Games Like Athanasy

Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.5%, Cyberpunk 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 10.4%, Horror 7.7%

You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 24%, Dynamic Narration 22.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

RECORD_DrowsyVortex is a post-apocalyptic exploration-focused RPG set in the future era of Space Immigration. It is one piece of recorded data transmitted from Planet Drowsy Vortex centuries later, offering an immersive experience of a local post-disaster survivor's weird and memorable story.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 19%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Narration 11.2%

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.3%, Conversation 14.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.3%

In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 6.9%

Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 40.6%, Surreal 23.3%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 11.9%, Casual 3.5%

H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.9%, Cyberpunk 19.7%, Conversation 12.2%, Detective 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 59%, Story Rich 21.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, 2D 6.4%

The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair

Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Narration 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, Horror 23%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Story Rich 10.8%

Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...

Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.8%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Horror 13%, Hand-drawn 12.7%

A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world. A small group of scientists are secretly investigating it when a mysterious woman appears, facing an impossible task.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.1%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

Why similar: Lovecraftian 23%, Lore-Rich 17.3%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Detective 18.2%, Conversation 13.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Cyberpunk 12.1%

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Detective 28.4%, Surreal 23.8%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Psychological Horror 18%, Story Rich 11.5%

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 33.4% ★, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Conversation 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Horror 13.7%

In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.4%, Detective 16.8%, Lovecraftian 16.5%, Surreal 15.6%, Horror 15%

In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 50%, Story Rich 16.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Casual 8%

The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 65.5%, Choices Matter 34.5%

Ascension is a visual novel following three lost souls as they venture into The Zone - a dangerous and alien world. Follow the abrasive Doctor, the shy Scholar and sardonic Escort on their journey - though none of them will come out unscathed.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Conversation 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%

You are a monster under someone's house.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.5%, Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%

A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.

Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Surreal 14.2%, Narration 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Narration 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.

Why similar: Conversation 18.9%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Horror 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.9%

You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.

Why similar: Surreal 40.4%, Psychological Horror 32.3%, Horror 27.3%

Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.4%, Surreal 22.6%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.9%

You are the liquidator survived the samosbor in block G-326 of the endless Gigakhrushchyovka. You have to find out what happened in this block, evacuate the residents and find a way out for yourself. But is everything as simple as it seems at first glance?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 49.6%, Horror 24.9%, Story Rich 13.6%, 2D 6.7%, Casual 5.2%

"Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.

Why similar: Visual Novel 54.1%, Story Rich 19%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Detective 8.6%

A tech-noir survival horror short story, set in the urban decay of a long abandoned British city. Solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources and fight for a way to escape beyond the wall.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.9%, Cyberpunk 29.9%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Horror 9.1%, Multiple Endings 4.7%

🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?

Why similar: Text-Based 33.2%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Horror 17.7%, Sci-fi 15.1%, 2D 6.8%

Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Narration 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.2%

Do you often think of what is there, beneath the towns and the cities we live in? Sewer systems, bombshelters, scientific objects... Are you ready to find yourself in a place on the edge of the reality plane you are used to?

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.4%, Surreal 18.3%, Horror 16.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.

Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Surreal 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%

Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.6%, Detective 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Horror 12.5%

Five girls meet in an isolated underground city. As they slay and betray each other, what fate awaits them at the end of their journey? Hope? Or despair? Enjoy an immersive story, fully voiced and boasting multiple endings!

Why similar: Visual Novel 44.3%, Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Story Rich 16.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, 2D 4.2%

Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.1%, Surreal 15.1%, Conversation 13.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

Over or Under? A simple game of gambling with your life.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.2%, Lore-Rich 20.9%, Surreal 18.1%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 9.3%

A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Surreal 28.7%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Lovecraftian 22.1%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, 2D 6.7%

Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Narration 14.7%, Horror 14.2%

You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 45%, Text-Based 23.7%, Choices Matter 21%, Story Rich 10.3%

Hell Dive is a first-person horror game where you are a Maritime Operative alone aboard a submarine. Sent on a mission to revive an abandoned deep-sea colony, you uncover dark secrets as terrifying and deadly horrors await in its depths

Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.1%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 15.2%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.7%

CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...A short sci-fi visual novel packed with brain-teasing puzzles, gruesome deaths and heartbreaking secrets.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.4%, Narration 13.4%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Sitting on the brink of extinction, you keep doing what you do best: take and survive. But deep down, you know. Something horrible is about to happen.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Surreal 33.1%, Narration 27.5%, Story Rich 5.9%

Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.5%, Narration 27.9%, Sci-fi 21.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, 2D 5.7%

Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

Why similar: Detective 27%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Text-Based 10.9%

A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.8% ★, Cyberpunk 14.9%, Detective 12.3%, Surreal 9.4%, Conversation 8.1%

1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.6%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 18.8%, Sci-fi 12%, Story Rich 8.8%

You were hired to extract a bioengineer. Now your team is cut off, your comms are dead, and you're surrounded by something wearing human skin. Hold the line, make the calls, and survive the night in this choice-driven visual novel with turn-based combat.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.2%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Hand-drawn 9.6%

A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!

Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Lore-Rich 21.8%, Conversation 15%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Text-Based 21.6%, Detective 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Horror 7.9%

Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 44.8%, Surreal 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.9%, Surreal 23.9%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Horror 19.4%, Story Rich 7.9%

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 29.2%, Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 11.5%

Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Cyberpunk 18.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Story Rich 6.5%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Choices Matter 53.6%, Post-apocalyptic 46.4%

Set over the course of roughly a week, you play as a young girl who has been living in a shelter all her life. The outside world is infected with a deadly disease. Society is in chaos. Fortunately, your papa is protecting you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.3%, Horror 18.9%, Narration 17.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Conversation 9.6%