60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Atmospheric, Gothic, Dark, Interactive Fiction.
Explore a haunted mansion gallery filled with 3D animated art - and ghosts - to unlock a full-length illustrated audiobook
It Paints Me
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Evernoth A Deep Descent
Evernoth is a psychological horror game where you explore mysterious locations filled with chilling secrets. Navigate distorted corridors, face terrifying monsters, and unlock new abilities as you unravel haunting mysteries across dark worlds.
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 30.4% ★, Supernatural 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Dark 8.5%
Evernoth is a psychological horror game where you explore mysterious locations filled with chilling secrets. Navigate distorted corridors, face terrifying monsters, and unlock new abilities as you unravel haunting mysteries across dark worlds.
Why similar: Gothic 29.6% ★, Supernatural 13.7%, Emotional 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Horror 8.8%
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 32.4% ★, Supernatural 21.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Horror 10.5%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
Matchmaking for Ghosts is an atmospheric visual novel with horror elements and themes of love and loss, built around a unique multi-protagonist system that lets players experience the afterlife through the eyes of every ghost. Match ghosts together for love, or for chaos. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Gothic 37.5% ★, Supernatural 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Horror 9.5%
A first-person Gothic fiction set in interwar Cornwall, where players rewrite the story as they go. The patriarch of a once-respected house is dead, survived only by his late sister's children. Left to them are his worldly and unworldly belongings, and the fate of their family.
Why similar: Gothic 43% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dark 15.8%, Story Rich 8.6%, Exploration 7.2%
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 47% ★, Dark 17%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Atmospheric 6.6%
The iconic game The 7th Guest has been brought back to life with modern technology, delivering an atmospheric story like no other. Explore a foreboding mansion, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets. The 7th Guest is the ultimate mystery adventure, reimagined for modern platforms.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Supernatural 20.6%, Gothic 17.8% ★, Exploration 7.8%, Dark 7.6%
This is an adventure game with dialog and multiple endings.
Why similar: Gothic 28.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Supernatural 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Emotional 11.2%
A first-person escape horror game, 'School Bathroom'.You've found yourself penned in an eerie stall.What is the source of the fear you feel in this inescapable space...
Why similar: Supernatural 25%, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Horror 12.6%, Dark 10.8%
She died, but no one ever asked her what really happened. Now she speaks—and you're the only one listening. What you say will decide whether she finally moves on… or disappears forever.
Why similar: Gothic 24% ★, Visual Novel 13.3%, Supernatural 13.1%, Emotional 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
Every town is unique. Liddy's town has a lot of supernatural activity and it is her job to find and free entities stuck in our realm. Join her and her friends on their adventures, finding clues and ways to banish the creatures that shouldn't be here.
Why similar: Supernatural 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Horror 13.2%, Emotional 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
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 28.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Supernatural 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dark 10.3%
Solve riddles from ancient tomes — Two friends gather at a summoning circle, embracing the supernatural in an attempt to achieve the impossible. Unravel mystic poems to discover the correct combination of symbols to draw, and summon demons that can aid these friends in their dark quest.
Why similar: Gothic 36.6% ★, Supernatural 19.3%, Emotional 11.9%, Dark 10%, Female Protagonist 8.4%
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: Supernatural 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Dark 14.5%, Horror 13.4%, Emotional 12.4%
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
Why similar: Cozy 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Emotional 15.1%, Horror 10.1%
The Forsaken Anthology: Obsession, a psychological horror game that explores the dark side of human desire and the lengths one might go to fulfill it
Why similar: Gothic 25.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Supernatural 15%, Dark 9.9%, Hidden Object 9.6%
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 30.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dark 10.8%, Horror 9.9%
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 54.2% ★, Horror 13.8%, Dark 12.8%, Exploration 7%, Atmospheric 6.5%
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona till college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade with friends, date an enigmatic new girl, and stop a demonic plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 26.2% ★, Supernatural 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 10%, Dark 9.9%
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.
Why similar: Gothic 44% ★, Visual Novel 16%, Dark 13.8%, Horror 9%, Emotional 6.6%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Gothic 27.3% ★, Supernatural 18.4%, Dark 12.6%, Emotional 11%, Horror 9.4%
A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Gothic 41.4% ★, Dark 14.3%, Supernatural 10.7%, Point & Click 7.3%, Atmospheric 6.8%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Gothic 29.9% ★, Supernatural 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Dark 10.9%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Story Rich 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12%, Emotional 10.8%
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
Why similar: Supernatural 21%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Horror 15%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Dark 13.4%
Bring back Llum from the infected comfort of his memories. Find his most precious moments and shatter them all in this open exploration game.
Why similar: Gothic 41.4% ★, Emotional 16.9%, Exploration 9.4%, Dark 8.7%, Horror 8.1%
You step off the marked trail and a rockfall seals your way back. You begin to follow faint signs through a darkening forest, shadowed by something that knows these woods, and learn why places like this go unreported or why no one returns...
Why similar: Dark 22%, Horror 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Supernatural 12.6%, First-Person 7.5%
A mysterious black fog has forced the city into an endless night, and it's changing people. A story-driven horror therapist simulator where you run your business and shape the fate of both your clients and yourself.
Why similar: Gothic 28.3% ★, Supernatural 19.4%, Horror 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Dark 8.6%
Loop is a visual novel set in a dark Irish Forest. Deirdre is set to find her husband who was sworn to become the Forest King. But it’s not easy for a human to walk in the magical realm. What will Deirdre learn about this other world? What will she find out about herself?
