The Best Lovecraftian Games - Page 4

Update : Escape Line added at rank #38.
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Omen Exitio: Plague (2018)

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Omen Exitio: Plague is inspired by the gamebooks of the '80s and '90s, mixing the alien and horrifying universe created by H.P. Lovecraft with an original plot and characters, all guided by your choices similar to the visual novel / CYOA genres.


  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • adventure
  • story
  • fiction

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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss (2025)

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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

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  • lovecraftian
  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • movement
  • dark
  • old-school
  • turn-based
  • party
  • fantasy
  • grid
  • procedural
  • pve
  • combat
  • pixel
  • classic

33

The Passenger (2022)

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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?


  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • romance
  • fiction
  • choices
  • interactive
  • supernatural
  • casual
  • romantic
  • cosmic
  • 000-word
  • text
  • drama
  • rpg
  • multiple-endings

34

Dream Cycle (2022)

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Venture into Lovecraft’s legendary Dreamlands and join an epic struggle to save humanity. Master occult powers, unique weapons, and special combat abilities to vanquish powerful enemies. Explore, adventure, survive, and find a way to break the curse that threatens the waking world.

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  • lovecraftian
  • magic
  • souls
  • action-adventure
  • pve
  • surreal
  • dark
  • rogue-like
  • stealth
  • third-person
  • exploration
  • controller-support
  • story
  • survival
  • first-person

35

QUICKERFLAK (2022)

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PC Windows

QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

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  • psychedelic
  • lovecraftian
  • top-down
  • bullet-hell
  • isometric
  • stylized
  • minimalist
  • music
  • gothic
  • procedural
  • surreal
  • rogue-like
  • retro
  • dystopian
  • old-school

36

SCP: Pandemic (2022)

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early access PC Windows

SCP: Pandemic (Alpha) is a story-focused hardcore cooperative tactical shooter project based on the 5K scenario by Tanhony. Currently released into Early Access to aid ongoing developmental efforts. The current state is far from final.

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  • customization
  • lore
  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • gun
  • first-person
  • pve
  • shooter
  • character
  • pvp
  • psychological
  • sandbox
  • survival-horror
  • tactical
  • fps

37

SKALD: Against the Black Priory - The Prologue (2021)

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‘SKALD: Against the Black Priory’ is a retro-style RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and pulpy, Lovecraftian horror. Explore an engaging branching story mixed with exploration and crunchy tactical, turn-based combat that will engage RPG fans, old and new.


  • dark
  • lovecraftian
  • rpg
  • fantasy
  • tactical
  • party
  • choices
  • character
  • class
  • conversation
  • movement
  • old-school
  • retro
  • turn-based
  • pixel

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Escape Line (2026)

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Yandere · Monster Romance · Y/N game · Philosophical · Sci-Fi · Visual Novel Shipwrecked and stripped of memory, you awaken on a fog-shrouded island with nothing but the aid of two sirens — so, what's the price?

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  • dating-sim
  • modern
  • memes
  • lore
  • psychological
  • visual-novel
  • lovecraftian
  • cinematic
  • sci-fi
  • multiple-endings
  • emotional
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • surreal
  • mythology

39

Athanasy (2022)

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Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.


  • narration
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • dynamic
  • sci-fi
  • lore
  • text
  • lovecraftian
  • cyberpunk
  • conversation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • choices
  • multiple-endings

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We Need To Go Deeper (2017)

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DIVE. DISCOVER. DIE. Crew a submarine with friends in We Need To Go Deeper - a 2-4-player cooperative submarine roguelike set in a Verne-inspired undersea universe.


  • rogue-like
  • lovecraftian
  • submarine
  • steampunk
  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • underwater
  • pve
  • hand-drawn
  • loot
  • team
  • cartoony
  • exploration
  • platform
  • simulation

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