
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.
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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.

Witchlight Woods
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.

Thorner
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.
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Horror 12.4%
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 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Horror 8.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 9.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Horror 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Horror 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
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: Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Horror 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 12%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Horror 11.7%
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 19.5%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
The story is set in an alternate universe where the player is struggling with the memories of what they know to be HOLOSTARS English -TEMPUS- and the mysterious look-alikes who pull them every which way. Can the player figure out the truth about this twisted world and return to the guild?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Horror 11.5%, Story Rich 10.3%
Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Horror 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.4%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.4%, Horror 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Text-Based 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Psychological Horror 15%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Horror 14.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Horror 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Why similar: Horror 16.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11%
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 23.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Horror 8.7%
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Psychological Horror 18%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%
Surreal horror themed visual novel, with lots of branching paths, blood, tears and twisted pitch-black humour. You're playing as Ashia, who's forced to marry her slimy uncle, suffering from surreal nightmares at night. Then she meets Novalie. And then things gets REALLY strange.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Dark Humor 10%, Surreal 8.4%
DATE, FLIRT & SURVIVE in this Retro-Horror Adventure where you date characters based on REAL Computer VIRUSES. Explore and uncover dark secrets behind each character and make choices that will lead to a ❤️SMOOCH❤️ or your DOOM!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.9%, Horror 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.
Why similar: Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Story Rich 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 11.1%, Text-Based 10.5%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9.8%
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Horror 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Story Rich 9.9%, Visual Novel 8.5%
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Horror 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Dark Humor 10%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Horror 8%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Horror 10.4%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Delve into the heart of darkness with Enelia, a chilling horror visual novel set in an Avatar-inspired biopunk realm. It's a dramatic story about adventure, love and fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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: Psychological Horror 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
It's Sara's first day of work. However, when she takes the elevator to go to the office, she suddenly finds herself on a mysterious floor. What truth lies behind these weird rooms? Will you be able to move on? Or rather... will you want to move on?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Story Rich 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Horror 10.8%
You are a terrifying monster living beneath someone’s house. This is a dark, cruel, twisted interactive novel where you are the main abomination.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 9%
This is a simple story about young people, about the aroma of youth and the smells of life, which can so easily be cut short by a fatal accident.Or maybe at the behest of a heartless fate.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Text-Based 9.7%
Cody, haunted by psychological demons, envisions a monstrous threat eliminating all he hates.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Horror 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%
A dark visual novel created by the team behind NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the ability to read minds, only to be driven even deeper into isolation. His sole remaining comfort is his younger sister, gifted yet lonely.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 15%, Story Rich 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Slice through a collection of HORROR STORIES, produced by a solo dev! Survive through the body horror of health clinics, haunted dating sims, robot takeovers, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE VIDEOS & MORE!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Horror 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.3%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Horror 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Horror 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Story Rich 9.3%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Horror 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8%
You are Doctor Parsnip Green, the first and last line of defense against a grotesquely beautiful epidemic. Make difficult choices as you investigate the disease’s origin, operate on patients, and fight to save those you love - all while managing your own dwindling sanity.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Horror 10.4%
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 Horror 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Horror 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Horror 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Horror 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
Escape a nightmarish realm filled with puzzles and deadly beasts!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Horror 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Dark 6%
How far will you go to get your deepest wish granted? In The Game of Fourtune, help guide Clyde & Devon through this cruel game of life and death. Only one participant will get their wish granted. Four rounds and four deaths each round, are you ready to see if fortune is on your side?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Horror 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 10%