60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Gothic, Dark, Story Rich, Atmospheric.
A first-person Gothic fiction set in interwar Cornwall, where players rewrite the story as they go. The patriarch of a once-respected house is dead, survived only by his late sister's children. Left to them are his worldly and unworldly belongings, and the fate of their family.
Vox in Tenebris
Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.
Atelier of Oblivion
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.
Why similar: Gothic 60.1% ★, Dark 16.8%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Exploration 9.6%, Indie 3.8%
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 41.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Dark 10.7%, Story Rich 7.5%
Autumn 1881 - deep in the Thuringian forests lies the village of Rabenfels. From here a new epidemic spread over the whole country. You are a young doctor sent by the Imperial Office of Disease to investigate the origin of this mysterious disease.
Why similar: Gothic 59% ★, Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Story Rich 8.7%
Bind spirits. Weigh their pain. Each client arrives by appointment haunted, broken, or dangerous. In this gothic occult visual novel, you use protective accessories, read signs, and choose bindings that alter fate. Some seek redemption. Others hide darker truths. Your rituals may awaken the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 35.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Dark 15.1%, Choices Matter 8%, Atmospheric 7.9%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 34.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Dark 14.8%, Story Rich 9.7%
Explore a haunted mansion gallery filled with 3D animated art - and ghosts - to unlock a full-length illustrated audiobook
Why similar: Gothic 43.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Dark 16.1%, Story Rich 8.6%, Exploration 7.3%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Gothic 33.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Dark 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Story Rich 8.9%
A story-driven horror game.
Why similar: Gothic 38.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Dark 15.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Story Rich 6.9%
A mysterious black fog covers the skies, plunging Dreadthorn into endless night, corrupting some residents. In this horror therapist-sim, run your business, decide your clients’ fate, and survive what seems like end times.
Why similar: Gothic 31.9% ★, Choices Matter 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dark 11.5%, Indie 10.2%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 38.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dark 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Story Rich 7.9%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 67.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Indie 5.2%
A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.
Why similar: Gothic 39.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Dark 11.7%, Story Rich 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.5%
A mysterious letter calls you back to your abandoned family mansion. Explore its dark rooms, uncover the bloody rituals buried in your family’s past, and escape the presence lurking in the shadows. Shadow Mansion is a story-driven horror game of atmosphere, exploration, and survival.
Why similar: Gothic 37% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Dark 15.9%, Exploration 9.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
Why similar: Gothic 35.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dark 14.8%, Story Rich 10.6%, Exploration 9.6%
Evernoth is a psychological horror game where you explore mysterious locations filled with chilling secrets. Navigate distorted corridors, face terrifying monsters, and unlock new abilities as you unravel haunting mysteries across dark worlds.
Why similar: Gothic 45% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dark 15.4%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Story Rich 7.6%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 47.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dark 15.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.4%
A dark fantasy story adventure to face the long-forgotten 「memories」!
Why similar: Gothic 44.3% ★, Dark 17.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Story Rich 10.5%, Atmospheric 8.9%
A short ride into a cursed town — a hand-drawn puzzle adventure where ghouls and monsters haunt every corner, and gentle, relaxing puzzles slowly bring life back to the world and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Gothic 51% ★, Dark 20.8%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Indie 7.3%, Exploration 5.4%
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Why similar: Gothic 43.2% ★, Dark 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Story Rich 7.9%, Indie 6.5%
"Escape from Death" is a 256,000-word interactive horror adventure novel by Tova Näslund. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Gothic 37.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 26%, Dark 18.7%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Choices Matter 5.9%
Matchmaking for Ghosts is an atmospheric visual novel with horror elements and themes of love and loss, built around a unique multi-protagonist system that lets players experience the afterlife through the eyes of every ghost. Match ghosts together for love, or for chaos. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Gothic 53.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Dark 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Indie 3.4%
Unravel the secrets of the Bariton mansion! Take on the mantle of detective in the role of Lucas Usher, and solve the riddles plaguing the ghosts of those left behind! Uncover their secrets and help them find salvation … or damnation.
