
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 and destiny. When her brother disappears, Elham's desperate search plunges her into a world of haunting visions, buried truths, and battles against dark forces. Will she find her true calling and embrace the light? or will she succumb to darkness

Alex's Hope & Alex's Solitude
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.
A psychological horror visual novel about healing and destiny. When her brother disappears, Elham's desperate search plunges her into a world of haunting visions, buried truths, and battles against dark forces. Will she find her true calling and embrace the light? or will she succumb to darkness
Why similar: Supernatural 14.2%, Emotional 14%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Psychological 10.3%
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 16.9%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Emotional 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
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 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Horror 11.1%, Text-Based 10.6%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Psychological 14.4%, Emotional 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
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 19%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Emotional 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 8.8%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Emotional 13.4%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
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 17.5%, Supernatural 17%, Emotional 13%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
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 13.6%, Supernatural 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 12.7%, Psychological 12%
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 18.5%, Emotional 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Supernatural 11.1%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
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 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Emotional 10.8%
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 26.4%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Horror 12.9%, Emotional 12.6%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
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 17.4%, Supernatural 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Emotional 12.4%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
"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 24.7%, Emotional 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological 12.8%, Dark 8.4%
A psychological horror visual novel where you play as a teenager sent to a mysterious boarding school after losing his parents. Make choices that alter your fate, uncover dark secrets, and face supernatural trials to survive the ancient mystical forces.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Psychological 15%, Supernatural 15%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Hand-drawn 13.5%
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 17.2%, Hand-drawn 16.9%, Psychological 13.9%, Horror 11.6%
A horror visual novel exploring the dark sides of friendship and the dangerous paths taken to save it.
Why similar: Psychological 14.9%, Supernatural 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Emotional 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
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 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
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%, Psychological 12.1%, Emotional 11.7%, Supernatural 11.6%, Horror 10.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Supernatural 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Horror 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Supernatural 17.3%, Hand-drawn 13%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological 10.3%
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%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Psychological 12.8%, Emotional 9.8%
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 13.9%, Psychological 12.8%, Emotional 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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: Visual Novel 15%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Supernatural 13.1%, Psychological 12.6%, Text-Based 8.5%
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%, Emotional 12.5%, Horror 12.5%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.2%
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 14.1%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Text-Based 8.1%
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 22%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Horror 11.5%, Emotional 10%
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 23.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Hand-drawn 13%, Emotional 12.1%, Horror 10.4%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Psychological 15.2%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Text-Based 10.9%
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 16.4%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Supernatural 12.5%, Horror 10.1%, Psychological 9.3%
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 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Horror 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
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 18.5%, Horror 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological Horror 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 19.5%, Hand-drawn 18.8%, Emotional 17.5%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Horror 14.2%, Psychological 13.1%, Supernatural 9.5%
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 18.3%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Horror 11.6%
Join Finn on his adventure through the most beautiful periods of his adolescence! Finn, a 16 year old boy, lives in a cute town with his mother and friends. So, what will happen in his life? Put on your coats to find out, because Norway is cold! This game is not suitable for all audiences.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological 13%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Emotional 11.7%, Text-Based 11.7%
“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 20.6%, Emotional 19.5%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Psychological 12.8%
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 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Emotional 11%, Text-Based 10.4%
Could an AI fall in love with a human? What if that human were you? IA is a psychological horror visual novel about an AI that falls in "love" with you, despite her hatred for humanity.
Why similar: Psychological 24.3%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Horror 7.6%
《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 19.4%, Hand-drawn 16.4%, Horror 13.4%, Stylized 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.4%
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 18.2%, Emotional 17.7%, Horror 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 14.7%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Emotional 11.5%, Horror 11%
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 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Horror 11.2%, Emotional 10.2%
Wander the halls of an eerie 1920s mansion as haunting visions torment you and the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Step into the role of grieving widow Eleanor Hartfield and uncover the chilling truth behind your husband’s mysterious death.
Why similar: Supernatural 25.5%, Horror 18.1%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Dark 8.2%, Emotional 7.9%
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 16%, Psychological 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
In April, when cherry blossoms flutter through the air, a gruesome discovery is made—a blood-soaked corpse in a quiet town.
Why similar: Emotional 16%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological 11.4%, Horror 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
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 19%, Emotional 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Horror 11%, Hand-drawn 11%
Gripping psychological thriller Yaoi game full of difficult choices. Can you trust your own mind?
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Emotional 9.7%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological 10.8%, Emotional 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
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 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Horror 11.3%, Emotional 11.2%
RAIN;CHECK tells a short story set in a small, remote town about a girl just trying to get by in the middle of a rainy, tumultuous night. On this special occasion, an unexpected storm of events brews ever closer.
Why similar: Psychological 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Supernatural 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Emotional 11%
You are a soul, ready for your next lifetime on earth. To prepare for incarnation, you visit the Interdimensional Museum to remember your personalities from past lives. Tour the museum artifacts, remember who you were, and when you're ready, the museum will reveal your next life to you.
Why similar: Supernatural 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Hand-drawn 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological 9.2%
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 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Emotional 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Psychological 10.2%
An action-adventure horror experience across eerie, ever-changing spaces. Solve puzzles, uncover clues, and rely on a mysterious phone to push beyond confinement.
Why similar: Supernatural 24.9%, Psychological 22.5%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Dark 9.5%
Haunted by the ability to read minds, Suteru embarks on a journey of revenge against those who wronged him. Uncovering the secrets of his tormentors, he must confront his demons in a story that explores the depths and darkness of the human mind.
Why similar: Supernatural 17.4%, Psychological 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Hand-drawn 12%
An ordinary girl named Annihilation inherits a huge debt from her father and is desperate to find a way out. On the street, she meets a stranger in a raincoat, called Catharsis, who offers a demonic part-time job for a week.
Why similar: Supernatural 16.6%, Psychological 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Horror 9.8%
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 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Horror 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
A non-linear, eerie visual novel inspired by Ukrainian folklore. Go caroling with Goat, Bear, and Granny to make choices that decide the villagers' fate, save dozens, or lead to disasters. Learn how powerful words and silence can be.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.6%, Supernatural 14.3%, Psychological 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Emotional 12.4%
Step into the world of Nyx, a VTuber whose online persona begins to blur with something far more unsettling. After the Stream Went Dark is a short psychological horror visual novel exploring identity, self-perception, and the fragile boundary between performance and reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Hand-drawn 18.8%, Psychological 15.8%, Emotional 15.2%, Female Protagonist 7.6%
Labyrinth of Crystal Princess is a “escape the labyrinth by detecting the unseen” horror adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Emotional 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Horror 11.6%