60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Mystery.
The game is a BL Cthulhu-style narrative romance game. It tells the story of the protagonist struggling to survive on a cruise ship filled with strange events after losing their memory. The game's setting is modern with a Cthulhu-inspired narrative.
The Chrono Jotter
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
咒影 Curse of the Shadow
"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once escaping reality, he’s forced by fate to face fears again.To uncover the curse’s truth, he and two friends embark on a terrifying, unknown journey.
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
Why similar: Word Game 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Detective 14.2%, Thriller 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once escaping reality, he’s forced by fate to face fears again.To uncover the curse’s truth, he and two friends embark on a terrifying, unknown journey.
Why similar: Word Game 22.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Detective 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Visual Novel 8.8%
Taniharazo, who lost his memory, wakes up from the forest and goes deep into an isolated school, working with eight girls with different characteristics. The girls are happy together, but as one of them disappears, the serial murders gradually unfold But is the purpose just to find the murderer?
Why similar: Word Game 18.7%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Detective 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.4%
This world is woven of strings, of fate and of hate. What do you see, detective? A horror-mystery yuri visual novel peering into the maddening darkness of love and death.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Detective 19.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Romance 8%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
九省通衢之地的阴影里，不知名的存在正在蠢蠢欲动。普通到极点的学生顾韦，作为“非日常部”的一员，和女友苏半夏开始调查“虚拟偶像消失事件”的传闻。讲述都市怪谈的可疑直播间，废墟一般的住宅楼，等待在两人前方的是……
Why similar: Word Game 21.9%, LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Romance 8.9%
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Detective 16.1%, Word Game 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 8.6%
A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Mystery 9.7%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
Strange things frequently happen in the apartment, such as the black shadow by the bed, the face behind the curtains, and the eccentric neighbor... This old apartment seems to be hiding some unknown secrets... Will you walk ignorantly into death or discover the truth and escape to safety?
Why similar: Word Game 15.9%, Detective 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Thriller 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.4%
A general-audience infinite flow ADV. You will play as Jiang Yuejiao. After being framed and forced to flee to the neighboring country of Dipa, you are drawn into various terrifying worlds, Only by uncovering the hidden truths within these places might you find a way back to the real world.
Why similar: Word Game 19.5%, Detective 19.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Thriller 8.1%, Mystery 7.6%
Occultus: Daughter of Darkness is a noir-inspired visual novel detective story with supernatural elements.
Why similar: Detective 17%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%
1988年，日本泡沫经济破灭前夕，化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警，侦查青梅奇怪自杀案，牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密，穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头，在人心与生死的抉择中，搜查蛛丝马迹，找出血案真相。
Why similar: Word Game 19%, Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Psychological Horror 7.2%
"Moment of Moonset" is a thriller story game. The heroine Pang Lu comes into contact with Aileen by chance, and encounters a strange mysterious power on the way to learn Aileen's identity. How should she respond, or should she choose to fall into crisis? Or escape intact? Or...
Why similar: Word Game 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, LGBTQ+ 9.8%, Thriller 7.8%
After you graduated from college, you were assigned to a small village as a doctor.It looks like an ordinary village, but there are many strange things in it.A man knocking at the door in the middle of the night may not be asking for a doctor.The person you saw may not be alive.Haunted?
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Thriller 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Mystery 9%
Speak not of love untouched by passion's fire, as it's a torturous journey. If lovers would remain faithful evermore,On Peony Pavilion’s road they’ll meet for three lives more. Paper Bride 7: Lethal Bond is a Chinese horror puzzle game, and the 7th title of the Paper Bride series.
Why similar: Word Game 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Detective 9.5%, Thriller 7.8%
A girl who has been sold, is about to start her new life with the notorious Duke in this horrible mansion. She has to tiptoe through the daily fearful routine of being beheaded if she utters a wrong word!? A Lily story, corny and sweet Beauty and the Beast Yuri show is about to begin.
Why similar: Word Game 22.2%, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Romance 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Word Game 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Mystery 8.7%
A visual novel set in Tianjin, China, in the late Qing Dynasty of 1893. The gameplay involves cards and deduction. Players will take on the role of a medium, utilizing their supernatural abilities to investigate a series of bizarre unsolved cases and eerie occurrences around them.
Why similar: Word Game 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Detective 10%, Drama 8%
A gripping visual novel set in modern-day Japan, featuring cute anime-style heroines and branching storylines that lead to multiple endings. Every choice you make shapes the story—and determines Arisa's fate.
