
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Atmospheric, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based.

A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.

Convento
A story about growing up online and dealing with IRL updates. A look back at the past 2 decades of gaming that will make you think about the good, the bad, and the ones left behind.

Mayday Trials
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
A story about growing up online and dealing with IRL updates. A look back at the past 2 decades of gaming that will make you think about the good, the bad, and the ones left behind.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.7%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Psychedelic 12.6%, Philosophical 12.2%, Satire 11.7% ★
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Philosophical 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Psychological 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21%, Psychedelic 13.7%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Psychological 9.6%, Abstract 8.5%
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Philosophical 15.8%, Dark Comedy 14.9%, Dark Humor 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Philosophical 15.4%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Point & Click 10.2%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Philosophical 17.6%, Psychological 11.6%, Dark Humor 11.3%, Abstract 9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
A writer is trying to finish his "perfect work," but things keep getting in his way. He is poor and full of anxiety. In this retro lo-fi visual novel, fix the problems with point-and-click, explore the depths of consciousness. Forgive yourself? or stare into the dark and fall deeper? It's up to you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Point & Click 10.7%, Psychedelic 10.5%
A surreal, abstract kinetic visual novel in which two girls go on a date in the middle of a broken world, using down-to-earth intimacy to survive the deteriorating nature and reality surrounding them.
Why similar: Dark Humor 15.8%, Dark Comedy 15.2%, Satire 10.8% ★, Philosophical 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.
Why similar: Abstract 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Psychological 11.2%, Text-Based 10.8%, Philosophical 10%
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dark Comedy 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Text-Based 13%, Psychological Horror 12.1%
The abstract male is the image of God, the absolute something.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.1%, Philosophical 21.2%, Psychological 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
A psychological drama from the perspective of an apathetic guy who is detached from casual suicidals, sexually aggressive idiots, and daily murderers. This is all until an intellectual genius of a woman named Samarah comes in to challenge him and the world of logical inconsistencies.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.7%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Abstract 10%
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who tell herself this, forever. Maybe you can try to help her ?
Why similar: Philosophical 22.4%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Abulia is an Type-write battle RPG and Visual Novel adventure based on the mind of a special girl that is trying to find herself in the world and struggling to understand our complex world.
Why similar: Philosophical 18.2%, Dark Comedy 17.3%, Dark Humor 11.9%, Point & Click 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Dark Humor 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Philosophical 13.4%, Point & Click 11%
LaughterLost takes you through a surreal journey of work and family life. Face psychological twists, narrative choices, puzzles, and unexpected unique confrontations! Will you break this dystopian cycle of everyday life?
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.4%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 11.5%, Psychological 11.3%
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Philosophical 11.1%, Abstract 10%
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
Why similar: Psychedelic 15.6%, Philosophical 13.3%, Abstract 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Text-Based 10.7%
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Point & Click 12.6%, Psychedelic 12.6%
Run-based story game. Which mistakes would you repeat if you could?
Why similar: Philosophical 19.6%, Dark Comedy 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%
架空の日本観光地を旅するマルチエンドの探索アドベンチャー 緊迫していくストーリーと豊富なミニゲーム、魅力的な登場人物たちとの交流が楽しめます。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Dark Comedy 16.9%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Point & Click 9.6%, Text-Based 9%
A short and surreal dark comedy-horror narrative game.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.2%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Satire 12.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Dark Humor 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Point & Click 11%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Point & Click 11.5%, Text-Based 10.4%
人类已经死去。一个在宇宙里漂流的人工智能,在无法自杀的绝对清醒中,咀嚼庞大而无处安放的算力,独自面对整个宇宙的衰亡。
Why similar: Philosophical 27.2%, Psychedelic 19.9%, Psychological 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%, Visual Novel 7.4%
Do you have what it takes to work at a call centre?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.3%, Satire 16.4% ★, Dark Humor 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 11%
In a diner at the edge of time, murder is afoot. Serve gourmet meals to the ethereal patrons of the Duskrise Diner. Form relationships. Embrace culinary bliss. Infinite day, endless taste.
Why similar: Psychedelic 19.3%, Dark Humor 18.4%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Psychological 11.1%, Point & Click 10.6%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Abstract 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Psychological 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11%
❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Abstract 15.6%, Philosophical 15.2%, Psychological 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.8%, Abstract 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.7%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
IN CELL is a kinetic visual novel (linear, no choices) about the epidemic of sexless, nationless, and friendless men. Gender dynamics are currently not functional, sustainable, or beneficial to either men or women. IN CELL is uncensored conversation between the sexes.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.2%, Dark Comedy 17.2%, Abstract 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Dark Humor 11.8%
