- #1 Fear & Hunger
97% matchVery Positive94% of 21,050 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.6%, Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Turn-Based Combat 12.2%, RPG 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the unforgiving, brutal turn-based combat and dark, oppressive cosmic horror themes that define the experience of World of Horror.
- #2 Inscryption
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,157 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Card Game 24.5%, Horror 23.8%, Roguelite 17%, Roguelike 14.5%, Point & Click 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends card-based roguelite mechanics with a meta-narrative and unsettling psychological horror that feels spiritually aligned with World of Horror.
- #3 Cultist Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,737 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.9%, Moddable 17.1% ★, Card Game 12.8%, Roguelite 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the occult and Lovecraftian lore through a card-based interface, mirroring the investigative and ritualistic nature of the seed game.
- #4 FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,412 reviews2022
Dev: Airdorf GamesPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Lovecraftian 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Survival Horror 13%
Why You'll Like It: The retro, low-fidelity aesthetic combined with intense occult horror and pixelated dread makes this a perfect companion to the 1-bit style of World of Horror.
- #5 Darkwood
94% matchVery Positive95% of 23,842 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.7%, Horror 22.3%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Survival 13.2%, RPG 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures an incredibly oppressive, top-down survival atmosphere that forces players to manage limited resources against cosmic threats.
- #6 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
94% matchMixed66% of 2,493 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.4%, Horror 16.6%, Turn-Based Combat 14.6%, RPG 11.8%, Atmospheric 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that leans heavily into the Lovecraftian mythos, offering the same sense of inevitable doom and investigative gameplay.
- #7 SIGNALIS
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,986 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.7%, Survival Horror 28.5%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Mystery 8.4%, Atmospheric 6%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at retro-inspired survival horror, utilizing a distinct aesthetic and psychological depth to create a haunting, surreal experience.
- #8 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,176 reviews2022
Dev: Miro Haverinen
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23.7%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It expands on the brutal, unforgiving turn-based survival mechanics of its predecessor with a more modern, yet equally disturbing, setting.
- #9 Dreams in the Witch House
91% matchVery Positive93% of 421 reviews2023
Dev: Atom Brain GamesPub: Bonus Stage Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.9%, Point & Click 12.4%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A direct adaptation of Lovecraftian fiction that uses point-and-click mechanics and survival elements to immerse the player in a cursed environment.
- #10 OMORI
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,929 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.2%, Horror 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, RPG 9.6%, Anime 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: While visually distinct, it uses psychological horror and pixel-art to explore deep, traumatic themes that resonate with the surreal nature of World of Horror.
- #11 Pathologic 2
89% matchVery Positive92% of 11,869 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.3%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Survival 17.9%, RPG 11.5%, Atmospheric 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: An intensely difficult survival game that forces players to make impossible choices in a decaying, surreal world filled with psychological horror.
- #12 The last door
90% match6 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: AlekseyPub: AlekseyN
Windows
You control a combat robot. Your task is to go through the maze, destroy all the enemy robots and get to the finish line. The passages to the other rooms of the maze are littered with stones. You need to use bombs to free the passages.
Why similar: Survival 65.4%, Adventure 19%, Atmospheric 15.7%
Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that focuses on Lovecraftian mystery and retro-pixel aesthetics, emphasizing atmosphere over action.
- #13 Mundaun
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,419 reviews2021
Dev: Hidden FieldsPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Why similar: Horror 33.2%, Psychological Horror 32%, Mystery 18.1%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Adventure 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: The hand-penciled art style and folk-horror setting evoke a similar sense of uncanny, surreal dread found in the works of Junji Ito.
- #14 Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
88% matchVery Positive94% of 52,523 reviews2018
Dev: ProjectMoon
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.1%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Horror 21.3%, Roguelite 7.4%, Roguelike 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim features high-stakes decisions and psychological horror, requiring the player to understand and contain eldritch entities.
