- #1 Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,299 reviews2015
Dev: Angels Blue Digital EntertainmentPub: DigitalEZ
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 163.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?
Why similar: Gothic 24.6% ★, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Dark 8.6%, Thriller 8.1%
- #2 The House in Fata Morgana
96% matchVery Positive95% of 6,612 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Gothic 31.7% ★, Visual Novel 15.6%, Dark 9.3%, Psychological Horror 7.1%, Philosophical 6.6%
- #3 Prison Chain: The Unredeemed Thought
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 落梅序
Windows
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Lore-Rich 9.6%, Dark 9.3%, Thriller 9.1%
- #4 RUNT
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: Grimtaste StudiosPub: DreadXP
Windows
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 28.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.7%, Dark 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
- #5 Malleus Cocconum: The Heiress
94% matchVery Positive96% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: Domus Aurea
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school. Dunkenwood House takes you in, but its halls hide the darker side of privilege. Humanity or demonic nature. Love or desire. Every choice shapes the person you become.
Why similar: Gothic 39% ★, Visual Novel 17.9%, Dark 17.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #6 Crimson Grace
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cross Couloir
Windows · Mac · Linux
Crimson Grace is a supernatural Gothic horror RPG where your skills, dice rolls, and choices decide the terrible fate of the Blackwell household. Will you weave a web of lies and get away with murder, or will you give in to the otherworldly forces urging you to take your sweet, bloody revenge?
Why similar: Gothic 43.1% ★, Visual Novel 20.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Thriller 6.3%
- #7 It Paints Me
93% matchVery Positive97% of 276 reviews2024
Dev: ENDYSIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 37.6% ★, Visual Novel 17.5%, Dark 10.6%, Horror 7.7%, Psychological Horror 5.9%
- #8 Anti-anti
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 5J6B Works
Windows
“Only Monsters Become Perfect Idols” — A choice-driven psychological mystery visual novel, Anti-Anti. In a world once devastated by slime monsters, you are forced into a suspicious audition. A locked-room mystery, ensemble drama, adventure, thriller, and romance!
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Lore-Rich 20.5%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Dark 10.3%, Choices Matter 10%
- #9 Thorner
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Dark 17.1%, Multiple Endings 13%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 6.5%
- #10 The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,889 reviews2018
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
"A Requiem for Innocence" is a companion to the visual novel "The House in Fata Morgana." It tells the tale of a young man dragged down by his ambitions and a girl both worshiped as a saint and maligned as a witch. For them, there is no happily ever after.
Why similar: Gothic 33.8% ★, Visual Novel 28.8%, Gore 9.6%, Violent 8.5%, Dark 6.3%
- #11 Tears of Sulfuria
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bird Lilac
Windows
Tears of Sulfuria is an emotional visual novel about two sisters in a dark fantasy world that rejects them. Marília and Adka must survive at any cost—and their choices may scar Sulfuria itself. Sacrifice yourself, lose your sanity, and do the unforgivable to move forward.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Dark 9.1%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
- #12 Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents
89% matchPositive84% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: Pennyvale Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the dark and unforgiving world of vampires and have the course of your life changed forever. Experience a Rich Narrative Experience with gothic horror, distinct protagonists, interesting characters, and varied locations.
Why similar: Gothic 38.2% ★, Visual Novel 20.1%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Dark 9.3%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #13 Luce Spenta
89% matchPositive90% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: MrFaabry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morta has summoned you to judge five souls trapped between salvation and oblivion. Enter their final memories, uncover what they hide, and decide their fate. In this gothic psychological trial, every verdict leaves a mark.
