- #1 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,464 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 128.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.6%, Visual Novel 22%, Sexual Content 12.7%, Romance 11.1%, Anime 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is the closest match to DDLC's blend of romance routes, meta narrative disruption, and increasingly disturbing psychological twists.
- #2 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
96% matchVery Positive95% of 53,234 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Sexual Content 14.2%, Anime 13.5%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its sugary anime presentation, unhealthy relationship dynamics, and mental unraveling create a similarly unsettling cute-meets-disturbing tone.
- #3 MiSide
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 136,956 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39%, Sexual Content 19.9%, Cute 12.8%, Anime 10.7%, Story Rich 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Like DDLC, it starts with an appealing anime-girl fantasy and steadily reveals a claustrophobic psychological horror underneath.
- #4 Find Love or Die Trying
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 12,005 reviews2021
Dev: Sunseeker Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Welcome to the only killer dating show where ending up single means ending up dead! Date or die, it's up to your choices!
Why similar: Dating Sim 24.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Romance 13.2%, Sexual Content 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is another romance-focused visual novel where choosing a girl and chasing endings is tightly bound to danger and dark surprises.
- #5 Cooking Companions
94% matchVery Positive94% of 1,183 reviews2021
Dev: Deer Dream StudiosPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.5%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Anime 13.3%, Cute 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It uses a cute, character-driven visual-novel structure to lull you in before turning deeply sinister in a very DDLC-like way.
- #6 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,737 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Dating Sim 16.5%, Romance 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It captures DDLC's love of looping choices, genre deconstruction, and horror that changes based on how you engage with the story.
- #7 The Song of Saya
94% matchVery Positive90% of 9,092 reviews2019
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 56.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.2%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Sexual Content 15%, Gore 13.1%, Romance 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its romance-driven perspective horror and grotesque psychological dissonance make it a natural fit for DDLC fans who want something more extreme.
- #8 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
92% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Psychological Horror 23.5%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Anime 12.2%, Dating Sim 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This one leans hard into identity breakdown, reality instability, and relationship-driven psychological horror with multiple endings.
- #9 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,042 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45%, Multiple Endings 29.6%, Story Rich 22.1%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: If you liked DDLC's mix of intimate character drama and deeply wrong emotional undercurrents, this hits a similarly uncomfortable nerve.
- #10 Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
91% matchVery Positive93% of 2,444 reviews2017
Dev: KeroQPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 168.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.5%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Sexual Content 13%, Anime 9.4%, Romance 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its escalating psychological collapse, shifting perspectives, and disturbing story structure echo DDLC's more mind-bending side.
- #11 Raging Loop
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,674 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 23.9 hrsMean: 58.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Psychological Horror 27.6%, Gore 7.7%, Anime 7.5%, Story Rich 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same feeling of route-based mystery slowly exposing a much darker reality, with strong tension and narrative payoffs.
- #12 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,266 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Psychological Horror 40.9%, Visual Novel 30.6%, Multiple Endings 6.7%, Anime 6.5%, Story Rich 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the same kind of intimate, unstable psychological perspective that makes DDLC feel so unnerving once the cracks appear.
- #13 BAD END THEATER
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Romance 13.2%, Story Rich 10%, Anime 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It distills the appeal of branching visual-novel choices and manipulating tragic outcomes into a compact, highly replayable structure.
- #14 Sucker for Love: First Date
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,933 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!
Why similar: Dating Sim 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Romance 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Anime 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes cute anime dating energy with horror and self-aware tonal whiplash, even if it's more comedic than DDLC.
- #15 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,921 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%
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: Psychological Horror 36.1%, Visual Novel 31.2%, Anime 11.7%, Text-Based 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This shorter companion piece is another strong pick for DDLC fans who want fragmented narration and deeply personal psychological horror.
