- #1 Weeping Souls
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 灵境研究
Windows
《泣魂》是一款视觉小说游戏。玩家在当中扮演主角并选择正确的路线,确保自己和朋友的安全,游戏有多种结局,由你的选择决定。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Word Game 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Mystery 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #2 筮灵 SHILING
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 286 reviews2024
Dev: WindField GamesPub: Mammorize
Windows
国产本土新怪谈恐怖游戏——幽魂社前社长在直播中突然失踪,销声匿迹数月后发来诡异消息,将你引入离奇的规则世界。走不出的吞人楼栋、满员即死的午夜巴士、地图上不存在的村庄,还有勾魂剧院、吃人公司……世界的“暗面”等待探索,怪谲的谜题等待揭露。
Why similar: Thriller 15.6%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Mystery 10.6%
- #3 我的一个多重人格朋友
96% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: 上海久游网络科技有限公司
Windows
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Word Game 12.6%, Mystery 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #4 破禁 Limbo Break
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: xiaowanxiongzzzPub: Stellar Artificer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A general-audience infinite flow ADV. You will play as Jiang Yuejiao. After being framed and forced to flee to the neighboring country of Dipa, you are drawn into various terrifying worlds, Only by uncovering the hidden truths within these places might you find a way back to the real world.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Word Game 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Thriller 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #5 村庄-The Village
94% matchMostly Negative38% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
After you graduated from college, you were assigned to a small village as a doctor.It looks like an ordinary village, but there are many strange things in it.A man knocking at the door in the middle of the night may not be asking for a doctor.The person you saw may not be alive.Haunted?
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Thriller 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 11%
- #6 黑山羊BlackGoat
93% matchMixed69% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: HUPIDAN
Windows
The game is a BL Cthulhu-style narrative romance game. It tells the story of the protagonist struggling to survive on a cruise ship filled with strange events after losing their memory. The game's setting is modern with a Cthulhu-inspired narrative.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Word Game 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Thriller 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #7 不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book
94% match9 user reviews40% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Detective 14.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 11%, Word Game 10.7%
- #8 Blackmail Directive
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 青梅不输天降工作室Pub: 糕薯科技
Windows
A gripping visual novel set in modern-day Japan, featuring cute anime-style heroines and branching storylines that lead to multiple endings. Every choice you make shapes the story—and determines Arisa's fate.
Why similar: Word Game 14.9%, Detective 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Mystery 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #9 Sunlight Scream
91% matchVery Positive84% of 83 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: Detective 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Mystery 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Dating Sim 10.7%
- #10 告白完就逃跑
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 鈍物娛樂Aha! Moment Games
Windows
《告白完就逃跑》是一款懸疑冒險AVG遊戲,故事發生在一名叫杜羽的學生身上,與情人告白的受阻,所居小鎮的異象,杜羽身邊的一切仿佛都在向著從未有過的失控局面發展,玩家將從杜羽的視角出發,通過不同的抉擇與對話技巧揭開他身邊籠罩謎團的真相。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Detective 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Mystery 13.2%, Dating Sim 13.1%
- #11 Bogeys, Ghosts & Gods
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anecdote StudioPub: TBD
Windows
Bogeys, Ghosts & Gods is a non-linear visual novel with elements of traditional Chinese supernatural folklore.In this miserable world, a young boy must do everything he can to seize the chance to survive, face parting with his companions, and bear a mission that isn’t his own.
Why similar: Word Game 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Dating Sim 10.1%
- #12 Town of Dusk
89% matchVery Positive88% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: 酱爆(Sauce Bomb)
Windows · Mac · Linux
Players will enter the Town of Dusk, built on the eve of Empire of Japan's defeat in World War II, along with other characters. Avoid being killed by other characters! Find the mastermind behind the scenes, unravel all the conspiracies, and uncover the truth! Ultimately escape the Town of Dusk!