Why similar: Gothic 31.1% ★, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Faith 7.4% ★, Philosophical 7.4%
- #14 The Last Winter Knight
87% matchVery Positive99% of 72 reviews2026
Dev: ENDYSIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
Why similar: Gothic 39.7% ★, Visual Novel 17.8%, Lore-Rich 14%, Horror 7.3%, Emotional 5%
- #15 Cage of Etha
88% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2022
Dev: ujumiru
Windows · Mac
A story-oriented visual novel set in historical France. Play as Emile, a lonesome boy whose past has caught up with him. Witness as the choices he makes continue on a downward spiral…
Why similar: Gothic 34.3% ★, Visual Novel 18.6%, Dark 14.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #16 Cannibal Tales - Episode 1
86% matchVery Positive89% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Fantastico Studio
Windows · Mac
Horror thriller visual novel written by cult director Ruggero Deodato. A cannibal story in three episodes. Embark on a challenging journey, where every choice has a price and consequences. Will you be able to reach the end without getting your soul devoured? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Horror 10%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Dark 9%
- #17 SHORAPAN: Beneath the Crimson Sky
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: khasagawaPub: Crimson Sky Games
Windows
SHORAPAN — a dark parable of a strange city beneath an eternal crimson sky. Those who doubt it aloud are the first it takes.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Dark 12.9%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #18 Rock Paper Kill
85% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: ThighisenPub: BARGAIN BIN ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Windows
A psychological horror game about Rock Paper Scissors.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #19 Signed Mary
84% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Moț Andrei LaurențiuPub: Moț Andrei laurențiu
Windows
“Signed Mary”, a psychological horror visual novel, in which not your choices of action will determine the story’s end, but the choices of how to perceive your reality.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Thriller 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Philosophical 9.3%
- #20 Wartorn: A Visual Novel of the Ukraine War
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Taiwan1996
Windows · Mac
A narrative game about ordinary people caught in war. Resist, flee, endure, or speak out — every choice reshapes your story across four endings. Set during the war in Ukraine. Half of net proceeds go to humanitarian relief. An act of empathy, not entertainment.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 30.3%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Emotional 6.3%
- #21 5omeday
82% matchVery Positive89% of 322 reviews2026
Dev: Indigo IngotsPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
You have been assigned to guard a dragon girl set to be executed at the end of 5 days and have the ability to kill her instantly at any time with the push of a button in this multi-ending visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 36.5% ★, Visual Novel 21.6%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #22 Saint Kotar
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 289 reviews2021
Dev: The-Mark EntertainmentPub: SOEDESCO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Gothic 21% ★, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dark 10.2%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #23 Tormentum II
81% matchVery Positive95% of 212 reviews2026
Dev: OhNoo Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wake up inside the nightmare world you created in this standalone, hand-drawn dark fantasy point-and-click adventure with psychological horror elements. Explore islands, solve puzzles, and make morally ambiguous choices that lead to multiple endings. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
Why similar: Gothic 32.9% ★, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Dark 13%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #24 The Lanterne of Light
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: skekpen
Windows · Linux
A Gothic horror faerie tale.
Why similar: Gothic 22.7% ★, Visual Novel 16.4%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Dark 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #25 Kagaribi
80% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: NewForeverSTUDIO
Windows
"The fire remembers what you forgot." Reclaim your name in this Taisho Gothic abyss, featuring an EDM Requiem crafted from the developer's raw voice. A psychological horror where emotion meets AI. Let the author's voice pull you into the depths. What is the truth at the end?
Why similar: Gothic 30.8% ★, Visual Novel 16%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Dark 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #26 Midnight Caravan
82% matchMixed68% of 22 reviews2021
Dev: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Midnight Caravan, a richly illustrated choose-your-own-adventure with an unique narrative arc set in an age renowned for its shadiness, where nothing is only what it appears to be.
Why similar: Gothic 25.2% ★, Visual Novel 22.6%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Gore 11.3%, Violent 10.5%
- #27 Disease
79% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Pumpkin4Sale
Windows
"Disease" is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre. The Yellow Man pierces the night in search of a new victim. Can you stop him before it's too late?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Thriller 8.2%
- #28 Snow White Ashes
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ENDYSIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lose your heart in this dark fairy-tale romance! Once upon a winter night, you enter the woods in search of a beast. But the hunter you find is so charming and sweet–is he truly the monster you seek?
Why similar: Gothic 38% ★, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dark 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Horror 7.1%
- #29 Styxton
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BUZDOV KAPLAN
Windows · Mac
"Styxton" is a nonlinear horror visual novel. Sometimes, salvation is the worst curse. You are alive. Now find out who needed it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.4%, Dark 18.3%, Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.3%
- #30 SESTRY
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Industrial Miracle
Windows
A detective horror about twin sisters and the mirrors between them. Search crime scenes by flashlight, gather evidence, interrogate suspects - and survive the nights. Accusations need proof. The truth needs more. 7 endings; your choices decide who the monster is.
