60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Dark, Anime.
You killed him once before. Don't make the same mistake twice. A melancholic boys love visual novel about killing cults and your past confronting you.
Sorcerer's Choice: Angel or Demon?
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
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A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Gothic 16.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?
Why similar: Gothic 21.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
Alice, Alice, the Red Queen is missing. The queen has been dismembered and Alice must find all her pieces. A horror-fantasy yuri visual novel filled with death, love, and forgotten memories.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dark 10.9%, Magic 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
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 20.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Drama 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Dark 8.3%
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 28.8% ★, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.9%, Historical 8.2%, Dark 7.4%
A dark yuri horror romance set in a crumbling Gothic castle. 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 24.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Visual Novel 9%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
Guide the misanthropic witch Morrigan as she creates a homemade friend of her very own in this short and sweet sapphic visual novel!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Gothic 17% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Magic 8.6%
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 25.9% ★, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Drama 9.7%
A Gothic horror faerie tale.
Why similar: Gothic 16.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, LGBTQ+ 7.5%
Argumentum ad culpam is a gothic visual novel about the world of eternal agony. A capricious dance of principles and death. Take part in twisted battles of wits, where morality is only a tool for survival, and decide what future that world will have.
Why similar: Gothic 26.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Drama 9.2%, Magic 8.7%
After you are unable to find a patron to provide you with a magic bond, you stumble into the abandoned temple of the Passion goddess - with four patrons waiting for you. Yet, as you grow closer to gaining magic, something else is drawn to this power...
Why similar: Gothic 19.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Romance 8.1%
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Why similar: Gothic 37.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Drama 11.3%, Dark 9.8%
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 27.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Dark 7.3%
A dark lesbian / yuri gothic romance tale set in Victorian England, in which an anxious governess is aggressively pursued by her unruly, tempestuous pupil.
Why similar: Gothic 28.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Historical 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Drama 9.6%
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 14%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Dark 8%
Lkyt is a tragic gay romance visual novel about the bonds that form between warriors fighting hopeless odds. Set in a feudal-Japan themed dark fantasy world, you and your chosen partner must use the power from your bond to last one day longer in your mission to achieve a brighter future.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Historical 10.7%, Drama 10%, Visual Novel 9.7%
A dark yuri visual novel about a quiet university student who discovers blood magic in the depths of her grief. Stepping into a world she little understands, Honoka finds unexpected love, and inadvertently sets in motion a deadly series of events.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Anime 8.6%, Romance 7.7%
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Drama 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...?
Why similar: Gothic 24.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Anime 8.9%, Romance 8.2%
Why similar: Gothic 17.2% ★, Historical 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Dark 8.9%
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 34.1% ★, Dark 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Mystery 7.8%
TFTU: After Midnight is a dark / gothic visual novel with multiple endings. Your choices matter and will determine who stays alive and who dies. Discovering the whole truth about the murders will require more than one playthrough.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Drama 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
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 before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 22.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Drama 11%, Dark 9.2%
Laki is an outcast: many beastmen have disappeared because of him. To break this curse, Laki travels to the Dead Forest, a place from which almost no one has ever returned. But what will be the key to the secrets of his fate and the mysteries of the forest?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Drama 11.8%, Magic 10.6%, Dark 10.3%
MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Drama 8.9%
Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dark 9.1%, Romance 8%
Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Magic 10%, Anime 9.7%, Drama 9.3%
The game is a BL Cthulhu-style narrative romance game. It tells the story of the protagonist struggling to survive on a cruise ship filled with strange events after losing their memory. The game's setting is modern with a Cthulhu-inspired narrative.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
A Boys Love visual novel set around a pulse-pounding hostage situation. Can Numata make it out of things unscathed? Every choice matters! Fully translated into English with the original Japanese voice acting intact.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Drama 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Anime 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
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 25.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
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 30.3% ★, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dark 11.6%, Anime 9.9%
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 22.7% ★, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Drama 8.5%
