Games Like Adventures in the Light & Dark

This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.

Why similar: Experimental 32.4% ★, Noir 21.1%, Psychedelic 14.4%, Minimalist 10.6%, Horror 9.8%

Welcome to GUYGUY Toys! As the new Employee, I hope you..you..you.. Learn How to Deliver Toys Happily!

Why similar: Experimental 27.2% ★, Dark Humor 16.5%, Horror 16.1%, Comedy 9.8%, Dark 9.2%

A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

Why similar: Experimental 33.7% ★, Psychedelic 19.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 10.5%, Minimalist 9.6%

Her ex-boyfriend became a shut-in. The girl goes to visit him... then things start to go wrong. They always do, right? Experience two stories about digital gods and loss. And remember - believe in the net.

Why similar: Experimental 37.3% ★, Visual Novel 25.6%, Horror 19.4%, Dark 11.3%, Indie 6.4%

Faint Echo is a psychological horror visual novel with point-and-click elements. A young man named Denys moves into a cheap apartment, but soon faces disturbing paranormal events. Explore the dark building, uncover its secrets, and try to survive.

Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Lovecraftian 15.1%, Psychedelic 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 11.7%

INFERIAE is a two-hour-long descent into a nightmare over 20 years in the making, an immersive experience blending unsettling soundscapes with hundreds of shifting scenes and a haunting narrative.

Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Minimalist 11.9%, Text-Based 9.2%

The zombies are hiding in plain sight and your job is still to find and kill them.

Why similar: Experimental 49.8% ★, Noir 32.6%, Horror 13.1%, Indie 4.5%

A surrealist experience in a strange museum

Why similar: Experimental 53% ★, Psychedelic 20%, Casual 10.5%, Colorful 7.6%, 3D 6.3%

A man wakes up in Heaven.

Why similar: Experimental 36.4% ★, Lovecraftian 22.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Horror 8.1%, Minimalist 8%

Play music through your headset and Beat Biome will automatically pick it up, reacting to the beats and wavelengths. Enjoy several psychedelic environments, even create your own!

Why similar: Experimental 47.6% ★, VR 23.9%, Psychedelic 20.3%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Indie 2%

Eyes Over Us is a surreal procedurally generated narrative strategy game were you will play as a Lovecraftian entity watching over two humans being experimented with. The power to change everything it's on your hands..wait? do you even have hands?...tentacles?

Why similar: Experimental 23.4% ★, Psychedelic 15.1%, Lovecraftian 14.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Text-Based 9.3%

A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.

Why similar: Experimental 37.7% ★, Visual Novel 19.2%, Horror 12.8%, Psychedelic 12.4%, Text-Based 8%

Step inside, doctor.

Why similar: Psychedelic 29.8%, Experimental 24.4% ★, Minimalist 15.1%, Horror 15%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Embark on a psychedelic 30 minute VR journey into a mysterious universe of alien architecture, populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols.

Why similar: Experimental 33% ★, Psychedelic 20.9%, VR 18.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Dark 5.3%

Enter "The Surreal Imaginarium", a virtual gallery full of other-worldy interactive paintings waiting for you to unlock their secrets.

Why similar: Experimental 43.8% ★, Psychedelic 17.4%, VR 14.7%, Colorful 6.8%, Casual 6%

The first psychological horror in history, in the format of a visual novel, created using a neural network.

Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Psychedelic 20.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Gore 12.1%, Horror 9.8%

welcome to the experiment, The Creature Zone VR is thrilling, scary, and fun. get ready for spooky time. they are all spooky games.

Why similar: VR 35.1%, Horror 14.9%, Gore 14.4%, Dark 12.7%, 3D 10.5%

Genre: Suspense. A simple novel with only screen transitions. A game for people who like novels.

Why similar: Experimental 46.9% ★, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Dark 14.6%, Indie 2.6%

As an Inkslinger at Brassknee's renowned Wordshop, it's your job to write letters for the citizens of Isle Shammer. But through the veil of work lies forgotten trauma. A voice begins to speak to you in recurring daydreams, telling you about your tragic past in Nomania.

Why similar: Experimental 34.2% ★, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Horror 11.6%, Comedy 11.5%

Zion takes on a shady job driving a night taxi. His shifts spiral into eerie rides with ever stranger passengers, as the line between reality and delirium blurs. Each trip drags him deeper into the city’s abyss, where it’s no longer clear what is dream and what is real.

Why similar: Noir 23.7%, Psychedelic 21.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Horror 12.4%, Dark 6.8%

A casual puzzle game about manipulating and playing with light.

