- #1 VVINTERCORE
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: MDN9HTPub: Soap&Code
Windows
A visual psychological horror novel set in a winter setting. You have a unique opportunity to explore your relationships with your friends, and then with yourself. But be careful, a blizzard seems to be approaching.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychedelic 18.3%, Anime 12.8%, Text-Based 11.6%, Gore 9.1%
- #2 Welcome To The Dark Place
96% matchVery Positive88% of 599 reviews2025
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
The train is the only escape.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Violent 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Gore 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
- #3 CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
96% matchVery Positive88% of 1,885 reviews2022
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 53.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Gore 19.7%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Anime 13%, Violent 11.8%
- #4 Eden Camp
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andrealphus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Arrive at Eden Camp as John, the newest counselor at a remote summer retreat. Three women welcome you warmly perhaps too warmly. As bonds deepen and nights grow darker, you'll learn that devotion has a price. Every choice matters. Not everyone makes it home.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.3%, Visual Novel 18%, Anime 13.6%, Violent 9.9%, Gore 8.8%
- #5 Fallstreak
94% matchVery Positive83% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Centicerise Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A golden dream, and a closed world. A spiral staircase into the garden of the mind. What lies beyond gilded wonderland?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Violent 19.7%, Gore 15.6%, Anime 13.6%, Philosophical 10.5%
- #6 Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 10,530 reviews2025
Dev: Ferry // Nopanamaman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Philosophical 20.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Psychedelic 10.1%, Mystery 8.1%
- #7 Nothing!
94% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: empty studiosPub: azimuth team
Windows
What do you play? I play nothing!
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Philosophical 13.7%
- #8 Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
92% matchVery Positive92% of 2,595 reviews2017
Dev: KeroQPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 175.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".
Why similar: Philosophical 21.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Violent 12.9%, Gore 9%
- #9 CORPSE FACTORY
91% matchVery Positive80% of 869 reviews2022
Dev: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
Why similar: Violent 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Anime 11.7%
- #10 Don’t Make Her Open Her Eyes!
91% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Velvet Rot Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A black-white-red visual novel in the horror genre.
Why similar: Gore 20.8%, Violent 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #11 Xi-Portal
90% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: KakaMigu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unravel the Mystery of Xi-Portal You'll have the chance to join a diverse community of students and explore the exciting world of Xi-Portal alongside captivating characters such as Schneider, Hikari, Ayako, Ai, and KakaMigu.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Violent 22.2%, Anime 8.4%, Casual 7.3%
- #12 Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
89% matchVery Positive94% of 456 reviews2026
Dev: senpiPub: GOGOGOBATO
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who tell herself this, forever. Maybe you can try to help her ?
Why similar: Philosophical 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Psychedelic 10.3%
- #13 Queen of Moths
89% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2023
Dev: Tesseract Games
Windows
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Philosophical 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%
- #14 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 731 reviews2019
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.8 hrsMean: 88.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Anime 15.7%, Gore 14.3%, Violent 14%
- #15 Exogenesis ~Perils of Rebirth~
88% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: KwanPub: Sekai Project
Windows
After losing his sister to a violent death, former treasure hunter Yu Sayashi learns about a mysterious relic that may bring her back. However, this mythical "Ark" may be more terrifying than he could ever imagine. Innocent lives are at stake. How far will he go to save his sister?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Violent 21.6%, Gore 19.2%, Point & Click 6.7%, Anime 6.3%
- #16 How To Date A Magical Girl!
86% matchVery Positive80% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Cafe ShibaPub: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?
Why similar: Violent 20%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Anime 14.4%, Gore 9.2%
- #17 Nanairo Reincarnation
86% matchVery Positive96% of 166 reviews2019
Dev: Silky's Plus WasabiPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Join spirit detective Kagami Makoto and his demon familiars as they hunt down the wandering ghosts disrupting the peace of his small town.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Violent 16.4%, Anime 14.3%, Gore 13.4%, Romance 12%
- #18 Winter's Empty Mask - Visual novel
85% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2019
Dev: Eternal Night Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ichirou recently moved back to Momiji, there he reunites with his childhood friend, Reika, but he also meets a strange girl who has a clear crush for him. With time new feelings are born and he will have to choose which girl he likes the most, but there could be unexpected consequences.
