- #1 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
97% matchVery Positive88% of 6,180 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.5%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Exploration 11.2%
- #2 Desktop Explorer
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,349 reviews2026
Dev: Recurring Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Investigation 12.6%, Exploration 10.8%
- #3 星影の館殺人事件
96% matchVery Positive94% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
- #4 奇天烈相談ダイヤル
95% matchVery Positive83% of 344 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
- #5 家屋探索 -Japanese House Exploration-
94% matchVery Positive96% of 131 reviews2024
Dev: Sealio
Windows
『Japanese House Exploration』is a first-person puzzle horror adventure game set in a traditional Japanese house. You explore a house that is both eerie and nostalgic. To find a dear friend.
Why similar: Hidden Object 93.9%, Indie 6.1%
- #6 Something Strange
94% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.4%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Text-Based 18.7%, 2D 6.5%, Adventure 6.3%
- #7 Bureau of Contacts: Mansion
93% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: MIROWIN
Windows
Explore an old mansion full of paranormal dangers alone. Find clues, identify ghosts, collect their dossiers and exorcise them.
Why similar: Adventure 28.3%, Exploration 25.6%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Investigation 19.3%, Indie 3.6%
- #8 Ticy Adventure Club
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,261 reviews2022
Dev: YEZHI
Windows
本作是2d剧情向角色扮演恐怖游戏。在本作设定中,玩家将扮演灵异探险社的社员,分工调查被委托的事件,探索场景,寻找线索,并最终解决委托中灵异作祟的问题。
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.7%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Cute 11.5%, Exploration 10.6%
- #9 Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 704 reviews2025
Dev: SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol is a first-person survival horror game inspired by Junji Ito's psychological horror and eerie aesthetics. This work centers on the twisted potential of human nature and fear of the unknown, taking you on a journey of survival where memory and mystery intertwine.
Why similar: Exploration 34.3%, Thriller 29.4%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Adventure 16%, Atmospheric 2%
- #10 Midnight Syndrome
91% matchVery Positive99% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: ナツミカン
Windows
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Exploration 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Adventure 9.6%
- #11 Illusion Carnival
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,188 reviews2024
Dev: KiZ
Windows · Mac
A lost soul wanders through a whimsical, eerie pop-up book like amusement park. Dive into fun-filled stages, encounter unique characters, fend off spirit erosion, and uncover the park's hidden secrets. The enchanting yet dark Illusion Carnival begins now.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.4%, Psychological Horror 28.5%, Exploration 16.8%, Cute 11%, Adventure 8.4%
- #12 A House Inside Me
90% matchVery Positive88% of 104 reviews2026
Dev: Ctrl HorrorPub: Skull Queens Games
Windows
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: Visual Novel 36.5%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Psychedelic 13.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Surreal 9.7%
- #13 sheeeroom
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 298 reviews2024
Dev: LuuuLuuuL
Windows
You wish to bring "She" back to life to reclaim something precious you’ve lost. Solve the various puzzles set before you and gather what "She" needs. Even you don’t know what "She" truly is. "sheeeroom" is a mysterious adventure game.
Why similar: Hidden Object 34.1%, Exploration 23.9%, Adventure 18%, Cute 12.1%, Surreal 11.9%
- #14 Storm the Swan - And the Power of FRIENDSHIP and IMAGINATION
88% matchVery Positive99% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: CatTrigger
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Visual Novel 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Exploration 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
- #15 SHADOW MANSION
87% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: NEBULA NOVA GAMES
Windows
A mysterious letter calls you back to your abandoned family mansion. Explore its dark rooms, uncover the bloody rituals buried in your family’s past, and escape the presence lurking in the shadows. Shadow Mansion is a story-driven horror game of atmosphere, exploration, and survival.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.9%, Thriller 26.3%, Exploration 23.7%, Adventure 11.6%, Atmospheric 5%
- #16 The Murder Hotel
85% matchVery Positive93% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Wegenbartho Games
Windows
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.6%, Thriller 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Surreal 10%
- #17 Memary: Memory of the nameless one
86% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: AstralSeal
Windows
The mysterious cat offer help to guide you. The room with puzzle awaits you and when you solve it, you will regain your memory. To reclaim your identity, you choose to follow mysterious cat and solve all puzzle in the rooms of question.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.7%, Text-Based 21.9%, Adventure 11.3%, Cute 10.6%, Indie 6.1%
- #18 Ib
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,246 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Surreal 10.4%
- #19 The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass
86% matchVery Positive87% of 292 reviews2021
Dev: Trinitite Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.2%, Investigation 16.3%, Text-Based 15.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Surreal 8.6%
- #20 Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!
83% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Shadow GlovePub: FINE Co., Ltd.
Windows
A Werewolf game-style social deduction adventure where you play as the landlord of an apartment and try to uncover the Yokai hiding among your residents. Not just a mystery adventure, this is a heart-warming tale of character growth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Adventure 14.5%, 2D 5.8%, Indie 5.5%
- #21 The Devilry Reservation
84% matchVery Positive93% of 89 reviews2023
Dev: GentFish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the role of a faceless detective investigating creatures from Slavic folklore. Explore dialogue-driven mysteries, solve puzzles, and uncover post-Soviet occult secrets in a pixel art housing block full of bizarre residents and hidden truths
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 22.5%, Text-Based 21.2%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Adventure 12.8%, Exploration 12%
- #22 Night Patrol Rules
81% matchVery Positive100% of 243 reviews2025
Dev: Te.Sa
Windows
Virtual group - PLAVE doujin game, set against the backdrop of winter school ghost stories. Experience the Night Patrol Rules of the Seven Mysteries through the eyes of all five band members, uncovering the unsettling truth hidden behind the mystery through your investigation and choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.9%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Exploration 17.2%, Adventure 13.8%
- #23 Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
79% matchVery Positive94% of 358 reviews2026
Dev: 戏壤游戏(Xirang Games)
Windows
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.3%, Text-Based 27.3%, Investigation 8.4%, Adventure 5.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #24 Cursed Mansion
82% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2023
Dev: Dragon Emperors
Windows
Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28%, Pixel Graphics 21.2%, Exploration 19.2%, Adventure 13.4%, 2D 7.2%
- #25 Shelley Manor
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Terrors StudioPub: ESAT
Windows
Find your way through a puzzle filled manor while barely dodging human-eating monsters. You wake up in a dark room with one objective: escape those sharpened teeth. However, you should not worry; you will meet friends along the way.
Why similar: Thriller 52.9%, Exploration 23.5%, Adventure 20.3%, Atmospheric 3.3%
- #26 怪話
80% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
オムニバス形式で送る四章構成の心霊ホラーノベルゲーム
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.7%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Adventure 11.7%
- #27 The Picture in The House
82% matchMixed52% of 137 reviews2020
Dev: Dystopia Game Studio
Windows
A journey through ancient mysteries and forces described by the original short story "The Picture in the House" written by H.P Lovecraft.
Why similar: Hidden Object 35%, Investigation 21.1%, Exploration 19%, Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #28 骸心 Mainbody
79% matchVery Positive93% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: 土豆火锅Pub: Cosmic Train
Windows
A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Thriller 16.6%, Exploration 15.2%
- #29 The Backroom - Lost and Found
78% matchVery Positive89% of 446 reviews2022
Dev: Lollin' Pony
Windows
The Backroom - Lost and Found is a story rich adventure game with some horror elements. Why is there an orphaned room hidden away in the depths of a strange liminal space? Is it "the backrooms" or something else? CYOA? SCP? Weirdcore? No clipping? And what's with the cute paintings?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.4%, Exploration 27.5%, Cute 15.1%, Adventure 14.4%, Atmospheric 5.6%
- #30 CowaCowa: Jinmenken
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: nobisiko games
Windows
"CowaCowa: Jinmenken" is a 3D horror adventure game based on the Japanese urban legend of the "Jinmenken," a dog with a human face. Explore a hand-drawn 2.5D world from a first-person perspective, uncovering eerie mysteries in a quiet residential neighborhood at night.
Why similar: Hidden Object 49.2%, Exploration 31.2%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 3.7%
- #31 Shine Within
78% matchVery Positive89% of 147 reviews2021
Dev: Ayetoons
Windows
A top-down action-adventure game as you collect & solve puzzles in order for you to explore & unravel this mysterious world.
