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  1. #1 Snowfall's Mystery
    97% matchVery Positive86% of 125 reviews2025
    Dev: Sempiternal Rain
    Windows

    A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

    Why similar: Psychological 16.4%, Text-Based 15.7%, Psychedelic 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%

  2. #2 Your Future Self
    96% matchVery Positive81% of 97 reviews2019
    Dev: Contortionist Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

    Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Adventure 8.5%

  3. #3 Hazy Mind
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 355 reviews2024
    Dev: betetiro
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

    Why similar: Psychological 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Psychedelic 15.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 7.6%

  4. #4 You Shouldn't Be Here
    95% matchVery Positive91% of 108 reviews2025
    Dev: Doomster Entertainment
    Windows

    This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.

    Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Psychological 11.9%

  5. #5 I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
    94% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2023
    Dev: LUAL Games KIGPub: DreadXP
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

    Why similar: Psychological 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 19%, Story Rich 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

  6. #6 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
    94% matchVery Positive92% of 74 reviews2025
    Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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

    Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Horror 11.3%

  7. #7 Minds Beneath Us
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,428 reviews2024
    Dev: BearBoneStudio
    Windows
    Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Psychological 24.6%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%

  8. #8 The Shadow Over Cyberspace
    92% matchVery Positive90% of 119 reviews2025
    Dev: Fiction Factory Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Visual Novel 20.6%, Text-Based 17.6%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 14.4%, Story Rich 9%

  9. #9 Desktop Explorer
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,312 reviews2026
    Dev: Recurring Dream
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: Text-Based 25.4%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Mystery 5.7%

  10. #10 Second Thoughts
    93% matchMostly Positive73% of 82 reviews2022
    Dev: Gestmorph Games
    Windows · Mac

    A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.

    Why similar: Psychological 21.7%, Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 9.9%

  11. #11 Inversed
    90% matchVery Positive92% of 87 reviews2024
    Dev: Tymedust Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?

    Why similar: Psychological 21.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological Horror 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Horror 11.1%

  12. #12 DEAD LETTER DEPT.
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,864 reviews2025
    Dev: Mike MonroePub: Belief Engine
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 27%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 19.3%, Emotional 8.8%, Mystery 6.9%

  13. #13 Will Die Alone
    89% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
    Dev: Arianna Ravioli
    Windows · Mac

    Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?

    Why similar: Text-Based 25.7%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Story Rich 7.8%

  14. #14 The Bunker Notes - Horror/Drama Visual Novel
    88% matchMostly Positive77% of 66 reviews2026
    Dev: Synthetic Domain
    Windows

    "The Bunker Notes" is a visual novel about a concrete trap where the past whispers through the cracks of rusted doors. In this world, survival is everything; meeting another person might be your last mistake.

    Why similar: Psychological 16.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%

  15. #15 Livber: Smoke and Mirrors
    87% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2025
    Dev: InEv Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Psychological 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%

  16. #16 ELEVATOR: AVICI
    84% matchVery Positive92% of 75 reviews2026
    Dev: Southern Cross
    Windows

    "ELEVATOR: AVICI" is a 1st-person psychological horror with a retro, HK lo-fi aesthetic. Trapped in a decaying apartment elevator, your only link to the outside is a strange voice on the intercom claiming to be a repairman. Will you follow his commands, or find your own escape from the darkness?

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.1%, Horror 28.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Retro 7.9%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

  17. #17 Nightmare Zapping
    85% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2023
    Dev: Maldo19
    Windows

    A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 17.2%, Story Rich 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

  18. #18 Land of Ghosts
    83% matchVery Positive98% of 109 reviews2026
    Dev: brutal_vap
    Windows

    A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters with ghosts. Rain-soaked landscapes and quiet conversations shape a desolate, melancholic road ahead.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Psychological 16.1%, Story Rich 10.1%, Adventure 9.7%

  19. #19 TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression
    86% matchVery Positive81% of 192 reviews2018
    Dev: Peace & Love Games
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%

    TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.

    Why similar: Psychological 18.3%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%

  20. #20 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,372 reviews2020
    Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 24 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 11%

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Psychological 16.5%, Text-Based 14.1%, Horror 10.4%

  21. #21 Pink Noise
    82% matchVery Positive87% of 134 reviews2026
    Dev: Somber GamesPub: Caspianborn Publishing
    Windows

    Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?

    Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Horror 12.8%, Story Rich 7.7%

  22. #22 STAY
    84% matchMixed68% of 569 reviews2018
    Dev: Appnormals Team
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

    Why similar: Psychological 17.2%, Text-Based 11.7%, Horror 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%

  23. #23 Loop//Error
    81% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2025
    Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
    Windows

    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 19%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Horror 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%

  24. #24 Glassy Stare
    81% matchVery Positive91% of 116 reviews2026
    Dev: ghost funeralPub: Nikita Kryukov
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Psychedelic 28.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Story Rich 8.9%, Dark 7.7%

  25. #25 Buddy Simulator 1984
    80% matchVery Positive93% of 4,366 reviews2021
    Dev: Not a Sailor Studios
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Text-Based 21.2%, Horror 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Story Rich 10%

  26. #26 Little Lighthouse of Horror
    79% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2025
    Dev: Codiwans
    Windows

    A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery. Manage a remote lighthouse, handle limited resources, and confront eerie occurrences as isolation erodes your sanity. Multiple endings await based on your choices and actions. How long can you last?

    Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Psychological 16.9%, Story Rich 13%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

  27. #27 Psychroma
    78% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2024
    Dev: Rocket AdriftPub: Gamma Space Collaborative Studio
    Windows · Linux

    Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...

    Why similar: Psychedelic 24.4%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, Emotional 8.7%

  28. #28 Without a Dawn
    76% matchVery Positive92% of 911 reviews2025
    Dev: Jesse Makkonen
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Psychological 13.9%, Psychedelic 10.3%, Horror 10%

  29. #29 Forgive or Finalize
    78% matchMixed69% of 262 reviews2026
    Dev: 72studio
    Windows · Mac

    A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Psychological 16.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Story Rich 9.7%, Horror 8.5%

  30. #30 Things Too Ugly
    77% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: Professor Space GamesPub: Baltoro Games
    Windows

    Clock in at TEREBRO INC. for the night shift in 1986. Protect the company's legacy as Risk Assessment Data Processor. Equipped with era-specific technology, navigate through obscured narratives to shape the company's future.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 33%, Text-Based 20.4%, Story Rich 16.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Adventure 8.8%

  31. #31 Recall: Empty Wishes
    77% matchVery Positive94% of 66 reviews2025
    Dev: Puff Hook StudioPub: DANGEN Entertainment
    Windows · Mac

    Recall: Empty Wishes is a psychological thriller set in Taiwan during the 2010s. Follow Yonny, a sister determined to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of her brother, Tommy. As she delves deeper, she confronts unsettling secrets, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.9%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Story Rich 11%, Horror 10.4%

  32. #32 SELF
    79% 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: Psychological 34.2%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Adventure 17%, Story Rich 9.6%, Mystery 7.4%

  33. #33 Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
    75% matchVery Positive95% of 9,560 reviews2019
    Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.8%, Horror 20.2%, Story Rich 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%

  34. #34 Until Then
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 19,464 reviews2024
    Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Psychological 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Emotional 11.6%, Story Rich 9.2%

  35. #35 Creepy Support
    74% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2026
    Dev: Squirrel Melting
    Windows

    Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)

    Why similar: Text-Based 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 11.3%, Narrative 7.1% ★

  36. #36 NIGHTSLINK
    76% matchVery Positive81% of 118 reviews2021
    Dev: Noiseminded
    Windows

    You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.2%, Psychological 23.2%, Horror 20.3%, Story Rich 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

  37. #37 Back:Fade
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 252 reviews2025
    Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
    Windows · Mac

    《Back:Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy !!!! The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Horror 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological 11%

  38. #38 Bad Faith
    75% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2022
    Dev: Mado
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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

    Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Horror 12.4%

  39. #39 oneway.exe: Module 1.0
    72% matchVery Positive83% of 109 reviews2025
    Dev: Disordered Media
    Windows

    You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 22.3%, Narrative 17.6% ★, Story Rich 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10%

  40. #40 PAGER
    72% matchVery Positive89% of 149 reviews2025
    Dev: bilge
    Windows

    You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

    Why similar: Psychological 31.6%, Psychological Horror 29%, Horror 21%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

  41. #41 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
    70% matchVery Positive88% of 6,362 reviews2025
    Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
    Windows
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 22.8%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Text-Based 18.9%, Horror 10.5%, Story Rich 7.9%