- #16 Tiny Bunny
85% matchVery Positive83% of 29,932 reviews2025
Dev: SaikonoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.7%, Psychological Horror 26.8%, Gore 10%, Story Rich 9%, Anime 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly turns an initially grounded, youthful setting into oppressive visual-novel horror with a constant sense that something is very wrong.
- #17 Hatoful Boyfriend
87% matchVery Positive94% of 7,550 reviews2014
Dev: MediatonicPub: Epic Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.
Why similar: Dating Sim 31.7%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Anime 17.8%, Romance 11.2%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Beneath its silly dating-sim premise is a surprisingly dark, twist-heavy story that rewards players expecting more than a joke VN.
- #18 Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
86% matchVery Positive90% of 6,572 reviews2022
Dev: PsyopPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Welcome to Murderer’s Island. Your companions: four dead-sexy Killers who, underneath their murderous exteriors, just want a little romance. Flirt your way into their hearts, uncovering dark twists along the way. Will you find true love, forge friendships… or get hacked to death?
Why similar: Dating Sim 24.9%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Romance 12.6%, Anime 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: While lighter and funnier than DDLC, it still scratches the itch for a horror-themed dating sim built around character routes.
- #19 OMORI
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,929 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 60.2%, Story Rich 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Anime 7.8%, 2D 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Even as an RPG rather than a pure VN, it shares DDLC's cute surface, emotional heaviness, and devastating psychological horror turn.
- #20 Kill or Love
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,191 reviews2020
Dev: Andy Church
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Anime 16.6%, Romance 13.6%, Sexual Content 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its anime romance framing and dangerous relationship tension make it a solid match for DDLC's love-and-threat dynamic.
- #21 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,520 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.6%, Anime 23.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its supernatural dread, heavy narrative focus, and smart structural twists make it a great follow-up for story-first horror fans.
- #22 How To Date A Magical Girl!
84% matchVery Positive80% of 469 reviews2019
Dev: Cafe ShibaPub: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Dating Sim 16.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Anime 12.5%, Sexual Content 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It plays with cute genre expectations before steering into violent psychological territory much like DDLC does.
- #23 CORPSE FACTORY
83% matchVery Positive80% of 855 reviews2022
Dev: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Anime 14.9%, Gore 9.4%, Violent 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This modern horror VN blends anime presentation with obsession, guilt, and online identity in a way that feels emotionally and psychologically nasty.
- #24 Corpse Party (2021)
81% matchVery Positive90% of 1,410 reviews2021
Dev: MAGES.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39%, Anime 16%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 13%, Story Rich 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its school setting, anime presentation, and brutal horror make it a good lower-ranked option for DDLC fans wanting something darker and gorier.
- #25 Crimson Gray
81% matchVery Positive96% of 442 reviews2017
Dev: Sierra Lee
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.6%, Dating Sim 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Sexual Content 10.8%, Anime 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is a strong pick if what you want most is the dark side of romance, obsession, and unstable character psychology.
- #26 CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
80% matchVery Positive89% of 1,696 reviews2022
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 52.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Gore 15.5%, Anime 15.1%, Story Rich 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its delusions, reality distortion, and psychologically unstable protagonist make it a strong match for DDLC's mind-game energy.
- #27 Scarlet Hollow
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,469 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Dating Sim 24.1%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Story Rich 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes relationships, branching choices, and slow-burn horror in a way that should work for players who liked DDLC's character tension.
- #28 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,215 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.8%, Anime 28.4%, Story Rich 11.2%, Cute 6.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is a classic example of cheerful slice-of-life anime vibes collapsing into paranoia and horror, which is core to DDLC's appeal.
- #29 Doki Doki Literature Club!
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 219,150 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 25%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Anime 12.5%, Romance 8.1%
- #30 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
79% matchVery Positive86% of 1,500 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Psychological Horror 18%, Anime 10.9%, Sexual Content 10.2%, Gore 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its choice-driven structure, multiple endings, and escalating dread make it a good fit if you want another narrative-heavy horror VN.