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.8%, Abstract 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Psychological 11.3%
A spin-off minigame collection of "Needy Streamer Overload". Meet your internet angel in this retro-style game world!
Why similar: Psychedelic 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Point & Click 14.2%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Visual Novel 12%
Guide Jovanna on a psychological horror journey through a freezing New York City. Navigate the emotional states of unstable characters and uncover the truth behind the unnatural weather in this unique narrative experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Philosophical 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Point & Click 10.9%
Is THIS a game? Well, it has everything you'd expect: buttons, pixels, achievements, a mouse-cursor to point and click sometimes, an axolotl, more than 50 mini-”games”. Is this enough? What even is a game? How much interactivity do you need? Are games art? Are there TOO many axolotls in this game?
Why similar: Philosophical 19.2%, Dark Comedy 17.2%, Satire 15.9% ★, Abstract 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Mascot Horror in a 90´s escape room! deliver your pizza order to Tagomago´s Mansion, but be careful, dinner is not the pizza..its YOU! escape from this haunted house and his 7 cannibalish inhabitants in a time loop with more than 25 endings! EVERY MONTH NEW ROOMS AND ENDINGS ADDED! (◣__◢ )
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.1%, Dark Humor 13%, Psychedelic 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Point & Click 10.7%
The apocalypse is here… and its beat for the gods! How likely was your debut as a drag artist to be overshadowed by a zombie apocalypse? Meet quirky characters, solve puzzles, and catfight with your rivals in this fresh narrative adventure.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Point & Click 12.2%, Dark Humor 11.4%
A short psychedelic trip: the passage of time in Central Sisatsophy.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.8%, Psychedelic 23.8%, Dark Humor 22.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological 13.7%
What do you play? I play nothing!
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.1%, Philosophical 17.6%, Dark Comedy 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%
Shape the news. Sway the nation. A visual novel where your choices on-air shift the world.
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Philosophical 16.6%, Point & Click 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.5%
Test your sixth sense. Will you eat a wild rabbit, or tie someone to the train tracks? Every choice is yours to make. May you find a reason to laugh inside your nightmares.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.5%, Psychedelic 15%, Philosophical 13.1%, Abstract 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.2%, Satire 15% ★, Dark Humor 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Abstract 17.4%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Philosophical 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
A short atmospheric visual novel about a teenager who tries to hide from his thoughts and problems. But the longer he avoids reality, the more it distorts around him.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Abstract 14.7%, Psychological 11.2%
A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him. In a cramped rented room abroad, click on objects and piece together a codependent relationship filled with brutality and endurance. Watch helplessness turn into violence, tenderness into torture.
Why similar: Dark Humor 15.2%, Philosophical 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Point & Click 11.3%, Psychedelic 11%
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.5%, Dark Humor 16%, Satire 13.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
A detective-style psychological horror game. Live a terribly depressing office life! Meet Death! Take over the bodies of your coworkers! Struggle fruitlessly against the relentless drudgery of your mundane existence! Maybe eat some pancakes, or become one.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dark Comedy 16.7%, Point & Click 13.2%, Abstract 13%, Dark Humor 11.2%
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: Psychedelic 14.4%, Abstract 14%, Philosophical 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
In a final attempt to guarantee your place on the nice list, you decide to try and do some chores before midnight. Will Krampus take you? Take the test and find out.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.5%, Abstract 12.6%, Psychological 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.5%, Psychedelic 17.6%, Psychological 13%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.7%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 11.1%
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
Why similar: Abstract 19.1%, Psychedelic 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Psychological 11.8%
配信中に次々と飛んでくるバカコメントへ、三つの選択肢でツッコミを返しながら炎上を回避していく配信者シミュレーション。返し方ひとつで空気も流れも激変。ときどき発生するボーナスステージでは、リズムゲーム要素のあるミニゲームにも挑戦できます。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.2%, Dark Humor 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 11.2%, Immersive Sim 10%
An interactive ordeal about blacking out in a dive bar and then trying to piece back your understanding of existence. It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets less worse.
Why similar: Satire 18.3% ★, Dark Humor 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Philosophical 15.7%, Psychological 15.5%
All girls can transform with candy. A short branching visual novel about a mysterious candy shop and the girls who go there. What candy will you choose?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Psychedelic 16.4%, Psychological 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 9.1%
Trapped in a cursed office overnight, you must uncover a hidden password before morning... while reality distorts, blood seeps through the walls, and something watches you. Explore branching paths, face strange encounters, and survive this psychological horror visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 15.9%, Point & Click 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
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: Psychedelic 16.2%, Abstract 15.8%, Psychological 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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: Psychedelic 22.5%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Abstract 11.8%, Psychological 9.8%
The Remission of Sins is a fully-voiced, multi-ending short horror visual novel. Depending on the player’s choice, it branches to 12 different endings.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Philosophical 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 9.7%