60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Mystery, Interactive Fiction, Adventure.
Can you really trust what Hector tells you? Fulfill the wishes of the cursed, perform spells that alter fate, and decide for yourself whether the stories you hear ever happened at all.
Daemonologie
A short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials. You play the role of a witch finder. Speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. On the last morning a witch must hang, best you know who by then.
Don't Let Me Fade
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
A short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials. You play the role of a witch finder. Speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. On the last morning a witch must hang, best you know who by then.
Why similar: Gothic 18.3% ★, Faith 18.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Demons 9.3%, Point & Click 9.2%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Point & Click 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Emotional 11.2%, Text-Based 10.9%
An indie horror game from a first-person perspective where the player explores a mansion through the use of puzzle-solving, finding specific items and trying to avoid unknown dangers. The particular focus of the game is atmosphere, mystery and scares as well as continual story development.
Why similar: Gothic 22% ★, Faith 19.3% ★, Emotional 11.2%, Demons 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A Japanese horror novel adventure set in Japan in 1999. Confront the mysterious events and anatomize the paranormal!
Why similar: Faith 22% ★, Point & Click 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Mythology 11.6%, Dark Humor 10.3%
As a psychologist, how would you handle your clients falling victim to their own phobias? Find out in this horror visual novel infused with point-and-click gameplay elements.
Why similar: Gothic 17.2% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Point & Click 11.3%, Surreal 11.2%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Gothic 17.2% ★, Text-Based 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Demons 11.7%, Surreal 10.8%
A short classic point-and-click adventure with a verb-based interface and dialogue choices, where you explore a strange building, meet unsettling characters, and slowly uncover a dark, ancient secret.
Why similar: Gothic 18.6% ★, Dark Humor 15.1%, Thriller 14.6%, Point & Click 13.8%, Demons 12.5%
Satan's Puzzle 666 is a puzzle game where you have to match the pieces to obtain the seal of evil spirits and behold their divine image
Why similar: Gothic 23.6% ★, Demons 16.2%, Text-Based 12.5%, Mythology 11.5%, Dark Humor 11.2%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 20.1% ★, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Thriller 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
Why similar: Point & Click 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Demons 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dark Humor 9.1%
It’s 1999 and Y2K is upon us. You are the owner of an independent video store that a corporation is eyeing off to purchase. Help your customers find the perfect video by listening to their stories and decide what the future is for your video store.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42% ★, Visual Novel 14.8%, Point & Click 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Emotional 12.3%, Mystery 10.3%
Loop is a visual novel set in a dark Irish Forest. Deirdre is set to find her husband who was sworn to become the Forest King. But it’s not easy for a human to walk in the magical realm. What will Deirdre learn about this other world? What will she find out about herself?
Why similar: Mythology 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Emotional 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Gothic 13.1% ★
A short story visual novel-like game with a gently interactive narrative and some puzzling mysteries to unlock. Discover how your father got tarred and feathered. Get lost in the memory with ever-corrupting visuals and an immersive soundscape as you make your way to the emu farm.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Emotional 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Point & Click 12.1%
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Point & Click 17.6%, Thriller 11.9%, Text-Based 8.7%
The Source is a unique modern take on the Text Adventure genre. An outsider to a foreign world, you must choose a kingdom to help gain an ancient power locked deep beneath a mysterious Well. Explore each kingdom, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery surrounding this shattered world.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Demons 13.5%, Point & Click 13.3%, Mystery 11.3%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Casual 8.9%, Emotional 7.8%
Explore all the different routes of PACTUM! Try to discover more about what really happened. Learn more about each character by picking between some... story-changing choices!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Demons 16.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Point & Click 14.4%, Text-Based 13.4%
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Surreal 14%, Mystery 9.6%
Coffee Coffin is a gothic narrative café simulation game.Seven lost souls, seven deadly sins, seven obsessions — you will talk with the dead, listen to their stories, and brew coffees that symbolize redemption, guiding them to let go and move on. All dialogue is generated by AI in real time.
