- #1 The Peresmeshnik
97% matchVery Positive93% of 107 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Horror 9.3%
- #2 Walking In The Abyss - Definitive Edition
96% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Guirdy
Windows
Explore a mysterious castle in the middle of the forest and discover its secrets in this 2D horror game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 27.8%, Mystery Dungeon 23.7% ★, Psychological Horror 19%, Text-Based 17.9%, Horror 4.7%
- #3 Wildwake
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonhaze Games
Windows
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Nonlinear 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #4 CRYPTIC
95% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Shoho Games
Windows
Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Horror 8.6%
- #5 Whispers From The Rift
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #6 Savanna Story Diamond Edition
94% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: IrbisPub: Studio Irbis
Windows · Mac · Linux
The fate of Savannah is in your hands!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
- #7 Tomb nightmares
93% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Main Games
Windows
One excerpt from the adventure story of two treasure seekers. Explore the mysterious dungeon, pass all the tests and get out alive! The catacombs full of mysteries are waiting for you!
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 22.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Dungeon Crawler 11.4%, Horror 11.3%
- #8 Contra Spem Spero
92% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 14%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #9 Mass of Consumption
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Horror 17.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #10 Earth's Center of Gravity
91% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Beşinci Kural A.Ş.
Windows · Linux
Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.
Why similar: Survival Horror 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 10.3%
- #11 Glitch
90% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbo Games
Windows
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #12 The Trial
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGamesPub: Pale Blue Dot
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #13 Noroi E: Susan's Memories
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CiberFly Interactive StudiosPub: Kristhian D. Muñoz
Windows
Noroi E: Susan's Memories is a psychological horror game where Susan, desperate to help her boyfriend David, discovers an ancient curse that forces him to control demonic entities. In her search for the truth, she will face horrors and decisions that will test her love and her sanity.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 21.2% ★, Horror 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #14 Lisa: The Lost Memories
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Manja Studio
Windows
Lisa The Lost Memories is a visual novel game where you help Lisa regain her memories. You'll choose your own path and unlock multiple endings. CONQUER THE MEMORY DUNGEON!
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 33.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #15 Brood Year
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wurm Fud
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
- #16 Dark Mine
86% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Cyber752Pub: indie.io
Windows
Trapped underground after a collapse, you are the sole survivor of a deadly attack. Armed only with a night vision camera, navigate the darkness, avoid the creature, and find a way out in this retro-style survival horror game.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 25.3% ★, Dungeon Crawler 18%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Survival 9.9%
- #17 Nippon Island: The Flight
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meow Arts
Windows · Mac
Nippon Island is a first-person story adventure that begins on a flight to Japan. What starts as a peaceful trip slowly turns surreal. Reality shifts, memories stir... and somewhere, a cat begins to care. The journey is just beginning.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Horror 12%, Survival Horror 11.2%
- #18 Shadows Of Memory ll
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pixelyarn
Windows
Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%
- #19 Island of Ruin
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: cretia studio
Windows
"Island of Ruin" is a puzzle novel game where you collect memory cores hidden across the island and uncover the truth behind a tragedy of the past. When the horrors that befell the boys and girls and the island’s strange phenomena are revealed, what final choice will you make?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #20 Baptisterio
84% matchVery Positive89% of 122 reviews2024
Dev: 2am_Project
Windows
“With an analog camera, a gift from my father, a photo of the missing tourists and the illusion of my first big news I prepare to enter with the brothers to the enigmatic baptistery.”
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.7%, Dungeon Crawler 16.1%, Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Nonlinear 9.5%
- #21 For Mother Matron
83% matchVery Positive91% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Horror 11.6%
- #22 The Complex Chapter 1: Who, What, Where?
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Steggy Studios (Ryan Alex)Pub: Steggy Studios
Windows
Wake up in a trashed apartment and investigate mysterious disappearances. Solve challenging puzzles, interact with others, and confront the person behind it all. Your choices lead to one of five unique endings in this tense, atmospheric puzzle-horror game!
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 14.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #23 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #24 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
81% matchVery Positive86% of 252 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Horror 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%
- #25 Serania - Path of the Scion
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Nonlinear 8.9%
- #26 One, Two, Death
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Ahnes Studios
Windows
One, Two, Death is a co-op psychological horror where you wake up in a mansion with one other person. Trust your partner to escape together — or betray them to earn your own freedom, while a sadistic creature watches every move.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 19.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
- #27 FunPlay School
80% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: VirtualFox Studio
Windows
A moderate horror game set in the FunPlay School where you will have to try to escape from all that nightmare, crossing rooms with puzzles from the easiest to the most difficult. Will you do it?