- #15 Strange Horticulture
87% matchVery Positive95% of 15,145 reviews2022
Dev: Bad VikingPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.2%, Point & Click 28.1%, Mystery 18%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Adventure 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: This occult-themed management game focuses on investigation and dark lore, capturing the investigative side of World of Horror's gameplay.
- #16 DREDGE
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,902 reviews2023
Dev: Black Salt GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.3%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Mystery 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fishing-based survival game that slowly introduces Lovecraftian cosmic horror, mirroring the creeping dread of investigating mysteries.
- #17 The Case of the Golden Idol
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 10,171 reviews2022
Dev: Color Gray GamesPub: Playstack
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Why similar: Point & Click 33.8%, Mystery 25.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%, 2D 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This mystery game requires careful investigation and piecing together dark, surreal events, which appeals to the detective-like gameplay of the seed game.
- #18 Decarnation
84% matchVery Positive88% of 1,039 reviews2023
Dev: Atelier QDBPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.5%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends surreal puzzle-solving with psychological horror, focusing on emotional impact and disturbing imagery.
- #19 SUNLESS SEA
86% matchVery Positive83% of 9,470 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.1%, Survival 11.9%, Horror 10.6%, Roguelike 8.4%, Roguelite 7%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy exploration game set in a dark, Lovecraftian version of London where survival is difficult and knowledge is dangerous.
- #20 The Consuming Shadow
85% matchVery Positive95% of 419 reviews2015
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 47.9%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Horror 10.3%, Roguelite 9.8%, Psychological Horror 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival-horror game that uses procedural generation and Lovecraftian themes to create a tense, investigative experience.
- #21 Draft of Darkness
83% matchVery Positive94% of 344 reviews2023
Dev: Crawly Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.3%, Horror 23.3%, Card Game 22.2%, Roguelike 16.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that incorporates survival-horror elements, requiring careful management of resources and cards to survive.
- #22 Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Gotcha Gotcha Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Cthulhu Mythos with this 2D visual novel game featuring a thrilling TRPG-based experience! Roll the dice and use your skills and luck to escape the abandoned hospital, while experiencing the cosmic terror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.3%, Horror 13.3%, Point & Click 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Mystery 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that focuses on the mystery and exploration aspects of the Lovecraftian mythos.
- #23 Sucker for Love: First Date
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,933 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.6%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Point & Click 12%, Anime 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A satirical take on Lovecraftian horror that uses the visual novel format to explore the absurdity of dating eldritch gods.
- #24 Amnesia: The Bunker
79% matchVery Positive93% of 11,497 reviews2023
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.9%, Horror 24.3%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Survival 14.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes resource management and survival in a confined space, forcing players to adapt to an ever-present, terrifying threat.
- #25 Iron Lung
80% matchVery Positive92% of 10,453 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Psychological Horror 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Mystery 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A short, claustrophobic experience that relies on cosmic horror and a limited interface to create immense dread.
- #26 Look Outside
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,497 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.9 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 28.9%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Horror 14.7%, Turn-Based Combat 11.1%, RPG 8.5%
- #27 SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,017 reviews2019
Dev: Protocol GamesPub: 🚀 Raiser Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 3rd person, fixed-camera survival horror adventure. Fear the Presence, a mysterious entity you cannot fight: stay alert, hide, breathe slowly... Explore cursed places where unseen spirits and lost souls linger in a true horror story for the ages.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29%, Survival Horror 24.4%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Atmospheric 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that emphasizes investigation and the threat of an unseen, malevolent entity that learns from the player's actions.
- #28 Lovecraft's Untold Stories
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 948 reviews2019
Dev: LLC Blini GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 54.1%, Roguelite 14.7%, Horror 9.4%, RPG 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that directly adapts the mythos, offering a faster-paced take on the investigative themes of the seed game.
