
Explore the beginning of a new horrifying story in this mixture of a text-based and a 2D game. Emily's world is about to turn upside down, maybe in more ways than anyone is able to realize yet.
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Explore the beginning of a new horrifying story in this mixture of a text-based and a 2D game. Emily's world is about to turn upside down, maybe in more ways than anyone is able to realize yet.

Saraab: Beyond The Veil
A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search forces her to confront haunting visions, buried family secrets, and dark entities. Will you help her embrace the light, or let her fall into the darkness?

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A visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Mostly realistic, with a werewolf twist. Your choices determine the heroine's fate—caught between envy and longing, will she claim her place in the system, or burn it all down for a dream no one values?
A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search forces her to confront haunting visions, buried family secrets, and dark entities. Will you help her embrace the light, or let her fall into the darkness?
Why similar: Supernatural 14.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Psychological 10.3%
A visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Mostly realistic, with a werewolf twist. Your choices determine the heroine's fate—caught between envy and longing, will she claim her place in the system, or burn it all down for a dream no one values?
Why similar: Supernatural 21.2%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Emotional 10.5%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 13.3%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Psychological 14.1%, Emotional 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
A boy regains his hope and a girl finds herself in solitude. A kinetic novel that will take you through their darkest days and immerse you in their deepest emotions.
Why similar: Psychological 16.8%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Emotional 13.8%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
A ghost and a carnival clown plot revenge on the man who ruined their lives. An operatic tragedy set in 1920s Sicily.
Why similar: Supernatural 17.9%, Psychological 14.2%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Horror 9.1%, Emotional 9%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Supernatural 16%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Horror 11.2%, Text-Based 10.5%
Challenge fate in this psychological visual novel about a juvenile psych ward patient who discovers a book that can predict the future.
Why similar: Psychological 18.4%, Emotional 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Supernatural 11.1%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Supernatural 16.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Emotional 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 8.8%
《残秽的我们》是一款本土手绘写实风格的恐怖冒险游戏,以真实事件为蓝本改编。在游戏中,玩家将跟随女主“无者”的脚步,深入由亡者怨念而产生的“怨秽地”,利用“刻印”的力量,探究隐藏其中的一段真实往事。
Why similar: Supernatural 17.7%, Hand-drawn 15%, Horror 12.3%, Emotional 8.8%, Stylized 8.7%
Blossoms of Eternity by JAYBE GAMES is a thrilling time-travel saga in which Kuro, Miyu, and Aihara must confront not only their own feelings, but also power-hungry witches who can literally turn reality upside down.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 13.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Supernatural 12.9%, Emotional 12.6%, Psychological 11.9%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Emotional 10.7%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 17.3%, Supernatural 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Emotional 12.3%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
Every town is unique. Liddy's town has a lot of supernatural activity and it is her job to find and free entities stuck on our realm. Join her and her friends on their adventures, finding clues and ways to banish the creatures that shouldn't be here.
Why similar: Supernatural 26.3%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Horror 13%, Emotional 12.5%, Female Protagonist 12%
A horror visual novel exploring the dark sides of friendship and the dangerous paths taken to save it.
Why similar: Psychological 14.7%, Supernatural 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Emotional 11%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.
Why similar: Psychological 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Supernatural 11%
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Why similar: Psychological 21.8%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Horror 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Emotional 9.9%
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: Supernatural 16.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Horror 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Aki is haunted by a curse. In search of salvation, she travels into the memories of a dead classmate, where she must witness three eerie mystical stories and figure out how to break the shackles of misfortune.
Why similar: Supernatural 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Psychological 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
A choose-your-own-adventure horror game about using the memories of the dead to scavenge lost civilisations.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Supernatural 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological 11.3%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
"When the graves stop whispering in your ear, it’s time for you to surrender to eternal silence". So says the Agreement, and so it must be fulfilled. Welcome to a new dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.
Why similar: Supernatural 24.8%, Emotional 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological 12.7%, Dark 8.4%
A world where Spilia, a virus that causes delusions and hallucinations, has become epidemic. A horror visual novel game set in a hospital where patients are isolated.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Hand-drawn 16.9%, Psychological 13.7%, Horror 11.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Horror 11.6%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Supernatural 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
"Something is in your house." As a Shaman, you are the only one who can face the unknown. Investigate haunted homes, uncover secrets, and exorcise malevolent spirits. Your choices determine the client's fate. Experience a chilling K-horror story where every decision matters.
