60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Dark, Psychological Horror.
Cursed the womb that bears emptiness beneath its heart. For the child enters the world with the veil upon its face, yet its soul wanders lone in the heavens where God is not. Why then does she not hasten to the place that was prepared for her? Seek the truth in our visual novel.
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
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?
Luce Spenta
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.
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 24.5% ★, Lore-Rich 14%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Dark 8.6%, Thriller 8.1%
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 29.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Philosophical 7%, Faith 7% ★
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 31.5% ★, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dark 9.4%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
An otome game that isn't quite otome — or simply, a visual novel. A modern gothic story of dreams, writing, and death. Multi-POV. You are the protagonist—a sleepwalker, a writer, and one bound by a promise to the dead. Please be sure to read the content guide and notes.
Why similar: Gothic 45.7% ★, Visual Novel 22.9%, Dark 16.7%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%
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 22.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Dark 9.3%, Thriller 9.1%
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 28.8% ★, Visual Novel 16.8%, Dark 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
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 42.9% ★, Visual Novel 20.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Thriller 6.3%
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 38.8% ★, Visual Novel 18%, Dark 17.6%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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 37.5% ★, Visual Novel 17.6%, Dark 10.5%, Horror 7.7%, Psychological Horror 5.9%
“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 20.8%, Lore-Rich 20.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Dark 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%
"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 34.8% ★, Visual Novel 28.4%, Gore 9.5%, Violent 8.4%, Dark 6.2%
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 25.2%, Dark 17%, Multiple Endings 13%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 6.5%
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 18.8%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Dark 9.1%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
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 38.1% ★, Visual Novel 20.2%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Dark 9.3%, Atmospheric 4.3%
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 39.5% ★, Visual Novel 18%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Horror 7.3%, Emotional 5%
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 34.2% ★, Visual Novel 18.8%, Dark 14.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10%
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%
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 31.6% ★, Dark 12.7%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Horror 9%
A psychological horror game about Rock Paper Scissors.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 8%
This is the trash can where all failed works gather. When you awaken, you come across three false Alices. In order to become the one true Alice, they attempt to kill each other. Who will become the real Alice? This is a visual novel where your decisions, will change the ending of the story.
Why similar: Gothic 26.5% ★, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dark 10.9%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, Gore 7.3%
“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 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Thriller 9.8%, Philosophical 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
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 30.1%, Visual Novel 28.5%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Emotional 6.3%
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 36.3% ★, Visual Novel 21.7%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 6%
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 20.9% ★, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dark 10.2%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
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 21.7%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Thriller 8.2%
A Gothic horror faerie tale.
Why similar: Gothic 22.7% ★, Visual Novel 16.5%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Dark 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
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 25.1% ★, Visual Novel 22.7%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Gore 11.3%, Violent 10.5%
"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 16.1%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Dark 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
"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 29.5%, Dark 18.3%, Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.2%
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 37.9% ★, Visual Novel 17.5%, Dark 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Horror 7.1%
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 27.5%, Dark 16.5%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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 34.3% ★, Visual Novel 21.4%, Horror 6.9%, Thriller 6.8%, Dark 6%
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 21.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Horror 9.1%, Gore 7.8%, Emotional 7.3%
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% ★, Visual Novel 19.3%, Dark 11.2%, Thriller 7.7%, Psychological Horror 6.9%
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 38.9% ★, Visual Novel 19.9%, Horror 9.4%, Female Protagonist 7.2%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
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 25.4%, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Dark 15.8%, Thriller 9.2%, Emotional 7.5%
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 25.7%, Dark 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 10.7%, Emotional 7.6%
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: Visual Novel 17.4%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Dark 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
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 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dark 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
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. A Visual Novel about Gossip, Grief and Ghosts.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Lore-Rich 17.9%, Dark 11%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 9.3%
"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 26.5%, Multiple Endings 14%, Psychological Horror 13%, Dark 12.6%, Thriller 9.4%
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 37.7% ★, Visual Novel 18.7%, Dark 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10%, Philosophical 8.5%
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 16.5%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Horror 7.9%
One day, the unlucky girl "Runa Ichiya" wakes up in a haunted house.
Why similar: Gothic 44.6% ★, Multiple Endings 13%, Horror 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, 2D 6.7%
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 28.6% ★, Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10%, Dark 8.8%
Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?
Why similar: Gothic 49.9% ★, Visual Novel 27.9%, Adventure 7.2%, Violent 7%, Multiple Endings 4.5%
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 58.5% ★, Dark 14%, Horror 11.1%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Psychological Horror 6%
A black-white-red visual novel in the horror genre.
Why similar: Dark 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Horror 13%, Gore 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
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 35.4% ★, Visual Novel 20.5%, Dark 16.8%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Horror 7.1%
Wanna join our nightmarish dream?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Dark 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Horror 8.7%
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 24.9%, Lore-Rich 19.1%, Dark 17.1%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
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 28.6%, Horror 16.2%, Dark 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 43.8% ★, Dark 17.8%, Horror 10.8%, Gore 8.2%, Multiple Endings 4.8%
Dread Chess est un jeu original et étrange mêlant histoire narrative, puzzles et éléments de sandbox. Découvrez les mystères en parlant aux dieux en latin. Plongez dans une atmosphère de folie et atteignez l’une des nombreuses fins d’une partie injuste contre la Mort, qui ne peut être jouée qu’UNE SEULE FOIS...
Why similar: Gothic 31.5% ★, Visual Novel 19.5%, Dark 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Horror 8.8%
Explore a haunted mansion gallery filled with 3D animated art - and ghosts - to unlock a full-length illustrated audiobook
Why similar: Gothic 44% ★, Visual Novel 16%, Dark 13.8%, Horror 9%, Emotional 6.6%
A psychological horror RPG with visual novel elements, where you live the life of Hicha, a shut-in hikikomori trapped in an endless cycle of depression, anxiety, and routine.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Thriller 10.5%, Horror 9.6%
A remake of an exploration-based adventure game about gods and girls. Return once more to their story—and uncover the truths that were never told.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Dark 18.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Emotional 8.8%, 2D 8.6%
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 21.3%, Dark 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Horror 7.7%
A horror game inspired by the works of M.R. James. Explore Aswarby Hall to uncover your family’s secret history. Decide the fate of your ancestors by re-living each ghost’s last day on earth, with several endings for every story. Lift the family curse and save yourself… if you can.
Why similar: Gothic 34.4% ★, Visual Novel 24.6%, Horror 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, 2D 5.2%
What will you do when your slumber party takes a nightmarish twist? Decide your fate in this horror narrative game inspired by the works of Junji Ito.
Why similar: Gothic 27.6% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Gore 11.4%, Dark 11%, Violent 10.5%