Why similar: Gothic 18.7% ★, Point & Click 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Emotional 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%
After the mysterious death of a Superstar Idol, disgraced DATA Agent Sawyer must face his ultimate challenge yet, being an undercover high school teacher while also keeping the Mississippi Inaka safe from Daemonic influence.
Why similar: Demons 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Thriller 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Surreal 13.5%
You're an eldritch in love with your angel. A glutton in love. You may be a mass of vines and branches but you have a confession to make. Somehow, you must find a way. (A darker sequel to Seraphim Slum.)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Faith 15.6% ★, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Demons 10.2%
A psychological horror game set in a forgotten village. Solve environmental puzzles and uncover the truth behind Ethan’s crumbling mind trapped between memory and madness.
Why similar: Gothic 21.7% ★, Text-Based 14.9%, Thriller 14.5%, Surreal 12.3%, Emotional 11.6%
"Shaqing" is a Chinese horror puzzle game set in "Wuzhan Town". Players must help the protagonist escape an evil scene where dreams and reality blur, and save his beloved. The objective is to help the protagonist escape and save his beloved.
Why similar: Thriller 17.3%, Text-Based 14.5%, Surreal 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%
Morta has summoned you to judge five souls trapped between salvation and oblivion. Enter their final memories, uncover what they hide, and decide their fate. In this gothic psychological trial, every verdict leaves a mark.
Why similar: Gothic 23% ★, Faith 16% ★, Dark Humor 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Emotional 11.1%
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Mythology 12.7%, Demons 12.4%
Fight through a haunting journey of sin and suffering in this short top-down story game inspired by Christian themes and the crucifixion.
Why similar: Faith 33% ★, Gothic 17.1% ★, Emotional 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Dark 9.5%
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 19.2%, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Emotional 11.5%
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Point & Click 16.4%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dark Humor 13.2%
Old school, rich with lore, and made with love. Experience a linear gothic story with carefully handwritten prose. Play either as an action RPG or visual novel. Your Weaver journey starts here.
Why similar: Gothic 27.9% ★, Faith 17.6% ★, Visual Novel 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 7%
It all began when you opened that letter. Penned by your late master, it details how you are now heir to his mysterious legacy. You set off for the island on which he'd spent his final years... and so a truly unsettling journey begins, a journey into the deepest secrets of magic and the occult.
Why similar: Gothic 17.8% ★, Demons 14.5%, Text-Based 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Dark 10%
It's a different way to feel the emotion of fear. While playing a game, even the slightest sound will cause you to start the game from the beginning. While you are trying to solve a mysterious case, you have an accident on the forest road. You must find a way out of the forest.
Why similar: Faith 28% ★, Thriller 16%, Demons 15.5%, Surreal 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
Join a serial killer enthusiast group to solve the town's recent murders in this mystery visual novel adventure, featuring point-and-click and text-based investigation and a detailed story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Thriller 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Mystery 11.4%, Text-Based 11%
You’re down bad, your rizz is questionable, and four very different girls are about to become your entire personality. Make choices, survive the red flags, and see whether you can pull a goth mommy, or just get left on read - in this chaotic dating-sim visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 26.1% ★, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Dark Humor 11.9%
Solve riddles from ancient tomes — Two friends gather at a summoning circle, embracing the supernatural in an attempt to achieve the impossible. Unravel mystic poems to discover the correct combination of symbols to draw, and summon demons that can aid these friends in their dark quest.
Why similar: Gothic 27.8% ★, Thriller 14.3%, Emotional 13.2%, Demons 13.1%, Dark 7.5%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Emotional 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Text-Based 8%
A PSX-style first-person horror game about a quiet night shift in a bar that slowly turns into something deeply wrong.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Thriller 13.5%, Surreal 10.6%, Dark 5.6%
When you confide in your heart, 'I' will accompany you on the journey of redemption. Cyber Confession Room "is an interactive visual novel game where you can choose a tree hole to listen to your confession. You can also practice public welfare tasks to obtain redemption
Why similar: Faith 37.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 9.4%, Casual 9.4%
This is a story about the fall of a man. Told in the form of an interactive comic book with sounds and animations, Saint Kotar: The Crawling Man follows the appalling life of Mojse, his fall from a beloved teacher to a bitter and vengeful leader of a sinister cult.
