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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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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The Horror At Highrook (2025)

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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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SECLUSION (2025)

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early access PC Windows

The walls listen...

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  • psychological
  • first-person
  • resource-management
  • cinematic
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • horror
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • dystopian
  • lovecraftian
  • action
  • sandbox
  • action-adventure
  • realistic

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CTHULOOT (2025)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows Nintendo Switch

CTHULOOT is a cooperative arcade game in which you explore strange places filled with treasures to collect. Cooperation, agility and cthonic chanting will be required to solve the mysteries that await you. But watch out for tentacles!

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  • cooperative
  • local
  • campaign
  • lovecraftian
  • dungeon-crawler
  • 4-player
  • linear
  • top-down
  • team
  • arcade
  • physics
  • action-adventure
  • funny
  • 3d
  • cute

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Stygian: Outer Gods (2025)

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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?


  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • survival-horror
  • choices
  • first-person
  • rpg
  • immersive
  • psychological
  • dark
  • supernatural
  • stealth
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • survival

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