Why similar: Gothic 34.4% ★, Visual Novel 21.3%, Horror 6.9%, Thriller 6.8%, Dark 6%
- #31 Tiny Bunny
75% matchVery Positive83% of 30,488 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.3%, Dark 16.6%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #32 Knock On The Occult Door
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OblivionEdge Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Bind spirits. Weigh their pain. Each client arrives by appointment haunted, broken, or dangerous. In this gothic occult visual novel, you use protective accessories, read signs, and choose bindings that alter fate. Some seek redemption. Others hide darker truths. Your rituals may awaken the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 31.1% ★, Visual Novel 19.2%, Dark 11.2%, Thriller 7.7%, Psychological Horror 6.9%
- #33 Error: Girlfriend Not Found
76% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Byte Me Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
One-room cyberpunk VN about doubt, guilt and memory. Talk to a girl who claims to be your girlfriend, question reality, and unlock multiple endings in a short, replayable psychological story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Lore-Rich 16.8%, Dark 15.8%, Thriller 9.2%, Emotional 7.5%
- #34 77 Oleander Avenue
77% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Runa Liore WintersPub: Waxweal
Windows · Mac · Linux
Even if you bear no Grudge, your Grudge was surely born. Explore the abandoned house at 77 Oleander, search for your wallet, keys, and phone, and above all else... try not to forget again the next time she tells you to leave.
Why similar: Gothic 39.1% ★, Visual Novel 19.8%, Horror 9.4%, Female Protagonist 7.1%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #35 Corpse Party II: Darkness Distortion
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MAGES.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Meet high schooler Haruka and her classmates as they find themselves trapped in an eerie, abandoned hospital connected to an urban legend called “Ayame’s Mercy.” Try to escape, or face a multitude of gruesome ends that will leave you begging for mercy in this all new Corpse Party story.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Horror 9.1%, Gore 7.7%, Emotional 7.3%
- #36 BLACKMURK: Shuffling Man
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hinterland Mood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Dark 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 10.7%, Emotional 7.6%
- #37 Veins Like Tapeworms
73% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: AwesomeTrinket
Windows
While working at their dead-end job and dreaming of what could’ve been, Demian Zhao discovers a flesh-eating parasite who promises to help them finally live free. If you let them, they'll become the monster of your own making - after all, who needs a moral compass when you have a god in the gutter?
Why similar: Gothic 33.2% ★, Visual Novel 16.4%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Horror 7.9%
- #38 Salthe
75% matchVery Positive84% of 223 reviews2020
Dev: SoireePub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...
Why similar: Gothic 37.8% ★, Visual Novel 18.6%, Dark 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10%, Philosophical 8.5%
- #39 Nowhere Manor
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MonaramisPub: Time Galleon
Windows · Mac · Linux
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 34.5% ★, Lore-Rich 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dark 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #40 KARA
71% matchNo user reviews100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: IKARUS
Windows · Mac · Linux
"KARA" is a visual novel following an ordinary high schooler whose life slowly spirals into a nightmare. Sleep deprivation, a tragic chain of events, and dark secrets will force you to question reality itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.4%, Multiple Endings 14%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Dark 12.6%, Thriller 9.5%
- #41 Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
74% matchVery Positive94% of 2,750 reviews2015
Dev: OhNoo Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.
Why similar: Gothic 30.7% ★, Lore-Rich 14%, Dark 13.7%, Horror 8%, Gore 7.5%
- #42 琉奈と悪夢の館
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZephyrStudio
Windows
One day, the unlucky girl "Runa Ichiya" wakes up in a haunted house.
Why similar: Gothic 44.8% ★, Multiple Endings 13%, Horror 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, 2D 6.7%
- #43 Heather's Haunted House Party
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AliceQuinnArt
Windows · Mac · Linux
While trying to plan a party that’s to die for, a high school queen bee finds she has an uninvited guest that is much scarier than your average teenage girl.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Dark 11.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 9.3%
- #44 Livber: Smoke and Mirrors
70% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: InEv Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 28.7% ★, Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10%, Dark 8.8%
- #45 Vox in Tenebris
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Demolissage Games
Windows
Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.
Why similar: Gothic 58.6% ★, Dark 14%, Horror 11%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Psychological Horror 6%
- #46 Raisond'etre
72% matchVery Positive93% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: C3 Games
Windows
Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?
Why similar: Gothic 50.1% ★, Visual Novel 27.8%, Adventure 7.1%, Violent 6.9%, Multiple Endings 4.5%
- #47 Don’t Make Her Open Her Eyes!
70% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Velvet Rot Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A black-white-red visual novel in the horror genre.