Why similar: Experimental 61.4% ★, Minimalist 14.2%, Casual 12.4%, Colorful 9.1%, Indie 2.9%

Manipulate the look, sound, and feel of more than a dozen mesmerizing landscapes in this immersive musical adventure through space and time.

Why similar: Experimental 57.4% ★, Psychedelic 24.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Indie 6.4%

A 3D idle farming game for VR that uses a portal to allow users to see and interact with the scene presented inside of it, while inside of any other VR game

Why similar: Experimental 43.4% ★, VR 29.9%, Minimalist 10.8%, Casual 8%, 3D 6%

Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.

Why similar: Experimental 39.1% ★, Lovecraftian 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Horror 9.3%, Dark 7.9%

The Ocean Will Have Us All is a first person exploration game.Experience a day in the subatomic life of Moira Leech. Get up, go to work, go home, go back to sleep. Or. Go off the the beaten track! Take charge! Stick your finger in an electrical socket!

Why similar: Experimental 34.1% ★, Psychedelic 17.4%, Minimalist 11.1%, Dark Humor 9.5%, Comedy 7.6%

🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?

Why similar: Noir 24.1%, Psychedelic 18.9%, 1990's 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 11.9%

PLANET LEV-MATADERO is an immersive art experience. This oniric universe hosts animated sculptures with sound installations, as well as concerts and live audio-visual performances of artists from all around the world.

Why similar: Experimental 46.5% ★, VR 29.5%, Psychedelic 13.2%, 3D 4.5%, Colorful 4.4%

This has never been scarier. A story in which you will encounter unusual, strange places. Solve the mystery of this whole place and people who have lost their minds.

Why similar: Experimental 37.1% ★, Psychedelic 25.6%, Horror 21.9%, 3D 7.1%, Dark 5.6%

The Triennale Game Collection is a free virtual exhibition of video games created for the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.

Why similar: Experimental 78.9% ★, Indie 10.6%, Colorful 10.5%

A short visual novel about the day to day life of a grieving women. Join her story and make the right decisions so she can get out of a cycle that seems to have no end.

Why similar: Experimental 30.3% ★, Psychedelic 19.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Minimalist 11.4%, Text-Based 11%

A place where warmth is but a memory. The night echoes with strange sounds, and uncanny neighbors stir a lingering unease, all steeped in a stale, suffocating air. Yet one question remains—where does this chilling cold truly come from?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.1%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Noir 15.5%, Horror 15.3%, Text-Based 13.2%

The game will center around two investigators who uncover a profound terror while delving into consecutive disappearances. A man with a dual-layered memory, a fragmented reality, an endless rainy night... What in the world is the Black Stone? Could it possibly mark the genesis of everything?

Why similar: Noir 36.6%, Lovecraftian 34%, Minimalist 12%, Text-Based 10%, Casual 5.2%

A VR Horror Experience, not a Game! No controller input needed! After having checked into a haunted hospital, you are being confronted with its evil resident who is not too pleased about your visit.

Why similar: VR 31.3%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Horror 17.1%, Dark 11.3%, Atmospheric 7.9%

A fast paced action avoidance game that will hopefully not make you barf. Spin around an endless twisting tube and slide your way past all the obstacles for as long as you can!

Why similar: Experimental 46.8% ★, Psychedelic 20.2%, Minimalist 14%, Casual 9.7%, 3D 6.6%

Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...

Why similar: Experimental 32% ★, Psychedelic 18.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 9.1%, Horror 8.9%

A blind guy with a ghost in his brain tries to save a cursed girl. Naturally, it all goes to hell. A visual novel packed with dark humor, gritty mysticism, violence, and characters who know exactly who’s watching them.

Why similar: Experimental 41.5% ★, Psychedelic 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 14.5%, Horror 9.6%

A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Psychedelic 30.2%, Visual Novel 24%, Lovecraftian 18.5%, Dark 10.7%, Gore 10.4%

Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must save your research. Drag yourself through the corridors of a secret research lab on a remote asteroid, fight off horribly mutated monsters, inject countless syringes of vaccines, and survive at all costs.

Why similar: VR 29.2%, Noir 18.9%, Horror 13.6%, Minimalist 13.2%, Lovecraftian 11.5%

CLOSER - anagnorisis is a game with distinctive art and gameplay. It contains a lot of creative designs. Here you will feel the spiritual experience.

Why similar: Experimental 41.8% ★, Noir 24.6%, Psychedelic 12.2%, Minimalist 8.7%, Casual 8.4%

Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.

