- #1 Doki Doki Literature Club!
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 228,468 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 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 24.7%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Anime 12.6%, Romance 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The original free version delivers the same deceptively sweet poetry-club dating sim and its landmark fourth-wall-breaking psychological horror.
- #2 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
96% matchVery Positive95% of 7,095 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 133.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.2%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Sexual Content 12.5%, Romance 10.7%, Anime 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This romance visual novel is an especially close match for DDLC’s cute school-life setup, obsessive affection, route manipulation, and player-directed metafiction.
- #3 Find Love or Die Trying
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 12,005 reviews2021
Dev: Sunseeker Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 23.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Romance 12.8%, Sexual Content 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It begins as a bright dating competition before escalating into a tense horror mystery where pursuing romance and uncovering the truth are inseparable.
- #4 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
95% matchVery Positive94% of 58,305 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 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 26.9%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Sexual Content 14.4%, Anime 13.3%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Like DDLC, it uses adorable anime presentation and an unstable heroine to explore obsession, mental collapse, and many bleak branching endings.
- #5 MiSide
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 142,774 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 24.0 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 36.4%, Sexual Content 19.5%, Cute 11.8%, Anime 10.7%, Story Rich 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its seemingly cozy relationship with an anime girl becomes an unnerving, reality-bending horror game centered on fixation, shifting worlds, and alternate outcomes.
- #6 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
93% matchVery Positive93% of 22,293 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 18.7 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: Visual Novel 23.1%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Anime 12.2%, Dating Sim 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal romance-focused visual novel turns everyday conversations into psychological horror while repeatedly destabilizing its own reality.
- #7 The Song of Saya
94% matchVery Positive89% of 10,280 reviews2019
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 24.3%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Sexual Content 15.5%, Gore 12.5%, Romance 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, adult romance told through an unreliable perspective, blending grotesque psychological horror with an intensely devoted relationship.
- #8 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,471 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Dating Sim 16%, Romance 13%, Story Rich 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its branching conversations, mutually dependent central relationship, and direct interrogation of player choice make it ideal for fans of DDLC’s narrative tricks.
- #9 Sucker for Love: First Date
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,024 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.1 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 17.1%, Romance 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Anime 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It cleverly pairs anime dating-sim routines and affection-building with Lovecraftian horror, while retaining a playful but unsettling tone.
- #10 Cooking Companions
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,212 reviews2021
Dev: Deer Dream StudiosPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 22.7%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Anime 13.6%, Cute 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This cute woodland cooking-and-dating visual novel conceals severe psychological horror, romance routes, and a substantial collection of grim endings.
- #11 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,405 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 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 31.4%, Anime 6.7%, Multiple Endings 6.6%, Story Rich 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its brief but intimate first-person dialogue places the player inside a fractured mind, offering the same kind of disquieting character-focused horror beneath simple visuals.
- #12 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,585 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.4%, Visual Novel 28.9%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 11.1%, Dark Humor 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This choice-heavy, deeply uncomfortable visual novel follows a toxic sibling bond through dark comedy, psychological horror, and multiple endings.
- #13 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
89% matchVery Positive95% of 1,353 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 18.8%, Anime 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Sexual Content 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A larger standalone blend of dating-sim choices, cute character writing, and escalating cosmic horror for players who want romance with their dread.
- #14 A Date with Death
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,957 reviews2023
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Why similar: Dating Sim 40.4%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Romance 16.6%, Anime 6%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This chat-based supernatural dating sim creates a similarly personal connection with a potentially dangerous love interest and offers several relationship-driven endings.
- #15 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,372 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.4 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 35.8%, Visual Novel 32.1%, Anime 11.7%, Text-Based 8.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This short predecessor uses an apparently mundane conversation to establish an unsettling, compassionate portrait of mental distress and unreliable perception.
- #16 Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
88% matchVery Positive93% of 2,765 reviews2017
Dev: KeroQPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 175.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 24.1%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Sexual Content 13.6%, Anime 9.5%, Romance 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A long-form visual novel that gradually transforms slice-of-life school scenarios into philosophical, disturbing psychological horror with multiple routes.
- #17 Tiny Bunny
85% matchVery Positive83% of 30,684 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.4 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 25.8%, Gore 10.1%, Story Rich 8.6%, Anime 7%
Why You'll Like It: A dark episodic visual novel that contrasts childhood friendships and school life with escalating rural horror, difficult choices, and an oppressive atmosphere.
- #18 CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
86% matchVery Positive88% of 2,108 reviews2022
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.7%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Anime 14.8%, Gore 14.7%, Story Rich 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its paranoid high-school protagonist, delusion-triggered choices, anime mystery structure, and increasingly gruesome reality distortion strongly suit DDLC fans.
