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Cloak and Dagger Games · 2019 · 88 % positive of 629

24 games that play like The Terrible Old Man and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness, Chronicle of Innsmouth and Dreams in the Witch House.

Player tags

  • Lovecraftian
  • Horror
  • Point & Click
  • Interactive Fiction
  • 2D
  • Story Rich
  • Hand-drawn
  • Thriller

At a glance

What games like The Terrible Old Man have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Terrible Old Man: Horror (22 of 24), Lovecraftian (17) and Point & Click (17).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2025, 8 of them after The Terrible Old Man (2019).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Last Door - Collector's Edition (94 % positive of 2,333).
  • Dreams in the Witch House both plays and looks like The Terrible Old Man.

By gameplay

Plays like The Terrible Old Man

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

More matches

  1. The Grandfather53 % positive of 176Shared: Horror · Point & Click · Retro
  2. The Excavation of Hob's Barrow92 % positive of 2,444Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Point & Click
  3. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)73 % positive of 797Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Point & Click
  4. Omen Exitio: Plague85 % positive of 597Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Interactive Fiction
  5. Forgotten Hill Mementoes91 % positive of 236Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Point & Click
  6. Forgotten Hill Disillusion88 % positive of 196Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Point & Click
  7. Lovecraft's Untold Stories74 % positive of 917Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · 2D
  8. Creepy Tale: Some Other Place94 % positive of 494Shared: Point & Click · Hand-drawn · Mystery
  9. Alter Ego70 % positive of 273Shared: Horror · Point & Click · Mystery
  10. Night in Riverager83 % positive of 220Shared: Horror · Point & Click · Hand-drawn
  11. Caliban Below92 % positive of 221Shared: Lovecraftian · Horror · Story Rich
  12. The Count Lucanor93 % positive of 2,693Shared: Horror · Story Rich · 2D

By look

Looks like The Terrible Old Man

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

More matches

  1. A Detective's Novel67 % positive of 882
  2. The Lost Crown82 % positive of 493
  3. Scarlet Hollow — Episode 196 % positive of 708
  4. The Cat Lady93 % positive of 5,703
  5. Dreams in the Witch House93 % positive of 343
  6. The Shivah81 % positive of 831
  7. 1954 Alcatraz73 % positive of 1,726
  8. Runaway, A Road Adventure76 % positive of 715
  9. The Deed90 % positive of 3,043
  10. 2Dark77 % positive of 797
  11. Unavowed95 % positive of 2,392
  12. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller82 % positive of 797

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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