Why similar: Faith 25.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Demons 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Thriller 10.8%
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Point & Click 20.9%, Surreal 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.
Why similar: Gothic 24.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Dark 6%
Solve riddles, puzzles and platforming challenges as you descend the cryptic pathways of a distorted microcosm reality fueled by a symbolic landscape of faith and erotic nightmares.
Why similar: Gothic 27.1% ★, Faith 23.8% ★, Demons 17.1%, Surreal 14%, Dark 8.4%
Cursed the womb that bears emptiness beneath its heart. For the child enters the world with the veil upon its face, yet its soul wanders lone in the heavens where God is not. Why then does she not hasten to the place that was prepared for her? Seek the truth in our visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 32.7% ★, Visual Novel 19.2%, Faith 13% ★, Thriller 10.8%, Dark 10.1%
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 15.6%, Point & Click 14.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Gothic 12.3% ★
Wake up from a never-ending slumber and find your lost dreams in the shadows of the Peacock House, in this short narrative game that combines simple text adventure mechanics, point-and-click puzzles, and visual novel segments.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.3%, Point & Click 22%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Surreal 14.4%, Mystery 10%
Stir up a fresh take on iconic Disney Villains in this rich visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Point & Click 25%, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Casual 12.4%
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay. Immerse yourself in a period drama that intertwines romance with murder mystery, as a young cleric who must resist or give in to the charms of a strikingly beautiful maid.
Why similar: Gothic 21.1% ★, Thriller 17.6%, Emotional 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%, Mystery 11.3%
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: Thriller 18.4%, Surreal 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 10.7%
Sacrificium is a dark psychological horror experience blending illustrated storytelling, branching choices, and sanity-driven gameplay. Trapped in a castle controlled by a satanic cult, you must escape before the nightmare consumes you.
Why similar: Faith 22.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Demons 15.4%
《井底》是一款2024年3月立项的文字类galgame，题材是“超能力悬疑推理故事”，画风是日系校园风格的 故事主要讲述了游戏女主王语韴作为一个业余“侦探”，遇到各种疑难问题，并在侦探事务所所长天翔及其妹妹天音的帮助下，解决案件的故事。 游戏主要使用鼠标点击来推进剧情
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Visual Novel 19%, Emotional 14.2%, Mystery 12.1%, Surreal 12%
Control Over is a story that begins when a player who loses his memory and falls down in a basement wakes up. And you have to control the player and decide how to solve this story.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Thriller 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Point & Click 13.9%, Adventure 8.1%
Tarvern Days is a single-player game made with RPG Maker MV. Become a bar owner in a fantasy world and run a tarvern for 14 days. Find out how your choices determine the fate of your characters. (Almost) everything is in your hands.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.1% ★, Visual Novel 24.3%, Text-Based 22.7%
Humanity and the fae. This is a story of those who make kindling of their home to reach for the stars and the curses of those left behind.
Why similar: Emotional 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
Why similar: Demons 19.4%, Gothic 19% ★, Visual Novel 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Point & Click 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Surreal 14.5%, Text-Based 12.9%
A mysterious plot about a film student who finds herself lost in the world of the dead, the Posthumous Lands. Alongside a purple-haired woman, Coralina must decipher Human Alchemy in this retro adventure with cinematic touches!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 13.2%, Surreal 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 17%, Emotional 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Dark Humor 11%
Bind spirits. Weigh their pain. Each client arrives by appointment haunted, broken, or dangerous. In this gothic occult visual novel, you use protective accessories, read signs, and choose bindings that alter fate. Some seek redemption. Others hide darker truths. Your rituals may awaken the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 22.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Thriller 12%, Casual 8.4%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Mystery 12.6%
Trapped in a small room, four friends must uncover the mystery hidden within its walls while confronting the secrets of an elusive truth. Answers are just a button away. A psychological thriller visual novel packed with dark humor and fascinating facts about raccoons.
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.9%, Thriller 21.1%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Emotional 11.8%, Mystery 10.9%