Why similar: Gothic 28.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Exploration 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
A dark themed pixel-art game of exploration, where you will have to find clues and solve puzzles to move forward in the story.
Why similar: Gothic 52.4% ★, Dark 24.9%, Indie 7.5%, Choices Matter 6%, Exploration 5.8%
Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.
Why similar: Gothic 60.9% ★, Choices Matter 12.7%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Indie 7.5%, Exploration 6.2%
"Choose your own adventure" style nightmares
Why similar: Gothic 42.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Story Rich 8.7%, Indie 7.1%
Aristocrat Evan Alford receives a mysterious invitation to the fair and comes to a small village on the outskirts of the country. The village seems strange and painfully familiar, but Evan has never been here. In addition, other guests of the fair are not as simple as it seems.
Why similar: Gothic 36.6% ★, Dark 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Story Rich 10.1%
Gloom and Doom is a visual novel throwback to 90s slacker movies - complete with the solitude and sarcastic retorts - but with a supernatural twist. Push a powerful but unmotivated wraith to complete his stagnated quest to enter heaven, while trying to kill the suicidal but unkillable Doom Bringer.
Why similar: Gothic 35% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Dark 12.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
A visual novel about a man who discovers the existence of another dimension hidden in dreams. Explore and learn the rules of a new reality, meet fellow dreamwalkers and solve the mystery of a disaster in the past. Make decisions, build relationships and strive to reach the best ending!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.5%, Choices Matter 26%, Story Rich 15.2%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Indie 6.9%
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Why similar: Gothic 46.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Dark 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.8%
A dreamy Alice in Wonderland-inspired RPG that follows 19-year-old Alice as she tries to escape the surreal, cozy hellscape that is Wonderland—hopefully with her sanity intact.
Why similar: Gothic 34% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Dark 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Exploration 9.8%
My Lovely Wife delves into the depths of a man’s grief after the sudden death of his beloved wife. Explore the notions of one’s willingness to do anything for love and the importance of letting go in this mix of dating, management, and alchemy simulators.
Why similar: Gothic 50.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choices Matter 13%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Story Rich 7.7%
Pilot a biomechanical android through a derelict spacecraft consumed by alien corruption. Every scene, narrative, and horror is procedurally generated by AI. No two explorations are the same. Uncover what happened to the crew in this 16-bit sci-fi horror adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.3%, Dark 20.9%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Story Rich 7.8%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 38.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Dark 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Story Rich 8.3%
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Choices Matter 22%, Indie 18%, Story Rich 14.9%, Exploration 11.2%
1996—Miami, FL. At the bottom of a downward spiral, Beth meets an inhuman stranger. Will she accept the new, dark gift he offers?
Why similar: Gothic 42.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Dark 17.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Atmospheric 6.8%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Gothic 46.8% ★, Dark 16.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.3%
In a house that won’t let you leave, a shadowed story unfolds through music, animation, choice, and passive progression. Follow branching paths between songs and uncover new scenes in a music-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 37.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Dark 16.4%, Story Rich 9.3%, Exploration 7.7%
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 35.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dark 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 8.4%
"The Land of Crows" is a side-scroller gothic story adventure game, inspired by the literary works of the Masters of pre-romantic, romantic and gothic literature (E.A. Poe, J.W. Goethe, A. Mickiewicz, J. Slowacki) and lovecraftian mythos.
Why similar: Gothic 49.2% ★, Indie 20.9%, Dark 14.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Story Rich 7.2%
The Witches Pond is a horror-adventure game based on the real-life place with the same name. Enter a world of mystery and strange places where you will experience events that may or may not seem real.
Why similar: Gothic 65.4% ★, Indie 20.9%, Exploration 13.7%
It all began when you opened that letter. Penned by your late master, it details how you are now heir to his mysterious legacy. You set off for the island on which he'd spent his final years... and so a truly unsettling journey begins, a journey into the deepest secrets of magic and the occult.
