- #1 Sclera
97% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Ryan Boc
Windows
Sclera is a Lovecraftian turn-based strategy roguelike set in a dying, near-futuristic world. Through menu-style combat, text exploration and skill-check events, maintain your sanity and manage resources as you gather a dark essence needed to survive the inescapable eldritch horror now hunting you.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.6%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Roguelike 7.9%
- #2 WORLD OF HORROR
96% matchVery Positive90% of 9,862 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.9%, Survival Horror 14%, Horror 12%, Turn-Based Combat 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #3 Look Outside
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,918 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.5%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Turn-Based Combat 15.6%, Horror 12.2%, RPG 10.6%
- #4 The Consuming Shadow
95% matchVery Positive95% of 430 reviews2015
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42%, Survival Horror 18%, Roguelite 10.2%, Horror 8.2%, Procedural Generation 7.3%
- #5 Eldread: Horrors of a Dark Moon
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peter Lin Jr.
Windows
Manage your oxygen levels and navigate a cosmic horror roguelite in a lunar colony. Confront nightmarish anomalies, survive unpredictable text-driven events, and endure the horrors waiting beneath the dark moon.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.8%, Turn-Based Combat 17.5%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Roguelite 14.7%, Horror 10.6%
- #6 Echoes of Fear
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: UDG
Windows
Containment has failed. As an amnesiac agent of the Bureau, face uncontained anomalies in a turn-based mystery RPG. Every tactical move and moral judgment creates a lasting echo. Record, research, and survive the consequences. Your judgment is the only shield.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 11.2%, Turn-Based Combat 10.6%
- #7 Blanksword
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiet Cogs
Windows · Linux
You’re a fallen Angel, your brain is missing and half of God’s country wants you dead (again!). Battle legions of weird monsters with your smiling sword. Find and customize a large number of skills. Rebuild your brain from scratch and rise against a tyrannical God in this turn-based roguelike RPG!
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.2%, Roguelike 15.4%, RPG 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #8 Roots Devour
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 584 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.4%, Resource Management 10%
- #9 Sorry We're Open
91% matchVery Positive95% of 150 reviews2023
Dev: oates
Windows
Sorry, We're Open is a Supermarket Management Horror RPG. As the new Manager of your local supermarket, you'll need to make the hard decisions to keep the store running. Remember, your store's reputation and your employees' livelihoods are in your hands.
Why similar: Survival Horror 17.2%, Turn-Based Combat 14.8%, Roguelite 13.1%, Horror 11%, Roguelike 10.9%
- #10 Serbian Dancing Lady
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 46 reviews2024
Dev: Astra Playroom
Windows
In the deserted streets of a night city, in a dark forest or in abandoned buildings you can sometimes meet a strange dancing girl in black clothes. If you dare to approach her, she will chase after you and then nothing can save you.
Why similar: Jump Scare 35.3% ★, Survival Horror 18.1%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 11.7%, RPG 7.2%
- #11 The Coma 3: Bloodlines
89% matchVery Positive87% of 421 reviews2026
Dev: Dvora Studio Co., Ltd.Pub: Headup
Windows
Welcome to the world of The Coma 3: Bloodlines. In this realm of shadows rumors and urban legends become reality, and danger lurks around every corner. If a living intruder dies here, their body will be severed from their spirit and never wake again ...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Horror 16.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Adventure 6.3%
- #12 IMSCARED
90% matchVery Positive95% of 3,993 reviews2016
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"I need a Heart in order to open it"
Why similar: Jump Scare 28.2% ★, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 16.6%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #13 Nine Prophets: The Abyss
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vyk1ing Productions
Windows
Nine Prophets: The Abyss, is a brutal, story-driven, horror RPG with roguelike elements. Featuring difficult, dismemberment turn based combat and strategic resource management. Craft Items, scavenge resources and fight alongside allies as you combat countless horrors and survive the unknowable.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.3%, Turn-Based Combat 16.4%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
- #14 Insane Escape
88% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Organon Software
Windows · Linux
Escape and survive in an ever-changing asylum, where every run will always differ. Use strategy and items to survive the patients. Escape by solving puzzles, but the hardest one is how to survive.
