
A Game about Nothing is an experience through the eyes of a college student struggling to make it through their day while avoiding the unpleasant experiences that often interrupt it.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Indie, Singleplayer, Psychological Horror.

A Game about Nothing is an experience through the eyes of a college student struggling to make it through their day while avoiding the unpleasant experiences that often interrupt it.

D or D
D or D is a psychological horror game that immerses you in daily experiences.One page in high school student Xiaoshan's notebook is written with some words starting with the letter "d"

未語
This is a simple, story‑driven game. The gameplay isn’t complicated, and there’s no multiple endings — just one, very straightforward. The story is about a blurry memory, moving between dreams and recollections, trying to look for a vague answer.
D or D is a psychological horror game that immerses you in daily experiences.One page in high school student Xiaoshan's notebook is written with some words starting with the letter "d"
Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.2%, Pixel Graphics 22%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Indie 9.8%, Singleplayer 5.2%
This is a simple, story‑driven game. The gameplay isn’t complicated, and there’s no multiple endings — just one, very straightforward. The story is about a blurry memory, moving between dreams and recollections, trying to look for a vague answer.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.3%, Pixel Graphics 26%, Indie 11%, Singleplayer 5.8%
A pixel art psychological horror game with a point-and-click system that takes the style of an interactive desktop environment.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.5%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Indie 5.7%, Singleplayer 3%
Play with 'P.', a mystery character trying to figure out what's going on in this 'dream'. Who to trust? Apparently, not the dog.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.4%, Psychological Horror 35.9%, Indie 20.7%
Son: Father, what is the nature of masculinity? Father: That is a most excellent question my son. Most worthy of contemplation.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.8%, Visual Novel 41.5%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 4.2%
«Lionessy story» is a visual novel that tells a story of a lion cub living out his carefree days in a lion pride reigning over the great African savannah. But life in the wilderness is never easy, and after a terrible tragedy yanks him out of his pampered lifestyle, the young cub has to face the dangers of the real world where anything...
Why similar: Visual Novel 77.8%, Indie 22.2%
In the not-too-distant-future, Roman is a newly-minted employee at a classy jazz club. He must contend with his past as a new hire (and former co-worker), Eris, makes him question if quitting his old job was the right thing to do.
Why similar: Visual Novel 74.3%, Indie 25.7%
Unravel the Mystery of Xi-Portal You'll have the chance to join a diverse community of students and explore the exciting world of Xi-Portal alongside captivating characters such as Schneider, Hikari, Ayako, Ai, and KakaMigu.
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.7%, Psychological Horror 39%, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 4.9%
You're going to work by train, but strange things happens on the way: the train stops, the pink fog appears outside and the man who came off the train immediately dies. The main characters turned out to be locked in the train without any clues about what's happening...
Why similar: Visual Novel 81.5%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Lynne is a short story about the scariest thing in the world: being a teenager.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.6%, Psychological Horror 34.4%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.8%, Psychological Horror 39.1%, Indie 9.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.1%, Psychological Horror 39.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
A novel adventure where two high school girls encounter the supernatural on their pixelated way home.
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.6%, Psychological Horror 33.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Banebush is a nonlinear and very red visual novel in the horror genre. Do you dare to step into a fairy tale if it turns out to be reality? 💀
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.1%, Psychological Horror 37.5%, Indie 6.6%, Singleplayer 3.7%
Max and his girlfriend Ann are very happy together. They have no arguments, they enjoy spending time with each other, they are in love. What else can they wish? Well, Max, you will get a big surprise this evening...
Why similar: Visual Novel 76.4%, Indie 20.6%, Singleplayer 3%
The Necklace of Blood is the first part of a two parts thriller visual novel. That tells the story of a man at the service of darkness
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.7%, Indie 41.3%
Find your rebirth along the wires.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.7%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Indie 5.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Recall: Empty Wishes is a psychological thriller set in Taiwan during the 2010s. Follow Yonny, a sister determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of her brother, Tommy. As she delves deeper, she confronts unsettling secrets, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.8%, Visual Novel 38.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 2.6%
The world ended long ago. Humanity didn’t. What remains is a fragile society sustained by fear and distrust. Faro is a psychological horror visual novel set on a sunless planet, where you guide four survivors as cosmic horrors linger and every decision erodes the trust holding them together.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37%, Psychological Horror 30.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.8%, Indie 8%, Singleplayer 4%
Frog Telephone (蛙电话 / 蛙電話) is a folklore mystery adventure game rooted in computer science concepts. You play as an amnesiac phone operator at a Tokyo travel agency, reconstructing shattered reality through the spin of a dial, exploring the terrifying truth hidden behind Gero City's mystery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.3%, Visual Novel 39.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.5%, Psychological Horror 38.2%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 2.9%
Learn the story of an ordinary girl Dokkaebi who decided to become a miner and farm the crypto currency
Why similar: Visual Novel 82.4%, Indie 17.6%
Welcome to Saint Marionette's theater! Tonight's show is all about love and faith... Our life here m̷a̷y̷ ̷b̷e̷ ̷a̷ ̷s̷i̷m̷u̷l̷a̷t̷i̷o̷n̷, ̷f̷u̷l̷l̷ ̷o̷f̷ ̷s̷t̷a̷t̷i̷c̷ ̷p̷a̷i̷n̷, but our feelings are very real! 🕊️🖤
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.5%, Psychological Horror 32.7%, Indie 27.8%
Élan Vital is a visual novel. The story is given form through the backgrounds, characters, sound, and music to create a novel for the reader to enjoy. Readers view the story from the standpoint of the protagonist, Liam.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
The dark despair city, the fugitive drug addict, intriguing and strange urban legend. What’s the story between two characters from different detective games? It’s coming soon.
