60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Psychological Horror, Choices Matter, Story Rich.
In this detective/idol game fusion, every decision you make will influence the narrative. Your choices will shape relationships, uncover secrets, and determine the fate of the characters and the school itself.
Reborn
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.
The Island: Into The Mist
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
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: Narrative 20.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Detective 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 11.4%, Point & Click 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Detective 14.4%, Mystery 12.7%, Story Rich 6.3%
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Mystery 10.2%, Point & Click 10.2%
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Minigames 15.1% ★, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%
You are a detective who is slowly going blind. The only faces you can still see clearly belong to those who are about to die. A visual novel investigation where every choice affects the fate of Tokyo and leads you either closer to the truth or deeper into darkness.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Choices Matter 10%
brothers move to a new residence, the apartment owner makes them live for free, but one of the brothers suspects that this man is bad. Live their lives, make fateful decisions, find the truth about the owner of the apartment and be careful people hide much more than they show
Why similar: Narrative 17.5% ★, Detective 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Mystery 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%
“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: Detective 16.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Mystery 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
Uncover the truth behind an idol's disappearance, weeks before her debut. Whispers of the Luminaries is a narrative-driven game that blends a classic detective story with the dark side of the idol entertainment industry.
Why similar: Narrative 19.5% ★, Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Choices Matter 17.1%, Detective 16.7%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
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: Detective 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Mystery 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Mystery 14%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.4%
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Mystery 17.2%, Detective 15.2%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Adventure 8.8%
Crimson Silk is a political detective thriller with a mind-controlling villain. Investigate the assassination of your grandfather. Plunge into a world of complicated law and wild ESP powers. Gather clues, choose sides, jump timelines, and try not to get stuffed with lead.
Why similar: Detective 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Mystery 13.2%, Story Rich 7.9%
In this game, play as Shenming University News Department members. Explore strange incidents—no need for truth. Write compelling reports from clues; eye-catching content excites readers. As for what really happened…do readers actually care? If you care, go find out yourself.
Why similar: Detective 27%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Mystery 8.8%
A distracted student arrives for his internship at a girls' boarding school in the small town of Chudnogorsk. After a series of failures, Andrey finds out about a series of disappearances in this mysterious place. And that he himself is bound to disappear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Detective 16.3%, Mystery 16.1%, Story Rich 8.1%
You are the new hire. The account you inherited is not new — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email in which you choose what you say, then choose who sees it. The routing is permanent. Someone is still reading.
Why similar: Narrative 18.1% ★, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Mystery 10.4%
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Mystery 11.5%
A short horror game where a terrifying ancient god manifests itself through worms, maggots, etc, looking to be reborn through someone's body. You will have to find that someone, speaking to the locals, investigating, uncovering truths and decide who to kill before the world is taken over.
Why similar: Detective 30.9%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Why similar: Narrative 14% ★, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Mystery 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Mystery 15.1%, Story Rich 8%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Mystery 16.7%, Point & Click 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Mystery 16.4%, Detective 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
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: Detective 21%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Mystery 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A psychological thriller set in Scarlet Orphanage, where every choice shapes the fate of the residents. Nothing is as it seems. Are you facing ghosts… or something far worse?
Why similar: Narrative 30.2% ★, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Mystery 10.9%, Story Rich 8.5%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Detective 17%, Mystery 16.6%, Point & Click 10.5%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Mystery 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Point & Click 10.2%
Blue Book is a sci-fi detective quest with point'n'click elements, where there are no hints, there are false clues and only your conclusion. Analyze testimonies, find inconsistencies, follow the logic. Become an FBI agent and unravel a chain of mysterious disappearances in a quiet American town.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Narrative 19.4% ★, Visual Novel 15.5%, Point & Click 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
An occult-mystery-adventure game set in Kyoto—detectives investigate to solve bizarre and complex cases. What did Kamotan detectives finally uncover on their way to the truth of these cryptic incidents?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Detective 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Mystery 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%
White Cat Town Mystery is a visual novel/adventure game about an anthropomorphic cat named Lumi. Help him explore atmospheric and magical town, meet old friends again, make hard choices, and go through supernatural challenges. What you choose decides the fate of the town—and Lumi himself!
