- #1 The Shell Part I: Inferno
97% matchVery Positive90% of 1,396 reviews2023
Dev: Innocent GreyPub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 115.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Romance 14%, Dark 13.5%, Gore 12%, Anime 9.7%
- #2 Geminism
96% matchVery Positive90% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: CRAFTWORKPub: Shiravune
Windows
Two pairs of twins war for love, life, and limb beneath the curtain of a dark Tokyo night. From the artisans at CRAFTWORK comes a visual novel lush with art, action, and mystery; a story of GEMINISM—deformity and divinity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Anime 16.2%, Dark 14.7%, Horror 11.4%, Gore 9.9%
- #3 Syutyaku Gakuen
96% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: mokosoft
Windows
The only quality that can be measured is whether or not they possess the qualities of morbid love. As they spend their time at the school, what was once a peaceful life turns into a blood-soaked, corpse-riddled, blood-soaked day....
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Anime 15.1%, Dark 14.7%, Adventure 10.1%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #4 Tiny Bunny
94% matchVery Positive83% of 30,284 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.7%, Horror 17%, Dark 16.5%, Gore 11.8%, Violent 7.4%
- #5 Salthe
95% matchVery Positive85% of 219 reviews2020
Dev: SoireePub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Anime 25.8%, Dark 18.9%, Horror 18.4%, Adventure 3.7%
- #6 Higurashi When They Cry Hou+
94% matchVery Positive87% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
The tragedy of Hinamizawa is over. Those held captive within its grip are free from the fate that bound them to June 1983. Yet the tale of Hinamizawa is not truly complete. There are many worlds not yet explored.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25%, Anime 21%, Gore 14.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Violent 10.7%
- #7 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
93% matchVery Positive93% of 20,782 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.3%, Anime 24.7%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Cute 11.9%, Adventure 4.8%
- #8 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
91% matchVery Positive87% of 710 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you. Experience the fate of Saeko and the little people in this cruel yet captivating story with avant-garde art.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Dark 15.5%, Anime 12.9%, Horror 11.5%, Romance 11.1%
- #9 Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
92% matchVery Positive86% of 511 reviews2018
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An anthology series that serves as a Corpse Party sequel, prequel, midquel, and alternate universe tale all in one. Rejoin old friends for a deeper dive into the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary...
Why similar: Gore 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Horror 13.2%, Anime 12.9%, Dark 11.4%
- #10 BAD END THEATER
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,730 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Romance 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #11 Corpse Party
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,383 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Anime 18.6%, Gore 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dark 6.9%
- #12 Nightmare Zapping
89% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
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 20.9%, Horror 16%, Dark 15.5%, Anime 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%
- #13 Ib
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,169 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Horror 23.3%, Anime 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Cute 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #14 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
89% matchVery Positive86% of 1,521 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 25.8%, Horror 21.4%, Gore 12.4%, Anime 11%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #15 Suhoshin
86% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2022
Dev: No More 500
Windows
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.4%, Anime 22.3%, Text-Based 15.5%, Multiple Endings 9%, Adventure 8.9%
- #16 The House in Fata Morgana
86% matchVery Positive95% of 6,347 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Dark 14.7%, Romance 14.1%, Anime 13.9%, Horror 12.8%
- #17 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
87% matchVery Positive83% of 160 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
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: Anime 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 13.2%, Gore 12.3%, Dark 11.2%
- #18 Hazy Mind
85% matchVery Positive86% of 332 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25.4%, Anime 17.6%, Horror 13.2%, Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #19 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 635 reviews2026
Dev: Laplacian
Windows
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 27.1%, Adventure 17.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Gore 12.4%, Horror 11.8%
- #20 It was a human.
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 487 reviews2024
Dev: Loser/sPub: GAMER Plan
Windows
A short SF psychedelic interrogation ADV game that focuses on the interrogation of a suspect in a dismemberment murder case. The protagonist is a lieutenant colonel, tasked with interrogating the suspect. The protagonist needs to find out why she killed the two men and how she committed the crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Anime 15.7%, Dark 13.3%, Horror 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
- #21 Tiny Bunny: Prologue
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,261 reviews2020
Dev: Saikono
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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 32.1%, Horror 30.2%, Adventure 12.8%, Dark 9.4%, Anime 8.1%
- #22 Hira Hira Hihiru
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 921 reviews2023
Dev: BA-KUPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.5%, Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 14%, Violent 10.3%, Anime 9.9%
- #23 Kara no Shojo
84% matchVery Positive92% of 450 reviews2018
Dev: Innocent GreyPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 159.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Anime 20%, Dark 18.5%, Horror 16%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #24 BLACK SOULS
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,782 reviews2025
Dev: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?Pub: OTAKU Plan
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Long, long ago, there existed a kingdom shrouded in dense mist: the Lost Empire. This mist twisted humans into terrifying beasts, plunging the world into despair. War raged endlessly. Heroes rose, seeking fame and glory. It is in this place you awaken—a nameless undead.
