The Best Lovecraftian Games

Update : Carnival added at rank #1.
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Carnival (2025)

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PC Windows

Carnival is an atmospheric folk horror point-&-click featuring low-resolution pixel art graphics, locations drawn from Venice itself, and developing relationships with NPCs, allowing the player to influence events in the game and achieve multiple different endings.

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  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • point-
  • -click
  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • fixed
  • historical
  • politics
  • supernatural
  • mystery
  • psychological
  • adventure
  • conversation

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Whisper of Y'Ryando (2025)

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PC Windows j

Whisper of Y'Ryando is a Lovecraftian puzzle-solving game that showcases a layered papercraft aesthetic. In this game, players will uncover the ongoing stories of the town through a unique perspective, acquiring hundreds of clue fragments by rolling dice.

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  • lovecraftian
  • stylized
  • drama
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • mystery
  • clicker
  • exploration
  • puzzle

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The Demons Told Me to Make This Game (2025)

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Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...

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  • lovecraftian
  • dark
  • demons
  • nonlinear
  • manipulation
  • lore
  • time
  • choices
  • humor
  • visual-novel
  • comedy
  • supernatural
  • multiple-endings
  • horror
  • hand-drawn

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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss (2025)

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PC Windows

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

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Void Sails (2025)

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PC Windows

VOID SAILS is a single-player adventure where you captain a flying ship across uncharted space. Sail through mysterious worlds, battle powerful foes, and make story-defining choices. Uncover dark secrets in a game where every discovery could bring you closer to the truth—or to madness.

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  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • sailing
  • lore
  • exploration
  • story-defining
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • story
  • rpg
  • steampunk
  • psychological
  • space
  • mystery

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Super Swarmer Survivors (2025)

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early access j

Blast waves of worms back into the void! Choose eldritch superpowers each level for unique new mechanics! Your 6 jelly tendrils hold overpowered mutations! Dash and surf around in this fast-paced kinetic top-down action roguelite in an arcane petri dish and control dark rifts and curses...

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  • rogue-like
  • lovecraftian
  • deckbuilder
  • god-game
  • hack-and-slash
  • beat-em-up
  • 2.5d
  • surreal
  • shoot-em-up
  • physics
  • procedural
  • simulation
  • racing
  • abstract
  • stylized

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RailGods of Hysterra (2025)

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early access j Playstation 5

Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!

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  • survival
  • base-building
  • lovecraftian
  • crafting
  • building
  • cooperative
  • exploration
  • pve
  • multiplayer
  • hack-and-slash
  • procedural
  • 1920s
  • sandbox
  • online

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Sub-Verge (2025)

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PC Windows j

Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.

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  • lovecraftian
  • narrative
  • atmospheric
  • choices
  • conversation
  • sci-fi
  • fiction
  • survival
  • multiple-endings
  • puzzle
  • story
  • interactive
  • visual-novel
  • dystopian
  • dark

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The Horror At Highrook (2025)

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PC Windows j

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.

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  • lovecraftian
  • board-game
  • investigation
  • horror
  • nonlinear
  • card
  • gothic
  • comic
  • mystery
  • crafting
  • story
  • book
  • rpg
  • party
  • occult

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Necrophosis (2025)

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PC Windows

Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.

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  • lovecraftian
  • horror
  • surreal
  • walking-simulator
  • post-apocalyptic
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • narration
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • gothic
  • exploration
  • puzzle

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