Lovecraft's Untold Stories similar games & best alternatives

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Lovecraft's Untold Stories

PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2019

Should you play it?

Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.

What works

  • Strong lovecraftian atmosphere and lore integration
  • Multiple characters with unique playstyles
  • Randomized levels and high replay value
  • Challenging and skill-based combat
  • Good value for price with ongoing updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Punishing difficulty and occasional unfair enemy encounters
  • Clunky aiming and control issues noted
  • Repetitive level design and combat over time
  • Lack of save points within levels
  • Limited social or cooperative features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation

  • Hunt the Night

  • FOUNTAINS

  • Tower of Kalemonvo

  • Nine Sols

  • Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

More relaxing

Games that feels like Lovecraft's Untold Stories but with a more relaxing feel

  • The Slormancer

  • Catmaze

  • Chained Echoes

  • Crown Trick

  • Keeper's Toll

  • Hyper Light Drifter

Less expressive

Games that feels like Lovecraft's Untold Stories but with less self-expression and customization

  • Lamentum

  • Evil Tonight

  • Cathedral

  • Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

  • Castle of no Escape 2

  • MindSeize

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Lovecraft's Untold Stories: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Leadership.

Last update: 04/08/2026