Why similar: Cute 29.6%, Dark 19.3%, Anime 16.8%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #25 ABYSS OF THE SACRIFICE
81% matchVery Positive83% of 270 reviews2020
Dev: INTENSEPub: D3PUBLISHER
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Five girls meet in an isolated underground city. As they slay and betray each other, what fate awaits them at the end of their journey? Hope? Or despair? Enjoy an immersive story, fully voiced and boasting multiple endings!
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Anime 22.1%, Dark 17.2%, Adventure 10.4%, Gore 10.1%
- #26 Project Vostok: Episode 1
81% matchVery Positive83% of 117 reviews2022
Dev: Natrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover the story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate a of various cast of heroes in this free visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Anime 14.7%, Horror 13.8%, Gore 13.4%, Dark 13%
- #27 Yet Another Killing Game
77% matchVery Positive98% of 234 reviews2025
Dev: Soulseer Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Anime 19%, Dark 17.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #28 Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
79% matchVery Positive92% of 2,561 reviews2017
Dev: KeroQPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 175.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.6%, Anime 14%, Gore 13%, Violent 11.9%, Horror 10%
- #29 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
77% matchVery Positive98% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
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: Dark 19.6%, Horror 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Gore 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%
- #30 Sunlight Scream
78% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Faithy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The hero moves to a new city. However, along with him comes a masked killer who begins to kill his friends one by one... Make decisions to build your adventure. Can you stop him before it's too late?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.4%, Anime 18.8%, Dark 13.6%, Horror 11%, Romance 10.5%
- #31 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
75% matchVery Positive94% of 55,877 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Anime 26%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Cute 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #32 Homicipher
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,066 reviews2024
Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Horror 19.4%, Text-Based 16.8%, Dark 16%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #33 Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,298 reviews2015
Dev: Angels Blue Digital EntertainmentPub: DigitalEZ
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 163.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?
Why similar: Gore 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dark 15.3%, Anime 14.8%, Horror 14.7%
- #34 Memory Girl +
76% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: cream△Pub: Champloo Games
Windows
A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Horror 14.4%, Romance 13.7%, Anime 13.6%, Cute 10.4%
- #35 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
76% matchVery Positive86% of 256 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Horror 20.8%, Anime 16%, Dark 15%, Choices Matter 7%
- #36 Mandemon
75% matchVery Positive87% of 372 reviews2023
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Decaying Japanese school buildings, a series of bizarre incidents, eerie Mandemon legends. Lies and truths intertwine, love and hate entwined in the mist. What should one do? Whom should one believe? Welcome to this cruel world filled with deception and harm —
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Anime 23.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Horror 12.9%, Cute 12%
- #37 Folie Fatale
73% matchVery Positive86% of 2,552 reviews2024
Dev: Kanmidoko (神海処)Pub: 346lab Localization
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
All capture targets are mentally "Jirai"(landmine)!? Meet these eccentric boys, reveal the truth beneath in this Psycho-love-horror VN!
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Anime 20.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Gore 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #38 Train of Afterlife
79% matchMixed51% of 183 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.4%, Anime 21.3%, Adventure 15.2%, Dark 8.8%, Multiple Endings 5%
- #39 Raging Loop
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,201 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 24.1 hrsMean: 59.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.2%, Gore 13.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Anime 10.5%, Violent 9.3%
- #40 Curse or Love
72% matchVery Positive96% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: 小橘子糖_official
Windows
A Denpa Bishoujo Psychological Horror Curio: A Visual Novel ❦ Mild Horror, Mild Suspense, and a Hint of Whimsical Madness ❦ We Hope You Find Your Own "Happy Ending" Among Multiple Conclusions ❦ A Major Plot Twist, Perhaps? ❦ Glimpse a sliver of truth in the liminal space between life and death.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.6%, Anime 25.4%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Cute 12.5%, Indie 1.8%
- #41 Midnight Syndrome
73% matchVery Positive99% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: ナツミカン
Windows
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Horror 16.3%, Anime 15.7%, Dark 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #42 氷点下30度の絶望
70% matchVery Positive97% of 352 reviews2025
Dev: Mitsudomoe Koubou
Windows
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 28.3%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Cute 7.9%
- #43 Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
73% matchVery Positive90% of 3,623 reviews2016
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Alberto Herrera
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.6%, Anime 31.5%, Horror 14.9%, Romance 11.1%, Adventure 2.2%
- #44 Chloé’s Requiem -encore-
71% matchVery Positive91% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: buriki clockPub: Annulus
Windows · Mac
Chloé’s Requiem -encore- is a 2D Adventure Horror game set in Modern Europe. The genius violinist Michél is invited into an old mansion. Inside waits Chloé, who asks him to “Break the curse of the mansion”. What awaits the pair after the mystery is solved…?
