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Big Bad Wolf · 2026 · Windows

Steam: 51 % positive of 277 reviews, as of Oct 28

A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.

24 games that play like Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Call of Cthulhu®, Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft and SOMA.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Story Rich
  • Lovecraftian
  • Atmospheric
  • Psychological Horror
  • Singleplayer
  • Exploration
  • Dark
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss

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

More matches

  1. Conarium76 % positive of 1,909Shared: Story Rich · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  2. The Land of Pain76 % positive of 594Shared: Story Rich · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  3. Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden89 % positive of 831Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Hidden Object
  4. Still Wakes the Deep87 % positive of 11,517Shared: Story Rich · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  5. Stars Die88 % positive of 150Shared: Story Rich · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  6. Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder73 % positive of 561Shared: Story Rich · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  7. Necrophosis88 % positive of 795Shared: Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Exploration
  8. Hidden Deep76 % positive of 4,309Shared: Exploration · Dark · Mystery
  9. Athanasy96 % positive of 492Shared: Story Rich · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  10. MOLE97 % positive of 3,914
  11. Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype72 % positive of 150Shared: Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror · Exploration
  12. The Sinking City 282 % positive of 1,703Shared: Story Rich · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror

By look

Looks like Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss

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

More matches

  1. The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone83 % positive of 384
  2. Nobody Wants to Die82 % positive of 5,982
  3. EXD - Extra Dimensional82 % positive of 335
  4. Call of Cthulhu®77 % positive of 11,040
  5. Returnal™78 % positive of 6,676
  6. A Story About My Uncle92 % positive of 12,191
  7. Amnesia: Rebirth76 % positive of 7,946
  8. Fallback87 % positive of 300
  9. We Were Here Forever90 % positive of 16,415
  10. Breathedge81 % positive of 14,877
  11. Nightingale66 % positive of 15,357
  12. DESOLATE68 % positive of 6,247

At a glance

What games like Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss: Lovecraftian (21 of 24), Story Rich (20) and Psychological Horror (20).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, none of them after Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: MOLE (97 % positive of 3,914).

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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