Best Lovecraftian games on PC
Games tagged Lovecraftian draw on cosmic horror, with unknowable beings, forbidden knowledge, and people facing forces beyond their understanding. Gameplay ranges from horror adventures and RPGs to strategy games, shooters, and simulations.
- Cosmic horror themes
- Unknowable otherworldly threats
- Dark, unsettling atmosphere
Related: Horror, Psychological Horror, Atmospheric, Dark Fantasy
156 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Darkest Dungeon®
Dark fantasy roguelike RPG about stress, survival, and permanent death
92% positive
163K reviews
Remnant: From the Ashes
Third-person Souls-like shooter with co-op and changing worlds
84% positive
57K reviews
Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
Difficult roguelite management sim about extracting energy from monsters
94% positive
57K reviews
DREDGE
Open-world fishing adventure where night brings Lovecraftian danger
96% positive
57K reviews
SOMA
First-person sci-fi horror about identity in an isolated underwater facility
96% positive
53K reviews
What Remains of Edith Finch
First-person narrative adventure exploring a family's home and final stories
96% positive
53K reviews
Quake Champions
Fast-paced multiplayer arena shooter with distinct champions and abilities
74% positive
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CARRION
Gory 2D puzzle Metroidvania where you play the monster
94% positive
36K reviews
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
First-person survival horror where hiding and running replace fighting
95% positive
36K reviews
SIGNALIS
Psychological survival horror with scarce resources and a cosmic mystery
97% positive
35K reviews
The Room
First-person puzzle game about unlocking layered mechanical boxes
98% positive
32K reviews
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Top-down action roguelite with active aiming and evolving builds
90% positive
29K reviews
ICEY
Side-scrolling action where you can defy the narrator
90% positive
28K reviews
Layers of Fear (2016)
First-person psychological horror through a painter’s constantly shifting home
88% positive
28K reviews
Darkest Dungeon® II
Dark fantasy roguelite with party tactics and punishing stagecoach journeys
75% positive
27K reviews
DUSK
Fast-paced retro first-person shooter against cultists and possessed soldiers
97% positive
26K reviews
Demonologist
First-person co-op horror about identifying and exorcising evil spirits
85% positive
24K reviews
The Room Two
Point-and-click puzzle adventure built around objects and hidden mechanisms
98% positive
22K reviews
Scorn
First-person horror adventure through a grotesque biomechanical maze
77% positive
20K reviews
The Room 4: Old Sins
Point-and-click puzzle adventure inside a strange, multiroom dollhouse
98% positive
18K reviews
Labyrinthine
First-person co-op horror with puzzles and procedurally generated mazes
84% positive
17K reviews
Magicraft
Top-down action roguelite built around crafting custom spell combinations
93% positive
17K reviews
Strange Horticulture
Cozy occult puzzle adventure about identifying mysterious plants
94% positive
16K reviews
Look Outside
Turn-based survival horror RPG inside a monster-filled apartment building
98% positive
15K reviews