Why similar: Narrative 22.2% ★, Detective 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
As a weird detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Mystery 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Quantum Suicide is a game of betrayal, deception and romance in the cold depths of space.
Why similar: Narrative 17.2% ★, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Mystery 12.4%
Psychological horror and mystery game about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city and investigate murders while trying to escape Death. This is a visual novel and point and click game.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Mystery 13%, Point & Click 9.8%
A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?
Why similar: Detective 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Mystery 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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: Visual Novel 27.4%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Adventure 9.1%
In this visual novel, Maggie Crane and 15 others are invited to partake in the Isolated Society Study, where they must forge a peaceful society while attempting to outsmart each other in complex challenges. Just as the study is about to conclude, the Golding Foundation introduces a sinister twist.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Visual Novel 18%, Mystery 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Story Rich 7.7%
The Lyra Signal is a story-driven visual novel about memory, mystery, and the echoes of the past. Follow Leo as he uncovers a strange recording left by his father and begins searching for the meaning behind a name that refuses to disappear: Lyra.
Why similar: Narrative 22.3% ★, Visual Novel 18.6%, Mystery 18.5%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 11%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 20%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
One war. Two sides of a military conflict. Which side will you choose if you take a look at the world from both sides of the conflict? Whom will you support and whom will you destroy if some are fighting for an uncertain future, while others are for a peaceful present?
Why similar: Detective 23.3%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Mystery 12.5%, Point & Click 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
A short workplace-horror visual novel. You play as John, a fresh grad on his first day in IT ops. The office looks completely normal—your predecessor’s ThinkPad does not. Read the notes, analyze the logs, and decide who to trust. It all ends today.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Mystery 9.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
The famous detective Sarako Imai (Sherlock-chan) takes on a difficult case! Sherlock-chan and Watson-kun are on a comfort trip. Can they solve a murder case at a winter spa resort? A murder mystery with a challenge to the player.
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Mystery 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 23.6%, Mystery 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Psychological Horror 18%, Mystery 16.9%, Detective 15.6%, Story Rich 7.8%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Mystery 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%
A first-person point-and-click psychological horror game. Only the areas illuminated by your flashlight change in appearance. The game progresses through quiet unease and puzzle-solving, without relying on jump scares. A demo is now available (approx. 20 minutes).
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 11.5%, Point & Click 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Minigames 17.5% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
A psychological horror sound novel. A child who lost memories wakes in a ruined building. Explore unsettling space. Open cabinets, speak to adults, grab a weapon—or do nothing? Help the child escape. Help the judgment. Whatever you choose, do it with your own hands. Then… face the consequences.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Mystery 10.4%
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Mystery 8.7%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Detective 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Mystery 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Mystery 10.5%
An investigation and courtroom visual novel set in the electoral courts of a small Brazilian city. A first-case lawyer, a doctored campaign flyer, and a document with a date that does not add up. Two routes of around eight hours, six endings and a final act.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Mystery 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Point & Click 7.9%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 25.7%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Mystery 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%
Frog Telephone (蛙电话 / 蛙電話) is a folklore mystery adventure game rooted in computer science concepts. You play as an amnesiac phone operator at a Tokyo travel agency, reconstructing shattered reality through the spin of a dial, exploring the terrifying truth hidden behind Gero City's mystery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.9%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Point & Click 11.3%, Story Rich 8.9%
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: Detective 21.9%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Mystery 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9%
A nonlinear thriller where cyberpunk meets biopunk. A rebellion is brewing in the “perfect” city of Kudesh. Choose your side and decide who you are willing to trust with your life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Narrative 16.9% ★, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Mystery 8.9%
