Summary

• These Lovecraftian horror games that you might enjoy span different genres.
• Highlights include World of Horror - A 1-bit horror RPG that combines Lovecraft's work with Japanese manga.
• You can also find a point and click adventure and some FPS titles, as well as some classic survival horror.

H.P. Lovecraft is famous for a notorious brand of cosmic horror, which he mastered so thoroughly that it ended up as a separate genre named after him—168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lovecraftian horror. What made his monsters stand out is that they are beyond human comprehension; anඣyone who sees th💟em or tries to understand them ends up going mad or dying.

Video games have trie꧅d to adapt his stories and put that cosmic dread on full dis🍨play for gamers. Survival horror is an easy genre to pick from, but you can't fight what lies beyond your understanding. Therefore, the best Lovecraftian horror games rely not just on the gameplay and story but on their atmospheres, too.

Updated on January 2, 2025 by Dennis Moiseyev: No matter the time of year, there's always some room for Lovecraft and all the horrifying creatures that originated from his imagination, which developers love to take advantage of and continue adapting seamlessly into games or putting their own spin on cosmic horror. Plus, winter is calling and so are The Mountains of Madness, of which there are a few games based on it here, along with plenty more!

Alan Wake And Control Series

• 	Alan Wake	Alan Wake 2	Control
  Platform(s)	Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS5, PS4, Xbox 360, PC, Xbox One	Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS5, PC	Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, Switch, PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox One
  Released	2012-02-16	2023-10-27	2019-08-27
  Developer(s)	Remedy Entertainment	Remedy Entertainment	Remedy Entertainment
  Publisher(s)	Microsoft	Epic Games	505 Games
  Engine	havok, proprietary engine	Northlight Engine	Northlight Engine
  System	Xbox, PC, PlayStation	Xbox, PC, PlayStation	Nintendo, Xbox, PC, PlayStation
  OpenCritic Page	//opencritic.com/game/10047/alan-wake	//opencritic.com/game/15022/alan-wake-2	//opencritic.com/game/7858/control
  OpenCritic Rating	Strong	Mighty	Mighty
  Top Critic Rating	77	89	84

Although Alan Wake can be considered its own original supernatural story 🤪with heavy influences from David Lynch and Twin Peaks, there are still plenty of Lovecraftian elements, especially in the sequel. Extradimensional travel, the Dark Place, the Overlap sequences, the Dark Presence of Scra🐻tch, and all the eerie enemies that come from an alternate dimension and are tied to Alan's story are some examples.

Then, there's the shared universe with Control. Control is even heavier on the Lovecraftian themes. You're inside the building of a fictional government agency called the Federal Bureau of Control, where there's an outbreak of entities from anoth🐎er dimension known as Hiss possessing the personnel💖. You take calls from distorted alien-like voices known as The Board and battle a few weird Lovecraftian-style bosses.

The Thing Remastered

The Thing is based on the original novel 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell, which was turned into a '50s movie that was eventually remade by John Carpenter in 1982, and this game is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a canon sequel to the classic🅰 Carpenter rendition. The story is as straightforward Lovecraft as i🍌t gets. A shapeshifting alien crashlands itsꩲ ship into the Antarctic ice and an unlucky team of researchers unleash it on themselves.

In The Thing 🗹video game, you're in charge of a military squadron sent to investigate the US station and Norwegian station after the events of the movie, where your team quickly gets acquainted with the alien presence. It's not your average survival horror, however. The game is authentic to the film, so gaining trust in your squad and helping each other out to assuage suspicion is one of the clever systems the game includes.

Home Safety Hotline

Home Safety Hotline is not like most other Lovecraftian horror games. It's not a 3D action adventure nor even a 2D side-scroller game, but rather a horror-themed analog simulation game where you play a fictional Home Safety Hotline operator taking calls about people's issues with monst𝓡ers posing a threat in their home.

Your goal is to offer the best service to these poor homeowners who are dealing with unknown deadly creatures of all shapes and sizes, including plenty of Lovecraftian and mythological ones, through the HSH Responder Software computer interface. 168澳洲幸运✱5开奖网:There are even option♛s to toggle phobias, should you want to ease some of th𓆏e horror and unnerving aspects of the 𒆙game.

The Casting Of Frank Stone And Dead By Daylight

• 	The Casting of Frank Stone	Dead by Daylight
  Platform(s)	Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 5, PC	Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, Switch, PS5, PS4, PC, Stadia, Mobile, Xbox One
  Released	2024-09-03	2016-06-14
  Developer(s)	Supermassive Games	Behaviour Interactive
  Publisher(s)	Behaviour Interactive	Behaviour Interactive
  Engine	Unreal Engine 5	Unreal Engine 4
  System	Xbox, PC, PlayStation	Google, Nintendo, Xbox, PC, PlayStation, Mobile
  OpenCritic Page	//opencritic.com/game/17237/the-casting-of-frank-stone	//opencritic.com/game/2844/dead-by-daylight
  OpenCritic Rating	Fair	Fair
  Top Critic Rating	68	70
  Critics Recommend %	38	46

Dead by Daylight is an asymmetrical horror game that carries an aroma of Lovecraft with its cosmic horror beast known as The Entity. This spider-legged creature wreaks havoc across worlds and puts 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:various licensed and original Killers into its dimension to engage in deadly trials, where Survivors get sacrificed to it. The Casting of Frank Stone delves deeper into the lore aಌn💃d is an interactive horror game from Supermassive.

