60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, Story Rich, Visual Novel, Singleplayer.
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.
Snowfall's Mystery
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.
Hazy Mind
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.
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 16.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Psychedelic 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychedelic 15%, Text-Based 7.8%
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 25.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Adventure 8.3%
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 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Psychedelic 13.5%, Psychological 12%
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 18.3%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Psychological 16.1%, Text-Based 14%, Horror 10%
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 25.2%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Story Rich 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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 20.2%, Text-Based 18%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 14.2%, Story Rich 8.9%
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 22%, Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 9.7%
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 27.5%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 19%, Emotional 8.9%, Mystery 6.9%
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 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Horror 10%
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 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 19.3%, Story Rich 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16%, Psychological 13.2%, Psychedelic 9.6%, Horror 9.3%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Psychological 18.7%, Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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 25.1%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 17.2%, Story Rich 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
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 19.4%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Horror 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
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 20.3%, Psychological 16.2%, Story Rich 12.1%, Drama 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
《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 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Horror 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Drama 11.7%
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 23.9%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Horror 9.7%
A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Psychedelic 28.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Story Rich 9.2%, Dark 8.1%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 11.3%
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 23.9%, Text-Based 21.8%, Horror 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Story Rich 10.1%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Psychological 15.9%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
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 23.9%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Story Rich 10.6%, Emotional 8.9%
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 36.3%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Adventure 17%, Story Rich 10%, Mystery 7.7%
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 26.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Story Rich 7.7%
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 18%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Horror 13%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 15.9%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Horror 10.6%
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 23.7%, Horror 20.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
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 19.1%, Text-Based 17.2%, Psychedelic 13.3%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Horror 11.4%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Psychological 15.9%, Horror 14.2%, Story Rich 7.1%
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 20.4%, Text-Based 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 9.4%, Drama 8.7%
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 27.6%, Horror 20.1%, Story Rich 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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 17.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Horror 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Why similar: Psychological 32.1%, Psychological Horror 28.9%, Horror 20.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
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 24.5%, Horror 22.2%, Narrative 18.1% ★, Story Rich 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
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 27.5%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Horror 14.7%, Mystery 6.3%
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 15.6%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological 13.7%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Why similar: Psychological 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological Horror 14%, Psychedelic 12%
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%, Horror 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Story Rich 13.2%, Adventure 6.5%
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 36.2%, Psychological 22%, Horror 18.6%, Story Rich 15.7%, Adventure 3.4%
《Back》 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 27.5%, Horror 23.9%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Drama 15.5%, Mystery 6.5%
Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?
Why similar: Psychological 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Horror 9%
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 30.4%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Story Rich 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Text-Based 12.4%
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 25.3%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 14.9%, Story Rich 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
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 24.2%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Text-Based 11.2%, Horror 6.2%
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 23.5%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 15.6%, Story Rich 7.6%, Emotional 7.5%
Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.1%, Horror 24.7%, Drama 16.4%, Story Rich 14.5%, Mystery 4.5%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological 12.6%, Psychedelic 11.4%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Psychological 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Drama 13.2%, Story Rich 10.2%
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 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Horror 9.6%
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32%, Horror 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Story Rich 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
Play as 25yo writer Jian Xun in a 5-min deadline loop. Your script is alive! In this thriller puzzle, use "keyframe sorting" to piece stories. Fight AI, break the 4th wall & escape the nightmare!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Psychological Horror 29.3%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
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 22.6%, Psychological 18.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Story Rich 9.9%
You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Psychedelic 20.4%, Drama 16.2%, Dark 10.2%, Mystery 8.3%
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Narrative 12.3% ★, Horror 11.1%
Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.
Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Psychological Horror 28.8%, Story Rich 14.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Dark 7.8%
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 32.4%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Dark 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choices Matter 8%
