Games Like The Hunter's Journals - Wight Chapel Dreams

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

Why similar: Gothic 12.8% ★, Steampunk 12.3% ★, Text-Based 10.6%, Lovecraftian 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%

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

Why similar: Gothic 13.1% ★, Text-Based 11.4%, Steampunk 10.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%

A horror lurks beneath the earth. Terror rises from the past.

Why similar: Gothic 12.9% ★, Steampunk 12.6% ★, Text-Based 10.4%, Lovecraftian 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

Art imitates life. Horrifying, unclean life.

Why similar: Steampunk 20.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Gothic 9.2% ★

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

Why similar: Steampunk 28.2% ★, Lovecraftian 21.3%, Gothic 18% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Horror 7.4%

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

Why similar: Steampunk 25% ★, Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Lovecraftian 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!

Why similar: Steampunk 49.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%

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 37.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Horror 11.5%

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

Why similar: Gothic 19.5% ★, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Lovecraftian 12.8%, Thriller 9.5%

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 18.4% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%

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 26.2%, Text-Based 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Dark Fantasy 16.5%, Adventure 6.1%

"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 20.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%, Text-Based 10.6%

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 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 14%, Horror 6.7%

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 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Horror 9.5%, Thriller 8.9%

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 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Text-Based 22.9%, Horror 8.9%, Mystery 5.8%

In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Dark Fantasy 15.5%, Gothic 13.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

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 18.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Thriller 6.8%

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: Steampunk 38.9% ★, Gothic 25.2% ★, Lovecraftian 24.1%, Horror 8.4%, Supernatural 3.4%

You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.2%, Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Horror 14%, Adventure 4.4%

CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Text-Based 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Try again, as many times as it takes, to change the ending. You might be able to save everyone you couldn’t before. • Indie horror game • Playtime: approx. 2 hours • Graphics, dialogue, and the feel of the world change with each playthrough • Contains heavy themes

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 18.5%, Horror 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%

A Gothic horror faerie tale.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Gothic 16.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Dark Fantasy 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Lovecraftian 15.6%, Horror 15.3%, Text-Based 12.6%

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 19.7% ★, Lovecraftian 18.8%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%

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 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Horror 9.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%

The player assumes the role of Mary Clarissa Christie. Mary has heterochromia eyes, her right eye is gold while her left eye is blue. She originally had blue eyes but her right eye changed colours one year prior to the game's events and she has been seeing strange visions since.

Why similar: Steampunk 35.9% ★, Gothic 24% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Lovecraftian 9.7%, Text-Based 8.3%

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: Thriller 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 10%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.4%, Text-Based 36.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Adventure 3.2%

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 24.7%, Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Mystery 5.6%

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 22.4% ★, Text-Based 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Dark Fantasy 4.9%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.9%, Horror 14.6%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%

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 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 19.1%, Horror 9.8%, Mystery 7%

Interactive psychological horror novel, Boston 1926. Explore, investigate, lose your grip on reality. Your choices shape a branching narrative where your mental state influences what you see and the paths that open before you. 5 routes, 8 endings, 15 to 20 hours of reading.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Horror 8.2%, Investigation 8%

"Choose your own adventure" style nightmares

Why similar: Gothic 25.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Horror 10.4%

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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Thriller 13.1%, Investigation 10.3%

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 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Horror 15.5%, Text-Based 7.7%

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 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Steampunk 14.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 6.6%

A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.4%, Thriller 8.3%

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 19.2% ★, Lovecraftian 17.2%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11%

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 23%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%

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 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Thriller 12.9%, Horror 10.4%

In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?

Why similar: Steampunk 29.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 21.3%, Adventure 5.6%

Nevrosa 2025 is a meticulously crafted VR puzzle/escape room game where players must solve numerous puzzles, battle mysterious creatures, and uncover a new Misty World.

Why similar: Steampunk 32.6% ★, Lovecraftian 24.2%, Gothic 18.2% ★, Investigation 8.7%, Mystery 6.1%

What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 16.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%, Thriller 8.6%

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 22.3%, Thriller 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Mystery 6.6%

Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Thriller 16.7%, Lovecraftian 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Horror 11.2%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 27%, Gothic 22% ★, Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Horror 10.3%

My mother passed away. It was dismissed as an unfortunate accident... But was it truly just an accident? I need to know... what happened that day. Will the son hunting for answers reach the absolute truth? The player's choices and actions will divide the final outcome.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Thriller 13.7%, Horror 12.4%, Investigation 8.5%

A thriller interactive-fiction audio game. Run from creatures in a grid based fashion style in this ´choose your own adventure´ game. Embark on a treasure hunt to help Marco finding his missing grandfather.

Why similar: Thriller 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Horror 14.2%, Text-Based 9.5%

Unravel the secrets of the Bariton mansion! Take on the mantle of detective in the role of Lucas Usher, and solve the riddles plaguing the ghosts of those left behind! Uncover their secrets and help them find salvation … or damnation.

Why similar: Steampunk 34.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Gothic 18% ★, Horror 10%, Investigation 6.8%

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% ★, Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Horror 11.5%

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 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Investigation 9.3%

A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Horror 11.8%

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 27.3% ★, Lovecraftian 21.3%, Investigation 12%, Horror 11.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%

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 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Horror 12.1%, Thriller 9.8%

Dark, surreal point-and-click text adventure inspired by the poetics of Dark Souls. Guide the Wanderer through ruins and tombs in a purgatorial world.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Gothic 20.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 19.4%, Lovecraftian 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

Why similar: Text-Based 40.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 40.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%

You will play a hexfinder in the employ of Queen Charlotte’s Anglican Church, tasked with seeking out the witches and warlocks (colloquially known as hexcrafters) who threaten her fair nation. A story-rich, text-based RPG, Hexfinder is a supernatural alt-historical adventure!

Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Investigation 9.7%

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 21.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Investigation 11.4%

A 2–4 player cooperative supernatural horror investigation about intervening in recorded tragedies. The opening chapter unfolds in a fog-shrouded 1700s coastal town, where players inhabit different townsfolk and act within a relentless final hour before the outcome becomes irreversible.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Lovecraftian 17.4%, Investigation 10%, Horror 8.1%