Games Like 怪話

1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Horror 12.5%, Mystery 12%, Adventure 11.4%

Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Text-Based 18.2%, Horror 16.6%, Mystery 13.7%

矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Adventure 14.3%, Mystery 12.3%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.2%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Text-Based 19.5%, Horror 17.7%, Adventure 4.4%

A mysterious phone number on a park restroom wall leads to an unknown “voice,” quietly awakening the town’s hidden apparitions. This is a horror text adventure with no jump scares—no loud noises or grotesque surprises—designed for a safe and tension-focused experience.

Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Horror 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Adventure 8.2%

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

Why similar: Horror 34.2%, Psychological Horror 33.5%, Mystery 12.1%, Adventure 10%, First-Person 8.7%

"Choose your own adventure" style nightmares

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Horror 22.4%, Text-Based 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Adventure 8.7%

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Mystery 15.7%, Text-Based 14.1%, Horror 11.7%

本游戏以视觉小说的形式，收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角，探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.8%, Mystery 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Psychological Horror 4.7%, Text-Based 3.7%

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 34.8%, Horror 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Adventure 7.1%

「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか？それとも……」 精神科医である道島（主人公）は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…！？

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.8%, Mystery 17.3%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Adventure 12.5%

Kuchisake-Onna is a first-person horror adventure game based on a Japanese myth. The gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid “Kuchisake-Onna” or else the Slit Mouthed Woman, there are also some puzzles for the player to solve, making gameplay more various.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 37%, Horror 36.4%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 6.8%

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 28.1%, Horror 19.6%, Mystery 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.1%

A horror visual novel set in a suburban city.

Why similar: Visual Novel 53.6%, Horror 20.9%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 8%

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 29.6%, Horror 19.7%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Mystery 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Mystery 10.4%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.8%, Horror 33.5%, Adventure 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Indie 4.2%

A Horror Adventure Game with Multiple Endings

Why similar: Psychological Horror 40%, Horror 39.8%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 51.7%, Adventure 12.6%, Mystery 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 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 32.6%, Horror 29.5%, Mystery 26.5%, Adventure 9.4%, Singleplayer 2%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.9%, Horror 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Mystery 14%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

A 90s Hong Kong public housing block hides twisted tenants, buried truths, and ghosts. As security guard Lee Shing, your choices shape the story and unlock multiple endings. A mystery full of foreshadowing—some truths can only be uncovered through repeated playthroughs.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23%, 1990's 22.7%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Mystery 12.8%

Virtual group - PLAVE doujin game, set against the backdrop of winter school ghost stories. Experience the Night Patrol Rules of the Seven Mysteries through the eyes of all five band members, uncovering the unsettling truth hidden behind the mystery through your investigation and choices.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.1%, Psychological Horror 31.7%, Mystery 19.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 34.2%, Psychological Horror 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 9.2%, Adventure 4.8%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 56.8%, Horror 22.1%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 5.5%

【A richly coloured horror and mystery tale】BAN: The Prologue of GUCHA GUCHA is a third-person horror adventure game. Experience the messy horror from the perspective of the protagonist, who is caught up in the whirlwind of events in a certain town in Japan, Utagacho.

Why similar: 1990's 42.2%, Horror 38.2%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 4.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.8%, Mystery 21.2%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Adventure 12.8%

This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.2%, Horror 21.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, 1990's 11.8%, Adventure 8%

本作是与《全网公敌》联动的全新故事，通过一台“旧电脑”进行互联网搜索解密的剧情互动游戏。你作为一名特殊调查员，需要负责解开隐藏在“登山客意外失踪”背后的超自然事件。随着调查深入，始作俑者也渐渐浮出水面，“祂”，似乎又与四十多年前消失在大火中的白河村，有着千丝万缕的联系。

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.7%, 1990's 19.9%, Horror 17.6%, Mystery 13%, Text-Based 10%

Basically the story goes as visual novel form. Sometimes, the system switches into dot part, and you can control the character to continue the story.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.4%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Horror 21.2%, Mystery 16.3%, Adventure 11.4%

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 32.2%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Adventure 13.1%, Horror 11.7%

A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Text-Based 21.7%, Mystery 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%

This is a horror game that asks a friend to find out what happened in an abandoned hospital.

Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Psychological Horror 47.3%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%

A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story. Witness the familiar scenes and contemplate the terrifying moments.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.2%, Text-Based 25%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 14%, Adventure 10.5%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.9%, Psychological Horror 26.5%, Text-Based 22.3%, Horror 15.2%, First-Person 3.3%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Psychological Horror 19%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Horror 14.4%

A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.5%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Horror 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Adventure 2%

Fragments of Dread is an episodic psychological horror series. Each episode tells a self-contained story of dread, fear, and survival.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.7%, Horror 26.7%, Mystery 22.8%, First-Person 7.6%, Adventure 6.4%

TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Horror 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Adventure 6.2%

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.5%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Mystery 18.1%, Horror 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%

Teke Teke - テケテケ is a first-person horror adventure game based on a Japanese myth. The gameplay focuses on storytelling, stealth and decision making, there are also some puzzles for the player to solve, making gameplay more various.

Why similar: Horror 46.6%, Psychological Horror 46%, Indie 5.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.2%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Horror 19.7%, Mystery 3.5%

A retro point-and-click horror adventure game that tests the boundries of the genre! In this "found-footage" horror game you have to navigate the rooms and hallways of the mysterious Narrow Woods Hotel. Collect keys and items and use them to find your way out.

Why similar: Horror 29%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Mystery 19.8%, Adventure 11.5%, 1990's 9.4%

Play through three VHS tapes, uncovering the mystery of a decrepit facility, eluding tormented beasts, and discovering the truth of the chosen one.

Why similar: Horror 33.3%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Mystery 20.8%, Adventure 11.4%, First-Person 10%

A journey through ancient mysteries and forces described by the original short story "The Picture in the House" written by H.P Lovecraft.

Why similar: Horror 43.9%, Adventure 14.8%, Mystery 13.3%, First-Person 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.6%, Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 25.6%, Adventure 9.8%, Mystery 3.8%

VHS Collection: Goodnight Me is a short horror game where reality blurs with nightmares over five eerie days. Experience strange events, unsettling dreams, and unravel a chilling mystery in a remote house. Can you survive the madness, or will the nightmare consume you?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.6%, Horror 31.9%, Mystery 12.1%, Adventure 8.7%, First-Person 7%

Night Delivery | 例外配達 is a psychological Japanese horror adventure game.

Why similar: Horror 39.3%, Psychological Horror 35.1%, Adventure 13.4%, First-Person 6.4%, Indie 5.8%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 74.7%, Psychological Horror 20%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Clap Clap is a short indie horror game that puts you in the shoes of a house sitter, experiencing strange occurrences in a seemingly ordinary home.

Why similar: Horror 39.7%, Psychological Horror 29%, Mystery 12%, Adventure 9.6%, First-Person 6.7%

REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.

Why similar: Horror 68%, Adventure 23.4%, Indie 8.7%

This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26%, Horror 23.3%, 1990's 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Adventure 8.4%

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 30.7%, Psychological Horror 27.7%, Horror 13.8%, Text-Based 10%, Adventure 8.6%

Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, 1990's 25.8%, Horror 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Adventure 9%

A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.2%, Horror 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Adventure 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%

This is a pixel style puzzle game, including a certain micro-horror elements. Truth is blind love. Retrieve your memory and escape from this horrible hospital.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.2%, Mystery 26.4%, Horror 23.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%

An interactive psychological horror drama.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Psychological Horror 29.1%, Horror 23.1%, First-Person 7.2%, Adventure 5.9%

Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.

Why similar: Horror 45.3%, Psychological Horror 34.5%, First-Person 8.6%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 2.9%

The House of E. is a story-driven puzzle game with horror elements and a creepy atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 38.7%, Mystery 34.6%, First-Person 11.2%, Adventure 10.4%, Singleplayer 2.7%