The Casting of Frank Stone delivers the most perfect Lovecraftian themes, visuals, and atmosphere. The events are divided between Gerant Manor in 2024 and the eerie Cedar Steel Mill in 1980, following 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:two separate casts of characters whose stories collide in u𓆏nique, multidimensi﷽onal ways. The new mechanics in this Supermassive title are wonderful to see, and the later parts of the game ooze Lovecraft's greatest hits!

Menace From The Deep

While 2024 brought the GOTY-nominated and fan-favorite Balatro to the mainstream roguelike deckbuilder genre, Lovecraftian fans also got Menace from the Deep, a roguelike deck𝓡builder based entirely around Lovecraft's mythos. The art style and enemy designs will have you instantly drawn, even if you may not be a fan of this type of game desig🙈n.

In between your card-based battles with eldritch nightmares,⛦ the storytelling also entails dialogue conversations in illustrated visual novel-style cutscenes and some of the roleplaying elements of Disco Elysium. Like all classic Lovecraft tales, the backdrop is the 1920s and the game features an occult group an🍌d a monolith called the 'Heart of the Sea.' And even traveling here is based on a card system here.

Worshippers Of Cthulhu

There are casual and cozy city builders, post-apocalyptic dystopian city builders likꩵe Frostpunk, and then there♍'s Worshippers Of Cthulhu, a city builder where you are the one leading the Cult of Cthulhu, engaging in cosmic horror occult worship, and building out the landscape and town to your own unique Lovecraftian vision.

Like Frostpunk, Worshippers Of Cthulhu also manages to build a great atmosphere into its city-building world, with ghoulish green colors and visual effects that are reminiscent of other games associated with the Cthulhu Mythos and dark fantasy elements. You also have the Necronomicon 💃mechanic, which you use to summon creatures, and you can also mark your follower🐽s.

Still Wakes The Deep

Still Wakes the Deep is truly one of the finest interpretations of H.P. Lovecraft in a video game or otherwise. It's set on a Scottish oil rig in the 1970s, with the drill digging up something otherworldly from the sea not meant to be discovered. What ensues is an infection that transforms your crewmates 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:intoജ tendril-maneuvering monstrosities and its biomass overtaking parts of the rig.

The atmosphere seamlessly captures the perilous and claustrophobic environment of an oil rig, which is what ultimately makes this Lovecraftian adventure worth playing, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:as well as the authentic voice cast whose performances really grab you. Even by the end, you're still left in the dark about 🐲this mysterious being that claimed the Beira D, which is on✤e of the most important Lovecraft notes to hit.

The Shore

Like Still Wakes the Deep, The Shore is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a😼n atmospheric first-person horror game that deals with Lovecraft mythos and involves th🌌e sea, and it impressively started as a solo project from developer Ares Dragonis. In this Lovecraft-inspired tale, you play a father who goes in sear𝐆ch of his daughter and stumbles upon otherworldly terrors.

While the walking simulator gameplay is one of its biggest det🌌riments to the experience, filled with only minor puzzles and combat, the unique creature designs and environment art easily outweigh any of the negatives. You'll never be𒐪 as immersed, intrigued, and scared in a Lovecraft game quite like this one.

Edge Of Sanity

Edge of Sanity is a Lovecraftian gem inspired by Cthulhu Mythos. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:It's a 2D survival horror game set in the Alaskan wilderness during the 1960s, where things have quickly turned into eldritch nightmares, and there's crafting, resource management mechanics, and a progression system moving by days. You play Carter, an employee of the mysterious scientific body called the PRISM🦂 Organization, which is researchiꦯng dangerous and otherworldly things that have resulted in devastating consequences.

For a 2D game, the atmosphere, sound design, creature design, and environments are well-crafted and make the gameplay incredibly scary and suspenseful. There's plenty of Lovecraftian mystery, and the snowy backdrop of Alaska and the 'madness' affﷺecting you from traumas make it reminiscent of 'At the Mountains of Madness.' Your protagonist's dialogue is often hilarious and also one of the best parts of the game.

The Sinking City

Now that Frogwares won back t🥀he sole rights to The Sinking City and released an update patch with key bug fixes and optimizations ꦆfor the PC version, it's the perfect time to support this game and the developer. It's the most Lovecraftian open-world atmosphere you can achieve in a video game setting, with all walks of the Cthulhu Mythos represented, especially 'The Shadow over Innsmouth.'

Simiꦯlar to Alone in the Dark, Call of Cthulhu, and Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes games, you play a private i﷽nvestigator searching for answers in the 1920s backdrop of Oakmont, a city with water levels mysteriously rising at an unprecedented rate. Oh, and you might have some run-ins with the Esoteric Order of Dagon.