- #29 NO-SKIN
77% matchVery Positive95% of 1,266 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: Horror 16.4%, Roguelite 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 12.7%, Roguelike 10.5%
- #30 Out Of Hands
77% matchVery Positive94% of 1,468 reviews2025
Dev: Game River
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Out of Hands is a bizarre card-based adventure game that blends video-collage graphics with gripping psychological horror. Will you seek the truth lurking in this wicked, warped world—and can you bear its weight? Misty memories threaten to tear you apart, contorting you into a being... Out of Hands.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Card Game 23%, Turn-Based Combat 21.8%, RPG 11.2%, Atmospheric 9.5%
- #31 Lust from Beyond
78% matchVery Positive81% of 4,349 reviews2021
Dev: Movie Games LunariumPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A Victorian mansion. A cult worshipping an otherworldly erotic deity. Among all that - you. Explore a world inspired by the works of Lovecraft, Giger, and Beksiński. See for yourself that there are no limits to dark ecstasy.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.6%, Horror 33.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Mystery 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: A horror adventure that leans heavily into the erotic and cosmic themes often associated with Lovecraftian cults.
- #32 House of Necrosis
75% matchVery Positive94% of 536 reviews2025
Dev: Warkus
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A turn-based horror RPG with retro 32-bit 3D graphics. Survive the horrors of the mansion that changes every time you enter.
Why similar: Horror 32.2%, Turn-Based Combat 26.3%, Roguelike 20.2%, RPG 13.7%, Atmospheric 6.2%
- #33 Mind Lure
76% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Little Tiger Game
Windows
A Lovecraftian deck-building roguelike. Collect eerie cards and twisted creatures. Strengthen your deck while battling sanity loss in waters haunted by unspeakable entities.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.1%, Roguelike 12.8%, Roguelite 12.8%, Card Game 11.1%, Horror 7.9%
- #34 Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
79% matchMixed68% of 3,295 reviews2009
Dev: Headfirst ProductionsPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 53.9%, Horror 22.6%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Atmospheric 2.9%, Psychological Horror 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic first-person survival-horror game that remains one of the most faithful representations of the Cthulhu Mythos in gaming.
- #35 Myths of Rules
75% matchVery Positive88% of 1,027 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.5%, Horror 26.9%, Lovecraftian 17.1%, 2D 5.7%, Adventure 3.9%
- #36 Eldritch Survivors
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Ghost Button
Windows
Uncover the secrets behind the protagonists' fate, trapped in an endless cycle of death. Eldritch Survivor is a survival-like game that maximizes both the narrative and the excitement of each dungeon encounter. Immerse yourself in a 99% pure Lovecraftian world and confront the terror of the unknown.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.6%, Roguelike 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Roguelite 11.6%
- #37 Roots Devour
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 515 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 32%, Horror 13.6%, Survival Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Card Game 11.7%
- #38 Dread X Collection 2
74% matchVery Positive94% of 674 reviews2020
Dev: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore 12 horror games made in 10 days connected by a meta narrative experience you didn't expect. Step into a world of darkness and discover the secrets you didn't know were right beneath the surface. Find the tapes and unlock the mystery inside the Dread X Collection 2.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.6%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Horror 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14%, Survival 8.4%
- #39 Ib
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,037 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Horror 25.7%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Survival 11.7%, Anime 10.4%
- #40 Horripilant
70% matchVery Positive93% of 1,655 reviews2026
Dev: Alexandre Declos Pub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows · Linux
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.
Why similar: Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Point & Click 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, RPG 7.7%
- #41 The Horror at Highrook
71% matchVery Positive91% of 451 reviews2025
Dev: Nullpointer Games
Windows
The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.7%, Horror 19.1%, Card Game 15.5%, Mystery 11.1%, RPG 5.7%
- #42 Subway Exorcist Girl
72% matchVery Positive83% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: 纤指游戏Pub: Delicate Fingers
Windows
A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.1%, Horror 15.5%, Roguelite 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Roguelike 8.2%
- #43 Call of Cthulhu®
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,295 reviews2018
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.8%, Horror 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Mystery 5.8%, Atmospheric 4.1%
- #44 The Foretold: Westmark Legacy
73% matchMixed58% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Nodbrim Interactive
Windows
Fight to investigate another day in this gothic horror adventure card game. Equip items and relics. Acquire cards and use them wisely to survive what lurks in the darkest corners of town. Take a short and mind-bending dive into the unknown with a cosy horror atmosphere.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28%, Card Game 18.1%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, Point & Click 12.5%, Horror 12%
- #45 Lunacid
70% matchVery Positive91% of 10,657 reviews2023
Dev: KIRA LLC
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Cast into the Great Well, unwanted by the world above. You delve the dark in search of the Old One, your last salvation. Lunacid is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by Shadow Tower and King’s Field.
