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Games like Call of Cthulhu®

Cyanide Studio · 2018 · 79 % positive of 12,392

24 games that play like Call of Cthulhu® and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened and Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones.

Player tags

  • Lovecraftian
  • Horror
  • Psychological Horror
  • Adventure
  • Detective
  • Atmospheric
  • Story Rich
  • Singleplayer

At a glance

What games like Call of Cthulhu® have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Call of Cthulhu®: Lovecraftian (24 of 24), Horror (21) and Psychological Horror (14).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2025, 15 of them after Call of Cthulhu® (2018).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Depersonalization (93 % positive of 5,955).

By gameplay

Plays like Call of Cthulhu®

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Conarium77 % positive of 2,151Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Psychological Horror
  2. The Alien Cube81 % positive of 483Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Psychological Horror
  3. Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace62 % positive of 664Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · RPG
  4. Alone in the Dark79 % positive of 3,567Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Psychological Horror
  5. 克苏鲁异闻录66 % positive of 243Shared: Lovecraftian · RPG · Adventure
  6. Lovecraft's Untold Stories74 % positive of 917Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · RPG
  7. WORLD OF HORROR91 % positive of 9,381Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Psychological Horror
  8. Edge of Sanity78 % positive of 190Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Psychological Horror
  9. The Dark Stone from Mebara63 % positive of 246Shared: Lovecraftian · RPG · Adventure
  10. Eldritch87 % positive of 2,200Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · First-Person
  11. Transient: Extended Edition70 % positive of 312Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Psychological Horror
  12. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)73 % positive of 797Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Detective

By look

Looks like Call of Cthulhu®

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Layers of Fear 2 (2019)71 % positive of 2,325
  2. KARMA: The Dark World92 % positive of 2,835
  3. Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn83 % positive of 1,496
  4. Outlast 291 % positive of 55,500
  5. The Occultist75 % positive of 378
  6. Black Mirror48 % positive of 635
  7. The 7th Guest VR94 % positive of 480
  8. Shame Legacy61 % positive of 170
  9. The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me55 % positive of 4,641
  10. Remothered: Tormented Fathers74 % positive of 2,195
  11. Mirror Forge74 % positive of 167
  12. Mists of Aiden91 % positive of 1,121

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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