Why similar: Noir 33.8%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Horror 11.3%, Lovecraftian 10.7%

The dark story from the life of cats and people. Who will own the city?

Why similar: Experimental 34% ★, Noir 25.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dark Humor 9%, Comedy 7.7%

A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.

Why similar: Experimental 45.2% ★, Psychedelic 27%, 1990's 12.3%, Gore 7.6%, 3D 4.5%

Relaxing casual puzzle game. Create your own combinations of physical world objects, watch and run physical simulations, create new messages and share your creations with other players. Receive packages from the cloud and unpack it.

Why similar: Experimental 51.5% ★, Psychedelic 26.6%, Casual 9.8%, Atmospheric 5.4%, 3D 4.5%

What's the worst that can happen from reading a decrepit book? Jon Oz, who's been sifting through pages of a book that shouldn't even have its cover opened, is about to confine himself into a nightmare. Will you end the nightmare when darkness falls? Or will you be a prisoner to your own reflection?

Why similar: Noir 34.2%, Psychedelic 24.3%, Lovecraftian 16.8%, Horror 13.6%, Gore 9.1%

A dating simulator, but... The girl has a shotgun, and if she doesn't like how you answer her questions, you die. Your date takes place in a living, watching cave where every element of the environment actively reacts to your tension and tries to break you.

Why similar: Experimental 32.2% ★, Psychedelic 14.6%, Horror 14.1%, Dark 10.3%, Dark Humor 9.9%

Cosmic Flow is a relaxing visual experience, an audio-visual massage for the mind, a kaleidoscopic meditation.

Why similar: Experimental 33% ★, Psychedelic 28.1%, VR 25.1%, Indie 13.8%

Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.2%, Horror 16.5%, VR 14.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 8.9%

Victoria Kopernik, an occult influencer, uncovers the dark history of a haunted mansion in a short horror point-and-click adventure video game.

Why similar: Psychedelic 22.9%, Minimalist 17%, Noir 15.3%, Lovecraftian 13.8%, Horror 8.1%

Euclidean; a game of geometric horror; a slow descent into the dark, into madness, futility, and despair, where Things greater than you watch and wait and dream. Struggle for every second of life you have left… Even knowing you’re better off dead.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.2%, VR 25.1%, Horror 16.5%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Indie 7.6%

Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Why similar: Experimental 66.7% ★, Horror 15.7%, Indie 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.9%

The Elevator Game is a simple game with only one purpose: to entertain the Player. Compatible with the Oculus Quest 2.

Why similar: VR 46.2%, Horror 22.3%, Dark 10.8%, 3D 8.9%, Casual 8.3%

A short visual novel about a man living its worst nightmare. There is no way out, no safe place, no death, just eternal limbo. Only you can help him... if that's what you want.

Why similar: Experimental 36.9% ★, Psychedelic 21.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Minimalist 12.5%, Horror 8.9%

A patchwork quilt of meanings, ideas, references, and madness. A crack in the sink of your understanding. And also the story of one unfortunate girl.

Why similar: Psychedelic 26.4%, Visual Novel 21%, Text-Based 17.5%, Horror 15%, Dark 10%

Jank Cube is a fun VR physics sandbox filled to the brim with cool unique objects for you to interact with using the fully physically simulated player rig in maps made from the ground up for VR.

Why similar: Experimental 47.1% ★, VR 34.8%, Casual 8.3%, 3D 4.5%, Atmospheric 2.7%

While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.

Why similar: Psychedelic 22.7%, Visual Novel 19%, Horror 16.6%, Dark 10.3%, Minimalist 9.8%

enter a dark 2d platform style game with choices to speak the truth and the lie it will only depend on the path you want to follow and beware of the ending you will achieve

Why similar: Experimental 57.1% ★, Minimalist 17.4%, 1990's 17.3%, Atmospheric 5.8%, Indie 2.4%

Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.4%, 1990's 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Noir 14.2%, Horror 11.3%

WARNING: VIDIOT GAME MAY CAUSE BRAIN DAMAGE. PLAY AT YOUR OWN DEMISE.

Why similar: Experimental 50.9% ★, Psychedelic 21.9%, Comedy 14.9%, Casual 10%, Indie 2.3%

It's really crowded!!! Crowd Simulator is a unique, fun experience that places you in different crowd scenarios. The main objective is to move with and against crowds.

Why similar: Experimental 40.1% ★, Noir 30.9%, Minimalist 17.7%, Casual 4.3%, Indie 4%