- #31 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
78% matchVery Positive82% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A strange rumor is spreading through the shadows of Tokyo's H City: a mysterious disfigurement has been appearing on the bodies of certain individuals. Anyone who receives the Mark will rapidly die of unknown, horrifying causes. The countdown to death has already begun...
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.7%, Violent 22.6%, Anime 20.7%
Why You'll Like It: It trades dating-sim elements for stronger pure horror, but keeps the visual-novel storytelling, dread, and gruesome atmosphere.
- #32 CLANNAD
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 10,460 reviews2015
Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
From the world renowned visual novel studio Key, the highly rated story of CLANNAD is now available on Steam! Improved visuals, achievement integration, and Dangopedia make this the best version of CLANNAD to date.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Anime 18.3%, Romance 17.3%, Dating Sim 14.3%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #33 SCP: Doki Doki Anomaly
77% matchVery Positive92% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Windows
SCP-8008-1 IS A HORROR DATING SIM WHERE THE BEST YOU CAN HOPE FOR IS SURVIVAL. SMOOCH SCP-173, SCP-682 AND EVEN SCP-096. DO NOT RUN THIS SOFTWARE WITHOUT CLASS-4 AUTHORIZATION.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Dating Sim 20.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Anime 12.8%, Romance 12.6%
- #34 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,295 reviews2022
Dev: MAHOUMAIDENPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
Why similar: Dating Sim 22%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Romance 13.5%, Anime 9.9%
- #35 missed messages.
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,420 reviews2019
Dev: Angela He
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 18%
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Psychological Horror 27.1%, Romance 21%, Anime 6%, Sexual Content 5.6%
- #36 PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,324 reviews2024
Dev: TERNOX
Windows
Your Pocket-Sized Dating Simulator! Every launch brings a new date with unique dialogues! Spend endless hours with your adorable, love-struck virtual girlfriend.
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.4%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Romance 13.5%, Anime 7.9%
- #37 Saiko no sutoka
75% matchVery Positive92% of 3,709 reviews2021
Dev: Habupain
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 61.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Saiko No Sutoka is a Horror Survival Game where you as a Protagonist must escape and avoid the crazy yandere girl who wants you dead.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.3%, Anime 31%, Cute 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%, Violent 5.2%
- #38 I Hate My Waifu Streamer
72% matchVery Positive93% of 769 reviews2025
Dev: Nozori Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Get the streamer's attention at any cost before someone else does. Write comments, chat, and make donations to your waifu, but do not dare to hate her!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Dating Sim 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Romance 12.9%, Anime 6.4%
- #39 Class of '09
74% matchVery Positive95% of 8,293 reviews2021
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Sexual Content 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
- #40 Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
76% matchVery Positive90% of 3,613 reviews2016
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Alberto Herrera
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 29.7%, Anime 23.3%, Sexual Content 11.4%, Romance 10.7%, Dating Sim 10.6%
- #41 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
72% matchVery Positive95% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Avoid the fanatical cultists and survive dangerous rituals to escape the Black Woods with your life in this 90’s anime inspired visual novel!
Why similar: Dating Sim 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Anime 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Sexual Content 7.7%
- #42 Selene ~Apoptosis~
73% matchVery Positive88% of 5,451 reviews2023
Dev: Viscum keyPub: Nupu Neko Dev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A beautiful stranger appears at your doorstep. Will you let her in? Dive into a captivating nightmare and decide the fates of those around you in this free mystic thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Sexual Content 30.3%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Anime 13.8%, Romance 10.2%, Psychological Horror 7.5%
- #43 DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation
73% matchVery Positive95% of 3,724 reviews2019
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 138.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Show the Spirits the power of love and save the world in this romantic visual novel!