Why similar: Collectathon 39.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Exploration 11.1%, Text-Based 10.8%, Adventure 8.2%
- #32 Karisvale
77% matchVery Positive94% of 194 reviews2022
Dev: Brendan Tighe
Windows
Your next job awaits in Karisvale, detective. Will you fulfill your duty? Or become lost in the mystery... Explore a retro top-down world, question its citizens, and collect hidden items to uncover Karisvale's dark secret.
Why similar: Collectathon 43.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Exploration 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Adventure 7.3%
- #33 Myths of Rules
75% matchVery Positive88% of 1,041 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.3%, Exploration 22.7%, Investigation 18.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Adventure 9.5%
- #34 The Dark Egg Demo
76% matchVery Positive96% of 228 reviews2022
Dev: Transcend Pixels
Windows
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Text-Based 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Exploration 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
- #35 Outcore: Desktop Adventure
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 18,124 reviews2022
Dev: Doctor Shinobi
Windows
All you wanted was a nice game. But now you find yourself opening Windows apps like Paint & Notepad to solve puzzles, and searching for files on your computers that you didn't put there... Who is she? Why did she appear on your desktop? Let's dive into her memories and find out.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.7%, Exploration 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Adventure 14.4%, Cute 9.3%
- #36 Care
75% matchVery Positive95% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: The Pocket Dimension
Windows
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Investigation 15.2%, Exploration 13.9%
- #37 MORSOMNIA:0
74% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: 沐沐睡星
Windows
Interacting with the unidentified life form “Kuon”, we move forward with the pain. A surreal, mysterious fancy adventure.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.4%, Surreal 21.4%, Cute 17.7%, Adventure 15.2%, Atmospheric 8.4%
- #38 Summoner's Mess
76% matchVery Positive98% of 84 reviews2021
Dev: Elendow
Windows · Linux
You've made a mistake trying to summon a beast from the depths. Explore a huge manor to solve your mess. Can you find the sacred grimoires before being consumed by the darkness?
Why similar: Exploration 32.1%, Pixel Graphics 27.2%, Psychedelic 13.3%, Adventure 12.2%, 2D 7.9%
- #39 The Specter's Desire
73% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Themisian
Windows · Mac
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Card Game 30.9%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Thriller 10.2%
- #40 No Ghost in Sky Elevator
74% matchVery Positive99% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Midori Games / みどりげーむず
Windows
It is a strange high-rise elevator. The objects that appear and the people you board are all strange. Depending on your actions, you will face a variety of consequences.
Why similar: Hidden Object 27.6%, Psychological Horror 25.2%, Exploration 15%, Adventure 9.6%, Cute 8.8%
- #41 Anxiety Puppy
70% matchVery Positive96% of 252 reviews2025
Dev: 小狗工作室Pub: Erabit
Windows
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.3%, Text-Based 25.6%, Adventure 15.2%, Cute 11.9%, Indie 3.7%
- #42 Mercury Abbey
71% matchVery Positive91% of 987 reviews2024
Dev: YiTi GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its visitors.Follow Harrod and Willie to unravel an incredible story in Mercury Abbey, and go on an adventure that you would only find in mystery novels.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.5%, Visual Novel 25%, Adventure 12%, Psychological Horror 11%, 2D 7.5%
- #43 The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
72% matchVery Positive88% of 933 reviews2022
Dev: MediaCity Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
Why similar: Exploration 53.4%, Investigation 25.6%, Adventure 13.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #44 Night Reverie: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive92% of 281 reviews2020
Dev: Somber Pixel
Windows
Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
Why similar: Exploration 27.3%, Surreal 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Cute 14.7%, 2D 9.4%
- #45 Touhou: Fading Illusion
71% matchVery Positive90% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Game Order
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel based on Touhou Project, made by fans for fans and others! Embark on the investigation of the greatest incident in Gensokyo's history and discover the terrifying truth of the youkai world with Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi and other heroines!
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.1%, Text-Based 30.1%, Adventure 12.7%, Atmospheric 4.1%
- #46 Rental
67% matchVery Positive92% of 5,519 reviews2024
Dev: Lonely HousePub: Animita Project
Windows
Rental is a short and spooky adventure game about the dangers of renting a house in an unknown place.
