Games Like 南海饥年志

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Adventure 12.4%, Hand-drawn 9.4%

A psychological horror sound novel. A child who lost memories wakes in a ruined building. Explore unsettling space. Open cabinets, speak to adults, grab a weapon—or do nothing? Help the child escape. Help the judgment. Whatever you choose, do it with your own hands. Then… face the consequences.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 7.7%

Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Adventure 9%

A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Adventure 13.8%, Mystery 5.8%

Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Adventure 12%, Hand-drawn 6.5%

Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Hand-drawn 7.7%

Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9.9%

Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.2%

Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Hand-drawn 8.4%, Adventure 8.1%

You are the Supreme Mortimarch’s apprentice. Discarded documents challenge Kudesh’s history. The more answers you seek, the harder it is to keep your mentor’s trust and know whose side you’re on.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Lore-Rich 9.3%

In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Mystery 9.1%

What happened on the night of July 20, 1824? The Beresford family was sleeping unaware that an ancient evil was about to resurface. An ancient evil that brought upon them a curse whose echoes resonate to this day.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Adventure 11.6%

Embark on a mysterious nocturnal road trip where every conversation matters. Make choices, explore different paths and uncover multiple stories and endings. Can you find them all?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Mystery 10.8%

Penelope falls for a nineteen-year-old who has not aged in over a century. His face survives in yearbooks, VHS tapes, and dead forum pages. Then an elderly woman arrives with a photograph of herself beside him. A short psychological horror VN about eternal youth and the people it leaves behind.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%

A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Hand-drawn 7.9%

The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Horror 11.2%, Hand-drawn 7.2%

Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

The Mofu Game is a psychological horror visual novel about a cursed story that should never have been read. Proceed at your own risk.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Hand-drawn 7.7%

Will returns to bury his mother and leave right away, but everything changes when he finds a stranger in the woods. As the house decays and roots swallow everything, saving her comes with an irreversible cost: uncovering a truth hidden in Awakewood for ten years.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Adventure 13.5%, Mystery 5.8%

Diskarte, jester of the high castle, has one job: entertaining the queen. This would be easy except Queen Bahaghari has a penchant for magically exploding the heads of subjects falling below her exacting standards. Can Diskarte avoid this frightening fate?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Adventure 13.3%, Hand-drawn 9.2%

Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Psychological Horror 7.4%

Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Horror 7.7%, Hand-drawn 7.7%

Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 9.5%

見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Adventure 15.8%, Horror 6.6%, Mystery 6.3%

Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 8.7%

To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Adventure 5.3%

You're a stranger who has come to Lostworth, a town full of people lost in the darkness of the Middle Ages. Your purpose: help them spiritually. For this, you've only books, potions, spells and words. In time, as you uncover the secrets of the city, you'll also have to face threats from the past.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Adventure 17%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Mystery 7.4%

Navigate the claustrophobic corridors of a cargo ship and try to survive a night with man-eating tigers on the loose. Your choices will determine who lives and who dies.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Adventure 14.5%, Horror 6.3%

An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Adventure 15.1%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Stylized 6.8%

Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Mystery 5.8%

Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Hand-drawn 12%, Psychological Horror 10.8%

The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Adventure 8.8%

A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Mystery 10.2%

An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monari Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Adventure 9.7%

A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this short psychological horror visual novel about escapism and being left behind.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 5.2%

Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Horror 9.1%, Adventure 8.6%

How far would you go to undo death? Marked Souls is a psychological horror visual novel about five orphans trapped in an isolated manor. Uncover the shelter's dark history, perform a forbidden ritual, and try to survive the consequences.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Psychological Horror 8%

Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Dark 7.4%

A wedding where one of the guests arrives dead. A strange black hole eclipsing the Florida sun. And your best friend? Gone. Is all this a butterfly dream or is reality breaking? Is their story romance or mystery? Your choices will determine the genre of his soul. Welcome to the town of Siren's Call.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Lore-Rich 10%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

A cinematic, choice-driven FMV horror. His friends left him alone in the forest as a prank — then hid among the trees in cheap masks to scare him. But not every mask out there is a friend. Every choice matters. Silence is a choice too.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Adventure 13.4%, Mystery 5.3%

A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 8.6%

Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Adventure 16.7%, 2D 4%

Mental pain will never disappear, it will forever torment the soul of the protagonist. Who is he? How did he end up here? Why do dead people appear before him? Who is this girl with bandaged eyes? Eternal Pain: Epiphany is the story of the insight of a person who finds himself in purgatory.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Adventure 15.8%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Horror 8.8%

Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Adventure 7.7%, Hand-drawn 7.4%

Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Horror 6.3%, Adventure 5.2%

Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Adventure 5.4%

You just wanted to finish your cargo run. The universe had other plans, Abyssal Frontier is a choice-driven cosmic horror visual novel with light RPG elements, time loop mechanics, and dating sim suggestions.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 7.9%

When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you. Track down the beast to clear your name and save the village—but to unravel the mystery, you will need to confront your own past. A survival-horror choose your own adventure set in Kievan Rus'.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Multiple Endings 4.9%

A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Horror 8.6%

DEEP UNDER is a grim visual novel about how an ordinary camping trip with friends can turn into a real nightmare.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Horror 8.1%

Can you find what you're looking for? Or are you at the mercy of Tisik and her followers? Your words matter in this short game of dialogue.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%

An HD-remaster of a comedy-horror visual novel from 2009, mixing classical Russian literature with anime, zombies and glam rock.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Alternate History 13.4%, Horror 5%

A short psychological horror adventure about living in a house with a fridge that seems empty, but it's not.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Horror 6.9%

Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Hand-drawn 9.1%

Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 9.3%

Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Lore-Rich 11%, Hand-drawn 6.8%

Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Mystery 7%, Hand-drawn 6.7%