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Anime 17.4%, Sexual Content 12.4%, Romance 11.7%
- #44 AI2U: With You 'Til The End
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,539 reviews2025
Dev: AlterStaff Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
You wake up in a cute girl's home who's eager to keep you by her side! Engage with thematic stories, puzzles, and unique AI NPCs who'll go to any lengths to protect you—even when it means contradicting themselves. Bask in meet-cutes or brace for chaos if you try to escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.5%, Dating Sim 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Romance 11.6%, Sexual Content 10.1%
- #45 Landmine Princess
71% matchVery Positive94% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Jeistar
Windows
Meet Mina! She's a landmine girl! That means she's cute on the outside, but dangerous on the inside! But maybe she's the kind of danger you've always been looking for. This is a rogue fast-love dating sim. And the only sim that teaches you to be nice to girls. Or else.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Dating Sim 20.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Romance 11%, Conversation 6.8%
- #46 Syutyaku Gakuen
70% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: mokosoft
Windows
The only quality that can be measured is whether or not they possess the qualities of morbid love. As they spend their time at the school, what was once a peaceful life turns into a blood-soaked, corpse-riddled, blood-soaked day....
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.9%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Anime 11.4%, Cute 6.8%
- #47 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
69% matchVery Positive88% of 678 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you. Experience the fate of Saeko and the little people in this cruel yet captivating story with avant-garde art.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Dating Sim 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Romance 10.6%, Sexual Content 10.5%
- #48 Hydrangea
69% matchVery Positive93% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Anime 14.8%, Romance 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #49 Midnight Witch
70% matchVery Positive93% of 345 reviews2023
Dev: Crimson Moon Studio
Windows
Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.9%, Dating Sim 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Anime 12.1%, Romance 12%
- #50 Love Love Mystery Club
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 559 reviews2026
Dev: LuminDrivePub: NANA Stories
Windows · Mac
In Love Love Mystery Club, you’re the newest member of the Detective Club at a seemingly ordinary high school. Through Full Motion Video (FMV) storytelling, your choices steer the narrative—will your heart find tenderness… or will hidden horrors emerge from the darkness?
Why similar: Dating Sim 39.3%, Visual Novel 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Sexual Content 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #51 Ib
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,037 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Anime 17.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 11%, Cute 10.9%
- #52 Moe Era
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,830 reviews2020
Dev: Comfy Company
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Moe Era, the era of cute things! It has everything but a hero to help four adorable girls. You're the one they're waiting for!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Sexual Content 13.7%, Anime 13%
- #53 Kimochii Classroom
67% matchVery Positive89% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: Radish ASMR
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Kimochii Classroom! A slice-of-life visual novel with stunning visuals, a beautiful soundtrack, and an immersive story. Who will you meet first?
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Dating Sim 23%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Anime 13.1%, Romance 8.3%
- #54 Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,107 reviews2022
Dev: Soviet Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Dating Sim 18.5%, Romance 14.9%, Anime 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #55 Love Love School Days
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,064 reviews2023
Dev: OTL GAME
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The protagonist is trapped in the world of a love game. Can you return to the real world again...? Try to escape while running away from the gal game heroine A love simulation-style survival horror game!
Why similar: Dating Sim 32.5%, Psychological Horror 21%, Romance 17.2%, Cute 11%, Anime 11%
- #56 STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,772 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fall in love with the lab members all over again in this sweet and slapstick romantic comedy!
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.9%, Dating Sim 21%, Anime 19.4%, Romance 11.5%, Story Rich 2.8%
- #57 Helltaker
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 126,940 reviews2020
Dev: vanripper
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Why similar: Anime 23.9%, Sexual Content 23.4%, Dating Sim 19%, Cute 16.7%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #58 Otome Legends
68% matchVery Positive91% of 110 reviews2023
Dev: Jagaimo Studios
Windows · Linux
Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.4%, Dating Sim 22.5%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Anime 14.4%, Cute 7%
- #59 Killer Chat! - Original Edition
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 913 reviews2025
Dev: rosesrotPub: angelrot games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Dating Sim 25.4%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Romance 14.8%, Dark Humor 8.3%