Why similar: Horror 44.3%, RPG 31.5%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Singleplayer 4%
- #46 Phantasmal: Survival Horror Roguelike
76% matchMixed44% of 364 reviews2016
Dev: Eyemobi Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Experience Terror that is Never the Same Twice with Phantasmal, a Lovecraftian survival horror that evolves every time you play!
Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Lovecraftian 31.2%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Roguelite 8.1%, Survival 5.2%
- #47 Lamentum
71% matchVery Positive88% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Obscure TalesPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.5%, Survival Horror 21%, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #48 Dead of Darkness
69% matchVery Positive87% of 209 reviews2025
Dev: Retrofiction Games
Windows
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.5%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Horror 16.1%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #49 Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 644 reviews2025
Dev: SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol is a first-person survival horror game inspired by Junji Ito's psychological horror and eerie aesthetics. This work centers on the twisted potential of human nature and fear of the unknown, taking you on a journey of survival where memory and mystery intertwine.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.9%, Horror 25.7%, Lovecraftian 22.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Anime 6.3%
- #50 The Count Lucanor
70% matchVery Positive93% of 2,868 reviews2016
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Pixel adventure inspired by classics like Zelda and Silent Hill.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25.2%, Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Anime 8.3%
- #51 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
67% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: X1 Games
Windows
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.1%, Horror 20.7%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Mystery 9.1%, Atmospheric 5.4%
- #52 Derange
71% matchMixed67% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Dark Gaia StudiosPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Lured to a rural property in Massachusetts, college students Jessica King and Nathan Romero are thrust into a terrifying battle for survival against an otherworldly evil. Test your instincts and your will to survive in this retro-style survival horror adventure, inspired by the classics of the '90s.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.4%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Horror 13.9%, Point & Click 11.4%, Roguelite 10.9%
- #53 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,737 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.1%, Horror 29%, Point & Click 24.2%, RPG 7.8%, Adventure 3%
- #54 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 37,969 reviews2016
Dev: Sukeban GamesPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: Point & Click 37.9%, Pixel Graphics 28.3%, Anime 19.9%, 2D 8.9%, Adventure 5.1%
- #55 Stygian: Outer Gods
67% matchVery Positive85% of 611 reviews2025
Dev: Misterial GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.3%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #56 No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut
69% matchVery Positive87% of 2,402 reviews2020
Dev: Marevo Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A slow burn retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40%, Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Mystery 7.4%, Atmospheric 5.6%
- #57 Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,107 reviews2021
Dev: Bit Golem
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.7%, Horror 20.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Point & Click 10.2%, Mystery 5.7%
- #58 Shadows Over Loathing
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,237 reviews2022
Dev: Asymmetric
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.6%, Point & Click 26.2%, RPG 11.5%, 2D 5.2%, Turn-Based Combat 4.8%
- #59 You Will (Not) Remain
67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,523 reviews2022
Dev: Bedtime PhobiasPub: No way, we're indie baby of course we don't have a publisher
Windows
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.8%, Point & Click 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%
- #60 This is Interesting
66% matchVery Positive99% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Scott Jund
Windows
This is Interesting is a psychological horror mystery based game with roguelite elements. You are being watched, and you aren't really sure why. Delve through the depths of memory to uncover the mystery behind the gray purgatory you find yourself in.
Why similar: Roguelite 21.6%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 15.6%, Mystery 11.6%, RPG 9.1%
