Games Like Death Drive

Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.

Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Horror 7.8%

Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.

Why similar: Noir 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Horror 8.7%

A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.1%

A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.9%, Lovecraftian 18.3%, Psychedelic 17.5%, 2D 9.5%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

Unroaded is a short free visual novel about the living dead man who instead of inaction has chosen the road.

Why similar: Visual Novel 48.9%, RPG 26%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Casual 6.4%, Indie 1.2%

Experience death from the comfort of your seat.

Why similar: Noir 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Dark Humor 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%

a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, Nonlinear 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.9%

The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Lovecraftian 22.7%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Multiple Endings 12%, Horror 10.4%

Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 41.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, Choices Matter 6.9%

An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Dark Humor 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 9.1%

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Dark Humor 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

A story about a dead lamb walking.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 13%, Choices Matter 11.7%

Shut your teeth is an absurdist mystery visual novel inspired by Thai culture, folklore and traditions. The complex plot full of dark atmosphere, vivid characters and psychological tension will keep you guessing until the very end.

Why similar: Dark Humor 32.8%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 8.1%

A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.8%

Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.

Why similar: Visual Novel 80.3%, 2D 10.5%, Mystery 8.2%, Indie 0.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%

A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.5%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Horror 12.6%, Multiple Endings 6%, Choices Matter 5%

Horror/thriller visual novel with RPG elements about two friends that explores guilt, co-dependency, and personal limits being pushed.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.4%, RPG 20.1%, Horror 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

Why similar: Noir 38.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

Why similar: Horror 36.7%, Psychological Horror 32.2%, Story Rich 19.3%, 2D 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

One eleven is a dark detective story about twelve lonely people who, by chance, find themselves in the same house with a mad maniac. Who will be the victim and who will be the killer? Be attentive and courageous, and solve the riddles of One Eleven.

Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.4%

"Choose your own adventure" style nightmares

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Noir 24%, Choices Matter 14%, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 13.5%

The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.

Why similar: Dark Humor 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%

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 24.1%, Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 16.9%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%

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 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Horror 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Story Rich 7.6%

"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...

Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Choices Matter 18%, Multiple Endings 16%, 2D 10%

Derealized is a choice based game inspired by games such as The Stanley Parable and Undertale. This experience offers 10 different endings for you to explore! How many will you find?

Why similar: Horror 33%, Dialogue Heavy 25.9%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Mystery 6%

An escape-room styled series of puzzles await in the car that seems to contain neither rhyme nor reason. See if you can solve the mysteries of the photographs, and figure out what it means to be the ONE IN THE BACK.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27%, Horror 23.3%, Story Rich 15.9%, 2D 14.9%, Psychedelic 11.1%

A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 9.3%

MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!

Why similar: Dark Humor 21.3%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Horror 10.9%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.2%, Visual Novel 31.2%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 7.8%, 2D 5.9%

A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.5%, Nonlinear 16%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13%, Story Rich 9.4%

Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.

Why similar: Noir 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 36.6%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Story Rich 21.7%, Mystery 8.6%, Casual 2.5%

You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.8%, Psychedelic 20.2%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, 2D 10.4%, Mystery 6.3%

A dark, witty, psychological thriller in the horror genre, A Work of Art presents a 1-2 hour story-driven experience with Visual Novel features and RPG elements. Follow a colorful cast of quirky characters through a twisted tale of beauty and darkness; All to the sound of a Dark Original soundtrack.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 9.8%

Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.6%, Horror 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%

Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they know when to hit the brakes?

Why similar: Visual Novel 52.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Story Rich 16.5%, 2D 7.6%, Casual 5.7%

Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.

Why similar: Noir 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

Dread Chess est un jeu original et étrange mêlant histoire narrative, puzzles et éléments de sandbox. Découvrez les mystères en parlant aux dieux en latin. Plongez dans une atmosphère de folie et atteignez l’une des nombreuses fins d’une partie injuste contre la Mort, qui ne peut être jouée qu’UNE SEULE FOIS...

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.3%, Horror 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%

Dead End Road is an atmospheric driving game, with a low-fi aesthetic and procedurally generated elements. Complete your journey to seek the assistance of the old witch at Dead End Road; Get there before daybreak and perhaps, just perhaps, you can escape this nightmare.

Why similar: Horror 95.2%, Indie 4.8%

An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.

Why similar: RPG 45.2%, Multiple Endings 35.9%, 2D 16.1%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.

Why similar: RPG 29.9%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Horror 16%, Story Rich 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.7%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Horror 19.4%, 2D 11%, Casual 5%

A bite-sized psychological horror game about a wayward soul who seeks transformation through a sinister ritual.

Why similar: Horror 36.2%, Psychological Horror 36%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Story Rich 7.7%, Mystery 2.6%

A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.8%, Visual Novel 27.6%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, 2D 7.2%

Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?

Why similar: Visual Novel 56.4%, Horror 20.2%, Psychological Horror 8%, Multiple Endings 4.5%, Story Rich 3.9%

A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.

Why similar: Noir 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Horror 8.2%

Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Story Rich 6.7%

A short, free, horror adventure game set in our days, inspired by Lovecraft novel: The Colour Out of Space.

Why similar: Horror 37.8%, Lovecraftian 37.3%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.7%

An interactive psychological horror drama.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Horror 11.6%

Explore a surreal world inspired by Kowloon Walled city in this turn-based RPG inspired by Japanese dungeon crawlers from the late 1990s.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.8%, RPG 24.8%, Horror 17%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 4.8%

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.4%, Horror 34.3%, Story Rich 20.2%, Mystery 6.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

オムニバス形式で送る四章構成の心霊ホラーノベルゲーム

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.3%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Horror 19.8%, Mystery 3.4%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Story Rich 9.2%, 2D 6%

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: Visual Novel 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Horror 16.3%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

A horror visual novel set in a suburban city.

Why similar: Visual Novel 71.4%, Horror 26.1%, Indie 2.5%

High school girls have been disappearing from Abbotsford. Unravel the mystery before all things wash away in a tidal wave of deep despair. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Lovecraftian 22.6%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Choices Matter 9%, Dialogue Heavy 9%

Siberian Way is a detective thriller novel. Follow the dark non-linear story and decide how it can end! For all fans of snowy Siberia, Murder on the Orient Express and twisted plots, seasoned with mysticism.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Psychological Horror 23.2%, Horror 17.2%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Story Rich 7.4%

Get lost in a deliciously dark horror anthology. Inspired by Shudder’s Creepshow series, this point-and-click adventure has gone all kinds of wrong.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.6%, Dark Humor 24.5%, Horror 21.8%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Story Rich 9.2%