Why similar: Exploration 33.5%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Adventure 16.2%, Cute 12.7%, Atmospheric 8.6%
- #47 Homicipher: Demo
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,631 reviews2023
Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamera Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Homicipher is a female-targeted language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Thriller 28.4%, Text-Based 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Exploration 14.7%, Adventure 10.4%
- #48 Hidden Corgi Mansion
68% matchVery Positive93% of 243 reviews2024
Dev: Snkl Studio
Windows
Hidden Corgi Mansion - is a relaxing hidden object game. Explore an abandoned mansion in search of cute corgi puppies and collect toys so they have something to play with. Woof, woof! 🐶
Why similar: Hidden Object 71.8%, Cute 13.9%, Exploration 10%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #49 SELF
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 278 reviews2020
Dev: doBellPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Adventure 41.8%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Indie 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #50 Yume Nikki
69% matchVery Positive94% of 10,454 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Exploration 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Surreal 14.4%, Adventure 8.4%
- #51 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
70% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.2%, Thriller 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 11%
- #52 INHUMAN
71% matchMixed63% of 112 reviews2023
Dev: 秋太虚工作室Pub: QutosoGame
Windows
"INHUMAN" is an independent horror game. The story takes place in the conspiracy of an ancient clan, and the protagonist is in a psychedelic state and can't even distinguish herself. With further exploration and confrontation with all kinds of ghosts, the puzzle will be solved step by step...
Why similar: Thriller 31%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Psychedelic 20.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Exploration 10.4%
- #53 MAZEMAZE
69% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: LuuuLuuuL
Windows
"MAZEMAZE" is an adventure game where you explore maps, find objects, and progress through the story. One day, the protagonist jumps off a building and finds themselves in a mysterious space. They are guided through corridors in a maze where various things exist.
Why similar: Hidden Object 30.6%, Exploration 19.1%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Adventure 12.7%, Cute 10.8%
- #54 Mint's Hints
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 281 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Emporium
Windows
Mint’s Hints is a cancelled children’s show, and you’ve found yourself on the old set. Find paw-shaped Hints with special ghost-detecting Flashbrights, and discover the secret behind the show’s closure with your Happy-Go-Lucky Notebook, but be careful, the stars of the show are after you.
Why similar: Collectathon 43.9%, Hidden Object 20.9%, Exploration 12.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Cute 5.6%
- #55 Subway Exorcist Girl
67% matchVery Positive83% of 318 reviews2025
Dev: 纤指游戏Pub: Delicate Fingers
Windows
A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Exploration 17.5%, Thriller 16%, Cute 7%
- #56 Obscene Mansion
69% matchMixed67% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: Fabula
Windows
Obscene Mansion is an erotic detective story with elements of adventure. Reveal the secrets of the mansion and put the souls of the harlots to rest.
Why similar: Hidden Object 54.3%, Adventure 41.1%, Indie 4.7%
- #57 DEMON COMPASS
66% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: xena-spectralePub: Provoker
Windows · Mac
This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.
Why similar: Exploration 38.9%, Adventure 27.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Atmospheric 8%, Surreal 7.1%
- #58 The Mansion
70% matchMixed67% of 159 reviews2021
Dev: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows
The Mansion, a grim yet fascinating building you’re facing, doesn’t exist.
Why similar: Adventure 35.3%, Exploration 26.2%, Psychedelic 21.2%, Indie 12.3%, Atmospheric 5%
- #59 PEXIT 8
64% matchVery Positive93% of 276 reviews2025
Dev: lemorion_1224
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Penguin × Exit 8 : A unique combination Escape from the endlessly looping hallway. If you find an anomaly, choose YES PEN. If there is no anomaly, choose NO PEN. All anomalies contain penguin elements. Penguins are after you.
Why similar: Hidden Object 43.7%, Exploration 26.8%, Adventure 19.6%, Cute 7.2%, Indie 2.7%
- #60 Garage: Bad Dream Adventure
66% matchVery Positive97% of 381 reviews2022
Dev: 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%
You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?
Why similar: Collectathon 33.9%, Hidden Object 15.8%, Exploration 11.2%, Psychedelic 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%