Why similar: Dark 21.1%, Horror 20.6%, Anime 14%, Adventure 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%
- #45 Dark Light
71% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: UsagygyPub: ZNT Productions
Windows
Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.3%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #46 PASSENGER x PRINCESS: NO HOPE // MUST DIE
68% matchVery Positive98% of 198 reviews2026
Dev: Lunaticker
Windows
A self abating husk is forcibly coerced into a suicide pact by a "perfect" girl drowning in ennui and despair. The result is unfathomable heart rending terror and confusion.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.2%, Romance 22.2%, Anime 19.6%, Adventure 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
- #47 Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
72% matchVery Positive89% of 530 reviews2019
Dev: Ignis SanatPub: Ignis Sanat 🔥
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 118.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Anime 16.5%, Horror 15.8%, Gore 13.5%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #48 Trapped with Jester
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,539 reviews2022
Dev: AntaPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Text-Based 16.5%, Horror 16%, Anime 12.3%, Cute 10%
- #49 Drowning Song of the Stagnant Sea
68% matchPositive88% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: 空想の工房Pub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
A dark fairy tale set in the deep sea. The fated encounter between a sea monster and a human forever changes their lives in this visual novel. Contains platonic yuri.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.5%, Adventure 17.9%, Gore 12.3%, Text-Based 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #50 Decollate Decoration
66% matchVery Positive93% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: KANEKODOPub: KEMCO
Windows
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Horror 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Adventure 15.3%, Cute 10.2%
- #51 DEAD LAMB WALKING
67% matchVery Positive97% of 195 reviews2024
Dev: Lyn Mametchi
Windows
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Horror 17.1%, Anime 13.5%, Cute 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #52 Winion Virus
66% matchVery Positive95% of 1,028 reviews2024
Dev: Dawntown Studio
Windows · Mac
Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.1%, Horror 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Dark 14.2%, Cute 10.8%
- #53 春と修羅|Haru to Shura
70% matchVery Positive91% of 94 reviews2021
Dev: MIYAKOpubl
Windows
Explore a mysterious world as the protagonist in this short adventure game with pixel graphics.
Why similar: Dark 26.5%, Anime 18%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 9%
- #54 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,871 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 27.3%, Anime 18.1%, Horror 17.9%, Dark 12.1%, Gore 9%
- #55 Королевская ночь
68% matchVery Positive88% of 147 reviews2023
Dev: SNch
Windows
"Королевская ночь"– нелинейная визуальная новелла в жанре ужасов. Десятки лет одиночества заставят её мыслить иначе..
Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Horror 15.6%, Anime 13%, Romance 11%, Gore 9.6%
- #56 The Way We All Go (2015)
71% matchVery Positive87% of 155 reviews2015
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Gore 24.8%, Violent 17.2%, Anime 17.1%, Horror 7.7%
- #57 BAD END
70% matchVery Positive83% of 398 reviews2015
Dev: Arai Koh Create OfficePub: YOX-Project
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.3%, Anime 22.3%, Horror 20.2%, Adventure 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #58 Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: DankHeartsPub: WhisperGames
Windows
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Anime 26.5%, Adventure 15.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Cute 8.9%
- #59 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
69% matchVery Positive82% of 512 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A strange rumor is spreading through the shadows of Tokyo's H City: a mysterious disfigurement has been appearing on the bodies of certain individuals. Anyone who receives the Mark will rapidly die of unknown, horrifying causes. The countdown to death has already begun...
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Horror 25.4%, Violent 18.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Anime 12.3%
- #60 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 933 reviews2018
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26%, Anime 18.6%, Horror 17.1%, Gore 13.2%, Adventure 8.8%