Why similar: Supernatural 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Psychological 13.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Horror 10.7%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Supernatural 12.3%, Horror 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Supernatural 17.2%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological 10.2%
After a brief wander, at the end of a corridor, you encounter a girl curled up by a door, you can tell that her style is far from ordinary. Perhaps she knows more than you do… Or maybe she’s the reason you’re here. Will she help you? Or maybe you will help her?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Psychological 12%, Emotional 11.6%, Supernatural 11.6%, Horror 11%
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: Hand-drawn 15.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological 14.8%, Supernatural 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
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 21.1%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, Psychological 13.7%, Dark 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 9.7%
Ayla's Dollhouse is a psychological game that tells the unfortunate story of Ayla, a girl tormented by the disorder of time, and her own demons.
Why similar: Psychological 20.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Hand-drawn 13%, Side Scroller 9%, Emotional 8.8%
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Emotional 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Horror 11.1%, Hand-drawn 11%
You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.
Why similar: Supernatural 19.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life. This game was made entirely out of scanned traditional watercolor art.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 23.5%, Psychological 13.8%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Horror 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10%
Navigate your relationships and figure out the truth behind the ghost of a 80s children's TV show host who's been haunting you in this fully voiced R-18 visual novel filled with nostalgia, romance, and horror. Can everyone get their happily ever after?
Why similar: Psychological 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 11.2%, Emotional 10.9%
A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological 13.5%, Horror 12.7%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Emotional 10.1%
Mayuhara City, Tokyo. The wounds of the mass suicide event of Mayuhara Academy from eight years ago have finally begun to heal. The rumors of the “Mayuhara Curse” are still whispered amongst the students.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Horror 14.1%, Psychological 12.9%, Supernatural 9.4%
Alice Mesmerizing Episodes of Neurosis (AMEN) is a hidden object game. The player's task is to find things hidden on the map. Help Alice cross this path, destroy the ego-structure, get out of the abyss, find the key.
Why similar: Supernatural 14.1%, Psychological 14%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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 21.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Text-Based 8.1%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Horror 11.3%, Emotional 10.1%
From hit writer Ryukishi07, the creator of When They Cry, comes a story on the theme of “curses.” Strike down the dark riddle of dolls and soot in this supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Supernatural 23.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13%, Emotional 12%, Horror 10.5%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Psychological 15.1%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Text-Based 10.9%
Lin Yue'an embarks on a journey home, but unsettling events soon disrupt her ordinary life. Strange dreams, lost memories, and eerie occurrences lead her to uncover hidden truths. Can she trace everything back to its true origin and escape the net of fate that has already been woven around her?
Why similar: Supernatural 23%, Horror 12.5%, Emotional 12.4%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Emotional 10.9%, Text-Based 10.4%
Gripping psychological thriller Yaoi game full of difficult choices. Can you trust your own mind?
Why similar: Psychological 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12%, Emotional 9.6%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Supernatural 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Emotional 11.3%, Horror 11.1%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Supernatural 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Horror 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
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: Supernatural 20.5%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Horror 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
A visual novel about returning home. That is, trying to get home. After all, your home is no longer there. You could say that it is actually about drinking in a bar and talking to strange people.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Hand-drawn 15%, Psychological 13.3%, Emotional 12%
A survival horror visual novel. When her train terminates at the strange and sinister Sylvan Station, Tera finds herself entangled in a neverending night of darkness.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Supernatural 12.4%, Horror 10.1%, Psychological 9.2%
"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.
Why similar: Psychological 19.2%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Emotional 17.4%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Emotional 19.3%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Psychological 12.7%
While trying to plan a party that’s to die for, a high school queen bee finds she has an uninvited guest that is much scarier than your average teenage girl.
Why similar: Supernatural 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Horror 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Hand-drawn 11%
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Why similar: Supernatural 15.9%, Psychological 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Psychological 18.1%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Horror 11.7%
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.3%, Emotional 17.6%, Horror 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%
A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About Something in the Nowhere.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Emotional 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Psychological 10.2%
Peak or Die is a narrative-driven survival game about leading a team of adventurers up a deadly mountain, where every decision has lasting consequences. Manage oxygen, food, and team morale while facing moral dilemmas, random events, and an unforgiving environment. Reach the summit — or fail trying.
Why similar: Supernatural 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Psychological 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 10.4%