Why similar: Thriller 17.2%, Detective 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Mystery 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
- #13 Kanna Maze
88% matchVery Positive89% of 394 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: Word Game 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Detective 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #14 知夏
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 夏梦工作室
Windows
你将扮演一个被AI淘汰的程序员,回到那个停滞的小县城,与那个等了你十二年的女孩一起去寻找,从所有人记忆里消失的发小和尘封的往事,你们追查的不仅仅是真相,还是被AI一起困住的那个夏天、那座小城、那段永远不会结束的等待。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Emotional 15.6%, Mystery 15.4%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #15 死亡编码-Death Code
87% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
Why similar: Detective 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Word Game 12.6%, Mystery 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #16 Suhoshin
86% matchVery Positive90% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: No More 500
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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: Thriller 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Mystery 11.4%, Detective 11.4%
- #17 Reunions with you billions of times
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zhuzi1
Windows
This is a short, romance-focused visual novel where you play as a student. As you fall in love with your classmate Qiu, you become trapped in a time loop and die again and again. Together with Qiu, you must search for a way to break the loop, with your choices leading to different endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Word Game 15.1%, Emotional 14.7%, Dating Sim 11.8%
- #18 No Recollection
84% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Jake Platt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
- #19 紧急援助热线
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 海豹菇
Windows
Qiudu loses all memories of the day whenever he wakes up. After answering a victim’s call, the night-shift emergency hotline operator becomes entangled in a serial murder case. Gather clues from late-night calls, uncover the truth, and confront the memories he can never keep.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Word Game 15.5%, Mystery 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
- #20 The Chrono Jotter
84% matchVery Positive94% of 2,280 reviews2021
Dev: Orca LayoutPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
Why similar: Detective 14.6%, Thriller 12.9%, Word Game 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #21 Uberich: Advent Sinners
82% matchVery Positive83% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: NBDR GamesPub: XD
Windows
The world and reality of Joe collapse as a sequence of paranormal events starts in September. A mysterious girl with physical powers named Chava wants him dead, as he can be a core key for her cult to dominate the reality between worlds.
Why similar: Word Game 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Mystery 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
- #22 Midnight Witch
82% matchVery Positive93% of 366 reviews2023
Dev: Crimson Moon Studio
Windows
Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?
Why similar: Thriller 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dating Sim 12%
- #23 咒影 Curse of the Shadow
79% matchVery Positive81% of 293 reviews2026
Dev: 小青蛙妙妙制作组
Windows
"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once escaping reality, he’s forced by fate to face fears again.To uncover the curse’s truth, he and two friends embark on a terrifying, unknown journey.
Why similar: Word Game 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Thriller 11.5%, Detective 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #24 Отделение 38
80% matchVery Positive93% of 243 reviews2024
Dev: The Three Windmills
Windows
После неожиданной смерти студент Александр попадает в "Отделение 38", где бюрократия переплетается с мистикой. Раскройте тайны этого потустороннего мира и найдите ответы, которые изменят всё.
Why similar: Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Dating Sim 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #25 ELEGIES: Aya
81% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Squircle
Windows · Mac · Linux
After losing his parents and barely escaping his burning home, Zach wakes up in the hospital where he meets Aya, the ghost of a girl. Who is she, and why can only Zach see her? Together they try to investigate Aya's past, which quickly awakens new dangers.
Why similar: Thriller 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #26 True Game
81% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows · Mac
"True Game" is a work of suspense reasoning. The work tells the story that people in trouble are taken to a closed space and ask to get chips from others through different competitions. This work has a high degree of brain burning, exquisite picture and strong sense of substitution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Detective 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Mystery 12%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #27 世界之外的愚人船
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 愚人失格
Windows
This is a visual novel, in reality we create different worlds that belong only to you for various reasons, and they will gradually fade away with your memories. Please enjoy this time traveling in different worlds with the girls, and then return to where you are meant to exist - your life.
Why similar: Word Game 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Mystery 9.5%
- #28 The Wind from the East
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Xiaowa
Windows · Mac
A hand-drawn school visual novel. In 2004, five students handed in a blue-cloth folder; it came back with the last page cut out. Twenty-two years later you sift the archives - race sheets, carbon copies, loan dates - to find those five and decide whose ending gets put back. Nine endings.
Why similar: Word Game 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Detective 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, RPG 10.4%
- #29 R.I.P. Tour
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Clown
Windows · Linux
A death game visual novel where murder victims are decided by group consensus. Make friends and enemies, solve the mysteries of an abandoned amusement park, and suss out the traitor in your group.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Mystery 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Multiple Endings 13.8%
- #30 Wonderful Body Wanted
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mitchaPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac · Linux
A distracted student arrives for his internship at a girls' boarding school in the small town of Chudnogorsk. After a series of failures, Andrey finds out about a series of disappearances in this mysterious place. And that he himself is bound to disappear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Mystery 15.9%, Thriller 15.7%, Detective 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%
- #31 Echoes of the Rest
76% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Feronline Games
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game where you explore Joe's house and psyche after his accident, solve clues while trying to escape the house, and attempt to uncover the underlying issue behind Joe's mental state.
