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On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Horror 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choices Matter 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: Text-Based 19.4%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Supernatural 10.5%, Horror 10%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Psychological Horror 20%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Horror 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%

A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9%

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: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Text-Based 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%

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: Text-Based 18.8%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Horror 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%

A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?

Why similar: Text-Based 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Horror 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%

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

Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Surreal 8.9%

This is a simple story about young people, about the aroma of youth and the smells of life, which can so easily be cut short by a fatal accident.Or maybe at the behest of a heartless fate.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

In the infamous haunted building "Changrong Tower," security guard Li Cheng has come to understand the true nature of ghosts and their purposes. This time, he embarks on another adventure to help vengeful spirits, driven by a desire to uphold his deepest values.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.5%, Supernatural 14.4%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%

Welcome to Jiabao Tower Property Management.The night shift has begun. Your job is simple: answer calls, check the manual, and fill out the forms. When the night feels slow, watch some TV—though the programs may seem strange.Remember: serve every resident well. Jiabao Tower is our home forever.

Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%

Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.4%, Supernatural 12.6%, Horror 12.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%

Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 13.2%, Supernatural 13.2%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%

Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 12.6%, Supernatural 12.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%

How would you like to know that an uninvited guest, about whom you know absolutely nothing, will come to you at night? One thing is clear, he is unlikely to come in peace. What will you do? Prepare for his visit? Will you take a knife or hide in the closet? It's up to you.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Supernatural 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Horror 10.7%

After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Horror 10.1%

Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?

Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 11%, Surreal 11%

Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Supernatural 11.5%, Horror 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%

A first-person escape horror game, 'School Bathroom'.You've found yourself penned in an eerie stall.What is the source of the fear you feel in this inescapable space...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Supernatural 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Horror 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%

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 18.1%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Horror 10.2%, Surreal 9.9%

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: Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Horror 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%

It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Supernatural 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%

THE HALLWAY is a chilling text-based, command-line horror experience set in a dark, narrow corridor with comprehensive mechanics such as loops, stats, puzzles, meaningful choices, and Steam achievements.

Why similar: Text-Based 35.5%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Horror 8.2%

The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Text-Based 20.5%, Horror 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

An analog horror adventure where you work as a staff member at the uncanny facility named Sunberry Care Center, which is dedicated to the treatment of a mysterious disease called Sunberry Syndrome.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Horror 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 17.5%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Visual Novel 9.8%

NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Text-Based 16%, Horror 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.

Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 9%

In an abandoned bathroom waits a hungry female mouth; wet, eager, and downright sinister. Dare to feed it? — SHORT NAUGHTY SPOOKY VISUAL NOVEL · 26k words · 12 endings (in some you might even survive).

Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Supernatural 9.2%

At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%

A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?

Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Horror 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%

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: Text-Based 19.5%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Horror 10.8%

A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.

Why similar: Text-Based 14%, Psychological Horror 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Horror 11.6%

A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Why similar: Text-Based 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%

Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events

Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 10.9%, Supernatural 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%

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 24%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%

Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Dark Comedy 6.7%

“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 17.7%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%

You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Surreal 9.3%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Horror 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%

A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Horror 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%

With the enigmatic girl who imprisoned you――seven days in an unfamiliar room.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Surreal 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%

Tales from the Dark Manor is a narrative visual novel where you play as a struggling journalist given a limited time to interview supernatural beings inside a mysterious manor where the laws of logic no longer apply. Every choice uncovers a new secret.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Horror 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Horror 9.5%

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: Text-Based 17.4%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.2%

Take the Watson-Scott personality test and discover your deepest and darkest fears. 30 multiple-choice questions will tell you if you're more afraid of clowns, snakes, or something more sinister...

Why similar: Text-Based 29.6%, Psychological Horror 27.9%, Horror 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Atmospheric 6.8%

is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Surreal 9.8%, Horror 9.2%

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 24%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%

Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Surreal 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.7%

Lin Yue'an embarks on a journey home, but unsettling events soon disrupt her ordinary life. Strange dreams, lost memories, and eerie occurrences lead her to uncover hidden truths. Can she trace everything back to its true origin and escape the net of fate that has already been woven around her?

Why similar: Supernatural 16.1%, Horror 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Surreal 9.3%

A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choices Matter 11%, Horror 9.4%

A deeply unsettling visual novel following a boy who returns to his hometown expecting to find peace; however, it isn't long before his hopes are dashed by the monster known as Gore Screaming Show.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Supernatural 13.5%, Horror 9.2%, Surreal 8.9%

In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Horror 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10%

"Reality. A term concocted by creatures to give worth to their version of reality..." What happens if a 2D being is dragged into a 3D realm? Follow the "hero" through a world he/she barely understands and survive the demonic beings who brought our hero into this realm.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Supernatural 13%, Horror 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Surreal 10.6%

Undesirable Me is a psychological horror game in the genre of visual novel and adventure game. Overcome your inner demon: solve challenges, make tough decisions and face the consequences of your choices. Who will win this inner confrontation and take possession of the body? It depends on you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Text-Based 16.2%, Horror 12.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%

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 25.1%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Visual Novel 10%

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.

Why similar: Supernatural 13.9%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Horror 12%, Multiple Endings 11.8%

A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.

Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Psychological Horror 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Surreal 10.3%, Horror 9.6%

DARKROOM is a mystic novel. You wake up in complete darkness and you don’t know where you are or how you got there. Yet, there is someone else in this dark room.

Why similar: Horror 17.2%, Supernatural 15%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%