Games Like 怪談寺

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II is a suspense-horror game set at a prestigious academy. When rumors circulate about supernatural occurrences at the famed Konoehara Academy in Tokyo’s H City, it’s up to the head of the Kujou family, also known as the “Spirit Doctor,” to take on the case.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.4%, Horror 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Gore 7.9%

Banebush is a nonlinear and very red visual novel in the horror genre. Do you dare to step into a fairy tale if it turns out to be reality? 💀

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.7%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 21.3%, Violent 9.6%, Atmospheric 8.9%

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 27.3%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%

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 26.3%, Horror 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Gore 8.6%

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 27.4%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Horror 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Atmospheric 8.3%

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: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Horror 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%

The story is set in an alternate universe where the player is struggling with the memories of what they know to be HOLOSTARS English -TEMPUS- and the mysterious look-alikes who pull them every which way. Can the player figure out the truth about this twisted world and return to the guild?

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Horror 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Gore 10.3%

A psychological horror experience powered by a local AI model. You've been kidnapped by a serial killer who demands your deepest truths. Speak, type, or lie your way to freedom - but every word matters. No internet required. No data leaves your PC. 18+ only.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Horror 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%

A short workplace-horror visual novel. You play as John, a fresh grad on his first day in IT ops. The office looks completely normal—your predecessor’s ThinkPad does not. Read the notes, analyze the logs, and decide who to trust. It all ends today.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.3%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Horror 16%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Adventure 8.3%

A nonlinear thriller where cyberpunk meets biopunk. A rebellion is brewing in the “perfect” city of Kudesh. Choose your side and decide who you are willing to trust with your life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Adventure 12.2%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Three students record themselves in a classroom room that shouldn’t exist... The next morning, one of them is gone forever... A short psychological horror VN about memory, proof, and erasure.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.2%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%

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 28.7%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%

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 33.4%, Horror 23.9%, Psychological Horror 13%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Gore 9.5%

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 27.8%, Psychological Horror 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Horror 12.6%, Atmospheric 8.7%

The story of a group of friends who set out for some urban exploring. By breaking into this abandoned house, Emy, Perle, Oliver, and Faez just wanted to check out the rumors going around town. Little do they know, the energy inside is very real... and it's moving with them in the dark.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 17.6%, Gore 7.7%, Adventure 7.4%

Enjoy the process of the timid protagonist using hypnosis to manipulate and subjugate his abusive mother and daughter, training them to his liking.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Adventure 11.6%

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 27.4%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Horror 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Atmospheric 8.7%

A horror visual novel game with "Tales from the Crypt" style plot.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.5%, Horror 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Adventure 10.9%, Gore 9.9%

Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.5%, Horror 20.2%, Gore 13.7%, Violent 11.3%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

A visual novel game where you spend an exciting school life in an abandoned school with ghost girls who have regrets and cannot rest in peace.

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.6%, Horror 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Adventure 13.8%, 2D 4%

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 28.3%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Horror 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%

Beware the Creeping Horror... Face nightmares you thought were merely urban legends. Uncover a dark mystery, making deadly decisions just to survive. Play this chilling companion story to the award-winning Spirit Hunter: Death Mark game and bring the terror home.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31%, Horror 21.8%, Gore 18%, Violent 16.7%, Adventure 12.4%

Horror adventure game to appraise spirits photos

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.7%, Horror 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Adventure 16.9%, 2D 3.8%

Horror thriller visual novel written by cult director Ruggero Deodato. A cannibal story in three episodes. Embark on a challenging journey, where every choice has a price and consequences. Will you be able to reach the end without getting your soul devoured? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.5%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Horror 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Gore 9.9%

A horror adventure game where you identify ghost photos and ghost videos

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Horror 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Adventure 14.9%, 2D 3.7%

Through the eyes of Torao, explore a story that raises profound questions about the value of life. Questions that speak to those living in modern times, those in the city, and for all of us.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Gore 10.2%

怖い話を聞いているだけなのに何かおかしい……。新聞部の新人、坂上修一となり、学校新聞の特集のために集まった6人の語り部より怖い話を聞いていきます。語り部は話の途中で坂上に質問や感想を求めてきます。それが選択肢となっており、答えることによって物語が変化していきます。

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Horror 16.6%, Adventure 14.2%, Gore 10.1%

The heroes meet on the battlefield of the First World War, in the case of the "Diptych", an anthropomorphic animal, we learn a terrible and touching story in a deceptively cute and unique style.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Adventure 12%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 9.5%

Enjoy watching how team members react to the various mishaps that occur during the intensive training camp.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%

エンディング数140種類以上！縦横無尽に広がりを見せる選択肢が恐怖の世界へ誘います。

Why similar: Visual Novel 27%, Horror 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Gore 10.3%, Violent 9.6%

Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Psychological Horror 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Horror 11.8%, Retro 9.1%