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Emotional 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Thriller 11.4%
- #32 23:61
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 月食图书室
Windows
"Who do you want to save? Or rather... who are you prepared to abandon?" A midnight "Unsend" trapped them in a rift in time, and awakened the dead "You." Become a "Ghost" inhabiting screens and surveillance feeds. Pry into perfect disguises and rotting hearts.
Why similar: Word Game 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Thriller 8.4%, Mystery 7.9%
- #33 久美子之死:昭和少女血色告白
74% matchVery Positive89% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: LingVision Games
Windows
1988年,日本泡沫经济破灭前夕,化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警,侦查青梅奇怪自杀案,牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密,穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头,在人心与生死的抉择中,搜查蛛丝马迹,找出血案真相。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Detective 14.9%, Word Game 14.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
- #34 Aiyoe's Secret Room
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BI SHUI YU
Windows
Immerse in this visual novel blending escape room mystery and heartfelt romance! Solve tricky puzzles, bond with charming heroines, shape your story with dynamic sprites and multiple endings. Love the tale? Its official animated adaptation X&Y streams on Crunchyroll—search now to dive deeper!
Why similar: Dating Sim 14.4%, Word Game 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #35 你与月光同罪-As Guilty As the Moon
77% match5 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Detective 18.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Mystery 13.2%, RPG 9.8%
- #36 我死后的那些天-After Death
76% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a suspense game, you are sitting in front of the TV, the news is broadcast: last night a young girl was killed, the body was found in a deep alley. And the girl who was murdered -- you. You are involved in a serial murder, and you are reborn as a female journalist.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Detective 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 13%, RPG 9.6%
- #37 Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,047 reviews2021
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?
Why similar: Word Game 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Mystery 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dating Sim 11.9%
- #38 Bloody Hype
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CineGames
Windows · Mac
You'll grow from a helpless viral victim to an all-powerful god of public opinion. When you finally hold power and beauty, facing this world that feeds on human suffering, will you become a cog in the viral machine, or the blade that cuts through the rules? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Thriller 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Mystery 11.6%, Dating Sim 9.6%
- #39 灰烬溪AshCreek
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pigeon Studio
Windows · Mac
AshCreek is a female-oriented interactive visual novel centered on Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Players take on the role of an outsider who is unwillingly drawn into AshCreek, uncovering the truth behind its anomalies step by step by taking part in stories set across different worlds.
Why similar: Word Game 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Dating Sim 10.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, RPG 8%
- #40 The Murder Hotel
71% matchVery Positive93% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Wegenbartho Games
Windows
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Detective 18.4%, Mystery 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Thriller 9.4%
- #41 The Paracelsian Project
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Sixkilla Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Detective 14.3%, Thriller 11.6%, Mystery 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #42 16叠谋杀之谜
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: 糯米团子工作室Pub: 剧谜科技
Windows
Sixteen Layers of Mini Murder" is a video adventure game of the detective puzzle genre, where level-based puzzles drive the story's progression through video narration. Players must complete the level puzzles and uncover the identities of the various participants in order to clear the game.
Why similar: Detective 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Word Game 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #43 目盲/Blind
72% matchVery Positive85% of 911 reviews2022
Dev: GOCORE
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
「Sometimes what the eye can't tell, the heart can.」 《Blind》 is a light fantasy game for girls set in a modern city. After a childhood accident that left me with a strange face blindness, I was introduced to a profession called "watchman" and since then, the world has taken on a whole new dimension.
Why similar: Word Game 14.5%, Dating Sim 13.5%, Emotional 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #44 Reflection Link
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secretive Sheep Games
Windows
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 14.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Thriller 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #45 LakeLady
69% matchVery Positive80% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: HungerWhale GamesPub: Wise Games
Windows · Linux
THE LAKE LADY is a story-driven realistic horror interactive game. The river took everything from him. To find his daughter who went missing in the flood, Salvio returns to his hometown as a doctor and infiltrates Hongqiang Hospital for investigation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Word Game 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Thriller 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #46 Paper Bride 2 Zangling Village
71% matchVery Positive91% of 1,150 reviews2022
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This is the sequel to our Paper Bride series based on Chinese folklore. This story takes place in Zangling Village, where players must explore a village shrouded in occult mystery to uncover the secret origins of this haunted village.
Why similar: Thriller 17.6%, Word Game 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Mystery 11.3%, Detective 10.8%
- #47 精神病大王花 Flowering Abyss
71% matchVery Positive83% of 239 reviews2022
Dev: CHARONPub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
话题作《精神病大王花》重制作品。 追求精神病少女们的恋爱游戏,你能活到最后吗?
