Games like Call of Cthulhu®
If Call of Cthulhu® is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Sinking City Remastered, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dialogue choices feel meaningful, investigation drives the narrative and multiple endings shape replayability. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Set in 1924, this adventure RPG from Cyanide Studio casts players as a private investigator unravelling the mysterious deaths of the Hawkins family. Players navigate investigation puzzles, dialogue choices, and occasional stealth sections while managing a sanity system that shapes the experience. Reviewers highlight that meaningful dialogue options and multiple endings drive the narrative, with players describing the atmosphere as immersive, mysterious, and unsettling. The game supports character traits and narrative branching, adding light RPG depth to its Lovecraftian setting. Released in 2018 and priced at $19.99, it received 76% positive reviews from 4768 Steam users and is verified for Steam Deck play.
About Call of Cthulhu®: 1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Players who liked Call of Cthulhu® also play
Steam players who put hours into Call of Cthulhu® also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Sinking City Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares sanity system and an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Top pick for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Third-strongest match for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Ranked #4 for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Ranked #5 for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Ranked #6 for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
Saint Kotar
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Ranked #7 for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares sanity system and an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Ranked #8 for Call of Cthulhu® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
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.
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The Sinking City Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares sanity system and an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Mothership Down
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play.
130+ unique goals to achieve in over 50 levels in this physics-based retro puzzle game! Control a fleet of tiny, colorful lunar landers, piloting through puzzling moon caves. Scrape by with scrappy first flights, then re-engineer a perfect solution to earn bonus stars.
Liminal Horror
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
You wake up trapped in a strange swimming pool. A 20-minute psychological horror experience where familiar spaces transform into alien nightmares. There are no monsters. Only you, an endless maze of water, and your slowly dissolving grip on reality.
Vampyr
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Call of Cthulhu®.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Condemned: Criminal Origins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play.
What twists the mind of an ordinary human into a serial killer?
Penumbra Overture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Vagabond
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Reviewers of Call of Cthulhu® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Call of Cthulhu® at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Call of Cthulhu® on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Call of Cthulhu® on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Call of Cthulhu®.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Call of Cthulhu® on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Call of Cthulhu®.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Call of Cthulhu® on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Call of Cthulhu® on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Cyanide Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Cyanide Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Styx: Master of Shadows
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®.
Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.
Styx: Shards of Darkness
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
Blood Bowl 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®.
Brutal, crazy, tactical… this is BLOOD BOWL! The iconic death sport returns with the new video game of fantasy football faithfully using the latest board game rules and new content. Create your team, then crush, mulch and cheat your way to the top... leaving your opponents in the graveyard.
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®.
Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.
Of Orcs And Men
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®. Shares RPG with Call of Cthulhu®.
You have been appointed to fulfill an extremely dangerous mission, deep in enemy territory: to kill one man... the Emperor himself. Lead the revolution of the Orcs and Goblins!
Rogue Lords
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®. Shares RPG with Call of Cthulhu®.
A dark fantasy roguelike where you play as the Devil! Lead famous evil geniuses through events and turn-based fights to spread terror and corruption. Create synergies between your disciples, use your evil powers and take revenge on those miserable Demon Hunters.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®. Shares Adventure with Call of Cthulhu®.
You are Cahal, a powerful Garou who chose to go into exile after losing control of his destructive rage. He can transform into a wolf and a Crinos, a huge ferocious beast. Master your three forms and their powers to punish those who defile Gaia.
Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Call of Cthulhu®.
Another title from Cyanide Studio, the studio behind Call of Cthulhu®.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
Frequently asked about Call of Cthulhu®
- Is Call of Cthulhu® verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Call of Cthulhu® is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Call of Cthulhu® cost?
- Call of Cthulhu® is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Call of Cthulhu®?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Call of Cthulhu® are The Sinking City Remastered, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
- Who developed Call of Cthulhu®?
- Call of Cthulhu® was developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Entertainment.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Call of Cthulhu®.
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