Why similar: Gothic 32.8% ★, Dark 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 6.8%
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school. Dunkenwood House takes you in, but its halls hide the darker side of privilege. Humanity or demonic nature. Love or desire. Every choice shapes the person you become.
Why similar: Gothic 56.2% ★, Dark 29.8%, Story Rich 9%, Indie 5%
What does it feel like to find yourself in hell? You don't feel the wind, you don't see the sun. No more hearing child's laughter. No memory of those who once were your friends and family.
Why similar: Gothic 58.5% ★, Story Rich 12.3%, Exploration 10.5%, Indie 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.4%
What will you do when your slumber party takes a nightmarish twist? Decide your fate in this horror narrative game inspired by the works of Junji Ito.
Why similar: Gothic 34.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Dark 16.2%, Indie 16.1%, Story Rich 7.6%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Gothic 43.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Story Rich 5.4%, Indie 5%
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
Why similar: Gothic 40% ★, Dark 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Story Rich 10.5%
An interactive narrative in social engineering.
Why similar: Indie 45.3%, Interactive Fiction 39.6%, Story Rich 15.1%
Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?
Why similar: Gothic 64.5% ★, Exploration 16.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, Indie 7.2%
The iconic game The 7th Guest has been brought back to life with modern technology, delivering an atmospheric story like no other. Explore a foreboding mansion, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets. The 7th Guest is the ultimate mystery adventure, reimagined for modern platforms.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36%, Gothic 24.2% ★, Exploration 14.2%, Dark 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.5%
Dracula has been resurrected in modern nights Los Angeles. Separated from his home by oceans and time itself, he must come to grips with a new world while his survival hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Gothic 40% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Dark 14.4%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Story Rich 7.2%
Become a newly turned vampire in an isolated island city, abandoned by your maker. Unravel the mysterious portents in red, survive your treacherous peers, and feed your insatiable thirst and hunger.
Why similar: Gothic 48.1% ★, Dark 18.2%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Story Rich 9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Of Moons and Mania is an interactive psychotic break, based on lived experience. It uses elements of its design to explain the struggles of psychosis, and tells a personal story about mental illness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Dark 25.7%, Story Rich 16.8%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Indie 6.8%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Gothic 28.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Dark 16%, Story Rich 9.9%
This is the Last Time is a minimalist first-person narrative game with a dark and heavy atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.3%, Dark 23.1%, Exploration 18.8%, Atmospheric 11.9%
When a murdered family is discovered in 17th Century Salem, at the height of a witch hysteria, people start to suspect something supernatural to blame. An atmospheric murder mystery. Connect the evidence and see if you can deduce the secrets behind the mystery.
Why similar: Gothic 39.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Indie 16.6%, Story Rich 12%, Atmospheric 9.6%
A rose love game with a thriller and suspense theme. You sensed that your adoptive father was elegant yet strangely sinister. Later, you are invited to Stellan Manor, where you meet various guests with murderous intentions... They all seem to know you.
Why similar: Gothic 37.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Dark 11.2%, Story Rich 8.9%
You have been summoned by an enigmatic entity to prevent the end of this world. Explore the dark remains of post-apocalyptic structures, face nightmarish creatures, and befriend a colorful cast of characters in this story-rich RPG.
Why similar: Gothic 38.5% ★, Choices Matter 18.8%, Dark 12.9%, Story Rich 12.4%, Exploration 11.1%
This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.1%, Dark 23.9%, Exploration 15.5%, Atmospheric 12%, Indie 7.5%
Asterfel is a third-person Action-RPG. You find yourself shipwrecked on an island nation, where greed and magical mining rouse an old god from it’s slumber. Encounter three factions, discover forgotten history, and shape the island’s future. Will you thrive, survive, or witness the end of an era?
Why similar: Gothic 55.5% ★, Choices Matter 11%, Exploration 11%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Story Rich 6.4%