怖すぎるにも ほどがある。新聞部は、夏休み前の学校新聞で「学校の七不思議」を特集することになった。七人の学生を集めて、彼らから怖い話を聞き、それを特集としてまとめるのだ。新聞部三年生の日野から命を受け、新入部員の坂上修一はその集会の聞き役を担当することになった。集会当日、放課後の新聞部部室に日野によって集められた七人の語り部と聞き役の坂上修一は初めて顔を合わせる。しかし、七人集められたはずの語り部は、何故か六人しかいなかった。七人目が姿を見せぬまま始まる七不思議の集会。七人目は、現れるのか。そして、この集会の終わりに待っているのは……。

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Horror 16.9%, Adventure 13.7%, Gore 10.6%

Foss Park is a psychological horror VN that takes you deep into the fractured mind of a nameless patient in an unsettling mental hospital. You awaken with no memory of how you arrived, haunted by fleeting images of a life destroyed—a house fire, a lost family, and echoes of a forgotten tragedy.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Horror 25.7%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Adventure 12.2%, Gore 10.5%

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 27.7%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Horror 19%, Gore 11.3%, Adventure 10%

A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 10%

A black-white-red visual novel in the horror genre.

Why similar: Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 19%, Gore 17%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Violent 12.1%

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: Visual Novel 28.3%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Atmospheric 8.2%

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 33.9%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 19.4%, Gore 10.7%, Violent 8.7%

If you're ready to run and play a deadly game of hide-and-seek, then come on in and make yourself at home. Behind the door, endless oppressive corridors, filthy walls, deadly traps, and a ravenous creature eagerly waiting to get up close and personal with you await.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 18.4%, Violent 13.1%, Choices Matter 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 40.1%, Horror 32.7%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Adventure 10%, Atmospheric 4.3%

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: Visual Novel 20%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Horror 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%

Hold the monkey's paw and make a wish, but remember: everything comes at a price. A short horror visual novel where choices matter...painfully.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 18%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Gore 6.7%

Kirin plays the elevator game and disappears. Will her girlfriend, Asahi, be able to find her? The Elevator Game with Catgirls is a horror visual novel with point-and-click elements, inspired by the Korean urban legend, Elevator to Another World.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Horror 19.5%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%

『学校であった怖い話』の語り部、荒井昭二。 彼は一年の夏休み、友人の誘いを受けてとある牧場でアルバイトをする。 全編、荒井昭二で染まる耽美且つ狂気の世界に貴方の心は息つく間もなく犯される。

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.9%, Gore 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Violent 14.5%, Horror 14.5%

The protagonist, given the chance to revisit the past. Their goal is to manipulate the sisters who tormented them since childhood at will and settle old scores.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Violent 9.8%

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: Visual Novel 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Adventure 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 9.6%

Yuki leads an ordinary life, weighed down by debt, surrounded by a few friends, and consumed by poems shared with no one. Until the arrival of a transfer student. Because some presences cannot be resisted. Only surrender is possible.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.8%, Retro 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Horror 11.4%, Atmospheric 10.1%

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 36.8%, Psychological Horror 27.4%, Horror 20.3%, Adventure 11.2%, 2D 3.8%

A yuri denpa tale about the cursed pariah of a rural cult, Mercy, and her fateful meeting with the Holy Maiden Auma. Bloody, bold, and bone-chilling, this visual novel explores the complexities of the cycle of abuse and the violence in playing by the rules.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Gore 16.6%, Horror 13.5%, Violent 12.7%

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: Visual Novel 27.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Horror 12.7%, Adventure 11.3%

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 27.6%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Horror 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%

The dead linger in the CRT glow, their wails rippling through the screen like disembodied echoes. And now… you’re drifting with them...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.4%, Horror 32.2%, Retro 14%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 8%

A horror visual novel set in a steampunk universe. Young Lyset finds herself wandering through a mysterious world of sentient machines. In her desperate search for her long-lost brother, she must choose between death and immortality.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.7%, Horror 20.1%, Violent 13.5%, Gore 12.2%, Adventure 8%

If one’s imagined world of nightmare and the real world unite…. The hide-and-seek game of death in the world of nightmare begins. Discover hints and save yourself from the nightmare!

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.3%, Horror 23.7%, Gore 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Adventure 7.2%

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 24.3%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Retro 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%

Matoki is about to flood to protect the inhabitants of the city above... Vik and his companions head for the flood controls, but his search for his missing mother threatens to consume him. A psychological horror VN about sacrifice, and what desperation makes people willing to do.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.2%, Psychological Horror 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%

Return as Alice and embark on her adventure to find the truth...

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.5%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 23.1%, Adventure 13.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 18.6%, Adventure 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

私は、自殺を考えている。クラブ・スーサイドへようこそ。自殺を考える少年達に寄り添う、奇妙な一週間。命を思考するノベルアドベンチャー。

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.4%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Gore 11.4%

It is the newest village of tradition. In the year 2200, Oculus, an employee at a cybernetic body manufacturing company, hears a rumor that a colleague has gone missing while on the job.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.1%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%