Why similar: Dark 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Horror 13%, Gore 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
- #48 Carmilla : Crimson Moon
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fercaren Games
Windows · Mac
A dark yuri horror visual novel inspired by a classic gothic novella. When the enigmatic Carmilla arrives, Laura is swept into a fever dream of obsession. Is this stranger the cure for her loneliness or a herald of corruption? And what caused the mysterious deaths of two girls in the nearby village?
Why similar: Gothic 27.2% ★, Visual Novel 18.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Horror 8.8%
- #49 いのちのないうた
71% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: hata
Windows · Mac
音楽アルバムを楽しむように7つのゲームを体験しよう。「死と生」をテーマとするダークで神秘的な世界観と、ミュージックプレイヤーをモチーフにした独特なゲームシステムが特徴のオムニバス作品。
Why similar: Gothic 35.5% ★, Visual Novel 20.4%, Dark 16.8%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Horror 7.1%
- #50 Dream of a Nightmarish Runaway
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: ONImations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wanna join our nightmarish dream?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Dark 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Horror 8.7%
- #51 Khitarii and Khimoshi
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XeroStryker
Windows
Kitari and Kimoshi is a story about two girls who meet for the very first time through unusual circumstances. Click through the manga pages, and make choices that affect the flow of the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.7%, Lore-Rich 19.3%, Dark 17.1%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #52 Vermin God
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neuroticfly Games
Windows
A grotesque body horror visual novel inspired by SCP-027, play as the young host of the Vermin God. Wake up in a hidden lab with no memories and experience the terror of a mysterious disease turning your body into a living hive for swarms of pests. Make choices to escape the crawling chaos.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Horror 16.2%, Dark 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #53 BlackDog
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AliceMisaki
Windows
A dark themed pixel-art game of exploration, where you will have to find clues and solve puzzles to move forward in the story.
Why similar: Gothic 43.9% ★, Dark 17.8%, Horror 10.8%, Gore 8.1%, Multiple Endings 4.8%
- #54 • Dread Chess ✣
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: • NullTalePub: • NullTale Scape
Windows
✣ Dread Chess is an original and strange narrative story-puzzle game with sandbox elements. Uncover mysteries by speaking with gods in Latin. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of madness, and reach one of many endings in an unfair game against Death that can be played ONLY ONCE...
Why similar: Gothic 31.5% ★, Visual Novel 19.4%, Dark 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Horror 8.8%
- #55 Argyle Manor, Book 1: Away From The Sun
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Palladine Studios
Windows
Explore a haunted mansion gallery filled with 3D animated art - and ghosts - to unlock a full-length illustrated audiobook
Why similar: Gothic 44.2% ★, Visual Novel 15.9%, Dark 13.9%, Horror 9%, Emotional 6.6%
- #56 project; VIRAI: DOOMER’s LIFE ESCAPE
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RIKANIMATION
Windows · Mac
You play as Hicha — a shut-in girl whose only reason to live is her virtual avatar, Virai. Help her escape the depressive nightmare before it consumes her completely.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Thriller 10.5%, Horror 9.6%
- #57 Born for the Light ~Wavelength Radiant Collapse~
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: qDrotPub: TERNOX
Windows
Endless world. Endless sky. Endless light. Will the shadows be cast upon all Children dwelling on the Treetops? Regardless, I spread my prosthetic wings, taking a leap of faith.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Dark 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Horror 7.7%
- #58 BLOK 200: Prologue
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Experiments Field Studio
Windows
A visual novel in the Samosbor setting. You are a student of the technical college who wakes up in a stranger's hab-cell after your own death. You must come to terms with your new grim nature and face the cruel world far from the walls of your native incubator block.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.8%, Lore-Rich 18.3%, Dark 13.7%, 2D 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #59 Pale Cachexia
67% matchPositive98% of 42 reviews2021
Dev: Argent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Why similar: Gothic 51.3% ★, Visual Novel 24.7%, Dark 14.7%, Emotional 6.8%, 2D 2.5%
- #60 My Lovely Wife
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 776 reviews2022
Dev: GameChanger StudioPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
My Lovely Wife delves into the depths of a man’s grief after the sudden death of his beloved wife. Explore the notions of one’s willingness to do anything for love and the importance of letting go in this mix of dating, management, and alchemy simulators.
Why similar: Gothic 42.9% ★, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Psychological Horror 7.8%, Horror 7.1%