Games Like DEAD LAMB WALKING

A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Horror 13%, Psychological 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures a similarly surreal, unsettling, and highly stylized psychological experience that feels deeply personal.

A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.4%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Female Protagonist 6.9%, Horror 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it expands on the psychological depth and unique visual presentation of its predecessor.

Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Horror 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a distinct pixel-art style and a focus on psychological horror that aligns well with the seed game's vibe.

Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.7%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Story Rich 13.1%, Horror 13%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the contrast between a cute, top-down aesthetic and heavy, dark psychological horror themes.

Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Anime 10%, Female Protagonist 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It serves as a perfect introduction to the Paper Lily series, emphasizing exploration and psychological tension.

Delve into the enthralling world of Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum, the acclaimed RPG Maker gothic horror game that'll take you on a moving journey of self-discovery.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Horror 21.8%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Top-Down 12%, Anime 10%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a beautiful, top-down exploration experience that hides a sinister and mysterious horror story beneath its cute exterior.

Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Anime 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at high-stakes, choice-driven psychological horror within a visual novel format.

A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Horror 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A masterpiece of top-down horror that uses its environment to tell a story of isolation and psychological distress.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.8%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Horror 14.1%, Anime 13.7%, Cute 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is the quintessential example of a game that uses a cute visual novel facade to deliver a shocking psychological horror experience.

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 22%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Horror 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game delivers a focused psychological horror experience with multiple branching paths and endings.

Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Horror 22%, Anime 13%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic top-down horror game that balances narrative-driven storytelling with dark, atmospheric exploration.

Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 12.4%, Thriller 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror visual novel that focuses on intense, character-driven storytelling.

A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.

Why similar: Horror 38.2%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, 2D 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down horror game relies on clever puzzles and a haunting atmosphere to deliver its psychological impact.

Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This visual novel provides a dark, atmospheric, and story-rich experience that is deeply unsettling.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Nonlinear 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly innovative, choice-driven psychological experience that challenges the player's perception of the narrative.

Follow a girl through the last day of her life.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.2%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Multiple Endings 15%, Anime 12%

Why You'll Like It: It explores heavy psychological themes through a visual novel format with multiple endings.

A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Horror 14.7%, Top-Down 12.5%, Cute 10.5%, Anime 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of exploration and visual novel elements centered around a haunting horror mystery.

Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Anime 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich visual novel that delves into psychological horror and multiple endings.

A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Horror 9.6%, Cute 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, text-based psychological horror game that relies on player choices to shape the narrative.

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 32.2%, Horror 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Story Rich 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dark, story-rich narrative with a pixel-art aesthetic that emphasizes psychological horror.

A visual novel about a girl who loves the cemetery. When her parents go missing, she receives a mysterious text that has the potential to completely ruin her life...or fix it?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Female Protagonist 18.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Cute 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D visual novel focuses on a female protagonist navigating a dark and mysterious world.

Just as you begin to settle in for a fun day at your best friend's house, something changes in her and she kills you. And not just once—she ends your life time and time and time again.Your goal is to escape from this endless loop of despair.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 22.7%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Top-Down 10.9%, Cute 9.6%, Anime 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a unique visual style with a dark, repetitive narrative loop that emphasizes psychological horror.

My Lovely Daughter is an alchemist simulator that explores the depth of a father’s grief and how far he will go to resurrect his daughter. Contains dark and disturbing subject matters, might not be suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a dark, villain-protagonist narrative that forces the player to make difficult, morally ambiguous choices.

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: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Anime 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a story-rich, psychological horror experience within a visual novel framework.

Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Horror 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that mixes dating-sim elements with horror to create a uniquely unsettling experience.

You who are unqualified to drink Meng Po's soup, you have been chosen for the game of life. A horror yuri visual novel following a series of death games in the afterlife.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Horror 8.7%, Cute 8.2%

A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 10.7%, Cute 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

A story-driven adventure game about a haunted bed & breakfast. A dead & breakfast!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 37.3%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Cute 16.3%, Story Rich 11.8%, 2D 8%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich adventure game that uses a charming aesthetic to mask its darker, horror-themed narrative.

He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Cute 8%

"Kiki & Ana - The Child" is a cute story experience. Focused on story, art, and music. Must avoid hazards which some people find difficult. Takes about an hour to complete. WARNING: flashing lights, light gore.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Cute 10.9%, Anime 8.5%, Emotional 8.1%

A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32%, Horror 27.1%, Cute 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 12%, 2D 5.6%

可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.4%, Psychological Horror 20%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Horror 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Anime 9.8%

Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Female Protagonist 15%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

Follow three stories set in a world where the dead linger, and things far worse wait beyond the veil.

Why similar: Visual Novel 68.1%, Horror 26.4%, Adventure 5.4%

A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Multiple Endings 17%, Anime 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

A portal inspired walking simulator horror game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Thriller 14%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 12.7%

A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological Horror 9%, Cute 8.6%, Anime 8.3%

'One last try' Violet is determined to save her broken marriage - at any cost!Wandering through a dark forest in search of lost mementos, she finds the world around her shifting with every step.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%

A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

Why similar: Cute 33.3%, Pixel Graphics 26.4%, 2D 18.3%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Adventure 5.4%

Pleh! is a short psychological horror walking simulator that tells the story of a depressed game developer, his intrusive thoughts and his dark mysterious secrets.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.9%, Horror 14.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Story Rich 11.8%, Psychological 11.6%

You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

Dark Memories is an episodic psychological horror game based on road thriller, slasher, and survival thriller genres. You are currently viewing the prologue episode of the Dark Memories anthology.

Why similar: Nonlinear 20.6%, Psychological Horror 18%, Thriller 14.8%, Horror 14%, Multiple Endings 13%

And now, for today's story.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 18.2%, Story Rich 17.7%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.

Why similar: Visual Novel 47.2%, Horror 18.4%, Choices Matter 13%, 2D 8.9%, Story Rich 7.1%

Navigate your way through an aquarium overrun by gruesome creatures known as creepies and unravel its hidden mysteries. With each riddle you solve, you’ll find yourself one step closer to uncovering the chilling truth of Bianca Aquarium. Your choices affect the outcome of the game, so choose wisely.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 14%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Cute 8.8%

Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Female Protagonist 9.6%

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Anime 12.1%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

Take a personality test with a definitely-not-clingy demon girl.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 10.4%, Cute 9.9%

This is your last day as a worker for a pet feeding service, and depending on how the day goes, your life. Prepare the final meal for a client's odd pet that lives in an abandoned pool all while trying to make it out safely and avoid mistakes.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 15.7%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 14%

Your end is my beginning. A short psychological visual novel with exploration and puzzle elements... it already lays shattered.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.6%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Anime 12.4%, 2D 7.8%

"海子 UMIKO" is a psychological horror visual novel. Engage in conversations with Umiko, complete various mini-games, solve puzzles, and gradually piece together the dark truths she tries to hide about herself and her dimension from fragmented narratives. Preserve your fragile friendship for a week!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Top-Down 9.5%

Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Top-Down 11.5%, Horror 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

A horror game about a needy female ghost. A trio of close-knit occult club girls gather late at night to enjoy telling ghost stories. Little do they know that Miss Choker, a ghost that targets girls, is just dying to appear...

Why similar: Female Protagonist 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Horror 10.4%

Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Horror 16.7%, Cute 10.8%, Psychological 9.3%

My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 16.4%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, 2D 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%