Why similar: Visual Novel 69.6%, Indie 30.4%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.3%, Psychological Horror 32.3%, Indie 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%
In this game, you will play as Stefan Pierce, a teenager who suffers memory loss which makes him remember nothing but his name. Now let's find out what is exactly happen to you!
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.9%, Psychological Horror 40.6%, Indie 18.6%
Confront the moral dilemma, and then become the hero that saves the world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.3%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, Indie 4.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Vinty returns on her third adventure, this time in Singapore and Malaysia!
Why similar: Visual Novel 69.1%, Indie 30.9%
Experience the unknown world of utility rooms through a VHS camera, you will have to feel all the fear and anxiety of loneliness, plunging deeper and deeper into the world of utility rooms behind the scenes In search of that very, cherished, last room
Why similar: Psychological Horror 71.2%, Indie 28.8%
a p̶e̶r̶f̶e̶c̶t horror game
Why similar: Psychological Horror 55.7%, Pixel Graphics 25.5%, Indie 13.2%, Singleplayer 5.7%
Could an AI fall in love with a human? What if that human were you? IA is a psychological horror visual novel about an AI that falls in "love" with you, despite her hatred for humanity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.1%, Psychological Horror 34.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 2.7%
One guy really liked to fantasize and come up with different unusual adventures in his head. His girlfriend Masha noticed this and suggested taking a walk, since the main character only did what he sat at home and dreamed of different worlds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.8%, Psychological Horror 40.6%, Indie 9.5%, Singleplayer 3%
BAPTISM is a short kinetic novel about a madman, a child, and a lake.
Why similar: Visual Novel 66.7%, Indie 33.3%
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.6%, Psychological Horror 43.4%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Ten-year-old Margo exists in the shadow of her vibrant older sister, Janice, a shadow cast by parents who are too busy admiring one child to truly see the other, leaving Margo to navigate a world of quiet yearning and internal suffering.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.8%, Pixel Graphics 25%, Indie 13.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%
Prison Glow is a 2D realistic suspense pixel visual novel about a wrongfully imprisoned girl. Facing seemingly solid charges, she accepts a plea deal for a lighter sentence and waits quietly behind bars for the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.5%, Psychological Horror 32.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Singleplayer 4.1%, Indie 3.5%
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Why similar: Visual Novel 73.8%, Indie 20.3%, Singleplayer 5.9%
A horror visual novel set in a suburban city.
Why similar: Visual Novel 72.3%, Indie 27.7%
Being able to control fate would be a blessing for many. To Miyon, it is her greatest curse.
Why similar: Visual Novel 75.8%, Indie 24.2%
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Why similar: Visual Novel 60.8%, Indie 39.2%
A STRAY LINE is a point and click Adventure Game about found family, art, and body horror. Explore a strange world, draw to cast spells, and discover what becomes of a lonely little family in the woods.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.1%, Visual Novel 32.2%, Pixel Graphics 22%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 2%
A heartbreaking kinetic novel about the meeting of a depressed thirty years old man with a lost little girl he takes in his house.
Why similar: Visual Novel 80.4%, Indie 17.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%
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Why similar: Visual Novel 69.2%, Indie 26.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%
A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.2%, Psychological Horror 28.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Akagi Ai is unexpectedly stabbed on her way home from school. She finds her spirit possessing her body from earlier that day, and must collaborate with the past self that inhabits her body to discover why she keeps dying -- and why she keeps coming back.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.6%, Psychological Horror 37.5%, Indie 18%
A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters with ghosts. Rain-soaked landscapes and quiet conversations shape a desolate, melancholic road ahead.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.3%, Visual Novel 30.2%, Pixel Graphics 23.2%, Indie 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.4%, Psychological Horror 37.7%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%
Totally Normal Boyfriend is a visual novel/dating simulator about your loving and caring boyfriend that would do anything for you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41%, Psychological Horror 33.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%
A short love story with a twist: the love of your life is 50% human, and 50% grasshopper.
Why similar: Visual Novel 62.1%, Psychological Horror 27.6%, Indie 10.3%
Embark on a nocturnal road movie full of mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and an unexpected destination. Choose your answers carefully... and you might just find a happy ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.9%, Psychological Horror 35.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Return as Alice and embark on her adventure to find the truth...
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.5%, Psychological Horror 38.7%, Singleplayer 3.7%
You are a new transfer student from Japan attending school in British Columbia. On your first day, a simple encounter with a classmate begins to shift your seemingly normal school life into something far more unsettling.
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.2%, Psychological Horror 39.1%, Indie 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Following the events of The Last Day of the Decade, a band of smugglers carries a chest through the underground tunnels beneath the city of Kroistham in this action-adventure game rich with captivating dialogues and story, choices that matter and optional dungeons to explore.
Why similar: Visual Novel 69.6%, Indie 30.4%
From the author of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes WORLD END ECONOMiCA. This is the first episode out of three part sci-fi/economic thriller visual novel set on the moon.
Why similar: Visual Novel 92.4%, Indie 6.6%, Singleplayer 1%
Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.
Why similar: Visual Novel 61.2%, Pixel Graphics 24.9%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 6.6%
A short horror point & click game about a teenager trapped in a dream-like garden. Will Reven be able to escape? It's up to you!
Why similar: Visual Novel 76.2%, Indie 23.8%
Chuansha County of a parallel world, 2004. Everything was so old-fashioned. The story begins on the last day of the summer holiday. Perhaps even earlier...
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.9%, Psychological Horror 38.3%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 2.8%