Why similar: Violent 23.1%, Gore 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Romance 10.1%, Anime 9.9%
- #19 How to #### a Man
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Monstrr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Axelle spends most of her life inside her room : watching anime, scrolling on forums online and playing video games. She desperately wants a boyfriend. You are her conscience, help her attain that goal.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Psychedelic 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Simulation 9.1%
- #20 ORBIT 5
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CALIPSO
Windows
You and the luckiest man in the world! How'd you end up on a strange ship with an even stranger Russian astronaut? Who knows!? A horror/romance visual novel about to finding a lonely captain someone to talk to.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Anime 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Violent 11.3%, Gore 10.1%
- #21 Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,343 reviews2018
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
"All ended well.There was nothing to grieve about." A farewell, and a greeting.
Why similar: Gore 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Violent 18.1%, Philosophical 14.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #22 Dead Wishes
83% matchVery Positive90% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: VIOLET
Windows · Mac
In this chaotic world, you must adapt - either to forgive or survive. A thriller-romance indie visual novel/dating simulator.
Why similar: Violent 25.4%, Gore 20.6%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Romance 13.2%
- #23 Pawn
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 20 reviews2016
Dev: ODBear Studios
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
A story rich visual novel where you must investigate a series of disappearances threatening the inhabitants of your hometown. Analyze crime scenes, interrogate suspects, witness the dreadful events unravel and face your past. Beware, innocence might be nothing but a mere illusion.
Why similar: Violent 29%, Gore 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Anime 13%, Casual 6%
- #24 Awakewood
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NeuroCreativa
Windows · Mac · Linux
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Anime 9.7%, Point & Click 9.5%, Gore 8.4%
- #25 Quantum Suicide
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 118 reviews2020
Dev: Cotton Candy Cyanide
Windows · Mac · Linux
Quantum Suicide is a game of betrayal, deception and romance in the cold depths of space.
Why similar: Violent 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Gore 12.2%, Anime 10.3%
- #26 Vivian Carmine
80% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: The Hand
Windows
In an average town somewhere in America, a disturbance has been felt. Vivian Carmine and her badge, Nicholas, have come from the Gap Between Worlds to investigate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Violent 17.2%, Gore 15.3%, Anime 14.3%, Mystery 9.6%
- #27 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,431 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 82.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Anime 13.3%, Gore 10.4%, Romance 10.1%
- #28 R.I.P. Tour
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Clown
Windows · Linux
A death game visual novel where murder victims are decided by group consensus. Make friends and enemies, solve the mysteries of an abandoned amusement park, and suss out the traitor in your group.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Violent 13.7%, Mystery 9.9%
- #29 CHAOS;CHILD
78% matchVery Positive93% of 3,973 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 81.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24%, Violent 16.8%, Gore 16.1%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Anime 12.6%
- #30 The Way We All Go (2015)
79% matchVery Positive87% of 156 reviews2015
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Violent 27.3%, Gore 25.2%, Anime 14%, Indie 5%
- #31 Snowfall's Mystery
76% matchVery Positive86% of 119 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: Psychedelic 18.8%, Philosophical 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13%, Text-Based 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%
- #32 Born for the Light ~Wavelength Radiant Collapse~
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: qDrotPub: TERNOX
Windows
Endless world. Endless sky. Endless light. Will the shadows be cast upon all Children dwelling on the Treetops? Regardless, I spread my prosthetic wings, taking a leap of faith.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Anime 12.5%, Gore 11.7%, Psychedelic 10.9%
- #33 Final Theosis
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 19 reviews2017
Dev: ODBear Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Bad news, you're dead. The second you wake up, you find yourself surrounded by ghosts who, like you, are waiting for their turn to cross the border between Purgatory and Heaven. Albeit dead, your job now is to uncover the truth about your demise and help human beings on Earth in order to earn Graces.