- #19 Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
84% matchVery Positive90% of 6,818 reviews2022
Dev: PsyopPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 25.1%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Romance 12.7%, Anime 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighter, comedic version of the dating-sim-meets-horror appeal, with affection routes for iconic slasher characters and multiple endings.
- #20 OMORI
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 88,824 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 25.8 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 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Anime 7.9%, 2D 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its adorable RPG presentation masks a devastating psychological-horror story about friendship, trauma, denial, and multiple conclusions.
- #21 How To Date A Magical Girl!
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Cafe ShibaPub: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.9 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 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Dating Sim 16.1%, Anime 12.7%, Sexual Content 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This deliberately strange visual novel starts as a colorful dating game but steadily reveals violent horror and destabilizing twists.
- #22 BAD END THEATER
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,071 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Multiple Endings 15%, Romance 13.2%, Story Rich 9.9%, Anime 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is a compact route-puzzle visual novel where altering characters’ traits and choices uncovers many intertwined tragic outcomes.
- #23 SCP: Doki Doki Anomaly
82% matchVery Positive92% of 93 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 21.4%, Dating Sim 21%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Anime 13%, Romance 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: This DDLC-inspired horror game leans directly into anime dating-sim presentation, anomalous threats, and an increasingly sinister story.
- #24 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,855 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 21.5 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 50.6%, Anime 27.9%, Story Rich 10.7%, Cute 6.3%, Violent 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: It starts with cheerful rural school friendships before revealing paranoia, violence, and an unnerving mystery beneath its cute visual-novel surface.
- #25 Raging Loop
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,351 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 24.2 hrsMean: 60.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.3%, Psychological Horror 27.1%, Gore 7.3%, Story Rich 7.1%, Anime 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A remote-village death game with route-based revelations, romance subplots, and looping structure provides a more mystery-driven form of psychological visual-novel horror.
- #26 I Hate My Waifu Streamer
77% matchVery Positive93% of 969 reviews2025
Dev: Nozori Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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%, Dating Sim 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Romance 12.9%, Anime 6.6%
- #27 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
80% matchVery Positive85% of 1,534 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 30.9%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Anime 10.9%, Sexual Content 10.8%, Gore 10%
Why You'll Like It: This branching horror visual novel combines a large cast’s romances and relationships with a cursed-house story whose choices can lead to many bad ends.
- #28 MAMIYA
79% matchVery Positive90% of 534 reviews2021
Dev: Kenkou LandPub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Anime 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10%, Story Rich 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This emotionally heavy visual novel explores alienation, identity, and troubled young relationships through unsettling supernatural and psychological turns.
- #29 Corpse Party
79% matchVery Positive89% of 1,404 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.1%, Anime 22.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Gore 15%, Multiple Endings 6%
Why You'll Like It: For those drawn to DDLC’s anime school setting turning horrific, this visual-novel adventure sends students into a gruesome haunted-school nightmare with many fatal outcomes.
- #30 Crimson Gray
78% matchVery Positive96% of 449 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 18.4%, Dating Sim 16.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Sexual Content 11.2%, Anime 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A compact dating visual novel about falling for an obsessive, unstable classmate, with choices that determine whether the romance becomes tragic or terrifying.
- #31 AI2U: With You 'Til The End
74% matchVery Positive88% of 2,399 reviews2026
Dev: AlterStaff Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Kidnapped by a cute yandere catgirl, your only way out is to persuade her to let you leave! Engage with thematic stories, solve puzzles, and interact with best yandere AI NPCs in this top-rated AI game loved by millions of fans. Bask in sweet meet-cutes, or brace for chaos if you dare to escape! :3
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Dating Sim 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Romance 11.5%, Sexual Content 10.4%
- #32 Hatoful Boyfriend
78% matchVery Positive94% of 7,583 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 26.9%, Anime 17.9%, Romance 11.1%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its absurdly cute school dating-sim premise hides a surprisingly serious and dark overarching route that recontextualizes the entire game.
- #33 CLANNAD
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,028 reviews2015
Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 106.8 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 31%, Anime 18.4%, Romance 17.2%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #34 Selene ~Apoptosis~
75% matchVery Positive88% of 5,651 reviews2023
Dev: Viscum keyPub: Nupu Neko Dev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 20.5 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 28.9%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Anime 12.9%, Romance 9.4%, Psychological Horror 7.5%
- #35 Escape from Yandere
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,449 reviews2026
Dev: VorhGames
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Yandera has locked you in your house and is asking for a declaration of love. You can stay with her or try to escape. Explore the house, but be careful, Yandera can kill you.
