- #1 The Shell Part I: Inferno
97% matchVery Positive91% of 1,368 reviews2023
Dev: Innocent GreyPub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 114.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 13.9%, Dark 13.5%, Gore 11.9%, Anime 9.6%
- #2 Geminism
96% matchVery Positive90% of 121 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 14.8%, Horror 11.4%, Gore 9.9%
- #3 Syutyaku Gakuen
96% matchVery Positive93% of 56 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 30,195 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.5 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 16.6%, Gore 11.7%, Violent 7.3%
- #5 Salthe
95% matchVery Positive85% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: SoireePub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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 19%, Horror 18.4%, Adventure 3.7%
- #6 Higurashi When They Cry Hou+
94% matchVery Positive88% of 170 reviews2023
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.5 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 11.5%, Violent 10.6%
- #7 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
93% matchVery Positive87% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 12.8%, Horror 11.5%, Romance 11.1%
- #8 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
92% matchVery Positive93% of 20,460 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 16.7 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 39.2%, Anime 24.7%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Cute 11.9%, Adventure 4.9%
- #9 Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
91% matchVery Positive86% of 505 reviews2018
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 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 Corpse Party
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,376 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 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 23.9%, Anime 18.6%, Gore 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark 7%
- #11 Nightmare Zapping
90% 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 15.6%, Anime 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%
- #12 Ib
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,122 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 23.2%, Anime 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Cute 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #13 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
89% matchVery Positive86% of 1,515 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%
- #14 BLACK SOULS
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,538 reviews2025
Dev: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?Pub: OTAKU Plan
Windows
Median: 8.1 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 29.8%, Dark 19%, Anime 16.8%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #15 It was a human.
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 484 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 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
- #16 BAD END THEATER
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,656 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.5%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Romance 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #17 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
88% 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 13.8%, Horror 13.2%, Gore 12.2%, Dark 11.2%
- #18 Suhoshin
85% matchVery Positive91% of 170 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 22.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Multiple Endings 9%, Adventure 8.9%
- #19 Hazy Mind
84% matchVery Positive86% of 331 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 13.1%, Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #20 Tiny Bunny: Prologue
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,257 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%
- #21 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
81% matchVery Positive95% of 516 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%, Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 14.8%, Gore 12.6%, Horror 11.1%
- #22 Hira Hira Hihiru
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: BA-KUPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
"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%, Text-Based 14%, Violent 10.3%, Anime 9.9%
- #23 Kara no Shojo
83% matchVery Positive92% of 449 reviews2018
Dev: Innocent GreyPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 161.1 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 22.2%, Anime 19.9%, Dark 18.6%, Horror 16%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #24 ABYSS OF THE SACRIFICE
82% matchVery Positive83% of 267 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 17.3%, Adventure 10.4%, Gore 10.1%
- #25 Project Vostok: Episode 1
82% 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 17.3%, Anime 14.6%, Horror 13.8%, Gore 13.4%, Dark 13.1%
- #26 Yet Another Killing Game
78% matchVery Positive98% of 229 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%
- #27 Raging Loop
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,075 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 24.2 hrsMean: 59.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.2%, Gore 13.2%, Adventure 12.8%, Anime 10.5%, Violent 9.3%
- #28 Sunlight Scream
79% 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%
- #29 Mandemon
78% 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 31.9%, Anime 23.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Horror 12.9%, Cute 12%
- #30 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
77% matchVery Positive98% of 96 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 19.8%, Horror 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Gore 13.5%, Visual Novel 13%
- #31 Homicipher
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,997 reviews2024
Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.3 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 19.3%, Text-Based 16.9%, Dark 16%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #32 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
75% matchVery Positive94% of 55,246 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 26.8%, Anime 25.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Cute 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #33 Memory Girl +
76% matchVery Positive97% of 67 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 13.5%, Cute 10.3%
- #34 The House in Fata Morgana
77% matchVery Positive95% of 6,235 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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%, Anime 13.9%, Horror 12.8%
- #35 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
76% matchVery Positive86% of 253 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 15.9%, Dark 15%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #36 Folie Fatale
74% matchVery Positive86% of 2,531 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%
- #37 Train of Afterlife
80% 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 21.2%, Adventure 15.1%, Dark 8.8%, Multiple Endings 5.1%
- #38 Midnight Syndrome
73% matchVery Positive99% of 93 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 15.6%, Dark 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #39 氷点下30度の絶望
71% matchVery Positive97% of 337 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 28.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Cute 7.8%
- #40 Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
74% matchVery Positive90% of 3,616 reviews2016
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Alberto Herrera
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 33.7%, Anime 31.5%, Horror 14.9%, Romance 11.1%, Adventure 2.2%
- #41 Chloé’s Requiem -encore-
73% matchVery Positive91% of 171 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 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Adventure 12.8%
- #42 Dark Light
72% 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 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #43 PASSENGER x PRINCESS: NO HOPE // MUST DIE
69% matchVery Positive99% of 185 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 29.3%, Romance 22.2%, Anime 19.6%, Adventure 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
- #44 Trapped with Jester
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,515 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 9.9%
- #45 Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
73% matchVery Positive89% of 526 reviews2019
Dev: Ignis SanatPub: Ignis Sanat 🔥
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 117.2 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 16.4%, Horror 15.8%, Gore 13.4%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #46 outside the door
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 619 reviews2024
Dev: basandaika games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Anime 23.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Text-Based 8.3%, Horror 8.2%
- #47 Doki Doki Literature Club!
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 221,125 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Anime 19.1%, Horror 13.1%, Dark 12.2%, Romance 9.5%
- #48 Drowning Song of the Stagnant Sea
69% matchPositive86% of 50 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 17.8%, Gore 12.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #49 春と修羅|Haru to Shura
71% 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 26.6%, Anime 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 9%
- #50 Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,296 reviews2015
Dev: Angels Blue Digital EntertainmentPub: DigitalEZ
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 163.4 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 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dark 15.3%, Anime 14.8%, Horror 14.7%
- #51 The Way We All Go (2015)
72% matchVery Positive87% of 154 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 24.7%, Violent 17.1%, Anime 17.1%, Horror 7.7%
- #52 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%, Anime 13.4%, Cute 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #53 Winion Virus
66% matchVery Positive95% of 1,002 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 27.2%, Horror 25.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Dark 14.1%, Cute 10.7%
- #54 Королевская ночь
69% 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 12.9%, Romance 10.9%, Gore 9.6%
- #55 BAD END
71% matchVery Positive84% of 395 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 22.2%, Horror 20.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Adventure 10.7%
- #56 Banebush
65% matchVery Positive95% of 2,161 reviews2024
Dev: Hinterland Mood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 40.7%, Horror 30.5%, Violent 15.5%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 2.4%
- #57 Kanna Maze
67% matchVery Positive89% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Visual Novel 54.4%, Adventure 27.5%, 2D 10.4%, Text-Based 7.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #58 Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
66% 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 12.4%, Cute 8.9%
- #59 Even20: The Interference of Parallels
65% matchVery Positive94% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: SilverEyesPub: Wisdom Games Publishing
Windows · Mac
Two souls are drawn into a mysterious otherworld—and torn apart. In a realm filled with danger and restless spirits, each searches for the other while uncovering hidden truths. A suspenseful multi-ending adventure where every choice shapes their fate.
Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Dark 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Adventure 12.6%, Anime 12.1%
- #60 Decollate Decoration
64% matchVery Positive93% of 314 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 27%, Horror 25.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Adventure 15.2%, Cute 10%