Why similar: Survival Horror 16.1%, Perma Death 13.8%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Resource Management 12%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
- #15 ALONE: Mnemophobia
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: River Flower Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in a world of nightmares with Alone. A roguelite psychological horror game that blends first and third-person perspectives. It will become a part of your mind, just as your mind will become a part of it with every decision you make.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.3%, Perma Death 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Roguelite 15.3%, Horror 11.8%
- #16 Ice Eyes
86% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Luna Apps
Windows
Build a snowman to keep the monster at bay and throw snowballs to defend yourself in this Christmas horror game!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.1%, Psychological Horror 17%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Horror 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
- #17 Bagnomor
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bagnodev
Windows
Bagnomor is a bleak survival-horror set in a remote corner of Eastern Europe, where ancient entities were awakened by human folly. There is no escape, and the forest wall is closing in.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.5%, Survival Horror 20.2%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #18 NO-SKIN
84% matchVery Positive95% of 1,418 reviews2025
Dev: NoEye-Soft
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 14.6%, Roguelite 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #19 The Sleep Experiment
85% matchMostly Negative26% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: ClawsDev
Windows · Mac
Experience the horrors of one of the most infamous experiments that ever took place. As a test subject in a top-secret Soviet research facility, you must endure days without sleep while facing unimaginable terrors that lurk in the shadow.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.1%, Survival Horror 21.6%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 14.3%, Dark 9.7%
- #20 Find, Eat, Hide: Till Dawn
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bhoot Schloss
Windows
This game is a horror survival single-player game. Avoid ghosts, find food, eat and survive. In each round, buildings, furnishings, and food are placed with some degree of randomness. Survival times stack. The longest survival time is saved.
Why similar: Survival Horror 17.1%, Roguelite 12.4%, Perma Death 11.6%, Roguelike 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #21 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
83% matchMixed65% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
In the Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket, you find yourself trapped in a labyrinth of endless, flickering aisles. Unearth dark secrets behind every shelf while evading lurking apparitions and supernatural terrors. Can you survive the haunted corridors and escape before the nightmare consumes?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.3%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 13.6%, Dark 9.6%
- #22 Souls Alive: Origins
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Souls Alive Development
Windows
Souls Alive: Origins is a Lovecraftian survival horror game set in a dark sci-fi future. Explore a world where reality bends, ancient cults return, and Cthulhu stirs once more. With a strong focus on story, atmosphere, and visual detail.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.6%, Survival Horror 22.3%, Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #23 DEORUM
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joyhop Games
Windows
Descend into the forsaken dungeon and fight the horrors in the dark. Gather occult materials, craft nightmarish coins, and settle your debt to the cosmic powers. Obey the Divine Festival.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.2%, Turn-Based Combat 15.4%, Roguelite 12%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 10.4%
- #24 No Man Can Deny
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dramatic Exit
Windows
Isolated on the open sea, equipped with a rusty lantern and a tape recorder. Endure the pain or drown like the rest in this short sit-and-survive horror game.
Why similar: Jump Scare 27.2% ★, Survival Horror 25.2%, Horror 17.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark 8%
- #25 The Old Man’s Will
81% matchNo user reviews0% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: JoseDesuPub: RoomDreams
Windows
Welcome to your grandfather’s old property, a lonely patch of land deep in the woods. Strange creatures roam the area at night, hungry and unpredictable. Watch the cameras, keep them fed, and try to make it through five long nights alive.
Why similar: Jump Scare 29.6% ★, Survival Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 14.7%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #26 Randventure
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Epreyn
Windows · Mac · Linux
Randventure is a 1-bit, turn-based roguelite played in a single swipe: slide your heroes left or right to make your choices. Build your team of three heroes, journey through three acts, evolve them along the way, and overcome every obstacle on your road.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 22.8%, Roguelite 19.7%, RPG 10.4%, Roguelike 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 9%
- #27 Paresis®
80% matchMixed70% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: HEAD GMZ
Windows
You are paralyzed in a house alone. Lean to find the morphs and use your flame energy to scare them off before they rip you apart. Survive 5 minutes to complete each Phase and burn down the house for good.
Why similar: Jump Scare 28.1% ★, Survival Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 13.4%, Dark 8.6%
- #28 White Mask Mansion
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Golden Fleece
Windows
Look for sister. Die. Start again. Avoid stalker. Die. Hide. Die. Seek keys. Die. Sneak. Die. Reach final area. Survive. Repeat. Do you have what it takes to escape the horror of the White Mask Mansion?
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.4%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 23.3%, Lovecraftian 6.7%, Perma Death 3.7%
- #29 Lost Sanity: Cthulhu
77% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Manin StudiosPub: ZNT Productions
Windows
On Halloween night, a group of teens tells horror stories, and each one comes to life in Lost Sanity. In the first chapter, Call of the Sea, you play as Megan Claire, trapped in an underground prison while cultists awaken a marine entity; slip through shadows, follow clues, and guard your sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.4%, Survival Horror 18%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 14%, Story Rich 4.7%
- #30 Zaria
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zaap
Windows
A young family finds itself at the heart of an unprecedented family drama. Manipulate the all-powerful white and black dices in this turn-based narrative roguelike, and help them get out of this mess.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 27%, Roguelike 19.4%, Roguelite 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
- #31 Fear Below Zero
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: fbz
Windows
Survive an isolated Antarctic research station as you hide from an ancient creature, scavenge for parts, and repair communications to call for rescue.
