The Best Gothic Games for Mac OS

Update : Nunholy added at rank #14.
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Wytchwood (2021)

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In Wytchwood, you play as an aging witch and explore a magical countryside. Create your own enchantments, trick wicked characters, and solve puzzles in this crafting adventure game. The unique art style and fairy tale-inspired storybook world will capture your imagination.


What we like:
  • Wonderful art style and entertaining dialogue
  • Fun adventure crafting game with engaging questlines
  • Unique and unexpected gameplay as an elderly witch
  • Relaxing gameplay with charming design
  • Multiple maps with engaging challenges
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive and tedious fetch quests
  • Grinding materials becomes very frustrating and obfuscates the story
  • Limited combat and focus on crafting
  • Backtracking and running between areas can be tedious
  • Graphic depictions of animal death

  • crafting
  • gothic
  • conversation
  • investigation
  • fantasy
  • 2.5d
  • magic
  • adventure
  • stylized
  • dark
  • story
  • colourful
  • exploration

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Mask of the Rose (2023)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

A marvellous romance with a hint of murder. Lose your heart to a stolen city in this game of amorous intrigue! Seek love, for yourself or your friends. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.


  • romance
  • dating-sim
  • visual-novel
  • gothic
  • lgbtq
  • story-crafting
  • detective
  • noir
  • romantic
  • investigation
  • lore
  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • hand-drawn

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The Deadlands (2023)

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Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows

The Deadlands, is a haunting journey of vengeance. Conquer undead horrors, face formidable bosses, and harness their souls to save your son from an evil necromancer. Pixel art meets gothic aesthetic in this intense, captivating metroidvania.

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  • gothic
  • metroidvania
  • pixel
  • platform
  • 2d
  • dark
  • adventure
  • arcade
  • vampire
  • fantasy
  • action
  • supernatural

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CASTILLO: The Nine Circles (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

CASTILLO: The Nine Circles is an FPS Collectathon. Collect power shards in each circle of hell to unlock new areas and progress on your quest through 9 diverse worlds. Embark on a journey through the circles of Hell, using unique abilities and weapons.

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  • lovecraftian
  • collectathon
  • shooter
  • gothic
  • first-person
  • fps
  • nonlinear
  • 3d
  • retro
  • 2.5d
  • arena
  • action-adventure
  • demons
  • pixel
  • dark

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VonGarland Castle: Sacrilege of the Night (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows

VonGarland Castle : Sacrilege of the Night a love letter to action platformer classics like Castlevania, Super Metroid and Mega Man X. 

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  • vampire
  • werewolves
  • metroidvania
  • gothic
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • hack-and-slash
  • action-adventure
  • dragon
  • rpg
  • dark
  • zombies
  • action

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Napoleon Maiden (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

Character sprites are made using the E-mote animation system. When they breathe, wink, or speak, it all looks very realistic. Moreover, 2 theme songs sung by Haruka Shimotsuki and Akira Ouse are included! Each character's lines are fully dubbed in Japanese. Steam Deck support.

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  • travel
  • swordplay
  • gothic
  • steampunk
  • time
  • word
  • visual-novel
  • comic
  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • book
  • medieval

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It Paints Me (2024)

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web browser PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.

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  • gothic
  • dark
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • psychological
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • choices
  • interactive
  • historical

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Duskbound (2023)

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Pursue a cursed romance with a possibly unhinged vampire under the eternal glow of the red moonlight...

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  • otome
  • choices
  • gothic
  • dating-sim
  • vampire
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • nonlinear
  • dark
  • romance
  • anime
  • horror

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Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents - Vampire Visual Novel (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Step into a dark and unforgiving world where vampires pull the strings of humanity. You are not the hero, you are not the villain, you are nothing but a pawn in schemes that you cannot even begin to understand.

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  • gothic
  • vampire
  • visual-novel
  • dark
  • lore
  • dystopian
  • supernatural
  • immersive
  • atmospheric

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Alisa (2021)

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Alisa is a classic late-90s style horror-themed action adventure game set in a fantasy universe inspired on the 1920s. You play as an Elite Royal Agent called Alisa, who wakes up in a strange Victorian mansion and must find her way out while being haunted by materialized / mechanized doll-like humanoids. Explore classic survival horror gameplay with real pre-rendered backgrounds, eccentric currency and item shop, unique player stats boosts, weapon load-outs, a large variety of enemies and locations and surprises around every corner.

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What we like:
  • Nostalgic survival horror experience
  • Sound and graphical design inspired by classic titles
  • Interesting story and characters
  • Optional side missions and collectibles
  • Varied enemy designs and difficulty levels
What could be improved:
  • Unintuitive currency system reliant on killing enemies

  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • gothic
  • historical
  • alternate
  • old-school
  • military
  • horror
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • pixel
  • pve
  • atmospheric

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