Why similar: Violent 35.1%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Romance 12%, Anime 10.7%, Mystery 8.7%
- #34 Scp: Resonance
76% matchMixed70% of 163 reviews2019
Dev: Эмиль ШагаповPub: HEARTDREAMERS
Windows
The game takes place today, in the multifaceted universe of SCP. The main character is Galen, a simple scientist in Site 13. Recently, Galen graduated from the Faculty of Psychology and was recruited to work with SCP objects. But is everything so simple here?
Why similar: Violent 31.6%, Gore 30.6%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Anime 9.2%, Indie 5.2%
- #35 우리들의 4분 33초
74% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: KuroBlossom
Windows
"Maybe...we all are deaf." This is a sweet-bitter story based on modern times. Also, this is a visual novel game with simple menu and using click or space bar to play, without no choice. Although, this game is not a simulation game only for love.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Text-Based 19.6%, Violent 14.3%, Gore 12.7%, Casual 7.5%
- #36 DEGENERATE STAR
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ozone Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Investigate the S.S Vandermeer and discover the fate of those aboard.
Why similar: Psychedelic 17.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Gore 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%
- #37 Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 578 reviews2018
Dev: NostalgiaPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A short love story with a twist: the love of your life is 50% human, and 50% grasshopper.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.7%, Gore 25.7%, Anime 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Romance 6.3%
- #38 【SCP】器関ノ彷徨 -The will of a single Tale-【DEMOver.】
74% matchVery Positive90% of 374 reviews2018
Dev: Stoner TomohitoPub: GESTALT-§
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
-"Do you believe the actuality now?" When the SCP Foundation moves, you will be a witness of {Project MA-13}.
Why similar: Violent 28%, Gore 25.8%, Visual Novel 19%, Anime 16%, Simulation 7%
- #39 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 948 reviews2018
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Anime 15.6%, Violent 14.2%, Gore 13.8%
- #40 Echoes
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 84 reviews2021
Dev: Baba Nura
Windows
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Psychedelic 18.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Psychological Horror 7.4%
- #41 茧房Echo
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Starpaint
Windows
Ordinary life shattered when a riverside drowning and spatial anomalies pulled you into a vortex. In this rain-lashed town of crumbling reality. Truth hides in every raindrop and shadow.
Why similar: Philosophical 23%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Text-Based 20.1%, Violent 13.5%, Gore 12%
- #42 Goodbye Shadow: My Confessions
72% match3 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Terekeme Game
Windows
Goodbye Shadow is a story about facing yourself and chasing unfinished memories. As the main character tries to understand his childhood hero , he realizes that the real unknown is himself. Love, friendship, and family become mirrors on this journey.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Anime 12.2%, Text-Based 11.6%
- #43 Farewell, we see each other for the last time.....
70% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: DrimmarPub: VNka
Windows
A dramatic visual novel about the search for the meaning of life.
Why similar: Psychedelic 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Anime 13.6%, Romance 13%, Text-Based 12.6%
- #44 Sound of Drop - fall into poison -
71% matchVery Positive85% of 539 reviews2015
Dev: aiueoKompanyPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.1%, Gore 19.1%, Violent 19%, Anime 16.7%, Psychological Horror 7.5%
- #45 Trials of Harmony ~ A Found Phone Mystery Visual Novel
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 20 reviews2019
Dev: SilverTabbyCat - Visual Novel Games
Windows · Linux
What would you do if you suddenly found yourself quarantined within an underground nuclear facility, isolated, and forced to play a series of death games alongside a group of strangers...?
Why similar: Violent 23.5%, Gore 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #46 CITADEL
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Liam Atkinson
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.7%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychedelic 11.9%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #47 Trauma - Visual Novel
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KyleKun
Windows · Linux
Welcome to Trauma, a free-to-play short visual novel full of mysteries. Will you ever be able to smile again?
Why similar: Psychedelic 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Romance 12.8%
- #48 A Light in the Dark
69% matchVery Positive93% of 1,729 reviews2018
Dev: CreSpiritPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
──We cannot choose in this unfair world.The rich boy stuck in his never changing daily life...The fierce girl struggling for survival...Two people in totally opposite positions in life.In the face of confusion and the choices before them, what will they find...?