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 28.6% ★, Survival Horror 14.8%, Dynamic Narration 13% ★, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 9.4%
- #28 Compicactus
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eibriel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Learn an artificial language to chat with a cute AI. Manage a list of words and connect them in novel ways to build any sentence. The AI will remember all your interactions, forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dynamic Narration 11.7% ★
- #29 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #30 com__et
78% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Margarita Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Text-Based 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Horror 11.3%
- #31 Tower of the Ice Lich
77% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Dungeon Crawler 8.5%
- #32 N/A Museum
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YoonJu Kwak
Windows
Welcome to Hanun Art Museum. The rules here are ever-changing. In this enigmatic museum, shrouded in mystery, you step into the shoes of Kang Min-soo, an Anomaly Investigator determined to uncover the truth behind a series of strange phenomena—and find a way to escape.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 33.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Survival Horror 8.8%, Exploration 8.3%, Horror 8%
- #33 Inside the Flesh Engine
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: 1ncors
Windows
An atmospheric first-person horror in retro style, where you awaken on a conveyor among discarded bodies. Explore a living factory, obey or resist, and uncover the secrets of the system that created you... The ending depends on your choices.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 31.1% ★, Dungeon Crawler 17.8%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Horror 8.2%, Exploration 7.7%
- #34 Five Biggest Accomplishments
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #35 Corridors
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Latent Malice
Windows
A first person horror survival game. You control four drones in separate locations to diffuse a cataclysmic situation. Armageddon is in your hands.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 22.7% ★, Survival Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Horror 9.5%
- #36 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Scott Tipton
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 17.5%, Dynamic Narration 16.1% ★, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #37 Parasite in Love
73% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 10%
- #38 Shadow of Paris
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aris Script
Windows
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #39 Ballad of the Midnight Man
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marry Me Jester Productions
Windows
Survive the Midnight Man in this horror comedy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Text-Based 18.3%, Dynamic Narration 16.7% ★, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #40 FEAR background
74% matchNegative14% of 35 reviews2021
Dev: 5K GamersPub: Piece Of Voxel
Windows
FEAR - a horror game made in realistic 3D graphics, immersing in an atmosphere of horror and fear.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 23.9% ★, Dynamic Narration 19.1% ★, Survival Horror 14.4%, Dungeon Crawler 11.7%, Horror 10.4%
- #41 Be Honest
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebel Jester Studios
Windows
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Story Rich 8%
- #42 Scary Stories
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bruce Devlin
Windows · Linux
A spooky text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game that tells several spine-chilling tales with several choices and items throughout, these may change your path... Can you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #43 The Music at the end of the World
71% match5 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #44 TOY BOX
71% matchPositive87% of 45 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 10.4%
- #45 Aphasia
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TommyMamoPub: Post-Cinema
Windows
Have you ever wondered what happens when we fall into a coma? Why do only some make it back? Aphasia is a first-person horror where you’re trapped inside your own mind, with no memory of who you are. As you explore your fractured memories, your sense of guilt won’t let you escape...
Why similar: Survival Horror 24.5%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 16%, Dynamic Narration 14.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
- #46 Not It: Spookiest Edition
72% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 11.7%
- #47 SAS:绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
68% matchVery Positive86% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: 秦遥
Windows
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏,你将扮演一名高中生司空茂,在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场,并经过调查和推理解决案件,找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时,请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定,尽量维持活下去的念头...记住,你的成绩,永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #48 The Price Of Flesh
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,072 reviews2022
Dev: Gatobob
Windows · Mac · Linux
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Horror 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #49 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Nonlinear 10.6%
- #50 Moonless Night
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Tzompixel Studio
Windows
Moonless Night is a psychological horror game where you explore Selene’s mind, uncover her sins, and escape a labyrinth of shadows. Every choice matters—face the darkness and discover one of six different endings.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 42.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Puzzle 8.1%
- #51 The Horrorscope
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,100 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Horror 8.8%
- #52 Worn Out
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Horror 11.2%
- #53 In.My.Mind
70% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Scarlet Studio
Windows
In.My.Mind is a first-person survival horror: Explore! Solve the Puzzles! Survive! Fight! Run!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 20.2%, Survival Horror 19.6%, Horror 14.7%, Survival 10.4%
- #54 Fatal Falls
67% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Tripolar Studio
Windows
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dynamic Narration 10.5% ★
- #55 All (Too) Good Things
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Text-Based 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #56 The Coma 2B: Catacomb
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 556 reviews2024
Dev: Dvora Studio Co., Ltd.Pub: Headup
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The Coma 2B: Catacomb is a Korean survival horror adventure. It is the back story to the previous game, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters, and a story bridge for the full series. You return as Youngho, the hero from The Coma 1, as you once again venture forth into the terrifying mirror dimension…
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 25% ★, Survival Horror 16.8%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 10.6%, Visual Novel 8%
- #57 INSPECTION REPORT
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: zolduck
Windows
INSPECTION REPORT is a horror / point & click game focused on exploration and dialogue. Fulfill your duties as a building inspector and uncover the secrets of an abandoned property in total dark using only a flashlight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Exploration 9.3%
- #58 Innsmouth 22
67% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Raven Novels
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 23.3%, Dynamic Narration 17.4% ★, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #59 Evil Ritual - Horror Escape
69% matchMostly Negative33% of 21 reviews2020
Dev: TakeThem.Games (Creative)
Windows
You woke up in a cold and scary dungeon, and you don't know how you got there. After examining the situation and finding an old lamp, you try to get out, but you meet on your way: screamers, notes and various objects. Later, you realize that you have become part of an evil ritual!
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 29% ★, Dungeon Crawler 17.3%, Survival Horror 15%, Survival 11.8%, Horror 9.5%