Leviathan receives an order from the Fortress: infiltrate Pandemonium and eliminate Wrath, the ruthless traitor. Prove yourself, sea dragon. (Short adventure RPG / visual novel)
Why similar: Gothic 20.8% ★, Visual Novel 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Drama 9.8%
When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Gothic 17.8% ★, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Romance 7.7%
Step into the world of Banishing You, a visual novel where choices shape your journey. Accept a mysterious invitation to a dream realm full of enigmatic characters and challenges. Navigate passive-aggressive comments, flirtatious strangers, and unravel a quest that could save or doom both worlds.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Drama 11.1%, Anime 10%
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19%, Dark Fantasy 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Dark 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Gothic 28.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Drama 11.8%
Rose Bullet is a Retro, Comic Style, Horror RPG! Play as a vampire hunter on his way to kill the count and avenge his lost lover.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Drama 12%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9%
For the first time in years, Sonny meets a person he knows inside of his lucid dreams and, to his surprise, Sonny discovers that what he says and does in his dreams directly affects the people he dreamed about.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Drama 17.5%, Anime 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Years after leaving her family to join the Sisters of the Whiterock Coven, Edith is anxious to finally return home. But first she has to pass her Trial of Ascension, a harrowing task bestowed by her patron deity. Together, Edith and her bully must complete the trial, no matter the consequences.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Drama 12.4%, Magic 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 10.8%
A post-apocalyptic horror fantasy visual novel about a never-ending winter night and humanity persisting.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.9%, Dark Fantasy 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Anime 7.8%
Gloom and Doom is a visual novel throwback to 90s slacker movies - complete with the solitude and sarcastic retorts - but with a supernatural twist. Push a powerful but unmotivated wraith to complete his stagnated quest to enter heaven, while trying to kill the suicidal but unkillable Doom Bringer.
Why similar: Gothic 23.6% ★, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Drama 8.7%, Horror 8.2%
A boys' love / yaoi visual novel set in 19th century Japan. Join Haru, an aloof young man forced to crossdress by his mother from childhood, and Kishou, a cheerful thief brought up in poverty, as they travel across the country to break an age-old curse.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Historical 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Drama 12.8%, Anime 11.1%
A Gothic-Punk yuri visual novel about a magician on the run and her mysterious vampiric guardian. Journey by airship across a war-torn Europe and search for a legendary flower with the power to destroy nations.
Why similar: Gothic 24.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Historical 9.2%, Visual Novel 8%
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 37.4% ★, Visual Novel 13.8%, Anime 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Dark 7.8%
A wedding where one of the guests arrives dead. A strange black hole eclipsing the Florida sun. And your best friend? Gone. Is all this a butterfly dream or is reality breaking? Is their story romance or mystery? Your choices will determine the genre of his soul. Welcome to the town of Siren's Call.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Romance 8.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
Why similar: Gothic 25.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Historical 11.2%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Drama 8.7%
The archwizards are out of control, running a witch hunt all over Aravorn. Will the three heroines put an end to it? Fight evil wizards, find romance and unlock different endings in this dark fantasy yuri visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Drama 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Magic 10.1%
After getting lost in a blizzard you find yourself in Rainbow Valley—a strange mountain with even stranger villagers.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Anime 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within, in this gay, romantic, dark fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Dark Fantasy 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Magic 7.9%
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: Gothic 16.4% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Drama 9.5%
A psychological horror romance mystery inspired by Lovecraftian, Black Butler, and Danganronpa
Why similar: Gothic 26.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Drama 8.5%, Anime 8.1%
A dark boys love / boys hate visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired world full of political intrigue. Yuel, once the King of Indra, is deposed by his older cousin, Tavi, during a coup and imprisoned within the palace. An uneasy relationship between them grows, and then...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Drama 11.1%, Anime 10.5%
nothing is inviolate. and that which is sacrosanct gets fucked. fuck god, kill heaven, marry boyfriend. in that order.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Magic 9.3%
Play as a prince as he attempts to give his story a happy ending by finding love and claiming his place as the rightful heir of the throne in this fantasy Boys' Love visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.4%, Magic 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Anime 10.7%, Romance 10.3%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Mystery 8.7%
The story-rich 18+ prequel to The Divine Speaker. Follow alongside Aemyl and Lucius in a two-sided story about the past and the future.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Drama 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Anime 9.5%
A short interactive dark fantasy story in which you meet an egomaniacal empress and must try to survive the encounter through the choices you make.
Why similar: Gothic 31.1% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Historical 12.9%, Psychological Horror 10%
