Best Lovecraftian
Anchorhead is a parser-based interactive fiction game written by Michael Gentry and published in 1998. The narrative draws heavily from the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft, tasking the player with investigating a decrepit New England coastal town and their newlywed husband's sinister family legacy....
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is a 1999 Penguin Classics anthology of short fiction by H. P. Lovecraft, edited with an introduction and notes by Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi. It includes the title story, first published in Weird Tales in 1928, alongside works such as "The Rats in the...
The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1931 and first published as a book in 1936. Its narrator visits the isolated Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth, investigates its decaying buildings and secretive population, and discovers a relationship between the town's...
The Lurking Horror is a 1987 interactive fiction game by Dave Lebling and published by Infocom. Set at G.U.E. Tech, a fictional university based on MIT where Lebling was educated, the game follows a student who discovers cosmic horrors beneath the campus during a winter storm. It was Infocom's only...
Infra Arcana is a turn-based roguelike game steeped in Lovecraftian horror. It presents players with challenging dungeons demanding strategic use of firearms and occult knowledge for survival. The game’s focus on atmosphere and intense dread makes it appealing to fans of traditional roguelikes and t...
Demonbane is a 2003 visual novel developed by Nitroplus that combines elements of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with mecha anime tropes and detective fiction. The story follows Kuro Daijuuji, a broke private detective in the fictional city of Arkham, who is hired to find a powerful grimoire and ev...
King of Shreds and Patches is a 2009 parser-based interactive fiction game written by Julian Mortimer Smith in Inform. Set in Elizabethan London, it combines detailed historical research with Lovecraftian cosmic horror, as the player investigates supernatural threats within the streets, taverns, and...
The Song of Saya is a 2003 Japanese visual novel by Nitroplus. It tells the story of a student experiencing cognitive difficulties and disturbing visions after a family tragedy. The game draws heavily on Lovecraftian horror, examining psychological trauma and unsettling mysteries. It’s designed for...
What Moves the Dead is a 2022 horror novella by T. Kingfisher that reimagines Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. It follows Alex Easton, a retired soldier who visits the isolated Usher estate after receiving news that Madeline Usher is gravely ill. The story retains Poe's decaying man...
The Fisherman is a 2016 cosmic horror novel written by American author John Langan. The book won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and is known for its complex, nested narrative structure. The story follows two widowers who share a passion for fishing and encounter a series of supernatural e...
Eldritch Horror is a cooperative tabletop adventure game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2013. Players take on the roles of investigators traveling across a global map to solve mysteries, gather artifacts, and close portals in an attempt to prevent the awakening of Lovecraftian Ancient Ones. Th...
'The Ballad of Black Tom' is a historical horror novella written by Victor LaValle and published in 2016. The narrative serves as a direct reimagining and critique of H.P. Lovecraft's controversial story 'The Horror at Red Hook.' It is told primarily from the perspective of a young Black jazz musici...
Cthulhu: Death May Die – Season 2 is a 2020 expansion for the cooperative horror board game designed by Rob Daviau and Marco Portugal. Published by CMON, it expands upon the base game's Lovecraftian theme by introducing new episodes that pit players against different Elder Ones. The expansion includ...
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition is a cooperative, app-integrated board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2016. Set in the Lovecraftian Arkham Horror universe, it tasks up to five players with investigating mysteries and surviving encounters with otherworldly monsters. The game is driven...
The Twisted Ones is a 2019 horror novel by T. Kingfisher, the pen name of Ursula Vernon. It follows a woman named Mouse who travels with her dog to rural North Carolina to clear out her deceased grandmother's cluttered house, where she finds a disturbing journal and evidence of unnatural creatures i...
The City We Became is a 2020 speculative novel by N. K. Jemisin and the first volume of the Great Cities duology. It personifies New York City through human avatars representing its boroughs, who must unite against an invasive, otherworldly enemy. The novel combines urban fantasy, science fiction, a...
Cthulhu: Death May Die is a cooperative, dice-based miniatures board game released in 2019, designed by Rob Daviau and Marco Maggi and published by CMON. Rooted in the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, players act as investigators attempting to stop the summoning of an Elder One. The...
Fatale is a supernatural noir horror comic book series created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips, published by Image Comics. The narrative centers on Josephine, an immortal femme fatale who is pursued by a demonic cult across multiple decades, spanning from the 1930s to the modern era....
Sundered is a 2017 action-platformer with roguelike elements, developed by Thunder Lotus Games, a Canadian studio previously known for the 2015 game Jotun. The player navigates procedurally generated underground levels that rearrange after each death, battling creatures inspired by H.P. Lovecraft an...
Revival is a 2014 horror novel by Stephen King, narrated by musician Jamie Morton and centered on his lifelong encounters with Charles Jacobs, a minister who becomes obsessed with electricity after a personal tragedy. The story follows both men across several decades as Jacobs develops increasingly...
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a 2013 first-person puzzle game by Frogwares that combines magnetic manipulation mechanics with a Cthulhu-inspired story.
*The Whisperer in Darkness* is a science fiction and horror novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, first published in 1931. Its story is conveyed largely through the correspondence between Albert N. Wilmarth, a scholar interested in folklore, and Henry Akeley, a Vermont resident who reports enc...
A 2019 Spanish episodic survival horror by Protocol Games featuring multiple playable characters who can permanently die, with an adaptive AI-driven antagonist.
sCthangband is a 2003 Angband variant that combines traditional dungeon exploration with creatures, themes, and sanity effects derived from Cthulhu fiction.
Strange Aeons is a horror skirmish miniatures game rooted in Lovecraftian lore, where players fight an endless war against terrifying mythos threats.
Source of Madness is a 2022 roguelike action platformer developed by Carcinate, notable for its use of AI-generated art and dark Lovecraftian setting.
A 2019 open-world investigative horror by Frogwares set in a fictional flooded 1920s American city heavily inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Conarium is a 2017 Lovecraftian horror adventure game developed by Turkish studio Zoetrope Interactive, serving as a sequel to the classic game Darkness Within.
Moons of Madness is a 2019 first-person psychological horror game developed by Rock Pocket Games, set on Mars and loosely tied to the Secret World universe.