Why similar: Supernatural 20.4%, Gothic 19.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Emotional 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%
"When the graves stop whispering in your ear, it’s time for you to surrender to eternal silence". So says the Agreement, and so it must be fulfilled. Welcome to a new dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.
Why similar: Supernatural 29.8%, Emotional 13.8%, Dark 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Story Rich 8.9%
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Why similar: Supernatural 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Emotional 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Why similar: Gothic 49.2% ★, Visual Novel 17%, Dark 14%, Emotional 11.6%, Story Rich 5.6%
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: Gothic 30.5% ★, Supernatural 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Horror 11.7%, Dark 11%
"Escape from Death" is a 256,000-word interactive horror adventure novel by Tova Näslund. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Gothic 31.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Supernatural 15.9%, Dark 13.2%, Horror 8.3%
An Ace Attorney/Danganronpa style Murder Mystery-esque Visual Novel where an unlikely duo must find the vampiric killer stalking the halls of a stormy manor.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Supernatural 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dark 8.9%, Emotional 8.3%
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% ★, Dark 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Horror 9.5%, Story Rich 7.5%
You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Dark 15.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Horror 10.1%
A story-driven horror game.
Why similar: Gothic 35.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Dark 12.3%, Horror 9.9%, Exploration 7.4%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Supernatural 23%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 11.1%, Cozy 11%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 60.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Horror 14.8%, Atmospheric 3.9%, Adventure 2.7%
Wander the halls of an eerie 1920s mansion as haunting visions torment you and the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Step into the role of grieving widow Eleanor Hartfield and uncover the chilling truth behind your husband’s mysterious death.
Why similar: Supernatural 30%, Horror 18.7%, Dark 12.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Female Protagonist 7.5%
Use your wits and iconic ghost hunting equipment to uncover the mystery of what happened to the residents of an abandoned apartment complex in this narrative-driven horror experience.
Why similar: Supernatural 28%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Horror 14.1%, Emotional 12.7%, Dark 11.2%
Arlo has spent her life thinking she had left the worst behind. Now the past has come knocking. She must defeat her demons, metaphorically and literally, to have a chance to rescue her grandmother from eternal torture and hopefully find peace.
Why similar: Supernatural 30.4%, Horror 16.5%, Dark 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%, Hidden Object 7%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Supernatural 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Horror 13%, Dark 11.9%
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 43% ★, Visual Novel 14%, Horror 10.7%, Emotional 9.7%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Horror 12.4%, Supernatural 12.1%, Dark 10.5%
At 3am, an app called tally installs itself on your phone and starts granting wishes. All of them. A psychological horror story told entirely through a phone screen. 5 nights, 3 routes, 18 endings, some you can only reach by losing on purpose. Every wish is granted. Every wish is owed.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Supernatural 11.9%, Emotional 11.5%, Dark 11.5%
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 39.3% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dark 11%, Horror 9.9%, Story Rich 8.1%
What does it feel like to find yourself in hell? You don't feel the wind, you don't see the sun. No more hearing child's laughter. No memory of those who once were your friends and family.
Why similar: Gothic 47.9% ★, Horror 14.6%, Story Rich 9.3%, Exploration 6.9%, First-Person 5.9%
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
Why similar: Emotional 14.9%, Hidden Object 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Aristocrat Evan Alford receives a mysterious invitation to the fair and comes to a small village on the outskirts of the country. The village seems strange and painfully familiar, but Evan has never been here. In addition, other guests of the fair are not as simple as it seems.
Why similar: Gothic 31.3% ★, Supernatural 16.5%, Dark 13.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
A psychological horror spin-off of the acclaimed game Claire. You play as Deacon, a man searching for his missing father, but the deeper you dug, the darker the truths you uncovered, secrets you wish you’d never found, and that will haunt you forever.
Why similar: Supernatural 29.8%, Horror 16%, Dark 9.3%, Story Rich 8.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%
You wake up in an empty forest in Ohio. A voice calls you. Says you're friends. Says you need to get out. But the signal keeps breaking, and so does your memory. Your friend will guide you from a distance, but he can't save you. Escape the creatures in the dark and find your friend.
Why similar: Supernatural 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Emotional 14.8%, Dark 13%, Horror 10.9%
You are the final boss, the Dark Queen of Mortholme, unrivaled in power. A hero invades and is easily crushed. Yet, they keep returning. A short-form indie game about an unusual bond, perspectives, and the beauty of change.
Why similar: Gothic 34.6% ★, Supernatural 18.8%, Emotional 11.1%, Dark 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.7%
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 44.1% ★, Dark 17.7%, Horror 14.6%, Hidden Object 5.8%, Exploration 4%
Tend a cemetery for the dearly departed in this cozy but macabre decorating game. Fulfill final requests, craft personalized graves, shape the grounds your way, and uncover the mystery of Daisy’s own death.
Why similar: Gothic 40.1% ★, Cozy 12.1%, Supernatural 9.9%, Emotional 9.8%, Dark 9.7%
Horror Visual Novel where Cats claw through filth for bones and whisper lies to mirrors. Find the Hidden-Objects, obey, smile, and repeat until the lines between rule and ruin blur, and you’re left meowing into the void.
Why similar: Supernatural 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Horror 11.5%, Hidden Object 11.4%, Story Rich 9.3%
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".
Why similar: Gothic 33.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 9.1%, Story Rich 8%
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Supernatural 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Hidden Object 9.7%
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 42.3% ★, Visual Novel 16%, Supernatural 14.2%, Dark 10.2%, Atmospheric 5.3%