Why similar: Jump Scare 24.4% ★, Lovecraftian 20.7%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 11.1%
- #32 The Deadseat
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Curious Fox Sox
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.4%, Horror 13.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Roguelike 11.9%
- #33 The Session
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arcadia Games
Windows
Strapped to a chair, you must find a way out before your therapist realizes what you're doing. Time your movements with the thunderclaps outside, choose your words carefully, and create the perfect distraction.
Why similar: Jump Scare 39.4% ★, Survival Horror 19.5%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 13.6%, Dark 6.7%
- #34 Yellow Noise
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Anton Tuchkov
Windows
Dungeon Crawler Survival Horror where exploration is your greatest weapon. Explore a warping city, where reality is slowly unraveling. Survive terrifying creatures, manage your physical and mental condition, and find a way out of the maddening cosmic truth about the world around you.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.1%, Survival Horror 26.1%, Horror 13.6%, Dark 9.5%, Story Rich 5%
- #35 Rogue Pirates
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Play Games
Windows · Mac
Rogue Pirates is a swashbuckling roguelike turn-based RPG about captaining your crew of pirates through hostile seas. Recruit daring pirates to join your crew and lead them into peril and plunder. Battle sea monsters, other pirates and civilization itself all for the quest of becoming a legend.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.2%, Roguelite 14.5%, Perma Death 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Roguelike 10%
- #36 Feed the Deep
74% matchVery Positive89% of 484 reviews2024
Dev: Luke Muscat
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 42%
A lovecraftian roguelike. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.5%, Roguelite 15.2%, Roguelike 12.2%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
- #37 Death Trials (Director's Cut)
75% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Made in America Media, LLC
Windows
An action horror game about scientific trials gone wrong! Run and hide or FIGHT your way to escape. Plenty of jump-scares and perfect for streaming!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.6%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Perma Death 13.3%, Horror 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #38 Lovelace Case
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BOK Studio
Windows
Lovelace Case is a Retro Lovecraftian Survival Horror set in the 1900s. Explore the nightmarish Mansion, manage scarce resources and face eldritch terrors where survival means choosing what parts of reality you are willing to lose.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.7%, Survival Horror 22.8%, Horror 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
- #39 LURKS WITHIN WALLS
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Here Be MonstersPub: 2 Wedges
Windows
LURKS WITHIN WALLS is a tense survival horror game that combines modern dungeon-crawling RPG with fast-paced turn-based combat. Explore cursed environments infested with creatures born from the haunted art of Trevor Henderson.
Why similar: Survival Horror 21%, Turn-Based Combat 19.1%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 12%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #40 Unchosen: Forsaken
74% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: ArchDawn
Windows
VR horror rouge-like game where the player will need escape a purgatorial environment by completing a set of objectives and finding useful tools and equipment while avoiding and out-smarting hostile monsters and traps.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.9%, Lovecraftian 17.3%, Roguelite 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 11.7%
- #41 Hatred and Blood
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lia CallanPub: Amos Shade SRL
Windows · Mac
Hatred and Blood is a psychological horror RPG set in a dystopian 1980s. Nations have turned to isolation and walls to prevent another war. But a curse, or sickness, spreads... consuming people from within and erasing their humanity. Will you endure… or be Baptized in Dismay?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.4%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 9.1%
- #42 Intruders
72% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Sviatoslav Solianyk
Windows
Intruders is a survival horror / strategy game where you get kidnapped and in order to save your life you will need to survive five nights. Use camera system and environment to defend yourself against different intruders.
Why similar: Jump Scare 34.6% ★, Survival Horror 18.3%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Resource Management 10%
- #43 Eldritch Horror: Digital Edition
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cornerstone Software Development, Inc.
Windows
Uncover ancient cults, battle horrific monsters and thwart the rise of unfathomable Ancient Ones in a 1920s-themed adventure. In this faithful adaptation of the classic board game, you must race against time to save humanity from ancient powers and dark secrets before all is lost.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.4%, Horror 12.4%, Roguelike 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%, Roguelite 9.1%
- #44 SeverSoul XOOKEEPER
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zach MeyerPub: Achary Factory
Windows
Keep the entities fed, pacified and contained every night within a dark decaying facility. Can you survive each shift in this intense point & click horror?
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.8%, Jump Scare 21.6% ★, Horror 16.1%, Psychological Horror 16%, Lovecraftian 14.4%
- #45 Journey to Monolith
71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Drew Stillwell
Windows
Choose your general, build your team, customize your fighters, and battle your way to the Monolith in this strategic, turn-based roguelite game.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 26.2%, Roguelike 15.4%, Roguelite 13.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Perma Death 11.9%
- #46 TAURONOS
73% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: cavalie_roPub: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Trapped inside an ancient labyrinth, chased by the mythical Minotaur. Will you reach the center? And if so, what will you discover about yourself there, in the dark?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.8%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Horror 13.5%, Perma Death 11.3%, Dark 8.2%
- #47 Devestor
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: DiMon Games
Windows
This isn’t a story-driven horror game, it’s a challenge! Across 10 haunted levels… You’ll face Jumpscares, Puzzles, Parkour, Mini-Games, and a Roaming Monster that truly hates you. Your only hope lies in the notes left by some clueless idiot who came here just like you… and never made it back.