Why similar: Word Game 21%, Detective 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Drama 9.5%
国产本土新怪谈恐怖游戏——幽魂社前社长在直播中突然失踪，销声匿迹数月后发来诡异消息，将你引入离奇的规则世界。走不出的吞人楼栋、满员即死的午夜巴士、地图上不存在的村庄，还有勾魂剧院、吃人公司……世界的“暗面”等待探索，怪谲的谜题等待揭露。
Why similar: Word Game 17.3%, Thriller 14.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Mystery 9.5%
"1990s Psychosis" - A feng shui master battles eldritch visions after a head injury. This Chinese Lovecraftian visual novel explores psychosis, cosmic horror and ancient gods through medication-resistant hallucinations. Remember: Take your pills.
Why similar: Word Game 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Drama 7.4%, Romance 6.5%
Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually leading to different ending branches A collection of long-updated short stories on the theme of "Distorted Love"
Why similar: Word Game 29.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Drama 10.6%, Psychological Horror 7.4%, Anime 6.8%
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Mystery 10%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Visual Novel 9%
《推理小说的关键一定会出现两次》是一部以日常推理为核心的视觉小说。日常混沌纷乱，而“侦探”独具慧眼。带上你的好奇心吧，去和推理协会一同调查、思考，最终解开一个个轻松却不失有趣的日常之谜。
Why similar: Detective 21.9%, Word Game 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Drama 7.1%
一组侦探小队受章鱼岛主人之邀，对六年前的海妖悬案发起挑战。她们需要在二十四小时内完成调查，并各自提交一份答案。最后，出现了七种截然不同的解答……
Why similar: Word Game 21%, Detective 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 11.7%, Anime 7.8%
《頭七》（头七怪谈）是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员，你需要根据主编的要求，整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联，并在必要时与同伴实地探索，以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
Why similar: Word Game 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Detective 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
Fleeting Summer's End is a small game of ADV. It is in the remote countryside of Teoswa area, China, in August. Deng Ainyang, who was Born and grew up in the metropolis(Shenzhen), followed her parents back to Teoswa. In Teoswa, Ainyang met Deng Kangsui and developed an intimate relationship with her
Why similar: Word Game 28%, LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, RPG 8.4%
Henry Heimlich, a shark dragon lifesaver suddenly received a ticket to Dragon Island, the famous resort. Follow Henry to the island, and create some unique memory on the long shore with 6 other dragons!
Why similar: Word Game 23.3%, LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Drama 7.4%
Romance, comedy, and furrys— all wrapped in Diary of Summer Travel.
Why similar: Word Game 30.9%, LGBTQ+ 28.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Romance 9.7%, Drama 6.2%
欢迎来到温泉岛，我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗？那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落，那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说，那里是另一个世界，由贪婪，欲念构成的炼狱……最后，请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Detective 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Drama 9.1%
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Word Game 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Mystery 10.1%
Welcome to the company! A friendly boss, harmonious colleagues—everything seems almost too good to be true. But you always feel there's something strange about it. This is a psychological suspense and chilling visual novel that unveils the truth hidden beneath the surface of everyday illusions.
Why similar: Word Game 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Thriller 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
《流言侦探》是一款诡异，烧脑，悬疑推理剧情游戏，在游戏的体验中，玩家自主找出线索，并利用线索，和角色对话后推进故事。严格的推理玩法，玩家将扮演一个神秘的联络者，玩家的选择将影响了解故事的不同侧面。通过和诸多角色的聊天推理出事件一层层真相，找出隐藏的凶手。
Why similar: Word Game 36.1%, Detective 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Drama 10.3%, Mystery 9.3%
The web woven by spiders is only for waiting for prey to bite.
Why similar: Word Game 22.9%, Detective 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Drama 7.3%
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Romance 10.5%, Visual Novel 10%, Mystery 8.7%
A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Thriller 12.5%, Detective 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%
《恋爱绮谭~不存在的真相~》是一款文字冒险游戏。 初到江城的顾唯，意外成为了一起社会新闻的主人公。凶险的都市中，他需要在混乱的舆论和虚假的情报中找到唯一的真相，也需要在两名各有千秋的少女间完成自我的抉择。秋去冬来，覆盖城市的厚厚积雪下，究竟掩藏着什么样的秘密......
Why similar: Word Game 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Romance 10.6%, Mystery 6.6%
The hero moves to a new city. However, along with him comes a masked killer who begins to kill his friends one by one... Make decisions to build your adventure. Can you stop him before it's too late?
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 9.5%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Romance 8.3%
Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Romance 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
A murder mystery visual novel where you play a fish-out-of-water college student who must face the best and worst traits animalkind has to offer. Solve the mystery of this school as you develop close bonds, get intimate, and uncover shocking secrets with alluring, yet deeply flawed, ordinary men.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Thriller 12.2%, Drama 9.3%, Romance 8.5%
Suoh Shirahane, a shy girl with a mysterious past, will begin her first year of high school at Saint Angraecum Academy, where she hopes to find a new beginning. She will navigate friendships and mysteries at her new school, and discovers that love can come in many forms.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Detective 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Romance 12.3%, Mystery 8%
The story-rich 18+ prequel to The Divine Speaker. Follow alongside Aemyl and Lucius in a two-sided story about the past and the future.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Romance 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Drama 7.4%
In the nightmare, you keep cycling through In the nightmare, you keep cycling through loops, each one marking a new beginning. Every character has their own purpose, and your choices will affect their outcomes. Can you uncover the truth of the story and dig up the buried mysteries?
