Games Like The Hunter's Journals - Wyrmwood

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

Why similar: Gothic 12.9% ★, Text-Based 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Lovecraftian 8.4%

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

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

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

Why similar: Gothic 12.7% ★, Steampunk 12.4% ★, Text-Based 10.5%, Lovecraftian 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%

Art imitates life. Horrifying, unclean life.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 15%, Steampunk 14.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Gothic 10.7% ★

"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 19.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%, Dark 9.5%

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

Why similar: Gothic 19.5% ★, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Lovecraftian 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 7.6%

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 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 19.8%, Dark 9.6%, Adventure 8.9%

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 20.8%, Text-Based 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Gothic 12.6% ★, Investigation 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 37.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Horror 9.3%

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 18.2% ★, Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%

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 25.1%, Text-Based 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Adventure 11%

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 18.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Dark 8%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.9%, Gothic 19.3% ★, Steampunk 18.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dark 8%

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 20.8%, Dark 8.2%, Horror 7.7%

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 20.9%, Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Supernatural 8.1%

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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Investigation 8.5%, Mystery 6.7%

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 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Lovecraftian 19.2%, Steampunk 17.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%

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 19.3% ★, Lovecraftian 16.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

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 28.5%, Text-Based 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Adventure 11.7%, Atmospheric 7.7%

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 29.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%, Dark 9.4%

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 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 13.8%, Investigation 7.5%

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 18.1% ★, Lovecraftian 14.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Dark 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%

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 22.3%, Investigation 14.9%, Supernatural 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Dark 9.9%

A Gothic horror faerie tale.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.2%, Gothic 16.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%

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 15.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Investigation 10.3%

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 25.2% ★, Lovecraftian 18%, Investigation 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Horror 8.2%

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 28.2% ★, Investigation 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dark 9.5%, Supernatural 8.7%

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 31.5%, Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Horror 11.2%, Adventure 8%

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.7%, Text-Based 11.6%, Horror 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%

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 22.8% ★, Text-Based 16%, Supernatural 9.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.1%, Dark 8.2%

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 21.2%, Dark 11.6%, Investigation 10.6%, Horror 9.6%, Thriller 9.4%

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 16.8%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Horror 9.5%

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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Horror 10.3%

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 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Horror 9%, Dark 8.8%

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 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Investigation 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Dark 10.3%

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: Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Investigation 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%

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 25.5%, Adventure 18%, Gothic 15.7% ★, Dark 12.7%, Survival Horror 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 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dark 11.6%

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: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Lovecraftian 15.2%, Investigation 10.9%, Dark 9.4%

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 27.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Dark 7.4%

A text-based space survival game inspired by The Oregon Trail. Lead your family 100 light-years across deep space to a distant colony. Every choice matters. Not everyone makes it. Some things out there are worse than death.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 18.2%, Dark 9.4%, Adventure 9.3%

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 26.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Text-Based 11.2%

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 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Investigation 12.5%, Supernatural 9.3%

Campanillas, 1963. A stranger leaves you a ruined house and a district hiding its disappearances. You don't solve a crime: you learn to read a place. Weigh every account —Trust, Doubt, Dismiss. Andalusian rural horror.

Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Investigation 21.5%, Mystery 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%

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 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Investigation 11.8%, Dark 7.6%

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 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Horror 6%

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 36.7%, Text-Based 34.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Adventure 5.9%, Story Rich 1.2%

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 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Mystery 8.1%, Horror 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 21.1%, Text-Based 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%

A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Dark Fantasy 7.8%, Supernatural 7.2%

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 16.6%, Lovecraftian 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Investigation 12.9%, Horror 8.8%

Nocturne Hollow is a gothic mystery visual novel currently containing the complete opening and Episode One. Explore the available areas of Hollow Veil, uncover supernatural clues and memories, and begin the introductory paths for Lucian, Evelyn, and Damien.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Gothic 15.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Dark 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 21.4% ★, Text-Based 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 11%

A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Investigation 10.3%, Old School 6.8%

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 19.3%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 12.5%

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 30.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Investigation 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Mystery 9.4%

Two worlds, one nightmare. Step inside a brutal orphanage and uncover the dark secrets of Québec’s Great Darkness. Solve puzzles related to an inexplicable phenomenon and dive into the depths of dreams to uncover otherworldly horrors. An Abyss of Dreams is a cosmic horror point-and-click game.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Gothic 21% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Old School 9.6%, Horror 8.1%

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 30.7%, Investigation 16.7%, Horror 13.6%, Supernatural 9.6%, Dark 9.4%

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 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Lovecraftian 15.2%, Horror 12.9%, Text-Based 12.4%

Investigate the murder of Evie Roots. Save the town from disaster. Learn the history of the Great Houses. Immerse yourself in the centuries-old history of Pineford.

Why similar: Gothic 22.3% ★, Text-Based 17.5%, Lovecraftian 17.1%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%