  42. #42 Echoes
    74% matchVery Positive80% of 85 reviews2021
    Dev: Baba Nura
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 16.5%, Psychedelic 13.4%, Psychological Horror 7.5%

  43. #43 SIMULACRA
    71% matchVery Positive90% of 4,689 reviews2017
    Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Psychological 16.6%, Horror 15.4%, Story Rich 7.6%

  44. #44 Garage: Bad Dream Adventure
    70% matchVery Positive97% of 390 reviews2022
    Dev: 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Psychedelic 21.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Dark 10.7%, Mystery 8.5%

  45. #45 BAD END
    73% matchVery Positive83% of 398 reviews2015
    Dev: Arai Koh Create OfficePub: YOX-Project
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological 13.2%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

  46. #46 OVERWRITE
    71% matchVery Positive98% of 85 reviews2023
    Dev: ツノウサギの家
    Windows

    Overwrite each other. A story-driven exploration adventure shaped by tragedy. ― I woke up in a research facility. And... someone was already inside me. (I initiated the experiment at this research facility.) (My first—and final—experiment for my sake. I staked everything on it.)

    Why similar: Horror 29.7%, Adventure 19%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Story Rich 14%, Multiple Endings 13.9%

  47. #47 Dry Drowning
    71% matchVery Positive81% of 518 reviews2019
    Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    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: Psychological 26.8%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Horror 14.8%, Mystery 6.2%

  48. #48 outside the door
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 776 reviews2024
    Dev: basandaika games
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.

    Why similar: Psychological 23.4%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Text-Based 11.5%, Horror 6.3%

  49. #49 This Is Not Your House
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 283 reviews2024
    Dev: Cody Tierson (Trash Eyes)Pub: Trash Eyes
    Windows

    Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.

    Why similar: Psychological 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14%, Psychedelic 12.3%

  50. #50 DIGITAL EXORCIST case_(0);
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 171 reviews2023
    Dev: COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONSPub: HYPER REAL
    Windows

    Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Horror 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Story Rich 13.2%, Adventure 6.7%

  51. #51 HOMESICKNESS
    68% matchVery Positive93% of 85 reviews2025
    Dev: jnity
    Windows

    HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.9%, Psychological 21.5%, Horror 18.8%, Story Rich 15.8%, Adventure 3.5%

  52. #52 Omen Exitio: Plague
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 641 reviews2018
    Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 12%, Text-Based 11.9%

  53. #53 Afterdream
    67% matchVery Positive93% of 363 reviews2023
    Dev: Jesse MakkonenPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows

    Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.

    Why similar: Psychological 24.8%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Horror 17%, Story Rich 8.3%, Emotional 8%

  54. #54 Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
    69% matchVery Positive81% of 1,088 reviews2021
    Dev: 致意
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and ghastly series of events... When fate comes knocking, will you have the courage to make a choice?

    Why similar: Psychological 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 15.8%, Horror 11.5%

  55. #55 JANITOR BLEEDS
    68% matchVery Positive86% of 276 reviews2022
    Dev: KorpusPub: Bonus Stage Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Enter the abandoned arcade after your car has crashed, and the shelter you were looking for is trying to eat you alive in this dark mystery-horror adventure. Solve mysteries, keep JANITOR satisfied, and always be aware of what's behind your back.

    Why similar: Psychological 24.9%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 15.1%, Story Rich 9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

  56. #56 Hearing Voices
    66% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2026
    Dev: Fuupu
    Windows

    Hearing Voices is a unique indie short horror experience where you will need to put your listening and deduction skills to the test to solve puzzles. Mistakes have consequences.

    Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.4%, Text-Based 18.3%, Horror 12.4%, Adventure 8.6%, Story Rich 6.9%

  57. #57 Hashihime of the Old Book Town
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 702 reviews2019
    Dev: ADELTAPub: MangaGamer
    Windows

    Step into the shoes of an aspiring author during the Taisho era in this psychedelic BL murder-mystery visual novel. Travel back in time to try and save your friends while confronting your own character flaws. Will you retreat into your fantasies, or can you keep it together enough to rescue them?

    Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Psychological 16.8%, Psychedelic 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Story Rich 8.5%

  58. #58 You know my name?
    67% matchMixed69% of 230 reviews2024
    Dev: Mystael studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

    Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%

  59. #59 End of Lines
    67% matchVery Positive93% of 73 reviews2023
    Dev: Nova-box
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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 22.4%, Psychological 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Story Rich 9.7%

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