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Games like Call of Cthulhu 2018
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Call of Cthulhu
Games closest to Call of Cthulhu
The Sinking City 2019Also grave, bleak and earnest
Dark Fall: Lost Souls 2009Also grave, bleak and earnest
Koudelka 1999Also grave, bleak and plot-driven
The Alien Cube 2021Also grave, bleak and earnest
Martian Gothic: Unification 2000Also grave, bleak and plot-driven
Theresia 2008Also bleak, grave and plot-driven
Dark Seed 1992Also grave, bleak and earnest
Shutter Island 2010Also grave, bleak and plot-driven
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage 2010Also grave, bleak and earnest
Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask 2020Also grave, bleak and earnest
Silent Hill: Origins 2007Also grave, bleak and earnest
Silver Pines 2026Also grave, bleak and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Series
Goliath Awaits 1981Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Kafr Delhap 2017Also grave, earnest and bleak
Chapelwaite 2021Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Films
Jikirag 2022Also grave, bleak and earnest
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh 1995Also grave, bleak and earnest
Jigoku 1960Also grave, bleak and earnest
Books
Mr. Shivers 2010Also grave, bleak and classical in form
Rain 1983Also grave, earnest and bleak
The Devil of Nanking 1999Also grave, earnest and bleak
Albums
- Embossed Dream in Four Acts 1998Also grave, bleak and earnest
- The Karelian Isthmus 1992Also grave and earnest
- Enter the Moonlight Gate 1997Also grave, bleak and earnest
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