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Violent 24.6%, Gore 16.2%, Anime 13.4%, Casual 6.9%
- #49 Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash
69% matchVery Positive87% of 209 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Vengeful spirit Sachiko Shinozaki is having a birthday bash, and the lovable cast of damned souls from the Corpse Party series is invited! Join the revelers as they do their best to keep Sachiko happy and survive her twisted games in this midquel to Corpse Party and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows.
Why similar: Violent 31.4%, Gore 29.6%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Anime 14.5%, Adventure 4.4%
- #50 Silenced: The House
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 99 reviews2018
Dev: Graven Visual Novels
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Any plans for the weekend? There is a great place to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city and daily routine! We promise a unique experience of horror and despair… if you stay alive, of course. Survive the night in the house from your nightmares!
Why similar: Violent 27.1%, Gore 25.1%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Anime 12.8%, Casual 4.6%
- #51 WTC : Relentless Protagonist [SxS]
69% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Triority Interactive Novels
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grendel Jinx and her "friend" must work together to find a way out of a strange school, where pupils and teachers alike are being killed in mysterious circumstances. Can they both stay alive long enough to work out what is going on and escape ?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Violent 17.4%, Gore 15.1%, Anime 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #52 AENIGMA
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NEUROMANCE
Windows
Set in the year 4XXX, humanity lives disconnected inside underground megastructures to escape the threat of the ever-expanding silicon-based lifeforms.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Psychedelic 13.6%, Anime 12.9%, Romance 12.7%
- #53 Twilight Express
68% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Daniil Tarasau
Windows · Mac
A short novel about travelling by train. Become the one who (not)helps three girls to get to the final destination at the sea.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Philosophical 11.4%
- #54 Lucid9: Inciting Incident
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,041 reviews2016
Dev: Fallen Snow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Anime 20%, Mystery 10.5%, Violent 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
- #55 We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,625 reviews2019
Dev: Mismatch Studio
Windows · Mac
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
Why similar: Violent 36.1%, Gore 29.1%, Psychological Horror 13%, Point & Click 8.3%, Casual 5.1%
- #56 Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~
68% matchVery Positive88% of 728 reviews2017
Dev: lightPub: views Co., Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Night after night, the same dream of a guillotine. A headhunting serial killer. And the "knights" in black who follow soon after. Irrationality that defies the realm of common sense begins to assault and devour the city.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Violent 22.1%, Anime 17.5%, Philosophical 14.3%, Gore 6.9%
- #57 soundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -
66% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: milk+ visual
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yuri denpa tale about the cursed pariah of a rural cult, Mercy, and her fateful meeting with the Holy Maiden Auma. Bloody, bold, and bone-chilling, this visual novel explores the complexities of the cycle of abuse and the violence in playing by the rules.
Why similar: Gore 22.6%, Violent 20.9%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Anime 9.2%
- #58 Kill or Love
67% matchVery Positive89% of 2,191 reviews2020
Dev: Andy Church
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, Anime 19.2%, Romance 13.6%, Violent 6.4%
- #59 アパシー学校であった怖い話 Visual Novel Version
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: 七転び八転がり
Windows
「なあ、今度は学校の七不思議の特集をやろうぜ」1995年6月。新聞部は、夏休み前の学校新聞で、「学校の七不思議」を特集することになった。7人の学生を集めて、彼らから怖い話を聞き、それを特集としてまとめるのだ。新聞部三年生の日野から命を受け、新入部員の坂上修一はその集会の聞き役を担当することになった。当日、放課後の新聞部部室に集められた7人の語り部と聞き役の坂上修一は初めて顔を合わせる。しかし、7人集められたはずの語り部は、何故か6人しかいなかった。7人目が姿を見せぬまま始まる七不思議の集会。7人目は現れるのか。そして、この集会の終わりに待っているのは……。
Why similar: Violent 27.1%, Gore 25.3%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 18.6%, Adventure 7%