Why similar: Thriller 16.3%, Word Game 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Dating Sim 12%, Mystery 11.3%
- #48 末日航路-The Termination
72% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
It's a story of deception and redemption. You receive a mysterious invitation to a seven days doomsday journey. An expectant interstellar journey has become a doomsday route to the end. There is only one word difference between "victim" and "perpetrator".
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Mystery 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #49 Heartbeat House: Hong Kong
67% matchVery Positive98% of 194 reviews2026
Dev: Genuine Studio
Windows
Heartbeat House: Hong Kong is a dating reality visual novel. Live with eight participants in a shared villa and make romantic choices. Your decisions are remembered, and relationships will change. If the screen flickers or something feels off—please relax and keep dating. The show is still ongoing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Thriller 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Emotional 11.4%
- #50 大侦探之勃艮第古堡
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 知行合一
Windows
欢迎来到温泉岛,我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗?那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落,那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说,那里是另一个世界,由贪婪,欲念构成的炼狱……最后,请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Detective 13%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
- #51 机影:夏夜梦寻
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 卯月游戏(MaoyueGame)
Windows
"A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Android Girl" — As Deputy Director of the AI Oversight Bureau, navigate the cyber metropolis alongside your robot assistant, Dill. Investigate rogue AI cases, uncover the truth behind dreams, and unlock multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dating Sim 13%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Emotional 11.6%
- #52 The Game of Fourtune
70% matchPositive97% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: BlackLock Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
How far will you go to get your deepest wish granted? In The Game of Fourtune, help guide Clyde & Devon through this cruel game of life and death. Only one participant will get their wish granted. Four rounds and four deaths each round, are you ready to see if fortune is on your side?
Why similar: Thriller 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Mystery 10.6%
- #53 Summer Snow Day
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Happy Ghost Studio
Windows
Spend your summer in a small snowy town in this Dating-Sim Murder Mystery. Meet new people and perhaps fall in love! A series of grisly murders throw a wrench into the romance, and now YOU have to solve them! Make FREQUENT choices and play mini games to catch the killer and fall in love!
Why similar: Thriller 16.9%, Dating Sim 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
- #54 Night of her vanishing in fireworks
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 心室二
Windows
The Night She Disappeared in the Fireworks is a short visual novel set in a small Chinese city and centered on esports. You play as Liu Lan, a high school esports player, as he faces three life-changing matches and, together with two heroines, witnesses a fate rewritten by fireworks.
Why similar: Word Game 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Dating Sim 13.6%, Visual Novel 9.7%, RPG 9.3%
- #55 是谁偷走了我的人生?
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unfinished Lives studio
Windows
《是谁偷走了我的人生?》是一部发生在虚构自由城市“伯利蒂尔”的中长篇青春群像视觉小说。玩家将跟随社会学新生荆千和,在高校城中结识孔澄洸、池迟望等人,并通过轻量互动,逐渐走近她们各自隐藏的过去与困境。 “我,荆千和,失去了初中三年的记忆。” 来到伯利蒂尔后,她拥有了新的朋友与珍贵的日常,遗失的青春似乎正一点点重新生长。直到那个少年平静地说: “记住我,然后,去改变。” 当被掩埋的真相浮出水面,那些曾经失去的、渴望的,以及无法改变的过去,又将把她们带向怎样的未来? 愿你走完这段旅程时,也能重新找到属于自己的人生。
Why similar: Word Game 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #56 中国式地雷女
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 275 reviews2026
Dev: 钟夏游戏(ZHONGXIA GAMES)
Windows
At Domi Network, I somehow discovered that three completely different "JIRAI Girls" were hiding right under my nose: YUNA, XIUHUA, AIKA L2D+lip sync, 370,000 words, 70+CG, three emotionally intense "Subculture Girls," come experience the most authentic Chinese-style "dating minefield" !
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Emotional 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Detective 9.8%
- #57 告死天使招魂令 Death Angel Requiem
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 五十岚夜莺
Windows
A 5-hour horror game where investigator Igarashi, tasked by the police, enters a haunted campus after a murder case kills four students. With her partner Shimo, she sets out to uncover the truth behind the "ghost killings."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Detective 13.8%, Immersive Sim 12%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Thriller 9.4%
- #58 Ezrebeth
67% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Tymedust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Mystery 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #59 Other Side Of Mist And Mountain
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: Universe Studio
Windows
In 2005, a sophomore student named Maha Igarashi boarded a private train to Soukyo City. However, she vanished upon alighting at the "Kisaragi" station. Five years later, her lover, Shizuno Yokoyama, initiated an investigation into her disappearance, unraveling a series of mysteries along the way.
Why similar: Thriller 14.1%, Detective 13.7%, Mystery 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%