Games Like Ballad of the Midnight Man

A Japanese-style horror visual novel set in 1980s Japan. Five years after a mysterious disappearance, Yukari Kanzaki and Akane Kiryu enter the abandoned Mogami Mansion. Explore its hidden secrets, uncover its dark past, and face multiple endings shaped by your choices.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 16.2%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Horror 6.7%

Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Horror 9.2%

Fate is not a line is a visual novel game where your choices shape destinies. With 40+ decisions, 4 unique perspectives, and 25+ endings, every playthrough reveals new truths. Defy fate, face moral dilemmas, and uncover the secrets of the Arbiter of Fate.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 10.1%

Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 15.3%, Horror 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%

A visual novel with a very open narrative: Revenge Story offers you to play as an avatar in search of justice, as well as the worst of the scum. Customize your character's gender, romance the character you like or get rid of the others!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Text-Based 10.4%, Female Protagonist 8.8%

In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Dynamic Narration 18.5% ★, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 6.5%

Your Mother Disgusts Me is a yuri horror visual novel about 3 women taking refuge in a shipping container during the apocalypse. A mother, a stranger and a daughter have to hash out their differences, lest they attract the attention of the disgusting Parasites infecting humanity.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Text-Based 10%

――My curfew is 8 PM. Having a helicopter mom is annoying, but it's not a big deal.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%

A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.7%

A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%

A Slice-of-life Anime Visual Novel about 4 friends trying to recapture old feelings. Has multiple story branches and endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Horror 8.5%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

An adventure exploring two distinct types of information: conversation and memory. A district two stations away from the city, a night district who exude a atmosphere of alluring “Just listen to their desires, then do whatever you like.” —Told ya?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Text-Based 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10.4%

Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨

Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Female Protagonist 11.1%

The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Horror 13.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%

Three students record themselves in a classroom room that shouldn’t exist... The next morning, one of them is gone forever... A short psychological horror VN about memory, proof, and erasure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Choices Matter 8%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Horror 10%

A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Horror 9%

Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

Help digital mascots Lime, Cherry, Plum and Lemon navigate their way through the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam competition. Laugh, learn, and scream(with excitement, we hope) through this visual novel and make choices to guide the girls to great success or dramatic failure!

Why similar: Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Cinematic 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Comedy 9.1%

A girl named Anastasia, who lives in an old multi-story building, decides to leave her apartment. She goes to get some salt to ask her neighbors and find a treasure hidden in this house. But what kind of treasure is this, and is it worth looking for?

Why similar: Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.4%

A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.7%

「その選択肢、正気か？」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい！？ 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム！

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Text-Based 18.9%, Psychological Horror 9%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

What if attention became the most valuable thing in society? And everyone who lost it was sent to a container suspended above the ocean until they became visible again?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Dynamic Narration 27.3% ★, Text-Based 22.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%

“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 11.4%, Horror 11.4%, Female Protagonist 9.8%

In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Dynamic Narration 20.9% ★, Text-Based 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.9%

When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 20.9%, Visual Novel 17%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Multiple Endings 5.8%

A dark narrative card game about the short path to power — and the price you’ll pay.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Enjoy the process of the timid protagonist using hypnosis to manipulate and subjugate his abusive mother and daughter, training them to his liking.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Horror 8.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

“You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Visual Novel 22%, Text-Based 15.9%, Horror 11%, Adventure 7.8%

Step into a visual novel of rotten flowers. Play as a young woman in a world where the ability to lie is condemned, and seek shelter in the mysterious castle across the lake. Survive, little dove, in the rot infested halls, and be careful of who you choose to love — what you choose to lie about...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11%, Dynamic Narration 10.9% ★

22 people awake and find themselves trapped in a game underground. To win, they must escape the world beneath our feet.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Horror 7.3%

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 13%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Horror 9.1%

Open your own potion shop in Deigon Forest. Listen to your customers’ stories, prepare the potions they need, and, through the choices you make, forge your own path in the struggle between fate and free will.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Text-Based 14%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%

As the student council president of Asanagi High School, you must decide how to respond to opinion forms submitted to the suggestion box in this school-themed choice-based adventure game. Your choices change how events unfold and lead to multiple endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Text-Based 17.4%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Adventure 7.9%

Hey, someone's at the door! There's a new neighbor in town! Live a week in Havenbrook as Tom, surrounded by mysteries, meaningful choices, and multiple endings. Forge your own path and shape your story with no predefined quests. Will you uncover the truth?

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 5.7%

Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 15.5%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%

A woman who suffers from severe delusions wakes in the center of a forest aboard “The BUB,” a proto-generation ship from the mysterious Faust Corporation to a vision of a spirit she grew up with, she quickly learns that not everything is as it seems, and this waking cycle is anything but ordinary.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

Dive into the shadows of this fairytale-like narrative experience with Birdie, making choices and helping her find freedom and light in the darkness. Love isn't always what it seems.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, Horror 7.8%

An interactive card game that stirs memories and emotions. In silence, the cards speak, touching the depths of the heart. Philosophical space and tension quietly envelop the players.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%

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 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 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: Visual Novel 16.1%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Female Protagonist 8.4%

A visual novel about a girl who loves the cemetery. When her parents go missing, she receives a mysterious text that has the potential to completely ruin her life...or fix it?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

You are an AD intern at a TV studio aiming to secure a job offer. During a live talk show, you must give directions using cue cards. Convey information based on the situation to keep things running smoothly, boost audience favorability toward the guest, and earn your offer through your performance.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.1%, Visual Novel 23%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Adventure 8.1%

The day has finally come. The day that will determine on whether or not you'll be accepted as a reporter in hololive. And not just any reporter, but the exclusive reporter for Kureiji Ollie! What goes down on in the life of the zombie idol? Find out what it'll be like to spend Days with Ollie!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 20.3%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Horror 7.2%

'Angel of glory, Gloria' joined the 'Demonophobia Company' with disguising herself as 'Demon of vanity, Burbary.' Could Burbary finish her mission and go back to her home?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Text-Based 8%

選択肢を間違えると即エンディング！？ドS狼プリンセスから質問攻めされる短編ゲーム

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.2%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 9%, Anime 6.7%

A visual novel starring the Vtubers from .LIVE production with a a mix of horror and school comedy. Work together with the club members to escape from the sealed school!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 13%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Horror 7.8%