I've only played it for a couple of hours, but Amnesia: The Dark Descent is becoming a strong contender to the title.
It's like a mash-up of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth and The Cradle from Thief: Deadly Shadows. Could very well turn out to be the best Lovecraftian game I ever played*. Very Charles Dexter Ward'ish so far, and despite the lack of NPCs to interact with, there's some lovely voice work - One of the actors sounds uncannily like Orson Welles.
*(Though Shadow of the Comet still holds a special place in my heart as the first cd-rom game I ever bought. Nor will I forget Prisoner of Ice, which I wrote a walkthrough for that became my first piece of writing published in a printed magazine).
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