. Or will he? It’s your call...

Why similar: Gothic 25.7% ★, Lovecraftian 18.8%, Investigation 13%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%, Horror 8.5%

Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!

Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Supernatural 11.9%, Steampunk 9.2% ★

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 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Horror 12.2%, Supernatural 9.3%

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: Gothic 32.1% ★, Lovecraftian 28.6%, Dark Fantasy 18%, Horror 11.4%, Supernatural 4.9%

An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.

Why similar: Gothic 30% ★, Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Mystery 9.7%

Fictional short story set in the United Kingdom under a Gothic/Steampunk aesthetic, where a young woman contemplates a discovery that could potentially change the world.

Why similar: Gothic 27.4% ★, Steampunk 26.7% ★, Lovecraftian 24.6%, Supernatural 9.1%, Horror 7.4%

When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?

Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%, Horror 8%

A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Choices Matter 6.3%

Nightmares of awful creatures and twisted worlds have haunted you since you received a letter from a prospective client. Delving into the mystery behind this cursed page may be the only chance you have of ever sleeping again. Nobody ever said being a paranormal investigator was easy...

Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.9%, Investigation 16.6%, Horror 13.4%, Supernatural 10.4%, Dark 9.1%

Piece together your memories and reveal the truth in this minimalistic Lovecraftian tale of symbols and sentences.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.4%, Gothic 21.2% ★, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Horror 7.9%

A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Supernatural 9.8%

Immersed yourself in an interactive story with multiples choices, in the style of "choose your own Adventure book" (CYOA).Will you be able to survive ?Probably not!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%

Alex wakes up at his grandmother’s, left alone in a silent house. Unsure where his family is, he begins to uncover a dark mystery in an attempt to escape. Facing his fear in an endless nightmare, Alex must survive the dead of night, a cursed forest, and paranormal activities before daylight arrives.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.4%, Dark 11.8%, Thriller 11.8%, Investigation 11.1%, Supernatural 10.2%

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 19.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Investigation 12.5%

RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Gothic 24.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Investigation 13.4%, Dark 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%

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 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Investigation 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%

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 21.4% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%

Evernoth is a psychological horror game where you explore mysterious locations filled with chilling secrets. Navigate distorted corridors, face terrifying monsters, and unlock new abilities as you unravel haunting mysteries across dark worlds.

Why similar: Gothic 29.2% ★, Investigation 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Supernatural 10.1%, Dark 9.6%

Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Investigation 10.5%

Shatter civilization and avenge your pantheon as the world‘s last surviving god! Will you liberate humanity from tyranny, or let the world burn? A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Supernatural 11.1%

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: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Thriller 13.1%, Supernatural 10.8%

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 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 17.9%, Mystery 8.5%, Horror 8.1%

You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Supernatural 13.3%, Investigation 12.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Horror 9.9%

Dracula has been resurrected in modern nights Los Angeles. Separated from his home by oceans and time itself, he must come to grips with a new world while his survival hangs in the balance.

Why similar: Gothic 24.2% ★, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Supernatural 7.9%

The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Dark Fantasy 18.8%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.1%, Horror 12.2%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%