Why similar: Jump Scare 35.5% ★, Survival Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 15.8%, Action 5.4%
- #48 The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu
67% matchMixed69% of 4,142 reviews2026
Dev: ACE TeamPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In up to four player co-op, form a group of explorers searching for treasure. In this cursed jungle, danger is everywhere and monstrous creatures alter reality. Stay clear-headed and tame the jungle before it devours you…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Roguelite 15.5%, Horror 11.8%, Roguelike 6.4%
- #49 That Abysmal Place
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Void Media
Windows
A nightmarish 2D roguelite that will leave you questioning your sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.4%, Roguelite 15.2%, Horror 12.5%, Roguelike 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
- #50 Monstrum Opus
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Floppy Wizz
Windows
Monstrum Opus is a dungeon crawler where you take on the role of a chimera created by a mad alchemist. To prove yourself you must do battle with an ever expanding roster of monsters, severing their limbs and grafting them onto your own body, but beware: as losing these will also be your own undoing.
Why similar: Perma Death 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Lovecraftian 12.8%, Turn-Based Combat 11%, Survival Horror 9.2%
- #51 Parasitic Business
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rat's Paradox
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rampage through the company with your broom and iron fist! Battle against countless unique monsters and devour them to increase your power. Give them a real reason not to treat you like a fool.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 23.1%, Roguelite 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Roguelike 12%, Strategy 9.4%
- #52 Penumbra Overture
70% matchVery Positive90% of 4,186 reviews2009
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Lovecraftian 18.8%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Dark 6.8%
- #53 Cage of Kurikaesu
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: willPub: Aevimort
Windows
Cage of Kurikaesu is a turn-based roguelite where an ordinary person awakens in a dark cave and becomes trapped in an endless cycle of death and revival. Gather information through failure, grow stronger each run, and fight despair to uncover a way out.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.9%, Roguelite 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 17.4%, Survival Horror 8.1%, Roguelike 8%
- #54 Eldritch
70% matchVery Positive88% of 2,223 reviews2013
Dev: Minor Key Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.3%, Roguelike 16.7%, Roguelite 11.3%, Horror 9.8%, Procedural Generation 6.2%
- #55 Darkest Dungeon®
67% matchVery Positive92% of 162,804 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 45.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.3%, Turn-Based Combat 26.3%, Roguelike 12.7%, Perma Death 9%, RPG 7%
- #56 MORTEM
70% matchMixed53% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Nighthood Games
Windows
A short hide and seek horror experience for people seeking a quick jumpscare horror.
Why similar: Jump Scare 44.5% ★, Survival Horror 19.6%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 11.2%, Strategy 5.4%
- #57 Something Wicked Lies Beneath
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Venusian Sun
Windows
Explore the randomly segmented structures of your nightmares in this roguelike psychological horror game. Be strategic and efficient while completing randomized objectives with very limited oxygen, all while being hunted by whatever is down there with you. Many mysteries await your presence.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.3%, Roguelite 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Perma Death 12.5%, Horror 11.9%
- #58 Sacrificium
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SeedWall
Windows
Turn-based roguelike. Every creature carries a trait you can only claim by sacrificing it at the altar. Stack traits into a build, watch your team shrink, and reach the final fight with nothing left to spend. Power is always subtraction.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 23.8%, Roguelite 19.5%, Roguelike 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #59 Tower Of Penguinaria
66% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: RpgPenguin
Windows
Tower of Penguinaria is a single-player pixel art Roguelite RPG game where you are a Penguin trying to stop the Evil Sealsorer from taking over Antarctica. Through turn based combats where your gear effects what abilities you will learn to aid in battle!
Why similar: Roguelite 19.8%, Roguelike 18.7%, Turn-Based Combat 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, RPG 12.5%
- #60 Ad Iterum
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gabriel MaldonadoPub: Krapao
Windows · Mac
Ad Iterum is a turn-based top-down 2D roguelike set in a decaying, ever-shifting world. Flesh is fragile, but you can hack it. Enhance your body, embrace mutations, or form ancient blood pacts. Descend into the depths, scavenge what’s left of humanity, and crawl back...if you can. Kill. Die. Repeat.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.1%, Turn-Based Combat 16.8%, Perma Death 14.2%, Roguelike 11.7%, Procedural Generation 9.7%