
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Interactive Fiction, Horror.

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

Worn Out
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?

While We Wait Here
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
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: Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Psychological Horror 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Psychological 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.
Why similar: Psychological 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Apartment 22 is a bite-sized horror game about being trapped in a loop. You look out for clues left by the previous resident or possibly by you to escape the apartment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Psychological 12.2%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Horror 10.3%
Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.
Why similar: Psychological 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Horror 10.1%, Choices Matter 10%
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: Psychological 16%, Text-Based 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A first-person psychological horror game. Explore a house that feels like it knows you. Uncover dark secrets buried within its walls. Something is watching. Something has been waiting a very long time.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Horror 11.5%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Immersive Sim 8.4%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Psychological 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Text-Based 8.1%, Immersive Sim 7.7%
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 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Horror 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%
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 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 9.1%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
The abandoned cemetery always intrigued you. Today you finally entered. While exploring, time distorted. It's midnight now. A chapel appears before you. Inside there's a manual: "Survival Protocol. Follow the rules until dawn or something worse than death awaits you."
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 14%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Psychological 9.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Horror 14.5%, Text-Based 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Horror 10.3%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.
Why similar: Psychological 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Psychological 11.3%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
The Final Shift is a psychological horror game where you work as a night janitor in a quiet corporate building haunted by its own history.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Mystery 11.9%, Horror 11.7%
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 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Psychological 9.5%
"You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.1%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Psychological 11.9%, Mystery 10.9%
A claustrophobic horror game taking place in an elevator.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Psychological 9.8%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%
"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 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Horror 11.1%
Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.8%, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Psychological 10.9%, Horror 9.6%
Anant Express is set aboard a haunted sleeper-class indian train. You board the train as an ordinary traveler, but as the journey progresses, strange events begin to unfold. Mysterious passengers. Shifting compartments. Whispers in the dark. Nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.3%, Walking Simulator 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Psychological 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
The Rotting Man | 悪臭男 is a psychological horror game that depicts a protagonist working as a clerk in a Japanese internet café.
Why similar: Psychological 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Walking Simulator 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Horror 11.2%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Psychological 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Text-Based 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Visual Novel 9%
STIGMA is a truly small indie game. It is a psychological detective horror focused on atmosphere and mystery. Uncover the haunting narrative of an old house and its forgotten past.
Why similar: Psychological 14.9%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
A first-person psychological horror game set in a childhood home. Explore, uncover four days of missing memory, and survive something that has been listening since you arrived.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological 12.2%, Horror 11.4%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Text-Based 14.5%, Psychological 13%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Horror 10.1%
Lying Souls is an atmospheric, mysterious single player story horror game. You'll dive into a story in which nothing is as it seems. Find out the reasons behind what happened to your family back then. Your decisions will guide the course of the story.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Horror 10.5%, Mystery 9.1%
The colorful lights of the carnival, laughter, and the sound of music. Everything seems ordinary as you serve your customers from your hotdog truck. But as the night grows deeper… the crowd fades, the lights go out and something starts watching you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.8%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Horror 10.6%, Mystery 9.2%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Guide Mina and Rex through a dark and intense psychological visual novel of trauma, love, and insecurity... Traverse Section 56’s dangers, confront the past, and shape their fate.
Why similar: Psychological 17.5%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Horror 10.5%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Text-Based 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 11%
Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Psychological 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Horror 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 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Psychological 10.6%, Horror 10%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 8.2%
When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you. Track down the beast to clear your name and save the village—but to unravel the mystery, you will need to confront your own past. A survival-horror choose your own adventure set in Kievan Rus'.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Horror 8.8%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 16.3%, Psychological 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
A game about the path you're on, and what you're really doing with your life.
Why similar: Psychological 16.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%
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 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Horror 8.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Choices Matter 13%, Text-Based 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 10%
There's a mansion with a dark legend: Whoever enters disappears forever. Equipped with your spectral camera, you decide to delve inside to investigate. Locate and photograph the anomalies to escape before the wandering souls catch you!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Psychological 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
The Last Frame is a psychological horror game about a father who disappeared. As you walk through the locations he documented, you discover that watching and recording them changed the place itself — and not for the better.
Why similar: Psychological 20.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Horror 12.3%, Mystery 11.5%
You are trapped on a bizarre bus traveling through the afterlife. Observe everything carefully. If you notice an anomaly, ring the bell; if not, take a seat and proceed to the next stop. Can you reach your destination safely?
Why similar: Psychological 24.1%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Walking Simulator 11.8%, Immersive Sim 8.8%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 9%
ONLY FACES REMAIN is a short psychological horror game focused on exploration and atmosphere. You play as Marlene, a backpacker traveling alone who rents a cheap room to spend the night. What starts as a cheap place to sleep soon turns into a dangerous situation.
Why similar: Psychological 19.3%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Horror 12.4%, Immersive Sim 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
A first-person psychological horror experience focused on atmosphere, tension, and clever environmental puzzles. Explore the abandoned Morwain Mansion, solve occult mysteries, and uncover a dark truth that relentlessly hunts you in the shadows.
Why similar: Psychological 23.5%, Horror 15%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Walking Simulator 9.1%, Immersive Sim 9%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 18.6%, Psychological 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Mystery 10.1%