The Best Lovecraftian Games for Playstation 4

Update : The Coma 2B: Catacomb added at rank #12.
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Shadows Over Loathing (2022)

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Step into the shady side of a black-and-white world in Shadows Over Loathing. Hunt down your missing uncle, discover shadowy plots, and save the world from eldritch terrors. Explore a dangerous open world, solve puzzles, and battle enemies as unique characters with their own abilities. With thousands of jokes, strategic combat, and a corrupt government to overthrow, this prohibition-era adventure promises endless entertainment.


What we like:
  • Humorous and entertaining dialogue
  • Fun puzzles and engaging story-line
  • No prior knowledge of KoL required
  • Good personalization and combat
  • Lovecraftian theme
  • Memorable sound design and soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Backtracking due to time-travelling mechanic
  • Less comedic than the first game
  • Pacing issues
  • Writing overload

  • rpg
  • choices
  • comedy
  • lovecraftian
  • point-and-click
  • turn-based
  • investigation
  • adventure
  • funny
  • character
  • puzzle
  • old-school
  • 2d
  • customization
  • multiple-endings

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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition (2021)

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SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.


  • lovecraftian
  • steampunk
  • sequel
  • crowdfunded
  • trains
  • kickstarter
  • story
  • exploration
  • top-down
  • survival
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • rogue-like
  • pirates

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Tesla Force (2020)

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With science as your super power, charge up your coils and zap into action! Tesla Force is a rogue-lite top-down shooter featuring endless procedural gameplay with tentacle splitting action. Play as Tesla, Curie, Lovecraft and Shelley and blast the cosmic horror back into the galactic abyss!


  • top-down
  • lovecraftian
  • mech
  • procedural
  • rogue-like
  • science
  • destruction
  • shooter
  • local
  • twin-stick
  • replay-value
  • cooperative
  • horror
  • gauntlet
  • sci-fi

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Dagon (2021)

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Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.


  • horror
  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • atmospheric
  • psychological
  • narration
  • emotional
  • vr
  • text
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • dark

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Source of Madness (2022)

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Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.


  • lovecraftian
  • rogue-like
  • dark
  • roguevania
  • souls
  • fantasy
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • procedural
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • action
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • physics

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Morbid: The Seven Acolytes (2020)

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Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!


  • souls
  • lovecraftian
  • rpg
  • fantasy
  • steampunk
  • gore
  • stamina
  • dark
  • action
  • boss
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • cyberpunk
  • management

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Desolatium (2023)

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DESOLATIUM is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.


  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • lovecraftian
  • mystery
  • narration
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • choices
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • exploration

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The Innsmouth Case (2020)

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The Innsmouth Case is a choose-your-own-adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.


  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • detective
  • text
  • horror
  • multiple-endings
  • visual-novel
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • comedy
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • combine
  • speculative
  • novel

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Murderous Muses (2023)

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Solve a sinister murder by spending three reality-shifting nights in a haunted art gallery. An infinitely re-playable murder mystery blending deduction, exploration, puzzles, collectibles and FMV.


  • mystery
  • fmv
  • procedural
  • puzzle
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • investigation
  • nonlinear
  • replay-value
  • resource-management
  • drama
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration

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Edge of Sanity (2024)

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Set in the unforgiving lands of Alaska, Edge of Sanity is a Cthulhu-inspired, 2D survival horror game. Uncover a disturbing story while madness claws at your mind. Lead a group of survivors and explore, scavenge and survive together - against untold eldritch horrors.


  • horror
  • survival-horror
  • lovecraftian
  • resource-management
  • psychological
  • survival
  • investigation
  • crafting
  • narration
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • supernatural
  • detective
  • surreal
  • choices

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