Why similar: Word Game 23.5%, Detective 20%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Mystery 10.2%
你来到了一所郊外的“荒野高校“，你发现了这所学校，不仅仅是表面上残破不堪 ，而且每个角落都透露着诡异且压抑的气氛。随着时间的流逝以及事件的推进，被尘封已久的历史真相被一步步揭露。 我与寥寥几名的“全校同学”展开了对于学校的探索，已生命为代价换取来的真相，才是整个事件的冰山一角。
Why similar: Word Game 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Drama 7.8%, Psychological Horror 6.7%
Sweet Home is a visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Parted friendships, ambiguous romances, tangled relationships, and flawed families... Are these just the pangs of adolescence—or something heavier? Step into the shoes of Zhao Ying, shape her choices, and uncover every possible path.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31%, Word Game 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, RPG 5.7%
This is the sequel to our Paper Bride series based on Chinese folklore. This story takes place in Zangling Village, where players must explore a village shrouded in occult mystery to uncover the secret origins of this haunted village.
Why similar: Word Game 21.8%, Thriller 13.4%, Detective 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Drama 9.1%
Due to "special" work requirements, you've been assigned by your superiors to live in a very remote and desolate villa. You thought your dull and monotonous life would just carry on as usual, but every midnight, strange sounds emanate from the pitch-black attic...What kind of beginning awaits you?
Why similar: Word Game 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Thriller 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%
"Who do you want to save? Or rather... who are you prepared to abandon?" A midnight "Unsend" trapped them in a rift in time, and awakened the dead "You." Become a "Ghost" inhabiting screens and surveillance feeds. Pry into perfect disguises and rotting hearts.
Why similar: Word Game 35.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Drama 6.3%, Anime 6.2%
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Word Game 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Drama 8.2%
《煦风新笺-Once Upon a Breeze》是一款以毛茸茸世界繁华与传统并盛的岛城『风本市』里，一所颇为特立独行的私立学校『风本学院』为主舞台的兽人题材的视觉小说。同时它又不止于小说，包括个人界面、摸摸乐等更多内置小游戏都在不断更新开发中。作为一款偏向群像的游戏，您将以包括小老虎浦昼在内的众多角色的角度来感受毛茸茸世界的学园生活，以及更多丰富绚烂的故事！已有十五位并仍在不断增加的、诸多种族的学生和教师们正在风本学院校门的另一侧等待着迎接你们！从今天开始入学吧！
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Word Game 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Drama 6.5%
游戏内容： 这是一款以绘画为主题、描述了成年人对于过往错过的人与事的灵魂之旅，兽人向的纯视觉小说游戏。 故事讲述了25岁的狸花猫兽人“启诚”，在被公司辞退后回到老家的城市。作为曾没能通过联考的美术生，在青梅竹马“未乾”，以及好朋友【熙和】、【望舒】、画室的“学弟”【烈烈】的帮助下，慢慢寻回了自己曾失去的那个暑假，那个他命中注定的人……
Why similar: Word Game 29.7%, LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Romance 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
A psychological horror romance mystery inspired by Lovecraftian, Black Butler, and Danganronpa
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Romance 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Thriller 9.3%
"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.
Why similar: Word Game 36.9%, Detective 23.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, RPG 5.9%
A romantic comedy featuring "Reaper x Spirit Eye"?! (Maybe?)
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.5%, Word Game 17.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Romance 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Word Game 21.9%, Detective 16.5%, Visual Novel 10%, Romance 9.7%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
"Shenjing" is a side-scrolling mystery game set in the Ming Dynasty. Players begin with an amnesiac identity and must investigate evidence, witness testimonies, and meticulously piece together clues to uncover the truth behind each case and determine whether the characters were involved.
Why similar: Word Game 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Detective 11%, RPG 8.5%
《明日方舟》同人游戏，以原作角色“老鲤”为主角，在二十年前的龙门，展开一系列解谜探案故事。
Why similar: Word Game 31.1%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Detective 13.9%, Mystery 13.3%, Anime 8.1%
这是一部包含百合要素的视觉小说，讲述了在封闭的都市中，少女展开冒险的故事。
Why similar: Word Game 26.4%, LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
After losing his parents and barely escaping his burning home, Zach wakes up in the hospital where he meets Aya, the ghost of a girl. Who is she, and why can only Zach see her? Together they try to investigate Aya's past, which quickly awakens new dangers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Thriller 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Detective 9.6%