Why similar: Anime 28.7%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Sexual Content 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Cute 10.8%
- #36 Saiko no sutoka
76% matchVery Positive91% of 3,890 reviews2021
Dev: Habupain
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 60.4 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 38.9%, Anime 32.3%, Cute 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%, Violent 5.4%
- #37 Kill or Love
76% 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 27.6%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Anime 16.7%, Romance 13.6%, Sexual Content 8.9%
- #38 Landmine Princess
74% matchVery Positive91% of 101 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 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Romance 11%, Dialogue Heavy 7.2%
- #39 PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,665 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 26.6%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Romance 13.2%, Anime 8%
- #40 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,584 reviews2022
Dev: MAHOUMAIDENPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.1%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Romance 13.4%, Anime 10%
- #41 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
72% matchVery Positive88% of 761 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.2%, Dating Sim 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Sexual Content 10.9%, Romance 10.6%
- #42 Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
73% matchVery Positive90% of 3,627 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 30.4%, Anime 23.5%, Sexual Content 11.6%, Romance 10.7%, Dating Sim 10.5%
- #43 Saihate Station
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 10,470 reviews2025
Dev: びぶ/viv
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.6%, Visual Novel 27.2%, Anime 11%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Cute 6.4%
- #44 Love Love Mystery Club
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 625 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 39.9%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Sexual Content 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #45 missed messages.
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,554 reviews2019
Dev: Angela He
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.9%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, Romance 21%, Anime 6.1%, Sexual Content 5.7%
- #46 Moe Era
72% 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 20.3%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Sexual Content 14.1%, Anime 13.1%
- #47 Hydrangea
70% matchVery Positive92% of 143 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 22.8%, Psychological Horror 16%, Anime 15.2%, Romance 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #48 Class of '09
70% matchVery Positive95% of 9,128 reviews2021
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 30.2%, Sexual Content 16.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
- #49 Crush Crush
71% matchVery Positive89% of 28,563 reviews2016
Dev: Sad Panda Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 97.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome to Crush Crush - the Idle Dating Sim! Meet, flirt, and fall in love with a motley cast of girls in this heartfelt and hilarious game.
Why similar: Sexual Content 33.8%, Dating Sim 26.2%, Anime 14.1%, Hentai 9.1%, Romance 6.4%
- #50 Otome Legends
70% matchVery Positive92% of 118 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 24.1%, Dating Sim 22.5%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Anime 14.6%, Cute 6.9%
- #51 Anomalous Coffee Machine
67% matchVery Positive87% of 1,684 reviews2025
Dev: HoruBrain InteractivePub: Hexapede Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
In this game, meet a mysterious girl who demands you use the "Anomalous Coffee Machine" and create any drink you can imagine. Whether realistic, paradoxical, or impossible, she’s willing to sample whatever you create. However, she doesn't seem to like the cup of death. Why? Well, I think you know.
Why similar: Sexual Content 26.7%, Dating Sim 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Anime 9.8%, Dark Humor 8.8%
- #52 Midnight Witch
68% matchVery Positive93% of 366 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 19.8%, Dating Sim 19%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Anime 12.3%, Romance 12.2%
- #53 Syutyaku Gakuen
68% matchVery Positive90% of 67 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 24.2%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Anime 11.7%, Cute 6.8%
- #54 STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,964 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fall in love with the lab members all over again in this sweet and slapstick romantic comedy!
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Dating Sim 20.4%, Anime 18.3%, Romance 11%, Sexual Content 6.6%
- #55 Folie Fatale
67% matchVery Positive86% of 2,697 reviews2024
Dev: Kanmidoko (神海処)Pub: 346lab Localization
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
All capture targets are mentally "Jirai"(landmine)!? Meet these eccentric boys, reveal the truth beneath in this Psycho-love-horror VN!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Dating Sim 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Anime 11%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #56 Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,152 reviews2022
Dev: Soviet Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 38.5 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 19.8%, Dating Sim 18.7%, Romance 15%, Anime 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #57 ATRI -My Dear Moments-
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,554 reviews2020
Dev: FrontwingPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 110.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"As the world sank, I found you." In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. In a little town slowly being enveloped by the ocean, an unforgettable summer is about to begin for a boy and a mysterious robot girl...
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Dating Sim 18.8%, Romance 15.1%, Anime 14.2%, Cute 7.5%
- #58 An alt girl for skoof
66% matchVery Positive83% of 10,577 reviews2024
Dev: Terletski Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
There is a rumor that any skuf can legally receive a fee alt girl from the state; to do this, you just need to log in to a special service and enter your personal data.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Sexual Content 17.3%, Anime 14.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #59 Bloodcrave
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Blue Fiend StudiosPub: TinyHat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A horror dating sim featuring six love interests, two dozen side characters, animated scenes, and decision-driven storytelling. Will you lead your companions down the path of virtue or succumb to the lure of darkness?
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Sexual Content 16.6%, Anime 12.8%, Romance 12.2%
